{"id":"01KG8AKDA4D9QG2ZW2720TS25R","cid":"bafkreigku2zza5idnm6te2x2daakk4hq47pak4djznbrgoezmkmsgz53k4","type":"chunk","properties":{"end_line":6030,"extracted_at":"2026-01-30T20:47:57.722Z","extracted_by":"structure-extraction-lambda","label":"Chunk 1","source_file":"01KG89J1JMR8XVKPA0G8ADAPC4","start_line":5959,"text":"CHAPTER XXIV.\r\n\r\nA PHILANTHROPIST UNDERTAKES TO CONVERT A MISANTHROPE, BUT DOES NOT GET\r\nBEYOND CONFUTING HIM.\r\n\r\n\r\n\"Hands off!\" cried the bachelor, involuntarily covering dejection with\r\nmoroseness.\r\n\r\n\"Hands off? that sort of label won't do in our Fair. Whoever in our Fair\r\nhas fine feelings loves to feel the nap of fine cloth, especially when a\r\nfine fellow wears it.\"\r\n\r\n\"And who of my fine-fellow species may you be? From the Brazils, ain't\r\nyou? Toucan fowl. Fine feathers on foul meat.\"\r\n\r\nThis ungentle mention of the toucan was not improbably suggested by the\r\nparti-hued, and rather plumagy aspect of the stranger, no bigot it would\r\nseem, but a liberalist, in dress, and whose wardrobe, almost anywhere\r\nthan on the liberal Mississippi, used to all sorts of fantastic\r\ninformalities, might, even to observers less critical than the bachelor,\r\nhave looked, if anything, a little out of the common; but not more so\r\nperhaps, than, considering the bear and raccoon costume, the bachelor's\r\nown appearance. In short, the stranger sported a vesture barred with\r\nvarious hues, that of the cochineal predominating, in style\r\nparticipating of a Highland plaid, Emir's robe, and French blouse; from\r\nits plaited sort of front peeped glimpses of a flowered regatta-shirt,\r\nwhile, for the rest, white trowsers of ample duck flowed over\r\nmaroon-colored slippers, and a jaunty smoking-cap of regal purple\r\ncrowned him off at top; king of traveled good-fellows, evidently.\r\nGrotesque as all was, nothing looked stiff or unused; all showed signs\r\nof easy service, the least wonted thing setting like a wonted glove.\r\nThat genial hand, which had just been laid on the ungenial shoulder, was\r\nnow carelessly thrust down before him, sailor-fashion, into a sort of\r\nIndian belt, confining the redundant vesture; the other held, by its\r\nlong bright cherry-stem, a Nuremburgh pipe in blast, its great porcelain\r\nbowl painted in miniature with linked crests and arms of interlinked\r\nnations--a florid show. As by subtle saturations of its mellowing\r\nessence the tobacco had ripened the bowl, so it looked as if something\r\nsimilar of the interior spirit came rosily out on the cheek. But rosy\r\npipe-bowl, or rosy countenance, all was lost on that unrosy man, the\r\nbachelor, who, waiting a moment till the commotion, caused by the boat's\r\nrenewed progress, had a little abated, thus continued:\r\n\r\n\"Hark ye,\" jeeringly eying the cap and belt, \"did you ever see Signor\r\nMarzetti in the African pantomime?\"\r\n\r\n\"No;--good performer?\"\r\n\r\n\"Excellent; plays the intelligent ape till he seems it. With such\r\nnaturalness can a being endowed with an immortal spirit enter into that\r\nof a monkey. But where's your tail? In the pantomime, Marzetti, no\r\nhypocrite in his monkery, prides himself on that.\"\r\n\r\nThe stranger, now at rest, sideways and genially, on one hip, his right\r\nleg cavalierly crossed before the other, the toe of his vertical slipper\r\npointed easily down on the deck, whiffed out a long, leisurely sort of\r\nindifferent and charitable puff, betokening him more or less of the\r\nmature man of the world, a character which, like its opposite, the\r\nsincere Christian's, is not always swift to take offense; and then,\r\ndrawing near, still smoking, again laid his hand, this time with mild\r\nimpressiveness, on the ursine shoulder, and not unamiably said: \"That in\r\nyour address there is a sufficiency of the _fortiter in re_ few unbiased\r\nobservers will question; but that this is duly attempered with the\r\n_suaviter in modo_ may admit, I think, of an honest doubt. My dear\r\nfellow,\" beaming his eyes full upon him, \"what injury have I done you,\r\nthat you should receive my greeting with a curtailed civility?\"\r\n\r\n\"Off hands;\" once more shaking the friendly member from him. \"Who in the\r\nname of the great chimpanzee, in whose likeness, you, Marzetti, and the\r\nother chatterers are made, who in thunder are you?\"\r\n\r","title":"Chunk 1"},"relationships":[{"peer":"01KG8AJM4MATQP3GZQR23SYFAP","peer_type":"chapter","predicate":"in"},{"peer":"01KG89J1JMR8XVKPA0G8ADAPC4","peer_type":"file","predicate":"extractedFrom"},{"peer":"01KG89HMDZKNY753EZE1CJ8HZW","peer_type":"collection","predicate":"collection"},{"peer":"01KG8AKDA40GX6CT6VT5ZHHTEN","peer_type":"chunk","predicate":"next"}],"ver":2,"created_at":"2026-01-30T20:48:03.396Z","ts":"2026-01-30T20:48:10.594Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFF0H3YRP9ZSM033AM0QJ47H"}}