{"id":"01KG8AKYQHXY2PQFR3ARWZ30K4","cid":"bafkreifu577qr3vksjm5h6v4ai7cysul7lczqg55o7swke5jmkveiitm7e","type":"chunk","properties":{"end_line":2875,"extracted_at":"2026-01-30T20:48:18.535Z","extracted_by":"structure-extraction-lambda","label":"Chunk 1","source_file":"01KG89J1HYC04JWXEK48P07WPK","start_line":2807,"text":"CHAPTER XXV.\r\nPeril A Peace-Maker\r\n\r\n\r\nA few days passed: the brigantine drifting hither and thither, and\r\nnothing in sight but the sea, when forth again on its stillness rung\r\nAnnatoo’s domestic alarum. The truce was up. Most egregiously had the\r\nlady infringed it; appropriating to herself various objects previously\r\ndisclaimed in favor of Samoa. Besides, forever on the prowl, she was\r\nperpetually going up and down; with untiring energy, exploring every\r\nnook and cranny; carrying off her spoils and diligently secreting them.\r\nHaving little idea of feminine adaptations, she pilfered whatever came\r\nhandy:—iron hooks, dollars, bolts, hatchets, and stopping not at balls\r\nof marline and sheets of copper. All this, poor Samoa would have borne\r\nwith what patience he might, rather than again renew the war, were it\r\nnot, that the audacious dame charged him with peculations upon her own\r\nprivate stores; though of any such thing he was innocent as the\r\nbowsprit.\r\n\r\nThis insulting impeachment got the better of the poor islander’s\r\nphilosophy. He keenly resented it. And the consequence was, that seeing\r\nall domineering useless, Annatoo flew off at a tangent; declaring that,\r\nfor the future, Samoa might stay by himself; she would have nothing\r\nmore to do with him. Save when unavoidable in managing the brigantine,\r\nshe would not even speak to him, that she wouldn’t, the monster! She\r\nthen boldly demanded the forecastle—in the brig’s case, by far the\r\npleasantest end of the ship—for her own independent suite of\r\napartments. As for hapless Belisarius, he might do what he pleased in\r\nhis dark little den of a cabin.\r\n\r\nConcerning the division of the spoils, the termagant succeeded in\r\ncarrying the day; also, to her quarters, bale after bale of goods,\r\ntogether with numerous odds and ends, sundry and divers. Moreover, she\r\nlaid in a fine stock of edibles, so as, in all respects possible, to\r\nlive independent of her spouse.\r\n\r\nUnlovely Annatoo! Unfortunate Samoa! Thus did the pair make a divorce\r\nof it; the lady going upon a separate maintenance,—and Belisarius\r\nresuming his bachelor loneliness. In the captain’s state room, all cold\r\nand comfortless, he slept; his lady whilome retiring to her forecastle\r\nboudoir; beguiling the hours in saying her pater-nosters, and tossing\r\nover and assorting her ill-gotten trinkets and finery; like Madame De\r\nMaintenon dedicating her last days and nights to continence and\r\ncalicoes.\r\n\r\nBut think you this was the quiet end of their conjugal quarrels? Ah,\r\nno! No end to those feuds, till one or t’other gives up the ghost.\r\n\r\nNow, exiled from the nuptial couch, Belisarius bore the hardship\r\nwithout a murmur. And hero that he was, who knows that he felt not like\r\na soldier on a furlough? But as for Antonina, she could neither get\r\nalong with Belisarius, nor without him. She made advances. But of what\r\nsort? Why, breaking into the cabin and purloining sundry goods\r\ntherefrom; in artful hopes of breeding a final reconciliation out of\r\nthe temporary outburst that might ensue.\r\n\r\nThen followed a sad scene of altercation; interrupted at last by a\r\nsudden loud roaring of the sea. Rushing to the deck, they beheld\r\nthemselves sweeping head-foremost toward a shoal making out from a\r\ncluster of low islands, hitherto, by banks of clouds, shrouded from\r\nview.\r\n\r\nThe helm was instantly shifted; and the yards braced about. But for\r\nseveral hours, owing to the freshness of the breeze, the set of the\r\ncurrents, and the irregularity and extent of the shoal, it seemed\r\ndoubtful whether they would escape a catastrophe. But Samoa’s\r\nseamanship, united to Annatoo’s industry, at last prevailed; and the\r\nbrigantine was saved.\r\n\r","title":"Chunk 1"},"relationships":[{"peer":"01KG8AJQY3TA066RFM2X8V64J9","peer_type":"chapter","predicate":"in"},{"peer":"01KG89J1HYC04JWXEK48P07WPK","peer_type":"file","predicate":"extractedFrom"},{"peer":"01KG89HMDZKNY753EZE1CJ8HZW","peer_type":"collection","predicate":"collection"},{"peer":"01KG8AKYQHC2P20CJ20T29NFRX","peer_type":"chunk","predicate":"next"}],"ver":2,"created_at":"2026-01-30T20:48:21.233Z","ts":"2026-01-30T20:48:27.965Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFF0H3YRP9ZSM033AM0QJ47H"}}