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Название книги: The Confidence-Man
Автор(ы): Herman Melville
Жанр: Классическая проза
Адрес книги: http://www.6lib.ru/books/The-Confidence-Man-227601.html
Chapter 1CHAPTER I. A MUTE GOES ABOARD A BOAT ON THE MISSISSIPPI
AT sunrise on a first of April Note: [1.1] there appeared, suddenly as Manco Capac Note: [1.2] 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 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.In the same moment with his advent, he stepped aboard the favorite steamer Fidиle Note: [1.3], on the point of starting for New Orleans. Stared at, but unsaluted, with the air of one neither courting nor shunning regard, but evenly pursuing the path of duty, lead it through solitudes or cities, he held on his way along the lower deck until he chanced to come to a placard nigh the captain's office,
Название книги: The Confidence-Man
Автор(ы): Herman Melville
Жанр: Классическая проза
Адрес книги: http://www.6lib.ru/books/The-Confidence-Man-227601.html
Chapter 1CHAPTER I. A MUTE GOES ABOARD A BOAT ON THE MISSISSIPPI
AT sunrise on a first of April Note: [1.1] there appeared, suddenly as Manco Capac Note: [1.2] 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 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.In the same moment with his advent, he stepped aboard the favorite steamer Fidиle Note: [1.3], on the point of starting for New Orleans. Stared at, but unsaluted, with the air of one neither courting nor shunning regard, but evenly pursuing the path of duty, lead it through solitudes or cities, he held on his way along the lower deck until he chanced to come to a placard nigh the captain's office,
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