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42783 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Rollright stones,"
}
]
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42783 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Whispering Knights,"
}
]
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42783 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If Long Compton you can see, King of England you shall be,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Whispering Knights. This is called the"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "King's stone,"
}
]
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42783 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Whispering Knights"
}
]
|
42783 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mr. William Birde."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Lady Nevell's Music-book, and that she seems"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and that sixteen of the forty-two pieces are"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "and that"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Jo. Baldwine was a singing-man at Windsor."
}
]
|
42783 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Own Time,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "His personal resentments put him upon writing history. He relates the actions of a persecutor and benefactor; and it is easy to believe that a man in such circumstances must violate the laws of truth. The remembrance of his injuries is always present, and gives venom to his pen. Let us add to this, that intemperate and malicious curiosity which penetrates into the most private recesses of vice. The greatest of his triumphs is to draw the veil of secret infamy, and expose to view transactions that were before concealed from the world; though they serve not in the least either to embellish the style or connect the series of his history, and will never obtain more credit than, perhaps, to suspend the judgment of the reader, since they are supported only by one single, _suspected_ testimony."
}
]
|
42783 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "there has recently risen up in judgment against him _a letter of his own, proving his own character_. It is, I regret, too long for insertion in your pages _in extenso_, but no abstract can give an adequate idea of its contents. It is, in fact, so mean and abject as almost to overpass belief. I must refer your readers to Mr. Mark Napier's _Montrose and the Covenanters_, vol. i. pp. 13-21. All the reflections of the Whig historian Dalrymple, all the severe remarks of Swift and Lord Dartmouth, as to Burnet's dishonesty and malice, would now seem well bestowed upon a writer so despicable and faithless, and the credit of whose statements, when resting _on his own sole authority_, must be totally destroyed. This curious epistle was written, in an agony of fear, on a Sunday morning, during the memorable crisis of the Rye-House plot, and while Lord Russell was on the eve of his execution. Addressed to Lord Halifax, it was intended to meet the eye of the King. It evidently proves the writer's want of veracity in divers subsequent statements in his history. The future bishop also protests that he never will accept of any preferment, promises never more to oppose the Court, and intimates an intention to paint the King in the fairest light--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Here, then, says Mr. Napier,"
}
]
|
42783 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Locus Benedictus de Whalley"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "When moonlight Near midnight Tips the rock and waving wood; When moonlight Near midnight Silvers o'er the sleeping flood; When yew tops With dew-drops Sparkle o'er deserted graves; 'Tis then we fly Through welkin high, Then we sail o'er yellow waves."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Maudlins, a hedge carpenter named Davy Hanlan, better known to his neighbours by the sobriquet of"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Milleadh Maide, or"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Speilstick. Davy plied his trade with all the assiduity of an industrious man,"
}
]
|
42783 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "for his dear rib Winny. The moon had by this time ascended above the horizon, and by its silvery radiance depicted in delicate outline the hills rising in the distance, while the tender rays mixing with, and faintly illumining the gloom of the intermediate valleys, formed a mass of light and shade so exquisitely blended as to appear the work of enchantment. As Davy leaned on the parapet of the bridge, a thrill of alarm involuntarily disturbed his feelings: he was about to depart when he heard a clamorous sound, as of voices, proceeding from that part of the valley on which he still gazed. Curiosity now tempted him to listen still longer, when suddenly he saw a group of dwarfish beings emerging from the gloom, and coming rapidly towards him, along the green marsh that borders the Maudlin stream. Poor Davy was terror-stricken at this unusual sight; in vain he attempted to escape: he was, as it were, spellbound. Instantly the whole company gained the road beside him, and after a moment's consultation they simultaneously cried out,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Where is my horse? give me my horse! &c. In the twinkling of an eye they were all mounted. Davy's feelings may be more easily imagined than described, and in a fit of unconsciousness his tongue, as it were mechanically, articulated"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Where is my horse?"
}
]
|
42783 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The iron tongue of midnight had told twelve."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We cannot enter, the dust of the floor lies not behind the door."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We can enter here: and immediately, as if by enchantment, the door flew open, the party entered, and Davy, much astonished, found himself within the walls of a spacious wine-store. Instantly the heads of wine vessels were broken; bungs flew out; the carousing commenced; each boon companion pledged his friend, as he bedewed his whiskers in the sparkling beverage; and the wassail sounds float round the walls and hollow roof. Davy, not yet recovered from his surprise, stood looking on, but could not contrive to come at a drop: at length he asked a rather agreeable fairy who was close to him to help him to some."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "When I shall have done, said the fairy,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I will give you this goblet, and you can drink."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Away, away, my good fairies, away! Let's revel in moonlight, and shun the dull day."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "his means were soon exhausted. Winny took the goblet and pledged it with Mr. Alexander Whitney, the watchmaker, for five shillings. In a few days after a gentleman who lived not twenty miles from Creywell Cremony came in to Mr. Whitney's, saw the goblet, and recognised it as being once in his possession, and marked with the initials"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "M. R.,"
}
]
|
42783 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yet some seeke knowledge, meerely to be knowne, And idle curiositie that is; Some but to sell, not freely to bestow, These gaine and spend both time and health amisse; Embasing arts, by basely deeming so, Some to build others, which is charity, But those to build themselves, who wise men be."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Sunt namque qui scire volunt eo fine tantum, ut sciant: et turpis curiositas est. Et sunt item qui scire volunt, ut scientiam suam vendant, verbi causa pro pecunia, pro honoribus: et turpis quæstus est. Sed sunt quoque qui scire volunt, ut ædificentur: et prudentia est."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "("
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "N. & Q.,"
}
]
|
42783 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I find no saint with a name resembling _Munok_ in the common lists. Now this Note of mine has originated in the belief that I _have found_ such a name in the _Calendar of Saints_, or at any rate one very closely resembling it, if not the identical _Munok_."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "St. Marnok, B. patron of Killmarnock in Scotland, honoured on the 25th October in the Scots Calendar. Now"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Marnok"
}
]
|
42783 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "As an Encouragement to Regularity, Integrity, and good Conduct, This Stone was erected at the general Expense of the Inhabitants of this Town and Parish to perpetuate the Memory of MATTHEW ARCHER, who served the Office of Clerk with the utmost Punctuality and Decorum for upwards of Thirty Years. He died 15th December, 1793."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "On Saturday last, the Secretary to the Band of Gentleman Pensioners did, by order of the Duke of Montague their Captain, dispatch circular letters to the said gentlemen, signifying his Grace's pleasure to revive the ancient rules and orders that were practised at the time of the first institution of the Band in the reign of King Henry VII., viz. that five of the said Gentleman Pensioners shall attend constantly every day in the antechamber of the palace where His Majesty shall be resident, from ten in the forenoon till three in the afternoon, the usual time of His Majesty's retiring to go to dinner; and on every Drawing Room night from eight to twelve."
}
]
|
42783 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In this 22 yeare [of Edward III., A.D. 1348], from Midsummer to Christmasse, for the more part it continuallie rained, so that there was not one day and night drie togither, by reason whereof great flouds insued, and the ground therewith was sore corrupted, and manie inconueniences insued, as great sickenes, and other, insomuch that in the yeare following, in France, the people died wonderfullie in diverse places. In Italie also, and in manie other countries, as well in the lands of the infidels as in Christendome, this grieuous mortalitie reigned, to the great destruction of people. About the end of August, the like dearth began in diuerse places of England, and especiallie in London, continuing so for the space of twelue moneths following. And vpon that insued great barrennesse, as well of the sea as the land, neither of them yielding such plentie of things as before they had done. Wherevpon vittels and corne became scant and hard to come by."
}
]
|
42783 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It seems to have escaped the notice of all Pope's biographers, that when the Marquis Maffei visited Twickenham, in company with Lord Burlington and Dr. Mead, he found the English bard employed on a translation of his _Merope_: yet the public have been in possession of this anecdote about fifty years. The Marquis, in his answer to the celebrated letter addressed to him by Voltaire, says: 'Avendomi Mylord Conte di Burlington, e il Sig. Dottore Mead, l'uno e l'altro talenti rari, ed à quali quant' io debba non posso dire, condotto alla villa del Sig. Pope, ch' è il Voltaire dell Inghilterra, come voi siete il Pope della Francia, quel bravo Poeta mi fece vedere, che lavorava alla versione della mia Tragedia in versi Inglesi: se la terminasse, e che ne sia divenuto, non so.'--_La Merope_, ver. 1745, p. 180. With the fate of this version we are, and probably shall ever remain, unacquainted: it may, however, be safely presumed, that it was never finished to the satisfaction of the translator, and therefore committed to the flames."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "N. & Q., which may possibly elicit valuable information from some of your many correspondents. In the Archbishop of York's questions put to candidates for Holy Orders, Feb. 1850, occurred this Query:"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Church Catechism ... by whom was the latter part added and put into its present form; and whence is it chiefly derived?"
}
]
|
42783 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ce fut à Venise que Charles-Jean de Koenigsmark rencontra la belle Comtesse de Southampton, cette vaillante amoureuse qui, plantant la fortune et famille, le suivit désormais par le monde déguisée en page: romanesque anecdote que la princesse Palatine a consignée dans ses mémoires avec cette brusque rondeur de style qui ne marchande pas les expressions. 'Il doit être assez dans le caractère de quelques dames anglaises de suivre leurs amans. J'ai connu un Comte de Koenigsmark qu'une dame anglaise avait suivi en habit de page. Elle était avec lui à Chambord, et comme, faute de place, il ne pouvait loger au Château, il avait fait dresser dans la forêt une tente où il logeât. Il me raconta son aventure à la Masse; j'eu la curiosité de voir le soi-disant page. Je n'ai jamais rien vu de plus beau que cette figure: les plus beaux yeux du monde, une bouche charmante, une prodigieuse quantité de cheveux du plus beau brun, qui tombèrent en grosses boucles sur ses épaules. Elle sourit en me voyant, se doutant bien que je savais son secret. {65} Lorsqu'il partit de Chambord pour l'Italie, le Comte Koenigsmark se trouva dans une auberge, et en sortit le matin pour faire un tour de promenade. L'hotesse de cette maison courut après lui et lui cria: 'Montez vite là-haut, Monsieur, votre page accouche!' Le page accoucha en effet d'une fille: on mit la mère et l'enfant dans un couvent à Paris."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Les frères, cousins, et petits cousins de lady Southampton l'attendaient, et les duels se mirent à lui pleuvoir dessus. Comme son épée aimait assez à luire au soleil, il la tira volontiers, et avec une chance telle que ses ennemis, ne pouvant le vaincre par le fer, jugèrent à propos d'essayer du poison. Dégouté de perdre son temps à de pareilles misères, &c. &c. Tant que le comte a vecu il en a eu grand soin; mais il mourut en Morée, et le page fidèle ne lui survécut pas long-temps. Elle est morte comme une sainte."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What was her history?"
}
]
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42783 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "--In some parts of America, when a person has determined to give another a regular lecture, he will often be heard to say,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I will talk to him like a Dutch uncle;"
}
]
|
42783 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This was first translated by William Cunningham Cunningham (_sic_), a native of Carrick-on-Suir, born on Ballyrichard Road: his father and brother were blacksmiths; his grand-nephew Cunningham lives now a cowper (_sic_) in New Street in do. town."
}
]
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42783 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "STABIT QVOCVNQVE IECERIS."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Shob, or"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Shub, a Kentish Word._--Your correspondent on the Kentish word _sheets_ (Vol. vi., p. 338.) may possibly be able to give some account of another Kentish word, which I have met with in the country about Horton-Kirby, Dartford, Crayford, &c., and the which I cannot find in Halliwell, or any other dictionary in my possession,--viz. to _shob_ or _shub_. It is applied to the trimming up elm-trees in the hedge-rows, by cutting away all the branches except at the head:"
}
]
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42783 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "N. & Q."
}
]
|
42783 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Venantius, never appears, however, to have been able to obtain regular possession of the see of Armagh and primacy of Ireland, being merely titular archbishop. Some accounts state that he was blind from his childhood, but others say, and probably more correctly, that he was only short-sighted. He was present at the Council of Trent in 1545-47, being one of the four Irish prelates who attended there; and, in _Hist. del Concil. Trid._, l. ii. p. 144., he is alluded to as having been esteemed the _best at riding post in the world!_--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Huomo di brevissima vista era commendato di questa, di correr alla posta meglio d'huomo del mondo."
}
]
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42783 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "At Paignton Fair, near Exeter, the ancient custom of drawing through the town a plum-pudding of an immense size, and afterwards distributing it to the populace, _was revived_ on Tuesday last. The ingredients which composed this enormous pudding were as follows: 400 lbs. of flour, 170 lbs. of beef suet, 140 lbs. of raisins, and 240 eggs. It was kept constantly boiling in a brewer's copper from Saturday morning to the Tuesday following, when it was placed on a car decorated with ribbons, evergreens, &c., and drawn along the street by eight oxen."
}
]
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42783 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Whene'er I ask'd for blessings on your head, Nothing was cold or formal that I said; My warmest vows to Heaven were made for thee, And love still mingled with my piety."
}
]
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42783 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Thou ermin'd judge, pull off that sable cap."
}
]
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42783 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hymn to the Seasons,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But wandering oft, with brute, unconscious gaze, Man marks not Thee; marks not the mighty hand That, ever busy, wheels the silent spheres; Works in the secret deep; shoots, _steaming_, thence The fair profusion that o'erspreads the spring,"
}
]
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42783 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "For God will be your King to-day, And I'll be general under."
}
]
|
42783 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "--Where are the following lines to be found? I copy them from the print of Landseer's, called"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The Sanctuary."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "See where the startled wild fowl screaming rise, And seek in martial flight those golden skies. Yon wearied swimmer scarce can win the land, His limbs yet falter on the wat'ry strand. Poor hunted hart! the painful struggle o'er, How blest the shelter of that island shore! There, while he sobs his panting heart to rest, Nor hound nor hunter shall his lair molest."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ascension-day"
}
]
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42783 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "To tie the knot, says John Hope,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The White Horse Inn, says he,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Claudero, the son of Nimrod the Mighty Hunter,"
}
]
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42783 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Claudero's skull is ever dull, Without the sterling shilling:"
}
]
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42783 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'll hae this sodger ance a week a' the times he's in Edinburgh, and you (the countryman) I winna see again."
}
]
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42783 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The ballad-singers and the printers, Must surely now have starving winters; Their press they may break a' in splinters, I'm told they swear, Claudero's Muse, alas! we've tint her For ever mair."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Now Vice may rear her hydra head, And strike defenceless Virtue dead; Religion's heart may melt and bleed, With grief and sorrow, Since Satire from your streets is fled, Poor Edenburrow!"
}
]
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42783 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Lady Katherine Grey, daughter to Henry Grey Duke of Suffolk, by the eldest daughter of Charles Brandon, having formerly been married to the Earl of Pembroke's eldest son, and from him soon after lawfully divorced, was some years after found to be with child by Edward Seymour Earl of Hartford, who, being at that time in France, was presently sent for: and being examined before the Archbishop of Canterbury, and affirming they were lawfully married, but not being able within a limited time to produce witnesses of their marriage, they were both committed to the Tower."
}
]
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42783 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Though in pleading of his case, one John Hales argued they were lawful man and wife _by virtue of their own bare consent, without any ecclesiastical ceremony_."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The validity of this marriage being afterwards tried at Common Law, the minister who married them being present, and other circumstances agreeing, the jury (whereof John Digby, Esq., was foreman) found it a good marriage."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Stamford,"
}
]
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42783 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "N. & Q."
}
]
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42783 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Lately in Newington, Surrey, aged sixty, Mr. Bartholomew Howlett, antiquarian, draughtsman, and engraver. This artist was a pupil of Mr. Heath, and for many years devoted his talents to the embellishment of works on topography and antiquities. His principal publication, and which will carry his name down to posterity with respect as an artist, was _A Selection of Views in the County of Lincoln; comprising the Principal Towns and Churches, the Remains of Castles and Religious Houses, and Seats of the Nobility and Gentry; with Topographical and Historical Accounts of each View_. This handsome work was completed in 4to. in 1805. The drawings are chiefly by T. Girtin, Nattes, Nash, Corbould, &c., and the engravings are highly creditable to the burin of Mr. Howlett. Mr. Howlett was much employed by the late Mr. Wilkinson on his _Londina Illustrata_; by Mr. Stevenson in his second edition of Bentham's _Ely_; by Mr. Frost, in his recent _Notices of Hull_; and in numerous other topographical works. He executed six plans and views for Major Anderson's _Account of the Abbey of St. Denis_; and occasionally contributed to the _Gentleman's Magazine_, and engraved several plates for it. In 1817, Mr. Howlett issued proposals for _A Topographical Account of Clapham, in the County of Surrey, illustrated by Engravings_. These were to have been executed from drawings by himself, of which he made several, and also formed considerable collections; but we believe he only published one number, consisting of three plates and no letter-press. We hope the manuscripts he has left may form a groundwork for a future topographer. They form part of the large collections for Surrey, in the hands of Mr. Tytam. In 1826, whilst the Royal Hospital and Collegiate Church of St. Katharine, near the Tower, was pulling down, he made a series of drawings on the spot, which it was his intention to have engraved and published. But the greatest effort of his pencil was in the service of his kind patron and friend, John Caley, Esq., F.R.S., F.S.A., keeper of the records in the Augmentation Office. For this gentleman Mr. Howlett made finished drawings from upwards of a thousand original seals of the monastic and religious houses of this kingdom."
}
]
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42783 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It has been said that Chaucer was originally intended for the law, and that, from some cause which has not reached us, and on which it would be idle to speculate, the design was abandoned. The acquaintance he possessed with the classics, with divinity, with astronomy, with so much as was then known of chemistry, and indeed with every other branch of the scholastic learning of the age, proves that his education had been particularly attended to; and his attainments render it impossible to believe that he quitted college at the early period at which persons destined for a military life usually began their career. It was not then the custom for men to pursue learning for its own sake; and the most rational manner of accounting for the extent of Chaucer's acquirements, is to suppose that he was educated for a learned profession. The knowledge he displays of divinity would make it more likely that he was intended for the church than for the bar, were it not that the writings of the Fathers were generally read by all classes of students. One writer says that Chaucer was a member of the Inner Temple, and that while there he was fined two shillings for beating a Franciscan friar in Fleet Street[3]; and another (Leland) observes, that after he had travelled in France, 'collegia leguleiorum frequentavit.' Nothing, however, is positively known of Chaucer until the autumn of 1359, when he himself says he was in the army with which Edward III. invaded France, and that he served for the first time on that occasion."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The authority which of late has been principally relied upon with respect to Chaucer's legal education is that of Mr. Speght, who, in his _Life of Chaucer_, says, 'Not many yeeres since, Master Buckley did see a record in the same house [the Inner Temple], where Geoffrey Chaucer was fined two shillings for beating a Franciscane fryar in Fleet-streete.' This certainly {70} would be excellent evidence, were it not for the dark and ambiguous manner in which it is produced. I should have been glad that Mr. Speght had himself seen the record, instead of Master Buckley, of whom I suppose no one knows who he is: why did he not? I should have been better satisfied if the authority had not been introduced with so hesitating and questionable a phrase as 'not many yeeres since;' and I also think that it would have been better if Master Buckley had given us the date annexed to the record; as we should then at least have had the satisfaction of knowing whether it did not belong to some period before our author was born, or after he had been committed to the grave. Much stress, therefore, cannot be laid upon the supposition of Chaucer having belonged to the Society of the Inner Temple."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Speght, who states that a Mr. Buckley had seen a record of the Inner Temple to that effect."
}
]
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42783 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "With the addition of as _much free iodine_ as will give it a sherry colour."
}
]
|
42783 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The passage should run thus:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Of this solution take one drachm, and one drachm of saturated solution of gallic acid, and add to it two ounces and a half of distilled water."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "should be"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "and in the same article, _passim_,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "should be"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "and"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "should be"
}
]
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42783 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is only about a month since I saw Queen Philippa's tombstone in the church of Vadstena Monastery. It is a very large stone, on which the device and inscription are cut in outline, but there is no _brass_ about it. King Erik Menved's and Queen Ingeberg's monument in Ringsted Church is the finest brass I ever saw, and I have seen many."
}
]
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42783 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "N. & Q.,"
}
]
|
42783 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Coloniæ, apud Steph. Rolinum,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Analecta Sacra, Nova, et Mira, de Rebus Catholicorum in Hibernia: Divisa in tres partes, quarum I, Continet semestrem gravaminam relationem, secundâ hac editione novis adauctam additamentis, et Notis illustratam. II. Parænesin ad Martyres designatos. III. Processum Martyrialem quorundam Fidei Pugilium; Collectore et Relatore, T. N. Philadelpho."
}
]
|
42783 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "N. & Q., but as none of them give the exact information required, I now do so, though perhaps tardily. He was born 13th February, 1753, at Rome, where his father, Colin Erskine, a Jacobite, and exiled scion of the noble Scottish house of Erskine, Earls of Kellie, had taken up his residence."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Monsignor Charles Erskine, having embraced the ecclesiastical life at an early age, and passed through several gradations in the Church of Rome, was, in 1785,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Promotore della Fede,"
}
]
|
42783 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ne'er to these chambers, &c._ (Vol. vii., p. 14.).--In reply to ARAM'S Query:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Where do these lines come from? they come from Tickell's sublime and pathetic"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Elegy on the Death of Addison. ARAM ("
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Wits have short memories,"
}
]
|
42783 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ne'er to these chambers, where the mighty rest, Since their foundation, came a nobler guest, Nor e'er was to the bowers of bliss convey'd A fairer spirit, or more welcome shade."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Elegy on the Death of Addison,"
}
]
|
42783 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nor _e'er was to the bowers of bliss convey'd_ A _fairer_ spirit, or more welcome shade."
}
]
|
42783 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In some battle between the Russians and the Tartars, who are a wild sort of people in the north of Asia, a private soldier called out, 'Captain, halloo there! I've caught a Tartar!' 'Fetch him along then,' said the Captain. 'Ay, but he won't let me,' said the man. And the fact was the Tartar had caught him. So when a man thinks to take another in, and gets himself bit, they say he's caught a Tartar."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Imperial,"
}
]
|
42783 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "_ (Vol. vii., p. 13.).--ADSUM asks:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What is the derivation of the term _-itis_, used principally in medical words, and these signifying, inflammation? If"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "N. & Q. were a medical journal, the question might be answered at length, to the great advantage of the profession; for, of late years, this termination has been tacked on by medical writers, especially foreigners, to words of all kinds, in utter defiance of the rules of language: as if a Greek affix were quite a natural ending to a Latin or French noun. _-itis_ can with propriety be appended only to those Greek nouns whose adjectives end in [Greek: -itês]: _e.g._ [Greek: pleura, pleuritês]; [Greek: keras, keratitês], &c. [Greek: Pleuritis] is used by Hippocrates. [Greek: Pleura] means the membrane lining the side of the chest: [Greek: pleuritis] ([Greek: nodos] understood) is morbus lateralis, the side-disease, or pleurisy. In the same manner _keratitis_ is a very legitimate synonym for disease of the horny coat (cornea) of the eye. But medical writers, disregarding the rules of language, have, for some years past, revelled in the use of their favourite _-itis_ to a most ludicrous extent. Thus, from _cornea_, they make"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "and describe an inflammation of the crystalline lens as _lentitis_. Nay, some French and German writers on diseases of the eyes have coined the monstrous word"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Descemetitis, on the ground that one Monsieur Descemet discovered a structure in the eye, which, out of compliment to him, was called"
}
]
|
42783 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Amelia."
}
]
|
42783 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "NOTES AND QUERIES,"
}
]
|
42783 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Proclamations"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Fine by degrees and beautifully less."
}
]
|
42783 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Arnold Family,"
}
]
|
42783 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Notes and Queries"
}
]
|
42783 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A graceful addition to the lover of Ancient Minstrelsy, whether he be Irishman or not. A man need not be English to enjoy the Chevy Chace, nor Scotch to value the Border Minstrelsy. The extracts we have given from Dr. Drummond's work, so full of force and beauty, will satisfy him, we trust, he need not be Irish to enjoy the fruits of Dr. D.'s labours."
}
]
|
42783 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Bowyer Bible."
}
]
|
42783 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "THE BOWYER BIBLE,"
}
]
|
42783 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We can but hope, within the limited space at our disposal, to render a scanty and imperfect measure of justice to a work of such vast extent and varied erudition.... We would beg the reader, if he be disposed to doubt our opinion, to examine almost every single page out of the four thousand of which the work consists, in order that he may learn the true nature and extent of Mr. O'Donovan's editorial labours. Let him see the numberless minute verbal criticisms; the elaborate topographical annotations with which each page is loaded; the historical, genealogical, and biographical notices; the lucid and ingenious illustrations, drawn from the ancient laws, customs, traditions, and institutions of Ireland; the parallelisms and discrepancies of the narrative with that of other annalists, both native and foreign; the countless authorities which are examined and adjusted; the errors which are corrected; the omissions and deficiencies supplied; in a word, the curious and various learning which is everywhere displayed. Let him remember the mines from which all those treasures have been drawn are, for the most part, unexplored; that the materials thus laudably applied to the illustration of the text are in great part manuscripts which Ussher and Ware, even Waddy and Colgen, no to speak of Lynch and Lanigan, had never seen or left unexamined; many of them in a language which is to a great extent obsolete."
}
]
|
42783 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Though on a small scale, the feeling of some of the designs is admirable, specially those devoted to the illustration of spring and summer--the seasons which, both in poetry and painting, have the greatest amount of honour in this volume. The publisher is entitled to the praise of great care and attention to the appearance of the book; the colour and texture of the paper, the type, and the binding are unexceptionable. It is a book to do credit to any publisher."
}
]
|
10418 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Broad Highway,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "JENNIFER"
}
]
|
10418 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "THE OLD ADAM"
}
]
|
10418 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "MAN WITH THE TIGER MARK"
}
]
|
10418 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Temperament,"
}
]
|
10418 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Baxter."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Sir?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Take a seat."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Thank you sir."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Baxter, I wish to consult with you."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "As between Master and Servant, sir?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "As between man and man, Baxter."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Very good, Mr. George, sir!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I should like to hear your opinion, Baxter, as to what is the proper, and most accredited course to adopt when one has been--er--crossed in love?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why sir, began Baxter, slightly wrinkling his smooth brow,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Name them, Baxter."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "First, Mr. George, there is what I may term, the Course Retaliatory,--which is Marriage--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Marriage?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "With--another party, sir,--on the principle that there are as good fish in the sea as ever came out, and--er--pebbles on beaches, sir; you understand me, sir?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Perfectly, go on."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Secondly, there is the Army, sir, I have known of a good many enlistments on account of blighted affections, Mr. George, sir; indeed, the Army is very popular."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ah? said Bellew, settling the tobacco in his pipe with the aid of the salt-spoon,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Proceed, Baxter."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Thirdly, Mr. George, there are those who are content to--to merely disappear."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hum!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And lastly sir, though it is usually the first,--there is dissipation, Mr. George. Drink, sir,--the consolation of bottles, and--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Exactly! nodded Bellew."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now Baxter, he pursued, beginning to draw diagrams on the table-cloth with the salt-spoon,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You mean, Mr. George,--speaking as between man and man of course,--you mean that you are in the unfortunate position of being--crossed in your affections, sir?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Also--heart-broken, Baxter."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Certainly, sir!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Miss Marchmont marries the Duke of Hyde,--in three weeks, Baxter."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Indeed, sir!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You were, I believe, aware of the fact that Miss Marchmont and I were as good as engaged?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I had--hem!--gathered as much, sir."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then--confound it all, Baxter!--why aren't you surprised?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am quite--over-come, sir!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Consequently, pursued Bellew,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am--er--broken-hearted, as I told you--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Certainly, sir."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Crushed, despondent, and utterly hopeless, Baxter, and shall be, henceforth, pursued by the--er--Haunting Spectre of the Might Have Been."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Very natural, sir, indeed!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I could have hoped, Baxter, that, having served me so long,--not to mention my father, you would have shown just a--er shade more feeling in the matter."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And if you were to ask me,--as between man and man sir,--why I don't show more feeling, then, speaking as the old servant of your respected father, Master George, sir,--I should beg most respectfully to say that regarding the lady in question, her conduct is not in the least surprising, Miss Marchmont being a beauty, and aware of the fact, Master George. Referring to your heart, sir, I am ready to swear that it is not even cracked. And now, sir,--what clothes do you propose to wear this morning?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And pray, why should you be so confident of regarding the--er--condition of my heart?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Because, sir,--speaking as your father's old servant, Master George, I make bold to say that I don't believe that you have ever been in love, or even know what love is, Master George, sir."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Nevertheless, said he, shaking his head,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I can see for myself but the dreary perspective of a hopeless future, Baxter, blasted by the Haunting Spectre of the Might Have Been;--I'll trouble you to push the cigarettes a little nearer."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And now, sir, said Baxter, as he rose to strike, and apply the necessary match,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Something in tweeds."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Tweeds, sir! surely you forget your appointment with the Lady Cecily Prynne, and her party? Lord Mountclair had me on the telephone, last night--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Also a good, heavy walking-stick, Baxter, and a knap-sack."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A knap-sack, sir?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I shall set out on a walking tour--in an hour's time."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Certainly, sir,--where to, sir?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I haven't the least idea, Baxter, but I'm going--in an hour. On the whole, of the four courses you describe for one whose life is blighted, whose heart,--I say whose heart, Baxter, is broken,--utterly smashed, and--er--shivered beyond repair, I prefer to disappear--in an hour, Baxter."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Shall you drive the touring car, sir, or the new racer?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I shall walk, Baxter, alone,--in an hour."
}
]
|
10418 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Garden of England."
}
]
|
10418 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It be enough, said he,"
}
]
|
10418 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You be no--fool! panted the Waggoner, mopping his face with the end of his neckerchief."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Leastways--not wi' your fists."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, you are pretty good yourself, if it comes to that,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well? enquired Bellew, when he had recovered his breath somewhat,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ah! nodded the Waggoner,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Then suppose we--er--continue our journey?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ah! nodded the Waggoner again, beginning to roll down his sleeves,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Friend, said he, as the waggon creaked upon its way,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do you smoke?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ah!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then here are three cigars which you didn't manage to smash just now."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Cigars! why it ain't often as I gets so far as a cigar, unless it be Squire, or Parson,--cigars, eh!"
}
]
|
10418 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's the exercise, said he, speaking his thought aloud, as he stretched luxuriously upon his soft, and fragrant couch,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That's what they all say! nodded the Waggoner."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But I notice as them as says it, ain't over fond o' doing of it,--they mostly prefers to lie on their backs, an' talk about it,--like yourself."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hum! said Bellew,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A w'ot?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Blighted affections, then,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You aren't 'inting at--love, are ye?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I was, but, just at present, and here Bellew lowered his voice,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You don't mean to say as your 'eart's broke, do ye?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And why the deuce not? he retorted,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But, said the Waggoner,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Anthea! repeated Bellew, blinking drowsily up at the sky again,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Pretty,--ah,--an' so's Miss Anthea!--as a pict'er."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, really?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ah! nodded the Waggoner,"
}
]
|
10418 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yon's your way, nodded the Waggoner, pointing along the high road,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Dapplemere village lies over yonder, 'bout a mile."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Thank you very much, said Bellew,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Certainly not,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Then--what do ye want?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh well, I'll just go on lying here, and see what turns up,--so drive on, like the good fellow you are."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Can't be done!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why not?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why, since you ax me--because I don't have to drive no farther. There be the farm-house,--over the up-land yonder, you can't see it because o' the trees, but there it be."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What do I owe you?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Owe me!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "For the ride, and the--er--very necessary exercise you afforded me."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Lord! cried the Waggoner with a sudden, great laugh,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You certainly did!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hey!--what be this?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, I rather think it's five shillings, said Bellew."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's big enough, heaven knows. English money is all O.K., I suppose, but it's confoundedly confusing, and rather heavy to drag around if you happen to have enough of it--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ah! nodded the Waggoner,"
}
]
|
10418 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Good afternoon!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well met, my Lord Chesterfield! nodded Bellew, returning the salute,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Just a bit--on the elbow; but my name's George."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why--so is mine!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Though they call me 'Georgy-Porgy.'"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes I am."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then here is bread, and cheese, and bottled stout,--so fall to, good comrade."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Thank you, but I've got a piece of bread an' jam in my bundle,--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Bundle?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I dropped it as I came through the hedge, I'll get it,"
}
]
|
10418 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And pray, enquired Bellew, after they had munched silently together, some while,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don't know yet,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Good again! exclaimed Bellew,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Though I've been thinking of Africa,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Africa! repeated Bellew, staring,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, sighed Georgy Porgy,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I--er--beg your pardon--?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Money, you know, explained Georgy Porgy with a patient sigh,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And what does such a very small Georgy Porgy want so much money for?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, it's for my Auntie, you know, so she won't have to sell her house, an' go away from Dapplemere. She was telling me, last night, when I was in bed,--she always comes to tuck me up, you know, an' she told me she was 'fraid we'd have to sell Dapplemere an' go to live somewhere else. So I asked why, an' she said ''cause she hadn't any money,' an' 'Oh Georgy!' she said, 'oh Georgy, if we could only find enough money to pay off the--the--'"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mortgage?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes,--that's it, but how did you know?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Never mind how, go on with your tale, Georgy Porgy."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I see,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But I haven't found anything--yet, said Georgy Porgy, with a long sigh,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I s'pose money takes a lot of looking for, doesn't it?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sometimes, Bellew answered."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And do you live alone with your Auntie then, Georgy Porgy?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes;--most boys live with their mothers, but that's where I'm different, I don't need one 'cause I've got my Auntie Anthea."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Anthea!"
}
]
|
10418 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Please, said he, with a sudden diffidence,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Live, repeated Bellew, smiling,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But I--I mean--where is your home?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "My home, said Bellew, exhaling a great cloud of smoke,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That sounds an awful' long way off."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It _is_ an awful' long way off."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "An' where do you sleep while--while you're here?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Anywhere they'll let me. To-night I shall sleep at some inn, I suppose, if I can find one, if not,--under a hedge, or hay-rick."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh!--haven't you got any home of your own, then,--here?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And--you're not going home just yet,--I mean across the 'bounding billow?'"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not yet."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then--please-- the small boy's voice was suddenly tremulous and eager, and he laid a little, grimy hand upon Bellew's sleeve,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Georgy Porgy, said he,"
}
]
|
10418 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I think, said Bellew, as he lay, and puffed at his pipe again,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I think I'll call you Porges, it's shorter, easier, and I think, altogether apt; I'll be Big Porges, and you shall be Small Porges,--what do you say?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, it's lots better than Georgy Porgy, nodded the boy. And so Small Porges he became, thenceforth."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But, said he, after a thoughtful pause,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I think, if you don't mind, I'd rather call you----Uncle Porges. You see, Dick Bennet--the black-smith's boy, has three uncles an' I've only got a single aunt,--so, if you don't mind--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Uncle Porges it shall be, now and for ever, Amen!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "An' when d'you s'pose we'd better start?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Start where, nephew?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "To find the fortune."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hum!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If we could manage to find some,--even if it was only a very little, it would cheer her up so."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "To be sure it would,"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come on, my Porges, said he,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Where do you s'pose we'd better look first?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, first, I think we'd better find your Auntie Anthea."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But,--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But me no buts, my Porges, smiled Bellew, laying his hand upon his new-found nephew's shoulder,"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Auntie Anthea,"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Old Adam,--he's our man, you know, he says that farming isn't what it was in his young days, 'specially if you happen to be a woman, like my Auntie Anthea, an' he told me yesterday that if he were Auntie he'd give up trying, an' take Mr. Cassilis at his word."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Cassilis, ah!--And who is Mr. Cassilis?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He lives at 'Brampton Court'--a great, big house 'bout a mile from Dapplemere; an' he's always asking my Auntie to marry him, but 'course she won't you know."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why not?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, I think it's 'cause he's got such big, white teeth when he smiles,--an' he's always smiling, you know; but Old Adam says that if he'd been born a woman he'd marry a man all teeth, or no teeth at all, if he had as much money as Mr. Cassilis."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why--Georgy!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Good evening, Mr. Cassilis!"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why--what in the world have you been up to, boy? he enquired, regarding Bellew with no very friendly eye."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Your Aunt is worrying herself ill on your account,--what have you been doing with yourself all day?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I've been with Uncle Porges, Mr. Cassilis."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "With whom?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "With his Uncle Porges, sir, Bellew rejoined,"
}
]
|
10418 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Uncle?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Porges,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I wasn't aware, began Mr. Cassilis,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Baptismal name--George, continued Bellew,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ah! said Mr. Cassilis, his eyes seeming to grow a trifle nearer together,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It is a singularly pleasing thought, smiled Bellew,"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Did you see his teeth, Uncle Porges?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I did."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He only smiles like that when he's awful' angry, said Small Porges shaking his head as the galloping hoof-strokes died away in the distance,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "An' what do you s'pose he went back for?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, Porges, it's in my mind that he has gone back to warn our Auntie Anthea of our coming."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Tired, my Porges?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Just a bit, you know,--but it isn't that. I was thinking that the day has almost gone, an' I haven't found a bit of the fortune yet."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why there's always to-morrow to live for, my Porges."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, 'course--there's always to-morrow; an' then,--I did find you, you know, Uncle Porges."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "To be sure you did, and an uncle is better than nothing at all, isn't he,--even if he is rather dusty and disreputable of exterior. One doesn't find an uncle every day of one's life, my Porges, no sir!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "An' you are so nice an' big, you know!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Long, would be a better word, perhaps,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "An' wide, too!"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "This, said he,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "King Arthur"
}
]
|
10418 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "King Arthur, and she, hearing his voice, turned and ran to meet him, and sank upon her knees before him, and clasped him against her heart, and rejoiced, and wept, and scolded him, all in a breath. Wherefore Bellew, unobserved, as yet in"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "King Arthur's"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "You see, Auntie, I went out to try an' find a fortune for you, Small Porges was explaining,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "My dear, dear, brave Georgy!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Wait a minute, please Auntie, he said excitedly,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Uncle Porges! said Anthea, starting,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh! that must be the man Mr. Cassilis mentioned--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "So I brought him with me, pursued Small Porges,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and he pointed triumphantly towards"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "King Arthur."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh,--wait, please!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I--I want to thank you for--taking care of my nephew. If you will come up to the house cook shall give you a good meal, and, if you are in need of work, I--I--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Thank you!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh!--I beg your pardon!"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "I beg your pardon! said she again,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I--I thought--Mr. Cassilis gave me to understand that you were--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A very dusty, hungry-looking fellow, perhaps, smiled Bellew,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But-- said Anthea, and stopped, and tapped the grass nervously with her foot, and twisted one of her bonnet-strings, and meeting Bellew's steady gaze, flushed again,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My Uncle Porges, her nephew chimed in,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why--Georgy--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Pray do, Miss Anthea, said he in his quiet, easy manner."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "My name is Bellew, he went on to explain,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am an American, without family or friends, here, there or anywhere, and with nothing in the world to do but follow the path of the winds. Indeed, I am rather a solitary fellow, at least--I was, until I met my nephew Porges here. Since then, I've been wondering if there would be--er--room for such as I, at Dapplemere?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, there would be plenty of room,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "As to my character, pursued Bellew,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If that would be sufficient--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It is--a great deal too much!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Pardon me!--but I think not, said Bellew, shaking his head,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Three would be ample!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Very well, said Bellew,"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Pray be reasonable, he said in his gentle voice,"
}
]
|
10418 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You are dreadfully persistent! she said,"
}
]
|
10418 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Manor,"
}
]
|
10418 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Bad Old Times --memorials of the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Dark Ages --when lath and stucco existed not, and the"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Jerry-builder"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Milk and sugar, Mr. Bellew?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Thank you!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This is blackberry, an' this is raspberry an' red currant--but the blackberry jam's the best, Uncle Porges!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Thank you, nephew."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now aren't you awful' glad I found you--under that hedge, Uncle Porges?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Nephew,--I am!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nephew?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh yes! nodded Bellew,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Under a hedge, you know!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Wasn't it a very sudden, and altogether--unheard of proceeding?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, it might have been if it had happened anywhere but in Arcadia."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What do you mean by Arcadia, Uncle Porges?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A place I've been looking for--nearly all my life, nephew. I'll trouble you for the blackberry jam, my Porges."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, try the blackberry,--Aunt Priscilla made it her very own self."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You know it's perfectly--ridiculous!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What is, Miss Anthea?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why that you should be sitting here calling Georgy your nephew, and that I should be pouring out tea for you, quite as a matter of course."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It seems to me the most delightfully natural thing in the world,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But--I've only known you--half an hour--!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But then, friendships ripen quickly--in Arcadia."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I wonder what Aunt Priscilla will have to say about it!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Aunt Priscilla?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She is our housekeeper,--the dearest, busiest, gentlest little housekeeper in all the world; but with--very sharp eyes, Mr. Bellew. She will either like you very much,--or--not at all! there are no half measures about Aunt Priscilla."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Now I wonder which it will be,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, she'll like you, a course! nodded Small Porges,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I know she'll like you 'cause you're so different to Mr. Cassilis,--he's got black hair, an' a mestache, you know, an' your hair's gold, like mine,--an' your mestache--isn't there, is it? An' I know she doesn't like Mr. Cassilis, an' I don't, either, 'cause--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She will be back to-morrow, said Anthea, silencing Small Porges with a gentle touch of her hand,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "An' sometimes it doesn't pay at all, you know! added Small Porges,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It was very good, and brave of you, dear, said she in her soft, thrilling voice,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But, Georgy dear,--fortunes are very hard to find,--especially round Dapplemere, I'm afraid!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, that's why I was going to Africa, you know."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Africa! she repeated,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Africa!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh yes, nodded Bellew,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Only Uncle Porges said it was a goodish way off, you know, so I 'cided to stay an' find the fortune nearer home."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "God bless the man who first discovered sleep. But damn the man with curses loud, and deep, who first invented--early rising."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "When I am dead, diddle, diddle, as well may hap, Bury me deep, diddle, diddle, under the tap, Under the tap, diddle, diddle, I'll tell you why, That I may drink, diddle, diddle, when I am dry."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "What,--be that you, sir? he enquired, at last, and then,--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Lord! an' what be you a doing of up theer?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, sleeping, of course,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "W'ot--again! exclaimed the Waggoner with a grin,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Not when you're anywhere about!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Was it me as woke ye then?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Your singing did."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "My singin'! Lord love ye, an' well it might! My singin' would wake the dead,--leastways so Prudence says, an' she's generally right, --leastways, if she ain't, she's a uncommon good cook, an' that goes a long way wi' most of us. But I don't sing very often unless I be alone, or easy in my mind an' 'appy-'earted,--which I ain't."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not by no manner o' means, I ain't,--contrariwise my 'eart be sore an' full o' gloom,--which ain't to be wondered at, nohow."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And yet you were singing."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Aye, for sure I were singin', but then who could help singin' on such a mornin' as this be, an' wi' the black-bird a-piping away in the tree here. Oh! I were singin', I don't go for to deny it, but it's sore 'earted I be, an' filled wi' gloom sir, notwithstanding."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You mean, said Bellew, becoming suddenly thoughtful,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Lord bless you, no sir! This ain't no spectre, nor yet no skellington,--which, arter all, is only old bones an' such,--no this ain't nothin' of that sort, an' no more it ain't a thing as I can stand 'ere a maggin' about wi' a long day's work afore me, axing your pardon, sir."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "I think, said Bellew, as he came up,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I think you must be the Adam I have heard of."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That be my name, sir."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Then Adam, fill your pipe,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes sir, he nodded, inhaling the tobacco with much apparent enjoyment,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Adam I were baptized some thirty odd year ago, but I generally calls myself 'Old Adam,'"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But you're not old, Adam."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why, it ain't on account o' my age, ye see sir,--it be all because o' the Old Adam as is inside o' me. Lord love ye! I am nat'rally that full o' the 'Old Adam' as never was. An' 'e's alway a up an' taking of me at the shortest notice. Only t'other day he up an' took me because Job Jagway ('e works for Squire Cassilis, you'll understand sir) because Job Jagway sez as our wheat, (meanin' Miss Anthea's wheat, you'll understand sir) was mouldy; well, the 'Old Adam' up an' took me to that extent, sir, that they 'ad to carry Job Jagway home, arterwards. Which is all on account o' the Old Adam,--me being the mildest chap you ever see, nat'rally,--mild? ah! sucking doves wouldn't be nothin' to me for mildness."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And what did the Squire have to say about your spoiling his man?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Wrote to Miss Anthea, o' course, sir,--he's always writing to Miss Anthea about summat or other,--sez as how he was minded to lock me up for 'sault an' battery, but, out o' respect for her, would let me off, wi' a warning."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Miss Anthea was worried, I suppose?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Worried, sir! 'Oh Adam!' sez she, 'Oh Adam! 'aven't I got enough to bear but you must make it 'arder for me?' An' I see the tears in her eyes while she said it. Me make it 'arder for her! Jest as if I wouldn't make things lighter for 'er if I could,--which I can't; jest as if, to help Miss Anthea, I wouldn't let 'em take me an'--well, never mind what,--only I would!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, I'm sure you would, nodded Bellew."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And is the Squire over here at Dapplemere very often, Adam?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, not so much lately, sir. Last time were yesterday, jest afore Master Georgy come 'ome. I were at work here in the yard, an' Squire comes riding up to me, smiling quite friendly like,--which were pretty good of him, considering as Job Jagway ain't back to work yet. 'Oh Adam!' sez he, 'so you're 'aving a sale here at Dapplemere, are you?' Meaning sir, a sale of some bits, an' sticks o' furnitur' as Miss Anthea's forced to part wi' to meet some bill or other. 'Summat o' that sir,' says I, making as light of it as I could. 'Why then, Adam,' sez he, 'if Job Jagway should 'appen to come over to buy a few o' the things,--no more fighting!' sez he. An' so he nods, an' smiles, an' off he rides. An' sir, as I watched him go, the 'Old Adam' riz up in me to that extent as it's a mercy I didn't have no pitchfork 'andy."
}
]
|
10418 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "So that was why you were feeling gloomy, was it, Adam?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ah! an' enough to make any man feel gloomy, I should think. Miss Anthea's brave enough, but I reckon 'twill come nigh breakin' 'er 'eart to see the old stuff sold, the furnitur' an' that,--so she's goin' to drive over to Cranbrook to be out o' the way while it's a-doin'."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And when does the sale take place?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The Saturday arter next, sir, as ever was, Adam answered."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But--hush,--mum's the word, sir!"
}
]
|
10418 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Good morning! said he, rising and, to all appearance, addressing the curl in question,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Early, Mr. Bellew!--why I've been up hours. I'm generally out at four o'clock on market days; we work hard, and long, at Dapplemere,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Aye, for sure! nodded Adam,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But I think we shall do well with the hops, Adam."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They ought to be ready for picking, soon,--do you think sixty people will be enough?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ah!--they'll be more'n enough, Miss Anthea."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And, Adam--the five-acre field should be mowed today."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'll set the men at it right arter breakfast,--I'll 'ave it done, trust me, Miss Anthea."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I do, Adam,--you know that!"
}
]
|
10418 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do you--like Dapplemere, Mr. Bellew?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Like it! he repeated,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm so glad! she answered, her eyes glowing with pleasure."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It was a much larger property, once,--Look! and she pointed away across corn-fields and rolling meadow to the distant woods."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In my grandfather's time it was all his--as far as you can see, and farther, but it has dwindled since then, and to-day, my Dapplemere is very small indeed."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You must be very fond of such a beautiful place."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, I love it! she cried passionately,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "She stopped suddenly, and as though somewhat abashed by this sudden outburst, adding in a lighter tone:"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If I seem rather tragic it is because this is the only home I have ever known."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, said Bellew, appearing rather more dreamy than usual, just then,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have journeyed here and there in this world of ours, I have wandered up and down, and to and fro in it,--like a certain celebrated personage who shall be nameless,--yet I never saw, or dreamed, of any such place as this Dapplemere of yours. It is like Arcadia itself, and only I am out of place. I seem, somehow, to be too common-place, and altogether matter-of-fact."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm sure I'm matter-of-fact enough,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You are like some fair, and stately lady out of the old romances,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "In a print gown, and with a sun-bonnet!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Even so! he nodded. Here, for no apparent reason, happening to meet his glance, the colour deepened in her cheek and she was silent; wherefore Bellew went on, in his slow, placid tones."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You surely, are the Princess ruling this fair land of Arcadia, and I am the Stranger within your gates. It behoves you, therefore, to be merciful to this Stranger, if only for the sake of--er--our mutual nephew."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, Uncle Porges! he panted as he came up,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I was 'fraid you'd gone away an' left me,--I've been hunting, an' hunting for you ever since I got up."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, I haven't gone away yet, my Porges, you see."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "An' you won't go--ever or ever, will you?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That, said Bellew, taking the small hand in his,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But--why!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, you see, it doesn't rest with me--altogether, my Porges."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Then who--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Georgy dear, didn't Prudence send you to tell us that breakfast was ready?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh yes! I was forgetting,--awfull' silly of me wasn't it! But you are going to stay--Oh a long, long time, aren't you, Uncle Porges?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I sincerely hope so!"
}
]
|
10418 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm awful' glad! sighed Small Porges,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why--of course!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Y-e-s,--Oh Georgy!--what are you talking about?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why I mean I'm rather small to take care of you all by myself alone, Auntie, though I do my best of course. But now that I've found myself a big, tall Uncle Porges,--under the hedge, you know,--we can take care of you together, can't we, Auntie Anthea?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You 'member the other night, Auntie, when you were crying, you said you wished you had some one very big, and strong to take care of you--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh--Georgy!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But you did you know, Auntie, an' so that was why I went out an' found my Uncle Porges for you,--so that he--"
}
]
|
10418 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh! she exclaimed, and then again,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh Georgy!"
}
]
|
10418 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I wonder why she runned away, Uncle Porges?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ah, I wonder!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hum!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "An Auntie takes an awful lot of looking after!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, nodded Bellew,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I suppose so,--especially if she happens to be young, and--er--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "An' what, Uncle Porges?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Beautiful, nephew."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh! Do you think she's--really beautiful?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm afraid I do,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "So does Mr. Cassilis,--I heard him tell her so once--in the orchard."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hum!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ah! but you ought to see her when she comes to tuck me up at night, with her hair all down, an' hanging all about her--like a shiny cloak, you know."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hum!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Please Uncle Porges, said Georgy, turning to look up at him,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I was thinking, my Porges."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I do admit the soft impeachment, sir."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, I'm thinking too."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What is it, old chap?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm thinking we ought to begin to find that fortune for her after breakfast."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, it isn't quite the right season for fortune hunting, yet--at least, not in Arcadia,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh!--but why not?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, the moon isn't right, for one thing."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The moon!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh yes,--we must wait for a--er--a Money Moon, you know,--surely you've heard of a Money Moon?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "sighed Small Porges regretfully,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They're often much the same!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But when will the Money Moon come, an'--how?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I can't exactly say, my Porges, but come it will one of these fine nights. And when it does we shall know that the fortune is close by, and waiting to be found. So, don't worry your small head about it,--just keep your eye on your uncle."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We know!"
}
]
|
10418 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Won't they balance?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh yes, she answered with a rueful little smile,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I know,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If only we had done better with our first crop of wheat!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Job Jagway said it was mouldy, you know,--that's why Adam punched him in the--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Georgy,--go on with your work, sir!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, Auntie!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm building all my hopes, this year, on the hops, said Anthea, sinking her head upon her hand,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I--daren't think of it!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then don't--let us talk of something else--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes,--of Aunt Priscilla! nodded Anthea,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And pray who is Aunt Priscilla?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Go and meet her."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Go and find her--in the orchard! repeated Anthea,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh do go, and leave us to our work."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "King Arthur"
}
]
|
10418 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Good morning, Mr. Bellew! she said in response to his salutation,"
}
]
|
10418 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am Miss Anthea's house-keeper, she went on,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I was away when you arrived, looking after one of Miss Anthea's old ladies,--pray be seated. Miss Anthea,--bless her dear heart!--calls me her aunt, but I'm not really--Oh dear no! I'm no relation at all! But I've lived with her long enough to feel as if I was her aunt, and her uncle, and her father, and her mother--all rolled into one,--though I should be rather small to be so many,--shouldn't I?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I tell you all this, she went on, keeping pace to her flying needle,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "she continued, glancing up at him side-ways,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I like you just as much as I dislike Mr. Cassilis,--heigho! how I do--detest that man! There, now that's off my mind!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And why?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dear me, Mr. Bellew I--how should I know, only I do,--and what's more--he knows it too! And how, she enquired, changing the subject abruptly,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Very!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You sleep well?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Like a top!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Any complaints, so far?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "None whatever,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That is very well. We have never had a boarder before, and Miss Anthea,--bless her dear soul! was a little nervous about it. And here's the Sergeant!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I--er--beg your pardon--?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Sergeant! repeated Miss Priscilla, with a prim little nod,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Sergeant Appleby, late of the Nineteenth Hussars,--a soldier every inch of him, Mr. Bellew,--with one arm--over there by the peaches."
}
]
|
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