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Poe Man of the Crowd year, George R. Graham, proprietor of The Casket, bought th will not suffer themselves to be revealed. Now -and then, alas, the Gentleman's from Burton, and under Graham's editorship Poe's conscience of man takes up a burthen so heavy in horror that it can story appeared in both The Casket and the Gentleman's for De- be thrown down only into the grave. And thus the essence of all cember. Both issues carried the new heading "Graham's- Magazine crime is undivulged. on the first page of text, but each retained its individual title page Not long ago, about the closing in of an evening in autumn, I and serial number, and the Gentleman's had eight additional pages sat at the large bow window of the D Coffee-House in Lon- concluding a continued story begun some months before. Othe don.2 For some months I had been iii in health, but was now con- wise, the two issues were identical. Each, however, served to com- valescent, and, with returning strength, found tnyself in one of plete a volume. With the issue for January 1841, Graham began those happy moods which are so precisely the converse of ennui — publishing Graham's Lady's and Gentleman's Magazine (The moods of the keenest appetency, when the film from the mental Casket and Gentleman's United), numbered in sequence with the vision departs — the axXvs o irpcv Eirrit-v and the intellect, old Casket, and within a few months he added Poe to his staff. electrified, surpasses as greatly its every-day condition, as does the vivid yet candid reason of Leibnitz,a the mad and flimsy rhetoric of Gorgias.4 Merely to breathe was enjoyment; and I derived TEXTS positive pleasure even from many of the legitimate sources of pain. (A)The Casket for December 1840 (17:267-270) and [Burton's] Centlernan's I felt a calm but inquisitive interest in every thing. With a cigar in Magazine for December 1840 (7:267-270), both captioned on first page of tex my mouth and a newspaper in my lap, I had been amusing myself "Graham's Magazine"; (B) Tales (1845), pp. 219-228; (C) J. Lorirner Graham copy of the last with one manuscript correction; (D) Works (1850), II, 398-407, for the greater part of the afternoon, now in poring over adver- PHANTASY-PIECES, title only. tisements, now in observing the promiscuous company in the room, Text (C) is followed. The Lorimer Graham correction is merely insertion of a period at the end of the final footnote — something done independently by and now in peering through the smoky panes into the street. Griswold or his printer in Works (D). The spelling decrepid was a recognized This latter is one of the principal thoroughfares of the city, variant. There were five printer's end-of-line dashes in the first printing (A); two and had been very much crowded during the whole day. But, as were eliminated for Tales, but three were allowed to remain. In B and C and in the darkness came on, the throng momently increased; and, by the our text they fall within the line. time the lamps were well lighted,b two dense and continuous tides of population were rushing past the door. At this particular THE MAN OF THE CROWD. [C] period of the evening I had never before been in a similar situa- Ce grand roalheur, de ne pouvoir e'tre seul. tion, and the tumultuous sea of human heads filled me, therefore, La Bru3Qre. with a delicious novelty of emotion. I gave up, at length, all care of things within the hotel, and became asborbed in contemplation It was well said of a certain German book that "er lasst sich of the scene without. nicht lesen" — it does not permit itself to be read. 1 There are some At first my observations took an abstract and generalizing turn. secrets which do not permit themselves to be told. Men die nightly I looked at the passengers in masses, and thought öf them in their in their beds, wringing the hands of ghostly confessors, and look- aggregate relations. Soon, however, I descended to details„ and ing them piteously in the eyes — die with despair of heart and con- regarded with minute interest the innumerable varieties of figure, vulsion of throat, on account of the hideousness of mysteries which dress, air, gait, visage, and expression of countenance. Title: In the Table of Contents this is (B, C) listed as The Man in the Crowd. Motto: French unaccented (A) Combe, (A) b litten (A) 5 • o 6 • . 507 INTERLUDE: 1840 THE MAN OF THE CROWD By far the greater number of those who went by hadT a satisfied odd habit of standing off on end. I observed that they always re- business-like demeanor, and seemed to be thinking only of making , moved or settled their hats with both hands, and wore watches, their way through the press. Their brows were knit, and their eyes with short gold chains of a substantial and ancient pattern. Theirs rolled quickly; when pushed against by fellow-wayfarers the was the affectation of respectability; — if indeed there be an affecta- evinced no symptom of impatience, but adjusted their clothes and tion so honorable. hurried on. Others, still a numerous class, were restle$s in their There were many individuals of dashing appearance, whom I movements, had flushed faces, and talked and gesticulatedto thera easily understoodd as belonging to the race of swell piek-pockets, selves, as if feeling in solitude on account of the very denseness öf with which all great cities are infested. I watched these gentry with the company around. When impeded in their progress, thes much inquisinveness, and found it clifficult to imagine how they people suddenly ceased muttering, but redoubled their gesticula should ever be mistaken for gentlemen by gentlemen themselves. tions, and awaited, with ån absent and overdone smile upön th Their voluminousness of wristband, with an air of excessive frank- lips, the course of the persons impeding them. If jostled, the ness, should betray them at once. bowed profusely to the lostlers, and appeared overwhelmed wiih The gamblers, of whom I descried not a few, were still more confusion. — There was nothing very distinctive about these tW easily recognisable. They wore every variety of dress, from that of the desperate thimble-rig bully, 6 with velvet waistcoat, fancy neck- large classes beyond what I have noted. Their habiliments be , erchief longed to that order which is pointeclly tenned the decent. The : giit chains, and filagreed buttons, to that of the scrupu- were undoubtedly noblemen, merchants, attorneys, tradesmen lously mornate clergyman, than which nothing could be less liable stock-jobbers the Eupatrids 5 and the common-places of society to suspicion. Still all were distinguished by a certain sodden men of leisure and men actively engaged in affairs of their own swarthiness of complexion, a filmy dimness of eye, and pallor and conducting business upon their own responsibility. They did not compression of lip. There were two other traits, moreover, by greatly-excite my attention. Inch I could always detect them; — a guarded lowness of tone in The tribe of clerks was an obvious one and here I discerned coriversation, and a more than ordinary extension of the thumb in two rerharkable divisions. There were the junior clerks of fiash a direction at right angles with the fingers. — Very often, in com- houses — young gentlemen with tight coats, bright boots, well- pany with these sharpers, I observed an order of men somewhat oiled hair, and supercilious lips. Setting aside a certain dapperness ifferent in habits, but still birds of a kindred feather. They may of caxriage, which may be termed deskisane for want of a bett be defined as the gentlemen who live by their wits. They seem to word, the manner of these persons seemed to me an exact fac ey upon the public in two battalions — that of the dandies and simile of what had been the perfection of bon ton about twelve at of the military men. Of the first grade the leading features are eighteen rnonths before. They wore the cast-off graces* of=the ng locks and smiles; of the second frogged coats and frowns. try; — and this, I believe, involves the best definition of the clås •Descending in the scale of what is termed gentility, I found The division of the upper clerks of staunch 'firnis; or o er and deeper themes for speculation. I saw Jew pedlars, with "steady old fellows," it was not possible to niistake. These we awk eyes flashing from countenances whose every other feature known by their coats and pantaloons of black or brOWn,'Inade to si re only an expression -of abject humility; sturdy professional comfortably, with white cravats and waistcoats; bräälsolid-lookin eet beggars scowling upon-mendicants of a better staMp, whom shoes, and thick hose or gaiters. They had' all slightly b al despair alone had driven ,forth into the night for charity; feeble and,ghastly invalids, upon whom death had placed a sure hand, and heads, from which the right ears, long used to pen-holding, had _ a d set down (A) • 509 INTERLUDE: r8 4 o THE MAN OF THE CROWD who sidled and tottered through the mob, looking every one be- length gained ascendancy, and threw over every thing a fitful and seechingly in the face, as if in search of some chance consolation, arish lustre. All was dark yet splendid — as that ebony to which some lost hope; modest young girls returning from long and late as been likened the style of Tertullian.
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