Alignment-Lab-AI/GutenDialogue · Datasets at Hugging Face

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33103	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I don't," } ]
33103	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, and how do you like it? How does it strike you?" } ]
33103	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "It makes me feel so _useless_," } ]
33103	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Helena dear, she said, to meet her daughter's startled look," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I've come along, although we've had our talk downstairs, because I feel I can't sleep till I have asked you a question." } ]
33103	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why, what?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "A very important question, answered Mrs. Hallam, dropping frailly on the sofa." }, { "from": "human", "value": "And I'm afraid you may think it an extraordinary one. Do you really love Hubert? Do you really want to marry him?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why, you curious old dear, she said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "What on earth makes you ask that? I _do_ call it extraordinary!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Don't think it would be wrong or wicked to say no if you do not. It would be very wicked not to.... She paused, and as Helena said nothing, she went on;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "You see, darling child, I feel responsible. You are so young, and Mr. Brett being almost the first man you ever spoke to, except just at At Homes and so on---- It's not too late, my dear girl, although perhaps I should have spoken sooner if I could have brought myself to it. Girls often see more clearly at the last. We can easily announce that the wedding is postponed, and then you could come down home for a few months and see--if you're not sure----" } ]
33103	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I _am_ sure, she answered, with a passion that surprised herself." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Quite sure." } ]
33103	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "How utterly devoted they seem! It is so nice to see them look at one another!" } ]
33103	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Only shows, whispered Mrs. Boyd, who did not love him or any author over-much," } ]
33103	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Come along, he said instead." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We're getting a bit late. I rather dread this part!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, I don't know," } ]
33103	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Here they are! or when he felt specially inspired, even" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Here they aren't!" } ]
33103	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Got your camera, my dear?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I _wish_ I'd thought of taking them as we went off, said Helena." }, { "from": "human", "value": "They looked so funny." } ]
33103	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ah!" } ]
33103	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "May as well see what they put," } ]
33103	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Solemnised--Langham Place--écru lace, he read from the first; and then more hurriedly," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Reception--residence--numerous and costly--happy couple--Riviera." } ]
33103	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why, what is it? she asked." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Don't you like them? She still felt oddly shy about using his name." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Are you disappointed?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "One doesn't expect much from journalists, he said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "One's never disappointed." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "novelist, but that was all: no adjective before it, not even" } ]
33103	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "You're my little housekeeper, he told her playfully the first evening, always loving to treat her as a child." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You'll get new cooks about every other day and try new dishes out of shilling books with them, and I shall say: 'My dear, this isn't edible'--like that--and then you'll cry----" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh no, I shan't!" } ]
33103	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, I like to think you will, he answered." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I shall be hurt if you don't mind in the least when I'm cross.... But what I was going to say is: whatever domestic tragedies there are--and kitchens are the last home in England of poor Tragedy--don't bring them round to me. I don't mind _what_ I eat, I'm very tame that way really; but I don't want to know who cooked the chop or where the large woman who cooked the last one is. Those details don't inspire an author, even with a realistic novel!" } ]
33103	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "They sleep in the city, and more is the pity, but you on the hills, awake!" } ]
33103	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Blow the evening work!" } ]
33103	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why don't we ever go to a theatre, dear?" } ]
33103	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh Hugh, she said (she never could quite manage" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Hubert )," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I _am_ so sorry, but what do you think?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I can't imagine, he said in a cold voice so unlike his own." }, { "from": "human", "value": "What? Is your mother dead?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Of course she isn't, she replied;" } ]
33103	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Isn't it awful?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Really, Helena, he said," } ]
33103	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, Hugh dear, she said, longing to touch him yet not daring quite; he looked so cross and tall." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I _am_ sorry. It was stupid of me. But I thought you'd be sorry and could--could do something." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Of course, he said bitterly," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I shall at once scour the heath, like a police dog, on my hands and knees. I shall watch the termini. I shall telephone----" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, I _am_ sorry, she broke in," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, he said quite cheerily," } ]
33103	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Tally-ho! he shouted gaily, holding it aloft and waving it; then as she ran delightedly across from her own line of search," } ]
33103	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "What time about? he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Before lunch?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Why, Hugh, she laughed." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You must have heard! It sounded like a motor having its teeth drilled." }, { "from": "human", "value": "No, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I shouldn't have missed that. It is a sound I've never struck!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Why, I know, she said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You wouldn't have heard. Of course it was just after two and you were still keeping in touch with the movements." }, { "from": "human", "value": "My dear girl, he said pompously." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I enjoy your humourous way of looking at life, but it's a quite impossible position if a wife's going to be funny at the expense of her husband's ideals." } ]
33103	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "It's far better, he added," } ]
33103	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "But, Hubert, she said finally," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh no, he answered, as one would speak to a child." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Of course they never happen really." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Then why do people write or read them?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "My dear girl, he answered in the heavy-father manner that gave him such pleasure," } ]
33103	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "You know, she said reflectively one night, during those long hearthside chats that neither really would have changed for any other social form," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I like all the people here and so on, but they're terribly busy, aren't they, and I always feel I've sort of come too late." }, { "from": "human", "value": "How sort of?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, I've got no real friends and you're busy so much with your dull old work. Don't you know anybody?--really know, I mean--old friends, who aren't too far away?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "It sounds absurd, he said at last," } ]
33103	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, what about men then? she added simply." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I don't mind." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You shall have the pick of all my man-friends," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What is it?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, you're so perfect, dearest!" } ]
33103	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I know," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I felt sure you would, she said. It was just these remarks that made her such an excellent companion." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Who is it then?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Old Boyd--old Kenneth Boyd. He's just the very man you'd like. One feels so awfully at home with him, he's restful you know; old-friend-in-five-minutes sort of fellow. Oh and, he added," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I forgot just for the moment! There is a wife too." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I think I'm almost sorry, said Helena reflectively." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I don't think he sounds the sort of person who'd be much good unless alone. But I'm so silly with words. I never can explain and I expect I'm wrong." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Now own that I was absolutely right? With the wives, however, it was different. Mrs. Boyd said afterwards to her husband:" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Just the poor little undeveloped fool one would expect any one so conceited to take as his wife!" } ]
33103	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Geoffrey Alison, exclaimed Hubert with far more conviction than about Kenneth Boyd." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He really _is_ the man! Amusing, clever, full of energy, and too young to be really busy." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Why, how old is he? she enquired." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I want some one, you know, who is cleverer than me and can tell me things at galleries and places." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well, I think he could tell you things, he must be twenty-nine by now. Besides, I was able once to do him a good turn, he is a sort of protégé; so he'd be only too glad to take you about and as you call it, tell you things at galleries and places. He's pretty good on art." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, thank you! she said, girlishly for these days when she had begun duly to expand as wished." }, { "from": "human", "value": "If he'd think he was doing it as a great favour, just to pay you back, I'd rather look at pictures and things by myself and puzzle out their meaning. It's only I've begun so late. She paused for a moment, and then without enthusiasm, almost sulkily;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What did you do for him?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Why, it wasn't really very much. It was just after my first book came out, when I was twenty-six or so and he was at the Varsity or somewhere. I suppose he read a notice or heard the book was selling or something. Anyhow, he wrote me a most charming letter, the first I ever had from any stranger, congratulating me on my success and asking, if you please, how I had managed it as he heard I was young and he wanted to become an author too! I answered all the usual stuff about hard work and so on, which I see now he must have thought astounding twaddle if he really was at Oxford, and told him when he came to Town I'd like to meet him and perhaps could give him a few introductions. As a matter of fact, he went on after brief reflection," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I never did the last because I don't believe in it; but he came round at nights and talked to me and always said I had encouraged him a lot just when a little bucking-up was needed." }, { "from": "human", "value": "And did he?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Did he what, dear?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Why, did he become an author?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh no, he said, vaguely annoyed, now, that he had not guessed it." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Rather not! He's an artist now. Not terribly successful, you know, but getting along. I don't think you would care much for his pictures, though." } ]
33103	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, I'm so sorry, dear Mrs. Brett! she exclaimed, when Helena laughingly told her the mistake;" } ]
33103	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Won't Hugh be convulsed?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I don't think I should tell him," }, { "from": "human", "value": "But why on earth not?" } ]
33103	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Odd of her, this thirst for culture, isn't it? said Hubert smilingly to Kenneth Boyd, on one of their rare meetings away from the hostile wives;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Not always, he said. Perhaps he knew more of Woman, even though he never wrote about her." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Sometimes it has the opposite effect." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, I know what you mean, Hubert replied, not caring to be patronised;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Really?" } ]
33103	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why, he elaborated," } ]
33103	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "My dear girl, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I don't know why not," } ]
33103	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well you see, my dear, he started, slowly," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I dare say other husbands have got their work finished by six o'clock. In fact --and he brightened visibly--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "laughed Helena, and looked at him. Then, as he did not seem to see the joke," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The _morning_ is, you know, if I ask you to come out shopping. I'm afraid, Hugh, you're just a little naughty!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "No, he said shortly, still not very much amused, for once, at her nice childish ways." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "They _both_ are.... It's not much for a man to work, just two short goes at it, and I simply can't spare the time, however much I'd like to. I mustn't go out between tea and dinner when I'm on a book." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You used to, though, persisted Helena," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Very likely, he answered impatiently;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Can't afford it, Hugh? she repeated, with a vague sense of being accused." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why, do I cost so much? Do I cost more than Ruth?" } ]
33103	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Don't you worry your dear head about things like that. We shall be all right. You won't find the man in possession by our fireside yet, when you come home from market!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, but tell me, she said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'd much rather know. Are we honestly hard up?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What a practical little thing it's getting, he said, patting her on the back as they strode onward, always heralded by the long white dog with its straight tail, as proud as a drum-major." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well, if you really want to know, he went on," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He turned about and about, his finger to his mouth, upon the empty spaces, clearly once more in the best of spirits." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Never tell a soul--and least of all the High-Art Alison--but I am doing a pot-boiler!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What, something worse than you need?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, if you put it so! Anyhow, something to make money." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But won't the critics hate that?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Now listen, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, but honestly, she said," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well, he said, but this time without rancour, merely telling her what she had asked," } ]
33103	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I wish _I_ could do something, she said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I feel so useless!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "It makes me feel so useless!" } ]
33103	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Dear little girlie, he said kindly," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I love you to be useless." } ]
33103	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hullo! she said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why what's brought you back?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Look here, Helena, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I've been feeling I was a bit of a brute about those causeries of yours. I could easily spare an evening some day, if you'd like me to. Let's see the list and then we'll fix on one." } ]
33103	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hullo, he said in unflattering surprise." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "They've got some quite good men." } ]
33103	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'm so glad you're pleased," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That's the one we'll do together, he said, and read out--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, but how splendid! she cried, duly grateful." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Just the very one I wanted you to come to. You really _are_ a dear! And that's a late one too, at eight o'clock, because the lecturer objected, so your old work won't suffer after all!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "What! No husband again? I don't think you keep him in at _all_ good order; does she, Kenneth? --as one who should say," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You have no power over him, at all!" } ]
33103	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ah, that's encouraging. That bucks one up!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What, good news, Hugh dear?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, the Kit Kat Club has asked me as its guest of honour." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "How excellent! she said, good wife; and then," }, { "from": "human", "value": "What _is_ the Kit Kat Club?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why, it's a well-known literary club, he answered, slightly hurt." }, { "from": "human", "value": "They meet --he read the card again--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Capital! she said: not because she had ever heard of Lewisham as a great literary centre, but because he was so terrifically pleased." }, { "from": "human", "value": "And when is it to be?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Very short notice, he said, looking once more at the invitation." }, { "from": "human", "value": "This very Tuesday, January 29th. Lucky we never dine out!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But Hugh," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Why, it's the lecture or debate, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I _am_ sorry. There clearly was no question which should go. Then, much more gently, remembering her keenness:" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Never mind, little girl: we'll find another nice debate. Let's see the list and we will pick one now." } ]
33103	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hugh dear, she said, also getting up," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am so sorry; I feel such a beast. It's only I was disappointed. Of course my meeting's simply nothing. I ought to have been glad about the Kit Kats, and I am." }, { "from": "human", "value": "That's a dear unselfish little wife," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You're sure it is the twenty-ninth of this month?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well, there's the card," } ]
33103	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why Klub with a K?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Just a literary conceit, I suppose," } ]
33103	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "You can get Alison to take you, he threw out." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He's sure to be going." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh no, answered Helena." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I told him you were coming. He'll be booked. No, I shan't go at all." }, { "from": "human", "value": "That's silly, my dear. He did not often call her that." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Alison will take you gladly, I know, or if not you can go alone. You often have before." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, she retorted," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Just as you like, he said, trying to speak evenly." }, { "from": "human", "value": "It's your concern. I was only thinking of your comfort. Whatever you do won't hurt _me_." } ]
33103	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "It _is_ an early start," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, he replied;" } ]
33103	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Please'm, said the maid," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Hullo, she said, hoping he had not expected dinner." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Have you been to the Institute? What was it like?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Been, he laughed." }, { "from": "human", "value": "No! It's only ten to eight. This is an eight-o'clocker, you know. G. K. S. will never stand things at the ordinary time!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I went along, Geoffrey Alison proceeded quickly, as though every instant counted," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "How very kind of you, said Helena, feeling that she could almost slay him;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Dining out? repeated Geoffrey Alison," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well then, you're free to come along like all the other ones?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh no, thank you; I don't think I will," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But you simply _must_, replied the other, pulling out his watch." }, { "from": "human", "value": "They'll be beginning if we don't make haste. You couldn't miss this possibly; it's far the best of the whole series. Old Dr. Kenyon, too, thinks art is a disease and intends asking questions. It will be tremendous. Come along or you will make us late." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But I'm not tidy or anything," }, { "from": "human", "value": "So much the better, he cried in prompt triumph." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Unprepared things are always the best sport. You don't need wraps; it's like a summer night and you look very smart. Come on! Your husband won't object. It will be simply grand. We'll have a picnic causerie!" } ]
33103	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Capital, capital," } ]
33103	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "That's old Kenyon," } ]
33103	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now there'll be some fun," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I consider, said Mr. G. K. Shaw quite gravely, holding his beard steady," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Mongrel" } ]
33103	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Come along in, she said simply." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Hubert'll be here in half a moment. Then he'll give you a drink, and we will all exchange experiences!" } ]
33103	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "No, I don't think I will, thanks very much," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Don't say _you_'re busy, now! she cried." }, { "from": "human", "value": "It's a regular disease." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh no, I never work at night, he answered." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Artists can't very well. That is the one advantage of our job!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well don't be tiresome then, and come on in, she said, holding the door open." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Hugh will be furious if he knows you're just gone. So don't be stupid. _I_ was tame, just now!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If you really mean it," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Of course I do, she laughed." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Should I invite you, otherwise? How curious you are! Come into the dining-room and then when Hugh comes, he can give you--Oh no, let's come into here!" } ]
33103	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Her brother is a book-reviewer," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "How often do you have these dinners?" } ]
33103	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'm not a Kit Kat, you know, Mr. Hubert Brett, she answered coyly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "They meet every Tuesday, but we ladies are only asked when there is some special attraction, so you see you should feel very honoured! I find it most interesting (she laid the accent upon the third syllable)," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Naturally," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We always say, she went on, very animated," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes? Hubert said absently, forgetting to smile or to live up in any way to this pet joke amongst the ladies. He was thinking." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What does your brother review for?" } ]
33103	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "For several books," } ]
33103	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "He has told me, slyly concluded the orator," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "(Loud laughter and a high-voiced" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Shame, then female tittering.)" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I only pull aside the veil in this way so as to let you realise why I draw my remarks short to-night and call upon our guest of honour, Hubert Brett, for the pleasure of a few words upon the literature of to-day, in which he plays so considerable a part." } ]
33103	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Gentlemen--_and_ Ladies! said the President amid appreciative laughter," } ]
33103	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I liked that Mr. Alison, so clever! they would reply:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "M'yes? Rather an affected ass, my dear: I can't stand those artistic johnnies. Still, he came out a bit over the wine and showed he _had_ got something in him. Not a bad fellow I dare say; bit of a sportsman possibly--in spite of his long hair. But I'm not sure we want to have him calling?" } ]
33103	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "How dull you are to-night! she said peevishly, for they were old friends and she never troubled to sort out her words." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I believe you _did_ want to work or else had something else to do." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Of course not, he protested, feeling horribly wronged in the circumstances." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "This is awfully jolly." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Hugh _must_ be here soon," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why do you call him Hugh? he asked, jumping at a topic." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Surely that's not really short for Hubert? It ought to be Bert!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, how dare you? she asked gaily; she felt that they had got back on to the old easy paths." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Bert indeed--for him! I wonder how you---- and she clapped her hands excitedly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, she said, her boredom all forgotten," }, { "from": "human", "value": "For _me_?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, she cried." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Ally! I shall call you Ally, just like Ally Sloper! That's better than Bert." } ]
33103	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Have you seen my snap-shot album?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, he said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "May I?" } ]
33103	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "No, don't worry with it, he said, finding it quite hard to speak." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I think I'd better go. It's too late for snap-shots! He must have missed his train." }, { "from": "human", "value": "He'll be here any moment now," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I know," } ]
33103	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I say, Brett, cried a strangled voice," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Who is it? asked Hubert." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Alison?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, said the other, making sure that all his throat was there. Brett, he ruefully reflected, was one of those big devils and big devils never knew their strength." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I've been taking your wife to the causerie." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh! answered Hubert. Perhaps it was excitement only, but he felt of a sudden as though he could resume his grip with pleasure." }, { "from": "human", "value": "It must have been a long affair." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, laughed the other apologetically: and Hubert realised what an ass he was, wondered why he had ever got to know him," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I see, said Hubert." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, good-night." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I see." } ]
33103	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Helena, he said, storming in," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What _do_ you mean, Hugh? she asked, utterly surprised." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I wasn't." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You must think me a fool, he said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "But I don't intend to have an argument about it. I only want to say at once that I think it would be far better if you saw less of your friend Mr. Alison. I meant to say it anyhow. People are talking." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But I don't understand," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I know you're ignorant but you are not a fool, so don't pretend you are. Of course married women don't need chaperons, I know all that, but a mere girl like you and that young ass and almost midnight--but don't let's go into all that. He calmed himself, swallowing his wrath, and said more gently;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I know it's all right really, dear, don't think I don't, it's only--well, you know what people say." }, { "from": "human", "value": "As you ask, he answered, letting the words out coldly," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I heard one man telling another at the Golf Club yesterday that Mrs. Herbertson was saying she had not yet found out whether Alison or I was Mr. Brett, but thought _he_ was as you saw more of him. That's a local joke! It's jolly, isn't it?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "she answered oddly calm." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I shouldn't ever care what people with that sort of mind think." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well _I_ do, he almost shouted at her," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I think you're excited," } ]
33103	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Excited! he mocked." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, who wouldn't be? A dirty-minded little cad like that!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Hubert, she said roused at last," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "A devil tempted her, urging her on beyond the point of a good friend's defence." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'm very fond of him," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You are mine, mine. You belong to me, I tell you. You're all mine!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Let me go, Hubert," } ]
33103	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'm sorry, he said presently." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It was your fault: you were so maddening. You don't see what it means to me." } ]
33103	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "And how did the dinner go off?" } ]
33103	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Things --she had put stray thoughts down into a shilling diary. At first they had been merely sentences that touched her or inspired, things heard and read. Then as her mind began to feel its way, she wrote these extracts down, and half ashamed at first, though nobody would ever see them, added her comments on their theories. How elementary the first had been! She blushed, re-reading them." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "(ran one on page two)." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Then are they really pilots?" } ]
33103	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, _I_ must do my work! she no longer felt lonely or out in the cold or inferior or anything. She just said to herself:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And so must I." } ]
33103	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "If this book fails-- or" } ]
33103	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I've found a title at last," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Hooray! she cried, genuinely pleased because he had been worried as to that and this would mean a cheery walk." }, { "from": "human", "value": "What is it? Is it good?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Couldn't be better, he replied, and as usual she missed the irony. He paused and then;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, Hugh, she could not help exclaiming." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That _isn't_ the title?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Don't you like it?" } ]
33103	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "No, she began slowly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It's so--I don't know, but--well, so cheap. All your others were so dignified and simple; I think _Wandering Stars_ was simply excellent; but this--it sort of reminds me of those plays with names like _Did She Do It?_ You know what I mean!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "You seem to think I'm trying to be dignified. Not a bit of it: we're out for money! Money, my dear Helena: no more worry about bills, and our own motor-car! She could not bring herself to be amused and he went on more moodily:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Do you imagine any woman wants novels with titles that are dignified? and men aren't fools enough to read them. Of course you picked out my best seller for your argument; but look at _The Bread of Idleness_. That was dignified enough and splendidly reviewed and sold two thousand copies; just about a hundred pounds for me for one year's work! No thanks, I've done with dignity, _pro tem_. There may be just about two thousand women with a taste in dignity, but I want all the shop-girls this time: I'm out for my hundred thousand! I want them when they go to the seaside library and pay their twopences to notice _Was It Worth While?_ in big letters on a purple ground. That'll make them think! No more dignity for me: you want to make them think, to make them wonder Why?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Hugh dear, is it really necessary to do all this? Can't we just go on as we have been doing? I dare say I could manage better, really, and I've often told you I simply don't know what to do with my allowance: it's eating its head off in the bank! Surely we're not so hard up as all that? I hate the whole idea." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What whole idea?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "This pot-boiler, as you call it; the title; the way you talk about it; everything. It's all so different, and I've been so proud of the others. She gathered courage and went on:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Look here, Hugh, why not give it up; start on a really good one that'll help your name; and we'll live meanwhile on all that from my allowance in the bank?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "My dear child, he said with condescension," } ]
33103	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Of course not, he would say." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "They won't tell any one till it's been out a week! They mean to keep it dark, trust them!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I dare say they're saving up for later on, dear," } ]
33103	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Only I expect, she said," } ]
33103	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Curious? Well, amusing.... It'll certainly be something new to be slated by the critics and rushed after by the libraries. It's usually been the other way about!" } ]
33103	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "It's a boycott, he cried petulantly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I've always had at least two notices, for years, upon the day. We sent them out early on purpose. It's nothing but a boycott." }, { "from": "human", "value": "How too bad, dearest," } ]
33103	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ha! and then read out with a naïve joy" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Good," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I like that, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That is rich." }, { "from": "human", "value": "What is it, dear?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "They say, announced Hubert in extremely level tones," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Early works? I'll show them! It is libellous. I can prove my case to the hilt." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I shouldn't worry with them, she said, feeling inadequate." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Perhaps it will just make the book sell? We expected them to be all nasty, didn't we? She tried to speak brightly. Then an inspiration came to her." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Perhaps there are some better ones?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "You look at them, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I don't know why I do or why one cares. They're just a pack of failures. I always despise myself for looking at their stuff at all." }, { "from": "human", "value": "No, no," } ]
33103	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "But this is where Mr. Brett has done us, we repeat, a service. _Was It Worth While?_ (the name alone is symptomatic) has all the qualities of its successful predecessors: the well-worn types, that call for no brain-effort after work; the utterly untrammelled sentiment; the shapeless slices of religion: he has put into his salad all the right ingredients, except one, which he, less lucky than the other cooks, did not possess. And that ingredient, we now believe, is no less than sincerity. The other writers have done this sort of thing well, because they could do no better; and whilst the large public applauded, we have pitied. Mr. Brett has done this sort of thing, although he can do better; and whilst the public will see through him, we despise his effort. Into his motives it would be impertinent to enquire. Perhaps, after all, the book is a mere literary squib. Mr. Brett, it well may be, has no desire to gull the public into a belief in his weak sentiment and crude religion: he wishes to deride those qualities in others. If so, we congratulate and thank him once again: we understand at last the essential quality (and it is, we confess, a fine one) in the Library big-seller. On any other ground, however, it certainly was not _Worth While_." } ]
33103	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Found one?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, she said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "There don't seem any more, unless I've managed to miss one. Now I'm seeing what has happened!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You don't often do that, he said cheerily enough." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I thought you despised politics and everything like that?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I don't often get the chance to read them, she said and hurriedly turned on to the next page," }, { "from": "human", "value": "This last was her name for what he, in a Yankee spirit, nicknamed" } ]
33103	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "It's merely spite, was all he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "How dare they call me insincere? They know it's a good seller and that's just what they can't stand. I've written to the editor and I hope I get that swine the boot." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Is that very kind, dear? she asked." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It's his job, you know, and you said bad reviews would sell the book." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, I dare say, but not this kind. No plot, nothing except that its fatiguing and _may_ be a burlesque. English people hate being puzzled even more than they hate being bored." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, no matter, let them do their worst. Trust the public later on to find out that the novel's bad! ... When's dinner?" } ]
33103	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I fear, wrote his publisher as an old friend," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Who wants his damned opinion?" } ]
33103	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "An able novel: _Tooting Sentinel_. Weak and formless: _Times_. An arresting piece of work, whoever by: _Stafford News_. An amateur affair: _Standard_;" } ]
33103	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I don't suppose any one will even publish it," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, Hugh! she cried, believing him," }, { "from": "human", "value": "What, married you? he asked, suddenly laughing." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Bother shop! Come along out and see if we can't find a good stick to throw for the hound;" } ]
33103	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hullo! was in fact his very first remark." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Are you too among the authors?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, she said, hoping that she was not blushing." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But not too loud as it's an awful secret. Hubert doesn't know." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh-ho! he whispered." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Then I guess: it's all about him! It is a safety-valve." } ]
33103	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "No, she was bound to answer, and when he asked," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Fiction? in surprise, it must be" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes." } ]
33103	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'm going to read it please," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Certainly not," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, but yes," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Give it to me," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Listen, he began, as staidly argumentative as though he had been drunk: and then he paused." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If you let me read it, he said presently," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'll tell you what I think of it and I bet it's original. If you don't let me read it, I shall tell--your husband!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You wouldn't be such a cad," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'm not so sure, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Anyhow let me? I'll begin to-night." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You won't do that, she retorted laughingly," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What! An opus? Tut! Now don't be selfish. When you first wanted to know about Art, I told you all I could, and now you're doing things, I think it's only fair that I should be the first to see." } ]
33103	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Very well, he said, getting up." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If you think it's so funny, that's all right. I suppose, now, you've done with me: you've got all out of me you needed: so now you don't even tell me that you're trying to create." } ]
33103	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, no, she said," } ]
33103	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, will you let me read it?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, if you really want to, she replied." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'll fetch the other half. Secretly she longed for an opinion, and she would never dare to ask for Hubert's." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Promise not to look at this bit, she said, coy as a young singer." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I couldn't bear you to see it till you are right away." } ]
33103	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I got bored with writing in this, she said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It was so uncomfortable, the edges cut my hand. Then, as though half repenting;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "You must promise not to look at it till you get home and never to tell Hubert." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Is that likely?" } ]
33103	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, he asked," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, isn't it awful? Helena replied." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I don't know if I ought to tell you, but it's not sold at all: not, I mean, except those sold before publication and I never understand quite how that happens." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Then I expect it's good," }, { "from": "human", "value": "My dear Mrs. Brett, he said (he always hated calling her that, but he dared not embark on" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Helena )," } ]
33103	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "But _Wandering Stars_, she said presently," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I've often heard, sold quite five thousand." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh yes, I dare say," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, wasn't that artistic?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh yes, he began." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But not quite in the way I meant. That was a good story, very, and was popular. I meant, really, quite a different sort of book." }, { "from": "human", "value": "What sort? she asked pitilessly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Better ones?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh no, he said, more and more embarrassed." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Not that exactly. You can't say that. You can't compare different kinds in Art. You've got to judge a man by his success in what he has attempted. A good caricature is much better than a bad Madonna," } ]
33103	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Whew!" } ]
33103	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, she said, leaping up and forcing herself, like a trained wife, to be cheery," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Rotten, he said;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, I'm so sorry, dear, she answered humbly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I will tell her." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Don't worry about that, my dear, he said without much conviction;" } ]
33103	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "But I hope, she merely said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I don't believe, he said," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'm meant for an author--not in these days anyhow, when it's a trade. You know, my dear, it's too absurd but I can _not_ forget those beastly critics! They've put me off entirely. Every line I write, I think that such and such a paper won't like that: just as though I was writing for them and not for the public! He took up a magazine and flung it down violently on the sofa." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I tell you though, he said confidently, as though that changed his mood, and rose to go:" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I jolly well mean to get at the public, _this_ time." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Hugh, she said, ludicrously horror-struck," }, { "from": "human", "value": "You'll see, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'm nearly through with the synopsis now and I'll read you the first chapter soon. It's not like the last, anyhow. It's called _Eternity_. And there's one thing, he went on with a kind of brutal joy," }, { "from": "human", "value": "But, Hugh," } ]
33103	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Is Hubert safely out of hearing?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, she laughed. He always amused her when he was funny like this." }, { "from": "human", "value": "He always works, you know quite well, from five till seven. I suppose all this 'sshing is because you want to give me back my silly manuscript. Where is it?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ah, he replied," }, { "from": "human", "value": "You _are_ funny," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You always say that if I'm serious, he protested. Then less plaintively, as though heartened by what was to come:" }, { "from": "human", "value": "As a matter of fact though, I've done you a very good turn." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Me?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, you. Your silly manuscript, as you like to call it, is good--jolly good. I don't suppose you realise that, do you? It's something original, these days, and that is everything. It's----" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'm glad it amused you, Helena said, thinking that he had quitted himself well and now she must help him out;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "But where's the good turn? he broke in, interpreting her wrongly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, I'll tell you. I showed it--I knew you wouldn't mind---- (and here he looked a little timidly at her sideways)," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I showed it to a publisher I've met about, a very decent fellow----" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "How dare you? Helena flashed out youthfully, just as though they were playing Interruptions." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I lent it you to read and I think----" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Listen, he said with a firmness rare in him, confident of what he had to tell." }, { "from": "human", "value": "He said it was new and vital and had money in it: those are his exact words; and he wants to publish it if you can think of a good ending. There!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I don't care _what_ he said, she cried, and for this moment of her childish anger it was true." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I only know I lent it you and not to him; do you think I want everybody reading all my diaries?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But it was not a diary, he answered, keeping his head clear," }, { "from": "human", "value": "He would, though, if he published it." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Never, he replied dramatically." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Nobody will ever know except yourself and me." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "she crumpled up, and fell back on a new line of defence." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I can't believe, she said, more peaceable," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You surely don't imagine, he said," } ]
33103	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "After all, he said, using that most persuasive of openings to a temptation or a fallacy," }, { "from": "human", "value": "(He saw her eyes light up and knew that he had won.)" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Besides there'll be the money too and any one can do with that." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, said Helena, clinging to an earlier sentence, as women will," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, how many authors do you think there are? he said; then with the Tempter's fluency," }, { "from": "human", "value": "He smiled, remembering how intimate the peep in question sometimes was." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Fancy reading all their silly guesses! Come on! You can't be so selfish!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "It wouldn't really bring much money, would it? she asked." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Books don't seem to, ever." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Blatchley--that's the publisher--thinks it would sell like anything: he says it's new. That's why he wants it. There isn't any sentiment in Blatchley. He's right, too: people love these human documents. I dare say it'd bring in several hundred pounds." } ]
33103	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "What should I call myself?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Not Helena, he said with firmness." }, { "from": "human", "value": "They'd guess. Besides no authoress could ever be called Helena: it sounds like Eleanor after a careless housemaid's accident." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Joan is my second name," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Joan, he repeated, and she felt quite ashamed already: he made it sound so long and flat." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, no; not Joan. That is like Jones with the last letter dropped. It must be something literary. I know. He hesitated, as though weighing the discovered nugget: then, satisfied;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "We'll call you Zoë Baskerville." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Splendid! she laughed. Already this was a new interest in life. Then a doubt struck her." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'm blest if I know, he confessed;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I never liked Helena for you, he said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Zoë is just the name. I shall always think of you as Zoë. Then, greatly daring, with a swift rush;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "May I call you Zoë?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "If you like it, she said, off-hand." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You want some revenge for Ally! But not in front of Hugh or he'll guess when the book comes out, and that would be too terrible." }, { "from": "human", "value": "No, he said with feeling," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "When will it appear?" } ]
33103	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Of course, he was saying now, criticising a review," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, I don't know. What about Rossetti? Or even Whistler?" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It makes me feel so _useless_," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Helena dear, she said, to meet her daughter's startled look," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I've come along, although we've had our talk downstairs, because I feel I can't sleep till I have asked you a question." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why, what?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "A very important question, answered Mrs. Hallam, dropping frailly on the sofa." }, { "from": "human", "value": "And I'm afraid you may think it an extraordinary one. Do you really love Hubert? Do you really want to marry him?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why, you curious old dear, she said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "What on earth makes you ask that? I _do_ call it extraordinary!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Don't think it would be wrong or wicked to say no if you do not. It would be very wicked not to.... She paused, and as Helena said nothing, she went on;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "You see, darling child, I feel responsible. You are so young, and Mr. Brett being almost the first man you ever spoke to, except just at At Homes and so on---- It's not too late, my dear girl, although perhaps I should have spoken sooner if I could have brought myself to it. Girls often see more clearly at the last. We can easily announce that the wedding is postponed, and then you could come down home for a few months and see--if you're not sure----" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I _am_ sure, she answered, with a passion that surprised herself." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Quite sure." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How utterly devoted they seem! It is so nice to see them look at one another!" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Only shows, whispered Mrs. Boyd, who did not love him or any author over-much," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Come along, he said instead." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We're getting a bit late. I rather dread this part!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, I don't know," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Here they are! or when he felt specially inspired, even" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Here they aren't!" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Got your camera, my dear?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I _wish_ I'd thought of taking them as we went off, said Helena." }, { "from": "human", "value": "They looked so funny." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Solemnised--Langham Place--écru lace, he read from the first; and then more hurriedly," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Reception--residence--numerous and costly--happy couple--Riviera." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why, what is it? she asked." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Don't you like them? She still felt oddly shy about using his name." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Are you disappointed?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "One doesn't expect much from journalists, he said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "One's never disappointed." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "novelist, but that was all: no adjective before it, not even" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You're my little housekeeper, he told her playfully the first evening, always loving to treat her as a child." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You'll get new cooks about every other day and try new dishes out of shilling books with them, and I shall say: 'My dear, this isn't edible'--like that--and then you'll cry----" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh no, I shan't!" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, I like to think you will, he answered." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I shall be hurt if you don't mind in the least when I'm cross.... But what I was going to say is: whatever domestic tragedies there are--and kitchens are the last home in England of poor Tragedy--don't bring them round to me. I don't mind _what_ I eat, I'm very tame that way really; but I don't want to know who cooked the chop or where the large woman who cooked the last one is. Those details don't inspire an author, even with a realistic novel!" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "They sleep in the city, and more is the pity, but you on the hills, awake!" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Blow the evening work!" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why don't we ever go to a theatre, dear?" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh Hugh, she said (she never could quite manage" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Hubert )," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I _am_ so sorry, but what do you think?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I can't imagine, he said in a cold voice so unlike his own." }, { "from": "human", "value": "What? Is your mother dead?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Of course she isn't, she replied;" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Isn't it awful?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Really, Helena, he said," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, Hugh dear, she said, longing to touch him yet not daring quite; he looked so cross and tall." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I _am_ sorry. It was stupid of me. But I thought you'd be sorry and could--could do something." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Of course, he said bitterly," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I shall at once scour the heath, like a police dog, on my hands and knees. I shall watch the termini. I shall telephone----" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, I _am_ sorry, she broke in," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, he said quite cheerily," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Tally-ho! he shouted gaily, holding it aloft and waving it; then as she ran delightedly across from her own line of search," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What time about? he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Before lunch?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Why, Hugh, she laughed." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You must have heard! It sounded like a motor having its teeth drilled." }, { "from": "human", "value": "No, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I shouldn't have missed that. It is a sound I've never struck!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Why, I know, she said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You wouldn't have heard. Of course it was just after two and you were still keeping in touch with the movements." }, { "from": "human", "value": "My dear girl, he said pompously." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I enjoy your humourous way of looking at life, but it's a quite impossible position if a wife's going to be funny at the expense of her husband's ideals." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It's far better, he added," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But, Hubert, she said finally," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh no, he answered, as one would speak to a child." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Of course they never happen really." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Then why do people write or read them?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "My dear girl, he answered in the heavy-father manner that gave him such pleasure," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You know, she said reflectively one night, during those long hearthside chats that neither really would have changed for any other social form," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I like all the people here and so on, but they're terribly busy, aren't they, and I always feel I've sort of come too late." }, { "from": "human", "value": "How sort of?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, I've got no real friends and you're busy so much with your dull old work. Don't you know anybody?--really know, I mean--old friends, who aren't too far away?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "It sounds absurd, he said at last," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, what about men then? she added simply." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I don't mind." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You shall have the pick of all my man-friends," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What is it?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, you're so perfect, dearest!" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I know," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I felt sure you would, she said. It was just these remarks that made her such an excellent companion." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Who is it then?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Old Boyd--old Kenneth Boyd. He's just the very man you'd like. One feels so awfully at home with him, he's restful you know; old-friend-in-five-minutes sort of fellow. Oh and, he added," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I forgot just for the moment! There is a wife too." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I think I'm almost sorry, said Helena reflectively." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I don't think he sounds the sort of person who'd be much good unless alone. But I'm so silly with words. I never can explain and I expect I'm wrong." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Now own that I was absolutely right? With the wives, however, it was different. Mrs. Boyd said afterwards to her husband:" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Just the poor little undeveloped fool one would expect any one so conceited to take as his wife!" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Geoffrey Alison, exclaimed Hubert with far more conviction than about Kenneth Boyd." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He really _is_ the man! Amusing, clever, full of energy, and too young to be really busy." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Why, how old is he? she enquired." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I want some one, you know, who is cleverer than me and can tell me things at galleries and places." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well, I think he could tell you things, he must be twenty-nine by now. Besides, I was able once to do him a good turn, he is a sort of protégé; so he'd be only too glad to take you about and as you call it, tell you things at galleries and places. He's pretty good on art." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, thank you! she said, girlishly for these days when she had begun duly to expand as wished." }, { "from": "human", "value": "If he'd think he was doing it as a great favour, just to pay you back, I'd rather look at pictures and things by myself and puzzle out their meaning. It's only I've begun so late. She paused for a moment, and then without enthusiasm, almost sulkily;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What did you do for him?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Why, it wasn't really very much. It was just after my first book came out, when I was twenty-six or so and he was at the Varsity or somewhere. I suppose he read a notice or heard the book was selling or something. Anyhow, he wrote me a most charming letter, the first I ever had from any stranger, congratulating me on my success and asking, if you please, how I had managed it as he heard I was young and he wanted to become an author too! I answered all the usual stuff about hard work and so on, which I see now he must have thought astounding twaddle if he really was at Oxford, and told him when he came to Town I'd like to meet him and perhaps could give him a few introductions. As a matter of fact, he went on after brief reflection," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I never did the last because I don't believe in it; but he came round at nights and talked to me and always said I had encouraged him a lot just when a little bucking-up was needed." }, { "from": "human", "value": "And did he?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Did he what, dear?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Why, did he become an author?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh no, he said, vaguely annoyed, now, that he had not guessed it." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Rather not! He's an artist now. Not terribly successful, you know, but getting along. I don't think you would care much for his pictures, though." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, I'm so sorry, dear Mrs. Brett! she exclaimed, when Helena laughingly told her the mistake;" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Won't Hugh be convulsed?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I don't think I should tell him," }, { "from": "human", "value": "But why on earth not?" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Odd of her, this thirst for culture, isn't it? said Hubert smilingly to Kenneth Boyd, on one of their rare meetings away from the hostile wives;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Not always, he said. Perhaps he knew more of Woman, even though he never wrote about her." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Sometimes it has the opposite effect." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, I know what you mean, Hubert replied, not caring to be patronised;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Really?" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why, he elaborated," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My dear girl, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I don't know why not," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well you see, my dear, he started, slowly," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I dare say other husbands have got their work finished by six o'clock. In fact --and he brightened visibly--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "laughed Helena, and looked at him. Then, as he did not seem to see the joke," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The _morning_ is, you know, if I ask you to come out shopping. I'm afraid, Hugh, you're just a little naughty!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "No, he said shortly, still not very much amused, for once, at her nice childish ways." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "They _both_ are.... It's not much for a man to work, just two short goes at it, and I simply can't spare the time, however much I'd like to. I mustn't go out between tea and dinner when I'm on a book." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You used to, though, persisted Helena," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Very likely, he answered impatiently;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Can't afford it, Hugh? she repeated, with a vague sense of being accused." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why, do I cost so much? Do I cost more than Ruth?" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Don't you worry your dear head about things like that. We shall be all right. You won't find the man in possession by our fireside yet, when you come home from market!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, but tell me, she said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'd much rather know. Are we honestly hard up?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What a practical little thing it's getting, he said, patting her on the back as they strode onward, always heralded by the long white dog with its straight tail, as proud as a drum-major." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well, if you really want to know, he went on," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He turned about and about, his finger to his mouth, upon the empty spaces, clearly once more in the best of spirits." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Never tell a soul--and least of all the High-Art Alison--but I am doing a pot-boiler!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What, something worse than you need?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, if you put it so! Anyhow, something to make money." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But won't the critics hate that?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Now listen, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, but honestly, she said," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well, he said, but this time without rancour, merely telling her what she had asked," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I wish _I_ could do something, she said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I feel so useless!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "It makes me feel so useless!" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Dear little girlie, he said kindly," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I love you to be useless." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hullo! she said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why what's brought you back?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Look here, Helena, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I've been feeling I was a bit of a brute about those causeries of yours. I could easily spare an evening some day, if you'd like me to. Let's see the list and then we'll fix on one." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hullo, he said in unflattering surprise." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "They've got some quite good men." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'm so glad you're pleased," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That's the one we'll do together, he said, and read out--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, but how splendid! she cried, duly grateful." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Just the very one I wanted you to come to. You really _are_ a dear! And that's a late one too, at eight o'clock, because the lecturer objected, so your old work won't suffer after all!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "What! No husband again? I don't think you keep him in at _all_ good order; does she, Kenneth? --as one who should say," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You have no power over him, at all!" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ah, that's encouraging. That bucks one up!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What, good news, Hugh dear?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, the Kit Kat Club has asked me as its guest of honour." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "How excellent! she said, good wife; and then," }, { "from": "human", "value": "What _is_ the Kit Kat Club?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why, it's a well-known literary club, he answered, slightly hurt." }, { "from": "human", "value": "They meet --he read the card again--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Capital! she said: not because she had ever heard of Lewisham as a great literary centre, but because he was so terrifically pleased." }, { "from": "human", "value": "And when is it to be?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Very short notice, he said, looking once more at the invitation." }, { "from": "human", "value": "This very Tuesday, January 29th. Lucky we never dine out!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But Hugh," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Why, it's the lecture or debate, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I _am_ sorry. There clearly was no question which should go. Then, much more gently, remembering her keenness:" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Never mind, little girl: we'll find another nice debate. Let's see the list and we will pick one now." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hugh dear, she said, also getting up," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am so sorry; I feel such a beast. It's only I was disappointed. Of course my meeting's simply nothing. I ought to have been glad about the Kit Kats, and I am." }, { "from": "human", "value": "That's a dear unselfish little wife," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You're sure it is the twenty-ninth of this month?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well, there's the card," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why Klub with a K?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Just a literary conceit, I suppose," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You can get Alison to take you, he threw out." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He's sure to be going." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh no, answered Helena." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I told him you were coming. He'll be booked. No, I shan't go at all." }, { "from": "human", "value": "That's silly, my dear. He did not often call her that." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Alison will take you gladly, I know, or if not you can go alone. You often have before." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, she retorted," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Just as you like, he said, trying to speak evenly." }, { "from": "human", "value": "It's your concern. I was only thinking of your comfort. Whatever you do won't hurt _me_." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It _is_ an early start," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, he replied;" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Please'm, said the maid," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Hullo, she said, hoping he had not expected dinner." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Have you been to the Institute? What was it like?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Been, he laughed." }, { "from": "human", "value": "No! It's only ten to eight. This is an eight-o'clocker, you know. G. K. S. will never stand things at the ordinary time!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I went along, Geoffrey Alison proceeded quickly, as though every instant counted," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "How very kind of you, said Helena, feeling that she could almost slay him;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Dining out? repeated Geoffrey Alison," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well then, you're free to come along like all the other ones?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh no, thank you; I don't think I will," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But you simply _must_, replied the other, pulling out his watch." }, { "from": "human", "value": "They'll be beginning if we don't make haste. You couldn't miss this possibly; it's far the best of the whole series. Old Dr. Kenyon, too, thinks art is a disease and intends asking questions. It will be tremendous. Come along or you will make us late." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But I'm not tidy or anything," }, { "from": "human", "value": "So much the better, he cried in prompt triumph." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Unprepared things are always the best sport. You don't need wraps; it's like a summer night and you look very smart. Come on! Your husband won't object. It will be simply grand. We'll have a picnic causerie!" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Capital, capital," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That's old Kenyon," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now there'll be some fun," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I consider, said Mr. G. K. Shaw quite gravely, holding his beard steady," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Mongrel" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Come along in, she said simply." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Hubert'll be here in half a moment. Then he'll give you a drink, and we will all exchange experiences!" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No, I don't think I will, thanks very much," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Don't say _you_'re busy, now! she cried." }, { "from": "human", "value": "It's a regular disease." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh no, I never work at night, he answered." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Artists can't very well. That is the one advantage of our job!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well don't be tiresome then, and come on in, she said, holding the door open." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Hugh will be furious if he knows you're just gone. So don't be stupid. _I_ was tame, just now!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If you really mean it," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Of course I do, she laughed." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Should I invite you, otherwise? How curious you are! Come into the dining-room and then when Hugh comes, he can give you--Oh no, let's come into here!" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Her brother is a book-reviewer," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "How often do you have these dinners?" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'm not a Kit Kat, you know, Mr. Hubert Brett, she answered coyly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "They meet every Tuesday, but we ladies are only asked when there is some special attraction, so you see you should feel very honoured! I find it most interesting (she laid the accent upon the third syllable)," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Naturally," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We always say, she went on, very animated," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes? Hubert said absently, forgetting to smile or to live up in any way to this pet joke amongst the ladies. He was thinking." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What does your brother review for?" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "For several books," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He has told me, slyly concluded the orator," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "(Loud laughter and a high-voiced" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Shame, then female tittering.)" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I only pull aside the veil in this way so as to let you realise why I draw my remarks short to-night and call upon our guest of honour, Hubert Brett, for the pleasure of a few words upon the literature of to-day, in which he plays so considerable a part." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Gentlemen--_and_ Ladies! said the President amid appreciative laughter," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I liked that Mr. Alison, so clever! they would reply:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "M'yes? Rather an affected ass, my dear: I can't stand those artistic johnnies. Still, he came out a bit over the wine and showed he _had_ got something in him. Not a bad fellow I dare say; bit of a sportsman possibly--in spite of his long hair. But I'm not sure we want to have him calling?" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How dull you are to-night! she said peevishly, for they were old friends and she never troubled to sort out her words." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I believe you _did_ want to work or else had something else to do." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Of course not, he protested, feeling horribly wronged in the circumstances." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "This is awfully jolly." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Hugh _must_ be here soon," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why do you call him Hugh? he asked, jumping at a topic." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Surely that's not really short for Hubert? It ought to be Bert!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, how dare you? she asked gaily; she felt that they had got back on to the old easy paths." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Bert indeed--for him! I wonder how you---- and she clapped her hands excitedly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, she said, her boredom all forgotten," }, { "from": "human", "value": "For _me_?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, she cried." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Ally! I shall call you Ally, just like Ally Sloper! That's better than Bert." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Have you seen my snap-shot album?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, he said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "May I?" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No, don't worry with it, he said, finding it quite hard to speak." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I think I'd better go. It's too late for snap-shots! He must have missed his train." }, { "from": "human", "value": "He'll be here any moment now," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I know," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I say, Brett, cried a strangled voice," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Who is it? asked Hubert." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Alison?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, said the other, making sure that all his throat was there. Brett, he ruefully reflected, was one of those big devils and big devils never knew their strength." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I've been taking your wife to the causerie." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh! answered Hubert. Perhaps it was excitement only, but he felt of a sudden as though he could resume his grip with pleasure." }, { "from": "human", "value": "It must have been a long affair." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, laughed the other apologetically: and Hubert realised what an ass he was, wondered why he had ever got to know him," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I see, said Hubert." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, good-night." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I see." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Helena, he said, storming in," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What _do_ you mean, Hugh? she asked, utterly surprised." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I wasn't." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You must think me a fool, he said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "But I don't intend to have an argument about it. I only want to say at once that I think it would be far better if you saw less of your friend Mr. Alison. I meant to say it anyhow. People are talking." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But I don't understand," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I know you're ignorant but you are not a fool, so don't pretend you are. Of course married women don't need chaperons, I know all that, but a mere girl like you and that young ass and almost midnight--but don't let's go into all that. He calmed himself, swallowing his wrath, and said more gently;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I know it's all right really, dear, don't think I don't, it's only--well, you know what people say." }, { "from": "human", "value": "As you ask, he answered, letting the words out coldly," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I heard one man telling another at the Golf Club yesterday that Mrs. Herbertson was saying she had not yet found out whether Alison or I was Mr. Brett, but thought _he_ was as you saw more of him. That's a local joke! It's jolly, isn't it?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "she answered oddly calm." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I shouldn't ever care what people with that sort of mind think." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well _I_ do, he almost shouted at her," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I think you're excited," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Excited! he mocked." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, who wouldn't be? A dirty-minded little cad like that!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Hubert, she said roused at last," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "A devil tempted her, urging her on beyond the point of a good friend's defence." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'm very fond of him," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You are mine, mine. You belong to me, I tell you. You're all mine!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Let me go, Hubert," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'm sorry, he said presently." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It was your fault: you were so maddening. You don't see what it means to me." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And how did the dinner go off?" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Things --she had put stray thoughts down into a shilling diary. At first they had been merely sentences that touched her or inspired, things heard and read. Then as her mind began to feel its way, she wrote these extracts down, and half ashamed at first, though nobody would ever see them, added her comments on their theories. How elementary the first had been! She blushed, re-reading them." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "(ran one on page two)." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Then are they really pilots?" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, _I_ must do my work! she no longer felt lonely or out in the cold or inferior or anything. She just said to herself:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And so must I." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If this book fails-- or" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I've found a title at last," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Hooray! she cried, genuinely pleased because he had been worried as to that and this would mean a cheery walk." }, { "from": "human", "value": "What is it? Is it good?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Couldn't be better, he replied, and as usual she missed the irony. He paused and then;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, Hugh, she could not help exclaiming." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That _isn't_ the title?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Don't you like it?" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No, she began slowly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It's so--I don't know, but--well, so cheap. All your others were so dignified and simple; I think _Wandering Stars_ was simply excellent; but this--it sort of reminds me of those plays with names like _Did She Do It?_ You know what I mean!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "You seem to think I'm trying to be dignified. Not a bit of it: we're out for money! Money, my dear Helena: no more worry about bills, and our own motor-car! She could not bring herself to be amused and he went on more moodily:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Do you imagine any woman wants novels with titles that are dignified? and men aren't fools enough to read them. Of course you picked out my best seller for your argument; but look at _The Bread of Idleness_. That was dignified enough and splendidly reviewed and sold two thousand copies; just about a hundred pounds for me for one year's work! No thanks, I've done with dignity, _pro tem_. There may be just about two thousand women with a taste in dignity, but I want all the shop-girls this time: I'm out for my hundred thousand! I want them when they go to the seaside library and pay their twopences to notice _Was It Worth While?_ in big letters on a purple ground. That'll make them think! No more dignity for me: you want to make them think, to make them wonder Why?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Hugh dear, is it really necessary to do all this? Can't we just go on as we have been doing? I dare say I could manage better, really, and I've often told you I simply don't know what to do with my allowance: it's eating its head off in the bank! Surely we're not so hard up as all that? I hate the whole idea." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What whole idea?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "This pot-boiler, as you call it; the title; the way you talk about it; everything. It's all so different, and I've been so proud of the others. She gathered courage and went on:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Look here, Hugh, why not give it up; start on a really good one that'll help your name; and we'll live meanwhile on all that from my allowance in the bank?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "My dear child, he said with condescension," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Of course not, he would say." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "They won't tell any one till it's been out a week! They mean to keep it dark, trust them!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I dare say they're saving up for later on, dear," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Only I expect, she said," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Curious? Well, amusing.... It'll certainly be something new to be slated by the critics and rushed after by the libraries. It's usually been the other way about!" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It's a boycott, he cried petulantly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I've always had at least two notices, for years, upon the day. We sent them out early on purpose. It's nothing but a boycott." }, { "from": "human", "value": "How too bad, dearest," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ha! and then read out with a naïve joy" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Good," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I like that, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That is rich." }, { "from": "human", "value": "What is it, dear?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "They say, announced Hubert in extremely level tones," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Early works? I'll show them! It is libellous. I can prove my case to the hilt." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I shouldn't worry with them, she said, feeling inadequate." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Perhaps it will just make the book sell? We expected them to be all nasty, didn't we? She tried to speak brightly. Then an inspiration came to her." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Perhaps there are some better ones?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "You look at them, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I don't know why I do or why one cares. They're just a pack of failures. I always despise myself for looking at their stuff at all." }, { "from": "human", "value": "No, no," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But this is where Mr. Brett has done us, we repeat, a service. _Was It Worth While?_ (the name alone is symptomatic) has all the qualities of its successful predecessors: the well-worn types, that call for no brain-effort after work; the utterly untrammelled sentiment; the shapeless slices of religion: he has put into his salad all the right ingredients, except one, which he, less lucky than the other cooks, did not possess. And that ingredient, we now believe, is no less than sincerity. The other writers have done this sort of thing well, because they could do no better; and whilst the large public applauded, we have pitied. Mr. Brett has done this sort of thing, although he can do better; and whilst the public will see through him, we despise his effort. Into his motives it would be impertinent to enquire. Perhaps, after all, the book is a mere literary squib. Mr. Brett, it well may be, has no desire to gull the public into a belief in his weak sentiment and crude religion: he wishes to deride those qualities in others. If so, we congratulate and thank him once again: we understand at last the essential quality (and it is, we confess, a fine one) in the Library big-seller. On any other ground, however, it certainly was not _Worth While_." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Found one?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, she said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "There don't seem any more, unless I've managed to miss one. Now I'm seeing what has happened!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You don't often do that, he said cheerily enough." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I thought you despised politics and everything like that?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I don't often get the chance to read them, she said and hurriedly turned on to the next page," }, { "from": "human", "value": "This last was her name for what he, in a Yankee spirit, nicknamed" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It's merely spite, was all he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "How dare they call me insincere? They know it's a good seller and that's just what they can't stand. I've written to the editor and I hope I get that swine the boot." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Is that very kind, dear? she asked." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It's his job, you know, and you said bad reviews would sell the book." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, I dare say, but not this kind. No plot, nothing except that its fatiguing and _may_ be a burlesque. English people hate being puzzled even more than they hate being bored." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, no matter, let them do their worst. Trust the public later on to find out that the novel's bad! ... When's dinner?" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I fear, wrote his publisher as an old friend," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Who wants his damned opinion?" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "An able novel: _Tooting Sentinel_. Weak and formless: _Times_. An arresting piece of work, whoever by: _Stafford News_. An amateur affair: _Standard_;" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I don't suppose any one will even publish it," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, Hugh! she cried, believing him," }, { "from": "human", "value": "What, married you? he asked, suddenly laughing." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Bother shop! Come along out and see if we can't find a good stick to throw for the hound;" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hullo! was in fact his very first remark." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Are you too among the authors?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, she said, hoping that she was not blushing." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But not too loud as it's an awful secret. Hubert doesn't know." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh-ho! he whispered." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Then I guess: it's all about him! It is a safety-valve." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No, she was bound to answer, and when he asked," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Fiction? in surprise, it must be" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'm going to read it please," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Certainly not," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, but yes," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Give it to me," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Listen, he began, as staidly argumentative as though he had been drunk: and then he paused." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If you let me read it, he said presently," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'll tell you what I think of it and I bet it's original. If you don't let me read it, I shall tell--your husband!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You wouldn't be such a cad," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'm not so sure, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Anyhow let me? I'll begin to-night." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You won't do that, she retorted laughingly," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What! An opus? Tut! Now don't be selfish. When you first wanted to know about Art, I told you all I could, and now you're doing things, I think it's only fair that I should be the first to see." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Very well, he said, getting up." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If you think it's so funny, that's all right. I suppose, now, you've done with me: you've got all out of me you needed: so now you don't even tell me that you're trying to create." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, no, she said," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, will you let me read it?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, if you really want to, she replied." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'll fetch the other half. Secretly she longed for an opinion, and she would never dare to ask for Hubert's." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Promise not to look at this bit, she said, coy as a young singer." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I couldn't bear you to see it till you are right away." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I got bored with writing in this, she said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It was so uncomfortable, the edges cut my hand. Then, as though half repenting;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "You must promise not to look at it till you get home and never to tell Hubert." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Is that likely?" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, he asked," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, isn't it awful? Helena replied." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I don't know if I ought to tell you, but it's not sold at all: not, I mean, except those sold before publication and I never understand quite how that happens." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Then I expect it's good," }, { "from": "human", "value": "My dear Mrs. Brett, he said (he always hated calling her that, but he dared not embark on" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Helena )," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But _Wandering Stars_, she said presently," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I've often heard, sold quite five thousand." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh yes, I dare say," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, wasn't that artistic?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh yes, he began." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But not quite in the way I meant. That was a good story, very, and was popular. I meant, really, quite a different sort of book." }, { "from": "human", "value": "What sort? she asked pitilessly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Better ones?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh no, he said, more and more embarrassed." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Not that exactly. You can't say that. You can't compare different kinds in Art. You've got to judge a man by his success in what he has attempted. A good caricature is much better than a bad Madonna," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Whew!" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, she said, leaping up and forcing herself, like a trained wife, to be cheery," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Rotten, he said;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, I'm so sorry, dear, she answered humbly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I will tell her." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Don't worry about that, my dear, he said without much conviction;" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But I hope, she merely said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I don't believe, he said," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'm meant for an author--not in these days anyhow, when it's a trade. You know, my dear, it's too absurd but I can _not_ forget those beastly critics! They've put me off entirely. Every line I write, I think that such and such a paper won't like that: just as though I was writing for them and not for the public! He took up a magazine and flung it down violently on the sofa." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I tell you though, he said confidently, as though that changed his mood, and rose to go:" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I jolly well mean to get at the public, _this_ time." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Hugh, she said, ludicrously horror-struck," }, { "from": "human", "value": "You'll see, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'm nearly through with the synopsis now and I'll read you the first chapter soon. It's not like the last, anyhow. It's called _Eternity_. And there's one thing, he went on with a kind of brutal joy," }, { "from": "human", "value": "But, Hugh," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Is Hubert safely out of hearing?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, she laughed. He always amused her when he was funny like this." }, { "from": "human", "value": "He always works, you know quite well, from five till seven. I suppose all this 'sshing is because you want to give me back my silly manuscript. Where is it?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ah, he replied," }, { "from": "human", "value": "You _are_ funny," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You always say that if I'm serious, he protested. Then less plaintively, as though heartened by what was to come:" }, { "from": "human", "value": "As a matter of fact though, I've done you a very good turn." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Me?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, you. Your silly manuscript, as you like to call it, is good--jolly good. I don't suppose you realise that, do you? It's something original, these days, and that is everything. It's----" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'm glad it amused you, Helena said, thinking that he had quitted himself well and now she must help him out;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "But where's the good turn? he broke in, interpreting her wrongly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, I'll tell you. I showed it--I knew you wouldn't mind---- (and here he looked a little timidly at her sideways)," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I showed it to a publisher I've met about, a very decent fellow----" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "How dare you? Helena flashed out youthfully, just as though they were playing Interruptions." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I lent it you to read and I think----" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Listen, he said with a firmness rare in him, confident of what he had to tell." }, { "from": "human", "value": "He said it was new and vital and had money in it: those are his exact words; and he wants to publish it if you can think of a good ending. There!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I don't care _what_ he said, she cried, and for this moment of her childish anger it was true." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I only know I lent it you and not to him; do you think I want everybody reading all my diaries?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But it was not a diary, he answered, keeping his head clear," }, { "from": "human", "value": "He would, though, if he published it." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Never, he replied dramatically." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Nobody will ever know except yourself and me." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "she crumpled up, and fell back on a new line of defence." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I can't believe, she said, more peaceable," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You surely don't imagine, he said," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "After all, he said, using that most persuasive of openings to a temptation or a fallacy," }, { "from": "human", "value": "(He saw her eyes light up and knew that he had won.)" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Besides there'll be the money too and any one can do with that." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, said Helena, clinging to an earlier sentence, as women will," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, how many authors do you think there are? he said; then with the Tempter's fluency," }, { "from": "human", "value": "He smiled, remembering how intimate the peep in question sometimes was." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Fancy reading all their silly guesses! Come on! You can't be so selfish!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "It wouldn't really bring much money, would it? she asked." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Books don't seem to, ever." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Blatchley--that's the publisher--thinks it would sell like anything: he says it's new. That's why he wants it. There isn't any sentiment in Blatchley. He's right, too: people love these human documents. I dare say it'd bring in several hundred pounds." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What should I call myself?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Not Helena, he said with firmness." }, { "from": "human", "value": "They'd guess. Besides no authoress could ever be called Helena: it sounds like Eleanor after a careless housemaid's accident." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Joan is my second name," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Joan, he repeated, and she felt quite ashamed already: he made it sound so long and flat." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, no; not Joan. That is like Jones with the last letter dropped. It must be something literary. I know. He hesitated, as though weighing the discovered nugget: then, satisfied;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "We'll call you Zoë Baskerville." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Splendid! she laughed. Already this was a new interest in life. Then a doubt struck her." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'm blest if I know, he confessed;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I never liked Helena for you, he said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Zoë is just the name. I shall always think of you as Zoë. Then, greatly daring, with a swift rush;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "May I call you Zoë?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "If you like it, she said, off-hand." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You want some revenge for Ally! But not in front of Hugh or he'll guess when the book comes out, and that would be too terrible." }, { "from": "human", "value": "No, he said with feeling," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "When will it appear?" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Of course, he was saying now, criticising a review," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, I don't know. What about Rossetti? Or even Whistler?" } ]