{"id":"01KG8AN1239CBRGWVMJY0WAR11","cid":"bafkreihbyc4mc5pfhqh7pnndke4hbdprxvisp2fdtdys3ln3ng62ou72dy","type":"chunk","properties":{"end_line":14627,"extracted_at":"2026-01-30T20:48:52.924Z","extracted_by":"structure-extraction-lambda","label":"Chunk 3","source_file":"01KG89J1JSYKSGCE149MH9HF6A","start_line":14579,"text":"\"I am Lucy Tartan. I have come to dwell during their pleasure with Mr.\r\nand Mrs. Pierre Glendinning, of my own unsolicited free-will. If they\r\ndesire it, I shall go; but no other power shall remove me, except by\r\nviolence; and against any violence I have the ordinary appeal to the\r\nlaw.\"\r\n\r\n\"Read this, madam,\" said Mrs. Tartan, tremblingly handing it to Isabel,\r\nand eying her with a passionate and disdainful significance.\r\n\r\n\"I have read it,\" said Isabel, quietly, after a glance, and handing it\r\nto Pierre, as if by that act to show, that she had no separate decision\r\nin the matter.\r\n\r\n\"And do you, sir, too, indirectly connive?\" said Mrs. Tartan to Pierre,\r\nwhen he had read it.\r\n\r\n\"I render no accounts, madam. This seems to be the written and final\r\ncalm will of your daughter. As such, you had best respect it, and\r\ndepart.\"\r\n\r\nMrs. Tartan glanced despairingly and incensedly about her; then fixing\r\nher eyes on her daughter, spoke.\r\n\r\n\"Girl! here where I stand, I forever cast thee off. Never more shalt\r\nthou be vexed by my maternal entreaties. I shall instruct thy brothers\r\nto disown thee; I shall instruct Glen Stanly to banish thy worthless\r\nimage from his heart, if banished thence it be not already by thine own\r\nincredible folly and depravity. For thee, Mr. Monster! the judgment of\r\nGod will overtake thee for this. And for thee, madam, I have no words\r\nfor the woman who will connivingly permit her own husband's paramour to\r\ndwell beneath her roof. For thee, frail one,\" (to Delly), \"thou needest\r\nno amplification.--A nest of vileness! And now, surely, whom God himself\r\nhath abandoned forever, a mother may quit, never more to revisit.\"\r\n\r\nThis parting maternal malediction seemed to work no visibly\r\ncorresponding effect upon Lucy; already she was so marble-white, that\r\nfear could no more blanch her, if indeed fear was then at all within her\r\nheart. For as the highest, and purest, and thinnest ether remains\r\nunvexed by all the tumults of the inferior air; so that transparent\r\nether of her cheek, that clear mild azure of her eye, showed no sign of\r\npassion, as her terrestrial mother stormed below. Helpings she had from\r\nunstirring arms; glimpses she caught of aid invisible; sustained she was\r\nby those high powers of immortal Love, that once siding with the weakest\r\nreed which the utmost tempest tosses; then that utmost tempest shall be\r\nbroken down before the irresistible resistings of that weakest reed.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r","title":"Chunk 3"},"relationships":[{"peer":"01KG8AKWW7C56YA31RGTMFGT68","peer_type":"section","predicate":"in"},{"peer":"01KG89J1JSYKSGCE149MH9HF6A","peer_type":"file","predicate":"extractedFrom"},{"peer":"01KG89HMDZKNY753EZE1CJ8HZW","peer_type":"collection","predicate":"collection"},{"peer":"01KG8AN1262EA1XAZH8PJ69P3D","peer_type":"chunk","predicate":"prev"}],"ver":2,"created_at":"2026-01-30T20:48:56.387Z","ts":"2026-01-30T20:49:33.093Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFF0H3YRP9ZSM033AM0QJ47H"}}