Capitolo 42
state my father, and he was a sailor; for my mother you/he/she was always looking
out to sea when he was absent, and he took me onboard a man of ship of war
once, where, from the deference every showed to him, I judge, now
what I am more old man, that he is due to be the Captain of. These things
you seem to me as shades, for me I was not more than five years old then.'
'True', says his/her auditor of the accounts, 'Your memory is good.'
'There was a party. I think that my father was not there, but I was
beautifully dressed, and gentleman they caressed me, and the negroeses were
dancing. I think that it is due to be my birth-day. I remember a servant
drawing a letter and the my mother fainting, and he/she speaks around a great
you fight to sea, and the name of my father mentioned--I have forgotten him--but
gentleman they told me not to cry, and I knew that he was dead; but I didn't do
knows what wanted to say. After this another gentleman came there,
very beautiful also, but it doesn't like my father, for him it had a dark face and
dark hair, and the hair of my father was light. I didn't like he for him,
spoken very austere to my mother, and she cried, and it was a lot
frightened by him. It was of the paper that he has wanted from her, and he offered
his/her gold once. I saw him/it, for me I hid me and I looked at him/it. Then my
mother became ill--they said her you/he/she was improving, and me memory to be
a lot of amazed morning, when the old nanny came down and told me her
it was dead. You were at night suddenly dead, they said, and she still had
is first best the evening.'
A burst of deep moan from the lips of the sailor, and its face was ashy pale.
The youth trembled as he proceeded.
'The dark gentleman came and ever removed from me from the house and me
saw it again. My old nanny went with me. I had then six years and me
lived with her, in a place poorer than before, and not next to the old one
hotels, for us we went a long way to a carriage to arrive him/it. We lived
together so up to me it was near eight years old. The dark gentleman never