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21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, Harold Wilkins says----"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don't see why you girls always scoff so at Harold Wilkins, said Fred, slightly aggrieved,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He needs no further worshippers,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"va... |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If one simply made up one's mind to walk through all the hampering circumstances, who or what could stop one?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Algitha has evidently got some desperate plan in her head for making mincemeat of circumstances,"
},
{
"from": "human"... |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am not going to be hawked about the county till I am disposed of. It does not console me in the least, that _all_ the foxes are without tails, she went on, taking short cuts to her meaning, in her excitement."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am going to London with... |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Next time I meet Harold Wilkins, said Fred, drawing a long breath,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I will tell him that if a girl does not marry, she can devote herself to the poor."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Or that she can remain to be the family c... |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It _does_ seem to indicate rather a broken-down family!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I wish one of you boys would undertake the position instead of laughing at _me_, exclaimed Hadria in mock resentment."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I wish _you_ woul... |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Other married women always look such fools beside mother!"
}
] |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No doubt it is all superstition and nonsense, she used to say,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, have your own way, Mr. Fullerton would reply,"
}
] |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Picturesque! Mr. Fullerton used to cry with a snort;"
}
] |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If you will provide the ditch-water, I will provide the microscope,"
}
] |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If Buchanan would only adopt my plan of destroying them, said Mr. Fullerton,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's some chemical, isn't it?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, no; that's no use at all! Wasps positively enjoy chemicals. What you do is this-... |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "When once the prejudice against a new thing has been got over, said the man of science,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, Algitha, said her father, wondering at her silence,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, no, father, the sweet-brier has been orde... |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It can't be fair even for parents to order one's whole life according to their pleasure, she said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Other girls submit, I know----"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And so the world is full of abortive, ambiguous beings, fit f... |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "After all, she said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, of course, said Algitha,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Very well then, cried Hadria,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am quite ready to give gratitude and sacrifice too, said Algitha,"... |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It was worse than I had feared, Algitha said, with a quiver in her voice."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I _know_ I am right, and yet it seems almost more than I am equal for. When I told mother, she turned deadly white, and I thought, for a moment, that she was goin... |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do try and reconcile them to the idea,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It breaks my heart to see father look so fixed and angry, and mother so miserable. I am not going away for ever. Dear me, a day's journey will bring me back, at any time."
},
{
"from": "hum... |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Daughters of Time, the hypocritic Days, Muffled and dumb, like barefoot Dervishes, And marching single in an endless file, Bring diadems and faggots in their hands. To each they offer gifts after his will, Bread, kingdoms, stars, and sky that holds them all. I, in my pleached ga... |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I really can't see, said the mother, when the daughter proposed to set apart certain hours for household duties, and to have other portions of the day to herself,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I really can't see why a girl's little occupations should be treated with... |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Your father and I now look to you, Hadria. I do think that you are beginning to feel a little what your duty is. If _you_ also were to turn deserter in our old age, I think it would kill us."
}
] |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "With all its drawbacks, this existence of hard work (yet not too hard) suits me exactly. It uses up my energies; yet, in spite of the really busy life I lead, I literally have more leisure than I used to have at home, where all through the day, there was some little detail to be... |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Can I direct you, or give you any assistance?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, thank you, you are very kind. I have come over from Ballochcoil to explore the country. I have been trying to find out the history of the old houses of the district. Could you tell me, b... |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The tradition is, that on stormy nights one can still hear the sound of the attack, the shouts of the men and the father's imprecations."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A horrible story!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "When people say the world has not pr... |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You have a lovely home, said Valeria Du Prel,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Would you be happy here?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, of course that would depend. I am, I fear, too roving by nature to care to stay long in one place. Still I envy gi... |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You must see the drawing-room,"
}
] |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mother, she said,"
}
] |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I fear Miss Du Prel will not find much to see in the old house,"
}
] |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We have been all over the house,"
}
] |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is all very old and shabby, said Mrs. Fullerton."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I hope you will take some tea; if you have walked far to-day, you must be cold and in need of something to eat."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh no, no, thank you, retur... |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I cannot make you realize that you are an ignorant girl who knows nothing of the world, and that it is necessary you should accept my experience, and condescend to be guided by my wishes. You put me in a most unpleasant position this afternoon, forcing me to receive a person who... |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She seems a nice-like body, said Mrs. McEwen,"
}
] |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I wanted to know if you were comfortable, if I could do anything for you."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh no, thank you; you are very kind. I am most comfortable--at least--it is very strange, but I have lost my keys and my umbrella and my handbag--I can't think wh... |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And when I see those wretched girls fluttering round Mr. Wilkins, I no longer turn up my 'aughty nose' (as old Mrs. Brooks used to say). I only think to myself, 'Heavens and earth! what an aching, empty life those young women must lead, if they are actually reduced for interest ... |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This weather recalls so many autumns, she said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It reminds me too vividly of wonderful days, whose like I shall never see again, and friends, many of whom are dead, and many lost sight of in this inexorable coming and going of people an... |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Most people who live always in one place see the changes creeping on so gradually that they scarcely feel them, but with me this universal flux displays itself pitilessly, I cannot escape. Go where I will, there is something to measure the changes by. A shoal of yellow leaves wh... |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I think the impossible lesson to learn would be renouncement, said Hadria."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I cannot conceive how anyone could say to himself, while he had longings and life still in him, 'I will give up this that I might have learnt; I will stop short ... |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "As I thought, exclaimed Hadria,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I shall be glad to see this conquering hero,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Good morning, Miss Fullerton."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Good morning,"
},
{
"from": "huma... |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't you feel a little cramped out there?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Dear me, no, cried Hadria in mock surprise."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What could induce you to suppose I would come out here if I felt cramped?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
... |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The eternal riddle!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What is the eternal riddle?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Woman, woman!"
}
] |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We are invited to tennis at their house, for next Tuesday, said Harold,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Don't you? I am attracted by originality. I like a woman to have something in her."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Depends on what it is. I hate a girl... |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You have seen Mrs. Gordon, she said at length,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Nothing; she does not inspire thought."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yet once she was a person, not a thing."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If a woman can't keep ... |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, Miss Du Prel, cried Hadria,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don't understand what you mean, said Miss Du Prel."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do explain."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Do you actually--_you_ of all people--not recognize... |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I hear that you not only perform but compose, Miss Fullerton, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "As soon as I heard that, I felt that I must make your acquaintance. My friends, the Gordons, are very charming, but they don't understand a note of music, and I am b... |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hadria! cried Mrs. Fullerton, taking her aside,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "How _could_ you ask Cecilia Gordon to play with young McKenzie? You _know_ their families are not on speaking terms!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How does Miss Gordon manag... |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, Hadria, how _could_ you?"
}
] |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am so sorry, said Hadria,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, well, never mind, my dear; it is your way, I know. Only of course it is awkward."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What can be done? Shall I run in and separate them?"
},
{
"from": "gpt... |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How very handsome Hadria is looking this afternoon, said Mrs. Gordon,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, she does look her best to-day. I think she has been improving, of late, in her looks."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's just what we have all n... |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ah, Miss Du Prel, cried the latter,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am so glad to see you at large again. I was afraid you were getting bored."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I was, said Miss Du Prel frankly,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I... |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A vast deal of nonsense is talked in the name of philosophy, he observed, in a tone of gay self-confidence peculiar to him, and more indicative of character than even what he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "People seem to think that they have only to quote Spenc... |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I often think that modern women might take example from these little creatures, said Temperley, who, in common with many self-sufficient persons, was fond of recommending humility to others."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If our great Mother wanted instinct she shoul... |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "as his companion afterwards described it. She chafed at the exhortation to"
}
] |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Professor Fortescue, don't you remember me?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Miss Du Prel! This is incredible!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "By what happy misunderstanding am I thus favoured by the gods?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Prodigi... |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I can scarcely believe that it is ten years since I was here,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I used to visit my friends at Dunaghee every autumn, and now if some one were to assure me that I had been to sleep and dreamt a ten years' dream, I should be disposed to cre... |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Is that a son of the celebrated Judge Temperley?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "His eldest son, answered Mr. Gordon;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have scarcely had a word with you, the whole afternoon,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That... |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You mean to tell me that this is the little girl who used to take me for walks, and who had such an inordinate appetite for stories! Good heavens, it is incredible!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "They change so much at that age, in a short time,"
}
] |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do you know, said the Professor,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I was turning into a French sweet-shop the other day, to buy my usual tribute for the children, when I suddenly remembered that they would no longer be children, and had to march out again, crestfallen, ... |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do you remember that day when----?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We thought him a good and kind magician when we were children, was Hadria's thought,"
}
] |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This man, Hadria said to herself, drawing a long, relieved breath,"
}
] |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "However cultivated or charming a person may be, Temperley said to Hadria,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I never feel that I have found a kindred spirit, unless the musical instinct is strong."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nor I."
},
{
"from": ... |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You would have thought that when Miss Du Prel and Professor Fortescue arrived on the scene, I had about enough privileges; but no, Destiny, waking up at last to her duties, remembers that I have a maniacal passion for music, and that this has been starved. So she hastens to prov... |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I think you would like my mother,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And I am sure she would like you."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "On that point I cannot offer an opinion."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Don't you ever come to town?"
},
{
... |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "To think that I should ever have dared to offer this young lady acidulated drops!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ah! shall I ever forget those acidulated drops!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You don't mean to say that you would stoop to them now?"
},... |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I wonder what you like best, next to acidulated drops,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There are few things in this wide world that can be mentioned in the same breath with them, but toffy also has its potency upon the spirit."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value... |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You must have read some of my thoughts, she said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I often wonder how it is, that the world can drill women into goodness at all. She raised her head, and went on in a low, bitter tone:"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I ofte... |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ah! a woman ought to be born without pride, or not at all! I wish to heaven that our fatal sex could be utterly stamped out!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We are accused of being at the bottom of every evil under heaven, she added,"
}
] |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have never in my life before ventured to interfere in such matters, the Professor said to Miss Du Prel;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I think it's the best thing that could happen to her,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But they are not suited to one ... |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Father is really too absurd! cried Hadria,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I fear his daughter takes after him,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Engaged"
}
] |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That foolish girl has refused him!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Thank heaven!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why are you so anxious about the matter?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Because I know that a marriage between those two would end... |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why do you say that?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Because of the blundering, merciless way she has made us; because of the needs that she has put into our hearts, and the preposterous payment that she demands for their fulfilment; because of the equally preposterou... |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I see it is a really bad attack, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I sympathize. I have these inconsolable moods myself, sometimes."
}
] |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The contrast between them is so extraordinary!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If only they had not made such fools of their women, I should like to have lived at Athens in the time of Pericles!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I, said Valeria,"
}
] |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Thou who hast given unto us, Thy servants, dominion over the beasts of the field and over every living thing, that they may serve us and minister unto us----"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I must go and see what is the matter, exclaimed the Professor. At the moment, ... |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We had better go,"
}
] |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I can't stand this,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I will come too,"
}
] |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I sometimes feel, he said, with a scornful bitterness that she had not suspected in him,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I sometimes feel that this precious humanity of ours that we are eternally worshipping and exalting, is but a mean, miserable thing, after all, not... |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I had almost come to shrink a little from people, she said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There is only just enough to swear by, said the Professor sadly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We are a lot of half-tamed savages, after all, but we may be thank... |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Just as if any decent fellow would not have done as much for a wounded brute!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There must have been a strange dearth of decent fellows in church that morning then."
}
] |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I admire him only the more for that,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Don't let yourself care too much for him."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Too much!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Don't fall in love with him, if I must be frank."
},
{
... |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What should we all do, asked Hadria,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What does it matter if you do not provide mental food for the crowd, seeking nourishment for their vulgarity? Let them go starve."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But they don't; they go ... |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The horror that is inspired in human beings by that brutality is just as much a part of Nature as the brutality itself,"
}
] |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But, good heavens! the whole plan of life is one of rapine. _We_ did not fashion the spider to prey upon the fly, or the cat to play with the wounded mouse. _We_ did not ordain that the strong should fall upon the weak, and tear and torture them for their own benefit. Surely we ... |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Vicarious sacrifice! he exclaimed, with a sudden outbreak of the scorn and impatience that Hadria had seen in him on one other occasion,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I never heard a doctrine more insane, more immoral, or more suicidal!"
}
] |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Go down into the slums of our great cities, or to the pestilential East, and there observe the survival of the fittest, undisturbed by human knowledge or human pity,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It proves that however bad general conditions may be, _some_ wretches ... |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Besides, do you suppose a race could gain, in the long run, by defiance of its best instincts? Never! If the laws of health in body and in mind were at variance, leaving us a hard choice between physical and moral disease, then indeed no despair could be too black. But all exper... |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is monstrous, it is dastardly, it is damnable!"
}
] |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nature,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "insisted on keeping up the altar fires that they might appease the blood-thirsty goddess by a continuous supply of victims (for the noble purpose of saving the others); the"
}
] |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Suffering, sacrifice, oppression: there is nothing else under the sun, under the sun."
}
] |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's no use your attempting to go, my dear Chantrey, said Mr. Fullerton,"
}
] |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What are your plans for the winter? the Professor asked."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I hope that you will find time to develop your musical gift. It ought to be used and not wasted, or worse than wasted, as all forces are, unless they find their legitimate outlet.... |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But I haven't all the day, or any part of it, for certain,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If you grudge the little services you do for me, pray abandon them,"
}
] |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, it is I who am weak, not circumstance that is strong. If I could keep my mind unmoved by the irritations; if I could quarrel with mother, and displease father, and offend all the world without a qualm, or without losing the delicate balance of thought and mood necessary for... |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and knew how fatal they were. Life _could_ not be exactly as one would have it, and it was absolutely necessary, in order to avoid misery for oneself and others, to consent to take things more or less as they were; to make up one's mind to bend a little, rather than have to brea... |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They think I am living and progressing as they are; they do not know that the riot and stir of intellectual life has ceased. I am like a creature struggling in a quicksand."
}
] |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ah! yes, I know few pleasures so great as that of finding one's own idea, or hope, or longing, finely expressed, half-born thoughts alive and of stately stature; and then the exquisite touches of art upon quick nerves, the enlarging of the realms of imagination, knowledge, the h... |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come now, she said to herself,"
}
] |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Over us stars and under us graves."
}
] |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do the duty that lies nearest thee, counselled everybody: people of all kinds, books of all kinds."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Cheap, well-sounding advice, thought Hadria,"
}
] |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I shall come and see you as soon as I can,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "This is an excellent piece of carving; far superior to the one in the dining-room. Ah, yes, that is charming; so well arranged. You ought to have a touch of blue there to make it perfect."
},... |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Let us hope it speaks well for me, Hadria replied with a cynical smile,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "They do, when they can win them,"
}
] |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have chosen for my subject to-night, said the lecturer,"
}
] |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "While we remember on the one hand, we must not forget on the other----"
}
] |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That pays better for the present,"
}
] |
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