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It was a small shop…

Chris Hall53 Comments

Paris Photographer – Louis Paulin

The red-headed woman had responded to Monsieur Bourbon, although not quite so enthusiastically as she quickly kissed his cheeks two times, then righted her beret, while those two gargoyles looked on, as they wondered whether they might have a go as well.

However, Monsieur Bourbon had other plans as he spied those small satchels around their chests, as he looked and wondered as he said: ‘do tell what’s in there, since you two have been on a bit of a jaunt, am I right?’

The two gargoyles then mention those beautiful gems as they were about to remove them, but meanwhile the red-headed woman peered out from the shop window, while Monsieur Bourbon turned the sign from ‘open’ to ‘closed’, as he said: ‘let’s go into the backroom.’

‘Ah ha, diamonds,’ smiled Monsieur Bourbon, as he took his loupe and gently fixed it into his eye socket, as he began to analyse those gemstones and there were many of them to look at.

The red-headed woman began to pace, and soon, since it was taking such a long time, she started to march around, even though it was a rather small backroom, but the two gargoyles continued to watch the magnificent Monsieur – mesmerising – they both felt.

Then Monsieur Bourbon removed his loupe and said: ‘they’re not real, none of them… they are synthetic,’ – the red-headed woman said, ‘you mean they’re just junk and no real value?’ as she put up her head and jutted out her chin with grumpiness.

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53 thoughts on “It was a small shop…”

  9. Well, let’s see now — will Monsieur Bourbon be helpful and toss them into the bin under his desk (such a helpful man; I’m sure he was a Boy Scout when young) … or … will he hand the whole sparkly lot back to the gargoyles, and offer everyone chocolat chaud. I vote for drinking chocolate.

    Oh I do laugh at these film clips. Just excellent.

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    • Well, what a blow it seemed… but synthetic diamonds are all the rage (apparently). Let’s see what will happen. 😉 Glad that you enjoyed that little clip, Penn. 💛💛

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  23. Oh. How disappointing. But even fakes have some value – don’t they!

    I think I read an article where a gal took her engagement ring into be cleaned – and got the same surprise. She wasn’t too please with her beau! Still, beautiful though.

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