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18465 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now, this time, Mrs. Smythe can't help but have plenty of people. Whenever I entertain, it's sure to--"
}
] |
18465 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why do I sing? I know not, I know not! I can not help but sing. Oh, why do I sing?"
}
] |
18465 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "At Paris it was, at the opera there, And she looked like--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The Maniac."
}
] |
18465 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Miss Marie,"
}
] |
18465 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What is this drawer for, Dinah?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's handy for 'most anything, missis,"
}
] |
18465 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What's this, Dinah? You don't wrap up meat in your mistress's best table-cloth?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, Lor', missis, no; the towels was all a-missin', so I just did it. I laid it out to wash that ar; that's why I put it thar."
},
{
"from": "human"... |
18465 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Where do you keep your nutmegs, Dinah? said Miss Ophelia, with the air of one who"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Most anywhar, missis; there's some in that cracked tea-cup up there, and there's some over in that ar cupboard."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value"... |
18465 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Lor', now! if dat ar de way dem Northern ladies do, dey ain't ladies nohow, she said to some of her satellites, when at a safe hearing-distance."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I has things as straight as anybody, when my clarin'-up times comes; but I don't want ladie... |
18465 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "General Exercises"
}
] |
18465 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Answer?"
}
] |
18465 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "by the girls and"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "by the boys. It was easy enough for the girls, who had only to read the beautiful thought that"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now and then a new girl, from the east, awfully precise, would begin her essay-... |
18465 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "an hour big with fate, arrived on time. A boy named Aby Abbott was called up ahead of me, but he happened to be one of the presidential aspirants (he was mate on an Illinois river steamboat, stern-wheeler at that, the last I knew of him), and of course he flunked and"
},
{
... |
18465 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I ain't goin' to speak no piece."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why not, Robert?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Because there ain't goin' to be any more speakin' pieces."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Who says there will not?"
},
{
"... |
18465 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, not for me (whack) is the rolling (whack) drum, Or the (whack, whack) trumpet's wild (whack) appeal! (Boo-hoo!) Or the cry (swish--whack) of (boo-hoo-hoo!) war when the (whack) foe is come (ouch!) Or the (ow--wow!) brightly (whack) flashing (whack-whack) steel! (wah-hoo, wah... |
18465 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "WHO says there isn't going to be any more speaking pieces?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "NOBODY DON'T!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Walloping Window-blind"
}
] |
18465 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "On rubgub bark, from dawn to dark, We fed, till we all had grown Uncommonly shrunk,--when a Chinese junk Came by from the torriby zone. She was stubby and square, but we didn't much care, And we cheerily put to sea; And we left the crew of the junk to chew The bark of the rubgub... |
18465 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "or"
}
] |
18465 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hooray!"
}
] |
18465 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Unhand me now, or, weak girl that I am--"
}
] |
18465 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, I'll be dummed! Bill, that's the last play actin' show fer me!"
}
] |
18465 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, Ritter Hugo, Vhere you goes mit yourself alone?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I rides in de creenwood Mit helmet und mit shpeer, Till I cooms into em Gasthaus, Und dere I trinks some beer."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dere you sees de fisch a sch... |
18465 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Vot you vantsh mit your schnapps und lager? Coom down into der Rhine! Der ish pottles der Kaiser Charlemagne Vonce filled mit gold-red wine!"
}
] |
18465 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The preacher raised both his hands at such an irreverent remark, and the old gentleman laughed himself into a fit of asthmatics, what he didn't get over till we came to the next change of horses. The hoosier had played the mischief with the gravity of the whole party; even the o... |
18465 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Here, ladies and gentlemen, is for sale Mr. Barnum's Autobiography, full of interest and anecdote, one of the most charming productions ever issued from the press, 900 pages, thirty-two full-page engravings, reduced from $3.50 to $1.50. Every purchaser enters free."
}
] |
18465 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "like Brother Jonathan, will"
}
] |
18465 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If I were a cassowary Far away in Timbuctoo, I should eat a missionary, Hat, and boots, and hymn-book too."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What you seek for all your life you will come upon suddenly when the whole family is at dinner,"
}
] |
18465 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No one to love, None to caress?"
}
] |
18465 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Circuses!"
}
] |
18465 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dake anyding, But leaf dot Yawcob Strauss."
}
] |
18465 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yas--always last; expecial at funerals and weddings. Except his own--he's sure to be on time at his own funeral. Right out in front! Hah? But sometimes he misses his wedding. Why, I knowed a feller--yous all knowed him, begoshens!--that didn't git there tell another feller'd mar... |
18465 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "went more and more in the direction of the station--left him more and more"
}
] |
18465 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now, boys, chust look at 'em! Dogged if they ain't bose like one another! How's the proferb? Birds of a feather flock wiss one another? I dunno. Anyhow, Sef flocks wiss Betz constant. And they understand one another good. Trotting like a sidewise dog of a hot summer's day!"
}
... |
18465 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I wonder what for kind of anchel he'd make, anyhow? And Betz--they'll have to go together. Say, I wonder if it _is_ horse-anchels?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, it ought to be. Say--he ken perform circus wiss ol' Betz!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value... |
18465 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Chust stopped you afore you got to be a anchel! he was saying."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We couldn't bear to sink about you being a anchel--an' wiss the anchels stand--a harp upon your forehead, a crown within your hand, I expect--when it's corn-planting time."
... |
18465 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yassir, Sef, if you'd a-got yere at a inch and a quarter apast! Now Sam's got her. Down in the cellar a-licking molasses together! Doggone if Sam don't git eferysing--except his due bills. He don't want to be no anchel tell he dies. He's got fun enough yere--but Seffy--you're li... |
18465 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hold on there, Jefferson Dafis Busby, he chid."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don't allow no one to laugh at my Seffy--except chust me--account I'm his daddy. It's a fight-word the next time you do it."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He don't seem to n... |
18465 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Gone! he announced then."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Who's the purchaser? Come forwards and take away you' property. What's the name, please? Then he pretended to recognize her."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oach! Sally! Well, that's lucky! He goes ... |
18465 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come to the house and git his clothes. Eferysing goes in--stofepipe hat, butterfly necktie, diamond pin, toothbrush, hair-oil, razor and soap."
}
] |
18465 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What Sephenijah P. Baumgartner, Senior, hath j'ined together, let nobody put athunder, begoshens!"
}
] |
18465 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sef--Seffy, I thought it was his old watch he was auctioning off. I wanted it for--for--a nest-egg! aha-ha-ha! You must excuse me."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You wouldn't 'a' bid at all if you'd knowed it was me, I reckon,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"valu... |
18465 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oach! go 'long and make lofe some more. I like to see it. I expect I am an old fool, but I like to see it--it's like ol' times--yas, and if you don't look out there, Seffy, I'll take a hand myself--yassir! go 'long!"
}
] |
18465 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Seffy--I _do_--like you, said the coquette."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And you ought to know it. You imp!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I like _you_, he said--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Sef--I don't believe you. Or you wouldn't was... |
18465 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now you shouting, Seffy! Shout ag'in!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I didn't say a word!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well--it ain't too late! Go on!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Nice gal, Sef--Seffy!"
},
{
"from": "human",
... |
18465 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Bring forth the stovepipe, The stovepipe, the stovepipe--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And my butterfly necktie with--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Wiss the di'mond on?"
}
] |
18465 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And--and--and--Sef--Seffy, what you goin' to _do_?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Do?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yas--yas--that's the most important. He encircled Seffy's waist and gently squeezed it."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, o... |
18465 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A gal that ken jump a six-rail fence--and wissout no running start--don't let her git apast you!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, I'm going to set up with her to-night, said Seffy again, with a huge ahem. And the tune his father whistled as he opened the door for... |
18465 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Look a-yere, Seffy, it's about two inches apast seven--and by the time you git there--say, _nefer_ gif another feller a chance to git there afore you or to leave after you!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Sunder, Sef! You as beautiful as the sun, moon and stars--and a... |
18465 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Insurance Man,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Put up!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Spoons for the spooney,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "To every Jester in the land, I lend my omnipresent hand; I've filled in Jokes of every grade Since ev... |
18465 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hey! Wonder where Jimmy is gone to?"
}
] |
18465 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "RINGWORM FRANK"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ringworm Frank,"
}
] |
18465 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dad-burn climate out here makes Me homesick all Winter long, And when Springtime _comes_, it takes Two pee-wees to sing one song,-- One sings '_pee_' And the other one '_wee_!' Stay right where you air, old pard.-- Wisht _I_ wuz this postal-card!"
}
] |
18465 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ver sheap, said the peddler, following her eye, and taking up a pair of glass pitchers;"
}
] |
18465 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They are certainly very cheap,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "They is, for true, my mistress, said Chloe, with solemnity,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Chloe, said mamma,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, ma'am, said she;"
},
{
"f... |
18465 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mr. Peddler, said mamma, in a very soft tone,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, ver fair, said he,"
}
] |
18465 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You will let me have these pitchers, said mamma, with a look of concentrated resolution,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Tish not possibles. I will give two pishers and von prush for te pantaloon and waistcoat."
}
] |
18465 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Te closhesman's give noting for dish."
}
] |
18465 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Pretty! pretty!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ki! if dem ting an't shine too much!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "So they are pretty, my darling,"
}
] |
18465 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Tish ver goot pargains for te lady,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I can not think of letting you have all these things without something more. You must at least throw in that little tray,"
}
] |
18465 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I shall not make a bargain without _that_,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Tish ver great pargains for te lady."
}
] |
18465 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Rub down Beauty, Mark, and tell Diggory to call out the hounds."
}
] |
18465 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do stop, Colonel, said mamma,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What, this trash? said he, pausing a moment at the table--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Colonel, said mamma, coloring highly,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I can not stop a minu... |
18465 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Wife! Chloe! Cornelia! come and find my drab coat!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Wife, said he, beating aside the externals of man that hung about his dressing-room,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, colonel, you know you had not worn that coat for m... |
18465 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Smiling 'Round the World"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "His book--like American conversation--is made up of anecdotes. He talks intimately of Richard Croker, President McKinley, President Harrison, Joseph Jefferson, Senator Depew, Henry Watterson, Gen. Horace Porter,... |
18465 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Sunny Side of the Street"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "can be truly said of Marshall P. Wilder, the captivating entertainer of Presidents, Kings, Princes, and the great public. As the Hon. Chauncey M. Depew says,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "His ... |
18465 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A Disappointment"
}
] |
302092 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Who on earth's that white woman?"
}
] |
310163 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, is that so?"
}
] |
137870 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Are you the only survivor?"
}
] |
934720 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Orrell Pow,"
}
] |
24096 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why are they so devoid of eloquence? thought Durtal."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have had the curiosity to listen to many of them, and they are much the same. They only vary in the tones of their voice. According to their temperament, some are bruised down in vi... |
24096 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Afterwards, he continued,"
}
] |
24096 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "De Profundis."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "De profundis ad te clamavi, Do-- and then stopped in fatigue, letting the last syllables"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "fall like a heavy tear; then these voices of children, near breaking, took up the second... |
24096 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Et lux perpetua luceat eis --the children's voices broke into a sad, silken cry, a sharp sob, trembling on the word"
}
] |
24096 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "De Profundis so chanted was incomparably beautiful. That sublime prayer ending in sobs, at the moment when the soul of the voices was about to overpass human limits, gave a wrench to Durtal's nerves, and made his heart beat. Then he wished to abstract himself, and cling especial... |
24096 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Regina Coeli"
}
] |
24096 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "De Profundis,"
}
] |
24096 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Adeste Fideles and in the Paschal hymn"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "O Filii et Filiæ;"
}
] |
24096 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dies iræ,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "De Profundis"
}
] |
24096 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dona eis requiem,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No man."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dies iræ"
}
] |
24096 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This time, for instance, it is devoid of interest, he continued, ceasing his thoughts for a moment, to listen to the piece of modern music which the choir was just then rendering."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ah, who will take on himself to proscribe that pert myst... |
24096 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "De Profundis"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That was good,"
}
] |
24096 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Requiem æternam dona eis Domine Et lux perpetua luceat eis."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "De Profundis and the"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dies iræ,"
}
] |
24096 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Non intres in judicium cum servo tuo Domine"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Libera me!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dies iræ,"
}
] |
24096 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "From the gates of hell deliver him, O Lord!"
}
] |
24096 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We have done what we could, but ... but ..."
}
] |
24096 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If, continued Durtal,"
}
] |
24096 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dies iræ,"
}
] |
24096 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dies iræ and the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Libera,"
}
] |
24096 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yet I must not think too ill of these wealthy fools, said Durtal, after silent thought,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I might as well have tried to pray, he said to himself,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "he said to himself, getting up, and following t... |
24096 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But, said he,"
}
] |
24096 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "On the other hand, if I ignore the course and stages of my conversion, I can at least guess the motives which, after a life of indifference, have brought me into the harbours of the Church, made me wander round about her borders, and finally gave me a shove from behind to bring ... |
24096 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Let me chase away these phantoms by work, he cried. But at what should he work? He had just published the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Life of Gilles de Rais, which might interest a few artists, and he now remained without a subject, on the hunt for a book. As, in ... |
24096 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Physionomies de Saints"
}
] |
24096 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Imitation of Jesus Christ"
}
] |
24096 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then, he said to himself,"
}
] |
24096 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I went to the church, that hospital for souls. There, at least, they take you in, put you to bed and nurse you, they do not merely turn their backs on you as in the wards of Pessimism and tell you the name of your disease."
}
] |
24096 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Stabat Mater"
}
] |
24096 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Et homo factus est"
}
] |
24096 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is impossible that the alluvial deposits of Faith which have created this musical certainty are false. The accent of these declarations is such as to be superhuman, and far from profane music, which has never attained to the solid grandeur of this naked chant."
},
{
"... |
24096 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ah, were it possible to steep the church in the glowing atmosphere of Notre Dame des Victoires, and join to its meagre psalmody the powerful choir of St. Sulpice, that would be complete, said Durtal,"
}
] |
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