...he is struck by the "absolute idiosyncracy" of an old man's countenance, a sight that arouses in him a "craving desire to keep the man in view - to know more of him. " The narrator then rushes out into the crowd and into the night in order to satisfy this desire. Like...

..."merriment" to "despair." He feels, though, that its meaning may be reached, is somehow accessible. " 'How wild a history,' I said to myself, 'is written...desire to keep the man in view — to know more of him" (p. 287). Fascinated, well-nigh mesmerized, by this figure he hurries out of the coffeehouse and proceeds...

...impressions of "vast mental power, of caution, of penuriousness, of avarice, of coolness, of malice, of blood-thirstiness, of triumph, of merriment, of...excessive terror, of intense — of supreme despair." Overwhelmed by a "craving desire" to keep the stranger in sight, he quits his observation post —...

...mind, the ideas of vast mental power, of caution, of penuriousness, of avarice, of coolness, of malice, of blood-thirstiness, of triumph, of merriment, of...excessive terror, of intense — of supreme despair" (M, 2: 511). The narrator's move away from abstract and generalizing analysis has thus led him into...

...ardente de investigar os segredos do outro em seu trajeto pela cidade londrina, rompendo a multidào: Then came a craving desire to keep the man in view...Hurriedly putting on an overcoat, and seizing my hat and rane, I made my way into the street, and pushed through the crowd in the direction wich I had seen...

...sixty-five or seventy years of age)." Then, forming the hinge between the Crowd story and the Man story, "came a craving desire to keep the man in view — to know more of him" (112). So the narrator turns from observation and rumination to obsessive action. He begins to follow...

...unbändiges hermeneutisches Begehren weckt, das über ein bloß physiognomisches Interesse hinausgeht: ,„How wild a history', I said to myself, ,is written...desire to keep the man in view — to know more of lum. Hurnedly putting on an overcoat, and seizing my hat and cane, I made my way into the street."1...

...sixty-five or seventy years of age)." Then, forming the hinge between the Crowd story and the Man story, "came a craving desire to keep the man in view— to know more of him" (112). So the narrator turns from observation and rumination to obsessive action. He begins to follow...

...mind, the ideas of vast mental power, of caution, of penuriousness, of avarice, of coolness, of malice, of blood-thirstiness, of triumph, of merriment, of...history," I said to myself, "is written within that bosom!"11 Then came a craving desire to keep the man in view — to know more of him. Hurriedly putting...

...mind, the ideas of vast mental power, of caution, of penuriousness, of avarice, of coolness, of malice, of blood-thirstiness, of triumph, of merriment, of excessive terror, of intense — of extreme despair. I felt singularly aroused, startled, fascinated. "How wild a history," I said to myself,...