Capitolo 14
great destiny of them. The Trevennackses and the Bassets, they was every one,
past time; they possessed the Mountain of St. Michael and Penzance, and
Marazion and Mullion here. They also, possessed the afore of Penmorgan the
Tyrrels bought him/it on. Michael Basset Trevennack that it is the
gentleman's full name; his/her child the more his/her child's old man the more old man is always a
Michael, to hold on the memory of the times past, when they was
Keepers of the Mountain and the Constable one of St. Michael. And the lady
Miss Cleer, after St. Cleer of Cornwall--her that anchor gives its name
to St. Cleer of Liskeard."
"And do they live here?" The Snow asked, very it interested in the
local and intelligent tone of the conversation of the man.
"God La blesses, no, gentleman. They doesn't live in any place. They is in the
shelters, don't do you he/she sees. They lives in Malta or Gibraltar, or wherever
the admiralty sends him/it. He is a man of Admiralty, he is, connected with
the Enclosure of Vittling. I was in the military harbor me, on the good old William
Ruffun, afore that I have been put in the Coastguards and me the knowed him well when
we was together both on the Mediterranean Station. Always the same
great old gentleman of Cornish, with them attractive manners, so haughty
as, a' so still complying, wherever they put him/it to them. A gentleman
been born. Any gentleman on the earth anymore The gentleman every round that
Trevennack of Trevennack."
"Is he being on a visit then down here?" The Snow followed, curiously,
peering at on the edge of the cliffs, as he spoke, to observe the
sea crows.
"Doesn't do you it goes too nearby, gentleman", the coastguards put in, admonitorily. "You are
slippery only there. Yes, they is being down in the lodgings of Oliver to
Gunwalloe. He is in license that is where it is. Every three or four
years he gets allowed by the Vittling and he/she returns home to England; and
then him always ups and runs down to the Lizard, and vague around on
the cliffs like alone this, with Miss Cleer to hold him/it society.
He is a fragment of the old stone, he is--the granite of Cornish to the center, as