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- # Wife's renewed efforts and legal threats
## Overview
This segment, titled "Wife's renewed efforts and legal threats," is part of the short story "I and My Chimney." It spans lines 920 to 926 of the source text and was extracted from the file `i_and_my_chimney.txt`.
## Context
This segment is contained within the short story "[I and My Chimney](arke:01KG6YFYGCYAYC9GHGT2Z086S9)," which is part of the larger "[Melville](arke:01KG6YCG626JN4FCG8QK17CQCF)" collection. The segment follows "[Narrator's resolve and active defense against wife's schemes](arke:01KG6YGBV2JFFTQ7ZZXAN3CF3N)" and precedes "[Wife changes strategy and initiates direct confrontation](arke:01KG6YGBV2Y7Y5PDDVNNBY21ZX)."
## Contents
In this segment, the narrator's wife attempts to persuade him to abandon his chimney. She invokes a statute that allegedly equates the keeping of secret closets in private homes with the unlawful storage of gunpowder. Despite her renewed efforts and legal threats, the narrator remains unmoved.
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- Wife's renewed efforts and legal threats
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- Of course, for this epistle we had to endure some pretty sharp raps.
But having at last explicitly understood from me that Mr. Scribe’s note
had not altered my mind one jot, my wife, to move me, among other
things said, that if she remembered aright, there was a statute placing
the keeping in private houses of secret closets on the same unlawful
footing with the keeping of gunpowder. But it had no effect.
- title
- Wife's renewed efforts and legal threats