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- # Narrator's Internal Deliberation and Conspiracy
## Overview - What this is (type, form, dates, scope)
This is a text segment extracted from the short story "I and My Chimney" by Herman Melville. The segment, labeled "Narrator's Internal Deliberation and Conspiracy," spans lines 710-728 of the source file, `i_and_my_chimney.txt`. It was extracted on January 30, 2026, by the structure-extraction-lambda.
## Context - Background and provenance from related entities
This segment is part of the short story [I and My Chimney](arke:01KG6YFYGCYAYC9GHGT2Z086S9), which is contained within the file [i_and_my_chimney.txt](arke:01KG6YDDFE1YJ2Q37Q9JT1AJVB). The file is part of the [Melville](arke:01KG6YCG626JN4FCG8QK17CQCF) collection, which contains the complete works of Herman Melville. The preceding segment, [Philosophical Description and Wife's Ultimatum](arke:01KG6YGB4R6CCVVWR6MW72J1NN), describes the wife's ultimatum regarding the chimney. The following segment, [Negotiation with Mr. Scribe and Narrator's Inability to Part](arke:01KG6YGB4RB5GTN0B58WXKW9S3), continues the narrative.
## Contents - What it contains, key subjects and details
The segment focuses on the narrator's internal conflict and his "conspiracy" with his pipe. The narrator reflects on the situation, considering his wife's ultimatum regarding the chimney. He and his pipe, described as "three great cronies," contemplate the chimney's "death-warrant." The narrator acknowledges a betrayal of their "unsuspicious old comrade" (the chimney) due to their love of peace. However, the narrator expresses that better thoughts soon returned.
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- Narrator's Internal Deliberation and Conspiracy
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- Finding matters coming to such a pass, I and my pipe philosophized over
them awhile, and finally concluded between us, that little as our
hearts went with the plan, yet for peace’ sake, I might write out the
chimney’s death-warrant, and, while my hand was in, scratch a note to
Mr. Scribe.
Considering that I, and my chimney, and my pipe, from having been so
much together, were three great cronies, the facility with which my
pipe consented to a project so fatal to the goodliest of our trio; or
rather, the way in which I and my pipe, in secret, conspired together,
as it were, against our unsuspicious old comrade—this may seem rather
strange, if not suggestive of sad reflections upon us two. But, indeed,
we, sons of clay, that is my pipe and I, are no whit better than the
rest. Far from us, indeed, to have volunteered the betrayal of our
crony. We are of a peaceable nature, too. But that love of peace it was
which made us false to a mutual friend, as soon as his cause demanded a
vigorous vindication. But I rejoice to add, that better and braver
thoughts soon returned, as will now briefly be set forth.
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- Narrator's Internal Deliberation and Conspiracy