...The Confidence- Man By Herman Melville A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Confidence-Man by Herman ... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Nei- ther the Pennsylvania State... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Confidence-Man by Herman Melville, the Pennsylvania State U... ...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... ...oved, how are we admonished by the melancholy spectacle of this raver. Let us profit by the les- son; and is it not this: that if, next to mistrusting... ... vain, he will con- clude he has been made a fool of, and so not return to us for pure shame. Fact is, I begin to feel a little qualmish about the dar... ...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... ... or are you owned by a company?” “My master?” “Aye, for come from Maine or Georgia, you come from a slave-state, and a slave-pen, where the best breed... ... confined to the fireside and table. But in our age—the age of joint-stock companies and free-and- easies— it is with this precious quality as with pr...

...Excerpt: At sunrise on a first of April there appeared, suddenly as Manco Capac at the lake Titicaca, a man in cream-colors, at the water-side in the city of St. Louis. His cheek was fair, his chin downy, his hair flaxen, his hat a white fur one, with a long fleecy nap. He had neither trunk, valise, carpet-bag, nor parcel. No porte...