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13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and must be put up with. Humiliating as this was, and fatal to domestic authority that the first thing to be taught a new servant was to"
}
] |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "beside her kitchen fire. What she thought history saith not. Whether in her own rough home she was used to see brothers and sisters quarrelling, and mothers boxing their childrens' ears, can not be known; whether she was or was not surprised to see the same proceedings among lad... |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Is she gone to bed?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, my dear. It was the best thing for her; she is not at all well to-day."
}
] |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They often called her"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "it was only"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "or"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "or her"
}
] |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Where is that boy? He ought to be spoken to,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have spoken to him; I gave him a good scolding. He is sorry, and promises never to be so rude again."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh no; not till the next time, replied Miss... |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, love, you are right; she must remain her month out, unless she does something very wrong. Do you think that really was a lie she told?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "About the cat? I don't quite know what to think. Let us call her, and put the question once more... |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sit down; I'll call her. Dear me, Johanna, we shall have to set up a bell as well as a servant, unless we had managed to combine the two."
}
] |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Elizabeth I want you to tell me the truth about that unfortunate breakage. Don't be afraid. I had rather you broke every thing in the house than have told me what was not true."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It was true; it was the cat."
},
{
"from": "human",... |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am sure she is telling the truth. said Hilary."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And remember what her mother said about her word being always reliable."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If you donnot believe me, missus, I'd rather go home to mother."
},
... |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Miss Selina is sometimes hasty; but she means kindly always. You must take care not to vex her, Elizabeth; and you must never answer her back again, however sharply she speaks. It is not your business; you are only a child, and she is your mistress."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
... |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "To be your fellow You may deny me; but I'll be your servant Whether you will or no."
}
] |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "for he had none; or his"
}
] |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Far too late to have kept up such a child as Elizabeth; we must not do it again, said Miss Leaf, taking down the large Bible with which she was accustomed to conclude the day--Ascott's early hours at school and their own house-work making it difficult of mornings. Very brief the... |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Can you read, Elizabeth?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, ma'am."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hilary, give her a bible."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "South Sea Islander,"
}
] |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those that trespass against us. Unconsciously Miss Leaf's gentle voice rested on these words, so needed in the daily life of every human being, and especially of every family. Was she the only one who thought of"
},
{
"from": "gpt"... |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "South Sea Islander, or whether her sullen and dogged spirit resisted the first attempts the lad made to"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "--as he did upon his aunts, in small daily tyrannies--was never found out; but certainly Ascott, the general favorite, found little ... |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I think that girl is a character, she said afterward to Johanna."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Any how she has curiously strong likes and dislikes."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You may say that, my dear; for she brightens up whenever she looks at you... |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nonsense--I don't wish any such thing. Doing it makes me not a whit less charming and lovely. She often applied these adjectives to herself, with the most perfect conviction that she was uttering a fiction patent to every body. I must be very juvenile also, for I'm certain the f... |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They may recall her unwearied patience with the very dullest and most wayward of them; her unfailing sympathy with every infantile pleasure and pain. And I think they will acknowledge that whether she taught them much or little--in this advancing age it might be thought little--... |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm sure I don't know how we are to manage with Elizabeth. That greedy--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And growing,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I say that greedy girl eats as much as any two of us. And as for her clothes--her mother does not keep he... |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Black Janira and Janassa fair, And Amatheia with her amber hair."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Black, did you say? I'm sure she was as black as a chimney sweep all to-day. And her pinafore"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Her what? Oh, Elizabeth, you mea... |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am afraid I vexed Selina greatly about her to-night, and yet what can one do? Selina is so very unjust--always expecting impossibilities. She would like to have Elizabeth at once a first rate cook, a finished house-maid, and an attentive lady's maid, and all without being taug... |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh yes, my dear,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "By-the-by, the first step in the civilization of the Polynesians was giving them clothes. And I have heard say that crime and rags often go together; that a man unconsciously feels that he owes something to himself and ... |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I must be growing very wicked,"
}
] |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You have the best head in the world, my love. I don't know whatever I should do without you."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Luckily you are never likely to be tried. So give me a kiss; and good night, Johanna."
}
] |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sometimes still waters run deep,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Nevertheless. there are such things as canals, replied Johanna."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "When do you mean to have your little talk with her?"
}
] |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I think, Johanna--Hark, what can that be?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's Elizabeth, without her bonnet or shawl, with something white flying behind her. How she is dashing across the field! What can she be after? Just look."
}
] |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Stop her! Hold her! I'm sure she has gone mad. Lock the door, or she'll come back and murder us all."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Who? Elizabeth! Was she here? What has been the matter?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She is very handy when one is ill.... |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's a very odd thing. said Hilary, returning."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What can have come over the girl? You are sure, Selina, that you said nothing which--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now I know what you are going to say, You are going to bla... |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I think, sisters, I had better go down as quickly as I can to Mrs. Hand's."
}
] |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There's one on 'em--and you'll get back--the other--when it's washed."
}
] |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I've been down the town."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Down the town!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I've been as quick as I could, missis. I runned all the way there and back; but it was a good step, and he was some'at heavy, though he is but a little... |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Quiet yourself, Elizabeth,"
}
] |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now, we are not going to scold you; but we must hear the reason of this,"
}
] |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ay, my arms do ache above a bit, she said, in answer to Miss Leaf's questions."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He wasn't quite a baby--nigh upon twelve, I reckon; but then he was very small of his age. And he looked just as if he was dead--and he bled so."
}
] |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Drink this, Elizabeth; and then go and wash your face and eat your dinner. We will talk to you by-and-by."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Have I done any thing wrong, missis?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I did not say so. But drink this; and don't talk... |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And I should like to know, said Miss Hilary, warming with her subject,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But we don't want a hero; we want a maid-of-all-work."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'll tell you what we want, Selina. We want a woman; that is, a gi... |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, ma'am, with the strict normal courtesy, something between that of the old-world family domestic--as her mother might have been to the Miss Elizabeth Something she was named after--and the abrupt"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If you had not been absent I should ... |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My sister means, said Hilary,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, Miss Hilary."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then we quite forgive you as regards ourselves. Nay --feeling in spite of Selina's warning nudge, that she had hardly been kind enough--"
},
... |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dear Miss Hilary. To-morrow, then, I shall come. Yours truly, Robert Lyon."
}
] |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But nothing makes me love her less; nothing ever could. She thinks me quite happy, as I am; and yet--oh, if I did not miss him so!"
}
] |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You are giving yourself a world of trouble, said Selina."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If I were you, I would just make over the dress to Elizabeth, and let her do what she could with it."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My dear, I always find I give mys... |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I did not know you could write, Elizabeth."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No more I can, was the answer, in the most doleful of voices."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It bean't no good. I've forgotten all about it. T' letters wonna join."
},
{
"... |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, Miss Hilary, you can't make nothin' of me. I be too stupid, I'll give it up."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Nonsense!"
}
] |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nonsense, repeated she."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Never give up any thing; I never would. We'll try a different plan, and begin from the beginning, as I do with my little scholars. Wait, while I fetch a copy book out of the parlor press."
}
] |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She is stupid enough, Hilary confessed, after the lesson was over;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I hope she will do her work, any how, said Selina, breaking into the conversation rather crossly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm sure I don't see the g... |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And I wonder, said she, giving the end of her long meditation out loud,"
}
] |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I might say that writing isn't Elizabeth's week-day work, and that teaching her is not exactly doing my own pleasure; but I won't creep out of the argument by a quibble. The question is, What is keeping the Sabbath day 'holy?' I say--and I stick to my opinion--that it is by maki... |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You're taking a deal o' trouble wi' a poor wench, and it's very kind in a lady like you."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "and she was"
}
] |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, she said, after a pause of consideration,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Once upon a time, Hilary resumed by-and-by,"
}
] |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "So, Elizabeth, if I spend a little of my time in teaching you, you must grow up my faithful and attached bower-maiden?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'll grow up any thing, Miss Hilary, if it's to please you,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I do believe... |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "sharing in all its concerns. From its small and few carnal luxuries--such as the cake, fruit, or pot of preserve, votive offerings from pupils' parents--up to the newspaper and the borrowed book, nothing was either literally or metaphorically"
}
] |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "While she was only on trial, it did not so much signify; besides, if it did, we had only buttons on the press doors; but now she is our regular servant we ought to institute a regular system of authority. How can she respect a family that never locks up any thing?"
},
{
... |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Heart of Mid-Lothian,"
}
] |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She makes me feel more sorry for her than angry with her, Miss Leaf would sometimes say, coming out of the kitchen with that grieved face, which was the chief sign of displeasure her sweet nature ever betrayed."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "She will have up-hill wor... |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I canna bear to see him ("
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "suggested her mistress, who not seeing any reason why Elizabeth should not speak the Queen's English as well as herself, had instituted h's, and stopped a few more glaring provincialisms.)"
},
{
"from":... |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now stop that, Aunt Hilary: I'll not have you coming Mr. Lyon over me."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What do you mean?"
}
] |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I mean that I'll not be preached to like that by a woman. It's bad enough to stand it from a man; but then Lyon's a real sharp fellow, who knows the world, which women don't, Aunt Hilary. Besides, he coaches me in my Latin and Greek; so I let him pitch into me now and then. But ... |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do you go to see him often?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Who? Mr. Lyon? And Ascott, delighted' to escape into a fresh subject, became quite cheerful and communicative."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, bless you! He wouldn't care for my going to him.... |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And I can not help him--I can not help him! was her bitter cry; until, passing from the dream-land of fancy, the womanly nature asserted itself. She thought if it had been, or if it were to be, her blessed lot to be chosen by Robert Lyon, how she would take care of him! what an ... |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Is Miss Leaf at home?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, Sir."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Is she well? Are all the family well?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I should ha' slammed the door in his face, was Elizabeth's comment afterward;"
... |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't you be troubling yourself with waiting about here, she said; and her mistress seemed to start at being spoken to."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'll get the tea all right, Miss Hilary. Please go back into the parlor."
}
] |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The girl has feelings and notions on the matter, like all other girls, I suppose, reasoned she to herself;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "of her own class, had unconsciously imbibed her mistress's theory of love. Love, pure and simple, the very deepest and highest, s... |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Her couldna do without somebody to see to her--and Miss Selina do worrit her so. muttered Elizabeth, in the excitement of this Almaschar vision, relapsing into her old provincialisms."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "So, even if Miss Hilary axes me to come, I'll stop, ... |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It would do you no harm, Miss Hilary; will you walk with us?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If you like."
}
] |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Thank you, thank you!"
}
] |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Some'at's wrong. I'd like to know who's been a-vexin' of her,"
}
] |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Indeed!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "in Hindostanee, fell ill, and was"
}
] |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "So you think I was right?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Right?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I mean in accepting that sudden chance, and changing my whole plan of life. I did not do it--believe me--without a motive."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"v... |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The change is, you perceive, from the life of a student to that of a man of business. I do not deny that I preferred the first. Once upon a time to be a fellow in a college, or a professor, or the like, was my utmost aim and I would have half killed myself to attain it. Now, I t... |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is strange, she said;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, I knew you could not,"
}
] |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I do believe that this going abroad to make a fortune, which young men so delight in, is often a most fatal mistake. They give up far more than they gain--country, home, health. I think a man has no right to sell his life any more than his soul for so many thousands a year."
}... |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Like a still embrace,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Now tell me as much as you can about yourself."
}
] |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "To me, and to no one else, remember. No one but myself must help you. And I will, so, long as I am alive. Do you believe this?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I do."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And you promise?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value":... |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Shall we not see you again?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No. This will be my last Sunday in England. Good-by!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is the will of God; it is the will of God."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "This is the will of G... |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What a fine day Mr. Lyon was having for his journey; what a lucky fellow he was; how he would be sure to make a fortune, and if so, she wondered whether they should ever see or hear any thing of him again --Elizabeth, from the glimpse she caught of Miss Hilary's face, and from t... |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "about him, or even to name him--his presence or absence did not touch her personally, and she was always the centre of her own small world of interest--the little maidservant kept in her mind, and pondered over at odd times every possible solution of the mystery of this gentlema... |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I will be careful--I will indeed--if you will help me out this once, dear Aunt Hilary; and don't think too ill of me. I have done nothing wicked. And you don't know London; you don't know, with a lot of young fellows about one, how very hard it is to say no."
}
] |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What's bred in the bone will come out in the flesh."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Like father like son."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The sins of the parents shall be visited on the children. So runs many a proverb: so confirms the unerring decree of ... |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We must do it,"
}
] |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We must not let the boy remain in debt; it would be such a disgrace to the family."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It is not the remaining in debt, but the incurring of it, which is the real disgrace to Ascott and the family."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value"... |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If you please, missis, I didn't mean to--but I've heard--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What have you heard; that is, how much?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Just what Miss Hilary said. Don't be afeared. I shan't tell. I never chatter about the family... |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My good days are done."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Poor people can not afford it. Their constant labor"
}
] |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We'll starve, we'll go into the work house rather than we'll go into debt! cried Hilary once, in a passion of tears, when she was in sore want of a shawl, and Selina urged her to get it, and wait till she could pay for it."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes; the work... |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Stowbury people will never believe how clever I am. Only, it is a useless sort of cleverness, I fear. Greek, Latin, and mathematics are no good to infants under seven, such as Stowbury persists in sending to us."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "They think I am only... |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "things, and"
}
] |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "MISS LEAF. MADAM,--I shall be obliged by your informing me if it is your wish, as it seems to be your nephew's, that instead of returning to Stowbury, he should settle in London as a surgeon and general practitioner? His education complete, I consider that I have done my duty by... |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Suppose we were to go to him,"
}
] |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Eh! what's wrong? Has Miss Selina been a-grumbling at me?"
}
] |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have not heard that either of my sisters is displeased with you. What they want to talk to you about is for your own good. We are thinking of making a great change. We intend to leave Stowbury and going to live in London."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Going to liv... |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, what do you say to the plan?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I dunnot like it at all,"
}
] |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Miss Hilary has told you our future plans, Elizabeth; now we wish to have a little talk with you about yours."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Eh?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We conclude you will not wish to go with us to London; and it would be hardly... |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Only at first, though, for I hope to find plenty of pupils, and by-and-by our nephew will get into practice."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Is it on account of him you're going, Miss Hilary?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Chiefly."
},
{
"from": ... |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, no; her's a good wench, though I says it, replied the mother, who was too hard worked to have much sentiment to spare."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I wish the little 'uns may take pattern by our Elizabeth. You'll send her home, may be, in two or three years' ti... |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "of the school. Then she was fetched by Elizabeth, who had been given a whole afternoon's holiday; and mistress and maid went together home, watching the last of the festivities, the chattering groups that still lingered in the twilight streets, and listening to the merry notes o... |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I wonder, said Hilary--while, despite some natural regret, her spirit stretched itself out eagerly from the narrowness of the place where she was born into the great wide world; the world where so many grand things were thought and written and done; the world Robert Lyon had so ... |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I remember, said Miss Leaf, as they rumbled for the last time through the empty morning streets of poor old Stowbury:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I remember my grandmother telling me that when my grandfather was courting her, and she out of coquetry refused him, h... |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Silent as a stone."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "were, for the first time, beheld by the innocent Stowbury ladies, there arose a discussion as to the manner of traveling. Miss Leaf said, decidedly"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Second class; and then w... |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "fit so satisfactorily as her mistresses falling into one. When Miss Selina now began to fidget hither and thither, each tone of her fretful voice seeming to go through her eldest sister's every nerve, till even Hilary said, impatiently,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": ... |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I wonder if we shall ever go back again, or what is to happen to us before we do go back, she thought, and turned, with a half defined fear, toward her eldest sister, who looked so old and fragile beside that sturdy, healthful servant girl."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"valu... |
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