Capitolo 41
the past, he felt him sure; for his/her aunt you/he/she had often told him that when Walter
arrival he should know everybody: and from the way of the sailor he conjectured
what the long ones desired for now has come.
'Edward', says the sailor, 'I wish him to tell me everybody that You
memoirs--not of Your life to Your aunt but first that.'
'And then', says the boy, 'in return you promise to tell me of mine
parentage?'
'You will know everybody.'
The boy walked the floor for some moments. Its figure was slender, but
flexible and active, of middle stature; and there was a restlessness around
his/her movements among which you/they have said of a wild spirit. Its face was notably
beautiful; chiselled of the characteristics in a form that would have served a Greek
sculptor for a model--and its dark and long hair also fell in shining locks
on his/her shoulders. He was standing, while holding the back of a chair, and looking
more to seaward that to his/her companion, it started:
'It was not in this country, I am sure, that me first I remember me,
in a beautiful house, but he/she built different from these. There was
trees of cocoa-walnut-tree that grow near it; and the other trees that don't grow here;
but I have seen anything as them in the green house of the Earl. There
it was sweet fruits but one not English--oranges and bananas that I am
sure. The people around us were also black. I remember me I was frightened
when I came here to seeing so a lot of white people and nothing black before.'
Walter firmly concerned him/it--but the eye of the youth was seaward. Him
seemed to see in front of him the scenes he was painting.
'There was a circle of plaza the house, where I played, and a dessert
lady, very likes Mary poor, but dark-hairy, who I called mother.'
There was powerful emotion painted on the face of the listener, but he said
nothing. 'I remember a beautiful gentleman, but he was not often there.
He brought an uniform, but not as the officers here. I now think him it owes
you/he/she has been in the military harbor. I called him/it dad. I am sure he has to have