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21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "as Fred afterwards remarked,"
}
] |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Which is equally absurd, said Algitha."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Just as if any two people, when they are beginning to form their characters, could possibly be sure of their sentiments for the rest of their days. They have no business to marry at such an age. Th... |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well done, Algitha, cried Ernest, laughing;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I like to hear you speak out. Now tell me frankly: supposing you married quite young, before you had had much experience; supposing you afterwards found that you and your husband had both been... |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have not known you for seven years, but I am going to poke your fire,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I never thought you would wait so long as that,"
}
] |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It seems to me that you are making a very terrible mistake in your life, Hadria. You have taken up a fixed idea about domestic duties and all that, and are going to throw away your chances of forming a happy home of your own, out of a mere prejudice. You may not admire Mrs. Gord... |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You who uphold all these social arrangements, how do you feel when you find yourself obliged to urge me to marry, not for the sake of the positive joys of domestic existence, but for the merely negative advantage of avoiding a hapless and forlorn state? You propose it as a _pis-... |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What a charming sight!"
}
] |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The gowns are perfect! Temperley ventured to remark."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "So much distinction!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "All my doing, cried Fred."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I chose the colours."
},
{
"from": "huma... |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I hope we are to have some national dances, said Miss Temperley."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "My brother and I are both looking forward to seeing a true reel danced by natives of the country."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, certainly! said Mr. Full... |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How your father seems to enjoy the sight!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He likes nothing so well, and his daughters take after him."
}
] |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You seem fond of your national music,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It fills me with bewildering memories, she said in a dreamy tone."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It seems to recall--it eludes description--some wild, primitive experiences--mountains,... |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then I have not spoken this time quite in vain. I may hope that perhaps some day----"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Some day, repeated Hadria, passing her hand across her eyes."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It doesn't really matter. I mean we make too ... |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then I may hope a little, Hadria--I _must_ hope."
}
] |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Tell me, did you ask your sister to----?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, no, Hubert interposed."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My sister knows of my hopes, and is anxious that I should succeed."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I thought tha... |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, no. I can't, I can't,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I will not listen to denial, he said following her."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I cannot stand a second disappointment. You have allowed me to hope."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "H... |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We are not really at variance, believe me, Temperley pleaded."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You state things rather more strongly than I do--a man used to knocking about the world--but I don't believe there is any radical difference between us."
},
{
"from":... |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Tact! he cried with a snort,"
}
] |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What's the matter with Hadria? asked Fred,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, one of the worst,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am afraid she has been led into accepting Hubert Temperley."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Stuff! Hadria would ... |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What a delightful evening we have had, Mrs. Fullerton, said Miss Temperley."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It was most picturesque and characteristic. I shall always remember the charm and kindliness of Scottish hospitality."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value"... |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There be Mrs. Temperley again! one matron exclaimed."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why this is the second time this week, as she's come and sat in the churchyard along o' the dead. Don't seem nat'ral to my thinking."
}
] |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Time, Death! Time, Death! Time, Death! till the clock had come to the end of its tale, and then the pickaxe went on alone in the stillness--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Death! Death! Death! Death!"
}
] |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That seems rather hard work, Dodge,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ay, that it be, mum; this clay's that stiff! Lord! folks is almost as much trouble to them as buries as to them as bears 'em; it's all trouble together, to my thinkin'."
},
{
"from": "human",
... |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nigh on twenty year, mum, come Michaelmas, replied Dodge."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I've lain my couple o' hundred under the sod, easy; and a fine lot o' corpses they was too, take 'em one with another."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This is a very... |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "When she had her baby, she was like one out of her mind, he continued;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, the wind brought it down the valley; but I did not know whom it was tolling for."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's who it was,"
},
{
"... |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She ain't got no more to suffer now, Dodge remarked, nodding with an aspect of half apology towards the grave."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "They sleeps soft as sleeps here."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Good heavens, I hope so!"
}
] |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If you please, ma'am, the cook says as the meat hasn't come for lunch, and what is she to do?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Without,"
}
] |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Thank goodness, that barbarian is going!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We shall but exchange a Goth for a Vandal,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Is there anything else in the house, Sapph--Sophia?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, ma'am,"
... |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "cried the neighbours) its prosperous and complacent absurdity had been humbled. Mrs. Temperley retired to this refuge after her encounter with Sophia. That perennially aggrieved young person entered almost immediately afterwards and announced a visitor, with an air that implied-... |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, in spite of that time at the station, I'm glad I came. It seems so long since I have seen you, dear Hadria, and the last time you know you were very unhappy, almost mad----"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, yes; never mind about that,"
},
{
"from": "h... |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Surely it is not without meaning that the places of the dead are the serenest spots on earth, said Mrs. Temperley."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If I could keep myself in the mood that the place induces, I think I should not mind anything very much any more. The sun... |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am delighted to see you, Mr. Fleming; but I am grieved to say that we have unluckily only a wretched luncheon to give you, and after your long walk over the fields too! I am _so_ sorry. The fact is we are left, this morning, with a gaping larder, at the mercy of a haughty and ... |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What is the difficulty?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I was explaining to Mr. Fleming how inhospitably we are forced to treat him, on account of that traitor Sanders."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I suppose there is something cold in the house."
},
... |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Where is she? Oh!----"
}
] |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I thought I was dying. But one never dies,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Valeria, said Mrs. Temperley, while that lady was confusedly trying to disentangle hat and hair, hat-pin and head, without involving the entire system in a common ruin--"
},
{
"from": "... |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I judge the presence of oratorio by the absence of food,"
}
] |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If one asks impossible things of life, one is apt to be disappointed, I fear, he said serenely."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ask for the possible and natural harvest of a woman's career, and see if you don't get it."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Let ... |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, we all flatter ourselves that we are observing life, when we are merely noting the occasions when some musty old notion of ours happens, by chance, to get fulfilled."
}
] |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Not assuredly, Valeria remarked with sudden malice,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You would not have been here to see, said Hadria, lazily rolling stones down the hill with her foot."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We should all of us have been dancing ... |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ah! I wish we _were_ all savages in feathers and war-paint, dancing on the edge of some wild forest, with nothing but the sea and the sky for limits!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Do you feel inclined to revert? Hadria enquired."
},
{
"from": "human",
"v... |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is most misleading, she pointed out, to her scoffing brothers."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "One would suppose that marrying was the simplest thing in the world--nothing perilous, nothing to object to about it. A man proposes to you as if he were asking you for t... |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But that is just the most insulting thing about it, Hadria exclaimed."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Insult is so much a matter of course that people are surprised if one takes umbrage at it. Read this passage from Aristotle that I came upon the other day. He is perf... |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And though our well-brought-up girls shrink from the frank speech, they do not appear to shrink from the ideas of the old Greeks. They don't mind playing the part of cows so long as one doesn't mention it."
}
] |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A climax of feminine abjectness!"
}
] |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am almost sure of it, nevertheless, said Hadria."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, believe me, it is common enough! Few grasp it intellectually perhaps, but thousands feel the insult; of that I am morally certain."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What ... |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Is the picture finished?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What, the view from your field? Not quite. I was working at it when Claude Moreton and Mrs. Jordan and Marion arrived, and I have been rather interrupted. That's the worst of visitors. One's little immortal work... |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do you know, we are half hoping that Professor Fortescue may be able to come to us for a week or ten days? said Lady Engleton."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We are so looking forward to it."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Professor Fortescue is always a... |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, it is not settled yet, but the two Professors are coming to us some time soon, I believe, and Professor Theobald will look over the house and see if he thinks it would be too unmanageably big for himself and his old mother and sister. I hope he will take the place. He would ... |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do tell me, Mr. Fleming, if you know, who is that very handsome woman with the white hair? said Lady Engleton."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "She is talking to Mrs. Walker. I seem to know the face."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, that is Miss Valeria... |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I admire your books so much, Miss Du Prel, and I have so often wished to see more of you; but you have been abroad for the last two years, I hear."
}
] |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The young fellow had been behaving very badly,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ungrateful creature, cried Lady Engleton."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Running into debt I suppose."
}
] |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Though it is nice of him in a way,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "His weaknesses are nobler than most people's virtues,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then you number this among his weaknesses?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I would rather s... |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You must have sat at the Professor's feet,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I fear he flies too high for ordinary mortals, she said;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Better perhaps fly fairly high, and come... |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Your last book, _Caterina_, is a mine of suggestion, Miss Du Prel, she said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It raises one most interesting point that has puzzled me greatly. I don't know if you have all read the book? The heroine finds herself differing in her view o... |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In real life, said the practical Algitha,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A compromise by which she could act according to two opposite standards?"
}
] |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I believe you would blame a modern woman who imitated them, said Mrs. Temperley."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "These women have the inestimable advantage of being dead."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ah, yes, Lady Engleton agreed, with a laugh,"
},
... |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But why should the husband suffer? asked Algitha."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It is customary to regard the occasion as one proper for suffering, said Mrs. Temperley,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Clearly, assented Lady Engleton."
},
{
"from... |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Really you will depopulate this village, Mrs. Temperley, cried Lady Engleton with a laugh;"
}
] |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "To try and pump information out of a friend! Why not listen at the key-hole, and be done with it!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have learnt not to expect a nice sense of honour from superior persons with unimpeachable sentiments,"
},
{
"from": "human",
... |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I suppose no one knows who the father is? He has not acknowledged the child!"
}
] |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You are the most inconsistent woman I ever met!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why inconsistent?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You say that children have been the means, from time immemorial, of enslaving women, and here you go and adopt one of your en... |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I still fail to understand why you adopt this child, said Valeria."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "My _Caterina_ would never have done it."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The little creature interests me, said Hadria."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"val... |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Handsome and clever? she repeated."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Is _that_ all you can say, Mr. Fleming? When you set about it, I think you might provide a little better food for one's parental sentiment. I suppose you will go and tell Mrs. Walker that _her_ dozen a... |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I will _never_ make the best of things, she said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I know nothing that gives such opportunities to the Devil."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What do you mean? asked Algitha."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Surely... |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But then there is this sickly feminine conscience to deal with! she exclaimed."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It clings to the worst of us still, and prevents the wholesome big catastrophes that might bring salvation."
}
] |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Where did you fall in with that casket?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And who was the architect of the cathedral?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This casket, as you call it, was presented to me by Mrs. Gordon. The cathedral I designed myself."
},
{... |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, I never before met a woman who would deliberately flout her neighbours by wearing preposterous millinery!"
}
] |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And so at last we may hope that the Priory will be inhabited,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Of course you know, she added in the pained voice that she always reserved for anecdotes of local ill-doing,"
}
] |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Morally, I have no rights, except such as you choose to give me of your own free will, he replied."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am not your gaoler."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And even that did not penetrate to her better nature till it was too l... |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What matters it? One woman's destiny is but a small affair. If I were you I would make less fuss about it."
}
] |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I starve for the sight of a true and simple face, for the grasp of a brotherly hand."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There are so few, so very few, where the throng is thick and the battle fierce. It saddens me to see good fellows trampling one another down, growing h... |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I used to avoid the place, he said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have often wished to speak to you about my wife, he said slowly, as they sat down on the old seat, on the terrace."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have felt that you would understand ... |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It was in there, in the old drawing-room, where we had sat together evening after evening, that they found her dead, the very type of all that is brilliant and exquisite and living. To me she was everything. All my personal happiness was centred in her. I cared for nothing so lo... |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "When death put an end to their wretchedness, one would suppose that the evil of their lives was worked out and over, but it was not so. The Erinnys were still unsatisfied. My poor wife became the victim of their fury. And every new light that science throws upon human life shews... |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We need to feel that there is someone who believes in us, in our good faith, in our good will, one who will not judge according to outward success or failure. Remember, he said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The worst thing about the life of you married people, said... |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't want to allow emotion to get the better of me, Valeria. I don't want to run rank like some overgrown weed, and so I dread the accumulation of emotion--emotion that has never had a good explosive utterance. One has to be so discreet in these Italian gardens; no one shouts... |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I told you years ago that Nature had chosen our sex for ill-usage. Try what we may, defeat and suffering await us, in one form or another. You are dissatisfied with your form of suffering, I with mine. A creature in pain always thinks it would be more bearable if only it were on... |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The shadows of Fate!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Who are they I wonder? Oh, Professor Fortescue, for one!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Lady Engleton and Joseph Fleming. The other I don't know."
}
] |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That, said Valeria,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am sure I shall hate that man, exclaimed Hadria."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He is not to be trusted; what nonsense he is talking to Lady Engleton!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You ca... |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I quarrel with you about art, said Lady Engleton."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Art is art, and nature is nature, both charming in their way, though I prefer art."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Our old quarrel!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value":... |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And yet you appreciate so keenly my old enamels, and your eye seeks out, in a minute, a picturesque roof or gable."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Perhaps Theobald leans to the picturesque and does not care for the classic, suggested his colleague;"
},
{
"from... |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Fortescue, he called out,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I envy you your champion. You point, Mrs. Temperley, to lofty altitudes. I, as a mere man, cannot pretend to scale them."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In this world, where there are so many other... |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is strange, said Lady Engleton, in speaking of him afterwards to Hadria,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And is there no shaking your decision about the Priory, Professor Theobald?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I confess to feeling less heroic this a... |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What a parable it all is, as old as the earth, and as fresh, each new year, as if a messenger-angel had come straight from heaven, in his home-spun of young green, to tell us that all is well."
}
] |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Truly a time for joy and idleness."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If only, said Hadria, when Professor Theobald thus grew enthusiastic on the subject,"
}
] |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "One of the ghastliest mistakes in this trivial and laborious world."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What _naïveté!_ exclaimed Hadria."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Helen was persuaded to cross the seas from her Spartan home to set Troy ablaze, and tarni... |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I like to fancy we are fugitives--like Boccaccio's merry company--from the plague of our daily prose, to this garden of sweet poetry!"
}
] |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is not for us to say that, individually, we transcend the average of educated mortals, said Professor Theobald,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There is something chemical and explosive in human relationships,"
}
] |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why do we, in the nineteenth century, starve ourselves of these delicate joys? cried Valeria."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why do we so seldom leave our stupid pre-occupations and open our souls to the sun, to the spring, to the gentle invitations of gardens, to th... |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is the fashion, I know, he said,"
}
] |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But not before I had acquired some severe training in that sort of strategy which is incumbent upon women, in the conduct of their lives. Whatever I might privately think or feel, my office required that I should only express that which would be more or less grateful to my heare... |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That helps,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "When shall we have our next meeting?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The sooner the better, said Valeria."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "English skies have Puritan moods, and we may as well profit by... |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If we have had to live by our looks for all these centuries, surely the instinct that Professor Theobald thinks himself so penetrating to have discovered in clever women, is accounted for simply enough by heredity,"
}
] |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They are the meadows you see from your windows, said Lord Engleton."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That village is Masham, with the spire shewing through the trees. I daresay you know the view pretty well."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I doubt, she ans... |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He is as determined to analyse me as if I were a chemical compound,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Perhaps we may as well join the group,"
}
] |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Which of us can dare to face his own basest self? the culprit demanded."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If any one is so bold, I fear I must accuse him (or even her) of lack of self-knowledge rather than give praise for spotlessness."
},
{
"from": "human",
... |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We like to fancy the qualities of character inherent, while really they are laid on by slow degrees, like paint, and we name our acquaintance by the colour of his last coat."
}
] |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The sublime creature would not look well _un_painted, believe me."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He dare not appear in that plight even to himself, if Theobald be right in what he stated just now,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Life to a character is li... |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The time when we could lay claim to have 'hurried' has long since passed, Lady Engleton, said Hubert,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What splendid moonlight! Lady Engleton, don't you feel tempted to walk with your guests to the end of the avenue?"
}
] |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I hate that dreadful chill idea of the Greeks. I have much too strong a hold on this pleasant earth to relish the notion of that gloomy under-world yet a while. What do you say, Mrs. Temperley?"
}
] |
21858 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Fancy being a lamp to oneself!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's as much as most of us can do to be a lamp to others,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Some one has compared the glow-worm's light to Hero's, when she waited, with trimmed lamp, for her Lea... |
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