...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... ...-bag, nor parcel. No porter followed him. He was unaccompanied by friends. From the shrugged shoul- ders, titters, whispers, wonderings of the crowd, ... ...or the capture of a mysterious impostor, supposed to have recently arrived from the East; quite an original genius in his vocation, as would appear, t... ...-Man the Mississippi, and the brothers Harpe, the Thugs of the Green River country, in Kentucky—creatures, with others of the sort, one and all exterm... ... a tossed look, almost linty, as if, traveling night and day from some far country beyond the prairies, he had long been without the solace of a bed. ... ...k men sent out into the coun- try; sent out to natur and grass?” “Aye, and poets send out the sick spirit to green pastures, like lame horses turned o... ...hod to the turf to renew their hoofs. A sort of yarb-doctors in their way, poets have it that for sore hearts, as for sore lungs, nature is the grand ... ... 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...

...white fur one, with a long fleecy nap. He had neither trunk, valise, carpet-bag, nor parcel. No porter followed him. He was unaccompanied by friends. From the shrugged shoulders, titters, whispers, wonderings of the crowd, it was plain that he was, in the extremest sense of the word, a stranger....