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...The Confidence- Man By Herman Melville A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Confidenc... ...State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Confidence-Man by Herman Melville is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portab... ...le as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Confidence-Man by Herman Melville, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Ji... ...ed to be a careful description of his person followed. As if it had been a theatre-bill, crowds were gathered about the announcement, and among them c... ...eans, an old man, less slender in purse than limb, happening to attend the theatre 31 Melville one evening, was so charmed with the character of a fa... ...e!” “Hi, hi!” clamored the cripple, like a fellow in the pit of a sixpenny theatre, then said, “don’t know much what you meant, but it went off well.”... ...or, who, waiting a moment till the commotion, caused by the boat’s renewed progress, had a little abated, thus continued: 131 Melville “Hark ye,” jee... ...s, fiddle in hand, and set the tickled world a’ dancing. In a word, as the progress of Christianization mel- lows those in manner whom it cannot mend ... ...n manner whom it cannot mend in mind, much the same will it prove with the progress of genialization. And so, thanks to geniality, the misanthrope, re...