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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Cujus livida naribus caninis Dependet glacies, rigetque barba . . . Centum occurrere malo culilingis:"
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Tanquam thura merumque parent Absentem marmoreamve putes:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "As if they are preparing frankincense and wine . . . you might think her absent or marble."
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Tibi si datur uni, Quem lapide illa diem candidiore notat."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Wherefore that is enough, if that day alone is given us which she marks with a whiter stone."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Te tenet, absentes alios suspirat amores."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "She has you in her arms; her thoughts are with other absent lovers."
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Luxuria ipsis vinculis, sicut fera bestia, irritata, deinde emissa."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Lust, like a wild beast, being more excited by being bound, breaks from his chains with greater wildness."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Vidi ego nuper equum, contra sua frena tenacem, Ore reluctanti fulminis ire modo"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I saw, the other day, a horse struggling against his bit, rush like a thunderbolt."
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Pati natee. -["
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Born to suffer."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Experta latus, madidoque simillima loro Inguina, nec lassa stare coacta manu, Deserit imbelles thalamos."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "After using every endeavour to arouse him to action, she quits the barren couch."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Et quaerendum aliunde foret nervosius illud, Quod posset zonam solvere virgineam:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And seeks a more vigorous lover to undo her virgin zone."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Si blando nequeat superesse labori."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If his strength be unequal to the pleasant task."
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ad unum Mollis opus."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Fit but for once."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Fuge suspicari, Cujus undenum trepidavit aetas Claudere lustrum."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Fear not him whose eleventh lustrum is closed."
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Indum sanguineo veluti violaverit ostro Si quis ebur, vel mista rubent ubi lilia multa Alba rosa."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "As Indian ivory streaked with crimson, or white lilies mixed with the damask rose."
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Et taciti fecere tamen convicia vultus,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Though she nothing say, her looks betray her anger."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Si non longa satis, si non bene mentula crassa Nimirum sapiunt, videntque parvam Matronae quoque mentulam illibenter:"
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Esse unum hominem accommodatum ad tantam morum ac sermonum et voluntatum varietatem,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "For a man to conform to such a variety of manners, discourses, and will."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Rimula, dispeream, ni monogramma tua est."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Un vit d'amy la contente et bien traicte:"
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Si furtiva dedit mira munuscula nocte,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If, in the stealthy night, she has made strange gifts."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Me tabula sacer Votiva paries, indicat uvida Suspendisse potenti Vestimenta maris deo:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The holy wall, by my votive table, shows that I have hanged up my wet clothes in honour of the powerful god of the sea."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Thou talkest idly, my friend; the love of thy time has little commerce with faith and integrity;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Haec si tu postules Ratione certa facere, nihilo plus agas, Quam si des operam, ut cum ratione insanias:"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If you seek to make these things certain by reason, you will do no more than if you should seek to be mad in your senses."
}
] |
3595
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nullum intra se vitium est."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Nothing is a vice in itself."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Let the wise man look to that, answered he,"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dum nova canities, dum prima et recta senectus, Dum superest lachesi quod torqueat, et pedibus me Porto meis, nullo dextram subeunte bacillo,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Whilst the white hair is new, whilst old age is still straight shouldered, whilst there still remains something for Lachesis to spin, whilst I walk on my own legs, and need no staff to lean upon."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Leaning, said he,"
}
] |
3595
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Cujus in indomito constantior inguine nervus, Quam nova collibus arbor inhaeret."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "In whose unbridled reins the vigour is more inherent than in the young tree on the hills."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Possint ut juvenes visere fervidi. Multo non sine risu, Dilapsam in cineres facem."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "As the fervid youths may behold, not without laughter, a burning torch worn to ashes."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Friend, the hook will not stick in such soft cheese. It is a commerce that requires relation and correspondence: the other pleasures we receive may be acknowledged by recompenses of another nature, but this is not to be paid but with the same kind of coin. In earnest, in this sport, the pleasure I give more tickles my imagination than that they give me; now, he has nothing of generosity in him who can receive pleasure where he confers none--it must needs be a mean soul that will owe all, and can be content to maintain relations with persons to whom he is a continual charge; there is no beauty, grace, nor privacy so exquisite that a gentleman ought to desire at this rate. If they can only be kind to us out of pity, I had much rather die than live upon charity. I would have right to ask, in the style wherein I heard them beg in Italy:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Fate ben per voi, --["
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do good for yourself. ]--or after the manner that Cyrus exhorted his soldiers,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Who loves himself let him follow me. --"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Consort yourself, some one will say to me,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Nolo Barbam vellere mortuo leoni."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I would not pluck the beard from a dead lion."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Than to be myself an actor in the second with a deformed creature."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "O ego Di faciant talem to cernere possim, Caraque mutatis oscula ferre comis, Amplectique meis corpus non pingue lacertis!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "O would the gods arrange that such I might see thee, and bring dear kisses to thy changed locks, and embrace thy withered body with my arms"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, replied he,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Emonez, a young courtezan of Chios."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Quem si puellarum insereres choro, Mille sagaces falleret hospites, Discrimen obscurum, solutis Crinibus ambiguoque vultu:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Whom if thou shouldst place in a company of girls, it would require a thousand experts to distinguish him, with his loose locks and ambiguous countenance."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Importunus enim transvolat aridas Quercus."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "For it uncivilly passes over withered oaks."
}
] |
3595
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Amor ordinem nescit."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Love ignores rules. (Or:)"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Love knows no rule."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nam si quando ad praelia ventum est, Ut quondam in stipulis magnus sine viribus ignis, Incassum furit:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "For when they sometimes engage in love's battle, his sterile ardour lights up but as the flame of a straw."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ut missum sponsi furtivo munere malum Procurrit casto virginis a gremio, Quod miserae oblitae molli sub veste locatuat, Dum adventu matris prosilit, excutitur, Atque illud prono praeceps agitur decursu Huic manat tristi conscius ore rubor."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "As when an apple, sent by a lover secretly to his mistress, falls from the chaste virgin's bosom, where she had quite forgotten it; when, starting at her mother's coming in, it is shaken out and rolls over the floor before her eyes, a conscious blush covers her face."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Le fourgon se moque de la paele. ["
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The Pot and the Kettle."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Let a man take which course he will, said he;"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Six hundred dollars,"
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "No--wait,"
}
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30333
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "A Very Naughty Girl,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Polly, A New Fashioned Girl,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Palace Beautiful,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Sweet Girl Graduate,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "World of Girls,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Suffer the little children to come unto me."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Shall it be buttercups, or daisies, or both?"
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mother likes me when I am pretty, father likes me anyhow,"
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "What do you want, Sibyl? Don't disturb me now,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It is only just for a moment,"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Which is the prettiest, buttercups or daisies, or the two twisted up together?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, don't worry me, child, I want to catch this post. My brother is very ill, and he'll be so annoyed if he doesn't hear from me. Did you say buttercups and daisies mixed? Yes, of course, mix them, that is the old nursery rhyme."
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "They'll be going in to dinner; I must be very quick indeed,"
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mother likes me when I am pretty, she repeated softly under her breath,"
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do I look pretty?"
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do I look pretty?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You are a very vain little girl, said Miss Winstead."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I won't tell you whether you look pretty or not, you ought not to think of your looks. God does not like people who think whether they are pretty or not. He likes humble-minded little girls. Now don't interrupt me any more."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There's the gong, I'm off,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I know I am pretty, she always talks like that when I am, thought the child, who had a very keen insight into character."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mother will kiss me to-night, I am so glad. I wonder if Jesus Christ thinks me pretty, too."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's not wrong, 'cos it's mother. Mother couldn't do nothing wrong, no more than Jesus could"
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "It was so awfully kind of you, Jesus, Sibyl would say,"
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "The child should go to the mother for love and petting, she would say."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Miss Winstead may complain of the darling as much as she pleases, but need not suppose that I shall scold her."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You are called the Angel, and you must try to act up to your name,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, yes, father, answered the Angel,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No; no one is perfect, darling,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You are, answered the Angel, and she gave her head a defiant toss."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You and my mother and my beautiful Lord Jesus up in heaven. But I'll try to please you, father, so don't knit up your forehead."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Same as if you was an old man, she said:"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "I should not like the child to know about it, was his reflection;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Here I come, she cried,"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "What a fairy-like little girl this is!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You are Spring come to cheer us up."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am glad, whispered Sibyl;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Father says I am Spring, look at me,"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Something is fretting my ownest mother,"
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "I call Miss Winstead crosspatch now, she said on this occasion."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "She is more cranky than you think. She is, really, truly, father."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You must not talk against your governess, Sibyl,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, let her speak out to us, my dear, said the father."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What was Miss Winstead cross about to-day, Sibyl?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Spelling, as usual, said Sibyl briefly,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hush!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "My dear, he said, addressing his wife,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I beg of you, Philip, interrupted the mother,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's 'cos they're both so perfect, thought Sibyl,"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Is it nice?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Very nice, Sibyl. Would you like to taste it?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, thank you, father. Nurse says if you drink wine when you're a little girl, you grow up to be drunk as a hog."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "My dear Sibyl, cried the mother,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I really must speak to nurse. What a disgraceful thing to say!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Let us turn the subject,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I 'spect I ought to 'fess to you, she said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I was cross myself to-day. Seems to me I'm not getting a bit perfect. I stamped my foot when Miss Winstead made me write all my spelling over again. Father, is it necessary for a little girl to spell long words?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You would not like to put wrong spelling into your letters to me, would you?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don't think I'd much care, said Sibyl, with a smile."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You'd know what I meant, wouldn't you, whether I spelt the words right or not? All the same, she added,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'll spell right if you wish it--I mean, I'll try."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's a good girl. Now tell me what else you did naughty?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "When Sibyl talks about her sins, would it not be best for her to do so in private?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But this is private, said Mr. Ogilvie,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I washed my doll's clothes, although nurse told me not, continued Sibyl,"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Father, whispered Sibyl,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hush! hush! said Mr. Ogilvie,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They're rather sad, aren't they, father? Now I come to think of it, they are very, very sad. I didn't do one right thing to-day 'cept to make myself pretty. Miss Winstead was so angry, and so was nurse, but when I am with them I don't mind a bit being naughty. I wouldn't be a flabby good girl for all the world."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, Angel, what is to become of you?"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'll do anything in all the world to please you and mother and Lord Jesus."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That is right,"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Good-night, little Spring,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Is it 'cos I'm a wicked girl you're sad?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, he answered,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, no, father, answered Sibyl,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You spoil that child, said the wife,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I wish you would leave the child alone, said Ogilvie in an annoyed voice;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have given you my views on that subject, Philip; I am going."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I would much rather you did not."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am sorry. Mrs. Ogilvie shrugged her shoulders."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am willing to please you in all reasonable matters; this is unreasonable, therefore I shall take my own way."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is impossible for me to accompany you."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I can live without you for a few days, and I shall take the child."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sibyl! No, I do not wish it."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I fear you must put up with it. I have written to say that Sibyl and I will go down on Saturday."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You know as well as I do the reasons why it would be best for you not to go to Grayleigh Manor at present, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You can easily write to give an excuse. Remember, we were both asked, and the fact that I cannot leave town is sufficient reason for you to decline."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am going,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Is that your last word?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is, I go on Saturday. If you were not so disagreeable and disobliging you could easily come with me, but you never do anything to please me."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Nor you to please me, Mildred, he was about to say, but he restrained himself. After a pause he said gently,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There is one thing that makes the situation almost unbearable."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And what is that?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The attitude of little Sibyl toward us both. She thinks us--Mildred, she thinks us perfect. What will happen to the child when her eyes are opened?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof, was Mrs. Ogilvie's flippant remark."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But that attitude is much encouraged by you. You make her morbid and sensitive."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Morbid! Sibyl morbid! There never was a more open-hearted, frank, healthy creature. Did you not hear her say at dinner that she would not be a flabby good girl for anything? Now, I must tell you that perhaps wrong as that speech was, it rejoiced my heart."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And it sickened me, said Mrs. Ogilvie."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You do everything in your power to make her eccentric. Now, I don't wish to have an eccentric daughter. I wish to have a well brought up girl, who will be good while she is young, speak properly, not make herself in any way remarkable, learn her lessons, and make a successful _debut_ in Society, all in due course."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "With a view, doubtless, to a brilliant marriage,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am going to knock all of this nonsense out of Sibyl, was his wife's answer,"
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is the child, he thought."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "She perplexes me and she tempts me. Never was there a sweeter decoy duck to the verge of ruin. Poor little innocent white Angel! Her attitude toward her mother and me is sometimes almost maddening. Mildred wants to take that little innocent life and mould it after her own fashion. But, after all, am I any better than Mildred? If I yield to this --he touched the letter with his hand--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I shall sweep in gold, and all money anxieties will be laid to rest. Little Sib will be rich by-and-by. This is a big thing, and if I do it I shall see my way to clearing off those debts which Mildred's extravagance, and doubtless my own inclination, have caused me to accumulate. Whatever happens Sibyl will be all right; and yet--I don't care for wealth, but Mildred does, and the child will be better for money. Money presents a shield between a sensitive heart like Sibyl's and the world. Yes, I am tempted. Sibyl tempts me."
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Good-night, little darling,"
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, father, is that you?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, it is I. I came to wish you good-night."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You are good, you never forget, said Sibyl. She clasped her arms round his neck."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I went to bed without saying my prayers. May I say them now to you?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Not for worlds, it was the man's first impulse to remark, but he checked himself."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Of course, dear,"
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now, father, you're pleased, continued the little girl."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It was very hard to say that, because really, truly, I don't want to be better, but I'll try hard if it pleases you."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, Sibyl, try hard, said her father,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He's fretted; it's just 'cos the world is so wicked, and 'cos I'm not as good as I ought to be,"
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "What, he cried,"
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am so glad you have come back, Phil, she said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I shall sleep better now that I have seen you. I hear that Lord Grayleigh has offered you the post of engineer on the board of the Lombard Deeps Mine Company."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Had you not better go to bed? It is much too late for you to be up."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What does that matter? I am far too excited to sleep, and it is wrong of you to keep things of moment from your wife. This offer means a large addition to our income. Why, Phil, Phil, we can buy a country place now; we can do, oh! so many things. We can pay those terrible debts that worry you. What is the matter? Aren't you pleased? Why do you frown at me? And you are pale, are you ill?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come into my smoking-room,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "This will make a great difference in our position,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What do you mean by our position?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You know perfectly well that we have not money enough to keep up this house; it is a struggle from first to last."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And yet I earn close on six thousand a year, Mildred. Have you never considered that you are the person who makes it a struggle?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It is impossible; impossible to manage,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is, when you buy all these worthless baubles --he touched her diamonds, and then he started away from her."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why you should saddle yourself and me with debts almost impossible to meet for the sake of these is beyond my comprehension; but if you really do want a fresh toy in the way of an ornament to-morrow you have but to order it--that is, in moderation."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ah! I knew you had accepted, she said, making a quick dancing movement with her small feet."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Now I am happy; we can have a place if possible on the river. I have always longed to live close to the Thames. It is most unfashionable not to have a country seat, and the child will be well off by-and-by. I was told to-night by a City man who is to be one of the directors of the new company, that if you are clever you can make a cool forty thousand pounds out of this business. He says your name is essential to float the thing with the public."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You know, perhaps, what all this means?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why do you speak in that tone, quite with the Sibyl air?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't dare to mention the child's name at a moment like this. I just wish to tell you, Mildred, in a few words, what it would mean to the world at large if I assayed the Lombard Deeps Gold Mine."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, your business terms do so puzzle me, she answered."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I declare I am getting sleepy."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It would be better if you went to bed, but as you are here I shall put your mind at rest. If I accepted Grayleigh's offer----"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If! But you have done so, of course you have."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If I do, my name as engineer to the company will cause many people to buy shares. Now, Mildred, I am not sure of the Lombard Deeps Gold Mine. I know more about this business than I can explain to you, and you have a tongue, and women cannot keep secrets."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "As usual, you taunt me, she said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The letter has come."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You would make thousands a year out of it. Phil, oh, Phil, how happy I am! You have replied, have you not?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then why do you keep me in suspense? It is settled. What are you so glum about?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have declined the offer. I cannot assay the Lombard Deeps Gold Mine."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Philip!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You cannot be speaking the truth,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My answer is posted. I am not too scrupulous about small things, but I draw the line at a matter of that sort. Go to bed."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I hate you, she said;"
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am much more like a boy than a girl, she thought,"
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't forget me while you are away, little woman, he said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "She won't need me to look after her, she's quite, quite perfect, said Sibyl;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Child, don't do that,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not copy my ownest mother? What do you mean, father?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, well, darling, God will look after you, I do believe. You are not far from Him, are you, Sib? You know we call you the Angel. Angels are supposed to have their home in heaven."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, my home is right down here on earth, said Sibyl in a very contented tone."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'll have a real jolly time away, I 'spect."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I hope there will be some nice little boys and girls there with whom you can play; and go to bed early, Sib, just for father's sake, and don't forget to pray for me."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I will, I will, said the child;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I always thank God for you because he made you so beautiful and good."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, I am busy now; go to bed, little woman."
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "You are to go to tea in the schoolroom, she said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There are two or three other children there, and I hope you will be very good, Miss Sibyl, and not spoil this beautiful frock."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's a beautiful dress, she said;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Money, said Sibyl,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This frock is money; you look very nice in it. Be sure, now, you don't spot it. It would be wicked, just as if you were throwing sovereigns into the fire."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don't understand, said Sibyl;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I wish it wasn't a grand frock. Did you bring any of my common, common frocks, nursie?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I should think not, indeed. Your fine lady mother would be angry if she saw you looking a show."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If you speak again in that tone of my mother I'll slap you,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Highty-tighty! said the nurse;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And so do you, answered Sibyl."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If mother is good you are not, and I'm not, so we both must be broke in; but I've got a bit of a temper. I know that. Nursie, when you were a little girl did you have a bit of a temper of your own?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That I did. I was a handful, my mother used to say."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Then we _has_ something in common, said Sibyl, her eyes sparkling."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm a handful, too. I'm off to the schoolroom."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There never was such a child, thought the woman as Sibyl dashed away, banging the door after her;"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, you're the little girl,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, I _are_ the little girl,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Where is my place? she said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Is it laid for me? I am the visitor."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sit down, he said;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What's a boss?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You must be a silly not to know what a boss is."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I aren't no more silly than you are, said Sibyl."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "May I have some bread and butter and jam? I'll ask you some things about town, and perhaps you can't answer me. What's a--what's a--oh, I'll think of something real slangy presently; but please don't talk to me too much while I'm eating, or I'll spill jam on my money frock."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You are a very queer little girl,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What a silly you are, said Gus."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What did you put on that thing for? We don't want frilled and laced-up frocks, we want frocks that girls can wear to climb trees in, and----"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Climb trees! Oh, cried Sibyl,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You are very queer, she said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't know whether our governess will like our being with you. You seem to use strange words. We never get into scrapes--we are quite ladylike and good, but we don't wear grand frocks either. Can't you take that thing off?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I wish I could. I hate it myself."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, ask your servant to change it."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But my nurse hasn't brought a single shabby frock with me."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Are all your frocks as grand as that?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Some of 'em grander."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We might lend her one of our own brown holland frocks,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, do! said Sibyl;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We are going to do some climbing this afternoon, so you may as well put it on,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's a great comfort coming down to this place, she said finally,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's mostly on account of my most perfect of fathers."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But isn't Philip Ogilvie your father?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mr. Ogilvie,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, fudge! I heard father call him Philip Ogilvie. He's not perfect."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Father didn't know I was there; he was talking to another man. I think the man's name was Halkett. I'm always great at remembering names, and I heard him say 'Philip Ogilvie will do what we want. When it comes to the point he's not too scrupulous.' Yes, scrupulous was the word, and I ran away and looked it out in the dictionary, and it means--oh, you needn't stare at me as if your eyes were starting out of your head--it means a person who hesitates from fear of acting wrongly. Now, as your father isn't scrupulous, that means that he doesn't hesitate to act wrong."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What have you done that for, you little beggar?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "To teach you not to tell lies, answered Sibyl. She turned, went up the room, and stood by the window. Her heart was bursting, and tears were scorching her eyeballs."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But I won't shed them, thought the child,"
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Gus is sorry he said anything to hurt you, she said;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And I'll never say a word against your father again,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You had better not, answered Sibyl."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, I won't shake hands; I won't make friends with you till I know something more about you. But I'd like to climb trees, and to get into a holland frock."
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "You can have this old sailor hat to match the frock, said Freda in conclusion."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Now no one will say you are too fine. Come out now, Gus and the others are waiting."
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "What a noise those children make,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "How many children have you, Lord Grayleigh?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have three, he replied;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "--he sighed as he uttered these words, he was a widower of over two years' standing--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have kept them more or less with myself. There is no harm in them, although they are pickles. Come, I will introduce you to them. That reminds me, I have not yet seen your own little daughter."
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "I see four little figures dancing about among those trees, said Lord Grayleigh."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We will see them all together."
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, Mummy, she cried,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm so happy. Gus has been teaching me to climb. Do you see that beech tree? I climbed as far as the second branch, and Gus said I did it splendid. It's lovely to sit up there."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What do you mean, Sibyl, she said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Is that Lord Grayleigh?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, my dear, but I shall not answer any of your other questions at present. I am extremely displeased with you."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am sorry you are angry, mother; but may I--may I say one thing, just one, afore I go?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do let her speak, he said;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's that I don't want to shake hands with you--never, _never_!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am terribly ashamed of Sibyl, she is the most extraordinary child, she said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What can have possessed her to put on that frock, and why did she speak to you in that strange, rude way? Here Mrs. Ogilvie uttered a sigh."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I fear it is her father's doing, she continued,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don't think your nurse is to blame, said Lord Grayleigh."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have a keen eye for dress, and have a memory of that special frock. It happens to possess a green stain in the back which I am not likely to forget. I think my Freda wore it a good deal last summer, and I remember the occasion when the green stain was indelibly fixed upon it. You must know, Mrs. Ogilvie, that my three children are imps, and it was the impiest of the imps' frocks your little girl happened to be wearing. But what a handsome little creature she is! A splendid face. How I have come to fall under her displeasure, however, is a mystery to me."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, you can never account for Sibyl's whims, said Mrs. Ogilvie;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I should be very proud of that child if I were you, answered Lord Grayleigh."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "She has a particularly frank, fine face."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, she is handsome enough, answered Mrs. Ogilvie."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But what she will grow up to, heaven only knows. She has the strangest ideas on all sorts of subjects. She absolutely believes that her father and I are perfect--could you credit it? At the same time she is a very naughty child herself. I will go into the house, now, and give her a talking to."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't scold her, poor little thing, said Lord Grayleigh. He was a kind-hearted man in the main."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "For my part, he continued,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I like naughty children; I must force her confidence presently. She has quite roused my curiosity. But now, Mrs. Ogilvie, to turn to other matters, what can we do to persuade your husband to alter his mind? You know, of course, that I have asked him to assay the Lombard Deeps Mine?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I do know it, answered Mrs. Ogilvie, the color flushing into her face."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Philip is too extraordinary at times. For my part, I really do not know how to thank you; please believe that I am altogether on your side. If only we could persuade that eccentric husband of mine to change his mind."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He is a strange fellow, answered Lord Grayleigh slowly;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why do you think more of him for refusing an advantageous offer?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don't know that I can explain. Money is not everything--at least, to some people. Shall we go into the house? I need not say that I am glad you are on our side, and doubtless your husband's scruples --Lord Grayleigh laid the slightest emphasis on the word, and made it, even to the obtuse ears of his hearer, sound offensive--"
}
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"value": "Money _is_ everything, she thought,"
}
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"from": "human",
"value": "May I come in, Mumsy, or are you too tired?"
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, come in, of course; I want to speak to you."
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now you'll kiss me, she said;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Get up, Sib, and don't be absurd,"
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Really, said Mrs. Ogilvie,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But Mummy--Mumsy!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't call me Mummy or Mumsy, say mother. I don't like abbreviations."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What's that?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mummy or Mumsy are abbreviations of a very sacred name."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Sacred name! said Sibyl, in a thoughtful tone."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh yes, I won't call you anything but mother. Mother is most lovely."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, I hope you will be a good child, and not annoy me as you have been doing."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, mother darling, I didn't mean to vex you, but it was such a temptation, you know. You were never, never tempted, were you, mother? You are made so perfect that you cannot understand what temptation means. I did so long to climb the trees, and I knew you would not like me spoil my pretty frock, and Freda lent me the brown holland. When I saw you, Mums--I mean, mother--I forgot about everything else but just that I had climbed a tree, and that I had been brave, although for a minute I felt a scrap giddy, and I wanted to tell you about what I had done, my ownest, most darling mother."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Come here, she said. There was a sharpness in her tone which arrested the words on Sibyl's lips."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Look at me, take my hand, look steadily into my face. I have just five minutes to spare, and I wish to say something very grave and important, and you must listen attentively."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, yes, mother, I am listening; what is it?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Look at me. Are you attending?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, I suppose so. Mother, Freda says she will give me a Persian kitten; the Persian cat has two, such beauties, snow-white. May I have one, mother?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Attend to me, and stop talking. You think a great deal of me, your mother, and you call me perfect. Now show that you put me in high esteem."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That sounds very nice, thought Sibyl to herself."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mother is just in her most beautiful humor. Of course I'll listen."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I wish, continued the mother, and she turned slightly away from the child as she spoke,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I wish you to stop all that nonsense about your father and me. I wish you to understand that we are not perfect, either of us; we are just everyday, ordinary sort of people. As we happen to be your father and mother, you must obey us and do what we wish; but you make yourself, and us also, ridiculous when you talk as you do. I am perfectly sick of your poses, Sibyl."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Poses! cried Sibyl;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, you are too tiresome; ask nurse to explain, or Miss Winstead, when you go home. Miss Winstead, if she is wise, will tell you that you must just turn round and go the other way. You must obey me, of course, and understand that I know the right way to train you; but you are not to talk of me as though I were an angel. I am nothing of the kind. I am an ordinary woman, with ordinary feelings and ordinary faults, and I wish you to be an ordinary little girl. I am very angry with you for your great rudeness to Lord Grayleigh. What did it mean?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, mother! it meant----"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mother, I am glad you spoke of it. I could not, really and truly, help it."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Don't talk nonsense. Now go away. Hortense is coming to dress me for dinner. Go."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But, mother! one minute first, please--please."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Go, Sibyl, obey me."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It was 'cos Lord Grayleigh spoke against my----"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Go, Sibyl, I won't listen to another word. I shall punish you severely if you do not obey me this instant."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am going, said the child,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Go. You are coming down to dessert to-night, and you are to speak properly to Lord Grayleigh. Those are my orders. Now go."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't understand, she said to herself."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Perhaps I wasn't quite pretty enough, perhaps that was the reason, but I don't know. I think I'll go to my new nursery and sit down and think of father. Oh, I wish mother hadn't--of course it's all right, and I am a silly girl, and I get worser, not better, every day, and mother knows what is best for me; but she might have let me 'splain things. I wish I hadn't a pain here."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's 'cos of father I feel so bad, it's 'cos they told lies of father."
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "And mother would not even let me 'splain,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hullo! cried a gay voice;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, I say! he exclaimed,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I can't, Gus,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, what's the matter?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don't feel like playing games."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You are quite white about the gills. I say! has anybody hurt you?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, not exactly, Gus; but I want to be alone. I'll come by-and-by."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Somebody wasn't square with her, thought Gus, as Sibyl turned away."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Queer little girl! But I like her all the same."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am pleased with you, she said;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Will you come and see me, Mumsy--mother, I mean--before you go to bed?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh no, child, nonsense! you must be asleep hours before then. No, this is good-night. Now go quietly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That is such an absurd custom, she said;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I must break her of it."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Break your little girl of what? he asked."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She is a beautiful child, he added."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I congratulate you on having such a charming daughter."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have no doubt she will make a very pretty woman, replied Mrs. Ogilvie,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don't know, answered Mr. Rochester;"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Won't you come to the schoolroom now?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No; mother said I was to go to bed,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How proper and good you have turned,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Good-night,"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "What is it, pet? nurse said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Is anything the matter?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, answered Sibyl."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Nursie, can I read the Bible a bit?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sakes alive! cried nurse, for Sibyl had never been remarkable for any religious tendency,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "she answered."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I never go from home without my precious Bible. It is the one my mother gave me when I was a little girl. I'll fetch it for you, dearie."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Thank you,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now, my little darling, said nurse,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I want to find a special verse, said Sibyl."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "When I have read it I will go to bed."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What's fretting you, dear? I know the Bible, so to speak, from end to end. Can old nursie help you in any way?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I know the verse is somewhere, but I cannot find the place. I remember reading it, and it has come back to me to-night."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What is it, dear?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, yes, love, answered nurse promptly,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But what are you fretting your head over that verse for? asked the puzzled old woman;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There is not a bit about nurses and governesses in the Bible, said Sibyl, who had no idea of being imposed upon, although she was in trouble."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Never mind that other verse now, nursie, it's not that I'm thinking of, it's the one you found about 'God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.' It seems to 'splain things."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What things, dear?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why, about mother. Nursie, isn't my mother quite the very humblest woman in all the world?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, my goodness me, no! exclaimed the woman under her breath."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I wouldn't remark it, my dear,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's 'cos you know so very little. You can't never guess what my ownest mother said to me to-day, and I'm not going to tell you, only that verse comforts me, and I understand now."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Thank You, Jesus, for giving me father and mother, said Sibyl,"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "I failed to understand your letter, he said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I thought my meaning plain enough, he replied,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "For many reasons; amongst others, because I wish to do you a good turn. For your position you are not too well off. This will mean several thousands a year to you, if the vein is as rich as we hope it will be. The alluvial we know is rich. It has washed at five ounces to the ton."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But if there should not happen to be a rich vein beneath?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I see, cried Ogilvie. He was silent for a moment, then he sprang to his feet."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have regarded you as my friend for some time, Grayleigh, and there have been moments when I have been proud of your acquaintanceship, but in the name of all that is honorable, and all that is virtuous, why will you mix up a pretended act of benevolence to me with--you know what it means--a fraudulent scheme? You are determined that there shall be a rich vein below the surface. In plain words, if there is not, you want a false assay of the Lombard Deeps. That is the plain English of it, isn't it?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Pooh! my dear Ogilvie, you use harsh words. Fraudulent! What does the world--our world I mean--consist of? Those who make money, and those who lose it. It is a great competition of skill--a mere duel of wits. All is fair in love, war, and speculation."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Your emendation of that old proverb may be _fin de si鐵le_, but it does not suit my notions,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You will be sorry for this, he said;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And what of the poor country parson, the widow, the mechanic? I grant they are fools; but----"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What is the matter with you? said Lord Grayleigh;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don't know that I am scrupulous now. I shall be very glad to assay the mine for you, if I may give you a----"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We need not enter into that, said Grayleigh, rising;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And it is that which at once tempts and repels me, said Ogilvie. Then he paused, and said abruptly,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How is Sibyl? Have you seen much of her?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Your little daughter? I saw her twice. Once, when she was very dirty, and rather rude to me, and a second time, when she was the perfection of politeness and good manners."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sibyl is peculiar,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "She is a handsome child, it is a pity she is your only one, Ogilvie."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Not at all, answered Ogilvie;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I never wish for another, she satisfies me completely."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, to turn to the present matter, said Lord Grayleigh;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I would rather not."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But if I as a personal favor beg you to do so."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There is not the slightest doubt that the pay tempts me, said Ogilvie;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They would be managed. The shareholders will expect to pay the engineer who assays the mine for them handsomely."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I will assume, he said,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Philip Ogilvie, Esq.,"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "DADDY DEAR,--Here's a blot to begin, and the blot means a kiss. I will put sum more at the end of the letter. Pleas kiss all the kisses for they com from the verry botom of my hart. I have tried Daddy to be good cos of you sinse I left home, but I am afraid I have been rather norty. Mother gets more purfect evry day. She is bewtiful and humbel. Mother said she wasn't purfect but she is, isn't she father? I miss you awful, speshul at nights, cos mother thinks its good for me not to lie awake for her to come and kiss me. But you never think that and you always com, and I thank God so much for having gived you to me father. Your SIBYL."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Father, what does 'scroopolus' mean? I want to know speshul.--SIB."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am unworthy of my little Angel, he said to himself. Then he started up and began to pace the room."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And yet I would not be without her for all the wealth in the world, for all the greatness and all the fame, he cried;"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Shall I risk it? he said to himself."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Shall I risk the chance of the mine being really good, and go to Australia and see if it is as rich as the prospectuses claim it to be. But suppose it is not? Well, in that case I am bound to make it appear so. Five ounces of gold to every ton; it seems _bona fide_ enough. It it is _bona fide_, why should not I have my share of the wealth? It is as legitimate a way of earning money as any other,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am sorry to seem to force your hand, that nobleman had said to him at parting,"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Bring me brandy, and be quick,"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "I must do something better than that for my little daughter, thought the man."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I will not go to Australia until I have decided that point. If I go, I shall make terms, and it will be for Sibyl's sake."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "When I have done that, and absolutely provided for her future, I shall have a great sense of rest, thought the man."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I will go and see Dr. Rashleigh, of the Crown and Life Insurance Company, as soon as ever I get to the City. That is a happy thought."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "My dear Ogilvie, and what do you want with me? Have you at last listened to my entreaties that you should insure your life in a first-class office?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Something of the kind,"
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "I may have to go to Australia rather suddenly, said Ogilvie,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "How large a sum do you propose to insure for?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have given the particulars to the clerk downstairs. I should like to insure for ten thousand pounds."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, I daresay that can be managed. You are an excellent client, and quite a young man. Now just let me sound your lungs, and listen to your heart."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well? said Ogilvie, just glancing at him."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's all right, I suppose."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is not the custom for a doctor at an insurance office to tell his patient anything about the result of the examination, was Rashleigh's answer."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You'll hear all in good time."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But there really is no time to lose, and you are an old friend. You look grave. If it cannot be done, of course it cannot, but I should like to know."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "When do you propose to go to Australia?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I may not go at all. In fact if---- Ogilvie suddenly leaned against the table. Once again he felt faint and giddy."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If this is all right, I shall probably not go."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But suppose it is not all right?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Then I sail on Saturday."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I may as well tell you the truth, said Rashleigh;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What do you mean?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Heart,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Heart! Mine? Not affected?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Seriously?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is hard to answer that question. The heart is a strange organ, and capable of a vast amount of resuscitation; nevertheless, in your case the symptoms are grave; the aortic valve is affected. It behooves you to be very careful."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Does this mean that I---- Ogilvie dropped into a chair."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Rashleigh, he said suddenly,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I had a horrible attack last night. I forgot it this morning when I came to you, but it was horrible while it lasted. I thought myself, during those moments of torture, within a measurable--a very measurable distance of the end."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Describe your sensations,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Now, my dear fellow, I have a word to say. This insurance cannot be done. But, for yourself, you must avoid excitement. I should like to prescribe a course of living for you. I have studied the heart extensively."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Will nothing put me straight? Cure me, I mean?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I fear not."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, good-by, Rashleigh; I will call round to see you some evening."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Do. I should like you to have the advice of a specialist, Anderson, the greatest man in town on the heart."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But where is the use? If you cannot cure me, he cannot."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You may live for years and years, and die of something else in the end."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Just what was said to my father, who did not live for years and years, answered the man."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I won't keep you any longer, Rashleigh."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Doomed."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You don't look well, Mr. Ogilvie."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Never mind about my looks, Harrison, replied Ogilvie."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have a great deal to do, and need your best attention."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Certainly, sir; but, all the same, you don't look well."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Looks are nothing, replied Ogilvie."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I shall soon be all right. Harrison, I am off to Australia on Saturday."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "That sort of man with a conscience is intolerable,"
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hullo! said Lord Grayleigh;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm not going to account for myself to you,"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "If mother, who is an angel, a perfect angel, can think herself naughty and yet wish me to be good, I ought to help her by being as good as I possibly can,"
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "We were chasing Sib, they said;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And it looked uncommonly like it when I saw you all, was Grayleigh's response."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sibyl has long legs for her age."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I saw your father yesterday. Shall I tell you about him?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Pathetic eyes, more pathetic than any dog's,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You and I will walk by ourselves for a little, he said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Run away, children. Sibyl will join you in a few moments."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "and yet to live in the house with two perfectly angelic beings. It seemed to make their goodness all the whiter. At the present moment she longed earnestly to be"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We will sit here and talk, shall we?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, shall us?"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "I 'spect I'm rather short for my age,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why, how old are you?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Quite old, she replied gravely;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I was eight at five minutes past seven Monday fortnight back."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You certainly have a vast weight of years on your head,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You called me away from the other children 'cos you wanted to speak about father, didn't you? Please tell me all about him. Is he quite well?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Of course he is."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Did he ask about me?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, he asked me how you were."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And what did you say?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I replied, with truth, that I had twice had the pleasure of seeing you; once when you were very rude to me, once when you were equally polite."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What are you thinking of, eight-year-old?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Of you,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Come, that's very interesting; what about me? Now, be quite frank and tell me why you were rude to me the first time we met?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "May I? said Sibyl with great eagerness."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Do you really, truly mean it?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I certainly mean it."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You won't tell--mother?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I won't tell--mother,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am glad, she said with emphasis."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't want my ownest mother to be hurt. She tries so hard, and she is so beautiful and perfect. It's most 'portant that I should speak to you, and if you will promise----"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have promised; whatever you say shall be secret. Now, out with it."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You won't like it,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You must leave me to judge of that."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am going to be fwightfully rude."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Indeed! that is highly diverting."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't know what diverting is, but it will hurt you."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I believe I can survive the pain."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Are you laughing at me?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I would not dream of doing so."
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Speak away, little girl, he said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I promise not to laugh. I will listen to you with respect. You are an uncommon child, very like your father."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Thank you for saying that, but it isn't true; for father's perfect, and I'm not. I will tell you now why I was rude, and why I am going to be rude again, monstrous rude. It is because you told lies."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Indeed! said Lord Grayleigh, pretending to be shocked."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do you know that that is a shocking accusation? If a man, for instance, had said that sort of thing to another man a few years back, it would have been a case for swords."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don't understand what that means,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "For a duel; you have heard of a duel?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, in history, of course, said Sibyl, her eyes sparkling,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do you really want to run a sword through me?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Come, said Lord Grayleigh,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "About my father."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hullo! I suppose I am stupid, but I fail to understand."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I will try and 'splain. I didn't know that you was stupid, but you do tell lies."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, go on; you are putting it rather straight, you know."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I want to."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Fire away then."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You told someone--I don't know the name--you told somebody that my father was unscroopolus."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Indeed, said Lord Grayleigh. He colored, and looked uneasy."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I told somebody--that is diverting."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's not diverting, said Sibyl,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But whom did I tell?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Somebody, and somebody told me--I'm not going to tell who told me."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Even suppose I did say anything of the sort, what do you know about that word?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I found it out. An unscroopolus person is a person who doesn't act right. Do you know that my father never did wrong, never from the time he was borned? My father is quite perfect, God made him so."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Your father is a very nice fellow, Sibyl."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He is much better than nice, he is perfect; he never did anything wrong. He is perfect, same as Lord Jesus is perfect."
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And mother is perfect, too,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, no,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "So you don't wonder that I hate you, continued Sibyl, taking no notice of that last remark."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's 'cos you like to tell lies about good people. My father is perfect, and you called him unscroopolus. No wonder I hate you."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Listen now, little girl."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Don't shrink away, don't turn from me, he said;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am not so bad as you make me out. If I did make use of such an expression, I have forgotten it. Men of the world say lots of things that little girls don't understand. Little girls of eight years old, if they are to grow up nice and good, and self-respecting, must take the world on trust. So you must take me on trust, and believe that even if I did say what you accuse me of saying, I still have a great respect for your father. I think him a right down _good_ fellow."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The best in all the world?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am sure at least of one thing, that no little girl ever had a fonder father."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And you own up you told a lie? You do own up that father's quite perfect?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Men like myself don't care to own themselves in the wrong, said Lord Grayleigh,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You have met my father and my mother."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come, Sibyl, shall we make a compromise? I like you, I want you to like me. Forget that I said what I myself have forgotten, and believe that I have a very great respect for your father. Come, if he were here, he would ask you to be friendly with me."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Would he? said the child. She looked wistful and interested."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There are lots of things I want to be 'splained to me, she said. Then, after a moment--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'll think whether I'll be friends with you, and I'll let you know, may be to-morrow."
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Poor little maid!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The faith she has in that poor fellow is quite beautiful, was his inward thought;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What am I, he said to himself,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Come in and sit down, he said, jumping up and offering her a chair."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is cool and yet not draughty in here. I have just had the pleasure of a conversation with your little daughter."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Indeed! I do hope she has been conducting herself properly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I must not repeat what she said; I can only assure you that she behaved charmingly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am so relieved; Sibyl so often does not behave charmingly, that you don't wonder that I should ask you the question."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She has a very great respect for you, said Lord Grayleigh;"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Your little girl has the highest opinion of you, he repeated;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And I wish she would not talk or think such nonsense, said Mrs. Ogilvie, in a burst of irritation."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You know well that I am not what Sibyl thinks me. I am an ordinary, everyday woman. I hope I am --she smiled--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You are that, undoubtedly,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I hope I am what a man most likes in a woman, agreeable, charming, and fairly amiable; but I am no saint, and I don't want to be. Sibyl's attitude towards me is therefore most irritating, and I am doing my utmost----"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You are doing what?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "To open her eyes."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I would not if I were you, he said, gravely;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What are you talking about now?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don't often read my Bible, he continued,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You are quite serious; I never knew you in this mood before."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I must tell it to you. 'Whosoever shall offend one of these little ones, it were better that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he were cast into the depths of the sea.'"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How unpleasant, said Mrs. Ogilvie, after a pause,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "With pleasure."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What arrangement did you make with Philip yesterday?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I made no absolute arrangement, but I think he will do according to your wishes."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then he will assay the mine, act as the engineer to the company?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Precisely."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Has he promised?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not yet, but my impression is that he will do it."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What does assaying the mine mean?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "To assay a mine means to find out accurately what it contains,"
}
] |
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|
[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nevertheless, he continued, after a pause,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He will be a madman if he does,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "According to Sibyl's light, he will be the reverse of that; but then, Sibyl, and your husband also, believe in such a thing as conscience."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Philip's conscience! said the wife, with a sneer;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It appears to me, said Lord Grayleigh,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It has come to life very quickly, then. This is mere humbug."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Let me speak. To be frank with you, I respect your husband's conscience; and, perhaps, if you respected it more----"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I really will not stay here to be lectured, said Mrs. Ogilvie."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is to your advantage, doubtless, that Philip should do something for you; it must be to your advantage, for you are going to pay him well. Will he do it, or will he not? That is the question I want answered."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And I cannot answer it, for I do not know."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But you think he will?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That is my impression."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You can, at least, tell me what occurred."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I can give you an outline of what occurred. I made him an offer to go to Queensland."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "To go where?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "As the mine happens to be in Queensland, how can he assay it in England?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I didn't know."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, if he does anything, he must go to Queensland. He must see the mine or mines himself; his personal report is essential. He will be paid well, and will receive a large number of shares."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What do you mean by being paid well?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He will have his expenses, and something over."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Something over! that is a very elastic term."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "In your husband's case it will mean thousands."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, I see; and then the shares?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The shares will practically make him a rich man."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then of course he will consent. I will go at once, and send him a line."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If I were you, he said, and there was an unwonted tremble in his voice as he spoke,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Leave him alone now? Why should not the wife influence the husband for his own good?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Very well, said Lord Grayleigh;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I only ventured to make a suggestion."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I never found you so disagreeable before."
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "May I speak to you?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Don't you want to send your father a letter by this post?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, of course; is there time?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I will make time; go into the house and write to him."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But why?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He would like to hear from you."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do you want me to say anything special?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Nothing special; write to him from your heart, that is all."
}
] |
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|
[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I did not want to go there, he thought."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am doing this principally for the sake of the child. I can arrange all financial matters through Spielmann. Grayleigh wants this thing done; I alone can do it to his satisfaction and to the satisfaction of the public. He must pay me--what he pays will be Sibyl's, the provision for her future. But I don't want to see the child--until all this dirty work is over. If I come back things may be altered. God only knows what may have occurred. The mine may be all right, there may be deliverance, but I didn't want to see her before I go. It is possible that I may not be able to keep my composure. There are a hundred things which make an interview between the child and me undesirable."
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If I have a fatal disease it behooves me to act as if I were absolutely sound,"
}
] |
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|
[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He has consented to go, as of course you are well aware, said Lord Grayleigh,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But why should not the child know? How ridiculous you are!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That is exactly as her father pleases, replied Lord Grayleigh."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have a kind of intuition that he may want to tell her himself. Anyhow, I trust you will oblige me in the matter."
}
] |
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|
[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Philip is a wise man. It was very silly of him to hesitate and make a fuss, she thought;"
}
] |
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