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... cream colors after con- temporary confidence men . It was not uncommon for swindlers to pose as deaf - mutes ; William Avery Rocke- feller had done so , and apparently an impostor claiming to be Melville himself had pretended muteness ...
... cream colors after con- temporary confidence men . It was not uncommon for swindlers to pose as deaf - mutes ; William Avery Rocke- feller had done so , and apparently an impostor claiming to be Melville himself had pretended muteness ...
Page 142
... Cream remembers Goodman as a " queer customer , though Cream's friends after they are told about him dub the cosmopolitan " quite an original . " And this last phrase provided the occasion for the narrator to inter- rupt his narrative ...
... Cream remembers Goodman as a " queer customer , though Cream's friends after they are told about him dub the cosmopolitan " quite an original . " And this last phrase provided the occasion for the narrator to inter- rupt his narrative ...
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... cream colors also recalls Cervantes's mad knight . The deaf mute resembles Quixote in his lack of authority , his guile- less nature , his anachronistic demands , his curious aspect , and his irritating persistence . And , like Quixote ...
... cream colors also recalls Cervantes's mad knight . The deaf mute resembles Quixote in his lack of authority , his guile- less nature , his anachronistic demands , his curious aspect , and his irritating persistence . And , like Quixote ...
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