{"id":"01KG8AKE21Z82QD9GJ7VBSKFKQ","cid":"bafkreieecqshv4zf5f6nwkeovh2vrvar3r4rfrfae4aek4y35k4va4y5la","type":"chunk","properties":{"end_line":6319,"extracted_at":"2026-01-30T20:47:57.722Z","extracted_by":"structure-extraction-lambda","label":"Chunk 6","source_file":"01KG89J1JMR8XVKPA0G8ADAPC4","start_line":6265,"text":"Again he offered his fraternal arm; but the bachelor once more flung it\r\noff, and, raising his rifle in energetic invocation, cried: \"Now the\r\nhigh-constable catch and confound all knaves in towns and rats in\r\ngrain-bins, and if in this boat, which is a human grain-bin for the\r\ntime, any sly, smooth, philandering rat be dodging now, pin him, thou\r\nhigh rat-catcher, against this rail.\"\r\n\r\n\"A noble burst! shows you at heart a trump. And when a card's that,\r\nlittle matters it whether it be spade or diamond. You are good wine\r\nthat, to be still better, only needs a shaking up. Come, let's agree\r\nthat we'll to New Orleans, and there embark for London--I staying with\r\nmy friends nigh Primrose-hill, and you putting up at the Piazza, Covent\r\nGarden--Piazza, Covent Garden; for tell me--since you will not be a\r\ndisciple to the full--tell me, was not that humor, of Diogenes, which\r\nled him to live, a merry-andrew, in the flower-market, better than that\r\nof the less wise Athenian, which made him a skulking scare-crow in\r\npine-barrens? An injudicious gentleman, Lord Timon.\"\r\n\r\n\"Your hand!\" seizing it.\r\n\r\n\"Bless me, how cordial a squeeze. It is agreed we shall be brothers,\r\nthen?\"\r\n\r\n\"As much so as a brace of misanthropes can be,\" with another and\r\nterrific squeeze. \"I had thought that the moderns had degenerated\r\nbeneath the capacity of misanthropy. Rejoiced, though but in one\r\ninstance, and that disguised, to be undeceived.\"\r\n\r\nThe other stared in blank amaze.\r\n\r\n\"Won't do. You are Diogenes, Diogenes in disguise. I say--Diogenes\r\nmasquerading as a cosmopolitan.\"\r\n\r\nWith ruefully altered mien, the stranger still stood mute awhile. At\r\nlength, in a pained tone, spoke: \"How hard the lot of that pleader who,\r\nin his zeal conceding too much, is taken to belong to a side which he\r\nbut labors, however ineffectually, to convert!\" Then with another change\r\nof air: \"To you, an Ishmael, disguising in sportiveness my intent, I\r\ncame ambassador from the human race, charged with the assurance that for\r\nyour mislike they bore no answering grudge, but sought to conciliate\r\naccord between you and them. Yet you take me not for the honest envoy,\r\nbut I know not what sort of unheard-of spy. Sir,\" he less lowly added,\r\n\"this mistaking of your man should teach you how you may mistake all\r\nmen. For God's sake,\" laying both hands upon him, \"get you confidence.\r\nSee how distrust has duped you. I, Diogenes? I he who, going a step\r\nbeyond misanthropy, was less a man-hater than a man-hooter? Better were\r\nI stark and stiff!\"\r\n\r\nWith which the philanthropist moved away less lightsome than he had\r\ncome, leaving the discomfited misanthrope to the solitude he held so\r\nsapient.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r","title":"Chunk 6"},"relationships":[{"peer":"01KG8AJM4MATQP3GZQR23SYFAP","peer_type":"chapter","predicate":"in"},{"peer":"01KG89J1JMR8XVKPA0G8ADAPC4","peer_type":"file","predicate":"extractedFrom"},{"peer":"01KG89HMDZKNY753EZE1CJ8HZW","peer_type":"collection","predicate":"collection"},{"peer":"01KG8AKE250DRV6FAQ8ZPZ1KEA","peer_type":"chunk","predicate":"prev"}],"ver":2,"created_at":"2026-01-30T20:48:04.161Z","ts":"2026-01-30T20:48:10.839Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFF0H3YRP9ZSM033AM0QJ47H"}}