{"id":"01KG8AK9A3AVP0SVKB6NVHA7FS","cid":"bafkreihqqn63wzppq6vc4zsuyp562ogj4guzfiksphpgqggjycx7umaooa","type":"chunk","properties":{"end_line":1701,"extracted_at":"2026-01-30T20:47:57.722Z","extracted_by":"structure-extraction-lambda","label":"Chunk 4","source_file":"01KG89J1JMR8XVKPA0G8ADAPC4","start_line":1614,"text":"which, I hear, was all he got for his pains, if pains they were?\"\r\n\r\n\"That puts the case irrefutably,\" said the young clergyman, with a\r\nchallenging glance towards the one-legged man.\r\n\r\n\"You two green-horns! Money, you think, is the sole motive to pains and\r\nhazard, deception and deviltry, in this world. How much money did the\r\ndevil make by gulling Eve?\"\r\n\r\nWhereupon he hobbled off again with a repetition of his intolerable\r\njeer.\r\n\r\nThe man in gray stood silently eying his retreat a while, and then,\r\nturning to his companion, said: \"A bad man, a dangerous man; a man to be\r\nput down in any Christian community.--And this was he who was the means\r\nof begetting your distrust? Ah, we should shut our ears to distrust, and\r\nkeep them open only for its opposite.\"\r\n\r\n\"You advance a principle, which, if I had acted upon it this morning, I\r\nshould have spared myself what I now feel.--That but one man, and he\r\nwith one leg, should have such ill power given him; his one sour word\r\nleavening into congenial sourness (as, to my knowledge, it did) the\r\ndispositions, before sweet enough, of a numerous company. But, as I\r\nhinted, with me at the time his ill words went for nothing; the same as\r\nnow; only afterwards they had effect; and I confess, this puzzles me.\"\r\n\r\n\"It should not. With humane minds, the spirit of distrust works\r\nsomething as certain potions do; it is a spirit which may enter such\r\nminds, and yet, for a time, longer or shorter, lie in them quiescent;\r\nbut only the more deplorable its ultimate activity.\"\r\n\r\n\"An uncomfortable solution; for, since that baneful man did but just now\r\nanew drop on me his bane, how shall I be sure that my present exemption\r\nfrom its effects will be lasting?\"\r\n\r\n\"You cannot be sure, but you can strive against it.\"\r\n\r\n\"How?\"\r\n\r\n\"By strangling the least symptom of distrust, of any sort, which\r\nhereafter, upon whatever provocation, may arise in you.\"\r\n\r\n\"I will do so.\" Then added as in soliloquy, \"Indeed, indeed, I was to\r\nblame in standing passive under such influences as that one-legged\r\nman's. My conscience upbraids me.--The poor negro: You see him\r\noccasionally, perhaps?\"\r\n\r\n\"No, not often; though in a few days, as it happens, my engagements will\r\ncall me to the neighborhood of his present retreat; and, no doubt,\r\nhonest Guinea, who is a grateful soul, will come to see me there.\"\r\n\r\n\"Then you have been his benefactor?\"\r\n\r\n\"His benefactor? I did not say that. I have known him.\"\r\n\r\n\"Take this mite. Hand it to Guinea when you see him; say it comes from\r\none who has full belief in his honesty, and is sincerely sorry for\r\nhaving indulged, however transiently, in a contrary thought.\"\r\n\r\n\"I accept the trust. And, by-the-way, since you are of this truly\r\ncharitable nature, you will not turn away an appeal in behalf of the\r\nSeminole Widow and Orphan Asylum?\"\r\n\r\n\"I have not heard of that charity.\"\r\n\r\n\"But recently founded.\"\r\n\r\nAfter a pause, the clergyman was irresolutely putting his hand in his\r\npocket, when, caught by something in his companion's expression, he eyed\r\nhim inquisitively, almost uneasily.\r\n\r\n\"Ah, well,\" smiled the other wanly, \"if that subtle bane, we were\r\nspeaking of but just now, is so soon beginning to work, in vain my\r\nappeal to you. Good-by.\"\r\n\r\n\"Nay,\" not untouched, \"you do me injustice; instead of indulging present\r\nsuspicions, I had rather make amends for previous ones. Here is\r\nsomething for your asylum. Not much; but every drop helps. Of course you\r\nhave papers?\"\r\n\r\n\"Of course,\" producing a memorandum book and pencil. \"Let me take down\r\nname and amount. We publish these names. And now let me give you a\r\nlittle history of our asylum, and the providential way in which it was\r\nstarted.\"\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r","title":"Chunk 4"},"relationships":[{"peer":"01KG8AJJRZWG3FSC5TH74ZQCTD","peer_type":"chapter","predicate":"in"},{"peer":"01KG89J1JMR8XVKPA0G8ADAPC4","peer_type":"file","predicate":"extractedFrom"},{"peer":"01KG89HMDZKNY753EZE1CJ8HZW","peer_type":"collection","predicate":"collection"},{"peer":"01KG8AK9AC7S2Y4HZ8DQXWPTK9","peer_type":"chunk","predicate":"prev"}],"ver":2,"created_at":"2026-01-30T20:47:59.299Z","ts":"2026-01-30T20:48:06.841Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFF0H3YRP9ZSM033AM0QJ47H"}}