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21574 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That will do, I think, said Spikeman;"
}
] |
21574 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If you please, miss, have you any scissors or knives for me to grind?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Who are you? said she at last;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, madam, we came this way,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Is he your father... |
21574 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Here are the scissors; mind you make them cut well."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I will do my best, miss,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Have you been long at this trade?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, miss, not very long."
},
{
... |
21574 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I beg your pardon, miss, but do you think there is any work at the house?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Come here, sir,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, miss,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Now, tell me the truth, and I will reward you w... |
21574 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My boy tells me, miss, that you wish to speak to me,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I did, friend, said Melissa, after looking at Spikeman for a few minutes;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Boy, go away to a distance, said Spikeman, very angrily;"
},
... |
21574 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am all prepared now, my boy, said Spikeman, whose appearance was considerably improved by the various little personal arrangements which he had gone through during the time he was in London."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have my money in my pockets, my portmante... |
21574 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Any knives or scissors to grind, ma'am?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You here again, Master Tinker! Why, I had quite forgot all about you."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It were well for others, Miss Mathews, if their memory were equally treacherous,"... |
21574 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You observe, Master Tinker, that there is the danger of your pleading for yourself, and not for your client; and there is also the danger of my being insensibly moved to listen to the addresses of a tinker. Now, only reflect upon the awful consequences,"
},
{
"from": "gp... |
21574 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My dear Melissa, I could not speak to you in the house, on account of your father; but Simpson has told me this morning that she thought it her duty to state to me that you have been seen, not only in the day time, but late in the evening, walking and talking with a strange-look... |
21574 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You here, my boy! what have you come for?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I was strolling this way, madam."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come here; I want you to tell me the truth; indeed, it is useless to attempt to deceive me. Is that person your uncl... |
21574 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Stop a moment, boy, said Spikeman."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Here, Joey, take this."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes--yes! stop, do stop, and let me out; I cannot go, indeed I cannot."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There's lights comi... |
21574 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "NB. There is some money in the old place to pay the bill at the cottage."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "All this is _mine_."
}
] |
21574 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, Master Atherton, how do you do? and pray where is Mr Spikeman?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He is a long way from this!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A long way from this! Why, has he not come back with you?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"va... |
21574 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My dear Papa,--You will be glad to hear that I am married. Augustus says that, if I behave well, he will come and see you soon. Dear papa, your dutiful child, MELISSA SPIKEMAN."
}
] |
21574 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How very kind of you, ma'am! said Mrs Chopper;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It is me, Mary--Nancy that was!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And so it is! O, Nancy, now I shall die in peace! I thought at first it was the kind lady who comes every day to... |
21574 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nancy! this is the paper I told you of. I have about 700 pounds in the bank, which is all that I have saved in twenty-two years; but it has been honestly made. I have, perhaps, much more owing to me, but I do not want it to be collected. Poor sailors have no money to spare, and ... |
21574 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This is the young woman whom you so wished to see, Mrs Chopper, is it not? said Mrs Phillips."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am not surprised at your longing for her, for she appears well suited for a companion in such an hour; and, alas! how, few there are! Sit do... |
21574 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "By-the-bye, Austin, have you heard that you have a new neighbour?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What!--on the Frampton estate, I suppose; I heard that it had been sold."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes; I have seen him. He is one of your profession--... |
21574 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What's the matter, Austin, you look pale; you are not well."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, replied Austin, recollecting himself;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am not; one of those twinges from an old wound in the breast came on. I shall be better... |
21574 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well I am glad that you did not go home, observed his friend;"
}
] |
21574 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What is the matter, my dear?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Matter! replied Austin, bitterly, pacing up and down the room;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dear Austin, don't talk in that way. What has happened?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "... |
21574 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is indeed a very annoying circumstance, my dear Austin; but are you sure that he would, after so long a period, recognise the private soldier in the gentleman of fortune?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "As sure as I sit here, replied Austin, gloomily;"
},
{
... |
21574 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You are very much grown, Joey, said Mary."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Dear boy, how happy I am to see you!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And you, Mary, you're younger in the face, but older in your manners. Are you as happy in your situation as you ... |
21574 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What shall I do with my grindstone?"
}
] |
21574 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It would be a very good plan, observed one of them;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes; if we could get off with it without being discovered. Where can the owner of it be."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, I dare say he is away upon some business or ... |
21574 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do you watch by him while I wheel away the grindstone."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But if he wakes, what shall I do?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Brain him with that big stone. If he does not wake up when I am past the second field, follow me."
}... |
21574 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Besides, thought Joey,"
}
] |
21574 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But, perhaps, mamma, it will be better to wait till tomorrow, and in the meantime you will be able to tell my uncle all about Joey,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I think it will be better, my dear, replied Mrs Phillips;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Y... |
21574 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I did not mean to make you unhappy,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am sure you did not, replied Joey, smiling."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, I was then as you say; but recollect that lately I have been a knife-grinder."
},
{
"from": "gpt... |
21574 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now you feel the force of my argument, don't you? Everybody did, and no one would oppose him unless the table was between them. It was much the same with his jokes: he would utter them, and then with a loud laugh, and the insidious insertion of his knuckles, say,"
},
{
"... |
21574 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, young man, I've heard all about you from my sister. So you wish to leave off vagabondising, do you?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, sir,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How old are you? can you keep books?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"valu... |
21574 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What can we do with this lad, Sleek? said Mr Small;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Let him stay in the counting-house here for a week, replied Mr Sleek,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, I think that will do for the present, rejoined Mr Small;"
},
... |
21574 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Look on this list; do you understand it? said Mr Sleek to Joey;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "O, yes; and I know the prices of all these things, replied he;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have been used to the supplying of ships at Gravesend."
},
... |
21574 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sleek, said Small, one day,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's not my fault, sir; he won't go to his dinner if there is anything to do; and, as there is always something to do, it's as clear as the day that he can get no dinner. I wish he was living in the house alt... |
21574 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Let O'Donahue and I settle the matter, and all will go right."
}
] |
21574 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "O'Donahue, I have been laying out some of your money for you."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Indeed, sir! I'm very much obliged to you."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes; there was a large stock of claret sold at auction to-day: it was good, and went c... |
21574 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Good morning, Mr O'Donahue, said the midshipman;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, he is not; can I do anything for you?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, if you can tell me how I am to persuade Mr Small to advance me a little money upon my pay, you ... |
21574 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The admiral, sir, is coming down the street, said Sleek, entering,"
}
] |
21574 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now, Mr Small, said the admiral,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "By that time, Sir William?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is now eleven o'clock; can it all be down by four o'clock--that is the latest I can give you?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"... |
21574 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What is the matter with you?--you look so ill, you alarm us all, and you make me quite miserable."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am afraid, Miss Phillips--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Miss Phillips!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I beg ... |
21574 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I hardly know what to say to you, said our hero,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It certainly appeared very strange, especially to Captain B---, who told me that he thought you were mad."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I care little what he thinks, but I ... |
21574 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Did innocence and mystery ever walk hand in hand? If Emma had put that question to us, we, from our knowledge of the world, should have replied,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, very often, my dear Miss Phillips."
}
] |
21574 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Never mind women's minds, but mind your own business."
}
] |
21574 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Innocence and mystery did not walk hand in hand."
}
] |
21574 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There is always something, as a good lady said to us; and so there always is, and always will be. The removal of Furness was naturally a great relief to the mind of our hero; he then felt as if all his difficulties were surmounted, and that he had no longer any fear of the conse... |
21574 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, my good friend, how do you find yourself?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Very far from well, sir. I feel that I cannot attend to business, replied Joey,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I think change of air would be very serviceable to you, my dear... |
21574 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I hope your absence will be productive of health and happiness to you, Mr O'Donahue,"
}
] |
21574 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't know,"
}
] |
21574 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I should hardly have known you, my dear boy, said she, as the tears glistened in her eyes;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We are indebted to that good woman for our prosperity, replied Joey."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do you know, Mary, that your mo... |
21574 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, observed Joey,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Because it was better to say nothing, replied Mary;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, I shall leave you now, said Joey,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "O yes, I certainly shall, replied M... |
21574 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do you want me, madam?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, Mary, not particular, but Mr Austin sent for me; he was annoyed at your having a strange person in the house, and desired me to send him away."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It was my brother, ma... |
21574 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Your health has been a source of great anxiety to us all, not only in the counting-house, but in the drawing-room; the cause of your illness was ascribed to over-exertion in your duties, and it must be admitted, that until you were ill there was no relaxation on your part; but w... |
21574 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I tell you, Joseph, she is here, and with the Christian. Manasseh traced her by the driver of the coach. She will never return to her father's house if we do not discover her this night."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What! will she become a _Meshumed_--an apostate! ... |
21574 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That is all very well, thought our hero;"
}
] |
21574 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There they are, thought our hero;"
}
] |
21574 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You are watched, and in danger, sir, if you are the party I think you are,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Who are you, replied the domino,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A perfect stranger to you, even if your mask was removed, sir; but I happened to ov... |
21574 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I will tell you, certainly; not that I interfere with other people's concerns; but when I saw that one of them had a poniard--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A poniard!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, replied Joey;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"... |
21574 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then, Miriam, dear, what I propose is this; will you put yourself under the protection of this stranger? I think you risk nothing, for he has proved that he is kind. You may then, without fear of detection, pass through the gardens, and be conducted by him to a place of safety. ... |
21574 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am more obliged to you, sir, than I can well express, replied she,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He was with her,"
}
] |
21574 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Miriam folded her arms across her breast, and knelt down, with her eyes fixed upon the floor. `I can only answer in the words of Ruth,' replied she, in a low voice and with trembling lips. I hardly need observe, that after this interview the affair was decided,--the great diffic... |
21574 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This for the Gaw and the Meshumed!"
}
] |
21574 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Your deposition says Joseph O'Donahue. How is this? Have you an _alias_, like many others, sir?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "My real name is Rushbrook, but I have been called O'Donahue for some time,"
}
] |
21574 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Step this way, if you please, sir; I have something to say to you."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Your name is Joseph Rushbrook; you said so in the witness-box?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, replied Joey,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": ... |
21574 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Have you anything to say that might prevent my committing you on the charge of murder?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Nothing, except that I am not guilty,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have had the warrant out against him these seven years, or there... |
21574 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It shall go safe enough, young master, replied the man."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Now, do you know, yours is one of the strangest cases which ever came to my knowledge? continued the man;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, I am, replied Joey;"
}... |
21574 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What is the matter, Mary?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have received a letter from my brother, madam, replied Mary;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Your brother, Mary! what difficulty is he in?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mary, if your... |
21574 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mary, do not deceive me; you say that that boy is _your_ brother--tell me, is not that false? I am sure that it is. Answer me, Mary."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He is not my born brother, madam, but I love him as one,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A... |
21574 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And it was Joseph Rushbrook that came with you to this house?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, madam, replied Mary;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And what has he been doing since he came here?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, Mary, s... |
21574 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Are you better, madam?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, I thank you, Mary; take your work and sit down; I wish to have some more conversation with you about this young person, Joseph Rushbrook; you must have seen that I am much interested about him."
},
{
... |
21574 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You are, indeed, a kind friend, madam, said Mary, after a pause,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "First, Mary, tell me as much of your own history as you choose to tell; I wish to know it."
}
] |
21574 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mary, if you imagine that you have fallen in my good opinion, after what you have confessed to me, you are much mistaken; you have, on the contrary, been raised. There have been few, very few, that have had the courage and fortitude that you have shown, or who could have succeed... |
21574 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Whom do you wish to see?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Joseph Rushbrook, my brother,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She wishes to see her brother, young Rushbrook,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, certainly, replied the gaoler;"
},
{... |
21574 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I was sure that you would come, Mary, said Joey;"
}
] |
21574 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And what do you intend to do when you are brought to trial, my dear boy?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I shall say nothing, except `Not Guilty,' which is the truth, Mary; I shall make no defence whatever."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But why will you... |
21574 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Would you like to take anything?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A little water,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And how is your brother?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He is innocent, replied Mary:"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": ... |
21574 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mary, my poor girl, said Mrs Austin,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I will, madam."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And, Mary, if you think it advisable, you can remain in town for two or three days; but pray write to me every day."
},
{
"from": "... |
21574 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What can I do for you, young lady? inquired Mr Trevor, with some surprise:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am not a young lady, sir, replied Mary;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have come to you to request that you will be so kind as to defend my bro... |
21574 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What is your brother's name?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Joseph Rushbrook."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Rushbrook! Rushbrook! I well remember that name, remarked Mr Trevor;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Have you the indictment? Where d... |
21574 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I thank you, sir, but I have suffered so much anxiety about my poor brother,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He cannot be a very bad boy, since you are so fond of him,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, indeed; I wish I was half as good,"
},
{
"f... |
21574 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh! it is horrible--too horrible! cried the almost fainting girl."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What can--what must be done! Either way, misery--disgrace! Lord, forgive me! But my head is turned. That you should be here! That you should be in this strait! Why was it... |
21574 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come, Mary, said Joey at last,"
}
] |
21574 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You see, my dear boy, there is no doubt of the fact. I believe I did promise Mrs Austin to say nothing to you about it; but I forgot my promise all just this minute. Now, Joey, what is to be done?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Tell me something about my father, Mary... |
21574 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mary, said Joey,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I thought as much, replied Mary,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is the will of God that I should be in this strait, Mary; and now let us not renew the subject."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": ... |
21574 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, no, thought Joey,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have seen your sister, Rushbrook, said he,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You are very kind, sir; but I can say nothing even to you, except that, on my honour, I am not guilty."
},
{
"from":... |
21574 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Madam, said Mary, after some hesitation,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What have you discovered, Mary?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That Joseph Rushbrook is your own son, said Mary, kneeling down and kissing the hand of her mistress."
},
{
"f... |
21574 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What is the date? said the judge;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Eight years ago! and then looking at the prisoner, added,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, he must have been a child."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "As is too often the case... |
21574 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Look at him now, gentlemen of the jury; eight years ago the murder of the pedlar, Byres, took place; why, you may judge for yourselves whether he is now more than seventeen years of age; he could scarcely have held a gun at the time referred to."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
... |
21574 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do you mean to assert that the gun went off by accident, Mr Trevor?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I never fired the gun, my lord,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The prisoner has answered for me, replied Mr Trevor, recovering himself;"
}
] |
21574 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You don't blame me, Mary?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, no, sobbed Mary;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I shall soon be far from here, Mary, said Joey, sitting down on the bedstead;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Had it not been for her... |
21574 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What's the matter, my dear?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Murder's the matter, my jewel, returned the major;"
}
] |
21574 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I didn't like to let Mrs McShane know it, as she would take it sorely to heart, said McShane:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, it appears to me that we had better be off to Exeter directly,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, and see him,"
},
{
... |
21574 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My poor, poor boy, this is indeed a bitter cup to drink! exclaimed Mrs Austin."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "May God, in His mercy, look down upon you, and console you!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He will, mother: and when far away--not before, not ... |
21574 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And this father of his is totally lost sight of; you say?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Altogether: I have never been able to trace him,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I was observing to his sister--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He has no... |
21574 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mr Austin, said O'Donahue,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I do not pretend to deny, gentlemen, that you once knew me under different circumstances, replied Austin, haughtily;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "May I inquire of you, Mr Austin, said McShane,"... |
21574 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have to thank you much for your kindness to my poor boy, Major McShane; and truly sorry am I that he is in such a dilemma. Now that I am acquainted with it, I shall do all in my power. There are other Rushbrooks, gentlemen, and you cannot be surprised at my not immediately adm... |
21574 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Perhaps, Mr Austin, you will allow me to ring for a little water?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, sir, thank you,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Since you have admitted that Joseph Rushbrook is your son, Mr Austin, continued McShane,"
},
{
"f... |
21574 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, Mary, how is this to end?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "As guilt always must end, madam, replied Mary, bursting into tears and clasping her hands,--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My dear Mary, do not distress yourself in that manner; you are no lo... |
21574 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There's no time to lose, then, said McShane;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I will, if you please, take a copy of this deposition."
}
] |
21574 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, Major McShane, I would gladly have risen from a sick bed to have had this paper put into my hands; we must call upon the Secretary of State to-morrow, and I have no doubt but that the poor lad will be speedily released, take possession of his property, and be an honour to ... |
21574 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have been prepared for this, or something like this, replied she, weeping in her mother's arms,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "See him, my child! he is confined in gaol."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do not refuse me, mother, you know not what I feel... |
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