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34034 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Marie-Louise, are you happy? he cried out, and it was his soul that spoke, yearning, pleading fiercely for the assurance that meant all in life to him now, the assurance that alone could stand, radiant and thankful, where before, in keen, bitter pangs of remorse, had stood the m... |
34034 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Look, Marie-Louise! he said, and pointed out far over the waters to the horizon line ahead."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It is the dawn. _Our_ dawn, Marie-Louise. The dawn of the day when we shall be together always."
}
] |
34034 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "To-day! Oh, Jean! It is like a dream--like a wonderful dream that the _bon Dieu_ has brought to us."
}
] |
34034 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A dream, little one, that shall always last, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ah, Marie-Louise, it is our dawn, our day, the beginning of a new life, _chérie_, where there shall be only love--our love, yours and mine, the love of old friends, of those we love,... |
34034 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But you shall see! he told her eagerly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A little while in Paris--ah, Marie-Louise, that is a secret that I have for you!--a little while there, and then you shall see! And all France shall see--and France shall tell you that it is so! A... |
34034 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Jean, what do you mean?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You shall know! he laughed, and laughed because there was only joy and gladness in all the world--in the waves that tumbled and frolicked and played, and tossed their white manes at each other and the ship; in th... |
34034 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Look!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It is the land! It is France!"
}
] |
34034 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is France, Marie-Louise--and home."
}
] |
34034 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "sighed Bidelot heavily--and suddenly raised his head at a timid knocking upon the door. Here was another of them then, no doubt! He had been wrong to let his servant take the afternoon, and leave his apartment so unguarded that his very door was at their mercy!"
},
{
"fr... |
34034 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Wait! he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Tell me one thing more. Why has Jean stayed here in Paris to work in secret like this for all these months since he came back?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I think you will find the answer here,"
}
] |
34034 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There are no words, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It is what I dreamed and hoped that I might see."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is Marie-Louise--his wife, said Father Anton softly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It is his stat... |
34034 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It was the message that I had for you, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Read!"
}
] |
284635 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Shall I find Jesus Christ there?"
}
] |
587696 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Answer."
}
] |
44557 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "JOHN HALIFAX, GENTLEMAN"
}
] |
44557 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and to see a country, in order that when they get home they may say they have done it, and seen it. Only to say;--as for any real vision of eye, heart, and brain, they might as well go through the world blindfold. It is not the things we see, but the mind we see them with, which... |
44557 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "(which I am sometimes called, from my habit of going about with a brood of"
}
] |
44557 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In the first place, my children, you must obey orders implicitly. I shall collect opinions, and do my best to please everybody; but in travelling one only must decide, the others coincide. It will save them a world of trouble, and their 'conductor' also; who, if competent to be ... |
44557 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And shall they scorn Tre, Pol, and Pen? And shall Trelawny die? There's twenty thousand Cornishmen Will know the reason why,"
}
] |
44557 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I will conquer Fate; I _will_ go and see the Land's End."
}
] |
44557 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "So you're going to travel in Cornwall. Well, take care, they're sharp folk, the Cornish folk. They'll take you in if they can. (Then, he must be a Devon man. It is so easy to sit in judgment upon next-door neighbours.)"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don't mean to s... |
44557 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, well, perhaps you're right. But they are sharp, for all that, especially in the towns."
}
] |
44557 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, if you really want a quiet place, I can tell you of one, almost as quiet as your grave. I ought to know, for I lived there sixteen years. (At any rate, it seemed to have agreed with him.)"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Gerrans is its name--a fishing village. Yo... |
44557 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mind you go to Gerrans. They'll not take you in more than they do everywhere else, and you'll find it a healthy place, and a quiet place--as quiet, I say, as your grave. It will make you feel exactly as if you were dead and buried."
}
] |
44557 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You ought to go at once to the Lizard, said the friend who met us, and did everything for us at Falmouth--and the remembrance of whom, and of all that happened in our brief stay, will make the very name of the place sound sweet in our ears for ever."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
... |
44557 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Still, she said,"
}
] |
44557 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Our letters that morning had brought us a comico-tragic story of a family we knew, who, migrating with a lot of children and luggage, and requiring to catch a train thirteen miles off, had engaged a driver who"
}
] |
44557 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes; I've been a teetotaller all my life, said our driver, a bright-looking, intelligent young fellow, whom, as he became rather a prominent adjunct to our life and decidedly to our comfort, I shall individualise by calling him Charles."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": ... |
44557 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I go to the Lizard about three times a week,"
}
] |
44557 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Just turn and look behind you, ladies (we had begged to be shown everything and told everything);"
}
] |
44557 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Stop the carriage! _Do_ stop the carriage! Just look there! Did you ever see such big blackberries? and what a quantity! Let us get out; we'll gather them for to-morrow's pudding."
}
] |
44557 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, he said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I find I can do as much upon tea or coffee as other men upon beer. I'm just as strong and as active, and can stand weather quite as well. It's a pretty hard life, winter and summer, driving all day, coming in soaked, somet... |
44557 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Have you any little folks of your own? Are you married?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The Two Locks of Hair."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My wife broke her heart after the baby, I think. It died. She went off in consumption. It's fifteen months now -... |
44557 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'll take you that road, ma'am, it's much the prettiest,"
}
] |
44557 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Goonhillies."
}
] |
44557 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There it is!"
}
] |
44557 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, that's the serpentine, said Charles, now in his depth once more; we could not have expected him to know about St. Rumon, &c."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You'll see plenty of it when you get to the Lizard. All the coast for miles and miles is serpentine. Such ... |
44557 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We'll go out and adventure,"
}
] |
44557 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "(I must confess that to these, my practically-minded"
}
] |
44557 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But _you_ wouldn't do it. Quite impossible! You would break all your legs and arms, and sprain both your ankles."
}
] |
44557 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Shall we get a boat? It will soon be sunset and moon-rise; we can watch both from the sea."
}
] |
44557 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, ma'am, it's a fine evening for a row, said the faithful Charles."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And it isn't often you can get a row here; the sea is so rough, and the landing so difficult. But there's a man I know; he has a good boat, he knows the coast well, a... |
44557 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I can imagine, whispered one of us who had imaginative tendencies,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don't believe King Arthur ever lived at all, was the knock-me-down utilitarian answer, to which the other had grown accustomed and indifferent. Nevertheless, there was... |
44557 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There is Lord Brougham's head, his wig and his turn-up nose, you can see all distinctly. At least, you could if there was light enough."
}
] |
44557 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, that's Kynance Cove, and the Gull Rock and Asparagus Island. Shall we row there? It's only about two miles."
}
] |
44557 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "whither Arthur sailed with the three queens to be healed of his"
}
] |
44557 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Look up there, ladies, that green slope is Pistol Meadow. Nobody likes to walk there after dark. Other things walk as well."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What things?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Two hundred and more of foreign sailors, whose ship we... |
44557 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They're wonderful bright; said John Curgenven;"
}
] |
44557 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Contributions, and a notice below that the key was kept at such and such a house--I forget the man's name--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, said Curgenven,"
}
] |
44557 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I think it's full time we were in-doors, suggested a practical and prudent little voice;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That's the way you came, Miss, said Charles,"
}
] |
44557 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'll help you, ma'am; and I'm sure you can manage it, said Charles consolingly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's only three-quarters of a mile."
}
] |
44557 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ma'am, if you go slow and steady, with me before and Curgenven behind, you'll _not_ fall."
}
] |
44557 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And a beautiful day it is, ladies, though it won't do for Kynance."
}
] |
44557 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "As I found out last night, the tide won't suit for Kynance till Wednesday or Thursday, and you'll be too tired to walk much to-day. I've been thinking it all over. Suppose I were to drive you to Kennack Sands, back by the serpentine works to Cadgwith, and home to dinner? Then af... |
44557 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm sure you're very kind, ladies, to be so pleased with everything, apologised our bright-looking handmaiden;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "--a very homely parlour which we had chosen in preference to a larger one, because it looked on the sea--"
},
{
"from... |
44557 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "where Shakespeare's elves were bidden to"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "and"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You might almost have searched for the sea-maids' footsteps along the smooth surface where the long Atlantic waves crept harmlessly in, making a g... |
44557 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and"
}
] |
44557 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Poltesco, everybody goes to Poltesco,"
}
] |
44557 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The driving-road goes far inland, but there's a splendid cliff-walk from Poltesco to Cadgwith direct. The young ladies might do it with a guide--here he is, a man I know, quite reliable. They'll walk it easily in half an hour. But you, ma'am, I think you'd better come with me."
... |
44557 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and I felt myself rather looked down upon because I did not know them--are the kindest of people, who take pleasure in looking after the invalids, rich or poor."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, Charles considered Cadgwith was a nice place to winter in,"
},
{
... |
44557 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, no, said one of the Lizard folk, whom I asked if there was much drunkenness thereabout, for I had seen absolutely none;"
}
] |
44557 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't be afraid, ladies, he's had a good rest,"
}
] |
44557 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I hope Mary will be at home, said Charles, turning round as usual to converse;"
}
] |
44557 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And Mary will be so pleased to see anybody who knows the gentleman --in Cornwall the noted Greek Professor was merely"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": ""
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She's got his poem in her visitors' book and his portrait in her album. ... |
44557 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's only Mary's brother,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mary's brother"
}
] |
44557 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mary's gone to Helstone, ladies; her would have been delighted, but her's gone marketing to Helstone. I hope her'll be back soon, for I doesn't know what to do without she. The house is full, and there's a party of eleven come to tea, and actually wanting it sent down to them at... |
44557 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Never mind, ladies, you'll get your tea all right. If Mary said she'd be back at six, back she'll be. And you'll find a capital tea waiting for you; there isn't a more comfortable inn in all Cornwall."
}
] |
44557 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Not at all, ma'am, he's used to it. Often and often he comes here with pic-nic parties, all the way from Falmouth. I'll put him in at the farm, and be down with you at the Cove directly. You'll find the rocks pretty bad walking, but there's a cave which you ought to see. We'll t... |
44557 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They'll have to wade; I told them they would have to wade! cried an anxious voice behind me; and"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I was ware, as ancient chroniclers say, of the presence of another"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, they have been away mo... |
44557 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't go back, ma'am, you'll be so sorry afterwards. I'll strike a light and help you. Slow and steady, you'll come to no harm. And it's beautiful when you get out at the other end."
}
] |
44557 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Look, they are wading ashore up to the knees! And we shall have to wade too if we don't make haste back."
}
] |
44557 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh! the change twixt Now and Then,"
}
] |
44557 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'll go on ahead and have the carriage ready, said the ever thoughtful Charles."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You can't miss your way, ladies. Just follow the hedges --that tempting aerial promenade, to which we were now getting accustomed, becoming veritable Blondi... |
44557 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Delighted to see you, ladies; delighted to see any friends of the Professor's; and I hope you enjoyed the Cove, and that you're all hungry, and will find your tea to your liking. It's the best we can do; we're very homely folk here, but we try to make people comfortable,"
}
] |
44557 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, ma'am, it would be of no use to _you_: Cornish cream can only be made from Cornish cows!"
}
] |
44557 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, I'll not say no, ma'am, it'll come in handy; us has got a young niece to bring up--my brother and me--please'm. Yes, I'm glad you came, and I hope you'll come again, please'm. And if you see the Professor, you'll tell him he's not forgotten, please'm."
},
{
"from": "... |
44557 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The brightest thing on Cornish land Is the face of Miss Mary Mundy."
}
] |
44557 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And we'll do it, too--don't you be anxious about us, ladies, insisted Charles."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'll feed him well, and groom him well. I likes to take care of a good horse, and you'll see, he'll take no harm. I'll be back when you want me, at the week'... |
44557 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If it will only keep like this all week! And, as we sat, we planned out each day, so as to miss nothing, and lose nothing--either of time or strength: doing enough, but never too much--as is often the fatal mistake of tourists. And then, following the grand law of travelling, to... |
44557 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If this weather will only last!"
}
] |
44557 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Such anemones, such sea-weed! and scrambling is so delicious! Besides, sunsets are all alike,"
}
] |
44557 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and melting into one another so that both were undistinguishable. As for the moon and stars--heaven knows where they had gone to, for they seemed utterly blotted out. The only light visible was the ghostly gleam of those two great eyes, the Lizard Lights, stretching far out into... |
44557 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hope for the best, and be prepared for the worst,"
}
] |
44557 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We must have a fire, that is certain,"
}
] |
44557 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We shall survive, spite of the rain! And we began to laugh over our lost day which we had meant to begin by bathing in Housel Cove; truly, just to stand outside the door would give an admirable douche bath in three minutes."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But how nice... |
44557 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Idylls of the King all through, finishing with"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The Passing of Arthur, where the"
}
] |
44557 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, ladies, this is the sort of weather we have pretty well all winter. Very little frost or snow, but rain and storm, and plenty of it. Also fogs; I've heard there's nothing anywhere like the fogs at the Lizard."
}
] |
44557 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He's a regular little trial, said the young mother proudly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He's only sixteen months old, and yet he's up to all sorts of mischief. I don't know what in the world I shall do with he, presently. Naughty boy!"
},
{
"from": "human"... |
44557 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Thanksgiving! What for? some poor farmer might well exclaim, especially on such a day as this. Some harvest festivals must occasionally seem a bitter mockery. Indeed, I doubt if the next generation will not be wise in taking our"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Prayers... |
44557 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But what does it matter? argued we."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Nobody knows us, and we know nobody."
}
] |
44557 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "God save the Queen,"
}
] |
44557 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "at this evening service, and behind them was a throng of humbler folk, among whom we recognised our sole friend here, John Curgenven. We had passed him at the church door, and he had lifted his hat with the air of a _preux chevalier_ of the olden time;"
}
] |
44557 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ladies, whenever you settle to go to Kynance, I'll take you."
}
] |
44557 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You won't come to any harm, ladies, said the consoling John."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'll take you by a short cut across the down, much better than the cliff. You can't possibly miss your way: it'll lead you straight to Kynance, and then you go down a steep pa... |
44557 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ower the muir amang the heather have I tramped many a mile in bonnie Scotland, but this Cornish moor and Cornish heather were quite different. As different as the Cornishman with his bright, frank face, and his mixture of British honesty and Gallic courtesy, from the Scotch peas... |
44557 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sometimes we don't earn a halfpenny for weeks and months, and then if we've got nothing to fall back upon it's a bad job, you see, ma'am."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, I think we are; we're obliged to be; we can't spend money at the public-house, for we've got ... |
44557 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now I must leave you, ladies, said he, a great deal sooner than we wished, for we much liked talking to him."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "My time's nearly up, and I mustn't keep my gentleman waiting; he goes out in my boat every day, and has been a good friend to m... |
44557 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We must manage to get you to the Bellows, it is such a curious sight, said my girls as they returned from it."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Don't be frightened--come along!"
}
] |
44557 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't attempt it! the clergyman cried at the top of his voice."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That's the Devil's Throat. She'll never manage it. Come down. Do make her come down."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Your young people seem rather venturesome,"... |
44557 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They must manage their own affairs, said the old gentleman sententiously, perhaps not being so much given to preaching (out of the pulpit) as I was."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "My daughters are wiser. Here come two of them."
}
] |
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