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12387 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's Niger! said Juliet, hearing his whinny."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Is he come?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Who, ma'am?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The doctor--is he come?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He's but... |
12387 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Let Him teach me, then,"
}
] |
16612 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Who is it? and was told,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Urquhart, of course, with the implication"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Who else could it be?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, Peter said, and blushed. Then he was told,"
},
{
... |
16612 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I say, you--Margerison. Just cut down to the field and bring my cap. You'll find it by the far goal, Smithson's ground. You can bring it to the lavatories and hang it on my peg. Cut along quick, or you'll be late."
}
] |
16612 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am sorry to be so tiresome and feeble: do go on with your own businesses, you more fortunate and capable people, and never mind me."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There's Urquhart coming, and Urquhart came. He had been playing on another ground. He said,"
},
{
... |
16612 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's all right, said Urquhart."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I wanted to see if it was sprained or broken anywhere. It's not; it's just a put-out shoulder. I did that once, and they put it in on the field; it was quite easy. It ought to be done at once, before it ... |
16612 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm going to haul it in for you, he told Peter."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's quite easy. It'll hurt a bit, of course, but less now than if it's left. It'll slip in quite easily, because you haven't much muscle,"
}
] |
16612 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sorry, he said;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There, said Urquhart, resting and looking pleased, as he always did when he had accomplished something neatly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Heard the click, didn't you? It's in all right. Sorry to hurt yo... |
16612 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "All right, young man, all right."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I was told it had been put in."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, said Peter languidly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But it came out again, I think."
},
{
"from": "hu... |
16612 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hullo, Margerison. How are you this morning? and Peter said he was very nearly all right now, thanks very much. He added,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Thanks awfully, Urquhart, for putting it in, and seeing after me and everything."
},
{
"from": "human",
... |
16612 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How are your people?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Of course, Urquhart went on,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't remember your mother; I was only a baby when my father died. But I've always heard a lot about her. Is she..."
},
{
"from": "... |
16612 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I live with my uncle too,"
}
] |
16612 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, Urquhart was saying,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, much,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How does it feel now?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, all right. I don't feel it much. I say, do you think I ought to use it at once, in ca... |
16612 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Margery"
}
] |
16612 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and Hilary suddenly stopped and held out his hand, and said pleasantly,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am glad to meet you. Peter blushed at that, naturally (for Hilary's cheek, not for his tie), and hoped that Urquhart wasn't much offended, but that he understood ... |
16612 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What's the matter with _you_? and Peter recovered himself and said"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Nothing. He might have cried, with Miss Evelina Anvill,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, my dear sir, I am shocked to death! He did not. He did not even ... |
16612 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Urquharts ought to invite you to stay. The connection is really close. I believe your mother was devoted to that boy as a baby. You'd like to go and stay there, wouldn't you?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Peter must go and stay at _your_ uncle's place in Berkshi... |
16612 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hilary must do as he likes. But he is acting with his usual lack of judgment. For four years he had been saying so, and he said it again now. To Hilary himself he further said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You can't afford a wife at all. You certainly can't afford ... |
16612 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You dear little brother, I wish you'd come and live with us. We have _such_ fun.... That was the best of Peggy. Always and everywhere she had such fun. She added,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Give my sisterly regards to the splendid hero who shared your mamma, and ... |
16612 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's the merest pittance, Peter, yours and mine. The Robinsons have it practically all. The _Robinsons_. Really, you know ..."
}
] |
16612 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You'll have to leave Cambridge, Hilary told him."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You haven't enough to keep you here. I'm sorry, Peter; I'm afraid you'll have to begin and try to earn a living. But I can't imagine how, can you? Has any paying line of life ever occurre... |
16612 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We, he said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "he added plaintively,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If he was selling any pictures, Peter reflected,"
}
] |
16612 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I edit a magazine, he said, and Peter perceived that he was both proud and ashamed of the fact."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "At least I am going to. A monthly publication for the entertainment and edification of the Englishman in Venice. Lord Evelyn Urquhart is fin... |
16612 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If it was me, said Peter,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I should minister to my own appetite, no one else's. Bother the cultivated resident. He'd jolly well have to take what I gave him. And glass and mosaic and lace--what glorious things to write about.... I rather... |
16612 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Prefer chaney to cricket? asked Urquhart's uncle, with his agreeable laugh that was too attractive to be described as a titter, a name that its high, light quality might have suggested. But to that Peter said"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No."
}
] |
16612 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If I could get you away from Denis, he said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'll be bound cricket wouldn't be in the 'also rans.'"
}
] |
16612 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Keep that till you fall in love, he had inwardly admonished Peter's back as the two walked away together."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I daresay she won't deserve it any better--but that's a law of nature, and this is sheer squandering. My word, how that boy does l... |
16612 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I rather love him, don't you, Hilary replied,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He's a fearful old spendthrift."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't suppose he's much over fifty,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, I daresay, Hilary indifferen... |
16612 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Rather nice, said Hilary."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Really good, isn't it?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Gobelin, of the best time. Someone told me that afterwards. When I bought it, I only knew it was nice. A man wanted to buy it from me for quit... |
16612 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Brittle. This side up with care."
}
] |
16612 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He had said that he didn't exactly know."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Must one go in for anything, except exams? The friend, who was vigorously inclined, had said that one certainly ought. One could--he had measured Peter's frail physique and remembered all the thi... |
16612 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "One might-- Peter had made a suggestion of his own--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Serve him right. Brute,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Isn't it funny, Peter had reflectively said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "They must get such an awfu... |
16612 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I've no intention of sympathising with you, he had remarked;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Instant death every minute, Peter had truly replied. (His nerves had been a little shaken by his last ride, which had set his trouser-leg on fire suddenly, and nearly, as he r... |
16612 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It boils,"
}
] |
16612 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You slacker, Urquhart observed."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, can you come to-morrow? The drag starts at eleven."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's quite hard, said Peter, unreasonably disappointed in it."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value"... |
16612 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But why not start a curiosity shop of your own? Or be a travelling pedlar? It would be so much more amusing."
}
] |
16612 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Some day, said Peter politely,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I may have to be a travelling pedlar. This is only an experiment, to see if it works."
}
] |
16612 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Stephen always takes notice of the destitute. The best qualification for his regard is to commit such a solecism that society cuts you, or such a crime that you get a month's hard. Short of that, it will do to have a hole in your coat, or paint a bad picture, or produce a yester... |
16612 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Christian Young Men do not bathe very much, and it seems a pity no one should."
}
] |
16612 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You would think, to look at him, Urquhart said to Lucy,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I know. He's nice to me always. I go and play my 'cello to his friends."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I always keep him in mind, said Peter,"
},
{
"from": "g... |
16612 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, I want to go on the flip-flap. Peter mustn't come, because it always makes him sick; so will you?"
}
] |
16612 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They have oddities in, you know--and particularly on Sunday afternoons. They usually have one or two staying in the house, too. They keep open house for wastrels. A lot of them are aliens--Polish refugees, Russian anarchists, oppressed Finns, massacred Armenians who do embroider... |
16612 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Lucy's in the corner over there,"
}
] |
16612 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You give from the emotions, Joseph Leslie told her,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Should one, wondered Felicity,"
}
] |
16612 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Start a settlement, and he had said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I can't unless you'll work it for me. Will you?"
}
] |
16612 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do you find him a useful little boy?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Useful boy--very. And pleasant company, you know. I don't know much about these things, but he seems to have a splendid eye for a good thing. Funny thing is, it works all round--in all departments. N... |
16612 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Rather a flash lot, the Urquharts, aren't they? he said; and Peter, who liked him, would have had to admit that the remark was perilously near to a bound."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Seem to have a sort of knack of dazzling people."
},
{
"from": "human",
... |
16612 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "she said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm no good to them; I don't understand; and I hate people to be unhappy. I'm dreadfully sorry they are. I don't want to have to think about them. Why can't they be happy? There are so many nice things all about. 'Tis such _wa... |
16612 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Babies. What's the matter now?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Only Denis,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That young man, commented Dermot Hope, without approbation,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That's just why, isn't it, Peter, put in Lucy... |
16612 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Leslie's taking me to Italy on Sunday. Isn't it nice for me. I wish he was taking you too."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, Peter, I wish he was!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do you want to go? and she nodded, with her mouth tight shut as if to keep... |
16612 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I knew she would, of course. I told you so long ago. He's quite sure to get arrested before long, so that settled it. And they're going to be married directly and go straight out there and plot. He excites the students, you know; as if students needed exciting by their professor... |
16612 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You can't do it, Peter would shrilly and emphatically explain."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's like a German tripper collecting souvenirs. Things aren't interesting merely because you happen to have been to the places they belong to. What do you want with that bi... |
16612 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He's a good man, isn't he? Leslie queried, puzzled."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Surely he knows what he's talking about?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He tells me what to like, the self-educator said simply."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value":... |
16612 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come out of that, he said to Peter,"
}
] |
16612 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's time to get up, you slacker,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, bother, all right, have you made tea?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, said Rodney."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You can do without tea this morning."
},
{
"fro... |
16612 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then, said Peter dreamily,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Twelve kilometres from breakfast. Thirty from tea. No, we don't tea before Florence. Go and wash."
}
] |
16612 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How many tones of grey do you suppose there are in an olive tree when the moon has set? But there'll be more presently. Listen...."
}
] |
16612 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Listen,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Brute."
}
] |
16612 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Perhaps, Rodney hoped, but not sanguinely,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's quite all right."
}
] |
16612 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You, Margery?... What a game. But what have you done with the Hebrew? Oh, that's Stephen, isn't it. That accounts for it: but how did he get you? I say, you can't have slept anywhere; there's _been_ nowhere, for miles. And have you left Leslie to roam alone among the Objects of ... |
16612 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How funny,"
}
] |
16612 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't think, Urquhart was saying,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Rodney and I don't think, Peter returned, in the hushed voice that belonged to the still hour,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come with me to Florence, you and Margery. Or do you hate th... |
16612 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Good, said Peter."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Leslie and I are going to do Venice directly we've cleared Florence of its Objects of Beauty. You can imagine the way Leslie will go about Florence, his purse in his hand, asking the price of the Bargello. 'Worth havin... |
16612 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "After all, he murmured,"
}
] |
16612 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But all the same, said Peter, suddenly aggrieved,"
}
] |
16612 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Too many things, said Rodney, indistinctly over his thick pipe."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That's all."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The old story. The more things the better; why not? You'd be happy on a desert island full of horrid naked savages.... |
16612 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm a teetotaller."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm frightfully sorry. I suppose I'm tired. Didn't we get up rather early and walk rather fast?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I suppose, said Rodney,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Thirty ki... |
16612 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, don't--oh, _don't_,"
}
] |
16612 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He can't be, said Urquhart."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He can't be. I didn't touch him."
}
] |
16612 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I see, said Urquhart quietly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That did it. The lamp or something must have struck it and knocked him over. Poor old chap."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "His heart must have been bad, said Urquhart, and the soft tones of hi... |
16612 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It wasn't your fault. It was his doing--poor chap."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You're ill, aren't you?... I met Stephen.... I was coming back anyhow; I knew you weren't fit to walk."
}
] |
16612 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I was over-driving, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I ought to have slowed down to pass him."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We've got to think now, he said,"
}
] |
16612 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't see, said Denis,"
}
] |
16612 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The poor things, said Peggy, who had a sympathetic heart."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm sure I'm sorry for them, and I hate to ask them for it. But one's got to try and live."
}
] |
16612 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's Guy Vyvian,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Fancy,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Pronto, very loud, and the boarders trailed in one by one. First came Mr. Guy Vyvian, sauntering with resignedly lifted brows, and looking as if it ought to have bee... |
16612 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Know Venice? and when Peter said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not yet, she told him,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ah, you'll like it, I know. So pleasant as it is. Particlerly for young people. It gives me rheumatics, so much damp about. But my gel... |
16612 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Just like me, she is, in that way. But I like to see the worship goin' on, all the same. Popish, you know, of course, she added, and then, bethinking herself,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But perhaps you're a Roman, Mr. Peter, like your dear brother and sister? Wel... |
16612 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What are you to Venice, Mr. Margerison, and Venice to you? What, I mean, are you going to get out of her? Which of her aspects do you especially approach? She has so infinitely many, you know. What, in fact, is your connecting link? She waited with some interest for what Peter w... |
16612 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You shouldn't, my dear, Mrs. Johnson murmured soothingly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm sure you should be careful. We mustn't play tricks with our constitutions."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Can you tell me, Miss Barnett added abruptly, in her c... |
16612 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Venice, Her Spirit, with contemptuous jealousy, thought that Rhoda was paying them too much attention, and effectually called her away by saying,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If you care to come with me to the Schiavoni, I can better explain to you what I mean."
... |
16612 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is a disgrace, Hilary remarked mechanically,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm glad to of had the pleasure. One day we'll go out together, you and me. Seem as if we look at things from the same point of view, as it were. You mayn't be so clever as some, but you s... |
16612 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Venice, Her Spirit,"
}
] |
16612 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm going out with Leslie, said Peter."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We're going to call on the prince and see the goblet and begin the haggling. We must haggle, though as a matter of fact Leslie means to have it at any price. It must be a perfectly ripping thing...... |
16612 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Is Leslie going to buy the whole place up? I'm sick of these wealthy Jews. They're ruining Venice. Buying all the palaces, you know. I suppose Leslie'll be wanting to do that next. There's altogether too much buying in this forsaken world. Why can't people admire without wanting... |
16612 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "An' the sun shinin' on the gilt front an' all, murmured Peter."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I call it just sweet."
}
] |
16612 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Stones of Venice in his hand, and said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Now for those mosaics. Leslie was a business-like person, who wasted no time. So they started on the mosaics, and did them for an hour. Leslie said,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Go... |
16612 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My word, suppose it broke!"
}
] |
16612 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Your brother's a good man, said Leslie."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Knows what's what, doesn't he? If he says these are good _osele_, we may take it that they _are_ good _osele_, though we don't know one _osele_ from another. That's right, isn't it?"
}
] |
16612 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Lord Evelyn wants us to dine with him to-night,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Good, said Peter. Hilary wore a bored look and said,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I suppose we must go,"
}
] |
16612 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But, said Peter presently,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I daresay they can look after themselves,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "After all, so long as they _are_ uncritical, it can't matter to them what sort of a plaque they get!"
}
] |
16612 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Not changed at all, as far as I can see, he said to Peter, with the same mincing, finicking pronunciation that had pleased the boy Peter eight years ago."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Only my sight isn't what it was. _Are_ you changed at all? Do you still like Bow r... |
16612 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I beg your pardon,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But it isn't my fault, he told himself reassuringly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I've not done anything, I'm sure I haven't. It's just the way he's made, I expect. Or else people have done him badly o... |
16612 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Rather lovely, isn't she, he said, caressing her."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We found her and the Actæon in a dusty hole of a place in a miserable little _calle_ off the Campo delle Beccarie, kept by a German Jew. Quite a find, the old sinner. What an extortioner... |
16612 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If it makes them happy"
}
] |
16612 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Eh? he queried."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why so? But never mind; you always suffered in that way, I remember. Get it from your mother, I think; she did, too. Never explain jokes; they lose so in the telling. Now I want to show you something over here."
}
] |
16612 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Like it? --coloured and murmured indistinguishable comments into his collar. He coloured most when Lord Evelyn said, as he frequently did,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Your brother's find. A delicious little man in some _sotto-portico_ or other--quite an admirable ... |
16612 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Peter Margerison, you've lost some of the religious fervour of your youth. The deceitfulness of riches and the cares of this world--is that it? What's come to you that you're so tepid about this Siena chalice? Don't be tepid, young Peter; it's the symptom of a ruined soul."
}
... |
16612 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Damme, said Lord Evelyn suddenly, with unusual explosiveness,"
}
] |
16612 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You need Denis to keep you in order, young Peter. Lord, how frightened you used to be when Denis was stern. Smiled and pretended you weren't, but I knew.... He chuckled at the painted ceiling."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Knew a man at Oxford, Peter ... well, never... |
16612 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Queer manners you have, dear Jim,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Chérie Birri-Bim,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sta--i!"
}
] |
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