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Man this movie is a pearl... of trash!
Once in London, she wangles the one thing that she and her gang of thieves (led by William Powell as her butler) have been waiting for - an invitation to Lady Ebley's country home, and a crack at Lady Ebley's fabulous pearl necklace.
Because I hope that somewhere in the big pile of crud that is Hollywood (or whoever produces these things), a pearl or a gem will prove to exist.
You can be “a granny” smelling of perfume and wearing a pearl necklace, but you can also be “a nanny” smelling of smoke and oil and with a cross on a string under your brown dress.
In 1903, a student at the University of Cambridge, one John Maynard Keynes, wrote an essay on the conservative philosopher Edmund Burke, in which appears a pearl of wisdom for our own time.
Chinese investors are buying Europe’s best factories (including the pearl of German robotics, KUKA) and its largest ports (including Duisburg in Germany, the world’s largest inland port, and Piraeus in Greece).
The Hambantota port, which Chinese President Xi Jinping described as central to his Maritime Silk Road project, is a particularly valuable pearl.
Some of these pearls were bigger than a pigeon egg; they more than equaled the one that the explorer Tavernier sold the Shah of Persia for 3,000,000 francs, and they surpassed that other pearl owned by the Imam of Muscat, which I had believed to be unrivaled in the entire world.
We also gathered in a few sea cucumbers, some pearl oysters, and a dozen small turtles that we saved for the ship's pantry.
After our position fix, I reentered the lounge, and when our bearings were reported on the chart, I saw that we were off the island of Ceylon, that pearl dangling from the lower lobe of the Indian peninsula.
Then, turning to me:"The island of Ceylon," he said, "is famous for its pearl fisheries.
"Professor," Captain Nemo then told me, "there are pearl fisheries in the Bay of Bengal, the seas of the East Indies, the seas of China and Japan, plus those seas south of the United States, the Gulf of Panama and the Gulf of California; but it's off Ceylon that such fishing reaps its richest rewards.
I believe the average time underwater that these fishermen can tolerate is thirty seconds, during which they hastily stuff their little nets with all the pearl oysters they can tear loose.
In most places they earn only a penny for each oyster that has a pearl, and they bring up so many that have none!""Only one penny to those poor people who make their employers rich!
I said "You know about--""With all due respect to master," Conseil replied, "the Nautilus's commander has invited us, together with master, for a visit tomorrow to Ceylon's magnificent pearl fisheries.
"Would master," Conseil said to me, "give us some background on pearl fishing?""On the fishing itself?"
"All right, sit down, my friends, and I'll teach you everything I myself have just been taught by the Englishman H. C. Sirr!"Ned and Conseil took seats on a couch, and right off the Canadian said to me:"Sir, just what is a pearl exactly?""My gallant Ned," I replied, "for poets a pearl is a tear from the sea; for Orientals it's a drop of solidified dew; for the ladies it's a jewel they can wear on their fingers, necks, and ears that's oblong in shape, glassy in luster, and formed from mother-of-pearl; for chemists it's a mixture of calcium phosphate and calcium carbonate with a little gelatin protein; and finally, for naturalists it's a simple festering secretion from the organ that produces mother-of-pearl in certain bivalves."
"From now on we'll pay closer attention to 'em.""But," I went on, "for secreting pearls, the ideal mollusk is the pearl oyster Meleagrina margaritifera, that valuable shellfish.
On the valves a pearl sticks fast; on the flesh it lies loose.
And could master tell us the profits brought in by harvesting these banks of pearl oysters?""According to Sirr's book," I replied, "these Ceylon fisheries are farmed annually for a total profit of 3,000,000 man-eaters."
They say Julius Caesar gave Servilia a pearl worth 120,000 francs in our currency."
I even bought a pearl necklace for my fiancée, Kate Tender, but she married somebody else instead.
"But," I said, "getting back to pearls of great value, I don't think any sovereign ever possessed one superior to the pearl owned by Captain Nemo.""This one?"
"And why not?""What good would a pearl worth millions do us here on the Nautilus?"
And if we ever brought back to Europe or America a pearl worth millions, it would make the story of our adventures more authentic--and much more rewarding."
"But," said Conseil, who perpetually returned to the didactic side of things, "is this pearl fishing ever dangerous?"
Profound solitude reigned over this gathering place of pearl fishermen.
Near seven o'clock we finally surveyed the bank of shellfish, where pearl oysters reproduce by the millions.
There, between its leaflike folds, I saw a loose pearl as big as a coconut.
By leaving the pearl buried beneath the giant clam's mantle, he allowed it to grow imperceptibly.
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