...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... ...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... ... between rude crutches, while the whole rigid body, like a ship’s long ba- rometer on gimbals, swung to and fro, mechanically faithful to the motion o... ... from an immense hereditary experience—see what Horace and oth- ers of the ancients say of servants—coming to the conclu- sion, I say, that boy or man... ...a Roman and a Grecian passion—that is, Pagan; yet, the an- nals of neither Rome nor Greece can produce the equal in man-hatred of Colonel Moredock, as... ...what do you conjecture him to be?” “I conjecture him to be what, among the ancient Egyp- tians, was called a—— “ using some unknown word. “A——! And wh... ...say nothing more, can one be forever deal- ing in macassar oil, hair dyes, cosmetics, false moustaches, wigs, and toupees, and still believe that men ...

...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...