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17978 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What do you want all those for, Major Peter?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, you see, said Peter,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "--Peter now calls other boys of the same age as himself"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "on the same principl... |
17978 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What's Fenner's?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, that's another school at Beckenham. They're stinkers. Put on no end of side because some smug of theirs won a schol' at Uppingham last term. But we beat them at footer."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "R... |
17978 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Peter,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Major Peter,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I didn't mean you to read all that rot, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I meant what he says at the end."
}
] |
17978 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Cheek, isn't it? said Peter rather hurriedly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "His old knife for a bayonet!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But if you put 'the Front' at the top of your letters, Major Peter, you can't be surprised at his asking for one, yo... |
17978 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "T----, old chap, I said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Peter'll be a great man some day."
}
] |
17978 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Shall we get to Calais?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Bon Dieu! I know not,"
}
] |
17978 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Courrier du Roi,"
}
] |
17978 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Officier Anglais!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Courrier du Roi! we exclaimed, and were sped on our way with a weary smile and"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Bonjour! messieurs. Women and old men were already toiling in the fields, stooping like the fi... |
17978 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This is Barbara--our little Egyptian,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "She was born in Egypt,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ah, I said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You see, Mummy was travelling, and she comed to Egypt. She didn't know I wa... |
17978 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am afraid there are more than six years between us, Barbara,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "About ten, I fink. I'm seven, you know."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How nice of you to say that, Barbara. Then I'm only seventeen."
},
{
"from": "gp... |
17978 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm a nurse, Barbara explained, loftily, showing an armlet bearing the ensign of the Red Cross. I was about to remind her of 1 & 2 Geo. V. cap. 20, which threatens the penalties of a misdemeanour against all who wear the Red Cross without the authority of Army Council, but I tho... |
17978 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Fank you,"
}
] |
17978 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Will you come again, and take his tempewature--Pwomise?"
}
] |
17978 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hell it was--fire and brimstone, said a R.F.A. man."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We limbered up, our battery did, and got the guns off in column of route, but we were more like a blooming ambulance than a battery. We had our limbers and waggons chock full o' detail... |
17978 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It were just like a coop-tie crowd was the retreat, he drawled in the broad Lancashire dialect."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A fair mix-up, it were."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What do you think of the Germans?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"val... |
17978 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A collection will now be taken,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I found this cap, he said gravely,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The number looks like one--nought--seven--something, said the chaplain, adjusting his glasses,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
... |
17978 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I suppose you're pretty comfortable here?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "One and six a day we gets, cried one of them,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I think you're mistaken, my son,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, there's chaps in this... |
17978 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, sir, if you read the papers you wud 'a thocht it was a braw pic-nic. said the red-headed one."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You wud think we were growin' fat oot in the trenches. Dae ah look like it?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Not much space h... |
17978 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But pray that your flight be not in the winter."
}
] |
17978 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Who are you? Where do you come from?"
}
] |
17978 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They're fugitives, he repeated to me."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Been burnt out of their farm by the Bosches near the Menin ridge."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Are they all alone?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, their only son was ... |
17978 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But where are they going?"
}
] |
17978 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He says he doesn't know, my companion translated."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He's never been outside his parish before. But he thinks he'll go to Brussels and see the King of the Belgians. He doesn't know the Germans are in Brussels. And anyhow he's on the wrong ... |
17978 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Angelus,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "DUG-OUT"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Tommy,"
}
] |
17978 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I feeds yer, he said reproachfully,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I waters yer, I grooms yer, I stays from my dinner to dry yer, and what do I get for it? Now I ask yer?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What do I get for it? he repeated argumentatively."... |
17978 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Beg pardon, sir, said Hawkins, saluting, as he caught sight of the Major and myself who had entered the stable at that moment. The Major was trying hard to repress a smile."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Go on with your catechism, Hawkins,"
}
] |
17978 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I suppose you're fond of your horses, Hawkins? I said unguardedly. But no R.F.A. driver wears his heart on his sleeve, and Hawkins's reply was disconcerting."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I 'ates 'em, sir, he whispered to me as the Major turned his back;"
},
{
... |
17978 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Battery! began the cadet, as he threw his head back and took a deep breath."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Advance in single file from the right. The rest mark time."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Rest! said the sergeant reproachfully."
},
{
"fr... |
17978 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Section tell off!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "One, from the front row."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Two, from the back."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Three,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Without drag-ropes--prepare to ad... |
17978 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It reminds me, remarked the Major colloquially, as we strolled away,"
}
] |
17978 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I forgives yer, I heard him say with rare magnanimity,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Halt! Stop, I mean."
}
] |
17978 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Opened out his throttle--'e has, whispered an Army driver professionally to his neighbour;"
}
] |
17978 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You've lost your connecting files, me lad, he exclaimed reproachfully;"
}
] |
17978 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Buck up, old chap,"
}
] |
17978 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Next gramophone record, please!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That's better, sonny,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It won't hurt you, old chap, I'm only going to drain off the septic matter, interjected the surgeon in holland overalls, with sleeves tuc... |
17978 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Bon soir, monsieur!"
}
] |
17978 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Continuez, Henri, he said with a glance at the clerk."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There was a kick at the door and a tall loutish man in the uniform of a German officer entered, followed by two grey-coated soldiers. The officer neither bowed nor saluted, but merel... |
17978 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ten thousand kilos of bread! Monsieur, we provide five thousand a day for the refugees, and this will tax us to the uttermost. The bakers of the town are nearly all _sous les drapeaux_. Very well, monsieur, he added in reply to an impatient exclamation from the officer,"
},
... |
17978 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But you will first sign the following _affiche_--by the General's orders,"
}
] |
17978 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "One moment, said the _maire_ as he took up a pen,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Es macht nichts, said the officer;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mon Dieu, what French! he said to himself;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "he continued aloud,"... |
17978 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": ""
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "and, on rare occasions"
}
] |
17978 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Some one has fired upon us, said the officer,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And the order? asked the _maire_ sleepily;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Never mind about the order, said the officer reassuringly,"
}
] |
17978 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The babies are crying for milk, he said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The _maire_ reflected for a moment, and then dictated an _avis_ to the inhabitants enjoining upon them to be as sparing in their consumption of milk as possible for the sake of the"
},
{
... |
17978 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And the women, continued the _adjoint_, in a tone of stupefied horror,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The Commandant wishes to see you _tout de suite_, he exclaimed."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "March! He was conducted by a corporal's guard, preceded ... |
17978 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well? said the Commandant."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Monsieur le Général, I have collected the fine, said the _maire_. The General's face relaxed its habitual sternness; he grew at once pleasant and polite."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Good, he s... |
17978 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You see, monsieur, he exclaimed,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It was."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And they left a good many official papers behind--what you call 'chits,' is it not?--and this one among them. Please mind your cigar-ash, monsieur! Yo... |
17978 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Director with his eye to the sights as though he was focussing the distant object for a photograph. He fixed the outer clamp, unscrewed the inner clamp, and having got his sights on the house, he reversed the process and swung round the sights to bear on a little copse to our le... |
17978 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "La guerre, quand finira-t-elle, M'sieu'?"
}
] |
17978 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am a kind of receptacle for the waste products of everybody's mind, he exclaimed petulantly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "This morning I was rung up on the telephone and asked if I would bury a dead horse for the Canadian Division; I told them I hadn't a Prayer B... |
17978 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I think we've fixed it up with those Red Cross drivers, he said complacently. The A.G.'s department had been wrestling with the disciplinary problem presented by these birds of passage on the lines of communication."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We've decided that t... |
17978 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He is admiring you, I remarked by way of consolation, as indeed he was."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What do you call it? said A---- petulantly to a R.A.M.C. officer who was lunching with us. The latter looked at the boy with a clinical eye."
},
{
"from": "... |
17978 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "), concluding with the solemn invocation,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ainsi m'aide Dieu."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Your name?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Jules F----."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Age?"
},
{
... |
17978 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Where were you on the 3rd of April at 7 P.M.?"
}
] |
17978 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "At what hour did you enter the Café à l'Harmonie?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "À l'Harmonie"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do you know Jules F----? the magistrate persisted. The accused grudgingly admitted the existence of such a person."
},
{
... |
17978 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is a grave offence, said the magistrate severely, as he contemplated the lachrymose delinquent."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "An _estaminet_ is a public place within the meaning of Section 444 of the Code Pénal. Vous avez méchamment imputé à une personne un fait ... |
17978 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I will deal with you, he said with an air of indulgence,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Fiat justitia ruat coelum,"
}
] |
17978 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "of mortars have been instituted to teach R.G.A. men how to handle them. Every morning at nine o'clock two young subalterns meet their class of fifty pupils in a château, and explain with the aid of a diagram on a blackboard the internal economy of the mortar and its 50-lb. bomb,... |
17978 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come unto Me all ye that are weary, and I will give you rest."
}
] |
17978 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "at a time when the chisel of the sculptor might say what the pen of the scrivener dared not, for fear of the common hangman, express. Bethune is not the only place where I have seen shops coddling churches, and the conjunction was originally less impertinent than it now seems. I... |
17978 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Princess Pat's,"
}
] |
17978 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "with it all, bluntly cut him short with the admonition:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Stow it, governor, we'd have hired a blooming Pullman if we'd known we was going to have the pleasure of your society. Yus, and we'd have had Sir John French 'ere to meet you. But ... |
17978 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": ""
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "In war? I asked."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "he replied,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I haven't got any; all I can remember of a hot corner we were in near Oultersteen was that my men, while waiting to ad... |
17978 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Bravo, Müller!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Sehr komisch!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Noch einmal, Müller!"
}
] |
17978 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "of R.G.A. men, who come down and select a"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have seen a trench-mortar in action--it is like a baby howitzer, and makes a prodigious noise. Our own men deprecate it and the enemy resent it. It is an invidious thing. The gas-extinguisher ... |
17978 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Front was, to all appearances above ground, as deserted as the Sahara and almost as silent. Everybody who had to be there was, for obvious reasons, invisible, and the misguided wayfarer who found himself between the lines was in a wilderness whose intimidating silence was occasi... |
17978 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I stands for the Criminal Investigation Department (and the study of the Hun may be legitimately regarded as a department of criminology) the Provost-Marshal and his staff may be described as a kind of Metropolitan Police. The P.M. and his A.P.M.'s are the _Censores Morum_ of th... |
17978 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "them to their own unlawful uses. The career of these adventurers is usually as brief as it is inglorious; when apprehended they are handed over to the French authorities, and the place that knew them knows them no more. They are shot into some mysterious _oubliette_. The rest is... |
17978 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and they can supply you with anything from a field-dressing to a toothbrush, and from an overcoat to a cake of soap. And as the Q.M.G. is concerned with goods, the A.G. is preoccupied with men. He makes up drafts as a railway transport officer makes up trains, and can tell you t... |
17978 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He never prosecutes--that is always the task of some officer specially assigned for the purpose--but he may"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Officers are not usually familiar with the mysteries of the Red Book,[29] however much they may know of the King's Regulations; ... |
17978 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Tipperary"
}
] |
17978 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "at G.H.Q. He got short shrift. There were very few of that undesirable species at G.H.Q., and as soon as they were discovered they were sent home. I sometimes wonder whether one could not trace, if it were worth while (which it isn't), these ignoble slanders to their origin in t... |
17978 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ole Luk-Oie"
}
] |
17978 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If you be coming back again, will you ask for me to be de-tailed to you, sir? My number is ----. Sergeant Pope at the Infantry Barracks sees to them things, sir."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Bon voyage, monsieur,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Bon voy... |
17978 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Had any trouble with German submarines?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Only once, sir. A torpedo missed us by 'bout a hund-erd yards."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Only once! How's that?"
}
] |
17978 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Them,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Take your hat off, looks into the pupil of your eyes, and lingers lovingly over your pulse; the other, as though anxious to oblige you, says,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Any letters to post?"
}
] |
17978 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "So long, old chap, see you again at battalion headquarters."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Good-bye, old thing, we meet next week at H.Q."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "To-morrow night at the Savoy--rather! You must meet my sister."
},
{
"from":... |
17978 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hullo, old man, back from the Front? When will the war end? I returned the same answer as a certain D.A.A.G. used to provide for similar otiose questions:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Never!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Never! Hullo, what's that?"
... |
17978 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Let's go and see what's happened, said one of my friends."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I hear she's dropped a lot of bombs down----."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "something underfoot. I looked down. The ground was covered with splinters of glass. As ... |
17978 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Blimey, Bill, said one to the other,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I've found 'un!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What have you found?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A souvenir, sir!"
}
] |
17978 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A picture of France at work which will be an inspiration to thousands. It is all the more powerful for its brevity."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A classic in descriptive journalism which no collector and no patriot will miss."
},
{
"from": "human",
"val... |
17978 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A monograph which is of supreme value at the present moment.... It makes an indispensable pendant to the author's _Modern Egypt_.... The book is a masterpiece of knowledge and wisdom, framed on lines of profound and permanent portraiture."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value"... |
17978 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The ten essays are all of a high order. Their tone is reassuring; they fairly envisage present difficulties. They are meant to help any whose faith has been disturbed by the fiery trial of the war. For the large class of persons so troubled no better or more effective aid could ... |
17978 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In the first year of the war Mr. McCormick was invited by the Grand Duke Nicholas to visit the field of active fighting.... He was permitted to examine closely the Russian military organisation in the field, the training schools, and the frontier fortresses. In this informative ... |
471420 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And are there no other marks than this plain board?"
}
] |
45415 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "HOUSE AND HOME PAPERS AND"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "LITTLE FOXES."
}
] |
45415 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, what will you do with her?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Atlantic Monthly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "To the Man in the Moon."
}
] |
45415 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What is to be done with her? What can she do?"
}
] |
45415 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, what shall we do with her?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I really don't know,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do you think we could get that school in Taunton for her?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Impossible; Mr. Herbert told me he h... |
45415 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In fact, said my wife,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You ought to drop her, my dear. You really ought not to burden yourself with other people's affairs as you do,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How _can_ I drop her? Can I help knowing that she is poor... |
45415 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Besides, said my wife, resuming the thread of her thoughts in regard to the subject just now before us,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Let me see, how many are now down on your list to be looked about for, Mrs. Crowfield?--some twelve or thirteen, are there not? You'... |
45415 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The fact is, continued Bob,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Here, said I,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You don't mean, said my wife,"
}
] |
45415 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In the first place, a home,--a neat, quiet chamber, quite as good as she has probably been accustomed to,--the very best of food, served in a pleasant, light, airy kitchen, which is one of the most agreeable rooms in the house, and the table and table-service quite equal to thos... |
45415 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "All this time there is lying, neglected and despised, a calling to which womanly talents and instincts are peculiarly fitted,--a calling full of opportunities of the most lasting usefulness,--a calling which insures a settled home, respectable protection, healthful exercise, goo... |
45415 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why is it, that this name of servant, which Christ says is the highest in the kingdom of heaven, is so dishonored among us professing Christians, that good women will beg or starve, will suffer almost any extreme of poverty and privation, rather than accept home, competence, sec... |
45415 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Think of a woman's calling clear-starching and ironing domestic drudgery, and to better the matter turning to type-setting in a grimy printing-office! Call the care of china and silver, the sweeping of carpets, the arrangement of parlors and sitting-rooms, drudgery; and go into ... |
45415 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "As we went through our great war with no help but that of God, obliged to disregard the misconceptions and impertinences which the foreign press rained down upon us, so, if we are wise, we shall continue to do. Our object must now be to make the principles on which our governmen... |
45415 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do you suppose, that, if women had equal representation with men in the municipal laws of New York, its reputation for filth during the last year would have gone so far beyond that of Cologne, or any other city renowned for bad smells? I trow not. I believe a _lady-mayoress_ wou... |
45415 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, said Bob,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, let us look over the field, said my wife."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What is there for woman?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "In the first place, said I,"
},
{
"from": "human",
... |
45415 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I know and have seen women lying upon laced pillows under silken curtains, who have been bullied and dominated over in the hour of their greatest helplessness by ignorant and vulgar tyrants, in a way that would scarce be thought possible in civilized society, and children that h... |
45415 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Whence come these girls? They are as numerous as yellow butterflies in autumn; they flutter up to cities from the country; they grow up from mothers who ran the same sort of career before them; and the reason why in the end they fall out of all reputable employment and starve on... |
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