{"id":"01KG8AN3304R47TMS6YQ261451","cid":"bafkreihicfm4cp6yqzzj6ddwucytg2mycljkj6mx3ybvz65yilswmuj53e","type":"chunk","properties":{"end_line":10616,"extracted_at":"2026-01-30T20:48:52.921Z","extracted_by":"structure-extraction-lambda","label":"Chunk 7","source_file":"01KG89J1JSYKSGCE149MH9HF6A","start_line":10539,"text":"Pierre turned; and in the flashing, sinister, evil cross-lights of a\r\ndruggist's window, his eye caught the person of a wonderfully\r\nbeautifully-featured girl; scarlet-cheeked, glaringly-arrayed, and of a\r\nfigure all natural grace but unnatural vivacity. Her whole form,\r\nhowever, was horribly lit by the green and yellow rays from the\r\ndruggist's.\r\n\r\n\"My God!\" shuddered Pierre, hurrying forward, \"the town's first welcome\r\nto youth!\"\r\n\r\nHe was just crossing over to where a line of hacks were drawn up\r\nagainst the opposite curb, when his eye was arrested by a short, gilded\r\nname, rather reservedly and aristocratically denominating a large and\r\nvery handsome house, the second story of which was profusely lighted. He\r\nlooked up, and was very certain that in this house were the apartments\r\nof Glen. Yielding to a sudden impulse, he mounted the single step toward\r\nthe door, and rang the bell, which was quickly responded to by a very\r\ncivil black.\r\n\r\nAs the door opened, he heard the distant interior sound of dancing-music\r\nand merriment.\r\n\r\n\"Is Mr. Stanly in?\"\r\n\r\n\"Mr. Stanly? Yes, but he's engaged.\"\r\n\r\n\"How?\"\r\n\r\n\"He is somewhere in the drawing rooms. My mistress is giving a party to\r\nthe lodgers.\"\r\n\r\n\"Ay? Tell Mr. Stanly I wish to see him for one moment if you please;\r\nonly one moment.\"\r\n\r\n\"I dare not call him, sir. He said that possibly some one might call for\r\nhim to-night--they are calling every night for Mr. Stanly--but I must\r\nadmit no one, on the plea of the party.\"\r\n\r\nA dark and bitter suspicion now darted through the mind of Pierre; and\r\nungovernably yielding to it, and resolved to prove or falsify it without\r\ndelay, he said to the black:\r\n\r\n\"My business is pressing. I must see Mr. Stanly.\"\r\n\r\n\"I am sorry, sir, but orders are orders: I am his particular servant\r\nhere--the one that sees his silver every holyday. I can't disobey him.\r\nMay I shut the door, sir? for as it is, I can not admit you.\"\r\n\r\n\"The drawing-rooms are on the second floor, are they not?\" said Pierre\r\nquietly.\r\n\r\n\"Yes,\" said the black pausing in surprise, and holding the door.\r\n\r\n\"Yonder are the stairs, I think?\"\r\n\r\n\"That way, sir; but this is yours;\" and the now suspicious black was\r\njust on the point of closing the portal violently upon him, when Pierre\r\nthrust him suddenly aside, and springing up the long stairs, found\r\nhimself facing an open door, from whence proceeded a burst of combined\r\nbrilliancy and melody, doubly confusing to one just emerged from the\r\nstreet. But bewildered and all demented as he momentarily felt, he\r\ninstantly stalked in, and confounded the amazed company with his\r\nunremoved slouched hat, pale cheek, and whole dusty, travel-stained, and\r\nferocious aspect.\r\n\r\n\"Mr. Stanly! where is Mr. Stanly?\" he cried, advancing straight through\r\na startled quadrille, while all the music suddenly hushed, and every eye\r\nwas fixed in vague affright upon him.\r\n\r\n\"Mr. Stanly! Mr. Stanly!\" cried several bladish voices, toward the\r\nfurther end of the further drawing-room, into which the first one widely\r\nopened, \"Here is a most peculiar fellow after you; who the devil is he?\"\r\n\r\n\"I think I see him,\" replied a singularly cool, deliberate, and rather\r\ndrawling voice, yet a very silvery one, and at bottom perhaps a very\r\nresolute one; \"I think I see him; stand aside, my good fellow, will you;\r\nladies, remove, remove from between me and yonder hat.\"\r\n\r","title":"Chunk 7"},"relationships":[{"peer":"01KG8AJTDSWGP8QJ7MKTTPBN1C","peer_type":"chapter","predicate":"in"},{"peer":"01KG89J1JSYKSGCE149MH9HF6A","peer_type":"file","predicate":"extractedFrom"},{"peer":"01KG89HMDZKNY753EZE1CJ8HZW","peer_type":"collection","predicate":"collection"},{"peer":"01KG8AN330PHSXMCC1NDRJ5PR8","peer_type":"chunk","predicate":"prev"},{"peer":"01KG8AN33E4XW375B79K3FK3W0","peer_type":"chunk","predicate":"next"}],"ver":2,"created_at":"2026-01-30T20:48:58.464Z","ts":"2026-01-30T20:49:26.515Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFF0H3YRP9ZSM033AM0QJ47H"}}