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6187 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Say, I've done near four years, my girl. I think I'm all right now--I think. This last six months, it's been easy--pretty fairly easy."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Four months more, only four months more--God be good to us!"
}
] |
6187 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I was just coming, Sewell. Is all ready for the start?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Everything's ready, sir, but there's to be a change of orders. Something's happened--a bad job up in the Cree country, I think."
}
] |
6187 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "For this once ye shall be fed--by the blood of my heart, ye shall be fed! And another year ye shall labour, and get the fruits of your labour, and not stand waiting, as it were, till a fish shall pass the spear, or a stag water at your door, that ye may slay and eat. The end is ... |
6187 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The white man speaks truth, and I will go, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I shall return, he continued,"
}
] |
6187 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Church bells and voices low,"
}
] |
6187 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Brandy! brandy!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Remember--Nancy. For God's sake, sir, don't drink."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sally--Nancy--Nancy,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He must have brandy or he will die. The system is pumped out... |
6187 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Have you nothing else, sir?"
}
] |
6187 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It will not do. He must have brandy. It has life-food in it."
}
] |
6187 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's no use; he must have the brandy, or he can't live an hour."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It'll ruin him-it's ruin or death."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Trust a little more in God, and in the man's strength. Let us give him the chance. Force it ... |
6187 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He is my brother, he said, and, stooping, laid both hands, which he had held before the fire for a long time, on Jim's heart."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Take his feet, his hands, his, legs, and his head in your hands, he said to them all."
},
{
"from": "h... |
6187 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm living, anyhow, he said at last with a faint smile."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm hungry-- broth, please."
}
] |
6187 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He is sleeping now."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I hear my brother breathe, answered Arrowhead."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He will live."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He will live. What I take with one hand I give with the other."
}... |
6187 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "With my hands on his heart at the post I gave him the life that was in me, saving but a little until now. Arrowhead, the chief, goes to find life again by the well at the root of the tree. How!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why do your eyes shine so, Sally? What's i... |
6187 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You have won the stake, Jim, he said in a hoarse voice."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You and she have won the stake, and I've brought it--brought it."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Jim--Jim, my son!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "My God, b... |
6187 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't like you to cry, the child said softly;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, but she's worth ten times that!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What is it?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's five million dollars--for Nancy, she said."
}... |
6187 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Are you a giant?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Perhaps I was once, more or less, my dear-- saying to her what he meant for the other two."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Perhaps I was; but I've finished. I'm through. I've had my last fight."
}
] |
6187 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You've got to carry on the game, Jim; I'm done. I'll stay home and potter about. I want to go back to Kentucky, and build up the old place, and take care of it a bit-your mother always loved it. I'd like to have it as it was when she was there long ago. But I'll be ready to help... |
288061 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But, Horace, the boy is heart-broken."
}
] |
39943 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Scene from the Legend of St. Giles"
}
] |
39943 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Olympia."
}
] |
39943 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "century there are only isolated instances of painters who resisted the tyranny of academic rule and the exclusive worship of classic antiquity. But whilst the professional painters meekly submitted to Le Brun's tyranny, the revolt which was to transform the art of painting in Fr... |
39943 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Poussinistes and the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Rubénistes was to be resumed, although the two parties were now re-christened"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Classicists and"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Romanticists."
}
] |
39943 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Raft of the Medusa. Delacroix himself tells in his Journal that he was so powerfully impressed by the intense realism of his friend's work, that on leaving the studio he ran through the streets like a madman. How much he benefited by Géricault's example became clear when his"
... |
39943 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dante and Virgil of 1822, Delacroix definitely dissociated himself from the frigid, lifeless tradition of the David School, of which Ingres was soon to become the acknowledged leader."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That School of Ingres, Delacroix once expressed hims... |
39943 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and which made Gros exclaim,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "This is Rubens chastened!"
}
] |
39943 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Massacre of Scio, which he sent to the Salon of 1824. Here was indeed rank defiance of those rules of"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "in art which had been formulated by the School of David, and which even in a scene of bloodshed and horror expected heroic poses and t... |
39943 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "--and for Wilkie, whose sketches and studies he declared to be beyond praise, although"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Justinian Composing the Institutes, for the interior of the Conseil d'État, perished by fire in 1871. The Salon was only reopened, after an interval ... |
39943 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Romanticism and"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Romanticists"
}
] |
39943 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sardanapalus led to humiliations that he felt more keenly than the abuse showered upon him by the Press. He was sent for by Sosthene de la Rochefoucauld, then Director of the Beaux-Arts, to be advised in all seriousness to study drawing from casts of the antique, and to change h... |
39943 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Assassination of the Bishop of Liège, for which he had found the subject in Sir Walter Scott's"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Quentin Durward, and which was painted for Louis-Philippe, then Duke of Orleans. It is a marvellously vivid realisation of this terrific ... |
39943 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Assassination of the Bishop of Liège was painted in 1829, the same year to which we owe that superbly handled and strangely fascinating auto-portrait of the artist at the Louvre, which he left to his faithful servant, Jenny le Guillou, on condition that she should give it to... |
39943 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "With the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Algerian Women in their Apartment, which he sent to the Salon of 1834, he entered upon an entirely new phase. It is painted in a rich impasto of luminous colours which sparkle in unbroken strength through an ambient of soft sil... |
39943 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Eugène Delacroix has left about 9140 works, of which number 853 are paintings, 1525 pastels, water-colours, or wash-drawings, 6629 drawings, 24 engravings, 109 lithographs, and over 60 albums!"
}
] |
39943 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Battle of Taillebourg, which is the glory of the gallery of battle pictures at Versailles, but found so little favour with the jury of the Salon that it narrowly escaped being rejected. The tumult and confusion of hand-to-hand fighting had never before been rendered with such fo... |
39943 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Jewish Wedding in Morocco, in which the painter's concern with true tone-values and beautiful quality of pigment is carried even further than in the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Algerian Women, and the intensely dramatic"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": ... |
39943 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Justice panel are to be seen Truth and Wisdom inspiring a greybeard composing the laws, Meditation interpreting the law, Strength with a tamed lion at the foot of three judges, and the Avenging Angel pursuing two culprits."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Agriculture i... |
39943 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "French Sistine Chapel."
}
] |
39943 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Peace (Orpheus bringing Civilisation to Greece) and"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "War (Attila bringing Barbarism back to Italy), and twenty pendentives--four in each of the five cupolas--with connecting ornamental bands and cartouches. In the first cupola, Poetry is... |
39943 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Death of Sardanapalus caused a veritable torrent of abuse to be showered upon the artist, it failed to attract the favourable attention which its nobly balanced design, brilliant colour, and intensely dramatic feeling would otherwise surely have commanded, and which was give... |
39943 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Pietà"
}
] |
39943 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Roi Soleil, by depicting"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The Triumph of Apollo in the centre panel, with appropriate subjects in the other ten compartments. But his work was interrupted, when he was called upon to supervise the decoration of Versailles, before he had ... |
39943 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Jacob wrestling with the Angel and"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Heliodorus driven from the Temple do not attempt to give the illusion of plastic life, or of an opening cut through the wall, but duly accentuate the flatness of the surface. The scale of colour adopte... |
39943 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Heliodorus the accidents of Nature's architecture are replaced by the equally imposing but deliberate and formal lines of the architecture created by human builders. The general disposition of the design is not unlike that of the earlier"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value":... |
39943 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Faust which he witnessed in London, and which probably suggested to him the series of nineteen lithographs, published by Sautelet in 1828. Goethe himself referred to these lithographs in terms of exaggerated praise. The catalogue of Delacroix's works includes quite a number of p... |
39943 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Of course, the application of Ingres's standard of classic perfection in drawing might justify the conclusion, but one need only glance at Delacroix's sketch-books and studies to realise that he was a great draughtsman, if drawing, as it was to him, is considered the means towar... |
39943 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Pietà at St. Dénis-du-Saint-Sacrement in seventeen days. An even more striking instance is afforded by the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "King Rodrigo losing his Crown, now in the Cheramy Collection. A number of artists had agreed to contribute towards the decoration... |
39943 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My tomb shall be in the cemetery of Père-Lachaise, on the height and in a place a little apart. There shall be placed upon it neither emblem, nor bust, nor statue. My tomb shall be copied very exactly from the antique, or Vignole, or Palladio, with very pronounced projections, c... |
36428 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "--have been used habitually by certain cottagers. One of these pews in the nave was known as the Yellam pew. Sunday after Sunday, rain or shine, Susan Yellam sat bolt upright in her pew. Her son, Alfred, sat beside her. Mother and son were never guilty of missing a response, or ... |
36428 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The Squire preached eugenics, in and out of season, and upon the subject of young females as potential mothers Mrs. Yellam saw eye to eye with that genial autocrat. However, she consoled herself with the reflection that Nether-Apple... |
36428 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Whatever be you waiting for?"
}
] |
36428 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What be the name, Alferd, o' the new maid over to Vicarage?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Fancy Broomfield."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Fancy! Wherever did she come by such a finical name as that?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don't k... |
36428 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I like Fancy."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The name or the maid?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Both. The name seems to match the maid."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why, Alferd, whatever do 'ee know about her?"
},
{
"from": "huma... |
36428 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Peaky and spindlin', remarked Mrs. Yellam."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Is her mother alive?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The pore soul gave up the ghost when Fancy was born."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That's very bad, Alferd."
},
... |
36428 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Alferd, don't 'ee sell the horses and van."
}
] |
36428 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That means losing good business, Mother. Folks want more and more nowadays, and they want it in a hurry."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Leave well alone, Alferd."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Suppose well can't be left alone? I ain't one to complain; I... |
36428 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You were a rare runner after the petticoats, Harry, but I never thought you'd live to wear 'em."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You may come to it, Alfred Yellam, if what I hear tell of comes true."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And whatever might that b... |
36428 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They talk that way because they know no better, pore souls!"
}
] |
36428 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Parson preaches against sour faces, said Alfred."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No yapping and snarling in his house. From your looks, you ain't one to come slummicking in after hours with a silly tale about being took all over queer when out walking."
},
{
"... |
36428 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Have you got a young man in Salisbury?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why should you think I have, Mr. Yellam?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It seems to me likely."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, I am fond of one boy. He's too sweet fo... |
36428 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Is he masterful?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Such a pair of eyes as never was. Gimlets! It ain't no fun lying to him, and no use either. He can look bang through a pore girl, and tell her what she's had for dinner."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, ... |
36428 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I like _my_ work, said the Parson incisively."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That is a vital matter. Perhaps it is the most vital matter in the world. Each of us has his or her work, and if we do it gladly it is well with us. You don't look very strong."
},
{
... |
36428 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Any orders for the carrier?"
}
] |
36428 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Not as I know of, Mr. Yellam. Do you generally call for orders on Sunday afternoon?"
}
] |
36428 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, no; I took a notion to drop in, casual-like, to pass the time of day."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What would the Vicar say to that?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Parson ain't the fearsome man you take him to be. A very human gentleman, always ... |
36428 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Expecting company, miss?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes. Mr. Lionel Pomfret and Mrs. Pomfret. A nice tea. Master's orders."
}
] |
36428 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am looking forward to waiting on them,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes--a very handsome, notable couple. Squire'll be a granfer before he knows where he is."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What things you do say, Mr. Yellam!"
},
{
"from": "g... |
36428 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The world, miss, goes round and round for true lovers, but it don't stand still for anybody, leastways not for carriers. We must push along with the times, eh?"
}
] |
36428 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My father and granfer were carriers before me. Van and horses was good enough for them. And good enough for me, too. It tears me to scrap 'em."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Scrap them?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ay. When you go back home, how'd it ... |
36428 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Can you drive a motor?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, miss. But if I say it as shouldn't, I can do most anything when I try. They'll teach me in Salisbury--free, gratis and for nothing, if I buy the 'bus."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I do hope you... |
36428 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Coming through village, miss, I met a soldier--'No Account Harry' we used to call him. Back from the Indies, and spruced up wonderful."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A soldier, Mr. Yellam! I do like soldiers, because--because----"
},
{
"from": "human",
"v... |
36428 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Soldiers are soldiers."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why do men, like you, Mr. Yellam, despise soldiers?"
}
] |
36428 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There are soldiers and soldiers. 'Tis sober truth, miss, that the best men in these parts don't enlist. The pay is bad, and the work hard. The wrong 'uns take the shilling only when they're driven to it. It may be different in Salisbury."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value":... |
36428 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's true,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Have you read Kipling, Mr. Yellam?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I seem to have heard tell of Mr. Rudyard Kipling in the newspapers."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I want to tell you what he said ... |
36428 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "When the band begins to play! 'No Account Harry' spoke of that, yes, he did. But war is for kings and potentates, not for us. As I came along river, I says to myself: 'We have peace here, glory be to our noble Fleet!' It gives me a mort of comfort thinking of our mighty ships. A... |
36428 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm a forcible man. Neighbours say that, and 'tis so. She's a dinky maid, bless her!"
}
] |
36428 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, Jane, how be you?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I be no better than I was las' Sunday."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's bad."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, it ain't. I expected to be worse. Very soon I shall be lying along o'... |
36428 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I want your news first, Susan."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But I haven't any, Jane; nothing, that is to say, which you don't well know already."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Maybe. But I wanted it from your own lips."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
... |
36428 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Is he? Who is your Rose walking out wi'?"
}
] |
36428 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My Rose be a good girl, and well you knows it."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Maybe you have something agen this Fancy Broomfield? If so, Jane, out wi' it."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Townbred girls be all alike."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"val... |
36428 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You be allers shovin' your Christian feelin's down our throats, Susan. But I say this--you ain't been tried as I hev."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I be thankful for God's mercies. I might be less thankful if so be as I mixed up my victuals as you do. Faith in A'mig... |
36428 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "When my children died, 'twas different. Seemed to me like as if I was buryin' part o' myself. 'Twere bad enough when the two boys went, but when Lizzie sickened, my own lil' maid, why then, Jane, I did rebel."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And no wonder!"
},
{
... |
36428 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And Miss Fancy Broomfield, added Jane Mucklow."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Come to ask your blessing, Susan."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Fiddle!"
}
] |
36428 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Please excuse me for welcoming you, Miss Broomfield, in my kitchen."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What a pretty kitchen!"
}
] |
36428 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't sit on that!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why ever not, Mr. Yellam?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I wonders, Susan, why you keep they stools in your kitchen."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And so do I,"
},
{
"from": "human",... |
36428 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My son tells me that you be a reader, Miss Broomfield."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I like books, replied Fancy."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have not read many, Mrs. Yellam."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don't hold wi' reading, obs... |
36428 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You live in Salisbury?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I do, Mrs. Yellam."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My son tells me that there be many radicals in the town."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I daresay."
},
{
"from": "human",
"va... |
36428 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "So is Mr. Hamlin. He ain't the worse parson for that. As Mother knows."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mr. Hamlin be a good man in parish, Alferd. 'Tis a square sound peg in a square hole. And I say this for 'un. He don't talk politics wi' me."
},
{
"from": "h... |
36428 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And pore o' soul. You don't look, Miss Broomfield, as if you was ashamed o' service."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I ain't,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And I reckons you hold wi' me that folks should rest content in their proper station o' life, eh?... |
36428 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It seemed to me to be wrong not to want to better oneself, to rise higher...."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Right or wrong, we all feels that way. Susan Yellam don't fancy motors, but she'd like to ride in her carriage an' pair, and would too, if so be as a convict ... |
36428 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Her face brightened. She said almost joyously:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I shall ride in Alferd's new motor-'bus wi' proper pride now, feeling sure that God A'mighty called me to do so."
}
] |
36428 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If you feel good and ready, Miss Broomfield, we might take the road again."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "She be tired out, declared Mrs. Yellam."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Anybody but a man'd see that. You let Miss Broomfield bide along wi' us, Alf... |
36428 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She was ramping and roaring yesterday afternoon and spitting black smoke at me. But when I coax her, she purrs sweet as any pussy-cat."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Soldier, eh? Well, he ain't one o' the 'onward' sort, is he? Fancy divined that Alfred would speak wh... |
36428 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Some rich people as well as poor have lean souls."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Rich people? Do you know any rich people?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, but David says so."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "David? You don't mean David Muckl... |
36428 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You're right, Fancy."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "O-h-h!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What's the matter?"
}
] |
36428 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What a rare wife for a soldier!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I thought 'twas going to explode, yes, I did."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Not she. 'Tis a beautiful 'bus, and, maybe, she'll carry me and mine --he glanced at her now pensive face--"
}
... |
36428 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Maybe such a job would suit a young woman I know, Miss Fancy Broomfield."
}
] |
36428 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Alfred, she said, entreatingly,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I mind poor Father's plans, and that makes me nervous when you race on so."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What about his plans?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He'd a nice busines... |
36428 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If you ain't careful, she warned him,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Or in a ditch. You're right, my girl. 'Tis a fool as toots his own horn. Let's say good-bye to the old van."
}
] |
36428 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Wet as water it be underfoot,"
}
] |
36428 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Perfectly lovely,"
}
] |
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