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14527 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He's my son-in-law; you 'pear to forget that, Blee, said Mr. Lyddon;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm sure I wish I could, if 'twas even now an' again."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, so he be; an' grey hairs should allus make allowance for the yo... |
14527 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What a surprise to find 'e here, Martin! Yet not much, neither, for wheer the auld stones be, theer you 'm to be expected."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "How are you, Chris? But I needn't ask. Yes, I'm fond of the stones."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "... |
14527 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "God be praised! I do think you guess--I do think you guess! But oh, my dear, my dear, you don't know what 's in my heart for you. My little pearl of a Chris, can you care for such a bear of a man? Can you let me labour all my life long to make your days good to you? I love you s... |
14527 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't 'e!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Forgive me--forgive me if you can, Chris. Was I all wrong? Then I ought to have known better--but even an old stick like me--before you, Chris. Somehow I--but don't cry. I wouldn't have brought the tears to your eyes for all t... |
14527 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Forgive me, Chris--I needn't ask you twice, I know--such a stupid thing--I didn't understand--I never observed: but more shame to me. I ought to have seen, of course. Anybody else would--any man of proper feeling."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "How could 'e see it wi... |
14527 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Tie it up in stout leather, my son, said a farmer from Gidleigh."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ay, an' fasten the bag wi' a knot as'll take 'e half an hour to undo; an' remember, the less you open it, the better for your peace of mind."
}
] |
14527 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What the devil's the gude of this eternal bleat? You'm allus snarlin' an' gnashin' your teeth 'gainst God, like a rat bitin' the stick that's killin' it."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And why should God kill me? You've grown so wise of late, perhaps you know."
},
... |
14527 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You'd rip that up again--you, who swore never to open' your mouth upon it?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You're frightened now."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Not of you, anyway. But you'd best not to come up here no more. I'm weary of you; I don't fea... |
14527 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "An' gude-marnin' to you, Martin. Another braave day, sure 'nough. Climb awver the hedge. You'm movin' early. Ban't eight o'clock."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm off to the 'Grey Wethers,' those old ruined circles under Sittaford Tor, you know. But I meant a visit... |
14527 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I was welted in my time hard an' often, an' be none the worse,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Might have served him once; too late now for that remedy, I fear."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How's your brother Jan?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"valu... |
14527 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "All this big-mouthed talk's cracklin' of thorns under a potsherd, hesaid."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You an' him be just two childern playin' at shop in the gutter, an' the gutter's wheer you'll find yourselves 'fore you think to. What do the man _knaw?_ Nothin'.... |
14527 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ax Clem, continued Mr. Coomstock."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "For all his cranky ways he knaws Blanchard better'n most of us, an' I heard un size up the chap t'other day in a word. He said he hadn't wit enough to keep his brains sweet."
},
{
"from": "human... |
14527 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "To shaw 'e, neighbours, just the man he is, I may tell 'e that a larned piece like Martin Grimbal ackshually comed all the way to Newtake not long since to ax advice of un. An' 'twas on the identical matter of this same Hicks. Mr. Grimbal wanted to give un some work to do, 'bout... |
14527 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Where is it? Where is it? The bag of money? I won't--I can't--Where is it, I say?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I wish I knawed, lovey. Dream-gawld, I'm afeared. You've bin lying cold, an' that do allus breed bad thoughts in sleep. 'Tis late; I done breakfast an hou... |
14527 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My heart's a pit-pat! Hurry, hurry, for the Lard's sake! The bees be playin'[9] an' they'll call Johnson if you ban't theer directly minute!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Sorry you should have had the journey only for that, mother. 'Twas so unlikely a morning, I nev... |
14527 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They can stop that row, said Hicks."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You know best, though beating on tin pots and cans at such a time's a custom as old as the hills."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And vain as many others equally old. I have a different m... |
14527 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You will be wise to stay here,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not I. I wish to see the hiving."
}
] |
14527 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Is it a true swarm or a cast?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A swarm, without much question, though it dawned an unlikely day for an old queen to leave the hive. Still, the weather came over splendid enough by noon, and they knew it was going to. Where are your butts... |
14527 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You're a bee-master, in truth! Nobody'll deny you that."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, a king of bees. Not a great kingdom for man to rule."
}
] |
14527 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You've tried to do greater things and failed, perhaps,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why, perhaps I have. A man's a hive himself, I've thought sometimes--a hive of swarming, seething thoughts and experiences and passions, that come and go as easily as any bees, and ... |
14527 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You will be wiser to stand farther away, Mr. Grimbal. You're unlikely to come off scot-free if you keep so close."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What do I care? I've been stung by worse than insects."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And I also,"
},
{
... |
14527 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I suppose I'm laughed at still in Chagford, am I not? Not that it matters to me."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don't think so; an object of envy, rather, for good wives are easier to get than great riches."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's your o... |
14527 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Chris Blanchard, he said shortly,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But it does--a good deal. I've wondered, some time, why I didn't hear my own brother was going to marry her. He got struck all of a heap there, to my certain knowledge. However, he 's escaped. The Lord ... |
14527 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They call the man Jack-o'-Lantern, don't they? Why?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I can't tell you. It may be, though, that he is erratic and uncertain in his ways. You cannot predict what he will do next."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's nothing ... |
14527 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm sure I haven't the least idea,"
}
] |
14527 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You don't like your future brother-in-law?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, yes, I do. We've been friends all our lives--all our lives. I like him well, and am going to marry his sister--only I see his faults, and he sees mine--that's all."
},
{
"from": "h... |
14527 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do wasps ever get into the hives?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Aye, they do; and wax-moths and ants, and even mice. These things eat the honey and riddle and ruin the comb. Then birds eat the bees, and spiders catch them. Honey-bees do nothing but good that I can s... |
14527 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If you happen to want work at any time, it might be within my power to find you some here,"
}
] |
14527 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Same auld feeling, he reflected."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Gormed if I ban't gettin' sweaty 'fore the plaace comes in sight! 'Tis just the sinkin' at the navel, like what I had when I smoked my first pipe, five-and-forty years agone!"
}
] |
14527 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Aw, Jimmery! if it ban't Blee; an' prinked out for a weddin', tu, by the looks of it!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not yourn, anyway,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, us caan't say 'zactly--world 's full o' novelties."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
... |
14527 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My stars! You? What a terrible coorious thing!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why for?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come in the parlour. Theer! coorious ban't the word!"
}
] |
14527 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "said Widow Coomstock. She giggled again and looked at Billy. She was very fat, and the red of her face deepened to purple unevenly about the sides of her nose. Her eyes were bright and black. She had opened a button or two at the top of her dress, and her general appearance, fro... |
14527 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You'm a fine figure of a man, tu,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Have a drop?"
}
] |
14527 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A fine figure?--yes, Mary Coomstock, though not so fine for a man as you for a woman. Still, a warm-blooded chap an' younger than my years."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I've got my share o' warm blood, tu, Billy."
}
] |
14527 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Coourse, said Mr. Blee,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "How do 'e come at that, then?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "To get 'e, an' lose 'e again inside two year. That's ill luck if ever I seen it. Death's a envious twoad. Two short year of you; an' then... |
14527 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's a wicked world, she said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Sure as men's in a plaace they brings trouble an' wickedness. An' yet I've heard theer's more women than men on the airth when all's said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "God A'mighty likes 'e... |
14527 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Say the word and do a wise thing, he urged."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Say the word, Mary, an' think o' me here as master, a-keeping all your damn relations off by word of command."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "When I be gone you'll see some sour l... |
14527 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Theer! 'T is signed and sealed, an' I'll have no drawin' back now."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But--but--Lezzard, Billy. I do like 'e--I caan't hide it from 'e, try as I will--but him--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I knawed he was t'other. I tell y... |
14527 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'll mighty soon change all that, thought Mr. Blee."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "To note a fine woman in liquor 's the frightfullest sight in all nature, so to say. Not but what with Lezzard a-pawin' of her 't was enough to drive her to it."
},
{
"from": "h... |
14527 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "More weddin's, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I comed down-long to tell 'e, lest you shouldn't knaw till to-morrow an' so fall behind the times. Widow Coomstock 's thrawed up the sponge and gived herself to that importuneous auld Lezzard. To think o' such a ... |
14527 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I publish the banns of marriage between William Blee, Bachelor, and Mary Coomstock, Widow, both of this parish. If any of you know cause, or just impediment, why these two persons should not be joined together in holy matrimony, ye are to declare it. This is for the first time o... |
14527 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I deny it an' I defy it! The wummon be mine!"
}
] |
14527 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Wheer's the brandy to?"
}
] |
14527 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You--_you_ to do it! You to get up afore this rally o' gentlefolks an' forbid my holy banns, you wrinkled, crinkled, baggering auld lizard! Gormed if I doan't wring your--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Silence in the house of God! thundered Mr. Shorto-Champernowne, ... |
14527 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Glad Will weern't theer, I'm sure, said Mrs. Blanchard."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He'd 'a' laughed out loud an' made bad worse. Chris did as 't was, awnly parson's roarin' luckily drowned it. And Mr. Martin Grimbal, whose eye I catched, was put to it to help smi... |
14527 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mrs. Coomstock be engaged, right and reg'lar, to me, he declared."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "She'd gived me her word 'fore ever Blee axed her. I seed her essterday, to hear final 'pon the subjec', an' she tawld me straight, bein' sober as you at the time, as 't w... |
14527 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes"
}
] |
14527 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Matter? Tchut--Tchut--Theer ban't no God--that's what's the matter!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Billy! How can you?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She'm gwaine to marry t'other, arter all! From her awn lips I've heard it! That's what I get for being ... |
14527 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Marnin', Mr. Vogwell! Fine weather, to be sure, an' gude for the peat next month; but bad for roots, an' no mistake. Will 'e have a drink?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What do this mean, Will Blanchard?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, why not? Du... |
14527 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Job's self never suffered that, for I read 'bout what he went through awnly last night, for somethin' to kill an hour in the evenin'. An' I won't suffer it. It's contrary to nature, an' if Phoebe ban't here come winter I'll go down an' bring her, willy-nilly."
},
{
"from... |
14527 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Light your pipe, lovey, an' walk a li'l way along down to the stones on the hill, wheer you was born. Your auld mother wants to talk to 'e."
}
] |
14527 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You come too late, he said coldly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I would not help you now if I could, Martin Grimbal. Don't imagine pride or any such motive keeps me from doing so. The true reason you may guess."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Indeed! I... |
14527 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Time enough--time enough, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You doan't want no wife to Newtake these years to come, while I _do_ want a darter to home."
}
] |
14527 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Marnin', mother! Marnin', Chris! Let me get in between 'e. Breakfast will be most ready by time we'm home. I knawed you d keep your word such a rare fashion day!"
}
] |
14527 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "William Blanchard, Newtake,"
}
] |
14527 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What luggage? What the douce be talkin' 'bout?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why, everything, I s'pose. She 'm comin' home to-day--that's knawn, ban't it?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Gormed if 'tis! Not by me, anyways--nor Miller, neither."
},
{... |
14527 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Go to the misery of your awn choosin'; go to him an' the rubbish-heap he calls a farm! Thankless an' ontrue,--go,--an' look to me in the future to keep you out of the poorhouse and no more. An' that for your mother's sake--not yourn."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh... |
14527 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Be o' good cheer, he said,"
}
] |
14527 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ship,"
}
] |
14527 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You won't love me no less, eh, Will?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "My God, no! No, mother; a man must have a dirty li'l heart in un if it ban't big enough to hold mother an' wife."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ess fay, I knaw, I knaw; but doan't 'e pu... |
14527 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Phoebe! My awn li'l wummon! This be a wisht home-comin'! What the plague's the matter wi' us?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Doan't 'e mind, dear heart. I'm happy as a bird under these silly tears. But 'twas the leavin' o' faither, an' him so hard, an' me lovin' him ... |
14527 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Happy as birds, they be, said Chris, referring to the young pair at Newtake."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It do make me long for us to be man an' wife, Clem, when I see 'em."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We're that now, save for the hocus-pocus of th... |
14527 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "God's love! How long must it be?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Dearie, you'm squeezin' my breath out o' me! cried Chris, well used to these sudden storms and not averse to them."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We must bide patient an' hold in our hearts... |
14527 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Have you forgotten your undertaking to see my hives once a month?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, I meant coming next week."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, as it happens I want to speak with you, and the present time's as good as another. I supp... |
14527 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I suppose you know the Applebirds are leaving my farm?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, Mrs. Applebird told my mother. Going to Sticklepath."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Not easy to get a tenant to take their place."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
... |
14527 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "When I say 'you'd act on it,' I mean that you might try to, though I much doubt really if anything I could tell you would damage Blanchard."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If you think that, then there can be no conscientious objection to telling me. Besides, I don't ... |
14527 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "At last I've found 'e! Been huntin' this longful time, tu. The Missis wants 'e--your aunt I should say."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Wants me?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ess. 'T is wan o' her bad days, wi' her liver an' lights a bitin' at her like... |
14527 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I've sent for you, Clem Hicks, for more reasons than wan. I be gwaine down the hill fast, along o' marryin' this cursed mommet[12] of a man, Lezzard. He lied about his money--him a pauper all the time; and now he waits and watches me o' nights, when he thinks I'm drunk or dreami... |
14527 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She gave you the facts as they are, declared the medical man."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Nothing can save her. She's had _delirium tremens_ Lord knows how often. A fortnight to a month--that's all. Nature loves these forlorn hopes and tinkers away at them in a ma... |
14527 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Glad enough am I to hear tell of this. But you'll act just--eh? You won't forget that poor auld blid, Lezzard? If she'm gwaine to leave un out the account altogether, he'll be worse off than the foxes. His son's gone to foreign paarts an' his darter's lyin'-in--not that her husb... |
14527 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Within the very shadow of marriage, and you are frightened of me still! Frightened to let me pick an apple over the orchard wall when I am going through the gate for my own the next moment! Listen! I hear our wedding bells!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Our wedding ... |
14527 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "To think what marvels o' happiness be in store for us, Clem, my awn!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes--not more than we deserve, either. God knows, if there 's any justice, it was your turn and mine to come by a little of the happiness that falls to the lot of men ... |
14527 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She had deliriums just at the end, said Martha, her maid."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "She called out in a voice as I never heard afore, an' mistook her husband for the Dowl."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Poor sawl! Death's such a struggle at the fin... |
14527 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The will is remarkably concise. Mrs. Lezzard makes sundry bitter statements which I think none will blame me for not repeating, though all may see them here who desire so to do; she then constitutes Mr. Clement Hicks, her nephew, sole residuary legatee. There is no condition, no... |
14527 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You wouldn't turn the bee-butts when she died, though I begged and prayed of 'e. Oh, if you'd awnly done what an auld woman, an' she your mother, had told 'e! Not so much as a piece of crape would 'e suffer me to tie 'pon 'em. An' I knawed all the while the hidden power o' bees.... |
14527 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Gert news! Gert news! he shouted, while yet in the passage;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Be gormed if ban't a 'mazin' world! She've left nought--dammy--less than nought, for the house be mortgaged sea-deep to Doctor, an' theer's other debts. Not a penny for nobody-... |
14527 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, Bless the bed that I lie on, Four cornders to my bed, Four angels overspread Two tu foot an' two tu head, An' all to carry me when I'm dead. An' when I'm dead an' in my graave, An' all my bones be rotten. The greedy worms my flaish shall ate, An' I... |
14527 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It do hearten the spirit to come direct to the Throne, he reflected;"
}
] |
14527 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Very bright, he said stoutly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The hay's best ever come off my ground, thanks to the manure from Monks Barton; and look at the wurzels! Miller hisself said he've never seed a more promising crop, high or low. An' the things be in prime k... |
14527 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My awn, li'l clever woman, as have set about the fashioning of a bairn so soon! God bless 'e, an' bless 'e an' be gude to 'e, an' the wee thing coming!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You knaw best, Will, dearie; you nearly allus knaw best; but your heart's bigger 'n ... |
14527 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Meet me at Oke Tor, he wrote."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "By an accident I shall be in the Taw Marshes to-morrow, and will ride to you some time in the afternoon.--J.G."
}
] |
14527 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Us have thought a lot about this trouble, mother, an' Phoebe's hit on as braave a notion as need be. You see, Clem's my close friend again now, an' Chris be my sister; so what's more fittin' than that I should set up the young people? An' so I shall, an' here's a matter of Bank ... |
14527 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Take your money again, bwoy. No Hicks ever wanted charity yet, least of all from a Blanchard. Pick it up; and it's lucky Clement ban't home, for he'd have said some harsh words, I'm thinking. Keep it 'gainst the rainy days up to Newtake. And it may surprise 'e to knaw that my so... |
14527 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Braave news, no doubt, he reflected,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "THE ANGEL OF THE DARKER DRINK"
}
] |
14527 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Life's only a breath and then--Nothing, he thought;"
}
] |
14527 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Where's your target?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Away there under that grey mass of rock. We've got to guess at the range as you know; then find it. I should judge the distance at about two miles--an extreme limit. Take my glass and you'll note a line of earthwork... |
14527 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Five running plump into the redoubt! That's what we can do when we try,"
}
] |
14527 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It seems clear enough when Grimbal's statement comes to be read, explained the medical man."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He had arranged a meeting with poor Hicks on Oke Tor, and, when he went to keep his appointment, found the unfortunate man lying under the rocks... |
14527 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The awnly son of his mother, an' she a widow wummon; an' theer 's no Christ now to work for the love of the poor. I be shattered wi' many groans an' tears, Chris Blanchard, same as you be. You knawed him--awnly you an' me; but you 'm young yet, an' memory's so weak in young brai... |
14527 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why for do _you_ cry an' wring your hands so hard? she asked suddenly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You'm awnly a girl yet--young an' soft-cheeked wi' braave bonny eyes. Theer'll be many a man's breast for you to comfort your head on. But me! Think o' what's tearin... |
14527 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Christ! And he knawed--my son?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He knawed."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then you needn't whisper it. There's awnly us three here."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "An' no others must knaw. You'll never tell--neve... |
14527 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "O my dear God! 't will be a bit of Clement! Had 'e thought o' that?"
}
] |
14527 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Go to un, she said, leaping up;"
}
] |
14527 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You forget a little what this must be to me, mother."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Light in darkness."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I hadn't thought that; an the gert world won't pity me, as you did when I first told you."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
... |
14527 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I must go, she said;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Clem's son, mind. An' let me be the first to see it, for I feel't will be the gude pleasure of God I should."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "An' you promise to say no word, whatever betides, an' whateve... |
14527 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "More gert news! he gasped;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Nothing wrong at Newtake?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, no; but family news for all that."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Out with it, he said."
},
{
"from": "human",
... |
14527 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't you nor mother fear nothing for me, nor seek me out, for it would be vain. I'm well, and I'm so happy as ever I shall be, and perhaps I'll come home-along some day.--CHRIS."
}
] |
14527 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Her nature be same as yours an' your faither's afore you. When he'd got the black monkey on his shoulder he'd oftentimes leave the vans for a week and tramp the very heart o' the Moor alone. Fatigue of body often salves a sore mind. He loved thunder o' dark nights--my husband di... |
14527 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She belonged to me, not to you, he said,"
}
] |
14527 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I can speak now, at least to you, Will, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I can tell you, at any rate. Chris was all the world to me--all the world, and accident kept me from knowing she belonged to another man until too late. Now that he has gone, poor fellow,... |
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