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Indeed he begged leave now to christen it the\r\nCooery, and if after his wedding jaunt, Pierre would deign to visit the\r\ncity with his bride for a month or two's sojourn, then the Cooery would\r\nbe but too happy in affording him a harbor. His sweet cousin need be\r\nunder no apprehension. Owing to the absence of any fit applicant for it,\r\nthe house had now long been without a tenant, save an old, confidential,\r\nbachelor clerk of his father's, who on a nominal rent, and more by way\r\nof safe-keeping to the house than any thing else, was now hanging up his\r\nwell-furbished hat in its hall. This accommodating old clerk would\r\nquickly unpeg his beaver at the first hint of new occupants. Glen would\r\ncharge himself with supplying the house in advance with a proper retinue\r\nof servants; fires would be made in the long-unoccupied chambers; the\r\nvenerable, grotesque, old mahoganies, and marbles, and mirror-frames,\r\nand moldings could be very soon dusted and burnished; the kitchen was\r\namply provided with the necessary utensils for cooking; the strong box\r\nof old silver immemorially pertaining to the mansion, could be readily\r\ncarted round from the vaults of the neighboring Bank; while the hampers\r\nof old china, still retained in the house, needed but little trouble to\r\nunpack; so that silver and china would soon stand assorted in their\r\nappropriate closets; at the turning of a faucet in the cellar, the best\r\nof the city's water would not fail to contribute its ingredient to the\r\nconcocting of a welcoming glass of negus before retiring on the first\r\nnight of their arrival.\r\n\r\nThe over-fastidiousness of some unhealthily critical minds, as well as\r\nthe moral pusillanimity of others, equally bars the acceptance of\r\neffectually substantial favors from persons whose motive in proffering\r\nthem, is not altogether clear and unimpeachable; and toward whom,\r\nperhaps, some prior coolness or indifference has been shown. But when\r\nthe acceptance of such a favor would be really convenient and desirable\r\nto the one party, and completely unattended with any serious distress to\r\nthe other; there would seem to be no sensible objection to an immediate\r\nembrace of the offer. And when the acceptor is in rank and fortune the\r\ngeneral equal of the profferer, and perhaps his superior, so that any\r\ncourtesy he receives, can be amply returned in the natural course of\r\nfuture events, then all motives to decline are very materially lessened.\r\nAnd as for the thousand inconceivable finicalnesses of small pros and\r\ncons about imaginary fitnesses, and proprieties, and self-consistencies;\r\nthank heaven, in the hour of heart-health, none such shilly-shallying\r\nsail-trimmers ever balk the onward course of a bluff-minded man. He\r\ntakes the world as it is; and carelessly accommodates himself to its\r\nwhimsical humors; nor ever feels any compunction at receiving the\r\ngreatest possible favors from those who are as able to grant, as free to\r\nbestow. He himself bestows upon occasion; so that, at bottom, common\r\ncharity steps in to dictate a favorable consideration for all possible\r\nprofferings; seeing that the acceptance shall only the more enrich him,\r\nindirectly, for new and larger beneficences of his own.\r\n\r","title":"Chunk 5"},"relationships":[{"peer":"01KG8AKTMST8DGQPXYV857P8DN","peer_type":"subsection","predicate":"in"},{"peer":"01KG89J1JSYKSGCE149MH9HF6A","peer_type":"file","predicate":"extractedFrom"},{"peer":"01KG89HMDZKNY753EZE1CJ8HZW","peer_type":"collection","predicate":"collection"},{"peer":"01KG8AN29ZT910PJWM7RAK16XB","peer_type":"chunk","predicate":"prev"},{"peer":"01KG8AN2ADJ3C0F4ANZNBWXMRK","peer_type":"chunk","predicate":"next"}],"ver":2,"created_at":"2026-01-30T20:48:57.667Z","ts":"2026-01-30T20:49:25.279Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFF0H3YRP9ZSM033AM0QJ47H"}}