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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Twilight of the Idols, namely,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "How to Philosophise with a Hammer, applies equally well to the entire volume, which deals exclusively in destructive criticism. The"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "upon which Nietzsche here exercises the hammer of a singularly comprehensive iconoclasm are those of modern democratic civilisation. The editor of the series is Dr. Tille, Lecturer on German Language and Literature in the University of Glasgow, and author of"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Von Darwin bis Nietzsche, a book that has attracted some attention in Germany. No explanation is offered of the motives which prompted the choice of Nietzsche's latest works for the first volume of the English edition. The history of Nietzsche's life since 1876 is the history of a tragic struggle. In that year he attended the Bayreuth festival, though in a weak state of health. The impression was overpowering, and henceforth the Wagnerian drama appeared to him in a new light. He conceived a horror of Wagner, but so deeply rooted in his affections was the Wagnerian art that with his belief in Wagner everything else that he had cared for was cast to the winds; he turned upon the religion of his childhood, the philosophy of his youth, the very land of his birth, and the only language that he really knew. Why, it may be asked, is the"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Wagner Case, where the Bayreuth master figures as a"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "offered to readers who have had no means of access to the earlier essay by the same writer called"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Wagner in Bayreuth, an utterance of enthusiastic discipleship and probably the most discerning appreciation of Wagner ever yet published? Again, in the early essay on"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Schopenhauer as Educator, one of the"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Inopportune Contemplations, Nietzsche reckons himself among those readers of Schopenhauer who know almost from the outset that they have encountered a determining influence; and, indeed, so saturated is Nietzsche with Schopenhauer's ideas that he cannot get rid of the Schopenhauer terminology even in his later writings, where Schopenhauer has become an"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The expression"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Wille zur Macht, an obvious modification of Schopenhauer's"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Wille zum Leben, continually recurs even in Nietzsche's latest writings, and was to have formed the title of an entire book in his projected work"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Transvaluation of all Values. The same early work contains a passage in which Christianity is called one of the purest examples of the striving after perfection to be found in the history of mankind, while the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Antichrist, the last essay in the volume now before us, is a new and more formidable version of the Voltairian"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ecrasez l'Infâme, a furious denunciation not merely of Christian dogma, but also, and more especially, of the ethical principles that are the essence of the Christian system for the modern world. All these recantations thus appear with scarcely a hint of the antecedent confessions of faith. It has been denied that the mental development of Nietzsche underwent any revolution or breach of continuity in the year 1876. German disciples have attempted to prove the consistency of that development, and in the April number of the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Savoy Magazine Mr. Havelock Ellis remarks, with reference to Nietzsche's Polish descent, that he was"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But in any case the apostacy of Nietzsche from Wagner is a painful subject. When he satirises Germany as the"
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hamlet, we are disposed to reject Nietzsche's general conclusion no less emphatically than Voltaire's description of Shakspere as a drunken savage. The truth is that decadence or decline in one principle of vitality often means awakening energy in another. Nietzsche had latterly worked himself to a point of view from which the mystery of northern poetry and the vividly imaginative detail of Gothic art are intolerable. His remarks about Wagner's want of taste in the disposition of broad masses and his over-liveliness in minute detail are like a criticism of Strasburg Cathedral by an ancient architect; his view of the Wagnerian drama as concerned with problems of hysteria and as exhibiting a gallery of morbid personages is like an indictment by a Roman patrician of the entire"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Corpus Poeticum Boreale. Nietzsche was all his life a stranger to tolerance and compromise, and towards the end this peculiarity became greatly accentuated. His failing health attracted him to southern climates, and he presently decreed that the north was no longer to exist. Having found a sort of salvation among the"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Halcyonians, he is constrained to wage spiritual warfare against all Hyperboreans, and especially against Wagner, regarded as the typical Hyperborean."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ah, the old Minotaur! says Nietzsche,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What has he not cost us already! Every year trains of the finest youths and maidens are led into his labyrinth to be devoured. Every year all Europe strikes up the cry: 'Off to Crete! Off to Crete!' It is highly interesting to observe where Nietzsche finds an antidote for the painful impression of the Wagnerian art. The one modern work that thoroughly satisfied his later taste was Bizet's"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Carmen."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This music seems to me perfect, he says;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "says Nietzsche,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": ""
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Carmen is only the music of devil-may-care, of gaiety and sunburnt mirth, with a strong spice of southern passion; but it has really vivid originality, it has true unity of style, and the unerring perfection with which the composer has caught and reflected a certain mood of wayward grace and mastered the musical symbolism of the bright and fierce and fickle south, the lightness and fire, the logical development and rhythmical charm of the music stamp the work as an unmistakable masterpiece of its kind. In his delight at finding something congenial to his later taste Nietzsche forgot the question of scope, and forgot that Bizet was only a trifler. It was enough for him that he had found a"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Halcyonian to contrast with Wagner, the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hyperborean. Another objection to the line taken in the introduction is that the isolated insistence on Nietzsche's"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "standard gives the impression of a type of thinker inconceivably remote from what he really was. Many a dull and stodgy materialist, such as the author of"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Kraft und Stoff, has maintained the universality of the physiological standard; while the special characteristic of Nietzsche's ethical ideas is surely something very different. Is it not the audacious denial that any one ethical system is valid for all classes of mankind?--the theory of"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Herrenmoral and"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Sklavenmoral, master-morality and slave-morality--and the attribution of all social mischief to the ever-increasing prevalence of slave-morality over master-morality. Is it not the acceptance of the caste-system as the simple recognition of a universal and unchanging fact of life which really differentiates Nietzsche both from the English moralists and from all other European writers whatsoever? Perhaps Dr. Tille was unwilling to alarm his readers, and conscious of addressing a public which regards the question of human equality as having been finally settled a hundred years ago, deliberately avoided bringing forward opinions that savour of Oriental despotism. But seeing that every line of Nietzsche's writings is animated by such opinions, it is impossible to deal with the subject at all without shocking the ideas of a democratic age. Nietzsche, it should be remembered, was a belated scion of the proudest, most turbulent, and most ruthlessly tyrannical aristocracy that ever existed. He witnessed, with despairing rage, both the success of vulgarity in that modern Europe which had ruined his ancient and noble race, and what he regarded as the progressive depreciation of the high-bred qualities in human nature under the influence of socialistic ideas. Though nowhere expressly stated, the thought of his people, disinherited for their inability to adapt themselves to the modern spirit, is never absent from his consciousness, and he uses his matchless literary power to tell the men of an industrial and co-operative civilisation what the last of genuine aristocrats thinks of them. With advancing years Nietzsche became less and less German and more and more Polish, till after the break with Wagner and Schopenhauer we find him openly satirising everything German. He has, in fact,"
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Strange all this difference should be 'Twixt Tweedledum and Tweedledee."
}
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42097
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "a sort of bogey invented for the purpose of annoying and frightening Socialists. The satirist begins by expressing contempt of herding creatures and admiration of"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Sheep and cattle, he reminds the Socialists, are naturally gregarious, but lions have never been known to acquire the gregarious instinct. Next he develops the theory of analogy between great men of the conquering type and common criminals--the same theory as is set forth, ostensibly as a joke but really with much seriousness, in Fielding's"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Jonathan Wild. This theory stands in high repute among Socialists, who find it useful for attacking great men of the conquering and warfaring type, so that when Nietzsche turns it against Socialism he strikes with a two-edged sword. Lastly, he conjures up a fearsome image of predatory and unscrupulous vigour, a combination of Napoleon and feudal aristocrat. This is the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "which, according to the programme of the Nietzschian apocalypse, is to devour the enfeebled man of the modern world. It is one of Nietzsche's happiest inspirations, and has already provoked a literature. Quite recently, for example, a book appeared in Germany accepting with perfect gravity and recommending for immediate practical adoption the principles of the"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "One might almost imagine that Nietzsche foresaw some such result with secret satisfaction at the idea of his posthumous revenge on the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There are signs, too, in the English press that the popular imagination is about to fix on Nietzsche as a writer who recommends promiscuous ruffianism. Was not Darwin known for many years as the preposterous eccentric who said men were descended from monkeys? It is, however, advisable to warn those who are not greatly concerned with mental problems, who value tradition and take a hopeful view of life, that they had better leave Nietzsche alone. His influence is on the whole gloomy, disquieting, and profoundly unsettling, though in relation to the critical literature of the Continent he is unquestionably one of the great originals, one of the few"
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Thus spake Zarathustra as the profoundest of German works will hardly appear exaggerated. In the absence of the great work on the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Transvaluation of all Values, which was so lamentably cut short by the philosopher's incurable illness,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Zarathustra"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Antichrist subjects the established religion of Europe and the moral code based upon it to a criticism which is always suggestive, often profound, sometimes merely angry and wrong-headed. The attack upon Wagner, in whom Nietzsche had once looked for a master, is closely connected with the furious onslaught upon Christian ideals. Of Wagner the musician Nietzsche has many things both hard and shrewd to say, but the Wagner against whom the main brunt of his polemic is directed is Wagner the psychologist, the pessimist, the preacher of chastity and resignation--in a word, as Nietzsche understands him, the decadent. Christianity, according to Nietzsche, has made decadence into a religion, Schopenhauer has turned it into a philosophy, Wagner into an æsthetic theory. Hence the constant polemic against all three which recurs in all Nietzsche's writings. The"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Genealogy of Morals is devoted to the exposition of a favourite theory of Nietzsche's, that there have always been two antithetical codes of moral values, that of"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "and that of"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": ""
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Masters prize above everything else qualities which bespeak a superabundance of personal force, strength, beauty, wealth, long life;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "set the highest store by qualities which make servitude more endurable, and in the end render revenge upon the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "possible. Starting from this primary assumption, Nietzsche shows wonderful insight in his examination of the growth of concepts like"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": ""
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": ""
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "changed to"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "changed to"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "changed to"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Nietzschean changed to"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nietzschian"
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "changed to"
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "added. (... a man of genius who, without private means, had thrown up his employment and taken himself and his wife on a long journey to a foreign country in order to win recognition in"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "changed to"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "changed to"
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "deleted. (In regard to"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Walküre and"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Siegfried,"
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "changed to"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "for consistency. (The best of the music is at the beginning, where there is an extremely fine chorus,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Challenge of Thor,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "changed to"
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Frankfort changed to"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Frankfurt"
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Symphony changed to"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Symphonie for consistency. (="
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Faust Symphonie,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "changed to"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "changed to"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Carneval changed to"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Carnaval for consistency. (In his rendering of Schumann's"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Carnaval"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Wienaiwski's changed to"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Wieniawski's for consistency. (Wieniawski's Fantasia on Themes from Gounod's"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Faust, Paganini's caprice"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I Palpiti, Bazzini's"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ronde des Lutins,"
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Leonara changed to"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Leonora for consistency. (Glancing now at musical activity in other countries, we find attention necessarily concentrated in the first instance upon the heroic figure of Beethoven, who in this year (1813) had already given to the world his Eroica, C minor, Pastoral, and Seventh Symphonies, besides his Violin Concerto, Razoumoffsky Quartets, Waldstein and Appassionata Sonatas, his one opera"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Fidelio, together with the third"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Leonora"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "changed to"
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "All the queens of my acquaintance have children, some three, some seven, and some as many as twelve; and my queen has not one. I feel ill-used."
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why don't you have any daughters, at least? said he."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don't say sons; that might be too much to expect."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am sure, dear king, I am very sorry,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "So you ought to be, retorted the king;"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "You must have patience with a lady, you know, dear king,"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Light of spirit, by my charms, Light of body, every part, Never weary human arms-- Only crush thy parents' heart!"
}
] |
697
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "In the easiest way in the world. She had only to destroy gravitation."
}
] |
697
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She can't be ours, queen!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am sure she is ours, answered she."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But we ought to have taken better care of her at the christening. People who were never invited ought not to have been present."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, ho! said the king, tapping his forehead with his forefinger,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have it all. I've found her out. Don't you see it, queen? Princess Makemnoit has bewitched her."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That's just what I say,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I beg your pardon, my love; I did not hear you.--John! bring the steps I get on my throne with."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Take the tongs, John,"
}
] |
697
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Please, your Majesty, shall I take the baby?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Where is she?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Please forgive me. I know it was wrong."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What do you mean?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh! don't frighten me, your Majesty!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "My baby! my baby!"
}
] |
697
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "To think, said he to himself,"
}
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697
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What is all this about? exclaimed he."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What are you crying for, queen?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I can't eat it,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No wonder! retorted the king."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You've just eaten your breakfast--two turkey eggs, and three anchovies."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, that's not it! sobbed her Majesty."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's my child, my child!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, what's the matter with your child? She's neither up the chimney nor down the draw-well. Just hear her laughing."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is a good thing to be light-hearted, I am sure, whether she be ours or not."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It is a bad thing to be light-headed,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In fact, said he, with the tone of one who concludes an argument in which he has had only imaginary opponents, and in which, therefore, he has come off triumphant--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But it is a bad thing altogether to be light-minded,"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "And it's a bad thing to be light-haired,"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "My dear queen, said he,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There! said the queen,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I never made a jest, but I broke it in the making. I am the most unfortunate woman in the world!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Can you bear this?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, I can't,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, what's to be done?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm sure I don't know, said the queen."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But might you not try an apology?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "To my old sister, I suppose you mean?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, I don't mind,"
}
] |
697
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We will wait till she is older. She may then be able to suggest something herself. She will know at least how she feels, and explain things to us."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But what if she should marry?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, what of that? rejoined the queen."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Just think! If she were to have children! In the course of a hundred years the air might be as full of floating children as of gossamers in autumn."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That is no business of ours, replied the queen."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Besides, by that time they will have learned to take care of themselves."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "What queer faces mamma makes! And she squeezes water out of her cheeks? Funny mamma!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Do it again, papa. Do it again! It's SUCH fun! Dear, funny papa!"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "My dear child, said the king,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, you dear funny papa! I have got a nose, and two eyes, and all the rest. So have you. So has mamma."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now be serious, my dear, for once,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, thank you, mamma; I had rather not."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Would you not like to be able to walk like other people?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No indeed, I should think not. You only crawl. You are such slow coaches!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How do you feel, my child?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Quite well, thank you."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I mean, what do you feel like?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Like nothing at all, that I know of."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You must feel like something."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I feel like a princess with such a funny papa, and such a dear pet of a queen-mamma!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now really!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh Yes, she added,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I remember. I have a curious feeling sometimes, as if I were the only person that had any sense in the whole world."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Is there nothing you wish for?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, you dear papa!--yes,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What is it, my darling?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have been longing for it--oh, such a time!--ever since last night."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Tell me what it is."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Will you promise to let me have it?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Tell me what it is first,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No no. Promise first."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I dare not. What is it?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mind, I hold you to your promise.--It is--to be tied to the end of a string--a very long string indeed, and be flown like a kite. Oh, such fun! I would rain rose-water, and hail sugar-plums, and snow whipped-cream, and--and--and--"
}
] |
697
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Unknown Author
|
[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now, queen, he said, turning to her Majesty,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There is but one thing left, answered she."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Let us consult the college of Metaphysicians."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Bravo! cried the king;"
}
] |
697
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Unknown Author
|
[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She must therefore be taught, by the sternest compulsion, to take an interest in the earth as the earth. She must study every department of its history--its animal history; its vegetable history; its mineral history; its social history; its moral history; its political history, its scientific history; its literary history; its musical history; its artistical history; above all, its metaphysical history. She must begin with the Chinese dynasty and end with Japan. But first of all she must study geology, and especially the history of the extinct races of animals-their natures, their habits, their loves, their hates, their revenges. She must--"
}
] |
697
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Unknown Title
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Unknown Author
|
[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Phlebotomize until she is reduced to the last point of safety. Let it be effected, if necessary, in a warm bath. When she is reduced to a state of perfect asphyxy, apply a ligature to the left ankle, drawing it as tight as the bone will bear. Apply, at the same moment, another of equal tension around the right wrist. By means of plates constructed for the purpose, place the other foot and hand under the receivers of two air-pumps. Exhaust the receivers. Exhibit a pint of French brandy, and await the result."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Which would presently arrive in the form of grim Death,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If it should, she would yet die in doing our duty,"
}
] |
697
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Unknown Author
|
[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh! if I had my gravity, thought she, contemplating the water,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I would flash off this balcony like a long white sea-bird, headlong into the darling wetness. Heigh-ho!"
}
] |
697
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Unknown Author
|
[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You naughty, naughty, NAUGHTY, NAUGHTY man!"
}
] |
697
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Unknown Author
|
[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'll tell papa."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh no, you won't!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, I will, she persisted."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What business had you to pull me down out of the water, and throw me to the bottom of the air? I never did you any harm."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Pardon me. I did not mean to hurt you."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don't believe you have any brains; and that is a worse loss than your wretched gravity. I pity you."
}
] |
697
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Unknown Author
|
[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Put me up directly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Put you up where, you beauty?"
}
] |
697
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Unknown Title
|
Unknown Author
|
[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Put you up where, you beauty?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "In the water, you stupid!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come, then,"
}
] |
697
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Unknown Title
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Unknown Author
|
[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How am I to put you in?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That is your business, she answered, quite snappishly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You took me out--put me in again."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Very well,"
}
] |
697
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Unknown Author
|
[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How do you like falling in?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Is that what you call FALLING IN?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, answered the prince,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I should think it a very tolerable specimen."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It seemed to me like going up,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "My feeling was certainly one of elevation too,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How do YOU like falling in?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Beyond everything, answered he;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No more of that: I am tired of it,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Don't you like falling in then?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is the most delightful fun I ever had in my life, answered she."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I never fell before. I wish I could learn. To think I am the only person in my father's kingdom that can't fall!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I shall be most happy to fall in with you any time you like,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Thank you. I don't know. Perhaps it would not be proper. But I don't care. At all events, as we have fallen in, let us have a swim together."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "With all my heart,"
}
] |
697
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|
[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I must go home, said the princess."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am very sorry, for this is delightful."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "So am I, returned the prince."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But I am glad I haven't a home to go to--at least, I don't exactly know where it is."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I wish I hadn't one either, rejoined the princess;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "she continued,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "With more obedience than pleasure,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Will you be in the lake to-morrow night?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "To be sure I will. I don't think so. Perhaps,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Don't tell."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Never fear. It is too good fun to spoil that way."
}
] |
697
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Unknown Author
|
[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Would you like a fall, princess?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ah! there you are! Yes, if you please, prince,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How do you know I am a prince, princess?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Because you are a very nice young man, prince,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come up then, princess."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Fetch me, prince."
}
] |
697
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Unknown Title
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Unknown Author
|
[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If I marry her, I see no help for it: we must turn merman and mermaid, and go out to sea at once."
}
] |
697
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|
Unknown Author
|
[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But, said she,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I will soon set all right. The king and the people shall die of thirst; their brains shall boil and frizzle in their skulls before I will lose my revenge."
}
] |
697
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|
Unknown Author
|
[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This is worth living for!"
}
] |
697
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|
[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's right, my beauty! cried the princess;"
}
] |
697
|
Unknown Title
|
Unknown Author
|
[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Death alone from death can save. Love is death, and so is brave-- Love can fill the deepest grave. Love loves on beneath the wave."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If the lake should disappear, they must find the hole through which the water ran. But it would be useless to try to stop it by any ordinary means. There was but one effectual mode.--The body of a living man could alone stanch the flow. The man must give himself of his own will; and the lake must take his life as it filled. Otherwise the offering would be of no avail. If the nation could not provide one hero, it was time it should perish."
}
] |
697
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Unknown Title
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Unknown Author
|
[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She will die if I don't do it, and life would be nothing to me without her; so I shall lose nothing by doing it. And life will be as pleasant to her as ever, for she will soon forget me. And there will be so much more beauty and happiness in the world!--To be sure, I shall not see it. (Here the poor prince gave a sigh.)"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "How lovely the lake will be in the moonlight, with that glorious creature sporting in it like a wild goddess!--It is rather hard to be drowned by inches, though. Let me see--that will be seventy inches of me to drown. (Here he tried to laugh, but could not.)"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The longer the better, however, he resumed:"
}
] |
697
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|
[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Please your Majesty, I'm your butler,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "My butler! you lying rascal! What do you mean?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I mean, I will cork your big bottle."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Is the fellow mad?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I will put a stopper--plug--what you call it, in your leaky lake, grand monarch,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh! said he at last, putting up his sword with difficulty, it was so long;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am obliged to you, you young fool! Take a glass of wine?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, thank you,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Very well, said the king."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Would you like to run and see your parents before you make your experiment?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, thank you,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Then we will go and look for the hole at once,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Stop, please your Majesty; I have a condition to make,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What! exclaimed the king,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "As you please, returned the prince, coolly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I wish your Majesty a good morning."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You wretch! I will have you put in a sack, and stuck in the hole."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Very well, your Majesty, replied the prince, becoming a little more respectful, lest the wrath of the king should deprive him of the pleasure of dying for the princess."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But what good will that do your Majesty? Please to remember that the oracle says the victim must offer himself."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, you have offered yourself,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, upon one condition."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Condition again! roared the king, once more drawing his sword."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Begone! Somebody else will be glad enough to take the honour off your shoulders."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Your Majesty knows it will not be easy to get another to take my place."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, what is your condition?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Only this, replied the prince:"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why didn't you tell me before what your condition was? Such a fuss about nothing!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Do you grant it? persisted the prince."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Of course I do,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Very well. I am ready."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Go and have some dinner, then, while I set my people to find the place."
}
] |
697
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Unknown Author
|
[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Here I am, said the prince."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Put me in."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They told me it was a shoeblack,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "So I am, said the prince."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I blacked your little boots three times a day, because they were all I could get of you. Put me in."
}
] |
697
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Unknown Author
|
[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now you can go."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Now you can go,"
}
] |
697
|
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Unknown Author
|
[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sing again, prince. It makes it less tedious,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "This is very kind of you, prince,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am sorry I can't return the compliment, thought the prince;"
}
] |
697
|
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Unknown Author
|
[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Princess!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm afloat! I'm afloat!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Princess!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Your papa promised that you should look at me, and you haven't looked at me once."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Did he? Then I suppose I must. But I am so sleepy!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sleep then, darling, and don't mind me,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Really, you are very good, replied the princess."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I think I will go to sleep again."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Just give me a glass of wine and a biscuit first,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "With all my heart,"
}
] |
697
|
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Unknown Author
|
[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, prince, she said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": ""
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Not a bit, answered he, feeling very faint indeed."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Only I shall die before it is of any use to you, unless I have something to eat."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There, then,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ah! you must feed me. I dare not move my hands. The water would run away directly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Good gracious!"
}
] |
697
|
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Unknown Author
|
[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now for your own sake, princess, said he,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I cannot let you go to sleep. You must sit and look at me, else I shall not be able to keep up."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, I will do anything I can to oblige you,"
}
] |
697
|
Unknown Title
|
Unknown Author
|
[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why can't we go and have a swim? said the princess."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There seems to be water enough Just about here."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I shall never swim more,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, I forgot,"
}
] |
697
|
Unknown Title
|
Unknown Author
|
[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Will you kiss me, princess?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, I will,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now, said he, with a sigh of content,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I die happy."
}
] |
697
|
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|
Unknown Author
|
[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But the lake, your Highness!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Go and drown yourself in it!"
}
] |
697
|
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|
Unknown Author
|
[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My darling child! she's found her gravity!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, that's it! is it? said the princess, rubbing her shoulder and her knee alternately."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I consider it very unpleasant. I feel as if I should be crushed to pieces."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hurrah! cried the prince from the bed."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If you've come round, princess, so have I. How's the lake?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Brimful,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then we're all happy."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That we are indeed!"
}
] |
697
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Unknown Author
|
[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Is this the gravity you used to make so much of? said she one day to the prince, as he raised her from the floor."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "For my part, I was a great deal more comfortable without it."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, no, that's not it. This is it, replied the prince, as he took her up, and carried her about like a baby, kissing her all the time."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "This is gravity."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's better, said she."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don't mind that so much."
}
] |
595989
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|
[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I wish I might have seen him."
}
] |
514349
|
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Unknown Author
|
[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes."
}
] |
510794
|
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Unknown Author
|
[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm almost afraid of letting you go in yourself."
}
] |
915080
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|
[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yet James' story may all be the effect of a disordered mind,"
}
] |
21725
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Unknown Author
|
[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I can't believe my luck,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What luck do you mean, Bob?"
}
] |
21725
|
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|
Unknown Author
|
[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "To think, continued Bob, taking two or three draws at his short pipe-- for our hero was not perfect, being, like so many of his class, afflicted with the delusion of tobacco!--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Right you are, boy, interrupted a gruff but hearty voice, as a burly fisherman"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "round the stern of the boat, in front of which the lovers were seated on the sand."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "W'en my Moggie an' me was a-coortin' we thought, an' said, it was too good to be true, an' so it was; leastwise it was too true to be good, for Moggie took me for better an' wuss, though it stood to reason I couldn't be both, d'ee see? an' I soon found her wuss than better, which--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come, come, Joe Slag, cried Bob,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I've comed for the key o' the lifeboat, returned Slag, with a knowing glance at Nellie."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If the glass ain't tellin' lies we may have use for her before long."
}
] |
21725
|
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|
Unknown Author
|
[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'll have to follow him, said Bob, rising soon after his mate had left,"
}
] |
21725
|
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|
Unknown Author
|
[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "See that you're not late at church to-morrow, Bob,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Trust me,"
}
] |
21725
|
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Unknown Author
|
[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, Slag, he exclaimed on entering the shed,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I do believe you've been an' put on the blue ribbon!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's just what I've done, Bob, returned the other."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I thought you'd 'ave noticed it at the boat; but I forgot you could see nothin' but the blue of Nellie's eyes."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Of course not. Who'd expect me to see anything else when I'm beside _her_? retorted Bob."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But what has made you change your mind? I'm sure the last time I tried to get you to hoist the blue-peter ye were obstinate enough--dead against it."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "True, Bob; but since that time I've seed a dear woman that I was fond of _die_ from drink, an' I've seed Tom Riley, one of our best men, get on the road to ruin through the same; so I've hoisted the blue flag, as ye see."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That's a good job, Slag, but don't you forget, my lad, that the blue ribbon won't save you. There's but _one_ Saviour of men. Nevertheless, it's well to fight our battles under a flag, an' the blue is a good one--as things go. Show your colours and never say die; that's my motto. As you said, Slag, the glass _is_ uncommon low to-day. I shouldn't wonder if there was dirty weather brewin' up somewhere."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "that evening was more than"
}
] |
21725
|
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|
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|
[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come on deck--all hands!"
}
] |
21725
|
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|
[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We've got on the tail o' the sands,"
}
] |
21725
|
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|
Unknown Author
|
[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Fetch a rocket, Jim,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "They'll never see it, muttered the first mate, as he got ready another rocket."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Weather's too thick."
}
] |
21725
|
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Unknown Author
|
[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We had better make the women and children fast, sir,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Do so,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Is this necessary?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I fear it is, he replied."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The tide is rising fast. In a short time the waves will be breaking over us again, and you will run a chance of bein' swept away if we don't make you fast. But don't despair, they must have seen our signals by this time, an' we shall soon have the lifeboat out."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "God grant it,"
}
] |
21725
|
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|
[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Is there never a one of ye, he asked, almost sternly,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You pray for us, Joe."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "The lifeboat!"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "How can we ever get into that?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Every man for himself, and God for us all!"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now, madam, make haste,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Come, father,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There are more women and little ones, he said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Never! exclaimed the widow, springing to his side."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I will die with you, father! But here, boatman, save, oh, save my child!"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Shove off,"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Take that lifebelt off!"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm afeared she's gone,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No--I see her bearing sou'-west,"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "What is it?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The lifeboat, darling, said her father."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Did I not say that He would not forsake us?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Thank God! murmured the poor woman, fervently."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Look up, Lizzie; the lifeboat is coming to save us!"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Not together, ma'am, said the captain."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You'd likely drop her. Let me lower the child down first; or come first yourself--that will be better."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Give Lizzie to me, said the grandfather."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'll hold her till you are safe, and ready to receive her."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Look alive, ma'am,"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Get 'em all aboard _first_!"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Tumble 'em in--sharp!"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Let 'em go!"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There he is--I see him!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's on'y a bit o' wreck, boy,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Right you are,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There he is, though, an' no mistake, this time. Port!--port! hard-a-port!"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Let's have another swig o' that cold tea, said Bob Massey, resuming his rightful post at the helm."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It has done me a power o' good. I had no notion that cold tea was so good for warmin' the cockles o' one's heart."
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What's the time?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Just gone ten,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ease off the sheet a bit,"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "All right, Bill, exclaimed an old fisherman, who had been for some time past sweeping the horizon with his glass,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What does that mean?"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It means, Miss, that they've managed to save somebody--how many, in course, we can't tell till they come."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I do believe she's chock-full o' people."
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You seem to've got the fidgets, Bob, remarked Joe Slag, looking earnestly at his friend."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That swim has been too much for 'ee."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "replied Bob, quickly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What's the time now, lad?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And so would you be, lad, returned the coxswain, in a low voice, as he advanced his mouth to his comrade's ear,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That's awk'ard, returned Slag, with a troubled look."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But, I say, Bob, you've kep' this uncommon close from us all--eh? I never heerd ye was to be spliced so soon."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Of course I kep' it close, 'cos I wanted to give you an' my mates a surprise, but it strikes me I'll give some other people a surprise to-day, for there's no time to put on clean toggery."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You'll never manage it, said Slag, in a sympathetic tone, as he once more consulted the warming-pan."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's gettin' on for half arter ten now, an' it takes a mortal time to rig out in them go-to-meetin' slops."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do I look anything like a bridegroom as I am?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Sca'cely, replied Slag, surveying his friend with a grim smile--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Listen, Joe Slag, said Bob Massey, with sudden earnestness."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I've never yet come in after a rescue without seein' the boat hauled up an' made snug. `Dooty first, an' pleasure arter,' that's bin my motto, as _you_ know. But dooty lies in another direction _this_ day, so you promise to see her hauled up, an' cleaned, an' properly housed, won't you?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In coorse I does."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, then, continued Bob, in the same low, earnest tone,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What! exclaimed Slag, with a look of slight surprise."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Your mother! Her what's bin bed-ridden for years, an' hasn't got no legs at all-- leastwise not to speak of?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Just so, lad. We'll lift her in, bed an' all. Now you be off to the bow. Oars out, lads; stand by the halyards!"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Bless you, my gallant fellow!"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Poor fellow! exclaimed the irrepressible enthusiast, looking aghast at Slag,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Looks like it!"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He won't be long. He's _never_ late,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Something must have happened,"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nellie!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Bob!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Young man,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I dursen't kiss ye, Nell, for I'm all wet; but I hadn't one moment to change. Bin out all night i' the lifeboat an' saved over thirty souls. The Brentley boat's done as much. I'm ashamed, sir, he added, turning to the clergyman,"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "To crown all, the feast was conducted on strictly teetotal principles. We have frequently advocated the principles of total abstinence in these columns--at least for the young, the healthy, and the strong--and we are glad to acknowledge that this wedding has greatly helped our cause; for the fun and hilarity in all, the vigour of limb in dancing, and of lung in singing--in short, the general jollity--could not have been surpassed if the guests had been swilling rivers of beer and brandy, instead of oceans of tea. Yes, as one of the Irish guests remarked, `It was a great occasion intoirely,' and it will be long before the event is forgotten, for the noble deeds of our Greyton lifeboat are, from this day forward, intimately and inseparably connected with her coxswain's wedding!"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't think I can stay here much longer, he said one evening to his pretty wife, as they sat together outside their door and watched the village children romping on the sands;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I should be sorry to leave the old friends here, she replied,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Right you are, Nell, as you always was, and always will be,"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then you're sure you won't think it hard, Nell, if I ask you to leave home and friends and go wi' me over the sea?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, Bob, I'm quite sure. I'm willin' to follow you to the end o' the world, or further if that's possible!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then the thing's settled,"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Joe, said he, in the quiet tone that was habitual to him,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Nell and I have made up our minds to go to Australia."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "To Austrailly!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ay; I can't settle to work nohow since the dear old woman went away; so, as Nell is agreeable, and there's nothin' to keep me here, I've decided to up anchor and bear away for the southern seas."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Are 'ee in arnest, Bob?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ay, Joe, in dead earnest."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "An' you say that you've nothin' to keep you here! What's this?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, I'll be sorry to leave _her_, of course, an all my friends in Greyton, but friends will get along well enough without me, an' as for the boat, she'll never want a good coxswain while Joe Slag's alive an' well."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You're wrong there, mate, returned the bowman, quickly, while a look of decision overspread his bluff countenance,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Nonsense, Joe; you're jokin' now."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, I'm jokin' if _you're_ jokin'; otherwise, I'm in dead arnest too-- in as dead arnest as yourself, if not deader. Wasn't you an' me born on the same day, Bob? Didn't our mothers crow over us cheek by jowl when we was babbies? Haven't we rollicked together on the shore ever since we was the height of our daddies' boots, an' gone fishin' in company, fair weather an' foul, to the present hour, to say nothin' o' the times we've lent a hand to rescue men an' women an' child'n i' the lifeboat? No, no, Bob Massey! if you lay yer course for Austrailly, Joseph Slag follers, as sure as a gun."
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Is the agent in?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, but engaged. Sit down; he'll attend to you directly."
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Big fleas have little fleas upon their legs to bite 'em, And little fleas have lesser fleas--and so _ad infinitum_."
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and does not seem to care what Tomlin thinks or how he looks. Besides, there is thrust upon Tomlin the disagreeable necessity of claiming his own, and that, too, in a gentlemanly tone and manner--for it will not do to assume beforehand that Sopkin is going to refuse restitution. Tomlin is not aware that he thinks all this, but he knows that he feels it, and, in spite of himself, demands his property in a tone and with a look that sets agoing the electrical current in Sopkin, who replies, in a growling tone,"
}
] |
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