{"id":"01KG8AN115VM7ST6T9DP2CRZM4","cid":"bafkreihsjm26xfblmoc3bdwa4mddm7llajmcxyehr5muzbgpghrzbm3zay","type":"chunk","properties":{"end_line":9042,"extracted_at":"2026-01-30T20:48:52.921Z","extracted_by":"structure-extraction-lambda","label":"Chunk 1","source_file":"01KG89J1JSYKSGCE149MH9HF6A","start_line":8973,"text":"BOOK XIII.\r\n\r\nTHEY DEPART THE MEADOWS.\r\n\r\n\r\nI.\r\n\r\nIt was just dusk when Pierre approached the Ulver farm-house, in a wagon\r\nbelonging to the Black Swan Inn. He met his sister shawled and bonneted\r\nin the porch.\r\n\r\n\"Now then, Isabel, is all ready? Where is Delly? I see two most small\r\nand inconsiderable portmanteaux. Wee is the chest that holds the goods\r\nof the disowned! The wagon waits, Isabel. Now is all ready? and nothing\r\nleft?\"\r\n\r\n\"Nothing, Pierre; unless in going hence--but I'll not think of that;\r\nall's fated.\"\r\n\r\n\"Delly! where is she? Let us go in for her,\" said Pierre, catching the\r\nhand of Isabel, and turning rapidly. As he thus half dragged her into\r\nthe little lighted entry, and then dropping her hand, placed his touch\r\non the catch of the inner door, Isabel stayed his arm, as if to keep him\r\nback, till she should forewarn him against something concerning Delly;\r\nbut suddenly she started herself; and for one instant, eagerly pointing\r\nat his right hand, seemed almost to half shrink from Pierre.\r\n\r\n\"'Tis nothing. I am not hurt; a slight burn--the merest accidental\r\nscorch this morning. But what's this?\" he added, lifting his hand\r\nhigher; \"smoke! soot! this comes of going in the dark; sunlight, and I\r\nhad seen it. But I have not touched thee, Isabel?\"\r\n\r\nIsabel lifted her hand and showed the marks.--\"But it came from thee, my\r\nbrother; and I would catch the plague from thee, so that it should make\r\nme share thee. Do thou clean thy hand; let mine alone.\"\r\n\r\n\"Delly! Delly!\"--cried Pierre--\"why may I not go to her, to bring her\r\nforth?\"\r\n\r\nPlacing her finger upon her lip, Isabel softly opened the door, and\r\nshowed the object of his inquiry avertedly seated, muffled, on a chair.\r\n\r\n\"Do not speak to her, my brother,\" whispered Isabel, \"and do not seek to\r\nbehold her face, as yet. It will pass over now, ere long, I trust. Come,\r\nshall we go now? Take Delly forth, but do not speak to her. I have\r\nbidden all good-by; the old people are in yonder room in the rear; I am\r\nglad that they chose not to come out, to attend our going forth. Come\r\nnow, be very quick, Pierre; this is an hour I like not; be it swiftly\r\npast.\"\r\n\r\nSoon all three alighted at the inn. Ordering lights, Pierre led the way\r\nabove-stairs, and ushered his two companions into one of the two\r\noutermost rooms of the three adjoining chambers prepared for all.\r\n\r\n\"See,\" said he, to the mute and still self-averting figure of\r\nDelly;--\"see, this is thy room, Miss Ulver; Isabel has told thee all;\r\nthou know'st our till now secret marriage; she will stay with thee now,\r\ntill I return from a little business down the street. To-morrow, thou\r\nknow'st, very early, we take the stage. I may not see thee again till\r\nthen, so, be steadfast, and cheer up a very little, Miss Ulver, and\r\ngood-night. All will be well.\"\r\n\r\n\r\nII.\r\n\r\nNext morning, by break of day, at four o'clock, the four swift hours\r\nwere personified in four impatient horses, which shook their trappings\r\nbeneath the windows of the inn. Three figures emerged into the cool dim\r\nair and took their places in the coach.\r\n\r","title":"Chunk 1"},"relationships":[{"peer":"01KG8AJSPVV2W4X7YBF4T8H7ZA","peer_type":"chapter","predicate":"in"},{"peer":"01KG89J1JSYKSGCE149MH9HF6A","peer_type":"file","predicate":"extractedFrom"},{"peer":"01KG89HMDZKNY753EZE1CJ8HZW","peer_type":"collection","predicate":"collection"},{"peer":"01KG8AN11CFSE63W0H5VJ4FYZM","peer_type":"chunk","predicate":"next"}],"ver":2,"created_at":"2026-01-30T20:48:56.357Z","ts":"2026-01-30T20:49:23.918Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFF0H3YRP9ZSM033AM0QJ47H"}}