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10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, my darlings! my darlings! cried she at last, looking up, and clasping them to her by twos and threes;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Is there no way of saving you? No way! Then we must make the more haste to be good, and be all ready when Jesus comes to take us."... |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why would she go getting a bad name from every one, and driving away customers? The preachers, who were (as is too common in West-country villages) narrow, ignorant, and somewhat unscrupulous men, turned against her. They had considered the cholera, if it was to come, as so much... |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Might we take the liberty of coming aboard to speak with your honour?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "By all means!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You speak, Captain, says Jan,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "and then he began himself."
},
... |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm sorry to trouble you, sir, but these young men will have it so--and no shame to them--on a matter which I think will come to nothing. But the truth is, they have heard that you are a great painter, and they have taken it into their heads to ask you to paint a picture for the... |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, sir, said Willis;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I couldn't have believed it! You've got the very smile of her, and the sadness of her too, as if you'd known her a hundred year!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, will that suit you?"
},
{
... |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Fine weather for the Flying Dutchman, this!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Coffins sail fastest in a calm."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You'd best all out to the quay-head, and whistle for a wind: it would be an ill one that would blow nobody good jus... |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, sir! I've a crow to pick with you."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Pick away!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What business have you meddling between his lordship and me?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That is my concern, quoth Tom, who ... |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "By the by, have you heard from the wanderers this week?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I heard from Sabina this morning. Marie is very poorly, I fear. They have been at Kissingen, bathing; and are going to Bertrich: somebody has recommended the baths there."
},
{... |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I tell you, my dear fellow, she's booked; and Mellot knows it as well as I. He saw her that night at Lady A's."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We saw the third act of the comi-tragedy. The fourth is playing out now. We shall see the fifth before the winter."
},
{
... |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mr. Thurnall wished to speak to Major Campbell."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mr. Thurnall wishes Lord Scoutbush to be informed at once, and I think it is better that you should all know it--that--it is a painful surprise:--but there is a man ill in the street, whos... |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, Headley, it's here before we sent for it, as bad luck usually is."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I know. Let me go! Where is it? Whose house?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Humph! said Thurnall, looking intently at him,"
},
{
"from": "gpt"... |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I will, so help me God!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I know you will. You're all right at heart. Only mind three things: don't frighten them; don't tire yourself; don't go about on an empty stomach; and then we can face the worst like men. And now go in, and say no... |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You'll see to them, there's a good fellow, as they lighted their cigars at the door."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That Vavasour is greener than grass, you know, _tant pis_ for my poor sister."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am not going."
},
{
... |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "So! Are you returned from the sick man already, Mr. Headley?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have been forbidden by the doctor to go near him at present, Miss St. Just,"
}
] |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I fear, Mr. Headley, we must begin packing up now."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I fear you must, indeed,"
}
] |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I fear you must. I have foreseen it a long time; and so, I fear (and he rose from his seat), must I, unless I mean to be very rude. You will at least take away with you the knowledge, that you have given to one person's existence, at least for a few weeks, pleasure more intense ... |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I trust that neither of you, answered he, quietly,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "(and Frank looked a little proud, as he spoke, and very handsome),"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I see clearly enough the great gulf fixed between us; and I like it; for ... |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am sure you are not well, Mr. Headley. The excitement of the night has been too much for you."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Do I look excited, my dear madam? he answered quietly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I assure you that I am as calm as a man ... |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I shall not repeat, Miss St. Just, now that we are alone, what I said just now of the pleasure which I have had during the last month. I am not poetical, or given to string metaphors together; and I could only go over the same dull words once more. But I could ask, if I were not... |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I should be sorry, after what you have just said, to chance hurting you by refusing. I put it to your own good feeling--have you not asked somewhat too much?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Certainly too much, madam, in any common case, said he, quite unmoved."
},
... |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You cannot avow the refusal half as proudly as I shall avow the request, if you will but wait till your sister's return. Both are unnecessary, I think: but it will only be an honour to me to confess, that, poor curate as I am--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hush!"
... |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If you be, what I think you, some sweet dream. Stoop down, and seem to kiss me ere I die!"
}
] |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What do you mean, Mr. Headley? I must ask! You told me just now that you had no intention of making love to me."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I told you the truth, said he, in his quiet impassive voice."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I fixed on these l... |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You promise to return if?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I promised long ago."
}
] |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I thank you, he said, with a look of quiet gratitude."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I expected as much, when you came to understand my request. Again, thank you!"
}
] |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How are you? but"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "How am I?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do I look as if--?"
}
] |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "--such an only!--"
}
] |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is the Lord! and dies. It is"
}
] |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die!"
}
] |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You really must be careful of yourself, said Campbell, at last."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You carry no charmed life."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My dear sir, I am the most cautious and selfish man in the town. I am living by rule; I have got--an... |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Put away that trash! cried Tom;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, Mr. Thurnall, she's dying, and I shall die too!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You! you were all right this morning."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But I shall die; I know I ... |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Where is Miss Harvey?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "At the Beers'."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She must go up to Heale's instantly. The mother will die. Those cases of panic seldom recover. And Miss Heale may very likely follow her. She has shrieked... |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "For Heaven's sake! Thurnall, calm yourself, and do not swear so frightfully; it is so unlike you! What can have upset you thus?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why should I not curse and swear in the street, gasped he,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Is i... |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I will go,"
}
] |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Stop! I, too, have a sermon to preach to you; I trust I am a Christian man, and that not of last year's making, or the year before. Follow me outside, if you be rational beings, and let me tell you the truth--God's truth! Men! he said, with an emphasis on the word,"
}
] |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I shall thank you for this to my dying day:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Humph! I believe that between this man and that girl, you will make a Christian even of me some day!"
}
] |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Stand out there, sir, you preacher, and look me in the face, if you can! thundered he."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We are here on common ground as free men, beneath God's heaven and God's eye. Stand out, sir! and answer me if you can; or be for ever silent!"
},
... |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mansions in the skies? You need not wait till then, sir, for the presence of God. Now, here, you and I are before God's judgment-seat. Now, here, I call on you to answer to Him for the innocent lives which you have endangered and destroyed, for the innocent souls to whom you hav... |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't! don't!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hands off, my good lads, said Tom quietly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This is my business now, not yours, I can tell you."
}
] |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Those words of yours went through him, sir, like a Minié bullet. I was afraid of what would happen when I heard them."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "So was I, the moment after they were spoken. But, sir, I felt a power upon me,--you may think it a fancy,--that there ... |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You are a man, said Tom to himself;"
}
] |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Anything fresh? Have you seen the Heales?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have been praying with them. Don't be frightened. I am not likely to forget the lesson of this afternoon."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then go to bed. It is full twelve o'clock... |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Warmth we must have, somehow. Anything to keep the fire alight."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why so, sir? asked the old man"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The fire's been flickering down this many a year. Why not let it go out quietly, at three-score ... |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, how blind I have been! How I have wasted my time in laying down the law to these people: fancying myself infallible, as if God were not as near to them as He is to me--certainly nearer than to any book on my shelves--offending their little prejudices, little superstitions, i... |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They're mending, sir! They're mending, else I'd have sent to tell you. I never looked for you so late."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ah, she's praying by them now. She'm giving them all their medicines all along! Whatever I should have done without her?--and in and ... |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I beg your pardon, sir, for taking the liberty. If I had known that you were about, I would have sent: but hearing that you were gone home, I thought you would not be offended, if I gave thanks for them myself. They are my own, sir, as it were--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
... |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't turn me out, whispered Tom."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's no concern of mine, of course; but you are all good creatures, and, somehow, I should like to be with you."
}
] |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Gone,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Go on, sir, said she, in a low voice."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He hears it all more clearly than he ever did before."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Tom, said Frank, in a whisper,"
},
{
"from... |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ah, Major! Overslept myself at last; that sofa is wonderfully comfortable. No time to go down and bathe. Ill get my header somewhere up the stream."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "How is he?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He? sleeping like a babe, and ge... |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "by which Trebooze glosses over to himself and friends the deep Hunkeydom with which he lusteth after a live lord's acquaintance, and one especially in whom he hopes to find even such a one as himself...."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Good fellow, I hear he is, too,-... |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He's just like a page out of Sponge's Tour, though he's not half as good a fellow as Sponge himself; for Sponge knew he was a snob, and lived up to his calling honestly: but this fellow wants all the while to play at being a gentleman; and--Ugh! how the fellow smelt of brandy, a... |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Your lordship'll honour us by taking pot luck afterwards. Can't show you French cookery, you know, and your souffleys and glacys, and all that. Honest saddle o' mutton, and the grounds of old port.--My father laid it down, and I take it up, eh?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"... |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mr. Trebooze requests the pleasure of Mr. Thurnall's company with his hounds at----"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "By the by, said he,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I got an hour's shore-work yesterday afternoon, and refreshing enough it was. And I got... |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How noisy the fellow is, and how he is hopping about!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No wonder: he has been soaking, I hear, for the last fortnight, with some worthy compeers, by way of keeping off cholera. I must have my eye on him to-day."
}
] |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Tardrew out hunting? says Campbell."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why, it is but a week since his daughter was buried!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And why not? I like him better for it. Would he bring her back again by throwing away a good day's spo... |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Over! shouts Tom."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Here's the fresh spraint our side!"
}
] |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hark to Musical! hark to Sweetlips! Down the stream?--No! the old girl has it; right up the bank!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "How do, Doctor? How do, Major Campbell? Forward!--Forward!--Forward!"
}
] |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hark to the merry merry Christchurch bells! She's up by this time;-- that don't sound like a drag now!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What's the matter, Trebooze? No, thanks! 'Modest quenchers' won't improve the wind just now."
},
{
"from": "human",
"valu... |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Your master don't look right this morning, Peter."
}
] |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Over! over! over!"
}
] |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You are not well, Squire?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well as ever I was in my life! only a little sick--have been several times lately; couldn't sleep either--haven't slept an hour this week.-- Don't know what it is."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "W... |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Gone to hole somewhere here,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "cries Trebooze, looking round, with a sudden shudder, and face of terror."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There's that black brute again! there, behind me! Hang it, he'll bite me next!"
}
] |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Here we are! Gone to holt in this alder root!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Now then, little Carlingford! Out of the way, puppies!"
}
] |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Didn't I tell you to drive that cur away?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Which cur, sir?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That cur!... Can't I believe my own eyes? Will you tell me that the beggar didn't bolt between my legs this moment, and went into the... |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dirty work--beastly work! muttered Trebooze."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Nothing but slugs and evats!--Toads, too,--hang the toads! What a plague brings all this vermin? Curse it! shrieked he, springing back,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "All right ... |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Thank 'ee, sir,"
}
] |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Better get home to Mrs. Trebooze, sir,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, home! home to Molly! My Molly's always kind. She won't let me be eaten up alive. Molly, Molly!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Molly, I'm in hell! Only help me! you're always righ... |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Quick, round by the back-door!"
}
] |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My William! my own William! Yes, I will take care of you! Nothing shall hurt you,--my own, own!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Who is that?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mr. Thurnall, madam. Have you any laudanum in the house?"
},
{
"from": "gp... |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "in taking for granted that everybody has read his poems; that everybody is saying in their hearts,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There goes Mr. Vavasour the distinguished poet. I wonder what he is writing now? I wonder where he has been to-day, and what he has been ... |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "that he"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Which last words were spoken with an ulterior object, well understood by the hearer; for between Clara and Bowie there was one of those patient and honourable attachments so common between worthy servants. They had both"
},
... |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "So ye'll see your lassie, Mr. Bowie! said Sergeant MacArthur, his intimate, when he started for Aberalva that summer."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm thinking ye'd better put her out of her pain soon. Five years is ower lang courting, and she's na pullet by now, s... |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Gin he caught them, or any ither such skellums, philandering after his leddies, or his leddies' maids, he'd jist knock their empty pows togither. To which there was no reply but silence; for Mr. Bowie stood six feet four without his shoes, and had but the week before performed, ... |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "So was it when I was a boy, So let it be when I am old, Or let me die!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Come into the garden, Maud!"
}
] |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How de' do, Mr. Vavasour? Had any verses this morning? in the same tone as if he had asked,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Had any sport? Naylor's round face was sure to look over the stone-wall, pipe in mouth, with a"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don'... |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My brother, and mon Saint Père! Lucia! too delightful! This is why they did not write."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Who have they with them'? Val,--come and look! who can it be?"
}
] |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My lord, my ladies!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh my dears! Here at last--out of that horrid city of the plague! Such sights as I have seen-- and then he paused."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do you know, Val and Lucia, I'm glad I've seen it: I don... |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, I'm glad ye're pleased with me, asthore, said he at last to Lucia;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why, what have ye to say against that, Miss Val?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, won't he be a little in the way?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
... |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He has had the cholera! he has been actually dying?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Of course he has. Why, you are not going away, Valencia? You need not be afraid of infection. Campbell, and Thurnall, too, says that's all nonsense; and they must know, having seen it ... |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "One knows well enough what is the matter, said he, almost bitterly--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What does the philosopher mean now?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He has a history, my dear lord."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A history? ... |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You will do nothing of the kind, Mr. Headley! cried Lucia."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Is he not mad, Major Campbell, quite mad?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I know I am mad, my dear Mrs. Vavasour; I have been so a long time: but Snowdon ponies are... |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You are very--. I hope that it--,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You hope that it was a comfort to me? It was; and I shall be always grateful to you for it."
}
] |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I need not say that I am happy that anything which I could do should have been of use to you in such a fearful time."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It was a fearful time! but for myself, I cannot be too glad of it. God grant that it may have been as useful to others ... |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, it is a very lovely view; but really I must say one more word about this matter. I have to thank you, you know, for the good faith which you have kept with me."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "and he bowed;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Pray tell me... |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I must play at sick man no more, or I shall rob you, I see, of Major Campbell's company; and I owe you all for too much already."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Unless you are better than you were last night, you must play at sick man, said the Major."
},
{
"f... |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Who am I, that any one should be afraid of me, unless they have done something wrong?"
}
] |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I will teach him how to behave to a charming woman,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What do you think of that poet, Mellot?"
}
] |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, clever enough, and to spare; and as well read a man as I know. One of the Sturm-und-drang party, of course:--the express locomotive school, scream-and-go-head: and thinks me, with my classicism, a benighted pagan. Still, every man has a right to his opinion. Live and let liv... |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "At least, sir, I was pure when I came to you! You best know whether you were so likewise."
}
] |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I do well to be angry;"
}
] |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "God would be there also."
}
] |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How pleasant to sit here for ever! said Claude, one afternoon, in the inn garden at Beddgelert,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Till a diver came and tore him up for the sake of his pearls?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He did not intend to contain any ... |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then I ought to be useful. I can be;--will be!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Lucia, asked she, that very afternoon,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, you dear good creature? but it would be such a _gêne_! They are really stupid, I am afraid sometimes,... |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My dear Miss Clara, ye see, there'll be nobody to see that his lordship pits on dry stockings; and he's always getting over the tops of his water-boots, being young and daft, as we've all been, and no offence to you; and to tell you truth, I can stand all temptations--in moderat... |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "See the breadth of light and shadow, said Claude;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And so you do, said Headley."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have learnt to distinguish mountain distances since I have been here. That peak is four miles from us now; and... |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, madam! God has written the poetry already; and there it is before me. My business is not to re-write it clumsily but to read it humbly, and give Him thanks for it."
}
] |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But, if you put these thoughts into words, you would teach others to read that poetry."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "My business is to teach people to do right; and if I cannot, to pray God to find some one who can."
}
] |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But, you naughty, hypocritical Saint Père, you write poetry yourself, and beautifully."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, as I smoke my cigar, to comfort my poor rheumatic old soul. But if I lived only to write poetry, I should think myself as wise as if I lived onl... |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And what a really well-read and agreeable man he is, all the while! What a mine of quaint learning, and beautiful old legend!--If he would but bring it into the common stock for every one's amusement, instead of hoarding it up for himself!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value... |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And beauty, born of murmuring sound, Did pass into her face."
}
] |
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