{"id":"01KG8AK9XT37W2H723T37REXF1","cid":"bafkreiam4evfihn7fxuuilihf73dx5esnumxqz67ienzqbjbwe3k6dxozq","type":"chunk","properties":{"end_line":2408,"extracted_at":"2026-01-30T20:47:57.722Z","extracted_by":"structure-extraction-lambda","label":"Chunk 3","source_file":"01KG89J1JMR8XVKPA0G8ADAPC4","start_line":2323,"text":"weed, you were inquiring for, seemed to take me for some soft\r\nsentimentalist, only because I kept quiet, and thought, because I had a\r\ncopy of Tacitus with me, that I was reading him for his gloom, instead\r\nof his gossip. But I let him talk. And, indeed, by my manner humored\r\nhim.\"\r\n\r\n\"You shouldn't have done that, now. Unfortunate man, you must have made\r\nquite a fool of him.\"\r\n\r\n\"His own fault if I did. But I like prosperous fellows, comfortable\r\nfellows; fellows that talk comfortably and prosperously, like you. Such\r\nfellows are generally honest. And, I say now, I happen to have a\r\nsuperfluity in my pocket, and I'll just----\"\r\n\r\n\"----Act the part of a brother to that unfortunate man?\"\r\n\r\n\"Let the unfortunate man be his own brother. What are you dragging him\r\nin for all the time? One would think you didn't care to register any\r\ntransfers, or dispose of any stock--mind running on something else. I\r\nsay I will invest.\"\r\n\r\n\"Stay, stay, here come some uproarious fellows--this way, this way.\"\r\n\r\nAnd with off-handed politeness the man with the book escorted his\r\ncompanion into a private little haven removed from the brawling swells\r\nwithout.\r\n\r\nBusiness transacted, the two came forth, and walked the deck.\r\n\r\n\"Now tell me, sir,\" said he with the book, \"how comes it that a young\r\ngentleman like you, a sedate student at the first appearance, should\r\ndabble in stocks and that sort of thing?\"\r\n\r\n\"There are certain sophomorean errors in the world,\" drawled the\r\nsophomore, deliberately adjusting his shirt-collar, \"not the least of\r\nwhich is the popular notion touching the nature of the modern scholar,\r\nand the nature of the modern scholastic sedateness.\"\r\n\r\n\"So it seems, so it seems. Really, this is quite a new leaf in my\r\nexperience.\"\r\n\r\n\"Experience, sir,\" originally observed the sophomore, \"is the only\r\nteacher.\"\r\n\r\n\"Hence am I your pupil; for it's only when experience speaks, that I can\r\nendure to listen to speculation.\"\r\n\r\n\"My speculations, sir,\" dryly drawing himself up, \"have been chiefly\r\ngoverned by the maxim of Lord Bacon; I speculate in those philosophies\r\nwhich come home to my business and bosom--pray, do you know of any other\r\ngood stocks?\"\r\n\r\n\"You wouldn't like to be concerned in the New Jerusalem, would you?\"\r\n\r\n\"New Jerusalem?\"\r\n\r\n\"Yes, the new and thriving city, so called, in northern Minnesota. It\r\nwas originally founded by certain fugitive Mormons. Hence the name. It\r\nstands on the Mississippi. Here, here is the map,\" producing a roll.\r\n\"There--there, you see are the public buildings--here the landing--there\r\nthe park--yonder the botanic gardens--and this, this little dot here, is\r\na perpetual fountain, you understand. You observe there are twenty\r\nasterisks. Those are for the lyceums. They have lignum-vitae rostrums.\"\r\n\r\n\"And are all these buildings now standing?\"\r\n\r\n\"All standing--bona fide.\"\r\n\r\n\"These marginal squares here, are they the water-lots?\"\r\n\r\n\"Water-lots in the city of New Jerusalem? All terra firma--you don't\r\nseem to care about investing, though?\"\r\n\r\n\"Hardly think I should read my title clear, as the law students say,\"\r\nyawned the collegian.\r\n\r\n\"Prudent--you are prudent. Don't know that you are wholly out, either.\r\nAt any rate, I would rather have one of your shares of coal stock than\r\ntwo of this other. Still, considering that the first settlement was by\r\ntwo fugitives, who had swum over naked from the opposite shore--it's a\r\nsurprising place. It is, _bona fide_.--But dear me, I must go. Oh, if by\r\npossibility you should come across that unfortunate man----\"\r\n\r\n\"--In that case,\" with drawling impatience, \"I will send for the\r\nsteward, and have him and his misfortunes consigned overboard.\"\r\n\r","title":"Chunk 3"},"relationships":[{"peer":"01KG8AJKFNGPW3W6RK0HAKDQYM","peer_type":"chapter","predicate":"in"},{"peer":"01KG89J1JMR8XVKPA0G8ADAPC4","peer_type":"file","predicate":"extractedFrom"},{"peer":"01KG89HMDZKNY753EZE1CJ8HZW","peer_type":"collection","predicate":"collection"},{"peer":"01KG8AK9XT0TNQP12NPZZDE6R1","peer_type":"chunk","predicate":"prev"},{"peer":"01KG8AK9XTCY8DM8J25SS167H7","peer_type":"chunk","predicate":"next"}],"ver":2,"created_at":"2026-01-30T20:47:59.930Z","ts":"2026-01-30T20:48:07.546Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFF0H3YRP9ZSM033AM0QJ47H"}}