This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1851 edition. Excerpt: ... could be likely to detect a gentleman in such clothes as I wore, and that perhaps he thought me to be some mere ignorant loafer, whose society would be disreputable and troublesome. " Egad!" I thought, " I'll give him one more trial, and endeavor to show him that, in one respect, I am a little better ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1851 edition. Excerpt: ... could be likely to detect a gentleman in such clothes as I wore, and that perhaps he thought me to be some mere ignorant loafer, whose society would be disreputable and troublesome. " Egad!" I thought, " I'll give him one more trial, and endeavor to show him that, in one respect, I am a little better than I seem." So I cleared my throat, and commenced. again: --" Pretty fair specimen of mountains here, eh?" " Yes--but I have n't time to talk about them now," was all the answer I obtained. Still I persisted. "Now, your famous Hartz mountains of Germany could hardly be wilder in their aspect than these. I have often fancied that this might be the very place for the dwelling of some Mephistopheles." I saw I touched him there, and in a favorite spot. He stopped in his work for a moment, and looked at me in some surprise, as though wondering how such a rough, sailor-looking fellow as I should speak about Mephistopheles, in preference to Davy Jones. "Are you fond of Goethe?" I asked, seizing the opportunity. " Passionately," he exclaimed, as what German in a foreign country is not? " And Schiller?" " Yes," he answered, looking more and more aston lines of his chime in with the present scenery!"--and.I repeated a stanza or two of the English translation. He almost was ready to fly into my arms as I spoke. " But come, I have already whiled away too much time," I said, rising as if about to go; but I knew that the desired impression had been made, and that he would not let me depart without some further communication. I was right. hesitated. "Very probably," I replied, "for but few of my...
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