{"id":"01KG8AKE1SRXJPCNTKYTJ2XB89","cid":"bafkreickga3pz3u7jq7ub4wjf2vgm7gslca2uy6ib7lvgnup22uthnsuom","type":"chunk","properties":{"end_line":6216,"extracted_at":"2026-01-30T20:47:57.722Z","extracted_by":"structure-extraction-lambda","label":"Chunk 4","source_file":"01KG89J1JMR8XVKPA0G8ADAPC4","start_line":6139,"text":"is a sad mistake. Men I hold in this respect to be like roosters; the\r\none that betakes himself to a lone and lofty perch is the hen-pecked\r\none, or the one that has the pip.\"\r\n\r\n\"You are abusive!\" cried the bachelor, evidently touched.\r\n\r\n\"Who is abused? You, or the race? You won't stand by and see the human\r\nrace abused? Oh, then, you have some respect for the human race.\"\r\n\r\n\"I have some respect for _myself_\" with a lip not so firm as before.\r\n\r\n\"And what race may _you_ belong to? now don't you see, my dear fellow,\r\nin what inconsistencies one involves himself by affecting disesteem for\r\nmen. To a charm, my little stratagem succeeded. Come, come, think better\r\nof it, and, as a first step to a new mind, give up solitude. I fear, by\r\nthe way, you have at some time been reading Zimmermann, that old Mr.\r\nMegrims of a Zimmermann, whose book on Solitude is as vain as Hume's on\r\nSuicide, as Bacon's on Knowledge; and, like these, will betray him who\r\nseeks to steer soul and body by it, like a false religion. All they, be\r\nthey what boasted ones you please, who, to the yearning of our kind\r\nafter a founded rule of content, offer aught not in the spirit of\r\nfellowly gladness based on due confidence in what is above, away with\r\nthem for poor dupes, or still poorer impostors.\"\r\n\r\nHis manner here was so earnest that scarcely any auditor, perhaps, but\r\nwould have been more or less impressed by it, while, possibly, nervous\r\nopponents might have a little quailed under it. Thinking within himself\r\na moment, the bachelor replied: \"Had you experience, you would know that\r\nyour tippling theory, take it in what sense you will, is poor as any\r\nother. And Rabelais's pro-wine Koran no more trustworthy than Mahomet's\r\nanti-wine one.\"\r\n\r\n\"Enough,\" for a finality knocking the ashes from his pipe, \"we talk and\r\nkeep talking, and still stand where we did. What do you say for a walk?\r\nMy arm, and let's a turn. They are to have dancing on the hurricane-deck\r\nto-night. I shall fling them off a Scotch jig, while, to save the\r\npieces, you hold my loose change; and following that, I propose that\r\nyou, my dear fellow, stack your gun, and throw your bearskins in a\r\nsailor's hornpipe--I holding your watch. What do you say?\"\r\n\r\nAt this proposition the other was himself again, all raccoon.\r\n\r\n\"Look you,\" thumping down his rifle, \"are you Jeremy Diddler No. 3?\"\r\n\r\n\"Jeremy Diddler? I have heard of Jeremy the prophet, and Jeremy Taylor\r\nthe divine, but your other Jeremy is a gentleman I am unacquainted\r\nwith.\"\r\n\r\n\"You are his confidential clerk, ain't you?\"\r\n\r\n\"_Whose_, pray? Not that I think myself unworthy of being confided in,\r\nbut I don't understand.\"\r\n\r\n\"You are another of them. Somehow I meet with the most extraordinary\r\nmetaphysical scamps to-day. Sort of visitation of them. And yet that\r\nherb-doctor Diddler somehow takes off the raw edge of the Diddlers that\r\ncome after him.\"\r\n\r\n\"Herb-doctor? who is he?\"\r\n\r\n\"Like you--another of them.\"\r\n\r\n\"_Who?_\" Then drawing near, as if for a good long explanatory chat, his\r\nleft hand spread, and his pipe-stem coming crosswise down upon it like a\r\nferule, \"You think amiss of me. Now to undeceive you, I will just enter\r\ninto a little argument and----\"\r\n\r\n\"No you don't. No more little arguments for me. Had too many little\r\narguments to-day.\"\r\n\r\n\"But put a case. Can you deny--I dare you to deny--that the man leading\r\na solitary life is peculiarly exposed to the sorriest misconceptions\r\ntouching strangers?\"\r\n\r\n\"Yes, I _do_ deny it,\" again, in his impulsiveness, snapping at the\r\ncontroversial bait, \"and I will confute you there in a trice. Look,\r\nyou----\"\r\n\r","title":"Chunk 4"},"relationships":[{"peer":"01KG8AJM4MATQP3GZQR23SYFAP","peer_type":"chapter","predicate":"in"},{"peer":"01KG89J1JMR8XVKPA0G8ADAPC4","peer_type":"file","predicate":"extractedFrom"},{"peer":"01KG89HMDZKNY753EZE1CJ8HZW","peer_type":"collection","predicate":"collection"},{"peer":"01KG8AKE1SP1XV8W78H6Q7HD22","peer_type":"chunk","predicate":"prev"},{"peer":"01KG8AKE250DRV6FAQ8ZPZ1KEA","peer_type":"chunk","predicate":"next"}],"ver":2,"created_at":"2026-01-30T20:48:04.153Z","ts":"2026-01-30T20:48:10.777Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFF0H3YRP9ZSM033AM0QJ47H"}}