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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, Mildred, and how are you?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Quite well, she replied."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Is not the day pleasant? I am so glad about everything, Phil. But you don't look quite the thing yourself. Have you taken cold or suffered from one of those nasty rheumatic attacks?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am all right, he answered shortly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have a very few moments to be here, as I want to catch the 12.30 back. Do you know if Lord Grayleigh is anywhere to be found?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I saw him half an hour ago. I think you will find him in the smoking-room. He is expecting you."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And --Ogilvie glanced to right and left--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "She is with the other children. Shall I send her to you?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Not yet."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It is so nice of you to go, Phil; it will do you no end of good. You will enjoy your voyage,"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is good of you, pursued Mrs. Ogilvie, turning once more to her husband."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am greatly obliged. I am more than obliged, I am relieved and--and satisfied. We shall have a happy life together when you come back. There are, of course, little matters we ought to talk over before we go."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Debts, you mean, said Ogilvie, bluntly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I opened your bills in your absence. They will be----"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, Phil!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I will speak about them before I leave, he continued."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now I must find Grayleigh."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Is it true that you are going on Saturday?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Quite true."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Had I not better return to town with you? There will be several things to put in order."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I can write to you, Mildred. Now that you are here you had better stay here. The change will be good for you. You need not return to the house in town before next week."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If you really don't want me, I am certainly enjoying myself here."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't want you,"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sibyl will be delighted to see you, continued Mrs. Ogilvie."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "She has been, on the whole, behaving very nicely. Of course, making both friends and foes, as is her usual impetuous way."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That reminds me, said Ogilvie."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I shall see Sibyl before I leave; but that reminds me."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Of what?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I do not wish her to be told."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Told what? What do you mean? My dear Phil, you are eccentric."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have no time to dispute the point, Mildred. I wish to give one hasty direction, which is to be obeyed. Sibyl is not to be told that I am going to Australia."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What, never?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "She must be told when I am gone, but not till then. I will write to her, and thus break the news. She is not to be told to-day, not until she gets home, you understand? I won't go at all if you tell her."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, of course, I understand, said Mrs. Ogilvie, in a frightened way;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I do not wish it. Now, have you anything further to say, for I must see Lord Grayleigh immediately."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You will leave me plenty of money when you go, will you not?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You shall have a bank-book and an account, but you must be careful. My affairs are not in the most prosperous condition, and your bills are terribly heavy."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My bills! but I really----"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We will not dispute them. They shall be paid before I go."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, my dear Philip, and you are not angry?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "They shall be paid, Mildred. The liquidation of your debts is part of the reward for taking up this loathsome work."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Philip, how ridiculously morbid you are!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There is Lord Grayleigh, he said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I must go at once. Yes, the bills will be paid."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There is nothing else, is there, Mildred?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What more?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A trinket, it took my fancy--a diamond cross--you noticed it. I could not resist it."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "How much?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Two thousand pounds."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Let me have the bill to-morrow at latest. It shall be cleared. Now don't keep me."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This is good, said the nobleman."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am very sorry I could not come to town. Yes, my ankle is better, but I dare not use it. I am limping, as you see."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Shall we go into the house? said Ogilvie;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I want to get this thing over. I have not a moment if I am to start on Saturday."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You must do what we want. The public are impatient. We must get your report as soon as possible. You will wire it to us, of course."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That depends."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now listen, Ogilvie, said Lord Grayleigh, as they both entered the study of the latter and Ogilvie sank into a chair,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Can I? I thought the die was cast."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The worldly man in me echoes that hope, but I _could_ get Atherton to take your place even now."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Even now?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Even now it may be possible to manage it, although I"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "I shall regret it extremely if you cannot do what I want,"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "The time for discussing the thing is over, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I will go--and--do _as you wish_. The only thing to put straight is the price down."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What do you mean by the price down?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I want money."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Of course, you shall have it."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I want more than my expenses, and something to cover the loss to my business which my absence may create."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How much more?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ten thousand pounds in cash now, to be placed to my credit in my bank."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ten thousand pounds in cash! That is a big order."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not too big for what you require me to do. You make hundreds of thousands by me eventually; what is one ten thousand? It will relieve my mind and set a certain matter straight. The fact is--I will confide in you so far--my own pecuniary affairs are anything but flourishing. I have had some calls to meet. What little property I own is settled on my wife. You know that a man cannot interfere with his marriage settlements. I have one child. I want to make a special provision for her."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I know your child, said Lord Grayleigh, in a very grave tone;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "She is, he answered slowly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I wish to make a provision for her. If I die (I may die, we are all mortal; I am going to a distant place; possibilities in favor of death are ten per cent. greater than if I remain at home)--if I die, this will be hers. It will comfort me, and make it absolutely impossible for me to go back. You understand that sometimes a miserable starved voice within me speaks. I allude to the voice of conscience. However much it clamors, I cannot listen to it when that sum of money lies in the bank to my credit, with my last will and testament leaving it eventually to my daughter."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I would not give your daughter such a portion, if I were you, thought Lord Grayleigh, but he did not say the words aloud. He said instead,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What you wish shall be done."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "This clinches matters,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You will see Spielmann for all the rest, was Grayleigh's answer;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, I must; good-by."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Have you seen your wife? he asked."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Can we not induce you to wait for the next train and stay to lunch?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, thanks; it is impossible. Oh, I see you have sent for the dog-cart; I will drive to the station."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Daddy, daddy!"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, dad, now I shall be happy. Where are you, Gus? Gus, this is father; Gus, come here!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I will say good-by, if you must go, Ogilvie,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But must you go, father? Why, you have only just come,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I must, my darling, I must catch the next train; there is not ten minutes. Jump on the dog-cart, and we will drive to the station together."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, 'licious! cried Sibyl,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Never mind, the coachman will bring you back. Jump up, quick."
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There's something troubling him, he likes having me near him, thought the child."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I wouldn't let him see that he's squeezing me up a bit too tight for all the world."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We shall have a minute or two at the station. I can speak to her then, he thought."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I won't tell her that I am going, but I can say something."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Wait for the child, he said to the servant,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, sir,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have my ticket, he said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Three whole precious minutes, repeated Sibyl."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What is it, father?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am thinking of something,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "For these three minutes, one hundred and eighty seconds, you and I are to all intents and purposes alone in the world."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Father! why, so we are, she cried."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mother's not here, we are all alone. Nothing matters, does it, when we are alone together?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nothing."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You don't look quite well, dear father."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have been having some suffering lately, and am worried about things, those sort of things that don't come to little girls."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Of course they don't, father, but when I'm a woman I'll have them. I'll take them instead of you."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now listen, my darling."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Father, before you speak ... I know you are going to say something very, _very_ solemn; I know you when you're in your solemn moments; I like you best of all then. You seem like Jesus Christ then. Don't you feel like Jesus Christ, father?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Never, Sib, never; but the time is going by, the train is signalled. My dearest, what is it?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mayn't I go back to town with you? I like the country, I like Gus and Freda and Mabel, but there is no place like your study in the evening, and there's no place like my bedroom at night when you come into it. I'd like to go back with you, wouldn't it be fun! Couldn't you take me?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I could, of course,"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, Sib, he said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Of course not,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It would have been nice all the same, said Ogilvie."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ah! there is my train; kiss me, darling."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sibyl, just promise before I leave you that you will be a good girl, that you will make goodness the first thing in life. If, for instance, we were never to meet again--of course we shall, thousands of times, but just suppose, for the sake of saying it, that we did not, I should like to know that my little girl put goodness first. There is nothing else worth the while in life. Cling on to it, Sibyl, cling tight hold to it. Never forget that I----"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, father, I will cling to it. Yes, father!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That I wish it. You would do a great deal for me?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "For you and Lord Jesus Christ,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then I wish this, remember, and whatever happens, whatever you hear, remember you promised. Now here's my train, stand back. Good-by, little woman, good-by."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'll see you again very, very soon, father?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Very soon,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Anybody come to meet you, Miss?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, thank you, she answered with dignity;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I was seeing my father off to town; there's my twap waiting outside."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "He ought to have me at home with him, she thought."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have seen him like this now and then, and he's mostly not well. He's beautiful when he talks as he did to-day, but he's mostly not well when he does it. I 'spect he's nearer Lord Jesus when he's not well, that must be it. My most perfect father wants me to be good; I don't want to be good a bit, but I must, to please him."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My dear Sibyl, where _have_ you been? What are you doing on the dog-cart? How unladylike. Jump down this minute."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I didn't do anything naughty, really, Mummy, she said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Father took me to the station to say good-by. He's off back to town, and he took me with him, and I came back on the twap."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Don't say twap, sound your 'r'--trap."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Tw-rap,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And now you are to go into the house and ask Nurse to put on your best dress. I am going to take you to a garden party, immediately after lunch. Mr. Rochester and Lady Helen Douglas are coming with us. Be quick."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, 'licious,"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "You must make me quite my prettiest self, she said to the nurse;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What about your mother now, missy?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She likes me best when I'm pretty, continued the child;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, Miss Sibyl, I can't say I did."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He talked to me in a most pwivate way, continued Sibyl."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He told me most 'portant things, and I promised him, Nursie--I promised him that I'd----Oh, no! I won't tell you. Perhaps I won't be able to keep my promise, and then you'd----Nothing, Nursie, nothing; don't be 'quisitive. I can see in your face that you are all bursting with 'quisitiveness; but you aren't to know. I am going to a party with my own mother after lunch, and Lady Helen is coming, and Mr. Rochester. I like them both very much indeed. Lady Helen told me stories last night. She put her arm round my waist, and she talked to me; and I told her some things, too, and she laughed."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What did you tell her, Miss Sibyl?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "About my father and mother. She laughed quite funnily. I wish people wouldn't; it shows how little they know. It's 'cos they are so far from being perfect that they don't understand perfect people. But there's the lunch gong. Yes, I do look very nice. Good-by, Nursie."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Presently, said Lady Helen,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What ship do you mean? said Sibyl, surprised at the sudden break in the conversation, and now intensely interested,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Did you never hear the old saying, that you must wait until your ship comes home?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But this ship was going out, said Sibyl."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Never mind, I 'spect it's a secret; there's lots of 'em floating round to-day. I've got some 'portant ones of my own. Never mind, Lady Helen, don't blush no more."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "When she absolutely must learn it, break it to her in the tenderest way possible, he said;"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, she said, turning to him and uttering a quick sigh;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Are you?"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Really, she said with an impatient movement,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I must confide in some one, and why not in you, Mr. Rochester, as well as another? I have already told you that my husband is absolutely silly about that child. From her birth he has done all that man could do to spoil her."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But without succeeding, interrupted Jim Rochester."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am quite friendly with your little Sibyl now, he added,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, that is what strangers always say, replied Mrs. Ogilvie, shrugging her shoulders,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am glad you feel it,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Feel it? What a strange remark! Did you think I was heartless? Of course I feel it, but I am not going to be silly or sentimental over the matter. Philip is a very lucky man to have this business to do. I would not be so foolish as to keep him at home; but he is ruining that child, ruining her. She gets more spoilt and intolerable every day."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Forgive me, Mrs. Ogilvie, said Lady Helen, who came upon the scene at that moment,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I heard you talking of your little daughter. I don't think I ever met a sweeter child."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There you go, she said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mr. Rochester has been saying almost the very same words, Lady Helen. Now let me tell you that Sibyl is not your child; no one can be more charming to strangers."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The annoying part of this letter, she said,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I thought--I thought, she began;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I thought, mother, that I heard you----"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's not true, of course; but I thought I heard you say something about father, and a--a letter I was to have in his absence. Did you say it, mother?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I said nothing of the sort, replied Mrs. Ogilvie, flushing red, and almost pushing Sibyl from the room,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's wicked for good people to tell lies, isn't it?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Wicked, cried her mother;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And you are good, mother, you don't ever tell lies; I believe you, mother, of course."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "I wish things would be 'splained to me, she said, half aloud, and she pushed back her curls from her forehead."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There are more and more things every day want 'splaining. I certainly did hear her say it. I heard them all talking, and Lady Helen said something, and Mr. Rochester said something, and mother said that father wished me not to know, and I was to have a letter, and then mother said 'in his absence.' Oh, what can it mean?"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What a puzzled expression you are wearing, my little girl, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Is anything the matter?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I want to ask you a question,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You are always asking questions. Now ask me something really nice; but first, I have something to say. I am in a very giving mood this morning. Sometimes I am in a saving mood, and would not give so much as a brass farthing to anybody, but I am in the other sort of mood to-day. I am in the mood to give a little golden-haired girl called----"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sibyl, said the child, beginning to laugh;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What would you like best in the world?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, best in the whole world? But I cannot have that, not for a week--we are going home this day week."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And what will you have when you go home?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Father's kiss every night. He always comes up, Lord Grayleigh, and tucks me in bed, and he kisses me, and we have a cozy talk. He never misses, never, when he is at home. I am lonesome here, Lord Grayleigh, because mother does not think it good for me that she should come; she would if she thought it good for me."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, said Lord Grayleigh, who for some reason did not feel quite comfortable as Sibyl talked of her father's kisses,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I know, said Sibyl, laughing,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You shall have one, said Lord Grayleigh;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do you really think I am good?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Good? Excellent; you are a pattern to us all."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Wouldn't father like to hear you. It's wonderful how he talked to me about being good. I am not really good, you know; but I mean to try. If you were to look into my heart, you would see--oh, but you shan't look. She started back, clasped her hands, and laughed."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But when father looks next, he shall see, oh, a white heart with all the naughtiness gone."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Tell me exactly what sort of pony you would like,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It must have a long mane, and not too short a tail, said Sibyl;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'll give you the pony and the side-saddle, and the habit, said Lord Grayleigh."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'll choose the pony to-morrow, and bring him back with me. I am going to Lyndhurst, in the New Forest, where they are going to have a big horse fair. You will not mind having a New Forest pony instead of a Shetland?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A perfect person could not tell a lie, could she?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don't mind what sort my darling pony is, answered the child."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I only want to have it. Oh, you are nice. I began by not liking you, but I like you awfully now. You are very nice, indeed."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And so are you. It seems to me we suit each other admirably."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There are lots of nice people in the world, said Sibyl."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's a very pleasant place. There are two quite perfect, and there are others very nice; you and Mr. Rochester and Lady Helen. But, oh, Lord Grayleigh, I know now what I wanted to say. A perfect person couldn't never tell a lie, could she?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, it's the feminine gender,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's a she, said Sibyl;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A perfect person could not, little girl."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Now you have made me so happy that I am going to kiss you,"
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's all right, she said to Gus, who looked at her in some amazement."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's all right; I got a fright, but there wasn't a word of it true. Come, let's play. Oh, do you know your father is going to give me a pony? I am so happy."
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "You don't know what father is,"
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have had a good time here, she said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes,"
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is at night that my father is the most perfect of all, she said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I wish you could see him when he comes into my room. I am in bed, you know, lying down flat on my back, and mostly thinking about the angels. I do that a lot at night, I have no time in the day; I think of the angels, and Lord Jesus Christ, and heaven, and then father comes in. He opens the door soft, and he treads on tiptoe for fear I'm asleep, as if I could be! And then he kisses me, and I think in the whole of heaven there can never be an angel so good and beautiful as he is, and he says something to me which keeps me strong until the next night, when he says something else."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But your mother? stammered Rochester. He was about to add,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "She would go to your room, would she not?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, you're thinking about my perfect mother, too, said Sibyl."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, she is perfect, but there are different sorts in the world. My own mother thinks it is not good for me to lie awake at night and think of the angels and wait for father. She thinks that I ought to bear the yoke in my youth. Solomon, the wise King Solomon--you have heard of him, haven't you?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He wrote that verse about bearing the yoke when you are young. I learnt it a week ago, and I felt it just 'splained about my mother. It's really very brave of mother; but, you see, father thinks different, and, of course, I nat'rally like father's way best. Mother's way is the goodest for me, p'waps. Don't you think mother's way is the goodest for me, Mr. Rochester?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I dare say it is good for you, Sibyl. Now, shall we go and find Lady Helen?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Seems to me, said Sibyl,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm always looking for Lady Helen when I'm with you. Is it 'cos you're so desperate fond of her?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't you like her yourself?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Like her? I like her just awfully. She's the most 'licious person to tell stories I ever comed across in all my borned days. She tells every sort of story about giants and fairies and adventures, and stories of little girls just like me. Does she tell you stories about men just like you, and is that why you like to be with her?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, I can't honestly say that she has ever yet told me a story, but I will ask her to do so."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Do, said Sibyl;"
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Cheer up, won't you? She is quite certain to marry you in the long run."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Don't talk like that,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't what? You do want to marry Lady Helen. I heard mother say so yesterday. I heard her say so to Hortense. Hortense was brushing her hair, and mother said, 'It would be a good match on the whole for Lady Helen, 'cos she is as poor as a church mouse, and Jim Rochester has money.' Is my darling Lady Helen as poor as a church mouse, and have you lots of money, Mr. Rochester?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have money, but not lots. You ought not to repeat what you hear,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But why? I thought everybody knew. You are always trying to make her marry you, I see it in your eyes; you don't know how you look when you look at her, oh--ever so eager, same as I look when father's in the room and he is not talking to me. I hope you will marry her, more especial if she's as poor as a church mouse. I never knew why mice were poor, nor why mother said it, but she did. Oh, and there is mother, I must fly to her; good-by--good-by."
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is my present to you, said Lord Grayleigh,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh dear, oh dear, said Sibyl,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't want _everyone_ to tell me that I am to be a good girl. If it was father; but--don't please, Lord Grayleigh; I'll do a badness if you talk to me any more about being so good."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, I won't,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I 'spect father will write you a most loving letter about this, said Sibyl."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Won't he be 'sprised? And did you tell mother about me having a ride every morning?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I did."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And did you speak to her about the food for my pony all being paid for?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, everything is arranged. Your pony shall be the best cared for in all London, and you shall ride him every day for half-an-hour before you go to school."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, I never go to school, said Sibyl in a sorrowful voice."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have a Miss Winstead to teach me. She is the sort that--oh, well, no matter; she means all right, poor thing. She wants the money, so of course she has to stay. She doesn't suit me a bit, but she wants the money. It's all right, isn't it?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "So it seems, little girl; and now here is the carriage, and the pony has gone off to London already, and will be ready to take you on his back to-morrow morning. Be sure you think of a nice name for him."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Father will tell me a name. I won't let anybody else christen my ownest pony. Good-by, Lord Grayleigh. I like you very much. Say good-by to Mr. Rochester for me--oh, and there is Lady Helen; good-by, Lady Helen--good-by."
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sit back in your seat and don't chatter, she said,"
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mother, she said, as they got towards the end of the journey,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm 'proving, aren't I?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Proving, what do you mean?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I can't say that I see it, Sibyl; you have been very troublesome for the last few days."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh! said the child,"
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's 'cos of father, she said;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Don't worry me, Sibyl, you know my views. I want you to be just a sensible, good child, without any of those high-flown notions. When we return to town you must make up for your long holiday. You must do your lessons with extreme care, and try to please Miss Winstead."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And to please father and Lord Jesus."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, yes, child."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And to have a ride every morning on my darling pony?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We will try and manage that. Lord Grayleigh has been almost silly over that pony; I doubt whether it is wise for you to have it."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, mother, he did say he would buy everything--the pony, the saddle, the habit, and he would 'ford the food, too. You have not got to pay out any money, mother, have you?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hush, don't talk so loud."
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Take up your book and stop talking,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But it don't matter, she said to herself;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mother, may I ask John if father's likely to be at home? Sometimes he comes home earlier than usual. P'waps he came home to lunch and is waiting for us. Can I call out to John through the window, mother?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, sit still, you do fidget so."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'll try to be quiet, mother; it's only 'cos I'm so incited."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, dear, said Mrs. Ogilvie to herself,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What are you doing that for?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "said Sibyl."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You are like a poor cat when it is rubbed the wrong way, aren't you, just now, mother?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Don't be so ridiculous."
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Father, father! she called."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm back. Are you in, father? Here I are--Sibyl. I'm home again, father. The Angel is home again, father."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "She does not know yet, whispered Mrs. Ogilvie."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am going into the library; don't tell her anything, pray, but send Miss Winstead to me immediately."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I can't see father anywhere, she said:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I 'spect he's not back yet."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Of course he is not back so early. Now run upstairs and ask Nurse to make you ready for tea. Leave me, I have something to say to Miss Winstead."
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am back, and I am going to be good, she said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I really, truly am; aren't you glad to see me?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, Sibyl."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Go upstairs now, Sibyl,"
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, never mind, she said to herself,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Miss Winstead, said Mrs. Ogilvie,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What do you mean?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why, this whim of my husband's. He has been away for over a week, and the child imagines that he is still in London, that he will return at any instant and spoil her, after his usual injudicious fashion."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, I don't quite think that Mr. Ogilvie spoils your little Sibyl, said Miss Winstead;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We need not discuss that point, said Mrs. Ogilvie in an irritated tone."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We are back later than I thought, and I have to dine out to-night. I want you, Miss Winstead, to break the tidings to the child that her father has gone to Queensland."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I? said Miss Winstead;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I would really rather----"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I fear your likes or dislikes with regard to the matter cannot be considered. I cannot tell her, because I should not do it properly; and also, a more serious reason, I really have not the time. You can give Sibyl a treat, if you like, afterwards. Take her out for a walk in the Park after tea, she always likes that; and you can take her to a shop and buy her a new toy--any toy she fancies. Here's a sovereign; you can go as far as that, you ought to get her something quite handsome for that; and you might ask the little Leicesters next door to come to tea to-morrow. There are a hundred ways in which the mind of a child can be diverted."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Not the mind of Sibyl with regard to her father,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, for goodness' sake, don't make too much of it. You know how peculiar he is, and how peculiar she is. Just tell her that he has gone away for a couple of months--that he has gone on an expedition which means money, and that _I_ am pleased about it, that he has done it for my sake and for her sake. Tell her he'll be back before the summer is over. You can put it any way you like, only do it, Miss Winstead--do it!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "When?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, when you please, only don't worry me. You had better take her off my hands at once. Just tell her that I am tired and have a headache, and won't see her until the morning; I really must lie down, and Hortense must bathe my forehead. If I don't I shall look a perfect wreck to-night, and it is going to be a big dinner; I have been anxious for some time to go. And afterwards there is a reception at the Chinese Embassy; I am going there also. Please ask Watson, on your way through the hall, to have tea sent to my boudoir. And now you quite understand?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But, please, say exactly what I am to tell your little girl."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Don't you know? Say that her father has gone--oh, by the way, there's a letter for her. I really don't know that she ought to have it. Her father is sure to have said something terribly injudicious, but perhaps you had better give it to her. You might give it to her when you are telling her, and tell her to read it by-and-by, and not to be silly, but to be sensible. That is my message to her. Now pray go, Miss Winstead. Are you better? Have you had a nice time while we were away?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I still suffer very badly with my head, said Miss Winstead,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I sincerely trust you are kind to the child; if I thought you did not treat her with sympathy and understanding I should be obliged----"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, you need not go on, said Miss Winstead, coloring, and looking annoyed."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I know my duty. I am not a woman with very large sympathies, or perhaps very wide views, but I try to do my duty; I shall certainly do my utmost for your dear little daughter. There is something very lovable about her, although sometimes I fear I do not quite understand her."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No one seems to understand Sibyl, and yet everyone thinks her lovable, said the mother."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, give her my love; tell her I will ride with her in the morning. She has had a present of a pony, quite a ridiculous present; Lord Grayleigh was determined to give it to her. He took an immense fancy to the child, and put the gift in such a way that it would not have been wise to refuse. Don't forget, when you see Watson, to tell him to bring tea to my boudoir."
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Coward!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I wish I was well out of this, thought the governess."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The child is not an ordinary one, and the love she bears her father is not an ordinary love."
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Cook made these for Miss Sibyl, she said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Does she know yet, Miss Winstead, that the master has gone?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, said Miss Winstead;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I wouldn't be in your shoes for a deal, Miss,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Here I am. Oh, I am so glad tea is ready. What's the hour, please, Miss Winstead? How are you, Anne; is your toothache better?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have not had any toothache to mention since you left, Miss Sibyl."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am glad to hear that. You used to suffer awful pain, didn't you? Did you go to Mr. Robbs, the dentist, and did he put your head between his knees and tug and tug to get the tooth out? That's the way Nurse's teeth were taken out when she was a little girl. She told me all about it. Did Mr. Robbs pull your tooth out that way, Anne?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, Miss, the tooth is better and in my head, I'm thankful to say."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And how is cook? How are her sneezing fits?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "All the servants are very well, I thank you, Miss."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't make any more enquiries now, Sibyl, sit down and begin your tea,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I do just want to ask one more question. How is Watson, Anne, and how is his sweetheart? Has she been kinder to him lately?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sibyl, I refuse to allow you to ask any further questions,"
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Of all the blessed angel children, Miss Sibyl beats 'em, she cried."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not one of us has she forgot; dear lamb, even to my tooth and your sneezing fits, cook; and Watson, most special did she inquire for Mary Porter, the girl you're a-keeping company with. It's wonderful what a tender heart she do have."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That she have truly, said the cook,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "continued the good woman."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How she'll live without the master beats me. The missus ain't worthy of her."
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's nearly five o'clock, she said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He often doesn't come home till seven,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, what's the matter with you, Winnie dear, said Sibyl--this was her pet name for the governess;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not to-night. I was thinking that after tea you and I might go for a little walk."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, I couldn't, really, truly; I must wait in till father comes."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It is such a fine evening, that perhaps----"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, no, I don't want to go."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But your mother has given me money; you are to buy anything you please at the toy-shop."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How much money?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, a good deal, a whole sovereign."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Twenty shillings, said Sibyl,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I could get a lovely doll's house for that. But I think sometimes I am getting tired of my dolls. It's so stupid of 'em not to talk, and never to cry, and not to feel pain or love. But, on the whole, I suppose I should like a new doll's house, and there was a beauty at the toy-shop for twenty shillings. It was there at Christmas-time. I expect it's a little dusty now, but I dare say Mr. Holman would let me have it cheap. I am _very_ fond of Mr. Holman, aren't you, Winnie? Don't you love him very, very much? He has such kind, sorrowful eyes. Don't you like him?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't know that I do, Sibyl. Come, finish your tea, my dear."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Have you been trying to 'prove yourself very much while I was away?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Prove myself?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I can never say that whole word. _Im_prove is what I mean. Have you been trying?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I always try, Sibyl."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Then I think Lord Jesus is helping you, for you _are_ 'proved, you're quite sympathisy. I like you when you're sympathisy. Yes, I have finished my tea, and, if you wish it, I'll go out just as far as Mr. Holman's to buy the doll's house. He is poor, and he'll be real glad to sell it. He has often told me how little money he makes by the toys, and how they lose their freshness and get dusty, and children toss 'em. Some children are _so_ careless. Yes, I'll go with you, and then we'll come straight home. Father will be back certain to-night at six. He'll know that I'll be wanting him."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sibyl, I have something to tell you."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What?"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "What is it?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It is something that will pain you, dear."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh! said Sibyl,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am afraid, Sibyl, that you will not see your father to-night."
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "I can bear it, she said;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not to-morrow, nor the next day, nor the next."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Go on; I am bearing it,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's a great shock, but I am bearing it, she said again."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Child, she said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm looking no special way; I'm only bearing up. Is father dead?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No; no, my dear. No, my poor little darling. Oh, you ought to have been told; but he did not wish it. It was his wish that you should have a happy time in the country. He has gone to Queensland; he will be back in a few months."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A few months, said Sibyl."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He's not dead?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's the little shots that hurt most, she said after a pause."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I wouldn't have felt it, if you had said he was dead."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Come out, Sibyl, you know now he won't be back by six."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, I'll go out with you."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'd rather she cried and screamed; I'd rather she rushed at me and tried to hurt me; I'd rather she did anything than take it like that,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nursie, she said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, my darling, said nursie,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't, said Sibyl,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's the little shots that tell, she repeated."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I wouldn't have felt anything if it had been a big, big bang; if he had been dead, I mean, but I'm not going to cry, I'm not going to let anybody think that I care anything at all. Give me my hat and gloves and jacket, please, nurse."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Was it mother said you was to tell me?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then mother did tell me a----"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "I hear you have got a pony,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don't want to talk about my pony, please, interrupted Sibyl."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Let me tell you just what were the most perfect views near the place we were in."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But why may we not talk about your pony?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't want to ride my pony now."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You have walked quite far enough to-night, she said,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm not a scrap tired, I never felt better in my life. Do let us go to the toy-shop."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A good idea, said the governess, much cheered to find Sibyl, in her opinion, human after all."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We will certainly go there and will choose a beautiful toy."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, this is the turning, come along,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But why should we go to Holman's, there is a splendid toy-shop in this street."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'd much rather go to Mr. Holman's."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "How do you do, Mr. Holman, she said;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I hope I find you quite well."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Thank you, Missy; I am in the enjoyment of good health,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am glad of that, answered Sibyl."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have come, Mr. Holman, to buy a big thing, it will do your shop a lot of good. I am going to spend twenty shillings in your shop. What would you like me to buy?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You thought a doll's house,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, it don't matter about that, said Sibyl, looking gravely back at her;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I mean it don't matter now. Mr. Holman, what's the most dusty of your toys, what's the most scratched, what's the toy that none of the other children would like?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have a whole heap of 'em,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That he have, poor dear, here interrupted Mrs. Holman."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How do you do, Missy, we are both glad to see you back again; we have had a dull season, very dull, and the children, they didn't buy half the toys they ought to at Christmas time. It's because our shop is in a back street."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, but it's a very nice street, said Sibyl;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Good-by, Mr. Holman; good-by, Mrs. Holman,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What ails her? said Holman."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She looks as if something had died inside her. I don't like her looks a bit."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mother,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What are you doing there, Sibyl? Go back to bed directly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Please, mother, I can't sleep. I have got a sort of up-and-down and round-and-round feeling. I don't know what it is, but it's worse when I put my head on my pillow. I 'spect I'm lonesome, mother. Mother, I really, truly, am going to be sensible, and I know all about father; but may I get into your bed just at the other side. I will lie as still as a mouse; may I, mother?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh dear, how you tremble, said Mrs. Ogilvie;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But, mother, that wouldn't have done me any good."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What do you mean?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They wouldn't be you. I'll be quite happy if I can get into bed alongside of you, mother."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Of course you may, child, but please don't disturb me. I am very tired, and want to sleep."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why don't you shut your eyes and go to sleep?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I can't, on account of the round-and-roundness feeling,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What a funny little thing you are. Here, give me your hand."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "May I come quite close to you, mother?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, darling."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, now that's better,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am much better, she said;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I didn't understand, but I understand now. I got his letter."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Must we talk about it to-night, Sibyl?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not much; there's not much to say, is there? He said I was to be good and to obey you. I was to be good all the time. It's very hard, but I 'spect I'll do it; I 'spect Lord Jesus will help me. Mother, why has father gone to Queensland? It's such a long, long way off."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "For a most excellent reason, said Mrs. Ogilvie."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You really are showing a great deal of sense, Sibyl. I never knew you more sensible about anything. I was afraid you would cry and make scenes and be naughty, and make yourself quite ill; that would have been a most silly, affected sort of thing to do. Your father has gone away just on a visit--we will call it that. He will be back before the summer is over, and when he comes back he will bring us----"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What? asked the child."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What has he gone for?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My dear child, he has gone on most important business. He will bring us back a great deal of _money_, Sibyl. You are too young yet to understand about money."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, I am not, said Sibyl."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I know that when people have not much money they are sorrowful. Poor Mr. Holman is."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Who in the world is Mr. Holman?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He sells the toys in the back street near our house. I am very much obliged to you, mother, for that sovereign. Mr. Holman is going to send me some dusty toys to-morrow."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What do you mean?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I can't 'splain, Mr. Holman understands. But, mother, I thought we had plenty of money."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Plenty of money, echoed Mrs. Ogilvie;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Rich? said Sibyl,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Is it nice, being rich?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Of course it is."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But what does it do?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do? It does everything. It gives you all your pretty frocks."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But I am more comfy in my common frocks."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, it gives you your nice food."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don't care nothing about food."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It gives you your comfortable home, your pony, and----"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Lord Grayleigh gave me my pony."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Child, I cannot explain. It makes all the difference between comfort and discomfort, between sorrow and happiness."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Do you think so? said Sibyl."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And father has gone away to give me a nice house, and pretty clothes, and all the other things between being comfy and discomfy; and you want to be rich very much, do you, mother?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Very much indeed; I like the good things of life."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'll try and understand,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Nursie, said Sibyl, two months after the events related in the last chapter,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Um, replied nurse, with a grunt,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why do you speak in that sort of voice, nursie? It's very nice to be rich. I have been having long talks with mother, and she has 'splained things. It means a great deal to be rich. I am so glad that my father is coming back a very, very rich man. I didn't understand at first. I thought to be rich just meant to have lots of money, and big, big houses, and heaps of bags of sweeties, and toys and ponies, and, oh, the kind of things that don't matter a bit. But now I know what to be rich really is."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, dear,"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why do you wear spectacles?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Because, my love, my sight is failing. I ain't as young as I was."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What does 'not as young as you was' mean?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What I say, my dear."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I notice, said Sibyl, thoughtfully,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That's about it, Missy, and when I have to darn the stockings of a naughty little Miss, and to mend holes in her dress, I have to put on my glasses."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then I'm glad we're going to be rich; it will be quite easy to 'splain why I am glad, continued Sibyl, thoughtfully."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "When our gold comes, nursie, you'll never have to do no more darning, and you need never wear your glasses 'cept just to read lovely books. Oh, we'll do such a lot when we are rich. There's poor Mr. Holman: I was talking to him only yesterday. Do you know, nursie, his shop isn't paying, not a bit, and he was, oh, so sad about it, and Mrs. Holman began to cry. She told me there's a new big toy-shop in Palace Road, a great big lovely _swampy_ sort of shop. I mean by that, that it takes all the customers. They go in there and they spend their money, and there's none left for poor Mr. Holman. It's just 'cos he lives in Greek Street, and Greek Street is what is called a back street. Isn't it perfectly shameful, nursie? Mr. Holman said if they could afford to have a shop in Palace Road he would get all the little boys and girls back again. But they won't come into his nice, quiet _back_ street. I like back streets, don't you, nursie? It's horrid of the boys and girls not to go to Mr. Holman's."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's the way of the world, dear, answered nurse;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Then I hate the world, said Sibyl."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My beautiful Lord Jesus wouldn't allow it if He was on earth now, would He, nursie?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, my love, there'd be a lot of things _He'd_ have to change if He came back; but don't ask me any more questions now, Missy. You go out with your governess. You don't get half enough of the air, to my way of thinking; you're looking peaky, and not what the master would like to see."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But I am perfectly well, answered Sibyl,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I never felt better in all my borned days. You know, nursie, I have got a lot to do now. Father gave me 'rections in that letter that nobody else is to see, and one of them was that I was to keep well, so I'll go for a walk if you think it will be good for me; only I just wish to say that when father comes back dear Mr. Holman shall have his shop in Palace Road, and a lot of fresh toys put in it, and then he'll be quite happy and smiling, and his shop will swamp up all the children, and all the pennies and all the half-pennies and sixpennies, and poor, dear, darling Mrs. Holman won't have to wipe away her tears any more."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Bless her! the darling she is!"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, I am glad to see you, she said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Have you come to see me, or to see mother?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am very glad to see you, replied the young man;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, come to the drawing-room, I'll entertain you till mother comes. Go upstairs, please, Watson, and tell mother that Mr. Rochester is here. Be sure you say Mr. Rochester--_nice_ Mr. Rochester."
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why do you say that?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I was only wondering if Lady Helen had done it."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Really, Sibyl, you say very queer things,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, you know you are awfully fond of her, and you want her to marry you, and I want her to marry you because I like you. You are very nice, very nice indeed, and you are rich, you know. Mother has been 'splaining to me about rich people. It's most 'portant that everybody should be rich, isn't it, Mr. Rochester? It's the only way to be truly, truly happy, isn't it?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That it is not, Sibyl. Who has been putting such an idea into your head?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, mother,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "When my own father comes back again we'll all be rich people. I hope when you are very, very rich you'll make, she said,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Something about a gold mine. Your father is a great engineer, and his opinion with regard to the mine will be of the utmost value. If he says it is a good mine, with a lot of gold in it, then the British public will buy shares. They will buy shares as fast as ever they can."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What are shares?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is difficult to explain. Shares mean a little bit of the gold out of the mine, and these people will buy them in order to become rich."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's very puzzling, said Sibyl."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And it depends on father?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, because if he says there is not much gold in the mine, then no one will buy shares. Don't you understand, it all depends on him."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's _very_ puzzling, said Sibyl again."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Are you going to buy shares, Mr. Rochester?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I think so, he answered earnestly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I shall buy several shares, I think, and if I do I shall be rich enough to ask Lady Helen to marry me."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And you will be happy?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Very happy if she says 'yes.' But, Sibyl, this is a great secret between you and me, you must never tell it to anyone else."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You may trust me, said Sibyl,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I never tell things I'm told not to tell. You can't think what wonderful 'portant things father has told me, and I never, never speak of them again. Then you'll be glad to be rich?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, because I shall be happy if Lady Helen is my wife,"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "When father comes back he'll christen my pony, she said,"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is very hot this morning,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, that don't matter, replied Sibyl."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Miss Winstead, is your head sometimes so full that it seems as if it would burst?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, answered Miss Winstead,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I cannot say it is."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Full of thoughts, you know."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, replied the governess again."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Don't turn in your toes, Sibyl, walk straight, turn your toes out a little, so; keep step with me. Little ladies ought to walk properly."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Miss Winstead, she said suddenly,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have been thinking of something. It is most terribly 'portant. Would you greatly mind if we went to see the Holmans before we go back?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We shan't have time,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, but I want to go, said Sibyl, knitting her brows,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I cannot do it, Sibyl, it is impossible. We must be back rather early for lunch to-day, as your mother is going into the country this afternoon."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mother going into the country, what for?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I cannot tell you, it is not my affair."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That means that you know, but you won't tell."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You can put it in that way if you like. I won't tell. Now come into the Park, we can sit on one of the chairs under the trees and keep cool."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am like a pussy-cat when its fur is rubbed quite the wrong side up, thought the little girl."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't like it, not a bit."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Do come home through Greek Street; I do want just to say one word to Mr. Holman, you can't think how 'portant it is."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I cannot, Sibyl; you must not ask me again."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We must hurry home, she said;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I had not the least idea the time was going so fast."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why isn't Mr. Rochester here?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He could not stay, replied Mrs. Ogilvie."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You and he are great friends, are you not, Sib?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He is nice, he is very nice, said the child;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, dear. Mrs. Ogilvie got up."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Good-by, Sibyl, I shall be back late this evening."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Good-by, mother dear."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Are you tired after your ride this morning Watson?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, Miss Sibyl, not at all."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I wonder if you're awfully hungry, Watson?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why so, Miss?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Because it's time for the servants' dinner."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, Miss, I'm going down to the hall presently, when I shall have my appetite satisfied, thank you all the same for inquiring."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You couldn't, p'waps, said the little girl, knitting her brows,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Where do you want to go, Miss?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I want to see Mr. Holman; you know Mr. Holman, don't you, Watson? He is the dear, kind, nice, sorrowful man who keeps the dusty toys."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have heard of him from you, Miss."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's most 'portant that I should see him and his wife, and if you walked behind me, mother would not be very angry. Would you come, Watson? You might just put on your hat and come at once. I have not taken off my hat and coat. We can do it and be back afore Miss Winstead finds out."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "If you're very quick, Miss, he said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'll do it."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You are good, said Sibyl."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Do you know, Watson, that you're a very nice man--you have very good impulses, I mean. I heard father once say of a man who dined here that he had good impulses, and I think he had a look of you; and you have very good impulses, too. Now let's go; do let's be quick."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Watson, said the little girl,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, Miss, I won't."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dear! dear! she said;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am glad I came. You look as if you wanted cheering up. Mrs. Holman, I've splendid news for you."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What is that, my dear little lady? That you have got money to buy another toy? But Mr. Holman said only as late as last night that he wouldn't send you another worn-out toy not for nobody. 'Tain't fair, my love. It seems like playing on your generosity, my dear."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But I like them, said the child;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I do really, truly. I paint them up with the paints in my paint-box and make them look as good as new. They are much more interesting than perfect toys, they are truly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, dear, your mother would not like it if she know we treated you in what my husband says is a shabby way."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't think any more about that now, Mrs. Holman. You both treat me as I love to be treated--as though I were your little friend."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Which you are, darling--which you are."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, Mrs. Holman, I must hurry; I must tell you my good news. Do you remember telling me last week that you had a hundred pounds put away in the Savings Bank, and that you didn't know what to do with it. You said, 'Money ought to make money,' and you didn't know how your hundred pounds would make money. It was such a funny speech, and you tried to 'splain it to me, and I tried to understand."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It was silly of my husband and me to talk of it before you, Missy. It is true we have got a hundred pounds. It is a nest-egg against a rainy day."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now again you are talking funnily; a nest-egg against a rainy day?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Against a time of trouble when we may want to spend the money."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, I understand that,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And I had it well invested, but the money was paid back, and there was nothing for it but to pop it into the Post Office Savings Bank."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's there still, is it?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, dear."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, now, what do you say to buying bits of gold with it?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Bits of gold with our hundred pounds?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, that is exactly what I mean; bits of gold. You will be able to if you keep it long enough. If you promise to keep that money safe you may be able to buy great lumps of gold out of my father's gold mine. My father has gone to Australia to----Oh, I must not tell you, for it really is an awful, awful secret; but, anyhow, when he comes back you'll be able to make a lot of money out of your money, to buy heaps of bits of gold. Will you promise to keep that hundred pounds till father comes home? That's what I came about, to ask you to promise, and Watson came with me because Miss Winstead wouldn't. Will you promise, dear Mrs. Holman?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Bless you, darling, said Mrs. Holman,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's awfully exciting, isn't it? We shall all be so rich. Mother said so, and mother ought to know. You'll be rich, and I'll be rich, and dear, dear nursie will be rich, and even Watson. Watson has got such good impulses. He'll be rich, too, and he shall marry the girl he is fond of; and there is a friend of mine, he wants to marry another girl, and they shall be rich and they shall marry. Oh, nobody need be sorrowful any more. Everybody will be quite happy when father comes back. You'll be able to have your shop in Palace Road, and oh, be sure you keep that hundred pounds till then."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Come, Watson, she said,"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "My husband is not prepared to buy a place now, she said in conclusion,"
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is the very best place of its kind in the market, she wrote."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It was sold to its present owner for thirty thousand pounds, but he is obliged to live abroad and is anxious to sell it, and would give it for twenty thousand. I want you, when you receive this, to wire to me to carry on negotiations in your absence. I have already consulted our lawyer, Mr. Acland. He says the house is drained, and the air of the place would be just the kind to suit Sibyl. She would enjoy so much her row on the river, and all our friends would like it. With the money you must now have at your disposal you can surely gratify me with regard to Silverbel."
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "It will be yours when father comes home,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's just too 'licious! she said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Is this one of the things God gives us because we are rich? Isn't it kind of Lord Jesus to make us rich? Don't you love Him very, very much, mother?"
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "We can have a bazaar here, she said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Big-wigs? said Sibyl,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "People, my dear child, who are high up in the social scale."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don't understand, mother, answered Sibyl."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, do look at this rose, did you ever see such a perfect beauty? May I pick it, mother? It is just perfect, isn't it, not quite full out and yet not a bud. I'd like very much to send it to my ownest father."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Silly child! Yes, of course you may pick it, but it will be dead long before it reaches him."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's heart won't be dead,"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "What a pretty flower! Where did my darling get it?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "At Silverbel, the beautiful, beautiful place that father is going to buy when he is rich. You can't think how good mother is growing, nursie; she is getting better and better every day."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "H'm!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why do you make those sort of noises when I speak of my mother? I don't like it, said the child."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But I must tell you about Silverbel. Mother says it is practicalically ours now. I don't quite know what she means by practicalically, but I suppose she means that it is almost our place. Anyhow, when my dearest rich father comes back it will be ours, and we are going to make poor Mr. Holman quite rich, and you, darling nursie, quite rich, and--and others quite rich. We are going to have a great big bazaar at Silverbel, and the _big-wigs_ are coming to it. Isn't it a funny word! perhaps you don't know what big-wigs are, but I do."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Eat your supper and go to bed, Miss Sibyl. You are staying up a great deal too late, and you are learning things you had better know nothing about."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't want to lose the place, she said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "My husband is safe to be satisfied with my decision."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If you have really made up your mind to pay twenty thousand pounds for the place, and I cannot say that I think it at all dear, replied the lawyer,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have no objection to lending you a couple of thousand pounds to pay a deposit. You need not complete the purchase for at least three months, and I have not the slightest doubt I can further arrange that you may go into possession, say--well, any time you like after the deposit money is paid."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Can you really?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "At the worst it could be taken off your hands, he answered;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "--he paused and looked thoughtful."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I can lend you the money if you wish it,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The money to enable me to pay a deposit?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes; two thousand pounds; I believe the owners will take that on condition that the purchase is completed, say, in October."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My husband will be back by then. I have a great mind to agree,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I will accept your offer, Mr. Acland. I don't know where to go in August and September, and Silverbel will be the very place. Mr. Ogilvie will thank you most heartily for your generous trust in us both when he comes back."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have plenty of funds to meet this loan, thought the lawyer."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am safe so far. Aloud he said,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then I will go and see the owners to-morrow."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "This clinches the matter, said Mrs. Ogilvie,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I will begin ordering the furniture immediately."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "A place in the country, a place like Silverbel, has always been the longing of my life,"
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "You shall come with Sibyl and me to see it to-morrow, she said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I will ask Lady Helen to come, too. I will send her a note by messenger. We might meet at Victoria Station at eleven o'clock, and go to Silverbel and have lunch at the little inn on the river."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's the most darling, lovely place, she said;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "When our ship comes in, it will be ours,"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Have you heard the rumors with regard to the Lombard Deeps Gold Mine?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What rumors? Mrs. Ogilvie looked anxious."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I know nothing whatever about business, she said, testily,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I leave all that absolutely to my husband. I know that he considers the mine an excellent one, but his full report cannot yet have reached England."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Of course it has not. Ogilvie's report in full cannot come to hand for another six weeks. I allude now to a paragraph in one of the great financial papers, in which the mine is somewhat depreciated, the gold being said to be much less to the ton than was originally supposed, and the strata somewhat shallow, and terminating abruptly. Doubtless there is no truth in it."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not a word, not a word, said Mrs. Ogilvie;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Lady Helen knows about all these sort of things, and yet I think she is quite feminine,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You will find cigars in that box, she said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, Sibyl, you are not to stay with Mr. Rochester; come to the drawing-room with me."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, do let her stay, earnestly pleaded the young man,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, as you please, but don't spoil her,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have a lot of things to ask you, she said;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am not going to be like my ownest mother, I am going to be like Lady Helen. I want to understand about the gold mine. I want to understand why, if you give your money to a certain thing, you get back little bits of gold. Can you make the gold into sovereigns, is that what happens?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It is extremely difficult for me to explain, said Rochester,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What's subscribed?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, given. You know what it means when people ask your mother to subscribe to a charity?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, yes, I know quite well; and Mr. and Mrs. Holman, they may subscribe, may they?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, whoever they may be. I don't know Mr. and Mrs. Holman, but of course they may intend to subscribe, and other people will do the same, and if we give, say, a hundred pounds we shall get back perhaps one hundred and fifty, perhaps two hundred."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, that's very nice, said Sibyl;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I seem to understand, and yet I don't understand."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You understand enough, my dear little girl, quite enough. Don't puzzle your poor little brain. Your mother is right, these are matters for men."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And you are quite certain that my father will say that the beautiful mine is full of gold?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He will say it if the gold is there."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And if it is not?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then he will tell the truth."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Of course, said Sibyl, proudly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My father couldn't tell a lie if he was even to try. It would be impossible, wouldn't it, Mr. Rochester?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I should say quite impossible,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You are awfully nice, you know, she said;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "So they will,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And darlingest mother can have the beautiful place. Hasn't the new place got a lovely name--Silverbel?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It sounds very pretty, Sibyl."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And you will come to-morrow and see it, won't you?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And you will bring Lady Helen?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Your mother will bring Lady Helen."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's all the same, replied Sibyl."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, I am so glad."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "He'll understand, thought Sibyl;"
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Here you both is!"
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "You do look nice, said Sibyl, speaking in a semi-whisper, but in a tone of great ecstasy,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Who is Watson?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't you know, he is our footman. He is very nice, too; he is full of impulses, and they are all good. I expect the reason he is so awfully interested in _dear_ Mr. Rochester is because they are both having love affairs. You know, Watson has a girl, too, he is awfully fond of; I 'spect they'll marry when father comes back with all the gold. You don't know how fond I am of Watson; he's a very great, special friend of mine. Now here's the carriage. Let's all get in. Aren't you both glad you're coming, and coming together, both of you _together_, to visit Silverbel. It's a 'licious place; there are all kinds of little private walks and shrubberies, and seats for two under trees. Two that want to be alone can be alone at Silverbel. Now let's all get into the carriage."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "I had meant to put it off until my husband returned, she remarked finally,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, yes, cried Sibyl,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If I have a stall I will certainly choose a flower stall,"
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "There they go!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There who go, Sibyl?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The one who wants to marry the other, replied Sibyl."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hush, mother, we are not to know, we are to be quite blind. Aren't you awfully incited?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You are a very silly, rude little girl, replied the mother."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You must not make the sort of remarks you are always making to Mr. Rochester and Lady Helen. Such remarks are in very bad form. Now, don't take even the slightest notice when they return."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Aren't I to speak to them?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Of course, but you are not to say anything special."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, nothing special. Am I to talk about the weather?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No; don't be such a little goose."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I always notice, replied Sibyl, softly,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "About it?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Their love, mother, their love for--for each other."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Who may the one be who is supposed to understand?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Me, mother,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You are a most ridiculous little girl, she said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now, listen; you are not to take any notice when they come back. They are not engaged; perhaps they never will be. Anyhow, you will make yourself an intensely disagreeable child if you make such remarks as you have already made. Do you understand?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You has put it plain, mother, replied Sibyl."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I think I do. Now, let's look at the flowers."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have ordered the landlord of the inn to serve tea on the lawn, continued Mrs. Ogilvie."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Is it not nice to feel that we are going to have tea on our own lawn, Sibyl?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's lovely!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am devoted to the country, continued the mother;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "So I think, too, replied Sibyl."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I love the country. We'll have all the very poorest people down here, won't we, mother?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What do you mean?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "All the people who want to be made happy; Mr. and Mrs. Holman, and the other faded old people in the almshouses that I went to see one time with Miss Winstead."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Now you are talking in your silly way again, replied Mrs. Ogilvie."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You make me quite cross when you talk of that old couple, Mr. and Mrs. Holman."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But, mother, why aren't they to be rich if we are to be rich? Do you know that Mrs. Holman is saving up her money to buy some of the gold out of father's mine. She expects to get two hundred pounds instead of one. It's very puzzling, and yet I seem to understand. Oh, here comes Mr. Landlord with the tea-things. How inciting!"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "What rhyme?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I know it all, shall I say it to you?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "One he loves, two he loves, three he loves they say, Four he loves with all his heart, five he casts away, Six _he_ loves, seven _she_ loves, eight they both love, Nine he comes, ten he tarries, Eleven he woos, twelve he marries."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I knew _you'd_ have luck,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Suppose we go for a row on the river this lovely afternoon,"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "I can easily get a boat, he said;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'll go and consult with mine host."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Is that why our house is called Silverbel? asked Sibyl."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Is it 'cos we can see the silver shine of the river, and 'cos it is _belle_, French for beautiful?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Perhaps so,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What a pity we must go back to London, said Sibyl."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't think I ever had such a lovely day before."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We shall soon be back here, replied Mrs. Ogilvie."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I shall see about furnishing next week at the latest, and we can come down whenever we are tired of town."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That will be lovely, said Sibyl."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, won't my pony love cantering over the roads here!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "This came for you, madam, in your absence,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ominous rumors with regard to Lombard Deeps have reached me. Better not go any further at present with the purchase of Silverbel."
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "I hope there is nothing wrong?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Nothing at all, she replied."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, we will come here next week. Sibyl, don't stare in that rude way."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Are you sad about anything, darling Lady Helen?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, Sibyl; I am quite happy."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then you are thinking very hard?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I often think."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I do so want you to be awfully happy."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I know you do, and I think I shall be."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then that is right. _Twelve he marries_. Wasn't it sweet of the marguerite daisy to give Mr. Rochester just the right petal at the end; wasn't it luck?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes; but hush, don't talk so loud."
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Does Lady Helen tell you beautiful stories too?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, he answered;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You ought to, said Sibyl, looking at her earnestly;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, that will do, Sibyl."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, said Sibyl,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, Sibyl, do stop that ceaseless chatter, cried her mother from the other end of the carriage;"
}
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"from": "human",
"value": "Tiresome man!"
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, she said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You would not be surprised if you had read the article which appeared to-day in _The Financial Enquirer_."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have never heard of _The Financial Enquirer_."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But City men know it, replied Mr. Acland,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How you puzzle a poor woman with your business terms, she said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What do I know about mines? When my husband left me he said that he would come back a rich man. He gave me his promise, he must keep his word."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He will naturally keep his word if he can, and if the mine is all that Lord Grayleigh anticipates everything will be right, replied Acland."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There is no man more respected than Ogilvie in the City. His report as assayer will save the situation; that is, if it is first-rate. But if it is a medium report the capital will not be sufficiently subscribed to, and if the report happens to be bad the whole thing will fall through. We shall know soon now."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This is very disturbing, said Mrs. Ogilvie."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have had a long, tiring day, and you give me a headache. When is my husband's report likely to reach England?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Not for several weeks, of course. It ought to be here in about two months' time, but we may have a cablegram almost any day. The public are just in a waiting attitude, they want to invest their money. If the mine turns out a good thing shares will be subscribed to any extent. Everything depends on Ogilvie's report."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Won't you stay and have some supper? said Mrs. Ogilvie, carelessly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have said already that I do not understand these things."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I cannot stay, I came to see you because it is important. I want to know if you really wish to go on with the purchase of Silverbel. I am ready to pay a deposit for you of ｣2,000 on the price of the estate, which will, of course, clinch the purchase, and this deposit I have arranged to pay to-morrow, but under the circumstances would it not be best to delay? If your husband cannot give a good report of the mine he will not want to buy an expensive place like Silverbel. My advice to you, Mrs. Ogilvie, is to let Silverbel go. I happen to know at this moment of another purchaser who is only waiting to close if you decline. When your husband comes back rich you can easily buy another place."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No other place will suit me except Silverbel,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I strongly recommend you not to buy it now."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And I intend to have it. I am going down there to live next week. Of course, you arranged that I could go in at once after the deposit was paid?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, on sufferance, subject to your completing the purchase in October."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then pray don't let the matter be disturbed again. I shall order furniture immediately. You are quite a raven, a croaker of bad news, Mr. Acland."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I thought it only fair to tell you,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What a fool that woman is! I pity Ogilvie."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "For Jim, continued Lady Helen,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Of course, it is full of gold, quite full, thought the child;"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "We have had no cable yet from your husband, he said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, pray don't croak,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You are a bird of ill-omen,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "When people are perfectly happy and know nothing whatever with regard to business, what is the good of coming and telling these dismalities? she continued."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am nothing but a poor little feminine creature, trying to do good, and to make myself happy in an innocent way. Why will you come and croak? I know Philip quite well enough to be certain that he would not have set foot on this expedition if he had not been satisfied in advance that the mine was a good one."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That is my own impression, said Mr. Acland, thoughtfully;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh! Philip will be back before then, answered Mrs. Ogilvie in a light and cheerful tone."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Any day now we may get a cablegram. Well, sweetheart, and what are you doing here?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Any day we may expect what to happen, mother darling?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We may expect a cable from father to say he is coming back again."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh! do you think so? Oh, I am so happy!"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, Lord Jesus, it is so beautiful of you, she said, and she looked up as she spoke full at the blue sky."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I can scarcely believe that my ownest father will very soon be back again; it is quite too beautiful."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Jump into the carriage, Sib, I have not seen you for some time. When are you going to pay me another visit at Grayleigh Manor?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, some time, but not at present, replied Sibyl."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am too happy with mother here to think of going away. Isn't Silverbel sweet, Lord Grayleigh?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Charming, replied Grayleigh."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Is your mother in, little woman?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I think so. She is very incited about the bazaar. Are you coming to the bazaar?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't know, I will tell you presently."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Do you know that I am so monstrous happy I scarcely know what to do,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Because you have got a pretty new place?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, no, nothing of that sort. It's 'cos father is coming back afore long! He will cable, whatever that means, and soon afterward he'll come. I'm always thanking Lord Jesus about it. Isn't it good of Him to send my ownest father back so soon?"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Shall I find mother for you?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Shall I find mother for you? she said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, there she is on the lawn. Darlingest mother, she can think of nothing at present but the bazaar, when all the big-wigs are to be present. You're a big-wig, aren't you? I asked nurse what big-wigs were, and she said people with handles. Mother said they were people in a _good social position_. I remember the words so well 'cos I couldn't understand 'em, but when I asked Miss Winstead to 'splain, she said mother meant ladies and gentlemen, and when I asked her to tell me what ladies and gentlemen was, she said people who behaved nicely. Now isn't it all very puzzling, 'cos the person who I think behaves nicest of all is our footman, Watson. He has lovely manners and splendid impulses; and perhaps the next nicest is dear Mrs. Holman, and she keeps a toy-shop in a back street. But when I asked mother if Watson and Mrs. Holman were big-wigs, she said I spoked awful nonsense. What do you think, Lord Grayleigh? Please do try to 'splain."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A big-wig is quite an ugly word, he said,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You haven't 'splained a bit, said the little girl."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mother wants big-wigs at her bazaar; you are one, so will you come?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I will answer that question after I have seen your mother."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He doesn't look quite happy, she thought;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm sorry he is coming to take up mother's time. Mother promised, and it's most 'portant, to ride with me this evening. It's on account of poor Dan Scott it is so 'portant. Oh, I do hope she won't forget. Perhaps Miss Winstead would come if mother can't. I promised poor Dan a basket of apples, and also that I'd go and sit with him, and mother said he should cert'nly have the apples, and that she and I would ride over with them. He broke his arm a week ago, poor fellow! poor little Dan! I'll go and find Miss Winstead. If mother can't come, she must."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You didn't hear by the last mail?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, I have not heard for two mails. I cannot account for his silence."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He is probably up country, was Lord Grayleigh's answer."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I thought before cabling that I would come and inquire of you."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have not heard, replied Mrs. Ogilvie."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Of course things are all right, and Philip was never much of a correspondent. It probably means, Lord Grayleigh, that he has completed his report, and is coming back. I shall be glad, for I want him to be here some time before October, in order to see about paying the rest of the money for our new place. What do you think of Silverbel?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, quite charming,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am anxious, of course, to complete the purchase,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Indeed!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mr. Acland lent me two thousand pounds to pay the deposit, continued the lady,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He will come back rich, or we shall have the deluge, he replied, oracularly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't be uneasy. As you have not heard I shall cable. I shall wire to Brisbane, which I fancy is his headquarters."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Perhaps, answered Mrs. Ogilvie, in an abstracted tone."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "By the way, if you are going back to town, may I make use of your carriage? There are several things I want to order for my bazaar. It is to be in about a fortnight now. You will remember that you are one of the patrons."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Certainly, he answered;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I shall stay in town to-night, continued Mrs. Ogilvie."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Just wait for me a moment, and I will get on my hat."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, Missy, said old Scott as he dug his spade deep down into the soil;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "How is Dan?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A-wrastling with his pain,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Is he expecting me and mother with the beautiful apples?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Is he expecting you, Missy? answered the old man, raising his beetling brows and fixing his black eyes on the child."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Is he a-counting the hours? Do ducks swim, Missy, and do little sick boys a-smothered up in bed in small close rooms want apples and little ladies to visit 'em or not? You said you'd go, Missy, and Dan he's counting the minutes."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Of course I'll go, replied Sibyl, but she looked anxious and _distrait_. Then she added,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I will go if I possibly can."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I didn't know there was any doubt about it, Missy, and I tell you Dan is counting the minutes. Last thing he said afore I went out this morning was, 'I'll see little Missy to-day, and she is to bring me a basket of apples.' Seems to me he thinks a sight more of you than the fruit."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Dear, dear, it is quite dreadful, she said,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I could cry about it, I could really, truly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But why, Missy? What's up? I don't like to see a little lady like you a-fretting."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mr. Scott, I'm awfully, awfully sorry; I am terribly afraid I can't go."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You promised you'd go,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I did, I certainly did, but mother was to have gone with me, and she has had to go to town about the bazaar. I suppose you couldn't take back the apples with you when you go home to-night, Mr. Scott?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I could not,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Besides, he added,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Lord Jesus wouldn't curse a little girl like me, a little girl who loves Him,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'll do my very best,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I wouldn't disappoint the little lad if I was you, Missy. He's a-counting of the minutes."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I could take the apples, he said to himself;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I could if I had a mind to, but I don't see why the quality shouldn't keep their word, and I'm due to speak at the Mission Hall this evening. Little Miss should know afore she makes promises. She's a rare fine little 'un, though, for all that. I never see a straighter face, eyes that could look through you. Dear little Missy! Dan thinks a precious sight of her. I expect somehow she'll take him the apples."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Tea is ready, you had better come in. What are you doing there?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Is your head any better?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, I am sorry to say it is much worse. I am going to my room to lie down. Nurse will give you your tea."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "It don't matter about my tea, she said to herself."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Nursie will think I am with Miss Winstead, and Miss Winstead will think I am with nurse; it's all right. I wonder if Ben would ride mother's horse with me; but the first thing is to get the apples."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's awful to neglect the poor, she said to herself."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Old Scott was very solemn. He's a good man, is Scott, he's a very religious man, he knows his Bible beautiful. He does everything by the Psalms; it's wonderful what he finds in them--the weather and everything else. I asked him before the storm came yesterday if we was going to have rain, and he said 'Read your Psalms and you'll know. Don't the Psalms for the day say the Lord of glory thundereth"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "This will tempt dear little Dan,"
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ben! Ben! Ben!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, my darling Nameless Pony!"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "I could ride him alone, thought Sibyl;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hullo! I say!"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, Johnson, she said eagerly,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I want you to do something for me so badly. If you will do it I will give you an apple."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What is it, Miss?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Will you saddle my pony for me? You can, can't you?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I guess I can,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Want to ride? he said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Who's a-goin' with yer?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No one, I am going alone."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I say, he cried,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You shall have two, Johnson; oh, and I have a penny in my pocket as well. Now please saddle the pony very fast, for I want to be off."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "It don't matter about putting on my habit, said Sibyl."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It will take such a lot of time, I can go just as I am, can't I, Johnson?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If you like, Miss,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I think I will, really, Johnson,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I might be caught, you know, if I went back to the house."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, is that it?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, that's it; they don't understand. No one understands in the house how 'portant it is for me to go. I have to take the apples to Dan Scott. I promised, you know, and it would not be right to break my promise, would it, Johnson?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I guess not!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If I don't take them, he'll fret and fret, said Sibyl;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A bit, perhaps, Missy."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, I am very much obliged to you, said the little girl."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Here's two apples, real beauties, and here's my new penny. Now, please lead pony out, and help me to mount him."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am so glad I did it, she thought;"
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Are you in, Mrs. Scott?"
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ah! it's you, Missy, at last, she said, and she trotted down as well as her lameness would let her to the gate."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Has you brought the apples? she cried."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You are very late, Missy. Oh, I'm obligated, of course, and I thank you heartily, Miss. Will you wait for the basket, or shall I send it by Scott to-morrow?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You can send it to-morrow, please,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And you ain't a-coming in? The lad's expecting you."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am afraid I cannot, not to-night. Mother wasn't able to come with me. Tell Dan that I brought him his apples, and I'll come and see him to-morrow if I possibly can. Tell him I won't make him an out-and-out promise, 'cos if you make a promise to the poor and don't keep it, Lord Jesus is angry, and you get cursed. I don't quite know what cursed means, do you, Mrs. Scott?"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, don't I, answered Mrs. Scott."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's a pity you can't come in, Missy. There, Danny, keep quiet; the little lady ain't no time to be a-visiting of you. That's him calling out, Missy; you wait a minute, and I'll find out what he wants."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Quiet, darling; quiet, pet,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Dan's obligated for the apples, Miss, but he thinks a sight more of a talk with you than of any apples that ever growed. He 'opes you'll come another day."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I wish, I do wish I could come in now, said Sibyl wistfully;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, that, answered Mrs. Scott,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But I'd like to. I hate hearing things without understanding. What is a curse, Mrs. Scott?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There are all sorts, replied Mrs. Scott."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Once I knowed a man, and he had a curse on him, and he dwindled and dwindled, and got smaller and thinner and poorer, until nothing would nourish him, no food nor drink nor nothing, and he shrunk up ter'ble until he died. It's my belief he haunts the churchyard now. No one likes to go there in the evening. The name of the man was Micah Sorrel. He was the most ter'ble example of a curse I ever comed acrost in my life."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, I really must be going now, said Sibyl with a little shiver."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Good-by; tell Dan I'll try hard to come and see him to-morrow."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "She's a gloomy sort, thought the child,"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "A little faster, as we are passing the churchyard, pony pet,"
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Not quite so fast, darling, cried Sibyl;"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hullo! Stop, for goodness' sake; don't turn the corner. Stop! Stop!"
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, Ogilvie, he cried,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I cannot quite tell, answered Ogilvie."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It depends on how soon my work is over; the sooner the better, as far as I am concerned."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You don't look too well, said his friend."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Can I get anything for you, fetch your letters, or anything of that sort?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I do not expect letters, was Ogilvie's answer;"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "And yet I am doing it for her, he muttered to himself."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I must go through with it; but while I am about it I want to forget her. My work lies before me--that dastardly work which is to stain my character and blemish my honor; but there is no going back now. Sibyl was unprovided for, and I have an affection of the heart which may end my days at any moment. For her sake I had no other course open to me. Now I shall not allow my conscience to speak again."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mr. Ogilvie, I believe?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That is my name, replied Ogilvie;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am Messrs. Spielmann's agent, and my name is Rycroft. I had instructions to meet you, and guessed who you were from the description given to me. I hope you had a good voyage."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Pretty well, answered Ogilvie;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "At the Waharoo Hotel. I took the liberty to book you a room. Shall we go up soon and discuss business; we have no time to lose?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "As you please, said Ogilvie."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Will you wait here? I will return soon."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "That is quite to my desire, said Ogilvie."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I want to get what is necessary through, in order to return home as soon as possible. It was inconvenient my leaving England just now, but Lord Grayleigh made it a condition that I should not delay an hour in examining the mine."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If he wishes to take up this claim, he is right, answered Rycroft, in a grave voice."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I may as well say at once, Mr. Ogilvie, that your coming out is the greatest possible relief to us all. The syndicate ought to do well, and your name on the report is a guarantee of success. My proposal is that we should discuss matters a little to-day, and start early to-morrow by the _Townville_ to Rockhampton. We can then go by rail to Grant's Creek Station, which is only eight miles from the mine. There we can do our business, and finally return here to draw up the report."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And how long will all this take?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If we are lucky, we ought to be back here within a month."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You have been over the mine, of course, yourself, Mr. Rycroft?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes; I only returned to Brisbane a week ago."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And what is your personal opinion?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There is, beyond doubt, alluvial gold. It is a bit refractory, but the washings panned out from five to six ounces to the ton."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "So I was told in England; but, about the vein underneath? Alluvial is not dependable as a continuance. It is the vein we want to strike. Have you bored?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, one shaft."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Any result?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That is what your opinion is needed to decide,"
}
] |
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