{"id":"01KG8AKBBJ51F847DHGHR70WWH","cid":"bafkreif7fii56chhb54ay2qu7ytt2wwnal3l4hgln7a7ealci2sdykiohm","type":"chunk","properties":{"end_line":10248,"extracted_at":"2026-01-30T20:47:57.726Z","extracted_by":"structure-extraction-lambda","label":"Chunk 4","source_file":"01KG89J1JMR8XVKPA0G8ADAPC4","start_line":10168,"text":"\"That, indeed! Yes, and it would help _your_ memory, too, wouldn't it,\r\nbarber? Yours, on your side, being a little weak, too, I dare say. Ah,\r\nbarber! how ingenious we human beings are; and how kindly we reciprocate\r\neach other's little delicacies, don't we? What better proof, now, that\r\nwe are kind, considerate fellows, with responsive fellow-feelings--eh,\r\nbarber? But to business. Let me see. What's your name, barber?\"\r\n\r\n\"William Cream, sir.\"\r\n\r\nPondering a moment, he began to write; and, after some corrections,\r\nleaned back, and read aloud the following:\r\n\r\n     \"AGREEMENT\r\n     Between\r\n     FRANK GOODMAN, Philanthropist, and Citizen of the World,\r\n     and\r\n     WILLIAM CREAM, Barber of the Mississippi steamer, Fidèle.\r\n\r\n     \"The first hereby agrees to make good to the last any loss that may\r\n     come from his trusting mankind, in the way of his vocation, for the\r\n     residue of the present trip; PROVIDED that William Cream keep out\r\n     of sight, for the given term, his notification of NO TRUST, and by\r\n     no other mode convey any, the least hint or intimation, tending to\r\n     discourage men from soliciting trust from him, in the way of his\r\n     vocation, for the time above specified; but, on the contrary, he\r\n     do, by all proper and reasonable words, gestures, manners, and\r\n     looks, evince a perfect confidence in all men, especially\r\n     strangers; otherwise, this agreement to be void.\r\n\r\n     \"Done, in good faith, this 1st day of April 18--, at a quarter to\r\n     twelve o'clock, P. M., in the shop of said William Cream, on board\r\n     the said boat, Fidèle.\"\r\n\r\n\"There, barber; will that do?\"\r\n\r\n\"That will do,\" said the barber, \"only now put down your name.\"\r\n\r\nBoth signatures being affixed, the question was started by the barber,\r\nwho should have custody of the instrument; which point, however, he\r\nsettled for himself, by proposing that both should go together to the\r\ncaptain, and give the document into his hands--the barber hinting that\r\nthis would be a safe proceeding, because the captain was necessarily a\r\nparty disinterested, and, what was more, could not, from the nature of\r\nthe present case, make anything by a breach of trust. All of which was\r\nlistened to with some surprise and concern.\r\n\r\n\"Why, barber,\" said the cosmopolitan, \"this don't show the right spirit;\r\nfor me, I have confidence in the captain purely because he is a man; but\r\nhe shall have nothing to do with our affair; for if you have no\r\nconfidence in me, barber, I have in you. There, keep the paper\r\nyourself,\" handing it magnanimously.\r\n\r\n\"Very good,\" said the barber, \"and now nothing remains but for me to\r\nreceive the cash.\"\r\n\r\nThough the mention of that word, or any of its singularly numerous\r\nequivalents, in serious neighborhood to a requisition upon one's purse,\r\nis attended with a more or less noteworthy effect upon the human\r\ncountenance, producing in many an abrupt fall of it--in others, a\r\nwrithing and screwing up of the features to a point not undistressing to\r\nbehold, in some, attended with a blank pallor and fatal\r\nconsternation--yet no trace of any of these symptoms was visible upon\r\nthe countenance of the cosmopolitan, notwithstanding nothing could be\r\nmore sudden and unexpected than the barber's demand.\r\n\r\n\"You speak of cash, barber; pray in what connection?\"\r\n\r\n\"In a nearer one, sir,\" answered the barber, less blandly, \"than I\r\nthought the man with the sweet voice stood, who wanted me to trust him\r\nonce for a shave, on the score of being a sort of thirteenth cousin.\"\r\n\r\n\"Indeed, and what did you say to him?\"\r\n\r\n\"I said, 'Thank you, sir, but I don't see the connection,'\"\r\n\r\n\"How could you so unsweetly answer one with a sweet voice?\"\r\n\r\n\"Because, I recalled what the son of Sirach says in the True Book: 'An\r\nenemy speaketh sweetly with his lips;' and so I did what the son of\r\nSirach advises in such cases: 'I believed not his many words.'\"\r\n\r","title":"Chunk 4"},"relationships":[{"peer":"01KG8AJNPW0KV0WYEFCSC1NV1T","peer_type":"chapter","predicate":"in"},{"peer":"01KG89J1JMR8XVKPA0G8ADAPC4","peer_type":"file","predicate":"extractedFrom"},{"peer":"01KG89HMDZKNY753EZE1CJ8HZW","peer_type":"collection","predicate":"collection"},{"peer":"01KG8AKBBC060H33KQQQKCA8GQ","peer_type":"chunk","predicate":"prev"},{"peer":"01KG8AKC4D9WXY1HRKMTXDS9D9","peer_type":"chunk","predicate":"next"}],"ver":2,"created_at":"2026-01-30T20:48:01.394Z","ts":"2026-01-30T20:48:15.550Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFF0H3YRP9ZSM033AM0QJ47H"}}