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34721 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Very quietly he suited the action to the word, sparing none."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Vernon hid his face on Eric's shoulder; and, as his brother stooped over him and folded him to his heart, they cried in silence, for there seemed no more to say, until, wearie... |
34721 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Let me call you Edwin, and you shall always call me Eric."
}
] |
34721 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "(I think Mr. A. C. Benson said so.) Still, Mr. Kipling never touches any subject which he does not adorn, and in _Stalky_ he brings out vividly some of the salient features of modern school life. He has drawn masters as they have never been drawn before: the portraits may be cru... |
34721 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Their years forbade them even to shape their thoughts clearly to themselves. They felt savagely that they were being outraged by a fat man who considered marbles a game.... What, in the name of everything caddish, was he driving at, who waved this horror before their eyes?"
},... |
34721 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Not my own; my Governor's!"
}
] |
34721 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "MY PEOPLE"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Are your people coming for Speech Day?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, worse luck!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It is a bore, agrees Smith."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I wanted ... |
34721 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "their heads when on a visit to School without opening the way for breaches of etiquette and social outrages of the most deplorable kind. Left to themselves, fathers are addicted to entering into conversation with casual masters--especially masters who in the eyes of a boy are to... |
34721 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, Dad, that's the Head. Look the other way, or he'll notice you.... For goodness sake, Mum, don't stop and talk to _this_ fellow: he's in the Boat. _Who is that dear little boy with brown eyes?_ Great Scott, how should I know all the rotten little ticks in the Lower School?..... |
34721 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, sir, and"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, sir,"
}
] |
34721 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Is the work difficult?_ Bless you, we don't do any _work_: we just rot Duck-face. We simply rag his soul out. _What do we do to him?_ Oh, all sorts of things. _What sort?_ Well, the other day he started up his usual song about the necessity of absolute attention and concentratio... |
34721 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I expect we can safely leave that question to Mr. Allnutt's discretion, Mary, he observes drily."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "After all, Reggie is not the only boy in the House."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, I am sure he is not, concedes Mrs. Bro... |
34721 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What pretty cups those are on that shelf, she says in a clear voice to her brother."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Are they Mr. Allnutt's prizes?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes,"
}
] |
34721 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What a lot he has got, says Miss Brown, in an undertone now."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Was he a great athlete?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He thinks he was. When he gets in a bait over anything it is always a sound plan to get him to talk about ... |
34721 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "do not visit the School solely for the purpose of bringing social disaster upon their offspring. Their first visit, at any rate, is of a very different nature. On this occasion they come in the capacity of what Headmasters call"
}
] |
34721 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I think we shall be able to lick him into shape,"
}
] |
34721 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ah! he remarks."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Now you are laying an invidious task upon me. Who am I, to discriminate between my colleagues' Houses?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Between ourselves, he says,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I... |
34721 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't want my son taught any of your new-fangled nonsense, he explains breezily."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Just a good sound education, without frills! The boy will have to earn his own living afterwards, and I want you to teach him something which will enable... |
34721 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There he is! he bellows."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Now you've _got_ him! Ram it into him! Learn him to be a scholar, and I'll pay any bill you like to send in. I've got the dibs. He's not a bad lad, as lads go, but he wants his jacket dusted now and then. My fat... |
34721 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But at this point the new-style parent breaks right away from tradition--kicks over the traces, in fact. Despatching that slightly dazed but on the whole deeply gratified infant martyr, Master Tommy, to salve outraged nature at an adjacent Picture Palace, the parent sits down at... |
34721 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How to Preserve Home Influences at School."
}
] |
34721 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Boys are always reasonable; masters sometimes; parents never!"
}
] |
34721 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dearest Artie"
}
] |
34721 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "BUMPSIT, LONDON."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "), and your violin-playing (which I note is"
}
] |
34721 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "V. K. and"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "O. P. H. : they are Killick and Higginson, aren't they? But who are"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A. C. N. and"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "M. P. G."
}
] |
34721 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Forty Years of Missionary Endeavour in Eastern Polynesia._ Presented by E. Bumpleigh, Nov. 8."
}
] |
34721 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and get to the root of the matter, finds himself sitting beside a pleasant English stranger at a public dinner. They will converse, possibly about sport, or politics, or wireless telegraphy. The pleasant Englishman may be one of the best game shots in the country, or a Privy Cou... |
34721 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Good time for the mile, wasn't it?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes; but look at the way he has been sweating up for it. He's been in training for weeks. Did you see Jinks in the high jump, though? He cleared five foot four, and never turned out to practice once. T... |
34721 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Pretty good, Sparkleigh getting a Schol, wasn't it? remark the rank and file to one another."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He never did a stroke of work for it, and when he went up for his exam. he went on the bust the night before. Jolly good score off the Head: he... |
34721 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Wake me at a quarter to six,"
}
] |
34721 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "--to quote John Shand--is the most important business in life. Success is far too momentous a thing to be jeopardised by false modesty; so why waste time and spoil one's chances by pretending that it is a mere accident in life--the gift of chance or circumstance? The American, t... |
34721 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and is promptly sacrificed. Presumption is the deadliest sin in school life, and is usually punished with a ferocity out of all proportion to the offence. In moderation, Convention is a very salutary deity. None of us are of much use in this world until we have found our level a... |
34721 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Who are you, inquired his friends afterwards,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He remembers the historic"
}
] |
920635 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You're to lead with me, Miss, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Are you ready?"
}
] |
775720 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ah! what you read about them is often very much exaggerated,"
}
] |
180274 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "12"
}
] |
309726 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, yes; I admit, till the boats come in, we're poor men."
}
] |
42729 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A DAUGHTER OF HETH,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "MACLEOD OF DARE,"
}
] |
42729 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I will stay here, grandfather."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not at all, the old man answered, impatiently."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Not at all. Come along!"
}
] |
42729 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My granddaughter, Maisrie, Lord Musselburgh,"
}
] |
42729 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well now, that seems a very admirable project of yours, Mr. Bethune, Lord Musselburgh said, in his frank and off-hand way."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There’s plenty of Scotch blood in my own veins, as you know; and I am glad of any good turn that can be done to p... |
42729 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You have an excellent memory, Lord Musselburgh said, good-naturedly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Those patriotic effusions seem to have impressed you."
}
] |
42729 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, that’s nothing, Lord Musselburgh said, easily;"
}
] |
42729 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I quite understand, Mr. Bethune, he said, so that she should not overhear,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Whatever your lordship pleases."
}
] |
42729 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I hope that will help; and I shall be glad to hear of the progress of the work."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I thank your lordship,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Maisrie!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Good-bye!"
}
] |
42729 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ready, Vin? Come along, then! Did you hear the old man and his poetry?—a harmless old maniac, I think. Well, let’s be off to Victoria; we’ll get down to the Bungalow in time for a good hour’s lawn-tennis before dinner."
}
] |
42729 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Grandfather, said the girl,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Certainly not, he answered with decision."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I wish you to see men and things as part of your education. Live and learn, Maisrie—every moment of your life."
}
] |
42729 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Good afternoon, Mr. Glover, old George Bethune said, with something of an air of quiet patronage,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I wish to order some claret from you."
}
] |
42729 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Claret, Mr. Glover, said the old man, with a certain sententiousness and assumption of importance that he had not displayed in speaking to Lord Musselburgh,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I hope he got paid,"
}
] |
42729 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, yes, of course, he said, hastily:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The greatest financier France has ever possessed, the old man said, grandly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Though he was by profession a soldier, when he came to tackle the finances o... |
42729 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Grandfather, she asked, with obvious hesitation,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why, yes, yes, yes, certainly, the old man said, with much cheerfulness."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Certainly. Something substantial too. Why not?"
},
{
"from": ... |
42729 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I hope, grandfather, you won’t think of remaining in this country on my account. Perhaps it is better to read about those beautiful places, and to dream about them, than to see them—you remember ’Yarrow Unvisited.’ And indeed, grandfather, if you are collecting materials for tha... |
42729 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I’m wearin’ awa’, Jean, Like snaw-wreaths in thaw, Jean, I’m wearin’ awa’, To the land o’ the leal; There’s nae sorrow there, Jean, There’s neither cauld nor care, Jean, The day’s aye fair In the land o’ the leal."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There’s Scotch blood i... |
42729 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We hear nae mair liltin’ at our yowe-milkin’, Women and bairns are dowie and wae; Sighin’ and moanin’, on ilka green loanin’— The Flowers o’ the Forest are a’ wede away."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, yes, he said, as he rose and came away from the window,"
},... |
42729 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Grandfather—you will not be angry—?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What’s this, now?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Grandfather, she continued, in almost piteous embarrassment."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I—I wish to say something to you—... |
42729 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I will work—oh, I will work night and day, grandfather, she continued, wildly,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Have you finished?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am glad of this opportunity, he said, in a formal and measured fashion."
},
{
"from... |
42729 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, said he, in the same proud fashion;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Come, light the gas, Maisrie; and let us talk about something else. What I say is this, that if anyone, recognising the injustice that I and mine have suffered, should feel it due to himself, due ... |
42729 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Who were those two?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Didn’t you listen while the old gentleman was declaiming away? Lord Musselburgh made answer."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "An enthusiastic Scot, if ever there was one! I suppose you never heard of the ... |
42729 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, come along, Vin—let’s get to Victoria."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, if you don’t mind, Musselburgh, said the other, with downcast eyes, and something of embarrassment,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I would rather—not go down to the Bungalow... |
42729 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do not be so sad! You are not so much alone. Let me be by your side for a little while—until you speak—until you tell me what I can do—until you say ’Yes, I take you for my friend!’"
}
] |
42729 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Good morning! or"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Good evening!"
}
] |
42729 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Progress of Nations,"
}
] |
42729 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What’s this now? said the pretty Mrs. Ellison to the young man, as he came and pulled in a chair and sate down by her."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Haven’t you had any dinner?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Good little children come in with dessert, s... |
42729 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I say, Vin, she remarked, incidentally,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I thought you would admire them, said he."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They are my father’s own design."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Really! I call them very handsome... |
42729 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I’m going to the Drawing Room to-morrow, Vin, said she,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am thinking of making a little change in my arrangements, said he."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There is too much distraction here; especially at this time of the... |
42729 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The standard on the braes o’ Mar, is up and streaming rarely"
}
] |
42729 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Auld Robin Gray;"
}
] |
42729 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Kathleen Mavourneen"
}
] |
42729 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come in!"
}
] |
42729 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ah, Hobson! said Mr. Bethune, in his lofty manner."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well?"
}
] |
42729 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I beg your pardon, sir, said he, in the most deplorable of Cockney accents,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I ’umbly beg your pardon for making so bold; but knowing as you was so fond of everything Scotch, I took the liberty of bringing you a sample of something very ... |
42729 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Thanks—thanks! said George Bethune, as he lit his long clay pipe."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I will see what my granddaughter says when she comes in—unless you would like to use the tickets yourself."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, no, sir, beggi... |
42729 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What—more verses? said Mr. Bethune, good-naturedly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, let’s see them. But take a seat, man, take a seat."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But wouldn’t you allow me, sir, to fetch you a little drop of the whiskey—I assure... |
42729 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And if you will excuse my being so bold, sir, continued Hobson, with great humility,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Trying your hand at that, too?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Only a verse, sir."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "O leese me on... |
42729 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hobson! she exclaimed; and at this awful sound the bold warrior seemed to collapse into a limp rag."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am surprised—I am _indeed_ surprised! Really, sir, how can you encourage him in such impudence? Seated at your own table and drinking ... |
42729 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But why did you go to such expense, grandfather? Maisrie said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You know I am quite happy enough in spending the evening at home with you. And every day now I ask myself when I am to begin copying the poems—for the volume, you know. You ... |
42729 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What is that, grandfather?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If you had been brought up in Scotland, Maisrie, you would know what the bigging o’ bourocks is among children—play-houses in the sand. But sometimes the word is applied to huts or cottages, as it is in the ti... |
42729 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It’s very sad, grandfather,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The way of the world—the way of the world, said he; and observing that she had finished and was waiting for him, he forthwith rose and went to the mantelpiece for his pipe."
},
{
"from": "human",
... |
42729 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hallo, said Mr. Bethune, when he heard the first low-rippling notes,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, grandfather, Maisrie replied, rather timidly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Last night, when you were out, some one played."
},
{
"from": "... |
42729 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ah, Maisrie, it was no music-master taught you that; it was born in your nature. Sometimes I wonder if a capacity for intense sympathy means an equal capacity for suffering; it is sad if it should be so; a thick skin would be wholesomer—as far as I have seen the world; and few h... |
42729 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": ""
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": ""
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "or something of that kind; whereas, if it had been a man who occupied those rooms, surely they would have heard—during the day, for example—a fine bold ditty like"
},
{
"from": "gpt... |
42729 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do you guess? Are you angry? No, do not be angry!"
}
] |
42729 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Are you forgetting your good-natured neighbour over there? her grandfather asked."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It will be quite a disappointment for her. Poor thing, it appears to be the only society she has; we never hear a sound otherwise; there seems to be no on... |
42729 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There, now, Maisrie, that is an invitation: you must answer."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, no, grandfather, she said, almost in distress."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I would rather not—you don’t know—you must find out something about—about whoev... |
42729 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I beg your pardon, sir, said he,"
}
] |
42729 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I thank you—I thank you, said George Bethune, with much dignity."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I had not observed. But you will want the umbrella for yourself—we can get shelter under one of the trees."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Would that be wise,... |
42729 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is a very quiet little corner, is it not? the young man said—almost as if answering that unspoken question."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That is why it suits me so well; I can get on with my books without interruption. The street is so small that it isn’t worth ... |
42729 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And you—you also play a little in the evenings sometimes?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I hope you didn’t think it rude, sir, the young man said, humbly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I thought it permissible, as between neighbours."
},
{
"fro... |
42729 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My name is Harris, the young man said, as though these confidences were all as a matter of course between neighbours."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It isn’t a very distinguished name; but one has to take what is given one. It is not of much consequence."
},
{
... |
42729 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Grandfather,"
}
] |
42729 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You have been to Omaha, then?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, yes, of course."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "For my granddaughter here, he continued, with a smile,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, indeed,"
},
{
"from": "human",
... |
42729 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am sure I ought to apologise to Miss Bethune for having taken up so much of your time. Rather an unwarrantable intrusion; but I don’t think there is any chance of the rain coming now—and—and—so I will say good-bye."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Good-bye—glad to ha... |
42729 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A very agreeable young man, that, said Mr. Bethune, with decision, as he rose to his feet and intimated to his granddaughter that they had better set forth again."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Frank in manner, gentle, courteous, intelligent, too—very different from ... |
42729 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He had no right to come up and speak to you, grandfather,"
}
] |
42729 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come, now, Maisrie, said he, in a gay fashion,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Grandfather, how can you ask me?"
}
] |
42729 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Grandfather, if you—if you really think the young gentleman wished to be kind and obliging—and—and if you would like to show him some little politeness in return—couldn’t you step across the way—and—and see him, and talk to him for a few minutes? Perhaps he would be glad of that... |
42729 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Vin, what has happened to you to-day?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What do you mean, aunt?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Something has happened to you to-day, she went on, confidently."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You can’t hoodwink me.... |
42729 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The story is as clear as noonday, she continued, in the same undertone."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You come home every night between nine and ten. Why? Because she is an actress, playing in the first piece only; and of course the theatre loses its attraction for ... |
42729 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Voluntary, do you see, aunt?—that is the very essence of the scheme, he rambled on, while she appeared to be listening gravely."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Thompson will have nothing to do with force; he himself points out that if you once bring in force to redres... |
42729 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have a commission from your father, Vin, said he."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am to persuade you of the sweet reasonableness of his project—that you should for a time become the private secretary of Mr. Ogden."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The p... |
42729 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You seem anxious that I should marry, said he, bluntly;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, no, thank you! she replied, with promptitude."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I know when I have had— Apparently she was on the point of saying that she knew when ... |
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