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10418 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Got it?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have, sir."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Good! nodded Bellew."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Now just run around to the garage, and fetch the new racing car,--the Mercedes."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now, sir?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Now, Baxter!"
}
]
|
10418 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh!--that you, Baxter? said he, sitting up,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The car is at the door, sir."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The car?--ah yes, to be sure!--Baxter."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Sir?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What should you say if I told you--"
}
]
|
10418 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Baxter,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Sir?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What should you say if I told you that I was in love--at last, Baxter!--Head over ears--hopelessly--irretrievably?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Say, sir?--why I should say,--indeed, sir?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What should you say, pursued Bellew, staring thoughtfully down at the rug under his feet,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I should say--very remarkable, sir!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Baxter, said he,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Thank you, Master George, sir."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I wish to--confess to you, John, that--er--regarding the--er--Haunting Spectre of the Might Have Been,--you were entirely in the right. At that time I knew no more the meaning of the--er--the word, John--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Meaning the word--Love, Master George!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Precisely; I knew no more about it than--that table. But during these latter days, I have begun to understand, and--er--the fact of the matter is--I'm--I'm fairly--up against it, John!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Master George, said he,"
}
]
|
10418 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Baxter, said he,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Master George, sir,--there was a poet once--Tennyson, I think, who said,--'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all,' and I know--that he was--right. Many years ago,--before you were born, Master George, I loved--and lost, and that is how I know. But I hope that Fortune will be kinder to you, indeed I do."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Thank you, John,--though I don't see why she should be."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Pray sir, what are your orders, the car is waiting downstairs?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Orders?--why--er--pack your grip, Baxter, I shall take you with me, this time, into Arcadia, Baxter."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "For how long, sir?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Probably a week."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Very good, sir."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is now half-past three, I must be back in Dapplemere at eight. Take your time--I'll go down to look at the machine. Just lock the place up, and--er--don't forget the black bag."
}
]
|
10418 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "So you see, John, if all things _do_ go well with me, we should probably take a trip to the Mediterranean."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "In the--'Silvia,' of course, Master George?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes; though--er--I've decided to change her name, John."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ah!--very natural--under the circumstances, Master George, said honest John, his eyes twinkling slyly as he spoke,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now, if I might suggest a new name it would be hard to find a more original one than 'The Haunting Spectre of the--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Bosh, John!--there never was such a thing, you were quite right, as I said before, and--by heaven,--potato sacks!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Eh,--what?--potato sacks, Master George?"
}
]
|
10418 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hallo there! cried Bellew, slowing up,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Get out, now! growled the surly-faced man, in a tone as surly as his look,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well,--empty one."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Get out, now!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'll give you a sovereign for one."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Now, don't ye try to come none o' your jokes wi' me, young feller! growled the carter."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sovereign!--bah!--Show us."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Here it is, said Bellew, holding up the coin in question."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Catch!"
}
]
|
10418 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's a go, sir,"
}
]
|
10418 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I leave you here, said he as he sprang from the car,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Is it far, Master George?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "About half a mile."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Here is the bag, sir; but--do you think it is--quite safe--?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Safe, John?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Under the circumstances, Master George, I think it would be advisable to--to take this with you."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Such things aren't necessary--here in Arcadia, John,--besides, I have my stick. So good-bye, for the present, you'll stay at the 'King's Head,'--remember."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Good-night, Master George, sir, goodnight! and good fortune go with you."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Thank you! said Bellew, and reached out his hand,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I think we'll shake on that, John!"
}
]
|
10418 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "King Arthur. Never did conspirator glance about him with sharper eyes, or hearken with keener ears, than did George Bellew,--or Conspirator No. One, where he now stood beneath the protecting shadow of"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "King Arthur,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "King Arthur"
}
]
|
10418 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ah?--Mr. Bellew!"
}
]
|
10418 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You are still agriculturally inclined, I see, said Mr. Cassilis, nodding towards the spade,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not at all, sir--not at all, returned Bellew solemnly,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, sir,--and what of that?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "When the moon is at the full, or nearly so, I generally dig, sir,--that is to say, circumstances permitting."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Really, said Mr. Cassilis beginning to caress his moustache,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That is because you have probably never experienced the fierce joys of moon-light digging, sir."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, Mr. Bellew,--digging--as a recreation, has never appealed to me at any time."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Then sir, said Bellew, shaking his head,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Wouldn't it be rather more apropos if you said--'Good-bye' Mr. Bellew? he enquired."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You are leaving Dapplemere, shortly, I understand,--aren't you?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why sir, returned Bellew, grave, and imperturbable as ever,--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Depends!--upon what, may I ask?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The moon, sir."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The moon?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Precisely!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And pray--what can the moon have to do with your departure?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A great deal more than you'd think--sir. Had I the time, I should be delighted to explain to you exactly how much, as it is,--permit me to wish you a very--good evening!"
}
]
|
10418 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You'll do!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That deep hush which seems a sigh Breathed by Earth to listening sky."
}
]
|
10418 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I s'pose you think I bother you an awful lot, dear Lord,--an' so I do, but you haven't sent the Money Moon yet, you see, an' now my Auntie Anthea's got to leave Dapplemere--if I don't find the fortune for her soon. I know I'm crying a lot, an' real men don't cry,--but it's only 'cause I'm awful--lonely an' disappointed,--an' nobody can see me, so it doesn't matter. But, dear Lord, I've looked an' looked everywhere, an' I haven't found a single sovereign yet,--an' I've prayed to you, an' prayed to you for the Money Moon an'--it's never come. So now, dear Lord, I'm going to Africa, an' I want you to please take care of my Auntie Anthea till I come back. Sometimes I'm 'fraid my prayers can't quite manage to get up to you 'cause of the clouds, an' wind, but to-night there isn't any, so, if they do reach you, please--Oh! please let me find the fortune, and, if you don't mind, let--_him_ come back to me, dear Lord,--I mean my Uncle Porges, you know. An' now--that's all, dear Lord, so Amen!"
}
]
|
10418 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why--my Porges! said Bellew, a trifle huskily, perhaps,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, Uncle Porges!--then you--have come back to me!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Aye, aye, Shipmate."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why, then--my prayers _did_ reach!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, of course,--prayers always reach, my Porges."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Then, oh!--do you s'pose I shall find the fortune, too?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Not a doubt of it,--just look at the moon!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The--moon?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, haven't you noticed how--er--peculiar it is to-night?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Peculiar?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, yes, my Porges,--big, you know, and--er--yellow,--like--er--like a very large sovereign."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Do you mean--Oh! do you mean--it's--the--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Money Moon?--Oh yes--there she is at last, my Porges! Take a good look at her, I don't suppose we shall ever see another."
}
]
|
10418 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm so--glad! he whispered."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "So--awful--glad!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Quick, Uncle Porges! said he,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mr. Grimes is coming to-night, you know--an' we must find the money in time. Where shall we look first?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, I guess the orchard will do--to start with."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Then let's go--now."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But we shall need a couple of spades, Shipmate."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh!--must we dig?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes,--I fancy that's a--er--digging moon, my Porges, from the look of it. Ah! there's a spade, nice and handy, you take that and I'll--er--I'll manage with this pitchfork."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But you can't dig with a--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh! well--you can do the digging, and I'll just--er--prod, you know. Ready?--then heave ahead, Shipmate."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's an awful big place to dig up a fortune in! said Small Porges, glancing about."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Where do you s'pose we'd better begin?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, Shipmate, between you and me, and the pitch-fork here, I rather fancy 'King Arthur' knows more than most people would think. Any way, we'll try him. You dig on that side, and I'll prod on this."
}
]
|
10418 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I've got it!--Oh, Uncle Porges--I've found it!"
}
]
|
10418 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's all right, Uncle Porges! he nodded, his voice all of a quaver."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's all right, now,--I've found the fortune I've prayed for,--gold, you know, an' banknotes--in a sack. Everything will be all right again now."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Is it heavy, Shipmate?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Awful heavy! he panted,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Porges, said he,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "In the drawing-room, waiting for Mr. Grimes."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then, come this way."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Now, my Porges, he admonished him,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Aye, aye, Captain!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "When I say 'heave ahead, Shipmate,'--why, then, you will take your treasure upon your back and march straight into the room--you understand?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Aye, aye, Captain."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why, then--come on, and--mum's the word."
}
]
|
10418 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "All I can say is--as I'm very sorry for ye, Miss Anthea, Grimes was saying."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ah! that I am, but glad as you've took it so well,--no crying nor nonsense!"
}
]
|
10418 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And when--when shall ye be ready to--leave, to--vacate Dapplemere, Miss Anthea? Grimes went on."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not as I mean to 'urry you, mind,--only I should like you to--name a day."
}
]
|
10418 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come! come! expostulated Grimes, jingling the money in his pockets."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Come, come, Miss Anthea, mam!--all as I'm axing you is--when? All as I want you to do is--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mister Grimes, said he,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Miss Anthea's told ye all as you come here to find out,--she's told ye as she--can't pay, so now,--s'pose you--go."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But all I want to know is when she'll be ready to move, and I ain't a going till I do,--so you get out o' my way!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "S'pose you go!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Get out o' my way,--d'ye hear?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Because, Adam went on,"
}
]
|
10418 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't,--don't look that way, Miss Anthea, said Adam."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'd rayther see you cry, than look so. It be 'ard to 'ave to let the old place go, but--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Heave ahead, Shipmate!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's all right, Auntie Anthea! he cried,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I've got the fortune for you,--I've found the money I prayed for,--here it is, oh!--here it is!"
}
]
|
10418 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Grimes! he roared,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh! Grimes, come back an' be paid. Come back--we've had our little joke wi' you,--now come back an' be paid!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "King Arthur."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Happiness, said he, speaking his thought aloud,"
}
]
|
10418 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"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--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Lord! exclaimed the singer, breaking off suddenly,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yea, in good sooth, Adam, the very same,--but you sing, Adam?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ah!--I sing, Mr. Belloo, sir, an' if you ax me why, then I tell you because I be 'appy-'earted an' full o' j-o-y, j'y, sir. The mortgage be paid off at last, Mr. Belloo, sir,--Miss Anthea be out o' debt,--free, sir,--an' all along o' Master Georgy, God bless him!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh! said Bellew,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Good! exclaimed Adam,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ah, Mr. Belloo sir! it be more than good,--it's saved Miss Anthea's home for her, and--betwixt you an' me, sir,--I think it's saved her too. An' it be all along o' that Master Georgy! Lord sir! many's the time as I've watched that theer blessed b'y a-seekin', an' a-searchin', a pokin' an' a pryin' round the place a-lookin' for 'is fortun',--but, Lord bless my eyes an' limbs, sir!--I never thought as he'd find nothin'."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why, of course not, Adam."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ah!--but that's jest where I were mistook, Mr. Belloo, sir,--because 'e did."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Did what, Adam?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Found the fortun' as he were always a-lookin' for,--a sack o' golden soverings, sir, an' bank-notes, Mr. Belloo, sir,--bushels on 'em; enough--ah! more 'n enough to pay off that mortgage, and to send that theer old Grimes about his business,--an' away from Dapplemere for good an' all, sir."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "So Grimes is really paid off, then, is he, Adam?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I done it myself, sir,--wi' these here two 'ands,--Three thousand pound I counted over to him, an' five hundred more--in banknotes, sir, while Miss Anthea sat by like one in a dream. Altogether there were five thousand pound as that blessed b'y dug up out o' the orchard--done up all in a pertater sack, under this very i-dentical tree as you'm a set-tin' under Mr. Belloo sir. E'cod, I be half minded to take a shovel and have a try at fortun'-huntin' myself,--only there ain't much chance o' findin' another, hereabouts; besides--that b'y prayed for that fortun', ah! long, an' hard he prayed, Mr. Belloo sir, an'--'twixt you an' me, sir, I ain't been much of a pray-er myself since my old mother died. Anyhow, the mortgage be paid off, sir, Miss Anthea's free, an' 'tis joy'ful, an' 'appy-'earted I be this night. Prudence an' me'll be gettin' married soon now,--an' when I think of her cookin'--Lord, Mr. Belloo sir!--All as I say is God bless Master Georgy! Good-night, sir! an' may your dreams be as 'appy as mine,--always supposin' I do dream, --which is seldom. Good-night, sir!"
}
]
|
10418 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mr. Bellew!"
}
]
|
10418 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why did you--do it?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Do it?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I mean the--fortune. Georgy told me--how you--helped him to find it, and I--_know_ how it came there, of course. Why did you--do it?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You didn't tell him--how it came there?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, she answered,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I think it would break his heart--if he knew."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And I think it would have broken his heart if he had never found it, said Bellew,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Anthea!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't! she said, speaking almost in a whisper,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Because I--love you, Anthea, have loved you from the first. Because everything I possess in this world is yours--even as I am."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You forget! she broke in proudly,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Everything but my love for you, Anthea,--everything but that I want you for my wife. I'm not much of a fellow, I know, but--could you learn to--love me enough to--marry me--some day, Anthea?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Would you have--dared to say this to me--before to-night?--before your money had bought back the roof over my head? Oh! haven't I been humiliated enough? You--you have taken from me the only thing I had left--my independence,--stolen it from me! Oh! hadn't I been shamed enough?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Let me go!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, said he, shaking his head,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Loose my hands! She threw up her head proudly, and her eyes gleamed, and her cheeks flamed with sudden anger."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Loose me!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Tell me that you love me, or that you hate me--whichever it is, but, until you do--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You--hurt me!"
}
]
|
10418 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Anthea! he murmured, and the masterful voice was strangely hesitating, and the masterful arms about her were wonderfully gentle,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Anthea--do you--love me?"
}
]
|
10418 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Anthea! he said, wonderingly,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Anthea!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh! she whispered,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I--hate you!--despise you! Oh! you shall be paid back,--every penny,--every farthing, and--very soon! Next week--I marry Mr. Cassilis!"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Love"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Good-bye"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Good-bye"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "I suppose you will be piping away down in your tree there, old fellow, long after Arcadia has faded out of my life. Well, it will be only natural, and perfectly right, of course,--She will be here, and may, perhaps, stop to listen to you. Now if, somehow, you could manage to compose for me a Song of Memory, some evening when I'm gone,--some evening when She happens to be sitting idle, and watching the moon rise over the upland yonder; if, at such a time, you could just manage to remind her of--me, why--I'd thank you. And so,--Good-bye, old fellow!"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "King Arthur"
}
]
|
10418 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh Uncle Porges! panted a voice,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Going, said Bellew, searching through his pockets for a match,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But then--why have you brought your bag?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Bag! repeated Bellew, stooping down to look at it,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Please--why? persisted Small Porges, suddenly anxious."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why did you--bring it?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, I expect it was to--er--to bear me company. But how is it you are out so very early, my Porges?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why, I couldn't sleep, last night, you know, 'cause I kept on thinking, and thinking 'bout the fortune. So I got up--in the middle of the night, an' dressed myself, an' sat in the big chair by the window, an' looked at the Money Moon. An' I stared at it, an' stared at it till a wonderful thing happened,--an' what do you s'pose?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't know."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well,--all at once, while I stared up at it, the moon changed itself into a great, big face; but I didn't mind a bit, 'cause it was a very nice sort of face,--rather like a gnome's face, only without the beard, you know. An' while I looked at it, it talked to me, an' it told me a lot of things,--an' that's how I know that you are--going away, 'cause you are, you know,--aren't you?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, my Porges, said Bellew, fumbling with his pipe,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, I was 'fraid the moon was right,"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "And so, my Porges, if we have to say 'Good-bye' now,--the sooner we shall meet again,--some day--somewhere."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Does--she--know you're going,--I mean my Auntie Anthea?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh yes, she knows, Porges."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Then I s'pose that's why she was crying so, in the night--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Crying?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes;--she's cried an awful lot lately, hasn't she? Last night,--when I woke up, you know, an' couldn't sleep, I went into her room, an' she was crying--with her face hidden in the pillow, an' her hair all about her--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Crying!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes; an' she said she wished she was dead. So then, a course, I tried to comfort her, you know. An' she said 'I'm a dreadful failure, Georgy dear, with the farm, an' everything else. I've tried to be a father and mother to you, an' I've failed in that too,--so now, I'm going to give you a real father,'--an' she told me she was going to marry--Mr. Cassilis. But I said 'No'--'cause I'd 'ranged for her to marry you an' live happy ever after. But she got awful angry again an' said she'd never marry you if you were the last man in the world--'cause she 'spised you so--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And that would seem to--settle it! nodded Bellew gloomily,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh!--but wait a minute! cried Small Porges eagerly,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I haven't told you what the Moon said to me, last night--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ah!--to be sure, we were forgetting that!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why then--please sit down again, so I can speak into your ear, 'cause what the Moon told me to tell you was a secret, you know."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "By heaven!"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "And the moon will be at the full, tonight!"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "So--you quite understand, my Porges?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, yes--Oh I understand!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Where the little bridge spans the brook,--the trees are thicker, there."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Aye aye, Captain!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then--fare thee well, Shipmate! Goodbye, my Porges,--and remember!"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "And so--he--has really gone! Miss Priscilla sighed as she spoke, and looked up from her needle-work to watch Anthea who sat biting her pen, and frowning down at the blank sheet of paper before her."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And so, he is--really--gone?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Who--Mr. Bellew? Oh yes!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He went--very early!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And--without any breakfast!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That was--his own fault!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And without even--saying 'Good-bye'!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Perhaps he was in a hurry,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh dear me, no my dear! I don't believe Mr. Bellew was ever in a hurry in all his life."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, said Anthea, giving her pen a vicious bite,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don't believe he ever was; he is always so--hatefully placid, and deliberate!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Eh, my dear? exclaimed Miss Priscilla, pausing with her needle in mid-air,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Anthea!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I--hate him, Aunt Priscilla!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Eh?--My dear!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That was why I--sent him away."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You--sent him away?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But--Anthea--why?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh Aunt Priscilla!--surely you never--believed in the--fortune? Surely you guessed it was--_his_ money that paid back the mortgage,--didn't you, Aunt,--didn't you?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, my dear--. But then--he did it so very--tactfully, and--and--I had hoped, my dear that--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That I should--marry him, and settle the obligation that way, perhaps?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, yes my dear, I did hope so--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh!--I'm going to marry--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then why did you send--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm going to marry Mr. Cassilis--whenever he pleases!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Anthea!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He asked me to write and tell him if ever I changed my mind--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh--my dear! my dear! cried Miss Priscilla reaching out imploring hands,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Wait! repeated Anthea bitterly,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "To--marry--him! O Anthea! you never mean it? Think,--think what you are doing."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I thought of it all last night, Aunt Priscilla, and all this morning, and--I have made up my mind."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You mean to write--?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "To tell Mr. Cassilis that you will--marry him?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh my dear! she pleaded,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Dear Aunt Priscilla, I would rather marry one I don't love than have to live beholden all my days to a man that I--hate!"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sergeant, said she,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Anything you ask me, Miss Anthea, mam,--ever and always."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I want you to take this letter to--Mr. Cassilis,--will you?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Will you, Sergeant?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Since you ask me--Miss Anthea mam--I will."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Give it into his own hand."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Miss Anthea mam--I will."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Thank you!--here it is, Sergeant."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Begging your pardon, Miss Anthea mam--!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh!--you startled me, Adam,--what is it?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Begging your pardon, Miss Anthea, but is it true as Mr. Belloo be gone away--for good?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, Adam."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why then all I can say is--as I'm sorry,--ah! mortal sorry I be, an' my 'eart, mam, my 'eart likewise gloomy."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Were you so--fond of him, Adam?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, Miss Anthea,--considering as he were--the best, good-naturedest, properest kind o' gentleman as ever was; when I tell you as over an' above all this, he could use his fists better than any man as ever I see,--him having knocked me into a dry ditch, though, to be sure I likewise drawed his claret,--begging your pardon, I'm sure, Miss Anthea; all of which happened on account o' me finding him a-sleeping in your 'ay, mam;--when I tell you furthermore, as he treated me ever as a man, an' wern't noways above shaking my 'and, or smoking a pipe wi' me--sociable like; when I tell you as he were the finest gentleman, and properest man as ever I knowed, or heard tell on,--why, I think as the word 'fond' be about the size of it, Miss Anthea mam!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You used to sit together very often--under the big apple tree, didn't you, Adam?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ah!--many an' many a night, Miss Anthea."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Did he--ever tell you--much of his--life, Adam?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why yes, Miss Anthea,--told me summat about his travels, told me as he'd shot lions, an' tigers--away out in India, an' Africa."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Did he ever mention--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, Miss Anthea?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Did he ever speak of--the--lady he is going to marry?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Lady?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes,--the lady--who lives in London?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, Miss Anthea,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why--what do you mean?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I mean--as there never was no lady, Miss Anthea,--neither up to Lonnon, nor nowhere's else, as I ever heard on."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But--oh Adam!--you--told me--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ah!--for sure I told ye, but it were a lie, Miss Anthea,--leastways, it weren't the truth. Ye see, I were afraid as you'd refuse to take the money for the furnitur' unless I made ye believe as he wanted it uncommon bad. So I up an' told ye as he'd bought it all on account o' him being matrimonially took wi' a young lady up to Lonnon--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And then--you went to--him, and warned him--told him of the story you had invented?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I did, Miss Anthea; at first, I thought as he were going to up an' give me one for myself, but, arterwards he took it very quiet, an' told me as I'd done quite right, an' agreed to play the game. An' that's all about it, an' glad I am as it be off my mind at last. Ah' now, Miss Anthea mam, seeing you're that rich--wi' Master Georgy's fortun',--why you can pay back for the furnitur'--if so be you're minded to. An' I hope as you agree wi' me as I done it all for the best, Miss Anthea?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why--what is it, Miss Anthea?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nothing, Adam,--I haven't slept well, lately--that's all"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ah, well!--you'll be all right again now,--we all shall,--now the mortgage be paid off,--shan't we, Miss Anthea?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, Adam."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We 'ad a great day--over to Cranbrook, Master Georgy an' me, he be in the kitchen now, wi' Prudence--a-eating of bread an' jam. Good-night, Miss Anthea mam, if you should be wanting me again I shall be in the stables,--Good-night, Miss Anthea!"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh! she whispered,"
}
]
|
10418 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Song of Memory."
}
]
|
10418 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "King Arthur,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why,--I do believe you're crying, Auntie Anthea, an' why are you here--all alone, an' by yourself?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I was listening to the Black-bird, dear,--I never heard him sing quite so--beautifully, before."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But black-birds don't make people cry,--an' I know you've been crying--'cause you sound--all quivery, you know."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do I, Georgy?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes,--is it 'cause you feel--lonely?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes dear."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You've cried an awful lot, lately, Auntie Anthea."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Have I, dear?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes,--an' it--worries me, you know."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm afraid I've been a great responsibility to you, Georgy dear,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "nodded Small Porges, sitting down, the better to get his arm protectingly about her, while Anthea stooped to kiss the top of his curly head."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I promised my Uncle Porges I'd always take care of you, an' so I will!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, dear."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Uncle Porges told me--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Never mind, dear,--don' let's talk of--him."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do you still--hate him, then, Auntie Anthea?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hush, dear!--it's very wrong to--hate people."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, a course it is! Then--perhaps, if you don't hate him any more--you like him a bit,--jest a--teeny bit, you know?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why--there's the clock striking half-past eight, Georgy!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, I hear it,--but--do you,--the teeniest bit? Oh! can't you like him jest a bit--for my sake, Auntie Anthea? I'm always trying to please you,--an' I found you the fortune, you know, so now I want you to please me,--an' tell me you like him--for my sake."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But--Oh Georgy dear!--you don't understand."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Small Porges, continued,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ah!--why did you, Georgy dear? We were so happy--before--he came--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But you couldn't have been, you know; you weren't married--even then, so you couldn't have been really happy, you know;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why Georgy--what do you mean?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, Uncle Porges told me that nobody can live happy--ever after, unless they're married--first. So that was why I 'ranged for him to marry you, so you could _both_ be happy, an' all revelry an' joy,--like the fairy tale, you know."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But, you see, we aren't in a fairy tale, dear, so I'm afraid we must make the best of things as they are! and here she sighed again, and rose."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come, Georgy, it's much later than I thought, and quite time you were in bed, dear."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "All right, Auntie Anthea,--only--don't you think it's jest a bit--cruel to send a boy to bed so very early, an' when the moon's so big, an' everything looks so--frightfully fine? 'sides--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, what now?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why, you haven't answered my question yet, you know."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What question?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But Georgy--I--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You do like him--jest a bit--don't you?--please?"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "You do, please,--don't you?"
}
]
|
10418 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Jest as much as you like--Mr. Cassilis?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A--bit more--jest a teeny bit more?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A--lot more,--lots an' lots,--oceans more?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes!"
}
]
|
10418 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come! said she, speaking now in a vastly different tone,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, I s'pecks it'll soon be nine o'clock, now!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then you ought to be in bed, fast asleep instead of talking such--nonsense, out here. So--come along--at once, sir!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But, can't I stay up--jest a little while? You see--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You see, it's such a--magnif'cent night! It feels as though--things might happen!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't be so silly!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, but it does, you know."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What do you mean--what things?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, it feels--gnomy, to me. I s'pecks there's lots of elves about--hidden in the shadows, you know, an' peeping at us."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There aren't any elves,--or gnomes,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But my Uncle Porges told me--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh! cried Anthea, stamping her foot suddenly,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But I thought you liked him--an awful lot, an'--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, I don't!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But, you said--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Never mind what I said! It's time you were in bed asleep,--so come along--at once, sir!"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't you think that you're--just the teeniest bit--cruel to me, Auntie Anthea? he enquired wistfully,"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes,--yes, dear, I'm hateful to you,--horrid to you! But I don't mean to be. There!--forgive me!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh!--it's all right again, now, Auntie Anthea, thank you. I only thought you were jest a bit--hard, 'cause it is such a--magnif'cent night, isn't it?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes dear; and perhaps there are gnomes, and pixies about. Anyhow, we can pretend there are, if you like, as we used to--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh will you? that would be fine! Then, please, may I go with you--as far as the brook? We'll wander, you know,--I've never wandered with you in the moonlight,--an' I do love to hear the brook talking to itself,--so--will you wander--jest this once?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, said Anthea, hesitating,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Nearly nine o 'clock, yes! But Oh!--please don't forget that I found a fortune for you--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Very well, she smiled,"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why do you shiver so, Auntie Anthea, are you cold?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, dear."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, then, why are you so quiet to me,--I've asked you a question--three times."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Have you dear? I--I was thinking; what was the question?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I was asking you if you would be awful frightened s'posing we did find a pixie--or a gnome, in the shadows; an' would you be so very awfully frightened if a gnome--a great, big one, you know,--came jumping out an'--ran off with you,--should you?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No! said Anthea, with another shiver,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, dear,--I think I should be--rather glad of it!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Should you, Auntie? I'm--so awful glad you wouldn't be frightened. A course, I don't s'pose there are gnomes--I mean great, big ones,--really, you know,--but there might be, on a magnif'cent night, like this. If you shiver again Auntie you'll have to take my coat!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I thought I heard a horse galloping--hush!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm sure I heard something,--away there--on the road!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't! said Small Porges, stoutly,--"
}
]
|
10418 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Tiger Mark!"
}
]
|
10418 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "By force ye shall be wooed, and by force ye shall be wed."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "By force ye shall be wooed, and by force ye shall be wed!"
}
]
|
10418 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Where are you--taking me?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "To be married!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You--wouldn't--dare!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Wait and see!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh!--but what do--you mean?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I mean that you are mine,--you always were, you always must and shall be. So, I'm going to marry you--in about half-an-hour, by special license."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I want you, you see, he went on,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I want you more than I ever wanted anything in this world. I need you, because without you my life will be utterly purposeless, and empty. So I have taken you--because you are mine, I know it,--Ah yes! and, deep down in your woman's heart, you know it too. And so, I am going to marry you,--yes I am, unless--"
}
]
|
10418 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Unless!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Anthea,--look at me!"
}
]
|
10418 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Anthea,--look at me!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Unless, said he, as her glance, at last, met his,"
}
]
|
10418 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mrs. Belloo, mam, he was saying,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Monumentous is the only word for it, Peterday!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "On this here monumentous occasion, Mrs. Belloo, the sailor proceeded,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A fair wind, and prosperous!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And God--bless you--both!"
}
]
|
10418 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Look Anthea,--the moon is at the full, to-night."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And Happiness shall come riding astride the full moon! he quoted."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Old Nannie is rather a wonderful old witch, after all, isn't she?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And then there is--our nephew,--my dear, little Porges! But for him, Happiness would have been a stranger to me all my days, Anthea. He dreamed that the Money Moon spoke to him, and--but he shall tell you of that, for himself."
}
]
|
10418 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Anthea."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You have no regrets,--have you?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We shall soon be--home, now!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And are you--mine--for ever, and always? Anthea, you--aren't--afraid of me any more, are you?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nor ever will be?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Nor--ever will be."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yo ho, Captain! cried a voice,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh--please heave to, Uncle Porges!"
}
]
|
10418 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Auntie Anthea, said he,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, dear, she answered,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But you don't look a bit diff'rent, you know,--either of you. Are you quite--sure? 'cause I shouldn't like you to disappoint me,--after all."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Never fear, my Porges, said Bellew,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I made quite sure of it while I had the chance,--look!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh! said he, nodding his head,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, dear."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why then, everything's quite--magnif'cent, isn't it? An' now we're going to live happy ever after, all of us, an' Uncle Porges is going to take us to sail the oceans in his ship,--he's got a ship that all belongs to his very own self, you know, Auntie Anthea,--so all will be revelry an' joy--just like the fairy tale, after all."
}
]
|
10418 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Miss Anthea, said he, wringing and twisting at his hat,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Only, pursued Adam,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I be glad--ah! mortal glad, I be,--as 'tis you, Mr. Belloo sir. There ain't a man in all the world,--or--as you might say,--uni-verse, as is so proper as you to be the husband to our Miss Anthea--as was,--not nohow, Mr. Belloo sir. I wish you j'y, a j'y as shall grow wi' the years, an' abide wi' you always,--both on ye."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That is a very excellent thought Adam! said Bellew,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "An' now, Mrs. Belloo mam, Adam concluded,"
}
]
|
10418 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh my dears! said little Miss Priscilla,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I've hoped for this,--prayed for it,--because I believe he is--worthy of you, Anthea, and because you have both loved each other, from the very beginning; oh dear me; yes you have! And so, my dears,--your happiness is my happiness and--Oh, goodness me! here I stand talking sentimental nonsense while our Small Porges is simply dropping asleep as he stands."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Small Porges admitted,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Wait a minute, my Porges, just tell us what it was the Money Moon said to you, last night, will you?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, said Small Porges, shaking his head, and smiling, a slow, sly smile,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don't s'pose we'd better talk about it, Uncle Porges, 'cause, you see, it was such a very great secret; an 'sides,--I'm awful sleepy, you know!"
}
]
|
10418 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What--did he--Georgy mean by--your ship?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why, I promised to take him a cruise in the yacht--if you cared to come, Anthea."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yacht! she repeated,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm afraid we are, he nodded,"
}
]
|
10418 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What does it say, here, Anthea?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That, you must read for yourself!"
}
]
|
10418 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Anthea! said he, and again she heard the tremor in his voice,"
}
]
|
10418 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Aunt Priscilla--was quite--right, she said, speaking in her low, thrilling voice,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have loved you--from the--very beginning, I think!"
}
]
|
10418 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "When I am dead, diddle diddle, as well may hap You'll bury me, 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."
}
]
|
5947 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Billy Bunny and Daddy Fox,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Billy Bunny and The Friendly Elephant,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Billy Bunny and Uncle Lucky Lefthindfoot"
}
]
|
5947 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "GAZETTE"
}
]
|
5947 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Billy Bunny, the stewed lollypops are getting cold and the robin's eggs will be hard boiled if you don't hurry up, or hurry down, or something."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'll be ready in a jiffy,"
}
]
|
5947 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't forget your rubber boots,"
}
]
|
5947 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Where are you going?"
}
]
|
5947 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Look out! cried Mrs. Cow."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Maybe he's going to eat you,"
}
]
|
5947 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's raining, Billy Bunny, But you and I don't care, For raindrops make the flowers Grow and blossom fair."
}
]
|
5947 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I like that little piece of poetry you just said, cried the little rabbit."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Please say another."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And when the sun is shining, And all is bright and gay, Just keep a little sunshine To help a rainy day."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I will,"
}
]
|
5947 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Where is Uncle Bullfrog?"
}
]
|
5947 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I wonder if that dreadful Miller's Boy has taken Uncle Bullfrog away,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Are you looking for Uncle Bullfrog, little rabbit?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, ma'am. Do you know where he is?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He's down by the mill dam,"
}
]
|
5947 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I thought at first that dreadful Miller's Boy had taken you away, said Billy Bunny,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Tut, tut, said the old gentleman frog."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How's your mother?"
}
]
|
5947 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I wish you'd kept your old flying machine, said the jay bird sorrowfully."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But you wanted to buy it back, said the little rabbit,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Perhaps not, replied the sorrowful jay bird,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why, what's the trouble?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I had an accident,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I ran into a thunder cloud and spilled out all the lightning, and, oh dear, oh dear. I just hate to talk about it, but I will. The lightning jumped all around and then struck the old tower clock and broke the main spring, so that it wouldn't go any more, and now nobody in Rabbitville can tell the day of the month, or when it will be Thanksgiving or Fourth of July."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Let's go to the clock maker and ask him to fix it,"
}
]
|
5947 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Certainly I'll fix it, he said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "All right, said Billy Bunny."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'll go down to the 3 and 1-cent store and buy a fly catcher."
}
]
|
5947 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now, Mr. Spider, said Billy Bunny,"
}
]
|
5947 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Helloa! This is Mr. Lucky Lefthindfoot talking."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Is that you, Uncle Lucky? answered a voice at the other end of the wire."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This is Billy Bunny, and I'm lost in the Friendly Forest."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What! cried the old gentleman rabbit, and he got so excited that he put the wrong end of the receiver to his left ear and got an awful electric shock that nearly wiggled his ear off."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Where are you now?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don't know, replied his small nephew."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm lost, don't you understand?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Gracious, goodness mebus! exclaimed the old gentleman rabbit,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't know, but please do, said Billy Bunny sorrowfully,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, you just stay where you are and I'll get into the Luckmobile and find you,"
}
]
|
5947 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Jump in with me, for my little nephew is lost and I want you to help me find him."
}
]
|
5947 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I saw a little rabbit A-sitting by a tree, And I should say he'd lost his way-- That's how he looked to me."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Where did you see him?"
}
]
|
5947 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Follow the path, Mr. Lucky Lefthindfoot, 'till you come to a bridge, and then turn to your right, and pretty soon, if the little bunny hasn't hopped away, you'll find your lost nephew."
}
]
|
5947 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Here's an apple pie for you, said the dear, kind old gentleman rabbit, taking a lovely pie out of his pocket."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I knew you'd rather have something to eat than a million carrot cents."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now come along with me, said Uncle Lucky."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We'll go back to the Luckymobile. Your cousin, Mr. O'Hare, went the other way to look for you, so I suppose we'll have a dreadful time to find him. But, never mind, I've found you."
}
]
|
5947 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We'll have to go home without him,"
}
]
|
5947 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Your cousin, Mr. O'Hare, has fallen into a deep hole over yonder."
}
]
|
5947 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Keep up your courage! cried Uncle Lucky in as cheerful a voice as he could muster, and then he looked around to find a rope or a ladder. But of course there were not any ropes and ladders lying about, so that kind old gentleman rabbit peeped over the edge of the hole and called down again,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Keep up your courage! We'll get you out!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Make a loop and put it around your waist and Uncle Lucky and I will haul you out,"
}
]
|
5947 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm going to complain to the street cleaning department or the first policeman I see, said Mr. O'Hare."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's a dreadful thing to have a hole like this right in the middle of the Friendly Forest Trail."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Never mind that, said Billy Bunny,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Stop your motor car, I say, You have no lamps to light the way. Come, stop your car and get right out! Listen, don't you hear me shout? Stop your car or I will shoot. Don't try away from me to scoot!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We don't intend to,"
}
]
|
5947 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Get out of your car,"
}
]
|
5947 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'll come down if you'll promise not to run over me,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I thought he would be mad as a hornet,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But where's my horse?"
}
]
|
5947 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, I'll come down from this willow tree, If you'll promise me just one thing, And that is never again to say: 'Gid-ap' as you drive me along the way, For I always go the best I can; I'm a faithful friend to every man, So please don't hurry me so, For I'm not trying to go too slow."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "All right, my good old horse, said kind Uncle Lucky."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Your master shall give me his word."
}
]
|
5947 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, it's Mr. Lucky Lefthindfoot,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You can put the automobile in the barn if you like, she said,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm very fond of little gray mice, And little white rabbits, too, are nice."
}
]
|
5947 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Look here, Mr. Owl, if you come inside I'll hurt you with my spur. Don't you dare get funny with Billy Bunny, Or muss his pretty white fur."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Cock-a-doodle-do three times and a half, and after that the owl flew away."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That was very kind of you, said the little rabbit."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, don't mention it, said the red rooster,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": ""
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What's that? asked Billy Bunny."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Take me Luckymobiling,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "All right. To-morrow Uncle Lucky and I will invite you for a nice drive,"
}
]
|
5947 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Upstairs in my nice guest room are two Nice little rabbits in bed. As soon as I'm able I'll fix up the table And give them some honey and bread. And then a hot muffin to give them a stuffin', And then they'll be bountifully fed."
}
]
|
5947 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You don't mind if we invite the red rooster to go along, too, do you?"
}
]
|
5947 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Stop right here, said the red rooster,"
}
]
|
5947 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What have you got in your bag?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Sugared peanuts, answered the red rooster."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I just love them. The last time I went to the circus I ate forty-nine bags and a half and drank twenty-three glasses of pink lemonade and a bushel of popcorn."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Wait a minute, said the old gentleman rabbit."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I've got a stomach ache listening. How did you do it?"
}
]
|
5947 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My, how you startled me!"
}
]
|
5947 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Never mind,"
}
]
|
5947 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'll help you get the automobile out, said Mrs. Cow gratefully, for she liked anybody who was kind to her little calf. So she put her horns under the front of the Luckymobile and then she said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Heave ho, e-ho!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If you don't mind, said the red rooster,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'll leave you two little rabbits and make a call on Cocky Docky up at the Old Farm."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And if you don't care, squeaked little Mrs. Mousie,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'll call on Dickey Meadowmouse."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Moo, moo, moo. I'm glad I helped you two. One good turn deserves another. When you see your bunny mother, Tell her how your car I took Safely from the Babbling Brook."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's a puzzle to me, said Uncle Lucky,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": ""
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You won't need any chauffeur after I'm done with you,"
}
]
|
5947 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ker-chunk"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's time for your singing lesson,"
}
]
|
5947 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Boo!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Do you want to buy a tin plate? asked the peddler, trying hard not to be frightened,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't want either,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Perhaps you'd like a nutmeg grater,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I've a dandy egg beater,"
}
]
|
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