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13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is very strange; very wrong of Ascott. Hilary, you surely told him the hour correctly. For once, at least, he might have been in time"
}
] |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nay, have patience, Selina. We will give him just five minutes more, Hilary."
}
] |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What on earth did you bring her for? and their was just going to leap on to the box himself, when he stopped to ask"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Where he should tell cabby to drive to?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Where to?"
},
{
"from": "gp... |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, my dear, not vexed. Only I wish we had known this a little sooner that we might have made arrangements. Now, where shall we go?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Old Bell,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A capital place! exclaimed Ascott, eagerly."
},... |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How handsome the boy is growing!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, said Johanna, with a slight sigh;"
}
] |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "which was the one only thing she condescended to approve in London. She had sat all evening mute in her corner, for Miss Leaf would not send her away into the terra incognita of a London hotel. Ascott, at first considerably annoyed at the presence of what he called a"
},
{
... |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Elizabeth, come and look out at London."
}
] |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What, without a gentleman! Impossible! I always understood ladies could go nowhere in London without a gentleman!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We shall come very ill off then, Selina. But any how I mean to try. You know the region where, we have heard, lodgings are... |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's London ways, I suppose, said she, severely, and became so misanthropic that she would hardly vouchsafe a glance to the hand some square they turned into, and merely observed of the tall houses, taller than any Hilary had ever seen, that she"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
... |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If not to win, to feel more worthy thee."
}
] |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Are you tired, Elizabeth? Well, we'll rest soon. There must be lodgings near here. Only I can't quite make out--"
}
] |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That must be St. Pancras. And this--yes, this is Burton Street, Burton Crescent."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm sure Missis wouldn't like to live there; observed Elizabeth, eyeing uneasily the gloomy rez de-chaussee, familiar to many a generation of struggling re... |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am glad he is not here--glad, glad! thought Hilary, as she realized the unutterable dreariness of those years when Robert Lyon lived and studied in his garret from month's end to month's end--these few dusty trees being the sole memento of the green country life in which he ha... |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Miss Hilary."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "immediately."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Miss Hilary; you do look so tired!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Do I? Then we will go and sit down in this baker's shop, and get rested and fed. We can... |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Its will is strong; 'It suffers; but it can not suffer long."
}
] |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I think we may do here--at least for a while,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ascott never could put up with that, said Hilary, half to herself. Then suddenly--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I think I will see Ascott before I decide. Elizabeth, will you... |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, Mr. Leaf had gone, and he hadn't left no address. Young College gentlemen often found it convenient to leave no address. P'raps he would if he'd known there would be a young lady a calling to see him."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am Mr. Leaf's aunt,"
},
... |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And as for the little some'at of rent, Miss--tell him it makes no matter, he can pay me when he likes. If he don't call soon p'raps I might make bold to send his trunk and his books over to Mr. Ascott's of--dear me, I forget the number and the square."
},
{
"from": "gpt"... |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Let us go home!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "As you say, Elizabeth, I am getting tired, and that will not do. Let me see; something must be decided. And she stood still, passing her hand over her hot brow and eyes."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I wil... |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If any creditors inquire for Mr. Leaf, give them this. His friends may always hear of him at the London University."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Thank you, ma'am, replied the now civil landlady."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Indeed, I wasn't afraid o... |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Elizabeth --she hesitated long, and doubted whether she should say the thing before she did say it--"
}
] |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "it is impossible to say. She could feel, though she was not accustomed to analyze her feelings. But she looked dull and sad. Not cross, even Ascott could not have accused her of"
}
] |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "especially when the use of plate and lines was included in the rent. And the dinginess of the article produced at last out of an omnium-gatherum sort of kitchen cupboard, made an ominous impression upon the country girl, accustomed to clean, tidy, country ways--where the kitchen... |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Straw-berries--straw-ber-ries! Also, with an eye to tomorrow's Sunday dinner, she investigated the cart of the tired costermonger, who crawled along beside his equally tired donkey, reiterating at times, in tones hoarse with a day's bawling, his dreary"
},
{
"from": "gpt... |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You know, my dear boy, said his Aunt Johanna to him--and at her tender tone he looked a little downcast, as when he was a small fellow and had been forgiven something --"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You know you will have to work very hard."
},
{
"from": "h... |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You'll not sit up long, my dear? No reading to night?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not a bit of it. And I'll be up with the lark to-morrow morning. I really will auntie. I'm going to turn over a new leaf, you know."
}
] |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hollo! are you there? Come, I'll do that when I go to bed. You may 'slope' if you like."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Eh, Sir."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Slope, mizzle, cut your stick; don't you understand. Any how, don't stop here, bothering me."
... |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Perhaps that's what you wanted, Mr. Leaf. Though I think you needn't be the least afraid of robbers, for there's three bolts, and a chain besides."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "All right! cried Ascott, smothering down a laugh."
},
{
"from": "human",
"val... |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I say, since my aunts are so horridly timid of robbers and such like, you'd better not tell them any thing about the latch-key."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Miss Hilary isn't a bit timid; and I always tells Miss Hilary every thing."
}
] |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dinna greet ower spilt milk"
}
] |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't see, said poor Hilary,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What can one expect from him? He is only a boy."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I think you'll knew your way now, Aunt Hilary."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Certainly. Why?"
},
... |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "in the which, after all the cleanings and improvements she could achieve, sat like Marius among the rains of Carthage, and sighed for the tidy bright house place at Stowbury. Already, from her brief experience, she had decided that London people were horrid shams, because they d... |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But it can't be visitors to us. We know nobody. Sit still, Elizabeth."
}
] |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Miss Leaf, I presume, ma'am. The eldest?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am the eldest Miss Leaf, and very glad to have an opportunity of thanking you for your long kindness to my nephew. Elizabeth, give Mr. Ascott a chair."
}
] |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": ""
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": ""
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "--the inconvenience of keeping coachmen who would drink, and footmen who would not clean the plate properly; ending by what was a favorite moral axiom of his, that"
},
{
"from": "gp... |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Um--yes, Ascott's not a bad fellow--believe he means well: but weak, ma'am, I'm afraid he's weak. Knows nothing of business--has no business habits whatever. However, we must make the best of him; I don't repent any thing I've done for him."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"valu... |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My sister, Mr. Ascott; my sister Selina."
}
] |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Glad to see you, Miss. Long time since we met--neither of us so young as we have been--but you do wear well, I must say."
}
] |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I always give my dinners on Sunday. I've no time any other day, said he, when Miss Leaf gently hesitated."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Come or not, just as you like."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "For you must be aware, Miss Leaf, that though your nep... |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "For my part, I shall go, though it is Sunday. I consider it quite a religious duty--my duty towards my neighbor."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Which is to love him as yourself. I am sure, Selina, I have no objection. It would be a grand romantic wind-up to the story... |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I will sit up for him. He cannot be many minutes new,"
}
] |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and he kissed her affectionately."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But if you were a young fellow, and got among other young fellows, and they over-persuaded you."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You should learn to say, No."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
... |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Never mind, my child, all will come right in time All happens for good."
}
] |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Clothes seem to wear out frightfully fast,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I saw such beautiful merino dresses in a shop in Southampton Row,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, no; my old black silk will do capitally, and I can easily put on two shawls. N... |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Thank you, Elizabeth, she said, gravely and gently, and let herself be wrapped in the thick shawl. Its gorgeous reds and yellows would, she knew, make her noticeable, even though"
}
] |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It will do no harm to inquire the price. I might stop it out in omnibuses."
}
] |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": ""
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": ""
}
] |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Shapes our ends, Rough-how them as we will."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I beg your pardon, but if your way lies up Southampton Row, would you object to give an old woman a share of that capital umbrella of yours?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "With p... |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She has much more reason to question ours,"
}
] |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Thank God, we don't owe any thing: not a penny!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No; there is comfort in that,"
}
] |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am sure we have wasted nothing, and cheated nobody;--surely God will help us."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I know He will, my child."
}
] |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ascott, how are your business affairs progressing? When do you think you will be able to get into practice?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, presently. There's no hurry."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am not so sure of that. Do you know, my dear boy... |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I wish, Ascott --and she nerved herself to say what somebody ought to say to him--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I would you would not lend but pay us the pound a week you said you could so easily spare."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "To be sure I will... |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I see there is nobody to do any thing except me. But I must not tell Johanna."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I think, as I have nothing else to do, I will go and see Miss Balquidder to-morrow morning."
}
] |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "still; and her good-humored, motherly look--motherly rather than old-maidish--gave an impression which may be best described by the word"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "--She was a"
}
] |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Welcome, my dear! I was afraid you had forgotten your promise."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh no,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why did you not come sooner?"
}
] |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "May I tell you why I came to-day?--Because I want advice and help, and I think you can give it, from something I heard about you yesterday."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Indeed! From whom?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In rather a roundabout way; from... |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is nearly my luncheon-time, and I am a great friend to regular eating and drinking. I never let any thing interfere with my own meals, or other folks' either, if I can help it. I would as soon expect that fire to keep itself up without coals, as my mind to go on working if I ... |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My dear, before going further, I ought to tell you one thing--I am not a lady."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That is, explained Miss Balquidder, laughing,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You must have kept it uncommonly well,"
},
{
"from": "gpt"... |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Therefore, you see. I can not help you as a governess. Perhaps I would not if I could, for, so far as I see, a good clearance of one half the governesses into honest trades would be for their own benefit, and greatly to the benefit of the other half. But that's not my affair. I ... |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Take time to answer, and speak out, my dear. Don't be afraid. You'll not offend me."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I never thought of it before; the possibility of such a thing did not occur to me; but I hope I should not be ashamed of any honest work for which I was... |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I might have bought a landed estate to be inherited by--nobody; or a house in Belgravia, and an opera-box, to be shared by--nobody. We all have our pet luxuries; none of these were exactly mine."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, assented Hilary, somewhat abstractedl... |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Fair work, fair pay; not one penny more or less; I never do it; it would not be honest. I overlook each business myself, and it is carried on in my name. Sometimes it brings me in a little profit; sometimes not. Of course, she added, smiling."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"va... |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I only wish there were more like you. I wish there were more young ladies brought up like--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Like boys! said Hilary, laughing,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, I never desire to see young women made into men. And Miss Bal... |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How much should I be able to earn, do you think?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I will give you a hundred a year."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Will you give me a day or two to think about it and consult my sisters?"
}
] |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Take your own time, my dear; I will keep the situation open for you for one week from this date. And now I must send you away, for I have a great deal to do."
}
] |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What would Robert Lyon say?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What if he should look down upon me? What if he should return and find me different from what he expected?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No; love is worth nothing that is not worth every thing,... |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Robert, Robert! sobbed this forlorn girl, as if slowly waking up to a sense of her forlorness, and of the almost universal fickleness, not actual falseness, but fickleness, which prevails in the world and among mankind."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "O Robert, be fai... |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "With Mr. Peter Ascott! Hilary was a little surprised; but on second thoughts she found it natural; Selina was glad of any amusement--to her, not only the narrowness but the dullness of their poverty was inexpressibly galling."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "She will b... |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "So he is--a very particular friend; but my aunts would not fancy him, and I don't want him to come here. Say, if he calls, that I'm gone out of town."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Very well, sir. Shall you start before dinner?"
}
] |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Bless you, you are the greatest innocent! Just say what I tell you, and never mind--hush! here's Aunt Hilary."
}
] |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I wonder whether Miss Hilary knows of this? I wonder what she would say to it?"
}
] |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Miss Selina isn't my enemy, smiled Elizabeth:"
}
] |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Neither carriage nor horses, nor nothing, will ever make him a gentleman?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Miss Selina was, for her, meditative, and did not talk quite so much as usual. There was in the little parlor an uncomfortable atmosphere, as if all of them had s... |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, that is a rich idea. I'll come and buy of you. You'll look so pretty standing behind a counter."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You cannot even think of such a thing. It would be a disgrace to the family."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, said Hil... |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ascott says right; he is the head of the family, and, by-and-by. I trust will take care of us all. But he is not able to do it now, and meantime we must live."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "To be sure, we must Auntie."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I me... |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I know I'm not half good enough to you, Auntie, but I mean to be. I mean to work hard, and be a rich man some day; and then you may be sure I shall not let my Aunt Hilary keep a shop. Now, good-night, for I must meet a fellow on business--really business--that may turn out good ... |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is a thing quite impossible,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why impossible? I can certainly do the work; and it can not make me less of a lady. Besides, we had better not be ladies if we can not be honest ones. And, Selina, where is the money to come from? We have... |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Quite. He wrote to me last night, and I gave him his answer this morning."
}
] |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He had behaved handsomely--very much so. He makes a good settlement on me, and says how happy he will be to help my family, so as to enable you always to make a respectable appearance."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We are exceedingly obliged to him."
},
{
"f... |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And therefore you see, she added, as it the unimportant, almost forgotten item of discussion had suddenly occurred to her,"
}
] |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't vex yourself, my dear Selina, said he, dryly--how Hilary started to hear the stranger use the household name--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mr. Ascott is quite right; we will end the subject,"
}
] |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My only consolation is, he wrote, for once betraying himself a little,"
}
] |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "a passion that did not exist, and acting out the sham courtship, proper for the gentleman to pay and the lady to receive--when she shut her bedroom door, and there, sitting in the cold, read again and again Robert Lyon's letter to Johanna, so good, so honest; so sad, yet so brav... |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's the last; I shall never cost you any more,"
}
] |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't want any thing that you can not do for me. You are becoming a first rate nurse. Elizabeth, she said, with that passive, peaceful smile which almost frightened the girl; it seemed as if she were slipping away from this world and all its cares into another existence. Eliza... |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hollo!--Oh, it's only you, Elizabeth."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Shall I light your candle, sir?"
}
] |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do you want anything, Sir?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No--yes--stay a minute. Elizabeth, are you to be trusted?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I hope I am, Sir."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The bailiffs are after me. I've just dodged t... |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come, Sir, 'tis no use taking on so, said she, much as she would have spoken to a child, for there was something childish rather than man like in Ascott's distress. Nevertheless, she pitied him, with the unreasoning pity a kind heart gives to any creature, who, blameworthy or no... |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come, it's no use making things worse than they are. If no body knows that you are here, lock your door and keep quiet. I'll bring you some dinner when I bring up Missis' tea, and not even Mrs. Jones will be any the wiser."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You're a bric... |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't look so glum, Elizabeth. I shall soon weather through. Old Ascott will fork out; he couldn't help it. I'm to be his nephew you know. Oh, that was a clever catch of Aunt Selina's. If only Aunt Hilary would try another like it."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If y... |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No; she'll know it quite soon enough.--Let her sleep till morning. Elizabeth, look here. He wrote upon a card the address of the place he was to be taken to."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Give Aunt Hilary this. Say if she can think of a way to get me out of this hor... |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "HONORED MADAM,--Mr. Leaf has got himself into trouble, and is taken away somewhere; and I dare not tell missis; and I wish you was at home, as she is not well, but better than she has been, and she shall know nothing about it till you come.--Your obedient and affectionate servan... |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Please, ma'am, I'm Miss Leaf's servant. My missis is ill, and I want a letter sent at once to Miss Hilary."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh! come in, then. Elizabeth, I think, your name is?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, ma'am."
},
{
"from... |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Very well, child, keep your mistress's secrets by all means. Only tell me what you want. Shall I take a cab and fetch Miss Hilary at once?"
}
] |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You are a good, mindful girl, said Miss Balquidder."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "How did you learn to be so sensible?"
}
] |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "David, is your wife away to her bed yet?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, ma'am."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then tell her to fetch this young woman to the kitchen and give her some supper. And afterward, will you see her safe home, poor lassie? Sh... |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Go away, Mrs. Jones, cried Elizabeth, fiercely."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Miss Hilary will call when she wants you."
}
] |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mrs. Jones has told me every thing, Elizabeth. How is my sister? She does not know?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No; and I think she is a good deal better this morning. She has been very bad all week; only she would not let me send for you. She is really getting we... |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If I am dear to some one else, Then I should be to myself more dear"
}
] |
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