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10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Just like the dear old waterfall at Kilanbaggan. You recollect it, Major Campbell?"
}
] |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I do not, I am ashamed to say,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why, you were there a whole summer. Ah! I suppose you thought about nothing but your salmon fishing. If Elsley had been there he would not have forgotten a rock or a pool. Would you, Elsley?"
},
{
... |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Only a buttercup."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am sure it's not a buttercup! It is three times as large, and a so much paler yellow! Is it a buttercup, now, Major Campbell?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Very nearly one, after all: but its real name... |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The fellow was jealous, then, in addition to his other sins!"
}
] |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Major Campbell picked it up for her from the cliff,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ah? at the risk of his neck, I don't doubt. He is the most matchless _cavalier servente_."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I shall leave Mrs. Vavasour to his care, then--th... |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Am I, then, so old a friend, Mrs. Vavasour?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Of course; who older?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I trust I have not offended your--Mr. Vavasour?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh! she said, with a forced gaiety... |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why do you ask? Why need you know? You are no poet."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And for that very cause I ask you."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, but, said she, guessing at what was in his mind, and trying, woman-like, to play purposely at cross ... |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, Major Campbell, is it not a glorious thing to be a poet? And is it not a glorious thing to be a poet's wife? Oh, for the sake of that--if I could but see him honoured, appreciated, famous, as he will be some day! Though I think (and she spoke with all a woman's pride)"
},
... |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, he said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It will be all oracular to me, for I know nothing either;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Did you hurt yourself then? I am sure you are in pain."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I? Never less free f... |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The stupid man must have mistaken his orders, and gone home."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Or let his horse go home of itself, while he was asleep inside. He was more than half tipsy when we started."
}
] |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We shall have plenty of time for our educational lecture,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Plenty of time to waste, then, my clear lady."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, I never talk with you five minutes--I do not know why--without feeling wiser and ha... |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and"
}
] |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have been impertinent, Miss St. Just, and I beg your pardon."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, you have not, said she, quite hastily."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You were right, too right,--has it not been proved within the last five minutes? My p... |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You know that I love you, Valencia St. Just."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Too well! too well!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But you know, too, that you do not love me."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Who told you so? What do you know? What... |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "So ye see, madam, there's no use defending the drunken loon any-more at all; and here will my leddies have just walked their bonny legs off, all through that carnal sin of drunkenness, which is the curse of your Welsh populaaation."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And ... |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ah! there you are, at a pretty time of night! How beautiful you look, Val! I wish my wife may be half as pretty!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am delighted to hear of my lord's good sport. He will choose to be in a good humour, I suppose."
},
{
"from": "hu... |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Go along, and marry the cat if you like! You are mad; and I am mad; and all the world's mad, I think."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There, she said,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I knew that he would be a good boy at last!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",... |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Lucia, what is it? Speak to me, Lucia!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, you must not read it. Too dreadful!"
}
] |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Valencia! Valencia! It is false--a mistake--he is dreaming. You know it is false! You will not leave me too!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "My Lucia! My own sweet good sister! Base, cowardly,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What have I done? All that flo... |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, if I but knew where he was gone! If I could but find him! One word --one word would set all right! It always did, Valencia, always! He was so kind, so dear in a moment, when I put away my naughty, naughty temper, and smiled in his face like a good wife. Wicked creature that ... |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Where is my brother?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Gone to bed, as some one else ought to be; for it is past twelve. Is Vavasour come in yet?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Very odd, said Claude;"
},
{... |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If you have tampered with my sister's heart, better for you that you were dead!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Fool!--cur!--liar!--she is as pure as God's sunlight."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You need not tell me that,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
... |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You forgive me, then, all the misery which I have caused!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Do not talk so! Only forgive me having fancied for one moment that you were anything but what you are, an angel out of heaven."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Angel,... |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Rising of the Lark."
}
] |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Of foreign tongues let scholars brag, With fifteen names for a pudding-bag: Two tongues I know ne'er told a lie; And their wearers be, my dog and I!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That ought to be Harry's song, and the colly's too, eh? said he, pointing to the dear o... |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Show me a room, and bring me a pen and paper,"
}
] |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We have no room, sir, unless these gentlemen--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Of course, said Wynd, jumping up, a child under each arm."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mr. Vavasour! we shall be most happy to have your company,--for a week if you will!"
... |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The party is taken ill with a poem,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "With something worse, Ned. That man's eye and voice had something uncanny in them. Mellot said he would go crazed some day; and be hanged if I don't think he is so now."
},
{
"from": "human",
... |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Which way did the gentleman go, Mrs. Owen?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Capel Curig road."
}
] |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Run to the bridge, Wynd, whispers Naylor."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He may have thrown himself over."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Tally ho!"
}
] |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There is but one thing, Wynd. After him, or he'll drown himself in Llyn Cwn Fynnon."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, he's striking to the right. Can he be going up the Glyder?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We'll see that in five minutes. All in the d... |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Let us go hence,"
}
] |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What matter? What fitter guide for such a path as mine than the blue lightning flashes?"
}
] |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "characters at this moment than Elsley Vavasour, or any dozen of mere verse-writers, because they are hazarding their lives, on an errand of mercy, and all the while have so little notion that they are hazarding their lives, or doing anything dangerous or heroic, that, instead of... |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "So am I! I shall just lie and light a pipe."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Come on, now, and look round the lee side of this crag. We shall find him bundled up under the lee of one of them."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He don't know lee from windward,... |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Here's the ordnance cairn, at last; and--here am I astride of a carving-knife, I think! Come and help me off, or I shall be split to the chin!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm coming! What's this soft under my feet? Who-o-o-oop! Run him to earth at last!"
},
{
... |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Leave me, I say! Cannot I be alone if I choose? What right have you to dog me in this way?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "My dear sir, we have as much right here as any one else; and if we find a man dying here of cold and fatigue--"
},
{
"from": "human",
... |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You must not go down till it is light; it is as much as your life is worth."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am going to Bangor, sir; and go I will!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I tell you, there is fifteen hundred feet of slippery screes below you."
... |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Steady, sir! said Wynd, springing back, and parrying his outstretched hand."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If you wish us to consider you in your senses, you will be quiet."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And if you don't choose to appear sane, said Nayl... |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I promised her, and therefore I will break my promise! She has broken hers, and I am free!"
}
] |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If he was running away from his creditors, it was a shame to stop him. If he was running from the police, they would have the more sport the longer the run. At least it was no business of theirs."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If, as I suppose, you expect from me 'th... |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have news of Vavasour, whispered he."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have a letter from him. Bowie, order me a car instantly for Bangor. I am off to London, Claude. You and Bowie will take care of my things, and send them after me."
},
{
"from": "human",
... |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In the name of all wit and wisdom, what is the meaning of all this?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You do not know, then, what passed last night?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I? I can only guess that Vavasour has had one of his rages."
},
{
"f... |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I will go and get you some breakfast,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I want none. I am too busy to eat. Why don't you help me?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I will bring you some breakfast, and you must try; then I will help to pack: and utterly bewild... |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Poor Lucia! thank God that I have some one who will never treat me so! who will lift me up and shield me, instead of crushing me!--dear creature!--Oh that I may find him!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Is this, then, love?"
}
] |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ah! thought she;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You are tired,--ill? What a night you must have had! Mellot has told me all."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, my poor sister!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "This is a sad dawning for the day ... |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh! it would he intolerable, if I had not through it all the thought"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Sit down, sit down, or you will fall! said Frank, leading her to a chair; and as he led her, he whispered with fluttering heart, new to its own happiness, and longing ... |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, guide me! counsel me! pray for me! sobbed she."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am all alone, and my poor sister, she is going mad, I think, and I have no one to trust but you; and you--you will leave me to go to those dreadful wars; and then, what will become of... |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Tell me, said he, at last, trying to awaken himself to action."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Tell me! Is she really going to seek him?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, selfish and forgetful that I am! You must help me! she will go to London, nothing... |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Forgive me! he cried;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I was too harsh, Valencia!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No! she cried, looking up at him with a glorious smile."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Scold me! Be harsh to me! It is so deliciou... |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You will find Scoutbush, then!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "This moment. I will order the car now, if you will only eat. You must!"
}
] |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Get a car instantly,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "For Mrs. Vavasour, my lady? She has ordered hers already."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No; for Mr. Headley. He is going to find my lord. Frank, pour me out a cup of tea for Lucia."
},
{
"from... |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm sure I don't know why we're moving. I don't believe it's business. Some of his tantrums, I daresay. I heard her walking up and down the room all last night, I'll swear. Neither she nor Miss Valencia have been to bed. He'll kill her at last, the brute!"
},
{
"from": "... |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dinna fash, lassie. Mind your lady and the poor bairns like a godly handmaiden, and I'll buy the ring when the sawmon fishing's over, and we'll just be married ere I start for the Crimee"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The sawmon! cried Clara."
},
{
"from": "h... |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Devonian slate, where the deep chocolate soil is lodged on the top of the upright strata, and a thick coat of moss and wood sedge clusters about the oak-scrub roots, round which the delicate and rare oak-fern mingles its fronds with great blue campanulas; while the"
},
{
... |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, and what right have you to crow over us on that score? I suppose, if you could hire a man in America for eighteen-pence a day instead of a dollar and a half, you would do it? You Americans are not accustomed to give more for a thing than it's worth in the market, are you?"... |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And what have we done?--what have even I done? We have steadily, deliberately cringed at the feet of the wrong-doer, even while we boasted our superiority to him at every point, and at last, for the sake of our own selfish ease, helped him to forge new chains for his victims, an... |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes; one thing at least I have learnt, in all my experiments on poor humanity;--never to see a man do a wrong thing, without feeling that I could do the same in his place. I used to pride myself on that once, fool that I was, and call it comprehensiveness. I used to make it an e... |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ten thousand pardons!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You are excused, dear sir, you are excused, says the good-natured German, with a wicked smile, which raises a blush on Stangrave's cheek."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Your eyes were dazzled; why not... |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ah, my dear, dear friend! and you would pass me! Whither the hangman so fast are you running in the mud!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "My dear Salomon! But let me go, I beseech you; I am in search--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In search? cries the j... |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What news to-day?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "As well as can be expected, sir, and as quiet as a lamb now, they say. But it has been a bad time, and a bad man is he that caused it."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A bad time, and a bad man. How is Miss... |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She is safe, at least, then! One burden off my mind. And yet had it not been better if that pure spirit had returned to Him who gave it, instead of waking again to fresh misery? I must find that man! Why, I have been saying so to myself for seven days past, and yet no ray of lig... |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But I never have seen its like; it had just like a painter's easel in its stomach yesterday!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why, it's an Echinus Larva: a sucking sea-urchin! Hang it, if I had known you hadn't seen one, I'd have brought up half-a-dozen of them!"
},
... |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You knew Elsley Vavasour well?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No man better."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Did you think that there was any tendency to madness in him?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No more than in any other selfish, vain, ... |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Most potent, grave, and reverend signiors: A man of war, and eke a man of peace-- That is, if you come peaceful; and if not, Have we not Hiren here?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We come in peace, my good sir, said Tom;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "T... |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My benefactor! Were the world a waste, A thistle-waste, ass-nibbled, goldfinch-pecked, And all the men and women merely asses, I still could lay this hand upon this heart, And cry, 'Not yet alone! I know a man-- A man Jove-fronted, and Hyperion-curled-- A gushing, flushing, blus... |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mr. Barker, said Tom blandly,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Sir, sputtered he, speaking prose at last,"
}
] |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This is too vexations! To have kept half-an-hour's company with such an animal, and then to have him escape me after all! A just punishment on me for pandering to his drunkenness."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Pay for his liquor, Major, and follow. Keep a few yards ... |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He is not man enough for a second shot, thought Tom quietly,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I beg your pardon, Mr. Vavasour, he heard the Major say, in a gentle unmoved voice,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am glad the beggar fired at him, thought Tom... |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I assure you, sir, on the word of a Christian and a soldier, that you are labouring under an entire misapprehension. For God's sake and Mrs. Vavasour's sake, come back, sir, to those who will receive you with nothing but affection! Your wife has been all but dead; she thinks of ... |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Miserable ass! thought Tom,"
}
] |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, my dear Jack, whispered he quietly,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not for him, Tom, for myself!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "For neither, dear lad! Let bygones be bygones, and do you be a new man, and go home to Mrs. Vavasour."
},
{
"from... |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This is a case for me, Major Campbell. I think you had better go now."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You will not leave him?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, sir. It is a very curious psychological study, and he is a Whitbury man."
},
{
"from"... |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am better now; quite well! said he, as the laudanum began to work."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes! I'll go--that will be it--go to ---- at once. He'll give me an order for a magazine article; I'll earn ten pounds, and then off to Italy."
},
{
"from": "h... |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "By Jove! said Tom,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I may perhaps,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And if it comes to that, why not come to the war, and see it for yourself? A new country--one of the finest in the world. New scenery, new actors,--Why, Cons... |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The notion has taken: he's composing a war song already, I believe."
}
] |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well? asked Tom smilingly, not noticing the tears;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Do you know, Thurnall, I fancy at moments that my mind is not what it was. Fancies flit from me as quickly as they come. I had twenty verses five minutes ago, and now I cannot recollect... |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sold am I? said Tom to himself."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He must have hidden the bottle as he came out of the room with me. Oh, the cunning of those opium-eaters? However, it will keep him quiet just now, and to Eaton Square I must go."
},
{
"from": "hu... |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What will you do with the unhappy man, Mr. Thurnall?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Keep him under my eye, day and night, till he is either rational again, or--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do you think that he may?--Oh my poor sister!"
},
{
"... |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Thurnall! said he;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have been a long journey. I have been to Whitbury once more, and followed my father about his garden, and sat upon my mother's knee. And she taught me one text, and no more. Over and over again she said it, as she l... |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am no officer: but I have been in many a battle, and I know the Russians well, and have seen how they fight; and there is many a brave man killed, and many a one more will be."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, does it hurt them much?"
},
{
"from": "human",... |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You are strange creatures, women, women! thought Tom:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The better the day, the better the deed, quoth he."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "When a man is travelling to a better world, he need not be afraid of starting on a Sun... |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now, tell me, tell me, while Jane gets you something to eat. No, Jane, you mustn't talk to Master Tom yet, to bother about how much he's grown;--nonsense, I must have him all to myself, Jane. Go and get him some dinner. Now, Tom, as if he was afraid of losing a moment;"
}
] |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You seem to know more about Australia than I do, father,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, child; but Mary Armsworth, God bless her! comes down here almost every evening to read your letters to me; and she has been reading to me a book of Mrs. Lee's Adventures in Au... |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hillo, ho! who have we here? Our prodigal son returned, with his pockets full of nuggets from the diggings. Oh, mum's the word, is it? as Tom laid his finger on his lips."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Come here, then, and let's have a look at you! and he catches bot... |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Old Mark wears well, body and soul,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He is a noble, generous fellow, and as delicate-hearted as a woman withal, in spite of his conceit and roughness. Fifty and odd years now, Tom, have we been brothers, and I never found him change. And... |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There is a poor sick man whom I brought down with me, sir, if you could spare me half-an-hour. It really is a professional case; he is under my charge, I may say."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What is it, boy?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, lauda... |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Poor fool! said Mark, who listened in silence to the end."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why didn't he mind his bottles, and just do what Heaven sent him to do? Is he in want of the rhino, Tom?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He had not five shillings le... |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That dear Miss Mary, pity she is so plain! Such a match as she might have made! But she'll be handsome enough, when she is a blessed angel in heaven."
}
] |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'll butter him, trust me. Nothing comforts a poor beggar like a bit of praise when he's down; and all fellows that take to writing are as greedy after it as trout after the drake, even if they only scribble in county newspapers. I've watched them when I've been electioneering, ... |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come to do myself the honour of calling on you, Mr. Vavasour. I am sorry to see you so poorly; I hope our Whitbury air will set all right."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You mistake me, sir; my name is Briggs!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mr. Armswort... |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You too are somewhat of a poet in your way, I see, sir!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I never thought to live to hear that, sir. I can't doubt now that you are cleverer than your neighbours, for you have found out something which they never did. But you will come?--... |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You have given me so much new and good advice in a few minutes, sir, that I must really do myself the pleasure of coming and hearing more."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well done, our side! cried old Mark."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dinner at half-... |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'll tell her. She will manage it somehow, if she is a woman; much more if she is an angel, as my father says."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Come in, while I go and see my father. He came into the smart drawing-room, which he could see was seldom used; for Mary live... |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Please, sir, is Mr. Vavasour here?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Here? Who wants him?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mrs. Brown, sir, in Hemmelford Street. Says he lodges with her, and has been to seek for him at Dr. Thurnall's."
},
{
"from": "... |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Pray, sir, did a medical man named Briggs ever live here?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What do you want to know for?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why --Tom thought matters were too serious for delicacy--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I ... |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "As usual! Here am I getting wet, dirty, and miserable, about matters which are not the slightest concern of mine! I believe I shall end by getting hanged or shot in somebody else's place, with this confounded spirit of meddling. Yah! how cold the water is!"
}
] |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mr. Armsworth, does the telegraph work at this time of night?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'll make it, if it is wanted. But what's the matter?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You will indeed?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That if poor Mr... |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ah! if Grace had Mary's fortune, or Mary Grace's face!"
}
] |
10995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Are either of these ladies Mrs. Vavasour?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes! I!--I!--is he alive?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Alive, and better! and expecting you--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Better?--expecting me?"
},
{
"fro... |
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