Bartleby the Scrivener: A Tale of Wall Street

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186 THE PIAZZA TALES into tortoises ; thenceforth dwelling upon these hot aridities, sole solitary lords of Asphaltum. Doubtless, so quaintly dolorous a thought was originally inspired by the woebegone landscape itself ; but more particularly, perhaps, by the tortoises. For, apart from their strictly physical features, there is something strangely self-condemned in the appearance of these creatures. Lasting sorrow and penal hopelessness are in no animal form so suppliantly expressed as in theirs ; while the thought of their wonderful longevity does not fail to enhance the impression. Nor even at the risk of meriting the charge of absurdly believing in enchantments, can I restrain the admission that sometimes, even now, when leaving the crowded city to wander out July and August among the Adirondack Mountains, far from the influences of towns and proportionally nigh to the mysterious ones of nature ; when at such times I sit me down in the mossy head of some deep-wooded gorge, surrounded by prostrate trunks of blasted pines, and recall, as in a dream, my other and far-distant rovings in the baked heart of the charmed isles ; and remember the sudden glimpses of dusky shells, and long languid necks protruded from the leafless thickets ; and again have beheld the vitreous inland rocks worn down and grooved into deep ruts by ages and ages of the slow draggings of tortoises in quest of pools of scanty water ; I can hardly resist the feeling that in my time I have indeed slept upon evilly enchanted ground. Nay, such is the vividness of my memory, or the magic of my fancy, that I know not whether I am not the occasional victim of optical delusion concerning the Gallipagos. For, often in scenes of social merri- ment, and especially at revels held by candle-light in old-fashioned mansions, so that shadows are thrown into
THE ENCANTADAS 187 the further recesses of an angular and spacious room, making them put on a look of haunted undergrowth of lonely woods, I have drawn the attention of my comrades by my fixed gaze and sudden change of air, as I have seemed to see, slowly emerging from those imagined solitudes, and. heavily crawling along the floor, the ghost of a gigantic tortoise, with ' Memento *****' burning in live letters upon his back.
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THE WORKS OF HERMAN MELVILLE STANDA
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THE PIAZZA TALES THE PIAZZA * With
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THE PIAZZA 3 honeysuckle, I set for
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THE PIAZZA 5 And this recalls my in
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THE PIAZZA 7 old barn—an abandone
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THE PIAZZA 9 were travelled but by
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THE PIAZZA 11 and, nigh the turfy e
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THE PIAZZA 13 brother was absent th
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* Tray THE PIAZZA 15 It dusked my w
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* But the ? night ' * THE PIAZZA 17
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BARTLEBY I am a rather elderly man.
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At one end, they looked upon BARTLE
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BARTLEBY 23 not to lose them— yet
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BARTLEBY 25 no other than a dun, an
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BARTLEBY 27 Not the least among the
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BARTLEBY 29 reading from the copy,
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BARTLEBY 31 I heard a slow scrape o
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BARTLEBY 33 common ; while Nippers,
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BARTLEBY 35 It was afternoon, be it
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BARTLEBY 37 trivial errand of any s
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BARTLEBY 39 of uneasiness as to wha
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BARTLEBY 41 and knotted. I opened i
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No reply. BARTLEBY 43 ' Bartleby,'
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BARTLEBY 45 ' With submission, what
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BARTLEBY 47 But he seemed alone, ab
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BARTLEBY 49 none of Bartleby's. The
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BARTLEBY 51 pained, Bartleby. I had
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BARTLEBY 53 stand, and become gener
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BARTLEBY 55 Ere revolving any compl
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* BARTLEBY 57 Full of forebodings,
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BARTLEBY 59 * I would prefer not to
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BARTLEBY 61 As I afterward learned,
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BARTLEBY 63 find it pleasant here,
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BARTLEBY 65 has not been without a
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BENITO CERENO 67 the sort of storie
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BENITO CERENO 69 a Spanish merchant
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BENITO CERENO 71 the negresses, of
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BENITO CERENO 73 to a stranger's ey
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BENITO CERENO 75 half gone — hoar
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except in signal emergencies, BENIT
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BENITO CERENO 79 momentary absence
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BENITO CERENO 81 smart west winds e
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BENITO CERENO 83 toilet of Don Beni
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BENITO CERENO 85 But when, facing a
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BENITO CERENO 87 ' I am owner of al
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BENITO CERENO 89 surveying, not wit
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BENITO CERENO 91 malicious reflecti
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BENITO CERENO 93 sort of roving cad
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BENITO CERENO 95 ' ' And—and will
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BENITO CERENO 97 Delano. It was no
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BENITO CERENO 99 more calamitous pa
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BENITO CERENO 101 to all appearance
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BENITO CERENO 103 surveying the whi
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BENITO CERENO 105 when he saw me co
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BENITO CERENO 107 broad ovals and c
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BENITO CERENO 109 in against it wit
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BENITO CERENO 111 like a man's, was
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ecause it went off, back. BENITO CE
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BENITO CERENO 115 forced every whit
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BENITO CERENO 117 seats, were descr
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BENITO CERENO 119 antlers, and keep
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BENITO CERENO 121 hypochondriacs, J
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BENITO CERENO 123 in a blood-red fi
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BENITO CERENO 125 the recent annoyi
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BENITO CERENO 127 * Ah, when will m
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BENITO CERENO 129 The lunch was a f
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BENITO CERENO 131 only his constant
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BENITO CERENO 133 authority might b
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THE ENCANTADAS 237 time he exchange
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THE ENCANTADAS 239 far from being t
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THE ENCANTADAS 241 On their way up
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THE ENCANTADAS 243 four animals, an
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THE ENCANTADAS 245 found pinned hal
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THE ENCANTADAS 247 sentences, for e
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THE ENCANTADAS 249 general, much ea
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THE ENCANTADAS 251 The relics of he
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THE BELL-TOWER In the south of Euro
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THE BELL-TOWER 255 united, though,
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THE BELL-TOWER 257 men— followed
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THE BELL-TOWER 259 to let the found
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THE BELL-TOWER 261 years ago, you m
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THE BELL-TOWER 263 blind-work, only
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THE BELL-TOWER 265 stack of sword-b
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THE BELL-TOWER 267 ceeding from com
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THE BELL-TOWER 269 or rather, what
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