"Thou Art The Man" - читать интересную книгу автора (Poe Edgar Allan)

whole borough arose en masse to go and look for his body.
The foremost and most energetic in instituting this search was the
bosom friend of Mr. Shuttleworthy- a Mr. Charles Goodfellow, or, as he
was universally called, "Charley Goodfellow," or "Old Charley
Goodfellow." Now, whether it is a marvellous coincidence, or whether
it is that the name itself has an imperceptible effect upon the
character, I have never yet been able to ascertain; but the fact is
unquestionable, that there never yet was any person named Charles
who was not an open, manly, honest, good-natured, and frank-hearted
fellow, with a rich, clear voice, that did you good to hear it, and an
eye that looked you always straight in the face, as much as to say: "I
have a clear conscience myself, am afraid of no man, and am altogether
above doing a mean action." And thus all the hearty, careless,
"walking gentlemen" of the stage are very certain to be called
Charles.
Now, "Old Charley Goodfellow," although he had been in Rattleborough
not longer than six months or thereabouts, and although nobody knew
any thing about him before he came to settle in the neighborhood,
had experienced no difficulty in the world in making the
acquaintance of all the respectable people in the borough. Not a man
of them but would have taken his bare word for a thousand at any
moment; and as for the women, there is no saying what they would not
have done to oblige him. And all this came of his having been
christened Charles, and of his possessing, in consequence, that
ingenuous face which is proverbially the very "best letter of