[
 {
  "chunk": 56,
  "story": 4,
  "summary": "A village carpenter who wins laughs by mocking the priest and working through Mass is the priest's secret rival of ten years, and may be elected mayor.",
  "predicament": "A man whose standing rests on openly mocking the local authority is locked in a long, quiet rivalry with it."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 57,
  "story": 4,
  "summary": "The priest wins money to replace the church pews; the village teases the carpenter, the job goes to an outsider, and word spreads that his opinions are the only bar to his getting it.",
  "predicament": "A man learns a well-paid job he could do is going to an outsider, because of the opinions he has flaunted."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 58,
  "story": 4,
  "summary": "Greed drives the carpenter into the church at dusk, where he feels in his enemy's house; he stammers that he has come about the work while the priest pretends not to understand.",
  "predicament": "Greed drives a man to go cap in hand to his old rival, who pretends not to know what he has come for."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 59,
  "story": 4,
  "summary": "The priest feigns outrage that the parish's one unbeliever should ask, then names his price: the carpenter must take communion publicly at high Mass on Sunday.",
  "predicament": "A rival offers a man the work he wants on one condition: a public act that renounces everything he has boasted of."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 60,
  "story": 4,
  "summary": "The carpenter agrees, asks to put it off, and balks at the confessional box; the priest, now friendly, insists on two confessions first but lets him make them in the parlour.",
  "predicament": "A man who has agreed to humble himself for gain haggles over every detail of how publicly he must do it."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 61,
  "story": 4,
  "summary": "He shakes on the bargain, dreads it all the next day like a tooth-pulling, and at the parsonage is made to kneel, ashamed, not even knowing the opening prayer.",
  "predicament": "A man who traded his principles for a job must now kneel before his old rival and go through with it."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 62,
  "story": 4,
  "summary": "Questioned commandment by commandment, he says he loves God as much as he can, though maybe not more than his children or a hundred francs, and never swears except when angry.",
  "predicament": "A man forced to account for himself insists he is blameless while admitting, clause by clause, to every small failing."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 63,
  "story": 4,
  "summary": "He works on Sundays, calls himself an honest man while admitting he pads bills for rich customers, and denies lying while admitting he tells tales when it pays.",
  "predicament": "A man who calls himself honest admits, without seeing the contradiction, that he pads bills and bends the truth for gain."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 64,
  "story": 4,
  "summary": "He swears he has never deceived his wife, then admits visiting brothels in town, but always paying; he is absolved, does the work, and takes communion every month.",
  "predicament": "A man who swallowed his pride for profit gets what he wanted and keeps up the show of conversion ever after."
 }
]