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{
"from": "human",
"value": "We must smarten up the place, for the poor wife's sake. It will take something off the shock; and I want to avoid shocks for her."
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Will you go in? whispered he to Valencia, in a tone which meant--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not yet--I daresay he is too weak."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Better, thought he,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Tom!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Not Tom!--Lucia!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Lucia?--Lucia St. Just!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Lucia Vavasour!--your Lucia!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Elsley--darling Elsley!--don't you know me?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, very well indeed; better than you know me. I am not Vavasour at all. My name is Briggs--John Briggs, the apothecary's son, come home to Whitbury to die."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Elsley! I am your wife!--your own wife!--who never loved any one but you--never, never, never!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, my wife, at least!--Curse them, that they cannot deny!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh God! is he mad? thought she."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Elsley, speak to me!--I am your Lucia--your love--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Your wife! who never loved any one but you!"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Call me your love once more, and I shall know that all is past."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Then call me no more Elsley, love! whispered he."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Call me John Briggs, and let us have done with shams for ever."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No; you are my Elsley--my Vavasour! and I am your wife once more! and the poor thing fondled his head as it lay upon the pillow."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My own Elsley, to whom I gave myself, body and soul; for whom I would die now, --oh, such a death!--any death!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "How could I doubt you?--fool that I was!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, it was all my fault. It was all my odious temper! But we will be happy now, will we not?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But promise me one thing!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That you will go home and burn all the poetry--all the manuscripts, and never let the children write a verse--a verse--when I am dead?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He is dead!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He is not dead, madam: but you must be very gentle with him, if we are to--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I will do anything,--only save him!--save him! Mr. Thurnall, till I have atoned for all."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You have little enough to atone for, madam,"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Better she should sit by (thought he), and watch him till she is tired out. It will come on her the more gently, after all. He will die at sunrise, as so many die."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Let us pray,"
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "I hope I've no very bad conscience, boy; but Mary's busy with the poor young thing, mere child she is, too, to go through such a night; and, somehow, I don't like to be left alone after such a sight as that!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Tom! said Mark, as they sat smoking in silence, after breakfast, in the study."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Tom!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, sir!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That was an awful death-bed, Tom!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don't mean that he died hard, as we say; but so young, Tom. And I suppose poets' souls are worth something, like other people's--perhaps more. I can't understand 'em; but my Mary seems to, and people, like her, who think a poet the finest thing in the world. I laugh at it all when I am jolly, and call it sentiment and cant: but I believe that they are nearer heaven than I am: though I think they don't quite know where heaven is, nor where (with a wicked wink, in spite of the sadness of his tone)--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'll tell you, sir. I have seen men enough die--we doctors are hardened to it: but I have seen unprofessional deaths--men we didn't kill ourselves; I have seen men drowned, shot, hanged, run over, and worse deaths than that, sir, too;--and, somehow, I never felt any death like that man's. Granted, he began by trying to set the world right, when he hadn't yet set himself right; but wasn't it some credit to see that the world was wrong?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don't know that. The world's a very good world."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "To you and me; but there are men who have higher notions than I of what this world ought to be; and, for aught I know, they are right. That Aberalva curate, Headley, had; and so had Briggs, in his own way. I thought him once only a poor discontented devil, who quarrelled with his bread and butter because he hadn't teeth to eat it with: but there was more in the fellow, coxcomb as he was. 'Tisn't often that I let that croaking old bogy, Madam might have been, trouble me; but I cannot help thinking that if, fifteen years ago, I had listened to his vapourings more, and bullied him about them less, he might have been here still."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You wouldn't have been then. Well for you that you didn't catch his fever."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And write verses too? Don't make me laugh, sir, on such a day as this; I always comfort myself with--'it's no business of mine:' but, somehow, I can't do so just now."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Let's talk of something else, said Mark at last."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You had the cholera very bad down there, I hear?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, sharp, but short,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Any on my lord's estate with the queer name?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not a case. We stopped the devil out there, thanks to his lordship."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "So did we here. We were very near in for it, though, I fancy.--At least, I chose to fancy so--thought it a good opportunity to clean Whitbury once for all."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's just like you. Well?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, I offered the Town-council to drain the whole town at my own expense, if they'd let me have the sewage. And that only made things worse; for as soon as the beggars found out the sewage was worth anything, they were down on me, as if I wanted to do them--I, Mark Armsworth!--and would sooner let half the town rot with an epidemic, than have reason to fancy I'd made any money out of them. So a pretty fight I had, for half-a-dozen meetings, till I called in my lord; and, sir, he came down by the next express, like a trump, all the way from town, and gave them such a piece of his mind--was going to have the Board of Health down, and turn on the Government tap, commissioners and all, and cost 'em hundreds: till the fellows shook in their shoes;--and so I conquered, and here we are, as clean as a nut,--and a fig for the cholera!--except down in Water-lane, which I don't know what to do with; for if tradesmen will run up houses on spec in a water-meadow, who can stop them? There ought to be a law for it, say I; but I say a good many things in the twelve months that nobody minds. But, my dear boy, if one man in a town has pluck and money, he may do it. It'll cost him a few: I've had to pay the main part myself, after all: but I suppose God will make it up to a man somehow. That's old Mark's faith, at least. Now I want to talk to you about yourself. My lord comes into town to-day, and you must see him."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why, then? He can't help me with the Bashi-bazouks, can he?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Bashi-fiddles! I say, Tom, the more I think over it, the more it won't do. It's throwing yourself away. They say that Turkish contingent is getting on terribly ill."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "More need of me to make them well."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hang it--I mean--hasn't justice done it, and so on. The papers are full of it."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, quoth Tom,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, man alive, if England spends all this money on the men, she ought to do her duty by them."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don't see that. As Pecksniff says, 'if England expects every man to do his duty, she's very sanguine, and will be much disappointed.' They don't intend to do their duty by her, any more than I do; so why should she do her duty by them?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't intend to do your duty?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm going out because England's money is necessary to me; and England hires me because my skill is necessary to her. I didn't think of duty when I settled to go, and why should she? I'll get all out of her I can in the way of pay and practice, and she may get all she can out of me in the way of work. As for being ill-used, I never expect to be anything else in this life. I'm sure I don't care; and I'm sure she don't; so live and let live; talk plain truth, and leave Bunkum for right honourables who keep their places thereby. Give me another weed."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Queer old philosopher you are; but go you shan't!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Go I will, sir; don't stop me. I've my reasons, and they're good ones enough."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Early bird, his lordship, and gets the worm accordingly, says Mark, as he hurries off to attend on his ideal hero."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You come over to the shop in half-an-hour, mind."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But why?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Confound you, sir! you talk of having your reasons: I have mine!"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "And a prince he looks like, quoth Tom to himself, as he waited in the bank outside, and looked through the glass screen."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "How well the old man wears! I wonder how many fresh thousands he has made since I saw him last, seven years ago."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mr. Thurnall, I am glad to meet you, sir. You did me good service at Pentremochyn, and did it cheaply. I was agreeably surprised, I confess, at receiving a bill for four pounds seven shillings and sixpence, where I expected one of twenty or thirty."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I charged according to what my time was really worth there, my lord. I heartily wish it had been worth more."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No doubt,"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "You are going to join the Turkish contingent?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You know that part of the world well, I believe?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Intimately."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And the languages spoken there?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "By no means all. Russian and Tartar well; Turkish tolerably; with a smattering of two or three Circassian dialects."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Humph! A fair list. Any Persian?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Only a few words."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Humph! If you can learn one language I presume you can learn another. Now, Mr. Thurnall, I have no doubt that you will do your duty in the Turkish contingent."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But I must ask you if your resolution to join it is fixed?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I only join it because I can get no other employment at the seat of war."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Humph! You wish to go then, in any case, to the seat of war?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Certainly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No doubt you have sufficient reasons.... Armsworth, this puts the question in a new light."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "He is as wilful and as foolish as a girl, my lord; and I've told him so."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Everybody knows his own business best, Armsworth; Mr. Thurnall, have you any fancy for the post of Queen's messenger?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I should esteem myself only too happy as one."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "They are not to be obtained now as easily as they were fifty years ago; and are given, as you may know, to a far higher class of men than they were formerly. But I shall do my best to obtain you one, when an opportunity offers"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And, meanwhile, there are foreign employments of which neither those who bestow them, nor those who accept them, are expected to talk much: but for which you, if I am rightly informed, would be especially fitted."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Very well; if you will come over to Minchampstead to-morrow, I will give you letters to friends of mine in town. I trust that they may give you a better opportunity than the Bashi-bazouks will, of displaying that courage, address, and self-command, which, I understand, you possess in so uncommon a degree. Good morning!"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "My fortune's made! The secret service! Oh, what bliss! The thing I've always longed for!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You abominable ass! You have done it with a vengeance! Why, he has been pumping me about you this month! One word from you to say you'd have stayed, and he was going to make you agent for all his Cornish property."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't he wish he may get it? Catch a fish climbing trees! Catch me staying at home when I can serve my Queen and my country, and find a sphere for the full development of my talents! Oh, won't I be as wise as a serpent? Won't I be complimented by ---- himself as his best lurcher, worth any ten needy Poles, greedy Armenians, traitors, renegades, rag-tag and bob-tail! I'll shave my head to-morrow, and buy me an assortment of wigs of every hue!"
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now, I want to talk to you about something; when I've taken off my hatband, that is; for it would be hardly lucky to mention such matters with a hatband on."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Tell me about his wife, meanwhile. What made him marry her? Was she a pretty woman?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Pretty enough, I believe, before she married: but I hardly think he married her for her face."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Of course not! said the old man with emphasis;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ah? you don't believe me: well, she was a beautiful woman.--I'd like to see her fellow now in the county!--and I won't deny I was proud of her. But she had ten thousand pounds, Tom. And as for her looks, why, if you'll believe me, after we'd been married three months, I didn't know whether she had any looks or not. What are you smiling at, you young rogue?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Report did say that one look of Mrs. Armsworth's, to the last, would do more to manage Mr. Armsworth than the opinions of the whole bench of bishops."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Report's a liar, and you're a puppy! You don't know yet whether it was a pleasant look, or a cross one, lad. But still--well, she was an angel, and kept old Mark straighter than he's ever been since: not that he's so very bad, now. Though I sometimes think Mary's better even than her mother. That girl's a good girl, Tom."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Report agrees with you in that, at least."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Fool if it didn't. And as for looks--I can speak to you as to my own son--Why, handsome is that handsome does."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And that handsome has; for you must honestly put that into the account."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You think so? So do I! Well, then, Tom,"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "You think so, eh? Well, I must say it, so I'd better have it out now, hatband or none! What do you think of the man who married my daughter, face and all?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I should think, quoth Tom, wondering who the happy man could be,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then be as good as your word, and take her yourself. I've watched you this last week, and you'll make her a good husband. There, I have spoken; let me hear no more about it."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, thought he,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I fancied nothing could throw my steady old engine off the rails; but I am off them now, with a vengeance."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It is just like your generosity, sir; you have been a brother to my father; and now--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And now I'll be a father to you! Old Mark does nothing by halves."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But, sir, however lucky I should be in possessing Miss Armsworth's heart, what reason have I to suppose that I do so? I never spoke a word to her. I needn't say that she never did to me--which--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Of course she didn't, and of course you didn't. Should like to have seen you making love to my daughter, indeed! No, sir; it's my will and pleasure. I've settled it, and done it shall be! I shall go home and tell Mary, and she'll obey me--I should like to see her do anything else! Hoity, toity, fathers must be masters, sir! even in these fly-away new times, when young ones choose their own husbands, and their own politics, and their own hounds, and their own religion too, and be hanged to them!"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Humph! It is impossible; and yet it must be. This explains his being so anxious that Lord Minchampstead should approve of me. I have found favour in the poor dear thing's eyes, I suppose: and the good old fellow knows it, and won't betray her, and so shams tyrant. Just like him! But--that Mary Armsworth should care for him! Vain fellow that he was to fancy it! And yet, when he began to put things together, little silences, little looks, little nothings, which all together might make something. He would not slander her to himself by supposing that her attentions to his father were paid for his sake: but he could not forget that it was she, always, who read his letters aloud to the old man: or that she had taken home and copied out the story of his shipwreck. Beside, it was the only method of explaining Mark's conduct, save on the supposition that he had suddenly been"
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "And why should I not sell my soul? asked he, almost fiercely."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I sell my talents, my time, my strength; I'd sell my life to-morrow, and go to be shot for a shilling a day, if it would make the old man comfortable for life; and why not my soul too? Don't that belong to me as much as any other part of me? Why am I to be condemned to sacrifice my prospects in life to a girl of whose honesty I am not even sure? What is this intolerable fascination? Witch! I almost believe in mesmerism now!-- Again, I say, why should I not sell my soul, as I'd sell my coat, if the bargain's but a good one?"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Fall light, and don't whimper: better luck next round."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sir, you are what I have always found you. Do you wish me to be what you have always found me?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'd be sorry to see you anything else, boy."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then, sir, I can't do this. In honour, I can't."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Are you married already?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Not quite as bad as that; and in spite of his agitation Tom laughed, but hysterically, at the notion."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But fool I am; for I am in love with another woman. I am, sir, went he on hurriedly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Boy that I am! and she don't even know it: but if you be the man I take you for, you may be angry with me, but you'll understand me. Anything but be a rogue to you and to Mary, and to my own self too. Fool I'll be, but rogue I won't!"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "There,--go! and don't let me see or hear of you; that is, till I tell you! Go along, I say! Hum-hum! (in a tone half of wrath, and half of triumph),"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Nor I, sir, said Tom, in a really piteous tone, bemoaning the day he ever saw Aberalva, as he watched Mark stride into his own gate."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If I had but had common luck! If I had but brought my £1500 safe home here, and never seen Grace, and married this girl out of hand! Common luck is all I ask, and I never get it!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, why not? A man must die somehow: but it's hard on the poor old father,"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "No answer, sir, the clerk says."
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "To Thomas Thurnall, Esq., for behaving like a gentleman. The cheque will be duly honoured at Messrs. Smith, Brown, and Jones, Lombard Street. No acknowledgment is to be sent. Don't tell your father. MARK ARMSWORTH."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Queer old world it is! said Tom, when the first burst of childish delight was over."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And jolly old flirt, Dame Fortune, after all! If I had written this in a book now, who'd have believed it?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Father, said he, as he kissed the old man farewell,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I've a little money come in. I'll send you fifty from London in a day or two, and lodge a hundred and fifty more with Smith and Co. So you'll be quite in clover while I am poisoning the Turkeys, or at some better work."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Wonderful fellow he was, after all! Mary shall read us out some of his verses to-night. But, I say, why should people be born clever, only to make them all the more miserable?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Perhaps they learn the more, papa, by their sorrows, said quiet little Mary;"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ah, Miss Harvey! and he sprang up."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It will be a pleasure to serve you once more in one's life. I am just going."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Going where?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "To Turkey. I find this place too pleasant and too poor. Not work enough, and certainly not pay enough. So I have got an appointment as surgeon in the Turkish contingent, and shall be off in an hour."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "To Turkey! to the war?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes. It's a long time since I have seen any fighting. I am quite out of practice in gunshot wounds. There is the medicine. Good-bye! You will shake hands once, for the sake of our late cholera work together."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, better so. I have no doubt you will be very useful among them."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Confound the icicle! thought Tom."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I really believe that she wants to get rid of me."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Take me, as I take you, without a penny, for better, for worse!"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, farewell! And, by the bye, about that little money matter. The month of which you spoke once was up yesterday. I suppose I am not worthy yet; so I shall be humble, and wait patiently. Don't hurry yourself, I beg of you, on my account."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mother, you have the Bible before you there."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, child! Why? What?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do you ever read the thirty-second Psalm, mother?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Which? Why not, child?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Let us read it together then, now."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the Lord; and Thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mother! mother! mother!"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Get up! what is this foolery?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I will not! I will not rise till you have told me."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Whether --and she forced the words slowly out in a low whisper,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Is the girl mad! Belt! Money? Do you take me for a thief, wench!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No! no! no! Only say you--you know nothing of it!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Psha! girl! Go to your school:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Only say that! only let me know that it is a dream--a hideous dream which the devil put into my wicked, wicked heart--and let me know that I am the basest, meanest of daughters for harbouring such a thought a moment! It will be comfort, bliss, to what I endure! Only say that, and I will crawl to your feet, and beg for your forgiveness,--ask you to beat me, like a child, as I shall deserve! Drive me out, if you will, and let me die, as I shall deserve! Only say the word, and take this fire from before my eyes, which burns day and night,--till my brain is dried up with misery and shame! Mother, mother, speak!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, viper! I see your plan! Do you think I do not know that you are in love with that fellow?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes! and want me to betray myself--to tell a lie about myself, that you may curry favour with him--a penniless, unbelieving--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mother! almost shrieked Grace,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I can bear no more! Say that it is a lie, and then kill me if you will!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is a lie, from beginning to end! What else should it be? And the woman, in the hurry of her passion, confirmed the equivocation with an oath; and then ran on, as if to turn her own thoughts, as well as Grace's, into commonplaces about"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Where are you going, hussy? Stop! screamed her mother between her teeth, her rage and cruelty rising, as it will with weak natures, in the very act of triumph,--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "To pray,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "God help me!"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "which Göthe confessed, and yet in his luxuriousness tried to ignore, because he could not explain--what if that broke forth over the graceful and prosperous student, as it may any moment! What if some thing, or some person, or many things, or many persons, one after the other (questions which he must get answered then, or die), took him up and dashed him down, again, and again, and again, till he was ready to cry,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I reckoned till morning that like a lion he will break all my bones; from morning till evening he will make an end of me ? What if he thus found himself hurled perforce amid the real universal experiences of humanity; and made free, in spite of himself, by doubt and fear and horror of great darkness, of the brotherhood of woe, common alike to the simplest peasant-woman, and to every great soul perhaps, who has left his impress and sign manual upon the hearts of after generations? Jew, Heathen, or Christian; men of the most opposite creeds and aims; whether it be Moses or Socrates, Isaiah or Epictetus, Augustine or Mohammed, Dante or Bernard, Shakspeare or Bacon, or Göthe's self, no doubt, though in his tremendous pride he would not confess it even to himself,--each and all of them have this one fact in common--that once in their lives, at least, they have gone down into the bottomless pit, and"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "--as the children used truly to say of Dante; and there, out of the utter darkness, have asked the question of all questions--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Is there a God? And if there be, what is he doing with me?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I will endure, though all the universe be against me; --how fine it sounds!--But who has done it? Could a man do it perfectly but for one moment,--could he absolutely and utterly for one moment isolate himself, and accept his own isolation as a fact, he were then and there a madman or a suicide. As it is, his nature, happily too weak for that desperate self-assertion, falls back recklessly on some form, more or less graceful according to the temperament, of the ancient panacea,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Heated hot with burning fears, And bathed in baths of hissing tears, And battered with the strokes of doom, To shape and use."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "We must sell our furniture, mother!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "For a quarter of what it's worth? Never, girl! No! The Lord will provide, said she, between her clenched teeth, with a sort of hysteric chuckle."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Lord will provide!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I believe it; I believe it, said poor Grace;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dark, ay? And may be darker, yet; but the Lord will provide. He prepares a table in the wilderness for his saints that the world don't think of."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, mother! and do you think there is any door of hope?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Go to bed, girl; go to bed, and leave me to see to that. Find my spectacles. Wherever have you laid them to, now? I'll look over the books awhile."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Do let me go over them for you."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, you sha'n't! I suppose you'll be wanting to make out your poor old mother's been cheating somebody. Why not, if I'm a thief, Miss, eh?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, mother! mother! don't say that again."
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why ben't you in bed, girl? sitting up this way?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I was praying, mother,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Praying! What's the use of praying? and who'll hear you if you pray? What you want's a husband, to keep you out of the workhouse; and you won't get that by kneeling here. Get to bed, I say, or I'll pull you up?"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Thank God that I stayed here on the ground floor, instead of going back to my own room when Major Campbell left. It is a providence! The Lord has not forsaken me yet!"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Lord will provide,"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, that it had been I who had done it, and not she! And her mother's sin was to her her own sin, her mother's shame her shame, till all sense of her mother's guilt vanished in the light of her divine love."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, that I could take her up tenderly, tell her that all is forgiven and forgotten by man and God!--serve her as I have never served her yet!-- nurse her to sleep on my bosom, and then go forth and bear her punishment, even if need be on the gallows-tree!"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mother! Mother!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "God's angel! God's angel, come to destroy me! as he came to Balaam!"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come home, darling mother;"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Thou didst bear more for me, and shall not I bear even this for Thee?"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Your obedient humble Servant, who trusts that you will forgive her having been unable to fulfil her promise."
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sir, there's a young woman wants to speak with you."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Show her in, if she looks respectable,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, quite respectable, sir, as ever I see;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, ma'am, sit down, pray; and what can I do for you!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Can you tell me, sir, answered a voice of extraordinary sweetness and gentleness, very firm, and composed withal,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Thurnall? He has sailed for the East a week ago. May I ask your business with him? Can I help you in it?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Can the boy have been playing tricks?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Then, sir, as I hear that you have influence, can you get me a situation as one of the nurses who are going out thither, so I hear?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Get you a situation? Yes, of course, if you are competent."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Thank you, sir. Perhaps, if you could be so very kind as to tell me to whom I am to apply in town; for I shall go thither to-night."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My goodness! cried Mark."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Old Mark don't do things in this off-hand, cold-blooded way. Let us know who you are, my dear, and about Mr. Thurnall. Have you anything against him?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mary, just step into the next room."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If you please, sir, said the same gentle voice,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I had sooner that the lady should stay. I have nothing against Mr. Thurnall, God knows. He has rather something against me."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Do tell us who you are, and if we can do anything for you."
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I suppose that it is but right and reasonable that I should tell you, at least give proof of my being an honest person. For my capabilities as a nurse--I believe you know Mrs. Vavasour? I heard that she has been staying here"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Of course. Do you know her?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, well enough, at least for her to speak for me. I should have asked her or Miss St. Just to help me to a nurse's place: but I did not like to trouble them in their distress. How is the poor lady now, sir?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I know who she is! cried Mary by a sudden inspiration."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Is not your name Harvey! Are you not the schoolmistress who saved Mr. Thurnall's life? who behaved so nobly in the cholera? Yes! I knew you were! Come and sit down, and tell me all! I have so longed to know you! Dear creature, I have felt as if you were my own sister. He--Mr. Thurnall-- wrote often about all your heroism."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I did not come here, my dear lady, to hear such kind words, but to do an errand to Mr. Thurnall. You have heard, perhaps, that when he was wrecked last spring he lost some money. Yes! Then it was stolen. Stolen! she repeated with a great gasp:"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You need not tell us that, my dear,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "God kept it. And I have it; here! and she pressed her hands tight over her bosom."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And here I must keep it till I give it into his hands, if I follow him round the world!"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My good girl, if you are Grace Harvey, you're welcome to my roof and an honour to it, say I: but as for taking all that money with you across the seas, and such a pretty helpless young thing as you are, God help you, it mustn't be, and shan't be, and that's flat."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But I must go to him!"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I must go, sir, and tell him--tell him myself. No one knows what I know about it."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Could I not write to him? He knows me as well as he knows his own father."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do you think, madam, that after having had the dream of this belt, the shape of this belt, and of the money which is in it, branded into my brain for months--years it seems like--by God's fire of shame and suspicion;--and seen him poor, miserable, fretful, unbelieving, for the want of it--O God! I can't tell even your sweet face all.--Do you think that now I have it in my hands, I can part with it, or rest, till it is in his? No, not though I walk barefoot after him to the ends of the earth."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Let his father have the money, then, and do you take him the belt as a token, if you must--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's it, Mary! shouted Mark Armsworth,"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But it is a thousand to one against your seeing him. We, even, don't know exactly where he is gone."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I did not expect this: but be it so. I shall meet him if God wills; and if not, I can still work--work."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I think, Mary, you'd better take the young woman upstairs, and make her sleep here to-night,"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dear me! Dear me! What a lot of good people there are in this old world, to be sure! Ten times better than me, at least--make one ashamed of oneself:--and if one isn't even good enough for this world, how's one to be good enough for heaven?"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Did you want anything?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Only to--to remind you, ma'am, it is not wise to sit up so late."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Only that? said Mary, laughing."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I do that every night, alone with God; and I do not think He will be the farther off for your being here!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "One thing I had to ask, said Grace."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It would lesson my labour so, if you could give me any hint of where he might be."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We know, as we told you, as little as you. His letters are to be sent to Constantinople. Some from Aberalva are gone thither already."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And mine among them! thought Grace."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is God's will!... Madam, if it would not seem forward on my part--if you could tell him the truth, and what I have for him, and where I am, in case he might wish--wish to see me--when you were writing."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Of course I will, or my father will,"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Very extraordinary young woman, and very handsome, too. Will make some man a jewel of a wife, if she don't go mad, or die of the hospital fever."
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "--but weary--"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Where are they gone?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, it will not trouble him. An English gentleman? Der Herr Lieutenant will be only too happy;"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I can well appreciate, sir, says he, in return to Stangrave's anxious inquiries,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I can well believe it; but they are not countrywomen of mine. The one lady is an Englishwoman; the other--I believe--an Italian."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And der Herr?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "An American."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ah! A still greater pleasure, sir. I trust that you will carry back across the Atlantic a good report of a spot all but unknown, I fear, to your compatriots. You will meet one, I think, on the return of the ladies."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A compatriot?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes. A gentleman who arrived here this morning, and who seemed, from his conversation with them, to belong to your noble fatherland. He went out driving with them this afternoon, whither I unfortunately know not. Ah! good Saint Nicholas!--For though I am a Lutheran, I must invoke him now--Look out yonder!"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ein kohlpechrabenschwarzer Mohr, Die Sonne schien ihm ins gehirn, Da nahm er seinen Sonnenschirm"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ah? Mas' Stangrave? glad see you, sir! Quite a party of us, now, 'mong dese 'barian heathen foreigners. Mas' Thurnall he come dis mornin'; gone up picken' bush wid de ladies. He! he! Not seen him dis tree year afore."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Thurnall!"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Cheese Cellar."
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How jealous some one whom I know would be, said Sabina,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don't care, said Tom;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have made up my mind to shoot him out of hand, and marry Marie myself. Sha'n't I now, my--"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Pah! There were other women in the world; and women, too, who would not demand of him to become a hero."
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You intend to shoot me? Then try at once;"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The fellow is mad at being caught at last. Very well."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I think, sir, said he, quietly enough,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Curse his impudence! thought Stangrave."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Does he actually mean to bully me into marrying her?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am aware of no matters on which I am inclined to be explicit with Mr. Thurnall, or on which Mr. Thurnall has a right to be explicit with me."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am, then, quoth Tom, his suspicion increasing in turn."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do you wish, sir, to have a scene before this waiter and the whole house, or will you be so kind as to walk outside with me?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I must decline, sir; not being in the habit of holding intercourse with an actress's bully."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am far too much in earnest in this matter, sir, to be stopped by any coarse expressions. Waiter, you may go. Now, will you fight me to-morrow morning, or will you not?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I may fight a gentleman: but not you."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, I shall not call you a coward, because I know that you are none; and I shall not make a row here, for a gentleman's reasons, which you, calling yourself a gentleman, seem to have forgotten. But this I will do; I will follow you till you do fight me, if I have to throw up my own prospects in life for it. I will proclaim you, wherever we meet, for what you are--a mean and base intriguer; I will insult you in Kursaals, and cane you on public places; I will be Frankenstein's man to you day and night, till I have avenged the wrongs of this poor girl, the dust of whose feet you are not worthy to kiss off."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And pray what may give Mr. Thurnall the right to consider himself the destined avenger of this frail beauty's wrongs?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I will tell you that after we have fought; and somewhat more. Meanwhile, that expression, 'frail beauty,' is a fresh offence, for which I should certainly cane you, if she were not in the house."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, drawled Stangrave, feigning an ostentatious yawn,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I believe the wise method of ridding oneself of impertinents is to grant their requests. Have you pistols? I have none."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have both duellers and revolvers at your service."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ah? I think we'll try the revolvers then, said Stangrave, savage from despair, and disbelief in all human goodness."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "After what has passed, five or six shots apiece will be hardly _outré_."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hardly, I think, said Tom."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Will you name your second'?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I know no one. I have not been here two hours; but I suppose they do not matter much."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Humph! it is as well to have witnesses in case of accident. There are a couple of roystering Burschen in the public room, who, I think, would enjoy the office. Both have scars on their faces, so they will be _au fait_ at the thing. Shall I have the honour of sending one of them to you?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "As you will, sir; my number is 34."
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Schöne aussicht!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Very pretty prospect indeed. You're sure you understand that revolver thoroughly?"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A year ago I could have counted on hitting him where I liked. I trust I shall not blunder against his vitals now. However, if I do, he has himself to blame!"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Stop! Hillo! Stop thief! He's got my pistol!"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "and a capital runner; and so is Tom likewise; and brilliant is the race upon the Falkenhohe. But the victory, after a while, becomes altogether a question of wind; for it was all up-hill. The crater, being one of"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "as the geologists would say, does not slope downward again, save on one side, from its outer lip: and Tom and the Bursch were breasting a fair hill, after they had emerged from the"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have done it now!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A bullet!"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You have murdered the young man!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But I have not! said Tom."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Look and see."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But I saw him fall!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But he has got up again, and run away."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "So! Then where is your passport?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Here!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Don't be frightened. I'll stick it on your bayonet-point;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mad Englishman! murmured the gendarme."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "So! The passport is correct. But der Herr must consider himself under arrest. Der Herr will give up his death-instrument."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "By all means,"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Schon! Das kriegt! Has der Herr any more death-instruments?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Dozens!"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "So! Man must have a dozen hands! He is surely Palmerston himself; or at least Hecker, or Mazzini!"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You will shoot yourself soon, at that rate,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "So? Der Herr speaks German like a native, says the gendarme, growing complimentary in his perplexity."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Perhaps der Herr would be so good as to carry his death-instruments himself, and attend on the Herr Polizeirath, who is waiting to see him."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "By all means!"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't stumble! Look out for the stones, or you'll have that skewer through me!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "So! Der Herr speaks German like a native, says the gendarme, civilly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is certainly der Palmerston, thinks he,"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, you English! you English! You are all mad, I think! Nothing can shame you, and nothing can frighten you! Potz! I believe when your Guards at Alma walked into that battery the other day, every one of them was whistling your Jim Crow, even after he was shot dead! And the jolly Polizeirath laughed at his own joke, till the mountain rang."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But you must leave the country, sir; indeed you must. We cannot permit such conduct here--I am very sorry."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I entreat you not to apologise, sir. In any case, I was going to Alf by eight o'clock, to meet the steamer for Treves. I am on my way to the war in the East, viâ Marseilles. If you would, therefore, be so kind as to allow the gendarme to return me that second revolver, which also belongs to me--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Give him his pistol!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Potz! Let us be rid of him at any cost, and live in peace, like honest Germans. Ah, poor Queen Victoria! What a lot! To have the government of five-and-twenty million such!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not five-and-twenty millions,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That would include the ladies; and we are not mad too, surely, your Excellency?"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ah, my dear madam, how do I know that? The English ladies do every day here what no other dames would dare or dream--what then, must you be at home? Ach! your poor husbands!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mr. Thurnall! calls Marie, from behind."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mr. Thurnall!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You see him, Mr. Stangrave! You see the man who risked for me liberty, life,--who rescued me from slavery, shame, suicide,--who was to me a brother, a father, for years!--without whose disinterested heroism you would never have set eyes on the face which you pretend to love. And you repay him by suspicion--insult--Apologise to him, sir! Ask his pardon now, here, utterly, humbly: or never speak to Marie Lavington again!"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mr. Thurnall!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Sir?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have done you a great wrong!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We will say no more about it, sir. It was a mistake, and I do not wish to complicate the question. My true ground of quarrel with you is your conduct to Miss Lavington. She seems to have told you her true name, so I shall call her by it."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What I have done, I have undone! said Stangrave, looking up."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If I have wronged her, I have offered to right her; if I have left her, I have sought her again; and if I left her when I knew nothing, now that I know all, I ask her here, before you, to become my wife!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes; I have told him all--all?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, said Tom,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mr. Stangrave is a very enviable person; and the match in a worldly point of view, is a most fortunate one for Miss Lavington; and that stupid rascal of a gendarme has broken my revolver."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But I have not accepted him, cried Marie;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My dear Miss Lavington, as I have never been able to settle my own love affairs satisfactorily to myself, I do not feel at all competent to settle other people's. Good-bye! I shall be late for the steamer."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Sabina! Stop him! cried she;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sabina, whispered Tom as he passed her,--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You're wrong--prejudiced--indeed!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Tut, tut, tut!--Good-bye, you sweet little sunbeam. Good morning, gentlemen!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Gone, without a kind word!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is my fault, Marie! my fault! He knew me too well of old, and had too much reason to despise me! But he shall have reason no longer. He will come back, and find me worthy of you; and all will be forgotten. Again I say it, I accept your quest, for life and death. So help me God above, as I will not fail or falter, till I have won justice for you and for your race! Marie?"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is very wonderful, she said at last."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Wonderful ... that you can care for me.... Oh, if I had known how noble you were, I should have told you all at once."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Perhaps I should have been as ignoble as ever, said Stangrave,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No! no! Do not belie yourself. You know what he does not;--what I would have died sooner than tell him."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Wonderful, wonderful love!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Nothing was left of her, Now, but pure womanly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That you can love me--me, the slave; me, the scourged; the scarred--Oh Stangrave! it is not much--not much really;--only a little mark or two...."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I will prize them, he answered, smiling through tears,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I glory in them now; for, without them, I never should have known all your worth."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "To be sent to Viscount Scoutbush for Miss St. Just."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Do come, and I will promise not to tease you as I did last night."
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh! that man? He was a Pole, Michaelowyzcki, or some such name. At least, so he said; but he suspected the man to be really a Russian spy."
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I do not want to interfere; I will be under your orders. I will be kitchen-maid--maid-of-all-work. I want no wages. I have brought home a little money with me; enough to last me for the little while I shall be here."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mark, he said once,"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "This is very pleasant--to feel surer and surer, day by day, that one is not needed; that science moves forward swift and sure, under a higher guidance than one's own; that the sacred torch-race never can stand still; that He has taken the lamp out of old and failing hands, only to put it into young and brave ones, who will not falter till they reach the goal."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "How beautiful! says Claude--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I must compliment you, sir--to see the child-like heart thus still beating fresh beneath the honours of the grey head, without envy, without vanity, without ambition, welcoming every new discovery, rejoicing to see the young outstripping them."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And what credit, sir, to us? Our knowledge did not belong to us, but to Him who made us, and the universe; and our sons' belonged to Him likewise. If they be wiser than their teachers, it is only because they, like their teachers, have made His testimonies their study. When we rejoice in the progress of science, we rejoice not in ourselves, not in our children, but in God our Instructor."
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ah! How delighted my boy will be when he returns, to find that so much has been done during his absence."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You are surprised to hear me speak so confidently? Well, I can only speak as I feel. I have had, for some days past, a presentiment--you will think me, doubtless, weak for yielding to it. I am not superstitious."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Not so, said Claude,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "True. You speak, if not like a physician, yet like a metaphysician; so you will not laugh at me, and compel the weak old man and his fancy to take refuge with a girl--who is not weak.--Grace, darling, you think still that he is coming?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, she half whispered."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He is coming soon to us: or else we are soon going to him. It may mean that, sir. Perhaps it is better that it should."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It matters little, child, if he be near, as near he is. I tell you, Mr. Mellot, this conviction has become so intense during the last week, that--that I believe I should not be thrown off my balance if he entered at this moment.... I feel him so near me, sir, that--that I could swear, did I not know how the weak brain imitates expected sounds, that I heard his footstep outside now."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I heard horses' footsteps, says Claude.--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ah, there comes Stangrave and our host."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I heard them: but I heard my boy's likewise,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, Ned! In good company, eh? That's right. Mortal cold I am! We shall have a white Christmas, I expect. Snow's coming."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What sport?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh! Nothing new. Bothered about Sidricstone till one. Got away at last with an old fox, and over the downs into the vale. I think Mr. Stangrave liked it?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mr. Stangrave likes the vale better than the vale likes him. I have fallen into two brooks following, Claude; to the delight of all the desperate Englishmen."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh! You rode straight enough, sir! You must pay for your fun in the vale:--but then you have your fun. But there were a good many falls the last ton minutes: ground heavy, and pace awful; old rat-tail had enough to do to hold his own. Saw one fellow ride bang into a pollard-willow, when there was an open gate close to him--cut his cheek open, and lay; but some one said it was only Smith of Ewebury, so I rode on."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I hope you English showed more pity to your wounded friends in the Crimea, quoth Stangrave, laughing,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I wanted to stop and pick him up: but Mr. Armsworth would not hear of it."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, sir, if it had been a stranger like you, half the field would have been round you in a minute: but Smith don't count--he breaks his neck on purpose three days a week:--by the by, Doctor, got a good story of him for you. Suspected his keepers last month. Slips out of bed at two in the morning; into his own covers, and blazes away for an hour. Nobody comes. Home to bed, and tries the same thing next night. Not a soul comes near him. Next morning has up keepers, watchers, beaters, the whole posse; and 'Now, you rascals! I've been poaching my own covers two nights running, and you've been all drunk in bed. There are your wages to the last penny; and vanish! I'll be my own keeper henceforth; and never let me see your faces again!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well: but did you kill your fox?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "All right: but it was a burster,--just what I always tell Mr. Stangrave. Afternoon runs are good runs; pretty sure of an empty fox and a good scent after one o'clock."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Exactly, answered a fresh voice from behind;"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, my dear old daddy! So you seem to have expected me; and gathered, I suppose, all my friends to bid me welcome. I'm afraid I have made you very anxious: but it was not my fault; and I knew you would be certain I should come at last, eh?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "My son! my son! Let me feel whether thou be my very son Esau or not!"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I said so! I always said so! The devil could not kill him, and God wouldn't!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You won't go away again, dear boy? I'm getting old--and--and forgetful; and I don't think I could bear it again, you see."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Never again, as long as I live, daddy! said he, and then, looking round,--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I think that we are too many for my father. I will come and shake hands with you all presently."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, no, said the Doctor."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You forget that I cannot see you, and so must only listen to you. It will be a delight to hear your voice and theirs;--they all love you."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Look at him, Mr. Mellot! Mr. Stangrave! Look at him! As they said of Liberty Wilkes, you might rob him, strip him, and hit him over London Bridge: and you find him the next day in the same place, with a laced coat, a sword by his side, and money in his pocket! But how did you come in without our knowing?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I waited outside, afraid of what I might hear--for how could I tell! said he, lowering his voice;"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is delightful; and all it needs to make it perfect is to have Marie and the children here."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "How many?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Two."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Is she as beautiful as ever!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "More so, I think."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I dare say you're right; you ought to know best, certainly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You shall judge for yourself. She is in London at this moment."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Tom!"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sir!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You have not spoken to Grace yet!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Grace?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Grace Harvey, my boy. She was in the room when you came in."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Grace? Grace? What is she doing here?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Nursing him, like an angel as she is!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She is my daughter now, Tom; and has been these twelve months past."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If she is not, she will be soon, said he quietly, between his clenched teeth."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Gentlemen, if you'll excuse me for five minutes, and see to my father:"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There! there! There it is!--the belt!-- your belt! Take it! take it, I say!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Take it! I have carried it for you--worn it next my heart, till it has all but eaten into my heart. To Varna, and you were not there!--Scutari, Balaklava, and you were not there!--I found it, only a week after!--I told you I should! and you were gone!--Cruel, not to wait! And Mr. Armsworth has the money--every farthing--and the gold:--he has had it these two years!--I would give you the belt myself; and now I have done it, and the snake is unclasped from my heart at last, at last, at last!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Promise me! she said, in a low clear voice;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Anything!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Promise me that you will never ask, or seek to know, who had that belt."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I promise: but, Grace!--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then my work is over, said she in a calm collected voice."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Amen. So lettest Thou Thy servant depart in peace. Good-bye, Mr. Thurnall. I must go and pack up my few things now. You will forgive and forget?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Grace! cried Tom;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "and he girdled her in a grasp of iron."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You and I never part more in this life, perhaps not in all lives to come!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Me? I?--let me go! I am not worthy of you!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have heard that once already;--the only folly which ever came out of those sweet lips. No! Grace, I love you, as man can love but once; and you shall not refuse me! You will not have the heart, Grace! You will not dare, Grace! For you have begun the work; and you must finish it."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Work? What work?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't know, said Tom."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "How should I? I want you to tell me that."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I will tell _you_ he said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Frightened; beat; run to earth myself, though I talked so bravely of running others to earth just now. Grace, I've been in prison!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In prison? In a Russian prison? Oh, Mr. Thurnall!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ay, Grace, I'd tried everything but that; and I could not stand it. Death was a joke to that. Not to be able to get out!--To rage up and down for hours like a wild beast; long to fly at one's gaoler and tear his heart out;--beat one's head against the wall in the hope of knocking one's brains out;--anything to get rid of that horrid notion, night and day over one--I can't get out!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But you are safe now, said she soothingly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, those horrid Russians!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But it was not Russians!--If it had been, I could have borne it.--That was all in my bargain,--the fair chance of war: but to be shut up by a mistake!--at the very outset, too--by a boorish villain of a khan, on a drunken suspicion;--a fellow whom I was trying to serve, and who couldn't, or wouldn't, or daren't understand me--Oh, Grace, I was caught in my own trap! I went out full blown with self-conceit. Never was any one so cunning as I was to be!--Such a game as I was going to play, and make my fortune by it!--And this brute to stop me short--to make a fool of me--to keep me there eighteen months threatening to cut my head off once a quarter, and wouldn't understand me, let me talk with the tongue of the old serpent!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He didn't stop you: God stopped you!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You're right, Grace; I saw that at last! I found out that I had been trying for years which was the stronger, God or I; I found out I had been trying whether I could not do well enough without Him: and there I found that I could not, Grace;--could not! I felt like a child who had marched off from home, fancying it can find its way, and is lost at once. I felt like a lost child in Australia once, for one moment: but not as I felt in that prison; for I had not heard you, Grace, then. I did not know that I had a Father in heaven, who had been looking after me, when I fancied that I was looking after myself;--I don't half believe it now--If I did, I should not have lost my nerve as I have done!--Grace, I dare hardly stir about now, lest some harm should come to me. I fancy at every turn, what if that chimney fell? what if that horse kicked out?--and, Grace, you, and you only, can cure me of my new cowardice. I said in that prison, and all the way home,--if I can but find her!--let me but see her--ask her--let her teach me; and I shall be sure! Let her teach me, and I shall be brave again! Teach me, Grace! and forgive me!"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Forgive you? What! Do you forgive me?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You? It is I am the brute; ever to have suspected you. My conscience told me all along I was a brute! And you--have you not proved it to me in this last minute, Grace?--proved to me that I am not worthy to kiss the dust from off your feet?"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There! I have told you all. Will you forgive my baseness; and take me, and teach me, about this Father in heaven, through poverty and wealth, for better, for worse, as my wife--my wife?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, Mr. Thurnall! my dear, brave, wise, wonderful Mr. Thurnall! come home again!--home to God!--and home to me! I am not worthy! Too much happiness, too much, too much:--but you will forgive, will you not,--and forget--forget?"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Can you say it?"
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am glad, wrote George Grote to him in 1865, with reference to a forthcoming article on his"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Examination of Sir William Hamilton's Philosophy,"
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Edinburgh Review for 1844."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mr. Mill and his family, we there read,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "--that is, between 1814 and 1817,--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "On the same unquestionable authority we learn, that"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mr. Mill never in his life was in debt, and his income, whatever it might be, always covered his expenses. It is clear, that, from near the commencement of the present century, James Mill and Bentham lived for many years on terms of great intimacy, in which the poorer man was thoroughly independent, although it suited the other to make a fair return for the services rendered to him. A very characteristic letter is extant, dated 1814, in which James Mill proposes that the relations between him and his"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "shall be to some extent altered, but only in order that their common objects may be the more fully served."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In reflecting, he says,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": ""
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There was during the last few years of Bentham's life, said James Mill's son,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am not going to die, he wrote,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It was a bold hope, but one destined to be fully realized. At the time of its utterance, the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "was barely more than six years old. The intellectual powers of which he gave such early proof were carefully, but apparently not excessively, cultivated. Mrs. Grote, in her lately-published"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Personal Life of George Grote, has described him as he appeared in 1817, the year in which her husband made the acquaintance of his father."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "John Stuart Mill, then a boy of about twelve years old, --he was really only eleven,--"
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "History of India,"
}
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"from": "human",
"value": "Rationale of Judicial Evidence."
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Times of May the 10th contributes one interesting note."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It is within our personal knowledge, he says,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In evidence of his more general studies, we may here repeat a few sentences from an account, by an intimate friend of both these great men, of the life of Mr. Grote, which was published in our columns two years ago."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "About this time a small society was formed for readings in philosophical subjects. The meetings took place at Mr. Grote's house in Threadneedle Street, on certain days from half past eight till ten in the morning, at which hour the members (all in official employment) had to repair to their respective avocations. The members were Grote, John Mill, Roebuck, William Ellice, William Henry Prescott, two brothers Whitmore, and George John Graham. The mentor of their studies was the elder Mr. Mill. The meetings were continued for two or three years. The readings embraced a small manual of logic, by Du Trieu, recommended by Mr. Mill, and reprinted for the purpose, Whately's Logic, Hobbes's Logic, and Hartley on Man, in Priestley's edition. The manner of proceeding was thorough. Each paragraph, on being read, was commented on by every one in turn, discussed and rediscussed, to the point of total exhaustion. In 1828 the meetings ceased; but they were resumed in 1830, upon Mill's 'Analysis of the Mind,' which was gone over in the same manner."
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Westminster Review, which was started by Bentham in 1824. Bentham himself and the elder Mill were its chief writers at first; and in 1828, if not sooner, the younger Mill joined the number. In that year he reviewed Whately's Logic; and it is probable that in the ensuing year he contributed numerous other articles. His first literary exploit, however, which he cared to reproduce in his"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Dissertations and Discussions was an article that appeared in"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Jurist, in 1833, entitled"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Corporation and Church Property. That essay, in some respects, curiously anticipated the Irish Church legislation of nearly forty years later. In the same year he published, in"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Monthly Repository, a remarkably able and quite a different production,--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Poetry and its Varieties, showing that in the department of _belles-lettres_ he could write with nearly as much vigor and originality as in the philosophical and political departments of thought to which, ostensibly, he was especially devoted. Shortly after that he embarked in a bolder literary venture. Differences having arisen concerning"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Westminster Review, a new quarterly journal--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The London Review --was begun by Sir William Molesworth, with Mr. Mill for editor, in 1835."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The London was next year amalgamated with"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The Westminster, and then the nominal if not the actual editorship passed into the hands of Mr. John Robertson. Mr. Mill continued, however, to be one of its most constant and able contributors until the Review passed into other hands in 1840. He aided much to make and maintain its reputation as the leading organ of bold thought on religious and social as well as political matters. Besides such remarkable essays as those on Civilization, on Armand Carrel, on Alfred de Vigny, on Bentham, and on Coleridge, which, with others, have been republished in his collection of minor writings, he contributed many of great importance. One on Mr. Tennyson, which was published in 1835, is especially noteworthy. Others referred more especially to the politics of the day. From one, which appeared in 1837, reviewing Albany Fonblanque's"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "England under Seven Administrations, and speaking generally in high terms of the politics of"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The Examiner, we may extract a few sentences which define very clearly the political ground taken by Mr. Mill, Mr. Fonblanque, and those who had then come to be called Philosophical Radicals."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There are divers schools of Radicals, said Mr. Mill."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There are the historical Radicals, who demand popular institutions as the inheritance of Englishmen, transmitted to us from the Saxons or the barons of Runnymede. There are the metaphysical Radicals, who hold the principles of democracy, not as means to good government, but as corollaries from some unreal abstraction,--from 'natural liberty' or 'natural rights.' There are the radicals of occasion and circumstance, who are radicals because they disapprove the measures of the government for the time being. There are, lastly, the Radicals of position, who are Radicals, as somebody said, because they are not lords. Those whom, in contradistinction to all these, we call Philosophical Radicals, are those who in politics observe the common manner of philosophers; that is, who, when they are discussing means, begin by considering the end, and, when they desire to produce effects, think of causes. These persons became Radicals because they saw immense practical evils existing in the government and social condition of this country, and because the same examination which showed them the evils showed also that the cause of those evils was the aristocratic principle in our government,--the subjection of the many to the control of a comparatively few, who had an interest, or fancied they had an interest, in perpetuating those evils. These inquirers looked still farther, and saw, that, in the present imperfect condition of human nature, nothing better than this self-preference was to be expected from a dominant few; that the interests of the many were sure to be in their eyes a secondary consideration to their own ease or emolument. Perceiving, therefore, that we are ill-governed, and perceiving that, so long as the aristocratic principle continued predominant in our government, we could not expect to be otherwise, these persons became Radicals; and the motto of their Radicalism was, Enmity to the aristocratical principle."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The London and Westminster Review forms a brilliant episode in the history of journalism; and his relations, then and afterwards, with other men of letters and political writers,--some of them as famous as Mr. Carlyle and Coleridge, Charles Buller and Sir Henry Taylor, Sir William Molesworth, Sir John Bowring, and Mr. Roebuck,--yield tempting materials for even the most superficial biography; but we must pass them by for the present. And here we shall content ourselves with enumerating, in the order of their publication, those lengthier writings with which he chiefly occupied his leisure during the next quarter of a century; though that work was frequently diversified by important contributions to"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The Edinburgh and"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Westminster Review,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Fraser's Magazine, and other periodicals. His first great work was"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A System of Logic, the result of many years' previous study, which appeared in 1843. That completed, he seems immediately to have paid chief attention to politico-economical questions. In 1844 appeared"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Essays on Some Unsettled Questions of Political Economy, which were followed, in 1848, by the"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Principles of Political Economy. After that there was a pause of ten years, though the works that were issued during the next six years show that he had not been idle during the interval. In 1857 were published two volumes of the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Dissertations and Discussions, consisting solely of printed articles, the famous essay"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "On Liberty, and the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Thoughts on Parliamentary Reform."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Considerations on Representative Government appeared in 1861,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Utilitarianism, in 1863,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Auguste Comte and Positivism and the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Examination of Sir William Hamilton's Philosophy, in 1865. After that, besides the very welcome"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Inaugural Address at St. Andrew's in 1867, his only work of importance was"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The Subjection of Women, published in 1869. A fitting conclusion to his more serious literary labors appeared also in 1869 in his annotated edition of his father's"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Analysis of the Phenomena of the Human Mind."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "History of British India."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Enfranchisement of Women contributed to"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The Westminster Review, and afterwards reprinted in the"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dissertations and Discussions, with a preface avowing, that by her Mr. Mill had been greatly assisted in all that he had written for some time previous. But the assistance was to end now. Mrs. Mill died at Avignon on the 3d of November, 1858, and over her grave was placed one of the most pathetic and eloquent epitaphs that have been ever penned."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Her great and loving heart, her noble soul, her clear, powerful, original, and comprehensive intellect, it was there written,"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "To go through those scenes, and especially to go through them in your company, wrote Mr. Grote in January,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The journey occupied more than two months; but in the autumn Mr. Mill was at Avignon; and, returning to London in December, he spent Christmas week with Mr. Grote at his residence, Barrow Green,--Bentham's old house, and the one in which Mr. Mill had played himself when he was a child."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He is in good health and spirits, wrote Mr. Grote to Sir G.C. Lewis after that visit;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The Morning Chronicle and"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The London and Westminster Review,"
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "It compensates, he said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": ""
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "An aristocracy, he added, in words that as truly indicate the way in which he subjected all matters of detail to the test of general principles of truth and expediency,--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Alabama Claims,"
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "England and Ireland in 1868, and of his treatise"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "On the Subjection of Women in 1869, as well as by the especial interest which he continued to exhibit in two of the most important political movements of the day,--all the more important because they are yet almost in their infancy,--the one for the political enfranchisement of women, the other for a thorough reform of our system of land tenure. The latest proof of his zeal on the second of these important points appeared in the address which he delivered at Exeter Hall on the 18th of last March, and in two articles which he contributed to"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Examiner"
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "The greatest happiness of the greatest number. But many will think that herein was the chief of all his claims to the honor of all men, and the best evidence of his worth. At any rate, he set a notable example of the way in which a man, making the best use in his power of merely his own reason and the accumulated reason of those who have gone before him, wisely exercising the faculties of which he finds himself possessed, and seeking no guidance or support from invisible beacons and intangible props, may lead a blameless life, and be one of the greatest benefactors of his race. No one who had any personal knowledge of him could fail to discern the singular purity of his character; and to those who knew him best that purity was most apparent. He may have blundered and stumbled in his pursuit of truth; but it was part of his belief that stumbling and blundering are necessary means towards the finding of truth, and that honesty of purpose is the only indispensable requisite for the nearest approach towards truth of which each individual is capable. That belief rendered him as charitable towards others as he was modest concerning his own attainments. He never boasted; and he despised no one. The only things really hateful to him were arrogance and injustice, and for these he was, to say the least, as willing and eager to find excuse as could be the most devout utterer of the prayer,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do."
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Headlong Hall ), Mr. Harcourt, and Mr. James Mill; the selection of the last-named being all the more creditable to them, because, in his"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "History of British India, he had animadverted with much severity on some parts of the Company's administration. Two years afterwards, in 1823, the historian's son, the illustrious subject of these brief memoirs, then a lad of seventeen, obtained a clerkship under his father. According to the ordinary course of things in those days, the newly-appointed junior would have had nothing to do, except a little abstracting, indexing, and searching, or pretending to search, into records; but young Mill was almost immediately set to indite despatches to the governments of the three Indian Presidencies, on what, in India-House phraseology, were distinguished as"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "subjects,--subjects, that is, for the most part growing out of the relations of the said governments with"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "states or foreign potentates. This continued to be his business almost to the last. In 1828 he was promoted to be assistant examiner, and in 1856 he succeeded to the post of chief examiner; after which his duty consisted rather in supervising what his assistants had written than in writing himself: but for the three and twenty years preceding he had had immediate charge of the political department, and had written almost every"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "despatch of any importance that conveyed the instructions of the merchant princes of Leadenhall Street to their pro-consuls in Asia. Of the quality of these documents, it is sufficient to say, that they were John Mill's; but, in respect to their quantity, it may be worth mentioning that a descriptive catalogue of them completely fills a small quarto volume of between three hundred and four hundred pages, in their author's handwriting, which now lies before me; also that the share of the Court of Directors in the correspondence between themselves and the Indian governments used to average annually about ten huge vellum-bound volumes, foolscap size, and five or six inches thick, and that of these volumes two a year, for more than twenty years running, were exclusively of Mill's composition; this, too, at times, when he was engaged upon such voluntary work in addition as his"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Logic and"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Political Economy."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Your petitioners, at their own expense, and by the agency of their own civil and military servants, originally acquired for this country its magnificent empire in the East. The foundations of this empire were laid by your petitioners, at that time neither aided nor controlled by Parliament, at the same period at which a succession of administrations under the control of Parliament were losing, by their incapacity and rashness, another great empire on the opposite side of the Atlantic."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "likewise present. As soon as the Court broke up, I burst into Mill's room, boiling over with indignation, and exclaiming,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What an infamous shame! and no doubt adding a good deal more that followed in natural sequence on such an exordium."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What's the matter? replied Mill as soon as he could get a word in."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "M----[the director] was quite right. The petition was the joint work of ---- and myself. --"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How can you be so perverse? I retorted."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You know that I know you wrote every word of it. --"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, rejoined Mill,"
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Old-fashioned Ethics and Common-Sense Metaphysics, when I remarked on Mr. Mill's wide divergence from most of the views contained in it."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, he replied,"
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "System of Philosophy, I notified to the subscribers that I should be obliged to cease at the close of the volume then in progress. Shortly after the issue of this announcement I received from Mr. Mill a letter, in which, after expressions of regret, and after naming a plan which he wished to prosecute for re-imbursing me, he went on to say,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "In the next place ... what I propose is, that you should write the next of your treatises, and that I should guarantee the publisher against loss; i.e., should engage, after such length of time as may be agreed on, to make good any deficiency that may occur, not exceeding a given sum,--that sum being such as the publisher may think sufficient to secure him."
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Phytologist, edited, from its commencement in 1841, by the late George Luxford, till his death, in 1854, and afterwards conducted by Mr. A. Irvine of Chelsea, an intimate friend of Mr. Mill's, till its discontinuance in 1863. In the early numbers of this periodical especially will be found frequent notes and short papers on the facts of plant distribution brought to light by Mr. Mill during his botanical rambles. His excursions were chiefly in the county of Surrey, and especially in the neighborhood of Guildford and the beautiful vale of the Sittingbourne, where he had the satisfaction of being the first to notice several plants of interest, as _Polygonum dumetorum_, _Isatis tinctoria_, and _Impatiens fulva_, an American species of balsam, affording a very remarkable example of complete naturalization in the Wey and other streams connected with the lower course of the Thames. Mr. Mill says he first observed this interloper in 1822 at Albury, a date which probably marks about the commencement of his botanical investigations, if not that of the first notice of the plant in this country. Mr. Mill's copious MS lists of observations in Surrey were subsequently forwarded to the late Mr. Salmon of Godalming, and have been since published with the large collection of facts made by that botanist in the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Flora of Surrey, printed under the auspices of the Holmesdale (Reigate) Natural History Club. Mr. Mill also contributed to the same scientific magazine some short notes on Hampshire botany, and is believed to have helped in the compilation of Mr. G.G. Mill's"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Catalogue of the Plants of Great Marlow, Bucks."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Spring Flowers in the South of Europe,"
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Logic would not have taken the form they have, had not the writer been a naturalist as well as a logician. The views expressed so clearly in these chapters are chiefly founded on the actual needs experienced by the systematic botanist; and the argument is largely sustained by references to botanical systems and arrangements. Most botanists agree with Mr. Mill in his objections to Dr. Whewell's views of a natural classification by resemblance to"
}
] |
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