, Part I, II
Advance (Narrator): The next to true story, "The History of Amelia," is said by one in a series of letters to his daughter, who discovered it after rummaging in the attic of his mother's house, and under the sailor found other items in a wooden box, Judith Cleland, New England, Stockbridge, Massachusetts.
Amelia takes the highest point of his life, and this story, in Nantucket, 1850 - 1852, for the most part, although he spent a decadeNantucket, until it returns Stockbridge. Judith, keep the letters, some with different dates on them, in their hands, some fifteen pages: It '1872, is twenty years ago, have been suspended since the letters in the fresh air, they must be mother at home in Stockbridge at this time.
She was always curious why his mother never remarried, never of his father except to say that he was a sailor, and a hero of the species to him, and then also spoke to Judith, and Judith is now21 years, and the letters must be exploited, so you feel no matter what, even if it is like opening Pandora's box.
It 's the story of a man who met with the name of Asa Gideon Scott (the majority of Scots-Irish guy in his mid to late forties).
Let me repeat, finds Judith fifteen pages of letters his mother wrote for her, and held not to read, even open the envelope until after his death, now has his mother, which has led to the ' outside in the courtyard,Tea to drink. She puts on the table beside her (she is fifty years old, white, Amelia immediately what it is, looks at his daughter's eyes), she smiles and says:
"I think you're old enough to understand why I never married, and to find out who was really his father?"
The two questions were always in the mind of Judith, matter-of-fact, had asked his mother since a teenager, two of these questions was.
On another note, Amelia, was with his family inNantucket for a number of years, it was because of the railway line was built in the area, and his family thought it best to avoid the noise and confusion of the time, and the rich were seized, as well as poets and writers .
She liked writing had taken, and Catherine Maria Sedgwick, she had books like "Hope Leslie wrote:" 1827 and "married or unmarried, 1857 She was a kind of idol. Like Catherine, was also sent to a finishing school in Boston, was the most talked aboutAbout the author of women their day for what has inspired Amelia, and, of course, she liked the book called Catherine wrote: "married or unmarried," he expressed, that his: women do not should marry if they lose their self-esteem, self-involved - the value of identity.
Now I really said enough about this story, we must now go to the full text of the letters from her to discover these secrets Judith waited so long.
(Amelia read of his daughter, who sat under an umbrella,Drinking tea, but first make a statement)
Letters
declaration of his daughter Amelia before reading the letter: "I read a lot of Cotton Mather in recent years, was very popular when I was a child growing up with my family. Need I say Judith was very influential in my era, wrote much , was thrice married, had children under fifteen years, so I think he knew what he was saying, and writing, and many books, and an honorary doctorate helped, butYet officials. He said: "You should be more concerned that their souls (ie children) should not be starved, or go without the bread of life." I suspect that some of the bread is to understand the truth and giving you the background for the letters, or read, shows that the nature of care, especially if you know someone in your area, and know-how not say in the letter that take hand. I heard that there would be a bit 'too early to be the whole story of howIt 'was, perhaps, as I have become, or little more of me, after the death of your father, I was waiting for you, at least 30 years old, information, which is Christ himself when he took his ministry. Cotton Mather also said to include crying and I feel so many words: If your dog and child were drowning, who is saved? A bad example in general, but at this point. When a family member feels ill in a discipline, it is not uncommon that it actsother members, read letters to you:
A letter: 1852
History
"The first time I saw him, was more like the beach as a damp cloth, stranded or dead seal, and helped him, I said:" It seems a kind of honest and courageous boy, a sailor, not try to hurt me ", and also to know him, I was right, for most of my assessment at the first, and that he was not very religious, I have gathered fromStart, unfortunately, but in his quiet way, was a kind of reverence unspoken noble kind-hearted person, perhaps a cry for a better value of immortality was in his soul ...
"He's at the end of our relationship to do just about anything his mind by what he had to do, and did so, but if you ask me, not him peace, that WAS waiting, and beyond human kindness, who left I keep little meaning and hope in his return and he has left no particular ideology. It 's remarkable howThe question remains back and forth to the world on a pyre: strange, but fascinating.
"I'm thirty years old is 46. There is no fear correspondence between him and me, our relationship only lasted two years, brought me an abundance of warmth and community has. But faded last season was with me lately was.
"I liked his name was different, but not the surname of his other two names, firstand say, not really different suspects for The Scotch-Irish, Asa Gideon Scott, but different for me.
"When I took him on the shore of Nantucket, I dragged an essay, and waited until he knew the same means, and let it rest on my shoulders, and I brought my house in his bare fire, I found soon after his resurrection will be completed in a few days. It did not take long to get to us even on a rather formal conditions.
(You mustto realize, I'm pregnant now, and Gideon never knew and I do not know if you're a boy or a girl were inside me, perhaps if you are a girl that I call Judith, I like that name, seems to have a ring Romania to it, and understand you, I'm sure that on the other hand, if you're a guy, I'm afraid to say, we live in a time when skirts are we made of iron, and male gender, with all their whores in tour to marry a virgin, and I dare say, that should be the motherone if the father was not just Wednesday)
"As I said before this parenthesis short time, perhaps two weeks and we were inundated with best friends, companionship and mutual trust in our place!
"Before going was good or not, in recent times. And I suspect, suffered constant occupation of mind, in continuing without much success, all you thought. Plus, she drank, as usual, but I have curves, bad habit for him ,something.
"For a long time he was happy, and then a kind of morbid depression overcame him. You may want to return to the sea, or at least what was going, or better yet, is my guess, or better yet, his wife Phoebe .. . he said, was from New England, is not exactly where I was from our conversations late into the night, New Hampshire, it was all secretly thought about these things. My point is, there is an old ruin, an ancient archaeological site nearby, deep in the forests andHe had said in reference to Phoebe ("Mystery Hill").
"When he left, he was apparently not deep or sympathetic response that at first glance that our relationship had left heat.
"As you know in time, I was born and raised in Stockbridge, he moved to Nantucket for a number of years was the train coming and my parents thought best, I live in Nantucket for a decade, so they feared that drink men raw and hard, and men can take any valueFreedom did not qualify.
"When I think of him, yet with great warmth and enthusiasm.
"For two years I had seen in his deep, dark eyes, and all I can see now, is the story that I live, its history and mine, I tell you, every single line is for me and sincere desire on the part Me for him and for you to know him better. "
Letter two: 1857
Ask
"This is a question that I guess you're wondering:" Who was he anyway? "TheyFive years now and this is my second letter Judith is so far away.
"For years I lived on the history and your father, Gideon is gone, has always had a load on her face ... a matter of whaling, but Rhapsody for him.
"But as he was, you might ask, and could I say in passing: it was the ocean, and he left the ground to see the whales powerful to sell their oil, profit, help, known as the original goods are now what could be. It could besaid he, like a fable, was hit by sterling metal, for me a face on a coin. And when Dorothy met him, my dear and best friend, had a very inflated with a smile, not to count his wealth, for he had none, he changed his mind, he wanted his approval, with this, I drew away quickly, as an architect was his plan for a large building, if someone else looking over his shoulder, which should not be.
"For many nights we spent theEvening together, listening to the new sounds of the Atlantic to talk to his sailors. All jargon to me at first, of course, and then I got in his way, recognize the terminology, and so on. In fact, I started to enjoy his stories, as he released, and it is always good for a night of excitement. He would take to plow deep ocean deep, its surface rich story, an atheist. For him, everything was a sacred matter, with its exquisite irony. Sometimes it was on the borderlineBlasphemy.
"I did not say, but I have our life together in the city said that all looked at me useless, as if his life was perfect, and certainly on track to gates of heaven. People are increasingly willing to worse than your neighbors think, but they also want to take the rose. But as I said, or say when I met him in marble, had resisted bruised, his skin like snow, the long ordealin the sea. Full control muscles throughout the legs, but the other way when he opened his eyes, he saw me, opened with a sheen, especially under the eyelids.
"I hope you understand, I see you play at that moment on the lawn next to my window as I write, I wish I met him, maybe this will help.
'Well, said he was married, had a woman like me before named Phoebe, to quote what I said but neglected married, who had served timein Sing Sing, a prison for women. I really doubt I ever told me the whole story is true, was not his way to do this, add non-fiction with fiction, so that everything a mystery track. In any case, there were many of these so-called jail girls willing to sleep with the judges and the noble men of the city, hiding citizens standing tone, it seems behind the curtains in prison and have their orgies.
"In any case, got married, he said, and had five children with her. TheArt frowned on this, at first, and then forget, as if something was true, in turn, but probably had it all twisted its distortions and deletions in it, and generalizations.
"Nobody has ever had a reality to me, without fear, as it did. Conclusions to see my reaction, I often thought: to see if I'm scared.
"He said one afternoon as we talk on the porch, drinking lemonade, he says in so many words, his boat had sunk the ship and hedied on him, was forced to swim, even unconsciously, long hours to finish. This I know to be true, for I found him off the road on the coast. And I will be more to come later in this part of history, but I must say, his sea stories were so good that almost did not feel less a narrator of Melville himself, a writer, certainly, more like a sailor: Do not no had better.
"It was an ordinary man, or that all intellectual or even hotHeart, was more than a Trumm by a man with dirty fingerprints, and had to leave the house, especially in the walls.
"He was tall and straight, honest and not a bit 'or revered him try, with me in any case be sure if it was a great man in my soul. It seemed to me a man who had seen many things, and explained some In his stories he told but everything exactly as he saw it, his eyes do not know, sharp eyes, but indistinguishable inin any case. '
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"When he told his stories, particularly his long swim, it was always full of action.
"He was not handsome, but he was brave and manly. And again he began his story, you lose it, and somehow there was pardoned and Polish. He was, Judith could, mostly in the back saying, but you could clearly understand what he implied when his words were in the state wide.
"He will give you strange looks lazy at the end of the story, as if everyone waitsGet your answer. '
Three letters: 1859
Passion and pride
"It was a few years, have become increasingly large, seven years ago was Judith.'re At school that afternoon, and I thought it might return to Stockbridge, my city, you have never seen before. But I want to tell you more about your father, and our two years together, and explain the passion I had for him when I ease into a mold.
"I loved to love, was really a bear in the process ofOn the other hand he was close to respectable, not directly connected with innocence of a child, such as mannerisms and friendly throughout the course of the story.
do not want to stop "He Was a make love, as he related in his story, he lost and he was. knowledgebase has much in I Had very little, and that was his favorite daily or almost daily exercise activities .
"We had breakfast at 5:00 clock edges. Then we'd take a walk, then said," Let me ... 'and a place I would go out alone after parting, and we would meet later.
"We usually ate dinner, and I was out of his sleep was always worried, he never felt the next day when he is not getting his sleep. The fact is that if your father has left a terrible evil health, strain on his face in his eyes, the mind to let the fear of love, and perhaps weakened his body from all the past adventures and drinking.
"Wherever he went on this day, the dayI left in 1852, which was one of three ships from it, because if not, his next adventure he had feared all excited as if it were missing, he knew his work on the ship, otherwise, the pride has cost more thought it was, and would be better, I said that in the future, it would take a toll on himself but the work of other ships as a story telling what he could do, I suspect It 's been a terrible state' courage to be, try to see where you fit in a conditionof fear and narrative of his travels is that he never read much, maybe he could not.
"The day he left was quieter than usual, and I was uncomfortable with her partner. I told him we went down to the shore, 'Your life makes you mad hermit on these ships."
"But I knew he was dreaming of those distant tropical islands, the hard, the blue waves of the sea life under the sun still, it was life at its best for him, was somehow her medicine, even if onlyHe could bend his consumption of alcohol on these adventures with him, he would stay over with me, but the evil of the ship and the lives of the world as a whole, certainly an influence on him. I think as women we are always ready, keeper of a man who will love we had, my mother and father, and most people see it that way, and now I do too. What can I say? '
Four Letter: 1860
Death
"And 'Judith was one year since my last letter, I think they are inthe other, making them as you get older. We will go to Stockbridge this year rather quickly. I think I'm going to write about the death of your father was a sudden surprise me, to say the least.
"It 'was found on the streets of Nantucket, of all places, in 1853, there were only a year later, plus a couple of months. He not only more than six months had gone, and when he is on the streets he was delusional, they need immediate help after the man who found him,was wounded, had fallen into a wooden fence, and pierced his back slightly, as did this were drunk, of course, is all speculation, but it's only a matter of fact, drinkers have to look for a disaster, it follows them. He was a bit 'consistent, long enough to make a name, before dying, what exactly is meant is not clear, was in a state of "duplicity" He wanted to, I feel the secret of his love, it was me or his ship was spoken dark.
"For myComprehension, speech, he said, like 'The Amanita or played Amelia "It' s been a ship named Amanita, but it was at sea, and not for another week.
"In any case, had died of congestion of the brain that says, coupled with alcoholism. You said, the doctors said, and few people, the city had seen in the local bar for a few weeks before His death, He had the shakes, delirium, his heart was not working properly, he fell to his fans a couple of times.
"I naturallycame too late to be with him, a moment before it expires, perhaps it was better to be rather trying for me.
Letter Five: 1861
"He has his death are not stupid, you got me. If nothing else, I had a lot to tell stories and Judith, if they were older. We had to move Stockbridge, and now living near their grandparents. I thought not I want to marry while you raise, I thought maybe a picture of another man's property, such as Cotton Mather said,This is a child, the new father would be safe enough not treat you like her. Also, I have a franchise of your grandparents, Ernest Cleland was his name, and was a good lawyer in his youth in Boston and had written some books, and selling them has made a small fortune, books of law.
"And to pursue this point further, I believe that the prophecy is true, once a man, not the command is married she will be very surprised at how your father is trying to treat me sometimesas an old beggar, and so it is better gone, so a bit 'beggar-child.
"But what I meant was when I wrote my father back in '51, he begged me not to marry, Gideon, has tried everything to convince me otherwise, I sent the money, and said he would support me and you. Gideon called contamination. Oh, I do not like the wording at the time, but his words would turnout to be true. How foolish we become when you are infatuated with love ... you can not see the trees inoutside the forest, or anything beyond them.
"I loved her hard, structured mutineers, I think every woman does, had to make in these men are to be played, because I am not tamed.
"Many of his stories were of dead sailors come back as ghosts subject, the sailors of the ship, and stabbings in the middle of the night, stabbing and cutting his throat. You never know quite what is real or unreal.
"He had to tell me about the South Seas,that all whales caught and brought their supplies of oil Nantucket with fuel for lamps, and so lights up the night, and as for the whales, all the whales in the mouth, the building was sold and for women , corsets, hair brushes, buggy whips, those things that had never happened before with me. In his world, he was very intelligent.
"Overall it was a lucrative business, I gained a lot of doors was rich, he said, but I knew it was a tough and dangerousLife.
"Now I will tell you the story before he told me to find on the beach, and I paraphrase to the best of my ability:
"The team and I said, our boats, lifeboats taken in pursuing the objective, which was the harpoon prey has successfully completed its whale impaled can not see the expected two other boats in sight, went to two other whales, it was discovered three years and knew in my heart that we had a sleigh ride ... to be treated, which means that theWhale was to go, and not the hunters move in small boat on the sea, like a safari. Then he went to say that we have lost sight of the ship, and how to take Crash (whale) to us, escaped me, is that after five hours of hard work at sea with a large whale that the blood flowing, and the mother ship is not in sight. It was late, maybe 21.00 clock, and was driving on the left. He claimed that the whale was a big, you know, like Moby Dick, Melville wrote the story'51. He said that to cook lots of bacon, have produced oil. He said the 300-Wal barrols some materials would be when a guy brings in about 150 Wal I think with Gideon, you must sort the truth from fiction.
"Let me go, the whale a mile away, was a huge whale, as I said, and if we come close, or close enough to harpoon me was our blood, mixing with enthusiasm to fill the pantry, and take pace withWhale oil galore.
"We had one of the three, I forwarded the rower, I have maintained a bit, I got up, he said, and turned the harpoon in his flesh, and I have his blood flow when he speaks of himself, transformed into Athens to make us more angry. The boat turned to throw us all in the air.
"You can lose the other two boats, the ship returned, I do not know.
See Part II for the end ...
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