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3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
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"from": "human",
"value": "This is your son; educate him in the same manner as your own. The preceptor took pains with him for a year, but without success, whilst his own sons were completed in learning and accomplishments. The king reproved the preceptor, and said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "As often as I have been among men, says Seneca,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have returned less a man. And Thomas a Kempis declared that"
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don Quixote. But in putting an end to the old romances he created a new school of fiction, called the modern novel, by introducing into his romance of pseudo-knighthood a faithful description of the lower classes, and intermingling the phases of popular life. But he had no one-s... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Margaret, wherein are depicted exceedingly pinched and ignoble social conditions. Yet the characters and the life are drawn with the artistic purity of Flaxman's illustrations of Homer. Another example is Thomas Hardy's"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Far from the Mad... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and drew sympathetically together in a corner."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What a world this would be, said one,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": ""
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, replied the other, stirring the fragrant cup in a dejecte... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Heart of Midlothian."
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But we have a right to ask that he shall reveal the real heart and character of this passing show of life; for not to do this, to content himself merely with exterior appearances, is for the majority of his readers to efface the lines between virtue and vice. And we ask this not... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "namby-pamby, unrobust stories, which are so largely read by school-girls, young ladies, and women, do more harm than the"
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In the breast of a nation's authors there always lies the image of its future, and the critic who, with a knife of sufficient keenness, dissects a new poet can easily prophesy, as from the entrails of a sacrificial animal, what shape matters will assume in Germany."
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hermann and Dorothea"
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don Quixote"
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "PROGRESS"
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Beggar's Opera. Such critics, of course, would not care to see the vulgar show over again; it is enough for them to put on record their protest against it in the weekly"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Judgment Days"
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "a mere chaos, is afterwards sorted and distributed, preparatory to being built up into fresh combinations."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A distinguished American friend, says Mr. Froude,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "American system, by the way, as a sort of invention or patent right, upon which we are experimenting; forgetting that it is as legitimate a growth out of our circumstances as the English system is out of its antecedents. Our system is not the product of theorists or closet philo... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We are exceedingly pained to hear that the Hon. Mr. Blank, who is running for Congress in the First District, has permitted his aged grandmother to go to the town poorhouse. What renders this conduct inexplicable is the fact that Mr. Blank is a man of large fortune."
},
{
... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Of course a rich man who would put his own grandmother in the poorhouse would deny it. Our informant was a gentleman of character. Mr. Blank rests the matter on his unsupported word. It is a question of veracity."
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mr. Blank. It says:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mr. Blank resorts to the common device of the rogue --the affidavit. If he had been conscious of rectitude, would he not have relied upon his simple denial?"
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "American experiment,"
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Trade follows the flag"
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Tom Brown at Oxford,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The great tasks of the world are only laid on the strongest shoulders. We, who have India to guide and train, who have for our task the educating of her wretched people into free men, who feel that the work cannot b... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Knickerbocker's New York ; that not in this century has any English writer equaled the wit and satire of the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Biglow Papers."
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don Quixote"
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Little Jimmy had a little white pig."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Did the little pig know Jimmy?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, the little pig knew Jimmy, and would come when he called."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "How did little Ji... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Odyssey,"
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Barefoot Boy and Longfellow's"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hiawatha."
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and got made a baron of the realm for his ride. On his way down to take possession of his new kingdom the king distributed the honor of knighthood right and left liberally; at Theobald's he created eight-and-twenty knights, of whom Sir Richard Baker, afterwards the author of"
... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Old Baker, who says of himself that he was the unworthiest of the knights made at Theobald's, condescends to mention William Shakespeare at the tail end of the men of note of Elizabeth's time. The ocean is not more boundless, he affirms, than the number of men of note of her tim... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Description of England,"
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This year was also remarkable as that in which"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "King Henry 8 polleth his head; after whom his household and nobility, with the rest of his subjects do the like. It was the year before Anne Boleyn, haled away to the Tower, accused, condem... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The clergy held a social rank with tradespeople; their sons learned trades, and their daughters might go out to service. Jewell says many of them were the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "unlearned, fiddlers, pipers, and what not."
},
{
"from": "human",
"va... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "These English, quoth he,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": ""
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Whereby it appeareth, comments Harrison,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The timber houses were covered with tiles; the other sort with straw or reeds. Th... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The elders are skillful in surgery and the distillation of waters, and sundry other artificial practices pertaining to the ornature and commendation of their bodies; and when they are at home they go into the kitchen and supply a number of delicate dishes of their own devising, ... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In the orchards were plums, apples, pears, walnuts, filberts; and in noblemen's orchards store of strange fruit-apricots, almonds, peaches, figs, and even in some oranges, lemons, and capers. Grafters also were at work with their artificial mixtures,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The situation of our region, he says,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The north Britons in old times were accustomed often to great abstinence, and lived when in the woods on roots and herbs. They used sometimes a confection,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value"... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They ground eight bushels of malt, added half a bushel of wheat meal, half a bushel of oat meal, poured in eighty gallons of water, then eighty gallons more, and a third eighty gallons, and boiled with a couple of pounds of hops. This, with a few spices thrown in, made three hog... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "as she walked in the splendid procession of barons, earls, and knights of the garter:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "As she swept on in this magnificence, she spoke graciously first to one, then to another, and always in the language of any foreigner she addressed; w... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A gentleman entered the room bearing a rod, and along with him another who had a table-cloth, which, after they had both kneeled three times, he spread upon the table; and after kneeling again they both retired. Then came two others, one with the rod again, the other with a salt... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is a world to see the costliness and the curiosity, the excess and the vanity, the pomp and the bravery, the change and the variety, and finally the fickleness and the folly that is in all degrees; insomuch that nothing is more constant in England than inconstancy of attire. ... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And he knows not what to say of their doublets, with pendant pieces on the breast full of jags and cuts; their"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "to make their dresses stand out plumb round; their farthingales and divers colored stockings."
},
{
"from": "human",
... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Roaring Girl ; and after a varied life as a thief, cutpurse, pickpocket, highwayman, trainer of animals, and keeper of a thieves' fence, she died in peace at the age of seventy. To return to the inns, Fyner Morrison, a traveler in 1617, sustains all that Harrison says of the inn... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Maid's Tragedy. The innovation of women on the stage was first introduced by a French company in 1629, but the audiences would not tolerate it, and hissed and pelted the actresses off the stage. But thirty years later women took the place they have ever since held; when the ... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Pleasure Reconciled to Virtue ) performed at Whitehall on Twelfthnight, 1617. During the play, twelve cavaliers in masks, the central figure of whom was Prince Charles, chose partners, and danced every kind of dance, until they got tired and began to flag; whereupon King James,"... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": ""
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": ""
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": ""
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": ""
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": ""
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Abrams,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "; ... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Turkeys, Carpes, Hops: Piccarel, and beers, Came into England: all in one year."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "In these days the taking in of the smoke of the Indian herb called 'Tabaco,' by an instrument formed like a little ladle, whereby it passeth from the mouth ... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "England is a paradise for women, a prison for servants, and a hell or purgatory for horses. The society was very simple compared with the complex condition of ours, and yet it had more striking contrasts, and was a singular mixture of downrightness and artificiality; plainness a... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "As concerning the nature, propertie, and disposition of the people they be desirous of new fangles, praising things past, contemning things present, and coveting after things to come. Ambitious, proud, light, and unstable, ready to be carried away with every blast of wind. The F... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Men might her rowtyng hearen a forlong, The wenche routeth eek par companye."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Crudities (1611). He saw in Italy generally a curious custom of using a little fork for meat, and whoever should take the meat out of the dish with his fingers... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Drink iou (he loves to air his English), that is to say,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Je m'en vois boyre a toy. You respond, in their language,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Iplaigiu ; that is to say,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Je vou... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, do look at this one--oh, do see that! Whose wife is this?--and that pretty one near her, whose daughter is she?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And in 1638, when Cheapside was all alive with the pageant of the entry of the queen mother,"
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Kiechel, writing in 1585, says,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Item, the women there are charming, and by nature so mighty pretty as I have scarcely ever beheld, for they do not falsify, paint, or bedaub themselves as in Italy or other places; yet he confesses (and h... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Voltaire, says M. Guizot,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Shakespeare and His Times,"
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Thus we find the entire world, the whole of human realities, reproduced by Shakespeare in tragedy, which, in his eyes, was the universal theatre of life and truth."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The sixteenth century, he says,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"valu... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Opposed to this band of tragic figures, which M. Taine arrays from the dramas,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "This is an old German instinct. The soul in this race is at once primitive and serious. Women are disposed to follow the noble dream called duty."
},
{
... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Farewell, monsieur traveler, says Shakespeare;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The Londoners dearly loved gossip, and indulged in exaggeration of speech and high-flown compliment. One gallant says to another:"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "O, signior, th... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "of Venice, perfumed bracelets, necklaces, and gloves--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "--a pocket-handkerchief wrought in gold and silver, a small looking-glass pendant at the girdle, and a love-lock hanging wantonly over the shoulder, artificial flowers at the corsag... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Paul's Walk, as it was called--which was daily frequented by nobles, gentry, perfumed gallants, and ladies, from ten to twelve and three to six o'clock, to talk on business, politics, or pleasure. Hither came, to acquire the fashions, make assignations, arrange for the night's g... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Shakespeare and his Times,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "English Housewife, after treating of the ordering of great feasts, gives directions for"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "he says, should consist for ... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sir, as Sir Hugh, in the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Merry Wives, Sir Topas, in"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Twelfth Night, Sir Oliver, in"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "As You Like It. The distinction is marked between priesthood and k... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Love's Labour's Lost"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "When roasted crabs hiss in the bowl."
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And sometimes I lurk in a gossip's bowl, In very likeness of a roasted crab, And when she drinks against her lips I bob:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Gammer Gurton's Needle,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I love no rost, but a nut-browne torte, And a ... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This maiden in a morn betime Went forth when May was in the prime To get sweet setywall, The honey-suckle, the harlock, The lily, and the lady-smock, To deck her summer hall."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Court and Society from Elizabeth to Anne"
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Our own literary monuments must rest on other ground."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "This ground is not the ground of Corneille or Racine, nor is it that of Shakespeare; it is our own; but Shakespeare's system, as it appears to me, may furnish the plans according to ... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The age lives in his men and women, his country gulls and town gulls, his imposters and skeldering captains, his court ladies and would-be court ladies, his puling poetasters and whining Puritans, and, above all, in the whole ragamuffin rout of his Bartholomew Fair. Its pastimes... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But the taste for erudition was mainly confined to the metropolis or the families who frequented it, and to persons of rank, and did not pervade the country or the middle classes. A few of the country gentry had some pretension to learning, but the majority cared little except f... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hung be the heavens in black, yield day to night"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hamlet."
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A Dead Soul, but it was discarded because of the similarity to that of the famous novel by Nikolai Gogol--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Dead Souls --though the motive has nothing in common with that used by the Russian novelist. Gogol exposed an extensive fraud pra... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do you think so?"
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Almost every church has trouble with it--the different social conditions."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I thought all the churches here were organized on social affinities?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, no; it is a good deal a matter of vicinage. ... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It seems to me, said Mr. Lyon, who was always in the conversational attitude of wanting to know,"
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't know what Christianity is expected to produce, Mr. Morgan replied, in a meditative way;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Were the Pilgrims and the Puritans?"
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I should not like to answer 'no' to a descendant of the Mayflower. Yes, they were highly civilized. And if we had adhered to their methods, we should have avoided a good deal of confusion. The meeting-house, you remember, had a committee for seating people according to their qua... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What mischief have you been attempting, Mr. Morgan? asked Margaret, as she took a chair near him."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Were you trying to make Mr. Lyon comfortable by dragging in Bunker Hill?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No; that was Mr. Fai... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I beg your pardon, Miss Debree, but would you mind telling me whether the movement of Women's Rights is gaining in America?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm sure I don't know, Mr. Lyon, Margaret replied, after a pause, with a look of weariness."
},
{
"from"... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Did you say, Mrs. Fairchild, he asked my wife,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No; I said she taught in one of our schools. I don't think she is exactly a teacher."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Not intending always to teach?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Miss Debree has gone to church,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "To vespers?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I believe they call it that. Our evening meetings, you know, only begin at early candlelight."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And you do... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yet I confess I don't comprehend Gladstone's conduct with regard to Egypt and Gordon's relief,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Perhaps, interposed my wife,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I suppose it was Gladstone's humanity that made him hesitate."
},... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My lady comes at last, Timid and stepping fast, And hastening hither, Her modest eyes downcast."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I should like to have gone to vespers if I had known,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes? asked the girl, still abstractedly."... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I had no idea, said Mr. Lyon, as they walked homeward,"
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I think, dear, you'd better wrap him up in cotton and send him back to his family."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yet her mind was evidently much occupied with the"
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have not seen much of your life, he said one night to Mr. Morgan;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Perhaps they have that appearance; but about the same number find it, as formerly, in marriage."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But I mean, you know, do th... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We also, Mr. Lyon was saying, in continuation of a conversation,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But we haven't any common people here, replied Margaret, quickly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That bright boy you noticed in my class, who was a terror si... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Beyond the smiling and the weeping I shall be soon; Beyond the waking and the sleeping, Beyond the sowing and the reaping, I shall be soon."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Lord, tarry not, but come!"
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Beyond the blooming and the fading I shall be soon."
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Beyond the shining and the shading, Beyond the hoping and the dreading, I shall be soon."
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Love, rest, and home Sweet hope! Lord, tarry not, but come!"
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Lord, tarry not, but come!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, I'll be-- The tender-hearted little wife of the rough man in the crowd who began that sentence did not permit him to finish it."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That'll be a case for a doctor... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I cannot quite understand your social life over here, Mr. Lyon was saying one day."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You seem to make distinctions, but I cannot see exactly for what."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Perhaps they make themselves. Your social ... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I called to see you, Miss Forsythe, to--to consult you about your niece."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "About her career?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, about her career; that is, in a way,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes?"
},
{
... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Not difficult, not at all difficult, but I thought I would wait till I had something definite to say."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Margaret is, of course, perfectly free to act for herself. She has a very ardent nature, but at the same time a great deal of what we ... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My pretty maid, will you marry me? And the pretty maid, dropping a courtesy, says,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Thank you, sir; I am already bespoken, or"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Thank you; I will consider of it when I know you better."
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm off tomorrow, he said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes. We send Representatives and strangers there to be educated. I have never been there myself."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And do you not wish to go?"
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do you mean to say there are no distinctions?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, no; there are plenty of official distinctions, and a code that is very curious and complicated, I believe. But still society is open."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It must... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I beg you will make my excuses, and say good-by to Miss Forsythe. I had mentioned it to her. I thought perhaps she had told you, perhaps--I should like to know if it is anything about difference in--in nationality, about family, or--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Has Mr. Lyon been here?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes; he has just gone. He was so sorry not to see you and say good-by. He left ever so many messages for you."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And (Margaret was moving as if to go)"
},
{
"from... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "; another howls,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The first one nods. It is done. The electric wire running up the stand quivers and takes the figure, passes it to all the other wires, transmits it to every office and hotel in the city, to all the"
},
{
"from":... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is not gambling, for there are no"
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "a sort of overflow meeting. Those who have not quite left hope behind can go in here. Here are the tickers communicating with the Chamber, tended by lads, who transfer the figures to big blackboards on the wall. In front of these boards sit, from morning to night, rows, perhaps ... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "he added that"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "we went to his bachelor quarters uptown."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I want you to see, he said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "of"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "or a bargain, gav... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There is a young lady --Henderson touched his hat, and I caught a glimpse of golden hair and a flash of dark eyes out of a mass of furs --"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Who is that?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The daughter of old Eschelle--Carmen Es... |
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