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13288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Studies, a volume of Huxley's Essays,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Shelley and"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Keats in the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Men of Letters"
}
] |
13288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I suppose, Mrs. Meadows, you have been helping your husband with his lectures? said Lady Dunstable, a little languidly, as though the heat oppressed her. She was making play with a cigarette and her half-shut eyes were fixed on the"
}
] |
13288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I copy things for Arthur, said Doris."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Unfortunately, I can't type."
}
] |
13288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No fool!--and a lady, he thought."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Let's see what Rachel will make of her."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then you don't help him in the writing?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don't know what Arthur would say... |
13288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Brava, brava! said Meadows, when the story ceased, although it had been intended to upset one of his own most brilliant generalisations; and a sound of clapping hands went round the circle. Lady Dunstable, a little flushed and panting, smiled and was silent. Meadows, meanwhile, ... |
13288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No doubt you will wish to rest till dinner, she said, severely."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And of course your maid will ask for what she wants. At the word"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "did Doris dream it, or was there a satiric gleam in the hard b... |
13288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Please, ma'am--I'll have to have an evening dress--or I can't go in to supper!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What on earth do you mean?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Every maid in this 'ouse, ma'am, 'as got to dress for supper. The maids go in the 'ou... |
13288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You have never seen my cousin before?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Lady Dunstable? Is she your cousin?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My first cousin. And I spend a great part of the year here, helping in different ways. Rachel can't do without me now... |
13288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Does your husband like her?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why yes, of course! stammered Doris."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She's been awfully kind to us about the lectures, and--he loves arguing with her."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "S... |
13288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm afraid I don't see what Lady Dunstable will get out of me,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Are you going then to let him come here alone? She'll be always asking you! Oh, you needn't be afraid-- and this most candid of cousins laughed aloud."
},
{
"from": ... |
13288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now then, said Miss Field, rising at last,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I think you have the _carte du pays_--and there they are, coming back. She pointed to Meadows and Lady Dunstable, crossing the lawn."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Whatever you do... |
13288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I can't help it! she said, with emphasis."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I did my best with it, Arthur, but I'm not a genius at dressmaking. Never mind. Nobody will take any notice of me."
}
] |
13288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, don't buy any more copper coal-scuttles! she said slyly, as she straightened his tie, and dropped a kiss on his chin."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Then we'll see."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Lady Dunstable wants me to go to them in Scotland--... |
13288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "at Crosby Ledgers."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Gad, if I wouldn't sooner go in for the Indian Civil again! said Sir Luke. Doris, with the most ingratiating manner, but quite firmly, begged to be excused. Lady Dunstable bit her lip, and presently, _à propos de bott... |
13288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "So you despised our little amusements?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I wasn't worthy of them,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, I call that a delightful visit! said Meadows as the train next morning pulled out of the Crosby Ledgers station for Londo... |
13288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why can't I be cool and cutting--pay her back when she is rude, and contradict her when she's absurd? She _is_ absurd often. But I think of the right things to say just five minutes too late. I have no nerve--that's the point!--only _l'esprit d'escalier_ to perfection. And she h... |
13288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Of course, I won't go if you don't like it, Doris,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I thought you were angry with me--once--for even suggesting that you might!"
}
] |
13288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well--but of course--this is exceptional!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Everything's exceptional--in that quarter, said Doris, in the same tone."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, go, of course!--it would be a thousand pities not to go."
}
] |
13288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In ten days we shall expect you at Pitlochry,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And we really can't persuade you to come too?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Thank you--since you are so kind--after all, why not?"
}
] |
13288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I say, Doris, I won't go if you're going to take it like this."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Like what?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, don't pretend! was the impatient reply."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You know very well that you ha... |
13288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "he was met by renewed evasion and"
}
] |
13288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My moral character is gone, she said to herself."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have no moral character. I thought I was a sensible, educated woman; and I am just an ''Arriet,' in a temper with her ''Arry.' Well--courage! Three weeks isn't long. Who can say that Ar... |
13288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "or even"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Victorian. He still cultivated the art of historical painting, and was still as anxious as any contemporary of Frith to tell a story. And as his manner was no less behind the age than his material, his pictures remained on his h... |
13288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Where have you been, child, all this time? I thought you must have flitted entirely."
}
] |
13288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "H'm! said Uncle Charles,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Did you like it?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I daresay I should have liked it, if I'd made a success of it. Of course Arthur did."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Too much trouble! sai... |
13288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have been fit to hang myself over her! said Bentley, pointing to the Queen."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I tried model after model. At last I've got the very thing! She comes to-day for the first time. You'll see her! Before she comes, I must scrape out Joanna, s... |
13288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A novelty since you were here, whispered Bentley in Doris's ear."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "She's an accountant--capital girl! Since these Liberal budgets came along, I can't keep my own accounts, or send in my own income-tax returns--dash them! So she does the w... |
13288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Here she is!"
}
] |
13288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Maestro, you are not alone!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "My niece, Mrs. Meadows--Madame Vavasour,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And your friend?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I brought him to amuse me, Maestro. When I am dull my countena... |
13288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm just worn out, Maestro! said the model languidly, uplifting a pair of tragic eyes to the artist."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I sat up half the night writing. I had a subject which tormented me. But I have done something _splendid_! Isn't it splendid, Herbert?"... |
13288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Give me the dog! she commanded."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You have no idea how to hold him--poor lamb!"
}
] |
13288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "or the satellites of"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Madame listened to him with avidity, and occasionally broke into a giggling laugh. She had, however, two manners, and two kinds of conversation, which she adopted with the young man and the Academician respectively.... |
13288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She's been cross-examining me about her poems! I had to confess I hadn't read a word of them. And now she's offered to recite next time she comes! Good Heavens--how can I get out of it? I believe, Doris, she's hooked that young idiot! She told me she was engaged to him. Do you k... |
13288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I must find out about her! I'm--I'm sure she's a horrid woman! Can you tell me, sir --she addressed Bentley--"
}
] |
13288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, Mrs. Meadows--I'm so sorry to disturb you-- said the visitor, in some agitation, as Doris, summoned by Jane, entered the dust-sheeted drawing-room."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But you dropped an envelope with an address this afternoon. I picked it up with some... |
13288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You were astonished to find that I know the Dunstables?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, no!--I didn't think-- stammered her visitor--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I supposed some friend of yours might be staying there."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
... |
13288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Please sit down. You think it odd, of course, that I didn't tell you I knew the Dunstables, while we were talking about them. The fact is I didn't want to be mixed up with the affair at all. We have only lately made acquaintance with the Dunstables. Lady Dunstable is my husband'... |
13288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They have such a pull! --she thought angrily--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I can't interfere--I really can't! she said, straightening her slim shoulders."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is not as though we were old friends of Lord and Lady Dunstabl... |
13288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My heart is adamant! The tear-drops drip and drip-- Force their slow path, and tear their desperate way. The vulture Pain sits close, to snip--and snip--and snip My sad, sweet life to ruin--well-a-day! I am deceived--a bleating lamb bereft!--who goes Baa-baaing to the moon o'er ... |
13288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why are you laughing? You insult me!--you have done it before. And now before strangers--it is too much! I insist that you explain!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I was--I was thinking--of your reciting that at Crosby Ledgers--to my mother--and--and what she would sa... |
13288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What would she say?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I--I don't know-- said young Dunstable, helplessly, still shaking."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I--I think--she'd laugh."
}
] |
13288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Take that!--you insolent--you--you barbarian! You are my _fiancé_,--my promised husband--and you mock at me; you will encourage your stuck-up mother to mock at me--I know you will! But I tell you--"
}
] |
13288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Where are you going, Herbert? stammered Madame."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I--I was carried away--I forgot myself!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I think not, said the young man, who was extremely pale."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Thi... |
13288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mr. Dunstable, may I speak to you?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I know your mother and father, said Doris hurriedly;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "--her smile flashed out--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Of course you are a great fool!--m... |
13288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Some day, I hope, you'll come to Crosby Ledgers again, Mrs. Meadows--and I'll be there--for once! Then I'll tell you--if you care--more about it. Thanks awfully! Good-bye."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Miss Flink, in a state of sulky collapse, had been sent home in ... |
13288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Cousin Julia"
}
] |
13288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "When _he_ grows up--if he were to marry such a woman--and I didn't know--if all _his_ life--and mine--were spoilt--and nobody said a word!"
}
] |
13288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do you remember this passage in _Culture and Anarchy_--'I often, therefore, when I want to distinguish clearly the aristocratic class from the Philistines proper, or middle class, name the former, in my own mind, _the Barbarians_. And when I go through the country, and see this ... |
13288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ungrateful wretch, he said--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "All the same, Matthew Arnold had that dinner in mind--_chef_ and all! Listen! 'The graver self of the Barbarian likes honours and consideration; his more relaxed self, field-sports and pleasures.' Isn't it e... |
13288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There's d-----d good times in the world, and I ain't in 'em."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "She'd soon have held her own. Lady D. would have had to come to terms!"
}
] |
13288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mr. Meadows, I summon you for a walk! Sir Luke and Mr. Frome are coming. We propose to get to the tarn and back before lunch."
}
] |
13288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Very sorry, Lady Dunstable!--but I must write some letters before luncheon."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh no!--put them off! I have been thinking of what you told me yesterday of your scheme for your new set of lectures. I have a great deal to say to you about it... |
13288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's so like you clever people. You would die rather than take advice."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Advice!--yes. As much as you like, dear lady. But--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But what--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well--you mu... |
13288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Your letters are the merest excuse! said Lady Dunstable."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don't believe you will write one of them! I notice you always put off unpleasant duties."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Give me credit at least for the intention."... |
13288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "So she wouldn't come?--the little wife?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I gave her every chance. She scorned us."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You mean--'she funked us.' Have you any idea, I wonder, how alarming you are?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
... |
13288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Rachel didn't carry you off? Oh, then--I wonder if I may ask you something?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I wonder if you will save yourself for a walk with Lord Dunstable. Will you ask him? He's very low, and you would cheer him up."
},
{
"from": "human",
... |
13288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Anything particularly wrong?"
}
] |
13288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Quite! laughed Miss Field."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It is not so much that she wants to see Herbert as that she's found someone to marry him to. You'll see the lady this afternoon. She comes with the Duke's party, to be looked at."
},
{
"from": "human",... |
13288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She'd be hard hit if anything very bad happened!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What could happen?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, of course they never know whether he won't marry to please himself--produce somebody impossible!"
},
{
"from"... |
13288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Arthur!--you got my letter? I could only write yesterday."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Letter?--I got no letter! If you posted one, it has probably arrived by your train. What on earth, Doris, is the meaning of this? Is there anything wrong?"
}
] |
13288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There is nothing wrong with me, thank you! Of course I did not come without good reason."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But, my dear, are you come to stay? cried Meadows, looking helplessly at the taxi."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And you never wrote... |
13288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No--I didn't write to Lady Dunstable--I wrote to _you_--and sent her a message. I suppose--I shall have to stay the night."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But what on earth are we to say to her? cried Meadows in desperation."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value":... |
13288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I expected a telegram. I daresay it will come soon. You see I've asked someone else to come this afternoon--and she'll have to be put up too."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Asked someone else!--to Lady Dunstable's house! Meadows stood bewildered."
},
{
"from"... |
13288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Little goose!--as if I ever cared twopence for any of them! --he thought angrily."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And now she makes us both laughing-stocks!"
}
] |
13288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I tell you your land policy here in Scotland will gain you nothing; and in England it will lose you everything.--Hullo!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Doris! cried Meadows excitedly in his wife's ear--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Look here!--what are... |
13288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How do you do, Mrs. Meadows! This is indeed an unexpected pleasure! I must quarrel with your husband for not giving us warning."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "My husband knew nothing about it, Lady Dunstable. My letter does not seem to have reached him."
},
{
... |
13288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We shall, of course, go to the hotel, Lady Dunstable. My wife's letter seems somehow to have missed me, but naturally we never dreamed of putting you out. Perhaps you will give us some lunch--my wife seems rather tired--and then we will take our departure."
},
{
"from": ... |
13288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Before lunch, please, she repeated."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I think--you will soon understand."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "By all means. Shall we come to my sitting-room?"
}
] |
13288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You do look done! Have you come straight from London? What--is Rachel carrying you off? I shall send you in a glass of wine and a biscuit directly!"
}
] |
13288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Lady Dunstable, I didn't come here on my own account, and had there been time of course I should have given you notice. I came entirely on your account, because something was happening to you--and Lord Dunstable--which you didn't know, and which made me--very sorry for you!"
}... |
13288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And then--I couldn't help it! --there was a new note of agitation in Doris's voice--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Do you remember a Miss Wigram, Lady Dunstable--whose father had a living near Crosby Ledgers?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Certainly. W... |
13288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I hope you will forgive me for telling you--but I feel as if I oughtn't to keep back anything--Mr. Dunstable said to me: 'My mother might have prevented it--but--she was never interested in me.'"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Only this is the important point! At last... |
13288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What chance is there of saving my son? she said, peremptorily."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You will, of course, tell us all you know. Lord Dunstable must go to town at once."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh no! cried Doris, springing up."
},
{
... |
13288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Tell Miss Field not to wait luncheon for me, said Lady Dunstable sharply."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And, Ferris, I want his lordship's things packed at once, for London. Don't say anything to him at present, but in ten minutes' time just manage to tell him quiet... |
13288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ah, there _is_ the telegram!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "For me!"
}
] |
13288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Did you say this was the Alice Wigram I knew?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Her father had one of your livings, repeated Doris."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He died last year."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I know. I quarrelled with him. ... |
13288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And you--I wonder why you took all this trouble?"
}
] |
13288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "To have a son, murmured Doris under her breath,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "repeated Lady Dunstable, wondering--"
}
] |
13288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Will you, please, let me put you on that sofa? You oughtn't to have had this long journey. Of course you will stay here--and Miss Wigram too. It seems--I shall owe you a great deal--and I could not have expected you--to think about me--at all. I can do rude things. But I can als... |
13288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now I will send you in some luncheon, and go and talk to Lord Dunstable. Please rest till I come back."
}
] |
13288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, Arthur!--what time is it? Have I been asleep long?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Nearly an hour. I looked in before, but Lady Dunstable wouldn't let me wake you. She--and he--and I--have been talking. Upon my word, Doris, you've been and gone and done it! But do... |
13288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Have they told you, Arthur?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Everything that you've told her. (No--not everything!--thought Doris.) You _are_ a brick, Doris! And the way you've done it! That's what impresses her ladyship! She knows very well that she would have muffed ... |
13288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Where are they?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Lord and Lady Dunstable? Gone off to Dunkeld to find their solicitor and bring him back to meet Miss Wigram. They'll be home by tea. I'm to look after you."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Are we going to an ... |
13288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We needn't sleep in it, she whispered in Meadows's ear."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There are two sofas."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "in black and silver for dinner. Doris, frowning and reluctant, would have refused; but Miss Field said softly"
}... |
13288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You don't mean, cried Doris,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "As she frightens us? Yes!--on this one day of the year we are all avenged. Rachel, metaphorically, sits on a stool and tries to please. To put off 'the Duke' by telephone!--what a horrid indignity! But I've ... |
13288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I feel like Christopher Sly, said Doris, surveying the scene, with her hands in her jacket pockets."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "So will she. But never mind!"
}
] |
13288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If that child Alice Wigram--of course I remember her well!--brings us information we can go upon, we shall be all right. At least there's hope. My poor boy! Anyway, we can never be grateful enough to you."
}
] |
13288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My dear child, what you have done for us! Ah, if your father were here!"
}
] |
13288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Rachel!--don't we owe her everything, said Lord Dunstable with emotion--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He appears to have been a most extraordinary fool! said Lady Dunstable with energy:--a recrudescence of the natural woman, which was positively welcome to everybod... |
13288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How nice you look! said the girl shyly, on one occasion, as Doris came stealing in to her."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I never saw such a pretty gown!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Not bad!"
}
] |
13288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Lord Dunstable has been so kind, whispered Miss Wigram."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He said I must always henceforth look upon him as a kind of guardian. Of course I should never let him give me a farthing!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why no, that... |
13288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why did you look so pretty to-night? You little witch!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Arthur! --she drew herself away from him."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Delicious! How often am I to say it?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You'd better n... |
13288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She didn't kiss me when she said good-night! said Doris suddenly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "She wasn't the least sentimental--or ashamed--or grateful! Having said what was necessary, she let it alone. She's a real lady--though rather a savage. I like her!"
},
... |
520076 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, I couldn't just make out, sir; but it seems to be important."
}
] |
220527 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes."
}
] |
30035 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They're gettin' queerer looking every year. Get a load of it--no wheels, no propeller, no cockpit."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Sure, and I'm beginning to wonder if it's one of ours. No insignia and--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Glork."
},
{
... |
30035 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Tim, take over while I report."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hey!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mandaia,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Faith, an' do I look balmy? Casey told him."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I wouldn't be ... |
30035 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm Major General Browning, he rapped."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I want a police cordon thrown up around this, er, vessel. No newsmen, no sightseers, nobody without my permission. As soon as Army personnel arrives, we'll take over completely."
},
{
"from... |
30035 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sure, and it's quite a reception I'm after gettin', Dameri Tass said. He yawned."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But what I'm wantin' is a chance to get some sleep. Faith, an' I've been awake for almost a _decal_."
}
] |
30035 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Can you give me an idea at all of what he is like?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I know almost as little as you do."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But my dear chap, you've had him for almost two weeks. Certainly in that time--"
},
{
"from": "gp... |
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