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- Herausgeber: Patrice Martinez
- Kategorie: Fantasy und Science-Fiction
- Sprache: Englisch
A Very Coveted Diamonds Jewellery
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A Very Coveted Diamonds Jewellery
Patrice Martinez
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Translated by Tarek Fateh GHADBANE
“A Very Coveted Diamonds Jewellery”
Written By Patrice Martinez
Copyright © 2016 Patrice Martinez
All rights reserved
Distributed by Babelcube, Inc.
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Translated by Tarek Fateh GHADBANE
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Table of Contents
Title Page
Copyright Page
A Very Coveted Diamonds Jewellery
DOCUMENTATION
Galatea was a very pretty young lady. A face set on a gorgeous body! Daughter of a wealthy merchant of Athens, she loved the silk draperies, jasmine-scented fragrances and especially jewelry. In these first days of autumn, a breeze of invigorating freshness entered the gynaeceum, where her mother had lived her lifetime. The youngster looked exactly like who had brought her forth, except a thin gash on her left cheek, caused by a misadventure of a seven years old little girl, in the rich home: the mother had left inadvertently her fibula within reach of the little girl... But on this day, when the god Aeolus was amused to come play spoilsport by penetrating through the dormer window, Galatea received from the hand of her father a present of great value. The progenitor sent for his faithful servant and summoned him to bring his daughter to the living room. When she found herself before the biggest supplier of fabrics of the region, Galatea peered on the pink marble pedestal, provided above a precious wooden box. The wealthy presented her the refined container, on which the embossed patterns represented an Epinal image of two bathers - probably nymphs - half-submerged within a watercourse. The girl opened the small box gently put on a scarlet silk fabric, the jewel glowed a crimson red. The collar was a diamond necklace! The father hung the jewel to the neck of his protected, assembled of a hundred diamonds and costing the weight of ten carats. He emerged from the box two fern shaped earrings and clung them to the delicate ears of his only child. And as if that was not enough, he gave her a red Anthurium gold ring, the volute unveiled diamond brightness... The beautiful admired herself before a high value psyche ― her neck, young and slender, exhibited the sumptuous necklace, with gems glittering like stars in the Milky Way. She approached the mirror; on the largest diamond, a crimson drop was embedded. The inclusion vibrated - a microscopic heart in the glitzy jewel. Thereupon a large extent, the father revealed to her the dramatic story of this necklace:
– Galatea, you're my only child, I will reveal to you now the history of this magnificent jewel: your mother and I were cold since your birth. Whatever the reason ... I bought this jewellery a few lunar months ago, before our last conflict, but because of our ego, too versatile in that time, I had placed the casket out of your regretted mother's sight . Time passed, tirelessly passing his drops of water clock, until his tragic departure for the Champs-Élysées. Her end, fast and cruel, did not leave us the time to come closer. You've grown. Now you've become a beautiful young woman, courted by the nobles of Athens. For your elegance and your beauty, I have so many tickets and wedding statements from aristocrats of the region, that the office of my firm risk at any time to yield. I had already presented to you Aristophanes of Plataea, a man of high authority, and more, good treasury provisions: he holds a very good real estate in Athens..., he whispered in her ear.
Galatea looked at her father in terror, already seeing herself in the arms of the ugliest and most corrupt city official.
– Father, while you were discussing with his youngest son, I have seen him assaulting one of his slaves. He is a violent man ... My friend revealed to me that he loved the dicterions1, and also that he was indulging in ...
– It's enough ! He cut sharply. He approached his daughter and he enunciated all the potentials of a flourishing future. "This friend is about to reach high office in the Senate. My daughter, imagine all the possibilities that are about to reach for you: a serene home safe from needs, a heritage that you never could have obtained otherwise, servants at your mercy able to satisfy the least of your whims, and slaves...”
– I love another man! She said to the eyes of a father, more careful about the investment of his assets and his progeny, than the happiness of his daughter. At the announcement of his only child, with frightened eyes, he had taken during this time three more years...
– Who is this man ?
Galatea hastened to take the hands of his father, to assent to this budding love.
– He is the son of the grammarian Cestrinor...
– Basileios ?! He is only a pitiful histrion1, a poet... He does not even know how to properly compose his poetry in hexameters2. Do you therefore have no ambitions but to want to follow a comedian ... a man of theater ?
– I love him...
– You love him ? My child, you're so young, what do you know of love? The Eros whimsical arrows blinded your powers of discernment... You will marry my friend Aristophanes, it is primarily about your future that I think... not about any whim of the inconstant Eros.
Despite her lamentations and numerous supplications, she finds herself a few months later in the arms of the vilest villain of Attica. But she fell seriously ill, and like her mother, she died of the same neurodegenerative disease...
But what the father did not know was that his late wife had been aware of the jewel and, in secret, she passed it regularly around her neck. The father, wounded in the soul, offered to the temple of Delphi the diamonds jewellery. Henceforth the shinings resided in the hands of the temple priests of the Athena Pronaia, patron deity of the temple of Apollo Pythian...
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In Phocis, Epaminondas ― Delphi magistrate ― tear the last hair, before the empty niche where had been the diamonds jewellery, votive present of a wealthy merchant of Athens. The Krypteia gendarmerie service had been informed and was collecting the slightest clue to find the perpetrators of this theft... Alas, after so much labor to find the thieves, the jewel had vanished.
In Ionia, on the side of Ephesus, two men have traded an asset of great value in the light of a torch, whose lascivious flame dimly lit the happy lucrative business.
– This is your last proposal? exclaimed the man of a well advanced age timidly , looking with the eyes of a vulture the magnificent case where the jewellery of diamonds resided. The seller, a scoundrel of the worst kind, let the future buyer languish. Finally, the old owner decided to let go of his few drachmas and obols, hastily removed from a temple in order to to benefit from their values. With all the precautions in the world, retired grabbed the box and took it into his household...
At the sight of this present, the young wife savored the necklace passed around her slender neck. She had finally convinced her old and stingy husband, to let go his pocket money in order to show off before her friends, with this exceptional jewel. The old charterer knew that if he wanted to keep his young wife, he had to make some compromises. Time passes, and unfortunately the young woman suddenly was ill. Doctors lined up , but nothing worked: she died of a neurodegenerative disease.
The old man decided to separate from the jewellery and sold it on the black market...
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How could such a beautiful jewel bring as much misery around it? For that we must return a few years back, behind the antique shop of a jeweler; the man had heard from hearsay that his wife was unfaithful. He did his investigation and carefully managed to reveal the lustful misdeeds of his wife. One winter evening, he killed her, dismembered her body and tore her heart and viscera. After committing this terrible misdeed, he created a beautiful jewel and, by an occult spell obtained from a magician, he severed a thin lamella of the heart of the deceased then enshrined it in the biggest diamond. In this gem, the inclusion of a scarlet hinted its systolic pressure : a tiny heart beat its measure...
A few months later, the jeweler passed from life to death, without the relatives being able to find the missing. The son recovered the jewelry but business did not improve. To save the shop, he had to sell the family heirloom to a wealthy merchant of Athens...
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In a bazaar of Pergamon, in Aeolis, the seller opened a box in front of a young finance wolf. A jewellery of diamonds glittered under the torches lights. The customer looked closer to this wonderful jewel; the heartbeat of this inclusion beat his measure.
“ It's a beautiful jewel, is not it ? This jewel seems to have a heart ... as for humans ”, he said proudly to the prospective purchaser.
The happy owner smiled at his new treasury conquest. But the god Eros passed by, and the young man offered the jewellery to his new bride. guess what happened next ?...
1. An actor 2. Measurement of a work divided into short and long feet
DOCUMENTATION
- Parthenius of Nicaea : “ amorous passions ”, number 25 : “Phayllus”
- Dictionary of Greek and Roman antiquities Daremberg and Saglio, digitized on the website of the University of Toulouse le Mirail, France ;
- The review Perseus;
- The Gallica website;
- The review Kernos;
- The Internet network;
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