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foaming waves of the sea crashing against the moles of Seaview. The town lived on fishing and the few travelers who sometimes stopped at the taverns and boarding houses. The people all knew each other, with some scarabuccia between rival families in ancient times was a quiet, humble people. Among them lived an elderly gentleman, Mr. Pervins, a widower and an idol among children, for he told many tales of the sea, having been an officer in the Navy, but now he devoted himself body and soul to her antique shop. Each had a history of its subject, that the inhabitants of Seaview knew by heart, but he loved to tell strangers.
Everyone is attracted by the ancient, the old things have always been mute witnesses to major events.
Here is a map of the 400, a globe that still did not include the Americas, a sword with an inscription incomprehensible .. and then, after the most fascinating objects and delicate: a broken porcelain doll that belonged to Marie Antoinette.
And the old man told this or that noble woman. "Gentlemen, I assure you, this petite belonged to the wife of the Sun King! I'll tell you more, the queen kept her on the console in which they had received all the tricks, face powders, lipsticks, combs and combs. Unfortunately, time passes, we know well, and in transit, the first year that I hosted in my humble shop, fell and broke her little arms and it pierced his cheek, but its value is priceless. " ;
La petite , in fact, attracted all men and women. It was a statuette 30 cm high, blond hair and curls, wore a beautiful dress carnival blue white and blue with little silver stars. With the arm rimastole holding a mask, the kind that cover the eyes and supported by a rod, which was blue, too, with three feathers that reflect the colors of the dress. The other arm had to lie down on the dress, the face remained scarred lips and a pink neo immediately between the mouth and nose. It was manufactured in Venice, gift for the Queen by Mme Vercelli. The ladies
them weighed, admired and envied the beauty. But nobody understands it, never, not even if he had loved her from the start. All, however, were attracted by those missing parts. We are fascinated by a broken doll, inevitably. There is something tragic and decadent, reflecting our fears and restlessness. This was precisely the reason why no one wanted to perpetually remind him that this object their crimes. The dark side of their moon.
understanding it, the antique dealer decided to move it on the shelf most hidden and higher. He was old now, Mr. Pervins, and could no longer tell his tales. When a few customers came in he did not get up even more. Out of sight of all the beautiful lady's dress was covered with a layer of dust and cobwebs. I walked the spiders above, she thought they did it on purpose. She was afraid.
Soon it was gone from everything to being nothing. Soon, relative expression. He was almost 150 years. When Mme
was manufactured Vercelli had placed in a box whose interior was covered with silk. The trip to France was not terrible, was too excited to be in a bad mood. She was donated to the Queen. Maria Antonietta
worshiped him, as he opened the chest and the eyes shone in the evening he placed on the console dedicated to personal beauty. He had put it there because it was gorgeous and charming as she is. The story of Pervins, however, was not entirely exact. It was the Queen to break it. One day, look in the mirror and seeing a wrinkle, she realized that she was touching as the Blue Lady in front of her would remain eternally beautiful. One moment, the queen threw the doll on the ground, which inevitably broke down, then called his servant and said scornfully: "Bring it on, I do not want broken things in my lodgings."
The maid did not threw the statue, but gave it to her daughter, who never, never could afford such a luxury, even if it was broken.
The lady was passed from hand to hand, sold from shop to shop until a dealer offered it at a bargain price to a young Mr. Pervins. He confessed that the doll was cursed. The antique shops around the world could not sell it and tried to make a profit on the trade newbies, these things say them to him because he was desperate.
Pervins decided to buy it. That evening the proposed to his girlfriend, who asked horrified if he were crazy. "Nobody really wants a broken doll." After that sentence
Pervins forever left the Navy, wanted to find a home for all those things that nobody wanted.
But now, many winters had passed on his bones and began to themselves that it was best to close all that junk. Every day
gave, sold off or throw something. The lady was obliged to greet their loved ones forever life companions. What he failed to sell, or throw it hurts too much, she left him there because they had no chance to return to his beloved store. One night in May died, was sitting in a rocking chair and saw her, death, beautiful and terrible.
