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28467 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My friends, I see your faces to-day and watch the different expressions upon them. How will these faces look when we meet at the Bar of God? Will peace be on them? Or dismay and everlastin' regret?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh yes! The Lord help! Let us hear fro... |
28467 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Bless the Lord!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Don't you know when to say that, and when not to? She might have broke her nose."
}
] |
28467 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "As a father pitieth his children"
}
] |
28467 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Wherefore not being disobedient to the heavenly vision."
}
] |
28467 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Josiah Allen, hain't you ever meandered at all from that straight and narrer way?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No mom, not a inch, not a hair's breadth."
}
] |
28467 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "His face shone like the face of an angel."
}
] |
28467 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What is it, Faith? What is it, dear? Is it the Power?"
}
] |
28467 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, it is the Power, the power and goodness of God. And she whispered in blissful axents,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It is Richard, Richard redeemed and working for my Master."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How come he here?"
},
{
"from": "... |
28467 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Faith!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Richard!"
}
] |
28467 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I had been so wicked, Faith, I had done so much harm, I said I would never seek my own happiness, I would work only for my fellow creatures, striving if I might undo some of my evil work, but I see to-day that I have been an egotist. God would not be offended at my happiness if ... |
28467 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He led me here to-day. I had not seen your face for twenty years, but this morning, at day dawn, I stood at my open window striving to decide to which place I should go to-day. Thro... |
34721 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A SAFETY MATCH"
}
] |
34721 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "MY PEOPLE"
}
] |
34721 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "SIC VOS NON VOBIS"
}
] |
34721 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Blackwood's Magazine,"
}
] |
34721 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Doctor,"
}
] |
34721 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Begorrah! , or a stage sailor from the fact that he has to take constant precautions with his trousers. Thus, the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Doctor invariably addresses his cowering pupils as"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Boys! --a form of address ... |
34721 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Any boy, he announced,"
}
] |
34721 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "he growls, and no one contradicts him. Boys idolise him. In his presence they are paralysed with fear, but away from it they glory in his ferocity of mien and strength of arm. Masters rave impotently at his _brusquerie_ and absolutism; but A says secretly to himself:"
},
{
... |
34721 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He was a holy terror,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Quite so. But in what way?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I can't remember anything particular about him, he said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But tell me something personal about him. ... |
34721 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Several parties of boys, he continued,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "His voice rose to a blare."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I will not have the prestige and fair fame of the School lowered in the eyes of the Town by the vulgar barbarities of a parce... |
34721 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I may mention, he added very gently,"
}
] |
34721 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "the parent deferred entirely to the Headmaster's judgment, and entrusted his son to his care without question or stipulation. But a new race of parents has arisen, men who avow, modestly but firmly, that they have been made not by the Classics but by themselves, and who demand, ... |
34721 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, they inquired bitterly,"
}
] |
34721 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Reg. Col. B.,"
}
] |
34721 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How would you like a subsidy, now, wherewith to build a new science laboratory? What about a few State-aided scholarships? Won't you let us help you? Strict secrecy will be observed, and advances made upon your note of hand alone"
}
] |
34721 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "they growled--"
}
] |
34721 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Certainly, my dear sir, they said:"
}
] |
34721 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A beast, but a just beast,"
}
] |
34721 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In the old Head's day, we never, under any circumstances----"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Are Panama hats permitted by the statutes of the School? I need hardly say that the boy was not a member of my House."
}
] |
34721 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "By the way, isn't Binks tertius your boy?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, do you mind if I flog him?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, come, I say, isn't that rather drastic? What has he done?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Nothing--no... |
34721 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "to be able to unravel a knotty passage in Æschylus,"
}
] |
34721 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "to retire upon--as Binks tertius sometimes discovers to his cost. In other words, a scholar and gentleman's reward for a life of unremitting labour in one of the most exacting yet altruistic fields in the world is a licence to enrich himself for a period of years by"
}
] |
34721 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Towser, or"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Potbelly, or"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Swivel-Eye,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Do you remember the old man's daily gibe when he found us chucking bread at dinner? 'Hah! There will be a bread ... |
34721 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This time I did blub. Not one man in a million would have thought of the sixpence. As a matter of fact, fourpence-halfpenny was all I had in the world."
}
] |
34721 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The heart of a Boy in the body of a Man, he says--"
}
] |
34721 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I want you to take Remove B, Robinson, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "They are a mixed lot. About a quarter of them are infant prodigies--Foundation Scholars--who make this form their starting-point for higher things; and the remainder are centenarians, who ... |
34721 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I hear they have finished the new Squash Courts, announced a big man who was almost sitting upon the fire."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Take you on this afternoon, Jacker?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Have you got a court?"
},
{
"from": "gpt... |
34721 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You must be Robinson, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "My name is Pollard, also of St. Crispin's. Come and dine with me to-night, and tell me how the old College is getting on."
}
] |
34721 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Good morning, Mr. Robinson! (It was a little affectation of the Head's to address his colleagues as 'Mr.' when in cap and gown: at other times his key-note was informal bonhomie)."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Have you your form-room key?"
},
{
"from": "huma... |
34721 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This is Mr. Robinson, he said gruffly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Do what you can for him."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A-a-a-a-a-ah!"
}
] |
34721 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Greek prose scraps!"
}
] |
34721 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "announced Mr. Dumaresq truculently, as he swung into the doorway,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "continued Mr. Dumaresq,"
}
] |
34721 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Seven of you still ignorant of the construction of the simplest conditional sentence! he bellowed."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Come in this afternoon!"
}
] |
34721 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now sit close!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Sitting close"
}
] |
34721 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now go to your desks and write out a fair copy,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "after dinner. Mr. Dumaresq's"
}
] |
34721 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What's up?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Broken neck, inflammation of the lungs, ringworm, and leprosy, old son, announced one of his bearers promptly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You are going to the San."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "... |
34721 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How do you do, sir? Welcome back to another term of labour, sir! Very well, no thank you! Stop shoving, there! Don't you see you are molesting Mr. Methuselah Cayley, M.A.? Permit me to open the door for you, sir! Now then, all together! Use your feet a bit more in the scrum!"
... |
34721 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Make haste, Woolley,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I fear the porter has inserted some obstruction into the interstices of the aperture, sir, explained Master Woolley, in a loud and respectful voice."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He bungs up the hole ... |
34721 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "As our new Latin subject books have not yet been distributed, I shall set you a short passage of unprepared translation this morning."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Would it not be advisable, sir, suggested the head boy--the Upper Fourth addressed their master with a... |
34721 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Someone, he remarked with mild severity,"
}
] |
34721 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I excavated this during the holidays, sir, he explained;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "This is hardly the moment, Benton, replied Mr. Cayley,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Does it belong to the glacial period, sir? he inquired shyly."
},
{
"fr... |
34721 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is impossible for me to say without my magnifying-glass, replied Mr. Cayley, peering myopically at the stone."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But from a cursory inspection I should imagine this particular specimen to be of an igneous nature. Where did you get it?"
... |
34721 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Among the Champion Pills, sir,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The Grampian Hills? said Mr. Cayley, greatly interested. He nodded his head."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That may be so. Geologically speaking, some of these hills were volcanoes yesterday... |
34721 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now we must appoint the Cabinet Ministers for the term."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Please, sir, can I be Scavenger?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Please, sir, can I be Obliterator?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Please, sir, can I be Wi... |
34721 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We'll do a little English literature this morning, and start fair on ordinary work this afternoon. Sit absolutely still for ten minutes while I read to you. Listen all the time, for I shall question you when I have finished. After that you shall question me--one question each, a... |
34721 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Out you get! he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The usual run--round the Founder's Oak and straight back. And no yelling, mind! Remember, there are others. He took out his watch."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I give you one minute. Any boy taking ... |
34721 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Let me see, Wellings would drawl,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am afraid I can't recall your name for the moment. Have you a visiting card about you?"
}
] |
34721 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am addressing you, sir--you in the back bench, with the intelligent countenance and the black-edged finger-nails, Wellings would continue in silky tones."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I asked you a question just now. Have you a visiting card about you?"
},
{
... |
34721 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He who rount the corner looked when op the stairs I game, he announced,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Who was de boy who did dat?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Efter lonch, trumpeted Mr. Klotz,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It was me, sir... |
34721 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Won't you tell us about the Battle of Sedan, sir, as this is the first day of term?"
}
] |
34721 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You liddle Engleesh boys, he concluded,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Waterloo! (There was no"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Vaterloo? replied Mr. Klotz condescendingly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes. But vere would your Engleesh army ... |
34721 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do you mean Blutcher, sir?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Blutcher? Himmel! Nein! roared Mr. Klotz."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I mean Blucher."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I expect he was the same person, sir, said Tomlinson soothingly... |
34721 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You stay dere, he announced to the pair,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The hour is up now, sir!"
}
] |
34721 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There's your journey money, Jackson. Good-bye, and a pleasant holiday!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Thank you, sir. The same to you!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "By the way, I shall want you to join the prefects next term."
},
{
"from": "gpt... |
34721 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hallo! he remarked."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You've been a long time getting your journey-money. Did the old Man try to cut you down?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No.... He says I'm to be a prefect next term."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"va... |
34721 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Fa-a-a-ag!"
}
] |
34721 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Manby, addressing them as"
}
] |
34721 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Less row, there!"
}
] |
34721 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'll be _damned_ if I take it lying down!"
}
] |
34721 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You five, he announces to a party of comparatively youthful offenders,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "--he indicates the incredulous Blake and two burly satellites--"
}
] |
34721 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Swots."
}
] |
34721 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Highbrow. He is a fish out of the water with a vengeance, but he does exist at school--somehow. He congregates in places of refuge with others of the faith; and they discuss the _English Review_, and mysterious individuals who are only referred to by their initials--as G. B. S. ... |
34721 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Get out!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Stay in!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Cads!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Liars!"
}
] |
34721 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Anarchists."
}
] |
34721 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "As an improvised effort the answer seemed to him an extremely good one; but Mr. Bull had promptly left his seat, addressed Nixon as a"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "This sort of thing, observed Rumford tertius, the President,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value... |
34721 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What's that?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's a new kind of explosive,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I hope it's better than that new kind of stinkpot you invented for choir-practice, remarked a cynic from the corner of the study."
},
{
"fro... |
34721 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It ought to be pretty ripe now,"
}
] |
34721 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am sure it will work all right, declared the inventor desperately."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Perhaps the temperature of this fire----"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I said it was only a rotten stinkp--"
}
] |
34721 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Luckily, sir, explained Rumford to Mr. Bull a few days later, in answer to a kindly inquiry as to the extent of the patient's injuries,"
}
] |
34721 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What can you expect from a tripe-dresser, inquire the experts in chorus,"
}
] |
34721 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The electorate of this country, he says to himself,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ah! I have it! he cries presently."
}
] |
34721 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A short passage of Scripture, suggest the Anglicans;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We are afraid that that is sectarian religion, object the Nonconformists."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A simple chapter from the Bible, certainly--maybe a hymn. But no... |
34721 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There is a right way and a wrong way, he is careful to explain;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "At present there is a great craze for what is known as"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "teaching. For instance, in our youth we were informed, _ad nauseam_, tha... |
34721 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You live in a palace, boys! announces the old gentleman."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I envy you. (Murmurs of"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Liar!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "and not a"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why th... |
34721 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am lazy and scatterbrained, he says in effect."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have not as yet developed the power of concentration, and I have no love of knowledge for its own sake. Still, I have no rooted objection to education, as such, and I suppose I must lea... |
34721 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How shall I begin, sir?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Apply the usual tests: I told you about them yesterday in the lecture-room. Take small portions of the substance: ascertain if they are soluble. Observe their effect on litmus. Test them with acid, and note wheth... |
34721 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Skye terriers"
}
] |
34721 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I see you require State protection, said Arthur Robinson one morning, when Chugleigh put in an appearance without a single book of any kind, charged with a rambling legend about his locker and a thief in the night. He scribbled an order."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value":... |
34721 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Write your name in them all,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Now bring all the books here."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "For the future, announced Mr. Robinson, unmasking his batteries,"
}
] |
34721 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do I scribble English words in the margin of my Xenophon? asks the boy."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Certainly. Do I surreptitiously produce loose pages of Euclid from my pocket and copy them out, when I am really supposed to have learned them by heart? Of course. ... |
34721 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If the School Library, they say,"
}
] |
34721 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "From Mr. M----, sir,"
}
] |
34721 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Who broke that window?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It is not broken, sir,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This is not precisely the moment, he rapped out,"
}
] |
34721 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Fourteen-and-nine, announced Mr. Robinson cheerfully."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That is the sum which I have collected from you this term in return for the loan of such useful articles as pens and blotting-paper. I know my charges are high; but then I am a monop... |
34721 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "SIC VOS NON VOBIS"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "a pretty stiff period of play will be interested to note that this battle raged for three hours, and that the Schoolhouse were filled with surprise and rapture at achieving a goal after only sixty minutes' play. ("
}... |
34721 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "upon the field of battle to subordinates who have failed to prevent the enemy from scoring a try. Again, no master of to-day would dare to admit to a boy that he"
}
] |
34721 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How different, we say,"
}
] |
34721 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I won't tell him to read his Bible, and love and serve God; if he don't do that for his mother's sake and teaching, he won't for mine. Shall I go into the sort of temptations he'll meet with? No, I can't do that. Never do for an old fellow to go into such things with a boy. He w... |
34721 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "At this crisis he flung the boy from him with a 'phew' of disgust, and said, 'I give nothing for your word; but if ever you do bully in this way again, and I see or hear of it, your present punishment shall be a trifle to what I shall then administer. At present, thank me for no... |
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