{"id":"01KG8AN2ADP2G3CBKCP0FX7E8W","cid":"bafkreifauwnrnnzfmly5vxmc56xi4r47ieg64o5rrgm72h7bx6s2v5d7pu","type":"chunk","properties":{"end_line":10002,"extracted_at":"2026-01-30T20:48:52.921Z","extracted_by":"structure-extraction-lambda","label":"Chunk 1","source_file":"01KG89J1JSYKSGCE149MH9HF6A","start_line":9943,"text":"II.\r\n\r\nBut little would we comprehend the peculiar relation between Pierre and\r\nGlen--a relation involving in the end the most serious results--were\r\nthere not here thrown over the whole equivocal, preceding account of it,\r\nanother and more comprehensive equivocalness, which shall absorb all\r\nminor ones in itself; and so make one pervading ambiguity the only\r\npossible explanation for all the ambiguous details.\r\n\r\nIt had long been imagined by Pierre, that prior to his own special\r\ndevotion to Lucy, the splendid Glen had not been entirely insensible to\r\nher surprising charms. Yet this conceit in its incipiency, he knew not\r\nhow to account for. Assuredly his cousin had never in the slightest\r\nconceivable hint betrayed it; and as for Lucy, the same intuitive\r\ndelicacy which forever forbade Pierre to question her on the subject,\r\ndid equally close her own voluntary lips. Between Pierre and Lucy,\r\ndelicateness put her sacred signet on this chest of secrecy; which like\r\nthe wax of an executor upon a desk, though capable of being melted into\r\nnothing by the smallest candle, for all this, still possesses to the\r\nreverent the prohibitive virtue of inexorable bars and bolts.\r\n\r\nIf Pierre superficially considered the deportment of Glen toward him,\r\ntherein he could find no possible warrant for indulging the suspicious\r\nidea. Doth jealousy smile so benignantly and offer its house to the\r\nbride? Still, on the other hand, to quit the mere surface of the\r\ndeportment of Glen, and penetrate beneath its brocaded vesture; there\r\nPierre sometimes seemed to see the long-lurking and yet unhealed wound\r\nof all a rejected lover's most rankling detestation of a supplanting\r\nrival, only intensified by their former friendship, and the unimpairable\r\nblood-relation between them. Now, viewed by the light of this\r\nmaster-solution, all the singular enigmas in Glen; his capriciousness in\r\nthe matter of the epistolary--\"Dear Pierres\" and \"Dearest Pierres;\" the\r\nmercurial fall from the fever-heat of cordiality, to below the Zero of\r\nindifference; then the contrary rise to fever-heat; and, above all, his\r\nemphatic redundancy of devotion so soon as the positive espousals of\r\nPierre seemed on the point of consummation; thus read, all these riddles\r\napparently found their cunning solution. For the deeper that some men\r\nfeel a secret and poignant feeling, the higher they pile the belying\r\nsurfaces. The friendly deportment of Glen then was to be considered as\r\nin direct proportion to his hoarded hate; and the climax of that hate\r\nwas evinced in throwing open his house to the bride. Yet if hate was the\r\nabstract cause, hate could not be the immediate motive of the conduct of\r\nGlen. Is hate so hospitable? The immediate motive of Glen then must be\r\nthe intense desire to disguise from the wide world, a fact unspeakably\r\nhumiliating to his gold-laced and haughty soul: the fact that in the\r\nprofoundest desire of his heart, Pierre had so victoriously supplanted\r\nhim. Yet was it that very artful deportment in Glen, which Glen\r\nprofoundly assumed to this grand end; that consummately artful\r\ndeportment it was, which first obtruded upon Pierre the surmise, which\r\nby that identical method his cousin was so absorbedly intent upon\r\nrendering impossible to him. Hence we here see that as in the negative\r\nway the secrecy of any strong emotion is exceedingly difficult to be\r\nkept lastingly private to one's own bosom by any human being; so it is\r\none of the most fruitless undertakings in the world, to attempt by\r\naffirmative assumptions to tender to men, the precisely opposite emotion\r\nas yours. Therefore the final wisdom decrees, that if you have aught\r\nwhich you desire to keep a secret to yourself, be a Quietist there, and\r\ndo and say nothing at all about it. For among all the poor chances, this\r\nis the least poor. Pretensions and substitutions are only the recourse\r\nof under-graduates in the science of the world; in which science, on his\r","title":"Chunk 1"},"relationships":[{"peer":"01KG8AKTMSHD5VCDMZRJW8FPNY","peer_type":"subsection","predicate":"in"},{"peer":"01KG89J1JSYKSGCE149MH9HF6A","peer_type":"file","predicate":"extractedFrom"},{"peer":"01KG89HMDZKNY753EZE1CJ8HZW","peer_type":"collection","predicate":"collection"},{"peer":"01KG8AN2AD9KY1J13DYV76BZ7N","peer_type":"chunk","predicate":"next"}],"ver":2,"created_at":"2026-01-30T20:48:57.677Z","ts":"2026-01-30T20:49:25.610Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFF0H3YRP9ZSM033AM0QJ47H"}}