{"id":"01KG8AN0BKXNQ9RJYYHSYMPXR1","cid":"bafkreihoj5gauq4kx7khrrzzpr5halkrc7a5bwh6ummkpanv6viqegriu4","type":"chunk","properties":{"end_line":2521,"extracted_at":"2026-01-30T20:48:52.918Z","extracted_by":"structure-extraction-lambda","label":"Chunk 8","source_file":"01KG89J1JSYKSGCE149MH9HF6A","start_line":2461,"text":"\"How-!\" cried Pierre, in real joyful astonishment, both at the nature of\r\nthe tidings, and the earnest tones in which they were conveyed--\"dear,\r\ndear mother, you have strangely changed your mind then, my dear mother.\"\r\n\r\n\"It is even so, dear brother;--before this day month I hope to have a\r\nlittle sister Tartan.\"\r\n\r\n\"You talk very strangely, mother,\" rejoined Pierre, quickly. \"I suppose,\r\nthen, I have next to nothing to say in the matter!\"\r\n\r\n\"Next to nothing, Pierre! What indeed could you say to the purpose? what\r\nat all have you to do with it, I should like to know? Do you so much as\r\ndream, you silly boy, that men ever have the marrying of themselves?\r\nJuxtaposition marries men. There is but one match-maker in the world,\r\nPierre, and that is Mrs. Juxtaposition, a most notorious lady!\"\r\n\r\n\"Very peculiar, disenchanting sort of talk, this, under the\r\ncircumstances, sister Mary,\" laying down his fork. \"Mrs. Juxtaposition,\r\nah! And in your opinion, mother, does this fine glorious passion only\r\namount to that?\"\r\n\r\n\"Only to that, Pierre; but mark you: according to my creed--though this\r\npart of it is a little hazy--Mrs. Juxtaposition moves her pawns only as\r\nshe herself is moved to so doing by the spirit.\"\r\n\r\n\"Ah! that sets it all right again,\" said Pierre, resuming his fork--\"my\r\nappetite returns. But what was that about my being married so soon?\" he\r\nadded, vainly striving to assume an air of incredulity and unconcern;\r\n\"you were joking, I suppose; it seems to me, sister, either you or I was\r\nbut just now wandering in the mind a little, on that subject. Are you\r\nreally thinking of any such thing? and have you really vanquished your\r\nsagacious scruples by yourself, after I had so long and ineffectually\r\nsought to do it for you? Well, I am a million times delighted; tell me\r\nquick!\"\r\n\r\n\"I will, Pierre. You very well know, that from the first hour you\r\napprised me--or rather, from a period prior to that--from the moment\r\nthat I, by my own insight, became aware of your love for Lucy, I have\r\nalways approved it. Lucy is a delicious girl; of honorable descent, a\r\nfortune, well-bred, and the very pattern of all that I think amiable and\r\nattractive in a girl of seventeen.\"\r\n\r\n\"Well, well, well,\" cried Pierre rapidly and impetuously; \"we both knew\r\nthat before.\"\r\n\r\n\"Well, well, well, Pierre,\" retorted his mother, mockingly.\r\n\r\n\"It is not well, well, well; but ill, ill, ill, to torture me so,\r\nmother; go on, do!\"\r\n\r\n\"But notwithstanding my admiring approval of your choice, Pierre; yet,\r\nas you know, I have resisted your entreaties for my consent to your\r\nspeedy marriage, because I thought that a girl of scarcely seventeen,\r\nand a boy scarcely twenty, should not be in such a hurry;--there was\r\nplenty of time, I thought, which could be profitably employed by both.\"\r\n\r\n\"Permit me here to interrupt you, mother. Whatever you may have seen in\r\nme; she,--I mean Lucy,--has never been in the slightest hurry to be\r\nmarried;--that's all. But I shall regard it as a _lapsus-lingua_ in\r\nyou.\"\r\n\r","title":"Chunk 8"},"relationships":[{"peer":"01KG8AJS0JNVAGJYMWXV1594N5","peer_type":"chapter","predicate":"in"},{"peer":"01KG89J1JSYKSGCE149MH9HF6A","peer_type":"file","predicate":"extractedFrom"},{"peer":"01KG89HMDZKNY753EZE1CJ8HZW","peer_type":"collection","predicate":"collection"},{"peer":"01KG8AN0BKPG5G83W7V2Y9TDNK","peer_type":"chunk","predicate":"prev"},{"peer":"01KG8AN0BK8N1GAJKX483YVNFM","peer_type":"chunk","predicate":"next"}],"ver":2,"created_at":"2026-01-30T20:48:55.667Z","ts":"2026-01-30T20:49:07.773Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFF0H3YRP9ZSM033AM0QJ47H"}}