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41552 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You are a younger man than your father, and ought not to be more timid. Our family have known your bank before now; for my part, I am not able to take charge of these things. I prefer your guardianship to that of my lawyer's or of anybody else. If your father charged too little ... |
41552 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Might not, he thought, with a smile at the absurdity,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It looks, if like anything human, like a witch charming the river. My house, too, looks like a witch sitting at bay within her magic circle of grove. It wouldn't be bad to name them ... |
41552 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "TO THE ISLAND OR TO----."
}
] |
41552 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You know, my dear, she said to Maud, as they sat over their tea in Maud's little drawing-room,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Indeed I am sure you must have been wonderfully pretty. You don't know now nice you look now,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ah... |
41552 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There, there, Maud, don't be silly. Look at this very case in point. Why, you turn sentimental over a few words from an uninteresting middle-aged woman! Now is that a proper thing in an heiress of twenty? Why, my dear, you'd have no account to give of offers refused if once _you... |
41552 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Welcome,"
}
] |
41552 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You will be glad to hear, and you will be kind enough to inform Miss Midharst, that there is no cause for any alarm on account of the present condition of Sir Alexander."
}
] |
41552 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am glad to hear it. Shall I go at once and tell Miss Midharst the good news?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If you will be so kind as to confine your attention to me, you may rest assured of knowing explicitly what I wish to have done in this matter."
},
{
... |
41552 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Is there no friend of the patient's whom you could suggest as likely to have influence on him? Do you think his lawyer would have weight? We know how he has secluded himself from the world and his own class, and that we are not to look among those who would naturally be his frie... |
41552 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dreadful! I am told that the poor Mainwarings are completely ruined by it."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Completely. Fancy old John Musgrave put four thousand pounds into it on deposit this day week. It will kill him. He had sold out Turks, and was going to buy Unit... |
41552 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He can't have heard of his Consols? In that case he would have written himself or come. What can this be?--so sudden, so urgent, and from Mrs. Grant! Perhaps the failure of the St. George's has frightened him. If he asks me to give up the money now! Ah, I can't face that! No, no... |
41552 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mother! mother! he pleaded, in a tone of passionate tenderness."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I did not mean to annoy or trouble you. I was only a little wilfully following out a fancy, a conceit. It was a foolish vanity that made me seem to play with your questions... |
41552 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The St. George's Banking Company has failed. There is a run on the Daneford. You are unable to meet that run, and you were thinking of getting away from the run and the closing of the doors with----that."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No! no! no! mother! he cried imp... |
41552 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, mother, rest assured this run threatens us with no danger whatever. On the contrary, as we are able to meet it without the least inconvenience, the position of the Bank ought to be very materially improved when all becomes quiet again. He rose and left her as he spoke, and... |
41552 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do you know what you are wanted for at the Castle?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What has happened to your voice?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Nothing; or at least something has gone against my--breath. ... |
41552 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "These doctors have been worrying me to-day, Grey, and I am very glad you have come. I want to talk to you. Pull that curtain a little across the window; I hate the sunlight. Thank you, Grey. Sit down now, where I can see you. It's a comfort to look at a man like you after those ... |
41552 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What I mean, Sir Alexander, is, that in cases where there is no will, the law-costs often consume the whole estate, and _always_ eat up enormously more money than where there is a sound will."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Have you made your own will?"
},
{
"... |
41552 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Will you go still farther?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "In what way?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Will you act as one of the executors, the chief--no, as the sole, as sole trustee and guardian?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What! Sir Al... |
41552 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I shall win now, and I shall win easily, he thought, as he drove through the bright fresh air towards Daneford;"
}
] |
41552 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, said the banker, with one of his easiest smiles,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, answered the white-haired solicitor, who was tremulous, and had a disconcerting way of shutting his eyes and consulting imaginary internal Acts of Parliament when he spoke. He ... |
41552 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "HENRY WALTER GREY."
}
] |
41552 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In future you will find the wine for ordinary purposes in the new cupboard; so that you may not have the trouble of sending to the cellar for it, or in case I am out and you want more than is decanted, you can get it there. You will always have some there without sending to the ... |
41552 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Better to be sure than sorry,"
}
] |
41552 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Poor Wat! How sad and worn and broken-down he looks! What a wretched thing! What a dreadful thing when a man's wife is a--drunkard!"
}
] |
41552 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Bee, said Grey to his wife, when the dessert had been brought in and the servants had gone,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Brunswick varnish, for the kitchen coal-scuttle, 2_d._; and a pair of brass stair-eyes, one lost and one damaged, 2_d._,"
},
{
"from": "... |
41552 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "James, he said, when the man entered,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have been very thoughtless about that press in the Tower of Silence. I have left claret and port and sherry there, but until now I never remembered brandy! How careless I have been."
}
] |
41552 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Bee, he says, without allowing the smile to relax,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I went to my room, says the unhappy woman, trembling and looking down,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Of course it will. Of course it will, he says, in a soft voice."
},... |
41552 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I shall be here two hours by myself this evening. I don't think I could do anything better than burn that book. In a little while more he made up his mind."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes; I will burn it. It would tell against me in any case. Even suppose by any m... |
41552 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Between that book and me there is great similarity. It was once truthful, then it recorded a lie, and now it is burnt and black. I was once honest; I fell; and now my position, my prospects, and my hopes are in ashes. There is no chance of escape."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
... |
41552 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What can this be? he thought."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The last time I got a note from Mrs. Grant asking me to go to the Castle I was in the final extremity of apprehension, and all came much better than I could have dared to hope. There seems no possibility of... |
41552 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Never mind, he thought,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'll board the steamboat as she passes the Island; that will make it all right."
}
] |
41552 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "O Mr. Grey, I am so glad you have come; we are in such fearful anxiety. Poor Sir Alexander has got worse and worse ever since I wrote to you. The doctors say this is what they have been dreading all along."
}
] |
41552 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, yes; that is, I mean the poor child is fearfully distressed. She has been with her father all day. It's not good for her, but then she wouldn't come away. I think if you spoke to her it would do her good. She used to mind a good deal what I said to her, but all this day she ... |
41552 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mrs. Grant, I am exceedingly sorry if my hasty exclamation has caused you any annoyance. Believe me, nothing was further from my intention than to disturb you under the distressing circumstance you describe, and in the very shattered condition in which your nerves must be. Forgi... |
41552 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Maud, dear, here is Mr. Grey; he came at once."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am deeply grieved, Miss Midharst, at what Mrs. Grant tells me. I hope this may be only a temporary affection. How is Sir Alexander now?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, he... |
41552 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I fear my presence only excites Sir Alexander. Had I not better retire until he is more calm?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, Mr. Grey, said Maud through her tears,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He does not know what he says. He does not know who is... |
41552 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He will be better presently, and may recognise you,"
}
] |
41552 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In a few minutes, whispered the widow,"
}
] |
41552 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ah, Grey, is that you?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, Sir Alexander. I hope you feel better?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am quite well. I have been greatly troubled about that money, those Consols. They tell me they have been sold. Is it true ... |
41552 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No one has sold the Consols, Sir Alexander. I answer you faithfully, in your presence and in the presence of Miss Midharst, for whose benefit they have been acquired and put by."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am acting in a play of the Devil's writing, and must do ... |
41552 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Bad dreams, bad dreams, he said distinctly at last;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Poor Sir Alexander! His dreams must have been bad indeed, if he fancied anyone had taken his money."
}
] |
41552 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Henry Grey, take her hand, my daughter's hand, and lead her here--no the other hand--give her your left hand, Henry Grey."
}
] |
41552 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now, Henry Grey, take the Testament in your right hand. I am going to make you swear--I am a deputy-lieutenant--to guard with all your power and wiles, my only daughter, Maud Midharst, herself and her fortune and her happiness. Say the words after me."
},
{
"from": "gpt"... |
41552 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My daughter, said the sick man,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, my God!"
}
] |
41552 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Grey, my arm is weak. I cannot raise it. Take my hand. You will be good to her when I am dead. I know what the world may say. It may say, Grey, that you and I are not equals; that I might have bestowed the guardianship of my daughter's fortune among houses such as the Fleureys' ... |
41552 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do I live? he cried;"
}
] |
13724 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "for the youths of those days were even such fools as now, although in the lapse of time they have come to pose successfully in the dignified guise of the"
}
] |
13724 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, Nan, he exclaimed, looking down at her while taking the weapon from her hand in the vague dusk where she knelt beside him,--he stood on the shelf that served as banquette to bring him within reach of the loophole, placed so high in the hope that a chance shot entering might ... |
13724 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Are you afraid, Nan?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You think I can take care of you?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I know you can,"
}
] |
13724 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They are coming to the attack again--Hand me the rifle--quick--quick--Oh, Nan, how you help me! How brave you are--I love you! I love you!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Look out now for a flash in the pan!"
}
] |
13724 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Command me, sir, command me! It will give me much pleasure to use my influence on your behalf to obtain an ensigncy. I will myself write at the first opportunity, the first express, to Lieutenant-Governor Bull, who is acquainted with my family connections in England. It is very ... |
13724 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Big Injun Mountain"
}
] |
13724 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I love your granddaughter, sir, and wish to make her my wife,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Command me, sir; command me!"
}
] |
13724 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Command me"
}
] |
13724 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The white man's religion permits poverty, but the Indian divides his store with the needy, and there are none suffered to be poor, said Atta-Kulla-Kulla, the famous chief."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The white men wrangle and quarrel together, even brother with br... |
13724 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Before all the men! she said to herself, half in prudish dismay at his effrontery, and yet pleased that he did not sheepishly seek to conceal his preference. And although the men (there were but two or three and not half the province, as her horror of this publicity would seem t... |
13724 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "X, and by Mivane"
}
] |
13724 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If I hadn't been so traveled that day,--dragged through hell and skirting of purgatory and knocking at the gates of heaven,--I wouldn't have lost my wits so suddenly when I came back to earth with a bounce,"
}
] |
13724 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "X,"
}
] |
13724 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Looking out for me, I wonder?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He has seen a wolf! He has seen a wolf! 'Tis plain! cried old Mivane, as he stood in his metropolitan costume among the buckskin-clad pioneers."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "One would know th... |
13724 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They declare they'll seize our skins, cried another ambiguously,--then, conscious of this, he sought to amend the matter,--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not the hides we wear, --this was no better, for they were all arrayed in hides, save Richard Mivane."
},
{
... |
13724 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The king's troops? Would the commandant respond?"
}
] |
13724 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And tell me, friend Feather-pate, why did it seem good to you to shoot a wolf in the midst of a herd of cattle?"
}
] |
13724 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sir, I did not shoot the wolf among the cattle. There was not a horn nor a hoof to be seen when I fired."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "X with both hands outstretched as much as to say,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Take _that_ for your quietus!"
},
... |
13724 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The herders should not stop the pack-train, if I had my will,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, no, proclaimed another;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Those blistered redcoats at Fort Prince George are a deal too handy to be called on by such make-bate... |
13724 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And who do you suppose will promise to carry such a message to those desperate, misguided men, riding hither an' thither, searching this wild and woeful wilderness for hundreds o' head o' cattle lost like needles in a hayrick, and eat by wolves an' painters by this time? demande... |
13724 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "the target of the plantation jokes, because of his"
}
] |
13724 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why is my pretty pet so idle?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And have you seen a wolf, too, that you have lost your tongue?"
}
] |
13724 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The look of the animal's tail is enough for me--it curls,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "So does a pig's tail curl,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Not having kept a straight course so long,--then twirling up deceitfully like a second thought. This fello... |
13724 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, don't let him go! Oh, don't let him go!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The wolf that we were talking about? By no means! Lovely creature that he is! We'll preserve, if you like, wolves instead of pheasants! I remember a gentleman's estate in Northumberland--a lit... |
13724 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Peninnah Penelope Anne, she said with her peculiar exact deliberation and gift of circumlocution,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "She does not tease me--I have not shed a tear! That was not the sound of my weeping!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He does ... |
13724 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "as he phrased it, from this adamantine pioneer. Such a man naturally arrogated and obtained great weight among his fellows, and perhaps his lack of vacillation furthered this preëminence. He was a good man in the main as well as forceful, but an early and a very apt expression o... |
13724 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, sir, Ronackstone began in a tone of a quasi-apology,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Sir, said old Mivane, rising, and the impressive dignity of his port was such that the cradle stopped rocking as if a spell were upon it, and every child paused in its play, spr... |
13724 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Bress de Lord!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why, grandfather! the girl admonished Mivane;"
}
] |
13724 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dolt, ass, fool, that I am! he cried."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That I should so far forget myself as to offer to go as an ambassador to the herders on the Keowee!"
}
] |
13724 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And why should you not be an ambassador, sir?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why--why--because, girl, I am deafer than the devil's dam! I cannot fetch and carry messages of import. I could only give occasion for ridicule and scorn in even offering to assume such an o... |
13724 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Under your favor, sir, you don't know how deaf the devil's dam may be--and it is not your wont to speak in that strain. I'm sure it reminds me of that man they call 'X,'--a sort of churl person,--who talks of the devil and blue blazes and brimstone and hell as if--as if he were ... |
13724 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "X,"
}
] |
13724 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If I could only hear for a day I'd forgive twenty soundless years! he declared piteously, for he so deprecated the enforced withdrawal from the enterprise that he had heedlessly undertaken, and felt so keenly the reflections upon his sentiments and sincerity surreptitiously canv... |
13724 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Joseph, his head cowled in an appropriate"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "and his jaunty self-possession quite restored by the cutting of the Gordian knot of his dilemma, demonstrating his capacity to duly perform all his undertakings, bore himself in a manner calcula... |
13724 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Peninnah Penelope Anne, and she was assured that because of this name its owner, a slim, sentimental, red-haired youth, would never part from it. And it may be presumed that he was sincere, and that at the time of this fervent asseveration he had not realized the incongruity of ... |
13724 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We ain't talkin' 'bout no Injuns!--the Cherokees never meddled with our cattle! We'll settle about the stampede first, an' 'tend to the Cherokees in good time--all in good time!"
}
] |
13724 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "to interpolate"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No offense to _you_, sir, or"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Begging the lady's pardon."
}
] |
13724 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The French! the herders cried at last in chorus."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Blue Lick Station!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It was razed once, she said statistically,"
}
] |
13724 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The French! bellowed out one of the cow-drivers in a voice that might have graced the king of the herds."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The French! Threatening Blue Lick Station!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "To be sure--the French, Richard Mivane said... |
13724 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, God-a-mercy, child, cried the superintendent of the ranch,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And besides, admitted one of the most truculent of the cow-drivers,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And the Blue Lick Stationers' horses can be herded easy eno... |
13724 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "ringing out in the darkness in the crisp peremptory tones of the non-commissioned officer, and plunged forward at the words"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "and adjusted his muscles instantaneously to the acceleration implied in"
},
{
"from": "human",
"valu... |
13724 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And who is this pretty little girl?"
}
] |
13724 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am not a little girl,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ah, indeed, said the embarrassed and discomfited officer. Then, turning to lead the way, he added civilly,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Beg pardon, I'm sure!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"valu... |
13724 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It was his own phrase, for as a snare he regarded the holy estate; but the younger of the officers were pleased to find it funny, and ventured to laugh; whereat she grew red and silent, and they perforce became grave again that they might hear of the French. Here she was vague a... |
13724 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do you suppose she really knows anything about it?"
}
] |
13724 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Bong chure _(Bon jour_), delivered at all manner of unconformable times and in inappropriate connections, and invariably greeted with shouts of laughter. And when at last the party reached the vicinity of Blue Lick and the stationers swarmed out to meet them, taking the news of ... |
13724 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "as he called it, for the creature was Irish. He gave minute and scrupulous directions to Peninnah Penelope Anne to sew the cylinder with no more than twelve stitches to the inch, and to baste down the seams,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "See that, now, he said, snip... |
13724 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Howly Moses! a voice in shrill agitation broke in upon her preoccupation."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "An' is it sheddin' tears ye are upon the blessed gunpowther? Sure the colleen's crazed! Millia Murther! the beautiful ca'tridges is ruint intoirely! Any man moigh... |
13724 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, sor, the gunner said in conclusion, solemnly shaking his head,"
}
] |
13724 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and in which were transacted the business affairs of the town;--one, painted red, was the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "whence arms, ammunition, etc., were distributed, the divisions implying distinctions as to rank among the warriors; another, painted white, was de... |
13724 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "to use the phrase of to-day, the world before him where to choose a home; sometimes a deserter from the British or French military forces, according to the faction which the shifting Cherokees affected at the time; more than once a captive, spared for some whim, set at liberty, ... |
13724 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and strings of"
}
] |
13724 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and his"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "a title conferred only upon the bravest of the brave. He was now Otasite, the"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Man-killer"
}
] |
13724 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "was permitted to grow, it floated backward in two long tangled red curls that gave the lie direct to the Indian similitude affected by the two surmounting tips of eagle feathers. He was arrayed in much splendor, according to aboriginal standards; the fringed seams of his hunting... |
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