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- # Wife's Continued Campaign
## Overview
This is a segment extracted from the short story [I and My Chimney](arke:01KG8AJ72QDX8N8STJ3550X2NW), spanning lines 1102-1111 of the source text file [i_and_my_chimney.txt](arke:01KG89J1H4TA19251AXAPE3ZWC). It is labeled "Wife's Continued Campaign". The segment describes the narrator's wife's ongoing efforts to find a secret closet within their chimney.
## Context
This segment is part of a larger collection, [Melville Complete Works](arke:01KG89HMDZKNY753EZE1CJ8HZW). It follows the segment [Narrator's Tactics and Resolution](arke:01KG8AJNY39WQ9QJPHMCTBVARJ) and precedes the segment [Wife's initial complaints and the secret closet theory](arke:01KG8AJNYAC5V5EHARA9QMYA1F) within the short story. The text was extracted by a structure-extraction-lambda process.
## Contents
The segment details the wife's persistent campaign to prove the existence of a secret closet in the chimney. She taps the wall with her daughter Anna's geological hammer, listens for echoes, and frightens the narrator with her nightly searches. The narrator compares her actions to life insurance company physicians examining a patient's chest, highlighting the absurdity of her quest. The segment emphasizes the wife's unwavering belief and relentless pursuit of the supposed secret closet.
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- Wife's Continued Campaign
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- 1111
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- 1102
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- But, no. Inveterately bent upon the extirpation of that noble old
chimney, still to this day my wife goes about it, with my daughter
Anna’s geological hammer, tapping the wall all over, and then holding
her ear against it, as I have seen the physicians of life insurance
companies tap a man’s chest, and then incline over for the echo.
Sometimes of nights she almost frightens one, going about on this
phantom errand, and still following the sepulchral response of the
chimney, round and round, as if it were leading her to the threshold of
the secret closet.
- title
- Wife's Continued Campaign