Capitolo 35
anybody.
"The coast is clear", him concluded. "So a lot the best, if I can get
in."
The door tried to be closed, but the windows were easily elevated.
Through one of these he climbed in the kitchen that was the only one
room occupied by the old grower, with the exception of a room above,
what he used as a bedchamber. Here he cooked and he/she ate his/her meals, and
here he spent his/her solitary evenings.
Jumping on the windowsill of window, the visitor was found in this room. Him
looked around him with some curiosity.
"It is eighteen years from when I was last in this room", he said. "Time
you/he/she has not improved him, neither me, or very probable", he added, with a short
laughter. "I have erred all over the world a lot enough in that duration, and
I am returned as poor man as me I went away. What is that copy to which I have used
does write?--'A rolling stone doesn't gather musk.' Well, I am the rolling stone.
In that whole duration my Uncle Paul has been moored fast to his/her plate of the hearth,
and you/he/she is accumulating on gold that he doesn't seem to have a lot of use for. As
far as me I know, I am his/her nearer relationship, there is no reason because him
you/he/she should not launch out a small for the benefit of the family."
You/he/she will be gathered by the preceding soliloquy that the new come was a
Paul's Nichols nephew. After a not very praiseworthy youth, he had gone
to sea, and for eighteen years this was his/her first reappearance in his
native city.
He sat him on a chair, and stretched out his/her legs with an air to be,
to house.
"I wonder me what you/they will say the old men when he sees me", him the soliloquized.
"Ten to one he won't know me. When we saw each other last I was a
smooth-faced youth. I now have hair enough on my face and the years
you/he/she has done, their mark on me, I suspect. Where he is, I wonder me, and as
from very I has found to wait for him/it? While I am waiting, I will take the
the liberty to look in the closet, and seeing if he doesn't have anything to