book_id
stringlengths
2
6
title
stringclasses
1 value
author
stringclasses
1 value
conversations
listlengths
1
5.07k
35367
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "I did say as I'd keep a dawg, growled Jarker at last;" } ]
35367
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "Not much use hunting along here, muttered one man to another;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Remember that poor chap we found just here, Joe?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Ah, said another," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What was that?" }...
35367
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "You mad fool, Jean! you shall listen, and you shall hear all, cried _ma mere_ furiously;" } ]
35367
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "No, Jean, she is not for you, cried the old woman." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I hate her, and you shall not love her, but someone else; for she has always set you against me. I know--I know all--all--all! she exclaimed, muttering and nodding her head;" } ]
35367
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "No, no, Jean, you shall not have the pink doll; and you cannot see her now--they are gone." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But she will come," }, { "from": "human", "value": "No, no! half-shrieked his mother;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "she ...
35367
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "Gold and silver--much silver and rich things, Jean," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But have you seen them?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Bah! no; but what then? Why was he out night after night? To catch birds? Bah! no, but to pluck birds of their fine...
35367
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "But we will be rich, Jean--rich, she whispered," } ]
35367
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "But listen, Jean--it was very horrible; but I saw all, and I shall tell some day when it is time. I saw the Jarker strike the preacher down, for I had been watching too. I came back late, and saw the Jarker and hid myself; because he is a savage, and I would not meet him by nigh...
35367
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ah! hissed _ma mere_ as she kicked against something soft," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "she hissed, striking at the dumb brute, whose soft patter was now heard along the dark passage as the animal scuffled away." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Now, min...
35367
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "No, Jean, she muttered," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "she whispered, as a heavy step was heard to pass along the court; and all the while the light shone strangely upon her sharp withered features and the sallow face and wild eyes of Jean." }, { "from": "hum...
35367
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "Come, quick, Jean," } ]
35367
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now look, now look, hissed _ma mere_, taking the candle in her hands and peering about;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "and she paused curiously by a large black-lead crucible, fitted upon a rough brick furnace, whose chimney was a piece of iron piping, carried up app...
35367
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "What is that?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What? fool! exclaimed _ma mere_, going to the lid and lifting it; when the foul wind rushed up, and once more nearly extinguished her candle." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Pah! she ejaculated;" }, { ...
35367
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "Come here, fool! hissed _ma mere_;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "and broken glass crackled beneath her feet as she crossed the cellar towards a box in one of the bins." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Come, Jean, here are the treasures, boy; but O, look ...
35367
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "But it is very horrible!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Do you think he killed her, then?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Hush! don't speak, don't talk of it," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But where do the drains go to?" }, { "from":...
35367
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "And poor Agnes?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Have you not seen her since?" } ]
35367
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "And what did Mr Sterne want?" } ]
35367
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "Don't, don't ask me, dear, whispered Lucy." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Don't talk of it now, for indeed, indeed, I could not leave you." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Hush, hush," } ]
35367
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "But he's getting better now very fast, eh? my darling," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "O, yes, yes, murmured Lucy." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I think so." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And--but there, I'm making you worse. Let's talk of s...
35367
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "There, I do wish to goodness, dear, you would not always make a point of firing off into conversation directly I sit down to read or write. _Now_ what is it? `Young Fitzpater was too attentive to Maude last night?' Pooh! nonsense! sugar-candy! Why, the child isn't seventeen yet,...
35367
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "Not deep, not deep, she muttered;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Hush! whispered Jean as they crawled farther away;" } ]
35367
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ah! sighed _ma mere_ with almost a groan, as she once more breathed freely; while in a husky voice Jean whispered," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Let's go." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Stop, whispered his mother;" }, { "from": "gpt", "valu...
35367
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "Was it him?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes; the Jarker, hissed _ma mere_;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Two there!" } ]
35367
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "Come back! come back!" } ]
35367
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "Cognac, Jean; drink it, fool, you want it, said _ma mere_, when they were once more safe in their own room. Before she would partake herself, the old woman forced some upon her son." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Another time, though, Jean, another time. I thought he...
35367
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "But you will not go again?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But you are _bete_! cried the old woman angrily." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Should I leave the treasure I have discover, and let the police have all? No, she cried, hooking her skinny fingers...
35367
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "Will not your mother soon return, Jean?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, said the young man moodily;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Watching?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Now he is here, and you can take him! I was frightened, and dare n...
35367
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "Keep a good look-out on the stairs," } ]
35367
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "O, he's here, somewhere, said the sergeant, and taking a lantern in hand, he peered long and carefully into every bin, while, trembling with eagerness, Jean pressed forward to see if the discovery would be made. He was not kept long in suspense; for, after directing his light ca...
35367
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "Crowbar," } ]
35367
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "But what is the secret, _ma mere_?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Come away, come away," } ]
35367
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "That's sewers, my lads: there's another way out. Now, who'll go first?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Who wants promotion?" } ]
35367
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "Then I hope you'll make matters straight if I'm hurt, my lads," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That we will, sir," } ]
35367
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "Who'd have thought of there being this place here? said the sergeant to Mr Sterne, when _ma mere_ and her son both stood shuddering in the cellar with them; the Frenchwoman creeping towards the boxes, her fingers working the while." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Old ...
35367
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "Rubbish!" } ]
35367
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "Nice place to go down, sir; take that old lady out in the fresh air, said the sergeant, peering at the black opening, and listening to the quick rush of water." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "There, he said to one of his men," } ]
35367
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "Help!" } ]
35367
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "Here, for God's sake, men, cried Mr Sterne," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Keep still, sir, he said sternly;" } ]
35367
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "And he wants you, too, Miss, said the man." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "O dear, O dear! he was the only friend I ever had, and he came back the night afore last, after you'd been to ask for him. Not seen him, we hadn't, for long enough; and then to come back like t...
35367
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "God bless you! he whispered earnestly, as his dim eyes recognised the face bending over him." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Come like an angel to a dying man. God bless you, sir, I'm glad you've come; I was in mortal fear that you would be too late. Tell her--but no,...
35367
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "Put your hand, sir, under my pillow. That's it, that there little Bible. Know it, sir? he said, for Septimus Hardon had changed colour, and his hands were trembling." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That took me a long time to get, sir," } ]
35367
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "And now, said Matt," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'm happy. I can feel, sir, that I've done one little bit of good in my life, and I can go easy. Now, sir that book." } ]
35367
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now! exclaimed the old man, with hands trembling, and eyes appealing, lest his hearers should lose anything of what he disclosed;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "he cried," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I fastened it down again, as it was before. A knife...
35367
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "Agnes Hardon. _The gift of Uncle Octavius_." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "There, there, there, sir! That's it, isn't it, sir? cried the old man excitedly." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I wouldn't rest till I'd got it, and 'twas hard work, for the poor...
35367
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "No, said Matt feebly," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "he said, gazing fondly up in Lucy's weeping face," }, { "from": "human", "value": "No hope at all?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Not the slightest, said the surgeon once more, as he stood u...
35367
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "Lost life, lost life! Worn out, worn out!" } ]
35367
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "God bless you both! he muttered;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Don't go, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He can do no good now, nor anyone else; I'm past all that. It's been coming for days past, a...
35367
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "An angel, sir, an angel, sir!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Worn out!" } ]
35367
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hush! cried the old man," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "he muttered, as he sank heavily back and spoke in a whisper--" } ]
35367
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "Gold, sir, cold; bitter cold for an old man like me--dreary streets, sir, and the lamps out--dark, dark--the dull courts and the foggy alleys--misery--beggary--starvation. Bright fields--light and darkness. No hypocrite, sir--humbly, with an angel's kiss upon my old lips--a seal...
35367
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "I would go and see him, said Mr Sterne;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, no; no, no! exclaimed Septimus;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "the road was decorated with parsnip-cuttings and potato-peelings, after the mode adopted in Bennett's-rents; while ...
35367
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "Show this gedt idto dudber seved," } ]
35367
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "Only one other hour, said the crouching man, and the words hissed between his fevered lips." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Only another hour!" } ]
35367
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "This, this, this!" } ]
35367
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now, now!" } ]
35367
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now, now!" } ]
35367
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "O Tom, Tom, ask him to forgive us!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Indeed, indeed, Septimus, I never knew it," }, { "from": "human", "value": "It is of the past--let it rest," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why would you provoke this painful sce...
35367
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "Don't despise me for being so humble!" } ]
35367
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "I must leave poor Arty now." } ]
35367
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "O, the bright lovely country! cried Lucy, as the carriage rolled on between hedgerows here and there silvered with the scented May, whose fragrance was borne by the light breeze through the open windows." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "O, the bright lovely country! sh...
35367
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "You are not angry with me for being so childish?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Angry!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Don't think me foolish, she said;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "she said sadly;" } ]
35367
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "Listen! cried Lucy, as she stopped suddenly, and laid a finger upon her husband's lip--a finger now white and delicate, once fretted and work-worn." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Listen! she whispered," } ]
35367
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "Tears, more tears, Lucy? whispered the curate." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Are you not happy?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "It seems too much--as if it could not last, whispered Lucy;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What does the driver w...
35367
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "Good-bye!" } ]
35367
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "Is there any prospect of his recovery?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Whose, sir? says the attendant." }, { "from": "human", "value": "His? the doctor's? O no, sir, not the least. Stark mad!" } ]
450666
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "What change do you wish made?" } ]
34777
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "But, Hugo dear, she said," } ]
34777
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "We did not spread the rumour, and we shall not contradict it." } ]
34777
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mind the wet paint, Mrs. Lovekin called from the dining-room window to the Miss Blinds as they came in at the gate," } ]
34777
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "What an elegant paper!" } ]
34777
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, said Mrs. Lovekin in a proprietary sort of way;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am sure it is all very simple, said Miss Tracey, in a disparaging manner that showed her good breeding, as they sat down in the dining-room." }, { "from": "human", "valu...
34777
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "There, my dear, you sit comfortable and eat that." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Glory, glory, glory!" } ]
34777
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "This is the drawing-room, and" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "This is another spare bedroom;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "or" } ]
34777
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "I have known Mary Anne Lovekin for thirty years --this was understating the case, but numbers are not exactly stated as we grow older--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Bad butter, said Miss Belinda, shaking her head in an emphatic fashion;" }, { "from": "human...
34777
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "Bad butter! said Miss Belinda;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "and" }, { "from": "human", "value": "She understands perfectly what is said to her, but she has no means of replying, save in this very limited vocabulary. And, strangely enough, these words ca...
34777
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am afraid they have seen you. Besides, you know I like you to see people. We went indoors, and Miss Ruby apologized for the untimely hour at which she and her sister had come, but explained it by saying," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We wanted to find you alone." ...
34777
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "The fact is, Miss Tracey went on," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It is a delicate subject, of course, said Miss Ruby," }, { "from": "human", "value": "We always look upon Mr. Hugo as a man of the world, said Miss Tracey," } ]
34777
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "You see, we have not only our own good name to consider, said Miss Tracey," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You would have had your invitation before now, said Miss Ruby," }, { "from": "human", "value": "she went on, giving her mantle a little nervous compo...
34777
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "We have bought six bottles of Essence of Claret-cup, said the younger sister," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "As regards the music, went on Miss Tracey," }, { "from": "human", "value": "said Miss Tracey, glancing admiringly at her younger sister's still ne...
34777
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "festooned the little staircase. Several friends in the village had lent their white-capped maids for the occasion, and these ran against each other in the little linoleum passage in a state of great excitement, and called each other" } ]
34777
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "or" } ]
34777
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "I have made up my mind to sacrifice myself for the night;" } ]
34777
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "There! he said at last, placing her on a chair beside me as a fulfilled duty; and feeling that she was expected to say" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Thank you," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I have only danced once in the last twenty years, said the Vi...
34777
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "One gets into the habit of dressing like this out there," } ]
34777
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "How exquisite she is looking to-night!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Is there anything of me left?" } ]
34777
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "You haven't danced half so conscientiously as his other partners have," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I wanted to talk about the parish, said Mrs. Fielden," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I will take you to sit under The Palm again, as Colonel Jardine di...
34777
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why do you come to this sort of thing? It can't amuse you." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You told me the other day, I said," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Did I? said Mrs. Fielden lightly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If I think one thing...
34777
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, how tired I am!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It was pretty deadly, said the Colonel." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Did you taste the claret-cup?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, I found it excellent," } ]
34777
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "I won't make a disturbance in a lady's house, but I have seen a fellow called out for less." } ]
34777
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "A woman is only as old as she looks, my dear," } ]
34777
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "Were you? said Mrs. Fielden, lifting her pretty dark eyebrows;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I forget." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Suppose we go over and see the Jamiesons;" } ]
34777
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "County and the Jamiesons, and their name is never mentioned without the accompanying piece of information," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You know, old Jamieson married his cook!" } ]
34777
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "She lost a son once." } ]
34777
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "Rest Cure. Every one of the five sisters, except Maud, who is the beauty of the family, wears spectacles, and behind these their bright, intelligent small eyes glint with kindness and brisk energy. The worst feature of this excellent family is their habit of all talking at the s...
34777
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "I do not believe, I said to Palestrina the other day," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That and getting married are the sole objects of their existence," }, { "from": "human", "value": "It is very odd, I said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Eliz...
34777
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "It's all right, thank you; I have plenty upstairs." } ]
34777
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "This old hall of yours is much too dark, Mrs. Fielden said, when she came to call the other day muffled up in velvet and fur. She lighted the dull afternoon by something that is radiant and holiday-like about her, and left us envying her for being so pretty and so young and gay....
34777
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "You must grumble, she said, raising her pretty eyebrows in the affected way she has." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It wouldn't be human if you didn't; so why not write a diary, and have a real good grumble on paper every night before you go to bed. Of course, if I w...
34777
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "Good-bye, she said, holding out the smallest, prettiest, most useless-looking little hand in the world." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And please, she added earnestly," }, { "from": "human", "value": "They frequently speak of going into the country for ch...
34777
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "Stowel dines." } ]