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16258 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It will be cuckoo time directly my dear; and the lambs will be bleating on the fells, and the yellow primroses blowing under all the hedges. I want to see the swallows take the storm on their wings badly this year. Eh? What, Charlotte?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "... |
16258 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "After all, maybe it is a bit natural, said the squire with a sad air of apology."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have noticed even the robins get angry if you watch them building their nests."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But they, at least, build the... |
16258 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have a lover, father; the best a girl ever had. Has he made any difference between you and me? Only that I love you better. You are my first love; the very first creature I remember, father. One summer day you had me in your arms in the garden. I recollect looking at you and k... |
16258 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You a North-country woman, Ducie, she said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It seems such a thing to think of flowers that way,--making them signs of sorrow."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You know what you said about your father and the plant,--'Death-c... |
16258 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Was he well? --"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, he was well, but there were things that might be better. I thought when he went to Bradford, continued Ducie,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What is the matter with the squire, Charlotte? Does he think... |
16258 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Seat"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "in them, which no one liked very well to submit to. And yet it was difficult to resist demands enforced by such remarks as,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is the last time I shall ask for such a thing;"
},
{
... |
16258 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A sight to dream of, not to tell."
}
] |
16258 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is a middling good thing, Alice, he said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That is the blessed truth, William. And yet it is the pride of my heart to say that there never was such a bride or such a bridal in Sandal-Side before. Still, I am tired, and I feel just as ... |
16258 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The idea of Harry going as sick-nurse with any friend or comrade is absurd, Sophia. However, we can easily take Florence into our wedding-trip, only we must not let Charlotte know of our intention. Charlotte is against us, Sophia; and you may depend upon it, Harry meant to insul... |
16258 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": ""
}
] |
16258 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We have the earliest shearing in Sandal-Side, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The sickle has not been in the upper meadows yet, and if they finish to-night it will be a good thing. It's a fine moon for work. _A fine moon, God bless her!_ Hark! There is the so... |
16258 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well-a-mercy! Good-evening, Stephen. When did you get home? Nobody had heard tell. Eh? What?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I came this afternoon, squire; and as there is a favor you can do us, I thought I would ask it at once."
},
{
"from": "human",
"val... |
16258 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You must take your own way, Stephen. I am an old man. I have had my say in my generation, maybe I haven't any right to meddle with yours. New men, new times. Then being conscious that he was a little ungenerous he walked off to Mrs. Sandal, and left the lovers together. Steve wo... |
16258 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If I am going to trust to sheep, squire, then I may as well have plenty to trust to. I think of buying the Penghyll 'walk,' and putting a thousand on it."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "My song, Stephen!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I can manage them q... |
16258 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'd like well to take you through one, squire. Fleeces? You would be wonder-struck. There are long staple and short staple; silky wool and woolly wool; black fleeces from the Punjaub, and curly white ones from Bombay; long warps from Russia, short ones from Buenos Ayres; little ... |
16258 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is about the usual thing, Alice. Julius likes Florence. It is called 'the beautiful.' Julius thinks that it deserves the title. The wine in Rome did not suit Julius, but he finds the Florence vintage much better. The climate is very delightful, Julius is sure he will derive b... |
16258 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I wonder how you stand it, Harry,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You see, Julius, when I went into the army, I was so weary of Sandal-Side; and I liked the uniform, and the stir of an officer's life, and the admiration of the girls, and the whole _éclat_ of the thing... |
16258 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Glory be to God on high! And the tears sprang into his eyes, and he looked stealthily at his father and mother, who were reverently listening; and said softly to himself,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I wish that I had never been born."
},
{
"from": "human",... |
16258 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Harry, she said, leaning forward to take his hand,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am sure you are in trouble. What is it?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If I durst tell you, Charlotte!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Whatever you have dared... |
16258 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then I am ashamed of you. The dear old rector! He married father and mother; he christened and confirmed you; you might be sure, that if you could not ask him to marry you, you had no business to marry at all."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You said her face was like... |
16258 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come, come, Harry, said the squire in a loud, cheerful voice,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I must leave Sandal this morning, sir."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sir me no sir, Harry. 'Father' will stand between you and me, I think. You must make a put... |
16258 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Charlotte is a bit hurrysome this morning, he said; and Harry making no answer, he seemed suddenly to be struck with his attitude. He looked curiously at him a moment, and then lapsed into silence."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Harry wants money. That was his first ... |
16258 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Father?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, well, Harry! I see you are wanting money again."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It will be the last time. I am married, and am going to Italy to live."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Eh? What?"
},... |
16258 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Order for the Visitation of the Sick"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Deliver him from the fear of the enemy. Lift up the light of thy countenance upon him. Amen."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "To be weak is miserable, Doing or suffering."
},
{
"f... |
16258 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There will be faults on both sides. If two stones knock against each other until they strike fire, you may be sure both of them have been hard, mother. Any way, Harry is in trouble, and there is none but us to stand up for him."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The squi... |
16258 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, he said, rising in haste,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I may as well go without a kind word. I am not to have one, apparently."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Who is here to speak it? Can father? or mother? or I? But you have that woman."
},
... |
16258 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And what do you think now, Capt. Sandal? Here has been a man from Up-Hill with a letter for you."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Is he gone?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That he is. He would not wait, even for a bite of good victuals. He was dryish, th... |
16258 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Seat,"
}
] |
16258 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There is no use weeping, my love, he said languidly,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Poor, dear father! And oh, Julius, what a disgrace to the family! A singer! How could Harry behave so shamefully to us all?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Harry never ca... |
16258 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": ""
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "William is a far finer fellow, he said one day to his mother;"
}
] |
16258 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I think you have a very good plan, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Harry Sandal, with his play-singing wife, would have a very bad time of it among the Dalesmen. He knows it. He will have no desire to test the feeling. I am sure he will be glad to have a sum ... |
16258 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Julius will get the squire under his finger, he said to Charlotte."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He will make himself indispensable about the estate. As for Sophia, she could always work mother to her own purposes. Mother obeyed her will, even while she resented and... |
16258 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have seen the plan of Latrigg Hall, said Julius one day to Sophia."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "An absurdly fine building for a man of Stephen's birth. What will he do with it? It will require as large an income as Seat-Sandal to support it."
},
{
"from":... |
16258 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mrs. Sandal does not mean to be hard, but she is so wrapped up in the squire she sees nothing; and Miss Charlotte is so strong herself, she really expects too much from others. She does not intend to be exacting, but then she is; she can't help it."
}
] |
16258 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Put up with it, she said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Dear Charlotte, will you tell Ann to make one of those queen puddings for Julius. He does enjoy them so much."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They are a sight of trouble, Miss Charlotte. I'll be ha... |
16258 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Such times I never saw, said Ann."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have been at Sandal twenty-two years come Martinmas, but I'm going to Beverley next feast."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You'll not do it, Ann. It's but talk."
},
{
"from": "gpt... |
16258 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Here's to thee, good apple-tree! Whence thou may'st bud, and whence thou may'st blow, Whence thou may'st bear apples enou'; Hats full, caps full, Bushels full, sacks full. Hurrah, then! Hurrah, then! Here's to thee, good apple-tree!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It ... |
16258 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He is alive yet,--much better, he says; and Charlotte thinks he may be in the fields again next season."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Thank God! My poor Beatrice and her baby! You see what is coming to them?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes."
},
... |
16258 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You are quite satisfied, Harry?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You have saved me from despair. Perhaps you have saved Beatrice. I am grateful to you."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Have I done justly and honorably by you?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
... |
16258 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A word was brought, Unto him,--the King himself desired his presence."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The mystery of life He probes; and in the battling din of things That frets the feeble ear, he seeks and finds A harmony that tunes the dissonant strife To sweetest m... |
16258 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You have been a long time away, Julius,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have been a long journey."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ah! Where have you been? Eh?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "To Italy."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value... |
16258 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I must send for Lawyer Moser: if there is any way out of this wrong, he will know the right way,"
}
] |
16258 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have been looking for this news all day: I fear me, Steve, that the squire has come to 'the passing.' Last night I saw your grandfather."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Dreamed of him?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, then, call it a dream. I saw y... |
16258 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Farewell, Stephen. Yet one word more. If Harry should come back--what of Harry? Eh? What?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I will stand by him. I will put my hand in his hand, and my foot with his foot. They that wrong Harry will wrong me, they that shame Harry will sh... |
16258 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That for it!"
}
] |
16258 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "as centuries of fellow-feeling might have claimed; but she had her special worries. She perceived, even thus early, that as long as the late squire's widow was in the Seat, her own authority would be imperfect."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Of course, she did not wi... |
16258 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If you can do the work, Ann, you may stay, said Sophia to the dissatisfied cook;"
}
] |
16258 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I do really think mother might have some consideration for me, Julius, she complained."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It puts me in such a very peculiar position not to take my place at my own table; and it is so trying and perplexing for the servants,--making them f... |
16258 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What is to be done, mother? I cannot see you insulted, meal after meal, in this way. Let us go at once. I have told you it would come to this. We ought to have moved immediately,--just as soon as Julius came here as master."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "My house in ... |
16258 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, my son Absalom, Absalom! My son, my son!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "O Sophia! oh, my child, my child! How can you treat me so? What have I done? She was murmuring such words to herself when the door was opened, and Sophia entered. It was characteristic of the... |
16258 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How cold and dreary you are! Mother, why don't you cheer up and do something? It would be better for you than moping on the sofa."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Suppose Julius had died six weeks ago, would you think of 'cheering up,' Sophia?"
},
{
"from": "hu... |
16258 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is enough, she cried, with a slight quiver in her voice,"
}
] |
16258 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We have come to you for shelter and protection!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There had been a general impression, he said,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He has been our ruin, she cried,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He is a bad one. He s... |
16258 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, squire, what want you?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I want justice, sir. I am come here to defend myself."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Very well, I am here to listen."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Say what you will, squire, you an... |
16258 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I will keep them here until you return, he answered;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The fell has been a hard walk for an old woman, the cart-road nearly impassable until this rain washed away the drifts; but I did not neglect my duty altogether, neither, parson. Mose... |
16258 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "he paused a moment, and touched with his finger an old black volume on one of the book-shelves."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": ""
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But you must be biddable, Charlotte, said the rector;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value"... |
16258 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Kiss me, Stephen, my dear lad. I have seen this week how kind and patient, how honorable and trustful, thou art. Well, then, the hour has come that will try thy love to the uttermost. But wise or unwise, all that has been done has been done with good intent, and I look for no wo... |
16258 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Your name is not Pattison, neither is it Latrigg. When you marry Charlotte Sandal, it must be by your own true name; and that is Stephen Sandal."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Stephen Sandal, mother?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes. You are the son o... |
16258 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "When my father was gone, then you came back to Up-Hill?"
}
] |
16258 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And I thought the same thing, Stephen; and after that, our one care was to make you happy, and to do well to you. That you were a born Sandal, was a great joy to him, for he loved your father and your grandfather; and, when Harry came, he loved him also, and he liked well to see... |
16258 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But, when the squire died, I thought from what Charlotte told me of the Julius Sandals, that there would have to be a change; and when I saw your grandfather sorting the papers for me, and heard that Mistress Alice and Charlotte had been forced to leave their home, I knew that t... |
16258 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It will be about your mother's income, Sophia, he said, as he viciously broke the egg he was holding;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why should you, Julius? I am sure we have been blamed and talked over enough. We never can be popular here."
},
{
"from": "hum... |
16258 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, Mr. Moser, good-morning, sir."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "As if a bite of victuals was of more ado than business that could bring Matthew Moser all the road from Kendal."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Good-morning, Mr. Sandal."
},
{
"fr... |
16258 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Acting for Squire Sandal, I would be a middling bad sort of a lawyer to give you his name. Eh?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You are talking in riddles, sir."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Eh! But I always read my riddles, Mr. Sandal. I am here to take... |
16258 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They have not come, Julius,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "They? Who?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The flosses for my bird's-nest. The eggs must be in white floss."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The bird's nest can go to Jericho, or Calcut... |
16258 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "in the Dales, nor a cottage on the fells, no, nor a chair in any of the local inns, where he was welcome. He stood his social excommunication longer than could have been expected; and, even at the end, his surrender was forced from him by the want of money, and the never-ceasing... |
16258 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is a hopeless fight against destiny, said Julius."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "When the purse is empty, any cause is weak. I have barely money to take us to Calcutta, Sophia. It is very disagreeable to go there, of course; but my father advised this step, and I ... |
16258 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Money on false pretences,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What folly! Let Harry return home. You have heard that he comes into the Latrigg money. Very well, let him come home, and then you can make him pay you back. Harry is very honorable."
},
{
"from": "huma... |
16258 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, how beautiful was the bride with her golden hair flowing down over her dress of shining white satin!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And how proud and handsome the bridegroom!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And how lovely in their autumn days the two... |
16258 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Return home, Stephen. We are both wrong. It is not human love, but God love, that must seek the lost ones. If you found Harry now, and brought him back, it would be too soon. When his lesson is learned, the heart of God will be touched, and he will say, 'That will do, my son. Ar... |
14406 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "All had gone well the first day"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ranching for Sylvia,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Alton of Somasco,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Thurston of Orchard Valley,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "By R... |
14406 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I think I'll go to Montreal by the special boat tonight, Mrs. Keith said with characteristic briskness."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The hotel's crowded, the town's full, and you keep meeting people whom you know or have heard about. I came here to see Canada, but ... |
14406 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ah! she said;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I begin to feel I'm old. But will you come to Montreal with me to-night?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I suppose I'd better, though the boat takes longer than the train, and I hear that the Place Viger is fu... |
14406 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have been to the post-office, and Captain Sedgwick made them search for our mail, she said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It came some time ago, but there was a mistake through its not being addressed to the hotel."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The ... |
14406 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's possible we may see Bertram and the new Mrs. Challoner. She is going out with him, but they are to travel by the Canadian Pacific route and spend some time in Japan before proceeding to his Indian station. Referring to the date of her letter she resumed,"
},
{
"from... |
14406 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Glad to have been of assistance; but I don't think you could have fallen in, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The guy-rope they had on the gangplank might have held it up."
}
] |
14406 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What is this? he asked, with the careless abruptness which usually characterized him."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "With your permission."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Looks like a menagerie on a small scale, he remarked."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
... |
14406 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, she said;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I believe it was my employer you knew."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Are you supposed to sit up all night and watch the animals for her?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Only for an hour or two. T... |
14406 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It would have been inexcusable if I had forgotten you, he responded with a smile."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Still, I couldn't quite place you until a few moments ago, when you faced the light. But you were wrong in one thing: I'm no longer Lieutenant Blake."
}... |
14406 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I imagine, she said shyly,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That is true, Blake answered with some awkwardness."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A bachelor dinner, you know, after a big race meeting at which we had backed several winners! One has to make al... |
14406 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Could you not have gone back when you were no longer needed?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, she said;"
}
] |
14406 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, he said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I appreciate your letting me talk to you; but it's cold and getting late, and you have sat on deck long enough. I'll see that somebody looks after the animals."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If anything happ... |
14406 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Whom are you looking at so hard?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Bertram Challoner and his bride, said Mrs. Keith."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They're coming toward us yonder."
}
] |
14406 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That was strange, said Mrs. Ashborne."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It looked as if the fellow didn't want to meet our friends. Who can he be?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How can I tell? Mrs. Keith answered."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value":... |
14406 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We arrived only this afternoon, and must have missed you at dinner, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We may go West to-morrow, though we haven't decided yet. I've no doubt we shall see you again to-night or at breakfast."
},
{
"from": "human",
"val... |
14406 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What a charming picture! Miss Graham fits the part well. You can see that she's sorry for the dirty little beggars. They don't look as if they'd had a happy time; and a liner's crowded steerage isn't a luxurious place."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have some Engli... |
14406 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How beautiful this world is! Challoner exclaimed."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have seen grander sights, and there are more picturesque cities than Montreal--I'm looking forward to showing you the work of the Moguls in India--but happiness such as I've had of lat... |
14406 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dick!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "This is a fortunate meeting, Bertram said, and his voice was cordial, though rather strained."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Blanche, here's my cousin, Dick Blake."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Though I'... |
14406 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And the Colonel?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, said Bertram,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I heard that you saw him, Dick."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I did, for half an hour. I felt that it was my duty, though the interview was h... |
14406 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have an appointment to keep and must go in a few minutes, Blake said, glancing at his watch."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Make my excuses to your wife; I shall not see her again. It would be better: there's no reason why she should be reminded of anything unpleas... |
14406 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dick, he said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, Blake interrupted curtly;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He laughed as he went on:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's lucky that your people, knowing the family failing, arranged matters so ... |
14406 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Anyway, you will let me know how you get on?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I think not. What good would it do? While I'm grateful, it's better that the Challoners should have nothing more to do with me. Think of your career, keep your wife proud of you--she has good... |
14406 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You're in lumber, aren't you? he said, taking a strip of wood from his pocket and handing it to the mill owner."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What would you call this?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Cedar, sawn from a good log."
},
{
"from": "g... |
14406 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "So you have come along at last! he remarked in an ironical tone."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Feel like getting down to business, or shall we put it off again?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sorry I couldn't come earlier, Blake replied."
},
{
... |
14406 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We'll order the outfit in the morning, he said presently, glancing toward a man who sat across the room."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Do you think that fellow Clarke can hear? I've a notion that he's been watching us."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do... |
14406 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, Blake! he cried."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What have you got on? Have you been serenading somebody?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I can't stop, Blake answered with a grin."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Open that door for me--quic... |
14406 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You see what you've done! It's gone into the rotunda, where everybody is."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You seem sober. What ever possessed you to get yourself up like an Italian opera villain and go round the town with a wild beast under your arm?"
},
{
"fr... |
14406 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "As the cat belongs to me, she said imperiously,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Through no fault of Miss Graham's, I assure you. I happened to notice your maid trying to carry an awkwardly shaped hamper, and Miss Graham looking for a cab. It struck me the thing was mo... |
14406 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, she said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That can't happen, in the way you mean. I closed the door of the old life against my return, with my own hands; and you don't gain distinction, as the Challoners think of it, in business."
},
{
"from": "human",
... |
14406 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "So you had to leave your wife at home, she said presently."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Wasn't that rather hard for both of you?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It was hard enough, he replied with feeling."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Wha... |
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