CHAPTER XLIV

‘ Quite an Original ’: a phrase, we fancy, rather oftener used by the young, or the unlearned, or the untravelled, than by the old, or the well-read, or the man who has made the grand tour. Certainly, the sense of originality exists...

CHAPTER XLI

‘With what heart,’ cried Frank, still in character, ‘ have you told me this story ? A story I can no way approve ; for its moral, if accepted, would drain me of all reliance upon my last stay, and, therefore, of my...

CHAPTER XXXVI

As, not without some haste, the boon companion withdrew, a stranger* advanced, and touching the cosmopolitan, said : ‘ I think I heard you say you would see that man again. Be warned ; don’t you do so.’ He turned, surveying the speaker; a...

CHAPTER XXXII

While speaking or rather hissing those words, the boon companion underwent much such a change as one reads of in fairy-books. Out of old material sprang a new creature. Cadmus glided into the snake.* The cosmopolitan rose, the traces of previous feeling vanished ;...

CHAPTER XXXI

‘In want of money ! ’ pushing back his chair as from a suddenly disclosed man-trap or crater. ‘ Yes,’ naively assented the cosmopolitan, ‘ and you are going to loan me fifty dollars. I could almost wish I was in need of more,...

CHAPTER XXII

‘ The judge always began in these words : “ The backwoodsman’s hatred of the Indian has been a topic for some remark. In the earlier times of the frontier the passion was thought to be readily accounted for. But Indian rapine having...

Chapter XIV

As the last chapter was begun with a reminder looking forward, so the present must consist of one glancing backward. To some, it may raise a degree of surprise that one so full of confidence, as the merchant has throughout shown himself, up to the...

CHAPTER XIII

Years ago, a grave American savant,* being in London, observed at an evening party there, a certain coxcombical fellow, as he thought, an absurd ribbon in his lapel, and full of smart persiflage, whisking about to the admiration of as many as...

Chapter X

Stools, settees, sofas, divans, ottomans ; occupying them are clusters of men, old and young, wise and simple; in their hands are cards spotted with diamonds, spades, clubs, hearts; the favourite games are whist, cribbage, and brag. Lounging in arm-chairs or sauntering among the...

Chapter III

In the forward part of the boat, not the least attractive object, for a time, was a grotesque negro cripple, in tow-cloth attire and an old coal-sifter of a tambourine in his hand, who, owing to something wrong about his legs, was, in effect,...