Other characters in this novel include a man with a weed in his hat, who tells a story about his unfaithful wife Goneril, and the "cosmopolitan" Frank Goodman.
One character in this novel places ten half-eagle coins in a circle around a "boon companion" in order to reverse "a metamorphosis more surprising than any in Ovid." Its final chapter is set in a room lit by a lamp decorated by a horned altar and a robed man with a halo, and considers the truth of the Biblical verse "Believe not his many words—an enemy speaketh sweetly with his lips." In the third chapter of this novel, a crowd throws pennies into the open mouth of a black cripple. Another character illustrates his refusal to give a loan by telling a story about the candlemaker China Aster, who is ruined by his friend Orchis. That character, Egbert, is a disciple of the philosopher Mark Winsome, and refuses that loan while playing the part of Charlie Noble, who had earlier explained "the metaphysics of Indian-hating" with a story about Colonel John Moredock. Other characters in this novel include a man with a weed in his hat, who tells a story about his unfaithful wife Goneril, and the "cosmopolitan" Frank Goodman. In its first chapter, a mob of passengers ignore the pleas for charity of a deaf-mute in a cream-colored suit, who appears "suddenly as ? Manco Capac" on April Fool's Day. Set on the steamboat Fidele, for 10 points, name this novel by Herman Melville about the title character's "masquerade."
One character in this novel places ten half-eagle coins in a circle around a "boon companion" in order to reverse "a metamorphosis more surprising than any in Ovid.
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