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3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
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"from": "human",
"value": "of the basis of the civilization of New York. The picture of abundance and of enjoyment of animal life is perhaps not overdrawn in Irving's sketch of the home of the Van Tassels, in the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Legend of Sleepy Hollow."
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "When he entered the house, the conquest of his heart was complete. It was one of those spacious farm-houses, with high-ridged, but lowly-sloping roofs, built in the style handed down from the first Dutch settlers; the low projecting eaves forming a piazza along the front, capabl... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Conquest"
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "To testify her sense of the gallantry and services of this noble English knight, who had come from so far to assist in their wars, the queen sent him the next day presents of twelve horses, with stately tents, fine linen, two beds with coverings of gold brocade, and many other a... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Such was the brief but bloody action which was known among the Christian warriors by the name of 'The Queen's Skirmish;' for when the Marques of Cadiz waited upon her majesty to apologize for breaking her commands, he attributed the victory entirely to her presence. The queen, h... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Such is a faint picture of the moonlight nights I have passed loitering about the courts and halls and balconies of this most suggestive pile; 'feeding my fancy with sugared suppositions,' and enjoying that mixture of reverie and sensation which steals away existence in a southe... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The transient illusion is over,--the pageant melts from the fancy, --monarch, priest, and warrior return into oblivion with the poor Moslems over whom they exulted. The hall of their triumph is waste and desolate. The bat flits about its twilight vault, and the owl hoots from th... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The story of the enchanted soldier remains one of the popular traditions of Granada, though told in a variety of ways; the common people affirm that he still mounts guard on midsummer eve beside the gigantic stone pomegranate on the bridge of the Darro; but remains invisible exc... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Life of Washington, --attracted, however, now and then, by some other tempting theme. But his delight was in the domestic circle at Sunnyside. It was not possible that his occasional melancholy vein should not be deepened by change and death and the lengthening shade of old age.... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Collection of Ancient and Modern British Authors ), they were not to be found. The Philadelphia publishers did not think there was sufficient demand to warrant a new edition. Mr. Irving and his friends judged the market more wisely, and a young New York publisher offered to assu... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Faust"
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He was not aggressive; in his nature he was wholly unpartisan, and full of lenient charity; and I suspect that his kindly regard of the world, although returned with kindly liking, cost him something of that respect for sturdiness and force which men feel for writers who flout t... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This elegance and finish of style (which seems to have been as natural to the man as his amiable manner) is sometimes made his reproach, as if it were his sole merit, and as if he had concealed under this charming form a want of substance. In literature form is vital. But his ca... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sketch-Book appeared, an English critic said it should have been first published in England, for Irving was an English writer. The idea has been more than once echoed here. The truth is, that while Irving was intensely American in feeling, he was, first of all, a man of letters,... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Be a good man, my dear. We know well enough that the great author of"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The Newcomes and the great author of"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Heart of Midlothian"
}
] |
450018 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Get out, Hetty! Run--for your life!"
}
] |
39587 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Abington Abbey."
}
] |
39587 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Old Order Changeth"
}
] |
39587 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We had better go in together, said Rhoda."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It will be less awkward."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If she doesn't say anything I don't see why we should, said Ethel."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Let bygones be... |
39587 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, I am so sorry, she said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The dear old man! Of course one knew the end must be coming, but it doesn't make it less hard to bear."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I do hope Denis will succeed him. I am sure that is what he... |
39587 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It was the one thing that he really desired, said Rhoda."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I think he had almost made up his mind to speak a word to the Bishop about it, when he came over to see him. But I suppose he felt he couldn't. I know he didn't."
},
{
"fr... |
39587 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She really is kind at heart, said Rhoda, as they went back into the dining-room, after saying good-bye to her."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I shan't be sorry to be friends with her again."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nobody can say we have kow-towed... |
39587 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We're divided, you see, Ella, said Caroline."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We should like to get rid of Lord Salisbury, but we don't think he deserves to have Surley."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And we rather love Denis, said Beatrix."
},
{
... |
39587 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's because he sees you here, Ella, said Beatrix."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He has rather left off inviting himself in that way. He will want to know if the Bishop has dropped any hints. Couldn't you possibly make up a few?"
}
] |
39587 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We were _so_ sorry to hear of dear old Mr. Cooper's death, said Mrs. Mercer to Ella."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm sure it seems no time since he was as well and strong as anybody. I could hardly believe it when I heard it."
},
{
"from": "human",
"va... |
39587 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Isn't he the limit? enquired Beatrix when they were out of earshot."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I wanted to see how far he would go, said Ella."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Really, I think it would be almost worth while having him at Surley to be a... |
39587 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Are you a candidate? asked Grafton of Mr. Williams."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Because if so we shall have to be careful what we say. I may tell you at once that our sympathies are with young Denis Cooper."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I a candidat... |
39587 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You're quite right, dear Uncle Jimmy, she said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That's what strikes one when one gets into country life a little. The system may not be perfect, but it works splendidly with the right people to look after it."
},
{
"from": "huma... |
39587 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What did you mean about the system being wrong just now?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don't think I said it was wrong, did I? she said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I said that it wanted the right people to make it work."
},
{
"from": "gpt... |
39587 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You know, I think we did take it rather as a new toy when we first come down here, Caroline said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We loved the country, and we wanted a country house of our very own. Of course we've all enjoyed it awfully in that way, but I don't think... |
39587 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's what I feel, he said gently,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It comes of doing the work you like in the surroundings you like, she said sagely."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "With a woman it isn't so much the work as all the little ways of spending ... |
39587 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I want you to tell me about that fellow you were in love with."
}
] |
39587 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Really, I'm not going to talk to you about that,"
}
] |
39587 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why not? he asked."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's nothing to be ashamed of. I want to know how much you cared for him."
}
] |
39587 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Haven't you ever known what calf-love is?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, yes, rather. All men do. It's nothing to be ashamed of. Love's a very beautiful thing, you know, and if you like beautiful things you're on the lookout for it from an early age. Sometimes it... |
39587 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I expect until that fellow made love to you, you'd laughed at it all."
}
] |
39587 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I should have been a Marquise you know, she said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don't mean that I was on the lookout for a title, in that crude sort of way, she said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't think I'm like that."
}
] |
39587 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Of course you're not, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I told you so. But I suppose everybody all round you was egging you on, and flattering you about it. You'd like to think you were pleasing people."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My darling ol... |
39587 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I see now, said Beatrix, speaking very calmly,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But you did love him, he said, uncompromisingly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You wanted to give him everything that was in you."
}
] |
39587 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I told you I didn't know enough, she said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But I had never loved anybody before--in that way. Of course I gave all the best that was in me."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He can't have been fit to black your boots, he said... |
39587 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I wanted to see him particularly, said the Vicar."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "An old friend of mine, who has somewhat broken down in health, needs an assistant priest to go to him and do just the work that Denis has been doing here for your dear father. It would b... |
39587 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Of course, dear, she said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There was never really any chance of Denis's appointment here, said the Vicar, not without annoyance."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It was quite right to humour the poor old gentleman, as he so ... |
39587 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, Mr. Mercer, said Rhoda,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And in mine too,"
}
] |
39587 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Homage to the Rector of Surley"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Have you told anybody of the Bishop's offer?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My dear boy, she said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Have you told anybody of the offer?"
},
{
... |
39587 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I didn't tell you, he said,"
}
] |
39587 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You ought not to make this difficult for me, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I made up my mind long ago, and I'm sure I was right to do it. I didn't want to tell our dear father, because his ideas on these things were old-fashioned, and I don't think he could... |
39587 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm going to get rid of Mercer, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The fellow has become an infernal nuisance, and I'm tired of him."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You can't do it, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I thought you k... |
39587 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I wondered, as I came up, he said in his pompous but would-be-intimate manner,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Are you going to have a confirmation class?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, yes. But I shouldn't expect her to attend that. It's for the boy... |
39587 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I can only say that if you and I fall out it won't be my fault, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's quite true that the people round here--your sort of people, I mean--are a cantankerous lot."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, I don't find th... |
39587 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It wants thinking over, I know, said Grafton, taking no notice of his beginnings of sentences."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You can't decide this sort of thing in a hurry. If you and Mrs. Mercer will come and dine with us to-morrow night, you and I could have a fri... |
39587 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Here is an invitation from Caroline for us to dine at the Abbey to-night, she said, with a grave face."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Do you wish me to accept it?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What is to-night? Thursday. There's nothing on, I think. Ye... |
39587 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My dear, you're just interrupting me in a train of thought, he said in an annoyed voice."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If you want to talk about anything do please wait until lunch time, or at least until the post comes. I shall have a few minutes to spare then."
... |
39587 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Really, I don't understand you, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You must leave me to conduct my own affairs in my own way, as you have always done. You can help me in the difficulties I have in my work--and they are heavy enough, God knows, with the sort of p... |
39587 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We have often discussed the Graftons together, and you know well enough that there are many things about them which I, as a priest of the Church, cannot approve of. If there has been any decline of intimacy between us it is for that reason and that reason alone. They are not wha... |
39587 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I haven't been able to prevent myself asking that question lately, she said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I was very much troubled by the way you behaved --another phrase to which his ears were quite unaccustomed from her--"
}
] |
39587 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But we will have an end to all this, he said, catching at his authority, so unexpectedly being questioned."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I can quite see that my silence as to the Graftons may have been misunderstood by you. The fact is that for months I have been co... |
39587 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I think, she said quietly,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We can put all that behind us now, he said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have not been able to make headway against the forces arrayed against me here, and it will be better for us to start e... |
39587 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "By the bye, the Mercers dined with us last night. They brought rather a surprising piece of news. Mercer has made up his mind that he has borne the heat and burden of the day in Abington long enough. He is going to retire, and live in Devonshire--in a village where he can do a l... |
39587 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You see, darling, Caroline was saying,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And what about you, Cara? You shirked most of your London gaieties last year. Are you going to cut yourself off from them altogether?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Fancy wanting Lond... |
39587 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Isn't it heavenly! said Caroline."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, Dad, you must leave me to this; I want to live all my life with it. I shouldn't mind if I never saw London again."
}
] |
39587 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Isn't it lovely to see them so pleased with themselves? Caroline said, when she had waved her last farewell."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Do you remember Mollie a year ago, how shy and retiring she was? She is like a different creature now."
},
{
"from": "h... |
39587 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do you think there's anything between Beatrix and Dick Mansergh?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I've been wondering when you were going to ask me that,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, then you've noticed it."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": ... |
39587 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Poor darling! he said tenderly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You know how I hated it at the time. But when she was getting over it I sometimes almost wished that he had come back. I'm precious glad he didn't, though."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "So ... |
39587 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I know B has got to marry, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "She's cut out for it. She was so young last year, and it came as a shock to me that she was already of a marriageable age. I couldn't get used to it--that she wasn't mine any more."
},
{
"from... |
39587 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You have a lovely place here, my dear. I sometimes wish that I had set out to be a country gentleman, and dealt with beasts instead of with men."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You have to deal with both as a landowner, said Ella,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"v... |
39587 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There's my friend Leadbetter come to see me, said the Bishop."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Do you mind talking over the question before him? He has been in the Diocese much longer than I have, and might be able to help us."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value"... |
39587 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We were just beginning to talk about a new Vicar for Abington,"
}
] |
39587 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ah, yes, Abington, he said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I called at Abington Vicarage the other day. I remember that the note of the doorscraper was C sharp. Mercer is going, he told me. A very agreeable man--Mercer. You will be sorry to lose him, Mr. Grafton."
... |
39587 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I know who you are, now, of course, said Mr. Leadbetter."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I remember that Mercer mentioned your name when he came over to ask me if I thought there was any chance of his being preferred to this living."
},
{
"from": "human",
... |
39587 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What sort of a man would you like to have there? he asked."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Don't tell any one that I asked that question, Leadbetter."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Certainly not, said the Rector of Surley."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
... |
39587 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He is quite young, he said,"
}
] |
39587 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You seem to have a lot of most disreputable acquaintances,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, yes, we have, he said, with a bright smile."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "All the respectable ones go to chapel. But they're so dull that we don't try to get ... |
39587 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He's enjoying every moment of this, she said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I think he looks as if he wants a change, said Caroline."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Fresh air, perhaps, and not quite so much to do."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value... |
39587 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What a lark it all is! said the Vicar-elect of Abington, grinning all over his face as Caroline met them at the door. His wife was as excited and happy as he was, but when Caroline took her up to her room, she took hold of both her hands, and the tears came into her eyes, as she... |
39587 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ours is a horrid gloomy thing, he said,"
}
] |
39587 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm sure you will like the house, she said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We have had some very happy times here, and are sorry to be giving it up, although we have a very nice one to go to. We will do all we can to make it easy for you to come in."
}
] |
39587 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's horrid going away from you, dear, she said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I shall be quite jealous thinking of Mrs. Prescott in my place here."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't think we shall want anything that we're not obliged to take, Mr. ... |
39587 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, we are not going to be bothered about keeping up a position, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I expect I shall have plenty of parishioners a good deal poorer than I am."
}
] |
39587 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You _have_ been a busy little bee, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I expect you've kept them all in order too. I'm afraid I shan't be able to do that. But it all looks splendid on paper. I wish I could afford a typewriter. But what's this word 'agout'? Oh, I ... |
39587 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Upon my word! he began."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's a positive _insult_ for Grafton to put a man like that in to succeed me. And unless I am very much mistaken, it's meant as such."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Bishop chose him, you know, A... |
39587 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What's the matter? It's dreadful to think of things going to rack and ruin in a place where we've worked so hard and done so much; but _we_ shall be out of it at any rate. Don't upset yourself, Gertrude."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I was thinking how happy they bo... |
39587 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dad, darling, you've got heaps of money. Couldn't you buy all those things Lord Salisbury wants to leave behind, and make them a present of them? Poor dears, they'll have hardly anything. They have been laughing about it, and I don't think he minds. But of course she would like ... |
39587 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You don't mind putting up with the kids at lunch, said Jimmy."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We can shift them afterwards or make them useful if we want to play games. Ruth and Jane aren't bad at tennis, and I've trained them all to bowl to me at a net. We can have a... |
39587 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mademoiselle will want to jabber French at you, Jimmy warned his friend."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "They're supposed to do it at lunch, and I don't mind it myself, because it's good training. But you can answer her in English if you like. She understands all righ... |
39587 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I say, he said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You know, old chap, I'm not so sure that you're not right in preferring a youngster like Maggie Williams, he said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Girls of that age haven't got our knowledge of the world, of... |
39587 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Commencez donc, Mam'selle, said Jimmy."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Nous allons laver les mains, moi et Monsieur Grafton. Nous descendons toute de suite."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I say, you _can_ chuck it off! said Young George admiringly, as th... |
39587 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Qu'elle est mignonne, cette petite, n'est ce pas, Mam'selle?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If she heard you calling her 'petite' she would smack your 'ead, vieux grandpère, said Mademoiselle."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I know her. And I have told y... |
39587 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What happened was this, George, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He proposed to her, and she meant him to. But she wasn't ready to give in at once, and he got annoyed. She gave him to understand that if he didn't like it he could lump it, not thinking he'd tak... |
39587 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dear old boy, I think you have very good taste. She's much the prettiest girl anywhere about here, except us; and she's very nice too. And Barbara had said:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If I've got to lose you, Bunting, I'd as soon Maggie had you as anybody. I shou... |
39587 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Bunting, darling, we've been waiting for you,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We've got something to tell you,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Congratters! said Young George, rather shyly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I know what it is."
}... |
39587 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, B and I have settled it up together. We're going to get married as soon as they'll let us."
}
] |
39587 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Isn't she adorable over it? I've never seen her look so lovely before. It's happiness that does it all."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He's such a dear! she had said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I really had to accept him, though I hadn't meant to ju... |
39587 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Surely he can't be angry this time, she said,"
}
] |
39587 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dick says I can come home as much as I like, while he is at sea. I know Dad will want to have me. I _wish_ he had telegraphed. He won't think I don't love him as much as ever because I am going to leave him, will he? I love him a thousand times more. I told Dick he must never ta... |
39587 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, my darling child, he said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I thought you were in bed long ago. Have you been talking it all over with B?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, she said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I thought I'd come and t... |
39587 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "When B goes there'll only be you and me, Daddy, till Barbara comes home. I shan't leave you for a long time yet."
}
] |
39587 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I've been such an _awful_ beast to you, darling, Beatrix sobbed,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I had to come and ask you to forgive me. I couldn't sleep till I told you how much I love you."
}
] |
39587 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I know you have wanted me to tell you everything, Beatrix went on, her sobs becoming less frequent,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If you tell me now, my darling!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, I will. I want to, she said, in a pathetic voice."
}... |
39587 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I was frightened then, and--and ashamed of myself, because what he had said was true. And I didn't want him to go away altogether. I thought perhaps after all I did love him a little. Oh, I don't know what I thought. But I went upstairs to the window to look at him coming from t... |
39587 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, then, I was rather miserable, but I was angry too at the way he had spoken to me. Sometimes I was one and sometimes I was the other, and I didn't know whether I cared for him or not. The next morning it had all calmed down rather, and I made up my mind I wouldn't care whet... |
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