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- # It came to pass, at last, that there was a contention about me in the house
## Overview
This is a section extracted from the file [pierre.txt](arke:01KG89J1JSYKSGCE149MH9HF6A), belonging to the [Melville Complete Works](arke:01KG89HMDZKNY753EZE1CJ8HZW) collection. It is part of section "IV." [IV.](arke:01KG8AKSYXM1BVG8S0ESCFKM6F) of the text. The section describes a pivotal moment where the narrator is taken away from the house amidst some contention.
## Context
The section is part of a larger chapter within the novel *Pierre; or, The Ambiguities* by Herman Melville. It follows the section [By-and-by, the house seemed to change again](arke:01KG8AMR90VR7BT29E7ECHHXWX) and precedes the section [This house was a much smaller one than the other](arke:01KG8AMR90DCWKTRZKW35W1086), continuing the narrator's account of her experiences in different houses.
## Contents
The section narrates the events leading to the narrator's departure from a house due to some contention. Strangers arrive, and the narrator is dressed in new clothes and taken away in a carriage with a pleasant-looking woman. They travel for two days before arriving at another house where they stay. The narrator does not know the reason for the contention or the identity of the strangers, only hearing about it later.
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- It came to pass, at last, that there was a contention about me in the house
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- "It came to pass, at last, that there was a contention about me in the
house; some contention which I heard in the after rumor only, not at the
actual time. Some strangers had arrived; or had come in haste, being
sent for to the house. Next day they dressed me in new and pretty, but
still plain clothes, and they took me down stairs, and out into the air,
and into a carriage with a pleasant-looking woman, a stranger to me; and
I was driven off a good way, two days nearly we drove away, stopping
somewhere over-night; and on the evening of the second day we came to
another house, and went into it, and stayed there.
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- It came to pass, at last, that there was a contention about me in the house