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1423 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Vendale!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What now? he answered, springing from his seat;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Not in bed? he said, catching him by both shoulders with an instinctive tendency to a struggle."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Then something _is_ wrong!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What do you mean?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "First tell me; you are not ill?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ill? No."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have had a bad dream about you. How is it that I see you up and dressed?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My good fellow, I may as well ask you how it is that I see _you_ up and undressed?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have told you why. I have had a bad dream about you. I tried to rest after it, but it was impossible. I could not make up my mind to stay where I was without knowing you were safe; and yet I could not make up my mind to come in here. I have been minutes hesitating at the door. It is so easy to laugh at a dream that you have not dreamed. Where is your candle?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Burnt out."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have a whole one in my room. Shall I fetch it?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do so."
}
]
|
1423 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes! said Obenreizer, setting the lighted candle on the table,"
}
]
|
1423 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If there had been a wrestle with a robber, as I dreamed, said Obenreizer,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And armed too,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A traveller's dagger, that I always carry on the road, he answered carelessly, half drawing it from its sheath with his left hand, and putting it back again."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Do you carry no such thing?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nothing of the kind."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No pistols?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nothing of the sort."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You Englishmen are so confident! You wish to sleep?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have wished to sleep this long time, but I can't do it."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I neither, after the bad dream. My fire has gone the way of your candle. May I come and sit by yours? Two o'clock! It will so soon be four, that it is not worth the trouble to go to bed again."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I shall not take the trouble to go to bed at all, now, said Vendale;"
}
]
|
1423 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Common cabaret brandy, I am afraid, he said, pouring out;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "How do you find it?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It has a coarse after-flavour, said Vendale, giving back the cup with a slight shudder,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You are right, said Obenreizer, tasting, and smacking his lips;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Look at that man! Don't you see he has risen, and is turning the pillow? Why should he turn the pillow, if not to seek those papers that are in your breast? Awake!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Vendale! We are called. Past Four!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You have been in a heavy sleep, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The fatigue of constant travelling and the cold!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am broad awake now, cried Vendale, springing up, but with an unsteady footing."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Haven't you slept at all?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I may have dozed, but I seem to have been patiently looking at the fire. Whether or no, we must wash, and breakfast, and turn out. Past four, Vendale; past four!"
}
]
|
1423 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Who are those?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "They are our carriers--Defresnier and Company's, replied Obenreizer."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Those are our casks of wine."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have been drearily dull company to-day, said Vendale."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't know what has been the matter with me."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You had no sleep last night; and a kind of brain-congestion frequently comes, at first, of such cold, said Obenreizer."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have seen it often. After all, we shall have our journey for nothing, it seems."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "How for nothing?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The House is at Milan. You know, we are a Wine House at Neuchatel, and a Silk House at Milan? Well, Silk happening to press of a sudden, more than Wine, Defresnier was summoned to Milan. Rolland, the other partner, has been taken ill since his departure, and the doctors will allow him to see no one. A letter awaits you at Neuchatel to tell you so. I have it from our chief carrier whom you saw me talking with. He was surprised to see me, and said he had that word for you if he met you. What do you do? Go back?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Go on,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "On?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "On? Yes. Across the Alps, and down to Milan."
}
]
|
1423 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have a very serious matter in charge, said Vendale;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No? cried Obenreizer, taking out his cigar to smile, and giving his hand to his fellow-traveller."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then nothing shall turn _me_ back. Ho, driver! Despatch. Quick there! Let us push on!"
}
]
|
1423 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The time is gone for robbing him alive, and I must murder him."
}
]
|
1423 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Bah! I am weary of these poor devils and their trade, he said, in reply."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Always the same story. It is the story of their trade to-day, as it was the story of their trade when I was a ragged boy. What do you and I want? We want a knapsack each, and a mountain-staff each. We want no guide; we should guide him; he would not guide us. We leave our portmanteaus here, and we cross together. We have been on the mountains together before now, and I am mountain-born, and I know this Pass--Pass!--rather High Road!--by heart. We will leave these poor devils, in pity, to trade with others; but they must not delay us to make a pretence of earning money. Which is all they mean."
}
]
|
1423 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A good omen! said Vendale (though it died out while he spoke)."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Perhaps our example will open the Pass on this side."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No; we shall not be followed, returned Obenreizer, looking up at the sky and back at the valley."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We shall be alone up yonder."
}
]
|
1423 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Shall we get across to-day?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, replied the other."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You see how much deeper the snow lies here than it lay half a league lower. The higher we mount the deeper the snow will lie. Walking is half wading even now. And the days are so short! If we get as high as the fifth Refuge, and lie to-night at the Hospice, we shall do well."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Is there no danger of the weather rising in the night, asked Vendale, anxiously,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There is danger enough about us, said Obenreizer, with a cautious glance onward and upward,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have crossed it once."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In the summer?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes; in the travelling season."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes; but it is another thing at this season; with a sneer, as though he were out of temper."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "This is not a time of year, or a state of things, on an Alpine Pass, that you gentlemen holiday-travellers know much about."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You are my Guide, said Vendale, good humouredly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I trust to you."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am your Guide, said Obenreizer,"
}
]
|
1423 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If I, as Guide, had sent you over there, in advance, and encouraged you to give a shout or two, you might have brought down upon yourself tons and tons and tons of snow, that would not only have struck you dead, but buried you deep, at a blow."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No doubt,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No doubt. But that is not what I have to do, as Guide. So pass silently. Or, going as we go, our indiscretion might else crush and bury _me_. Let us get on!"
}
]
|
1423 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We stay but to rest, said Obenreizer, shaking the snow from his dress at the fire."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "This gentleman has very pressing occasion to get across; tell them, Vendale."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Assuredly, I have very pressing occasion. I must cross."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You hear, all of you. My friend has very pressing occasion to get across, and we want no advice and no help. I am as good a guide, my fellow-countrymen, as any of you. Now, give us to eat and drink."
}
]
|
1423 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is well to understand one another, friends all. This gentleman--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "said Vendale, readily taking him up with a smile,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You hear?--has very pressing occasion to get across, must cross. We want no advice and no help. I am mountain-born, and act as Guide. Do not worry us by talking about it, but let us have supper, and wine, and bed."
}
]
|
1423 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Travellers! a friendly voice called to them from the door, after they were afoot, knapsack on back and staff in hand, as yesterday;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The trade of these poor devils! said Obenreizer to his friend, with a contemptuous backward wave of his hand towards the voice."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How they stick to their trade! You Englishmen say we Swiss are mercenary. Truly, it does look like it."
}
]
|
1423 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I promised to guide you to your journey's end, said Obenreizer,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You are a villain. What have you done to me?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You are a fool. I have drugged you. You are doubly a fool, for I drugged you once before upon the journey, to try you. You are trebly a fool, for I am the thief and forger, and in a few moments I shall take those proofs against the thief and forger from your insensible body."
}
]
|
1423 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What have I done to you, he asked, heavily and thickly,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Done to me? You would have destroyed me, but that you have come to your journey's end. Your cursed activity interposed between me, and the time I had counted on in which I might have replaced the money. Done to me? You have come in my way--not once, not twice, but again and again and again. Did I try to shake you off in the beginning, or no? You were not to be shaken off. Therefore you die here."
}
]
|
1423 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You call me murderer, said Obenreizer, with a grim laugh."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The name matters very little. But at least I have set my life against yours, for I am surrounded by dangers, and may never make my way out of this place. The _Tourmente_ is rising again. The snow is on the whirl. I must have the papers now. Every moment has my life in it."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Stop! cried Vendale, in a terrible voice, staggering up with a last flash of fire breaking out of him, and clutching the thievish hands at his breast, in both of his."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Stop! Stand away from me! God bless my Marguerite! Happily she will never know how I died. Stand off from me, and let me look at your murderous face. Let it remind me--of something--left to say."
}
]
|
1423 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It shall not be--the trust--of the dead--betrayed by me--reputed parents--misinherited fortune--see to it!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No!"
}
]
|
1423 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We may venture now. We may find them in one of the five Refuges."
}
]
|
1423 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Au secours, then! Help! To the rescue!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Two more mad ones! said the men, stricken motionless, and looking away in the moonlight."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Is it possible in such weather! And one of them a woman!"
}
]
|
1423 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dear guides, dear friends of travellers! I am of your country. We seek two gentlemen crossing the Pass, who should have reached the Hospice this evening."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "They have reached it, ma'amselle."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Thank Heaven! O thank Heaven!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But, unhappily, they have gone on again. We are setting forth to seek them even now. We had to wait until the _Tourmente_ passed. It has been fearful up here."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dear guides, dear friends of travellers! Let me go with you. Let me go with you for the love of GOD! One of those gentlemen is to be my husband. I love him, O, so dearly. O so dearly! You see I am not faint, you see I am not tired. I am born a peasant girl. I will show you that I know well how to fasten myself to your ropes. I will do it with my own hands. I will swear to be brave and good. But let me go with you, let me go with you! If any mischance should have befallen him, my love would find him, when nothing else could. On my knees, dear friends of travellers! By the love your dear mothers had for your fathers!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "After all, they murmured to one another,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dear Mr. Joey, said Marguerite, addressing him in his own tongue,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If I know'd which o' you two recommended it, growled Joey Ladle, eyeing the two men with great indignation,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'd fight you for sixpence, and give you half-a-crown towards your expenses. No, Miss. I'll stick by you as long as there's any sticking left in me, and I'll die for you when I can't do better."
}
]
|
1423 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There is some one lying below,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I think so, said the foremost man."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Stand well inward, the two last, and let us look over."
}
]
|
1423 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My God! On a projecting point, where a wall of ice stretches forward over the torrent, I see a human form!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Where, ma'amselle, where?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "See, there! On the shelf of ice below the dogs!"
}
]
|
1423 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Show me the baskets. These two are the only ropes?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The only ropes here, ma'amselle; but at the Hospice--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If he is alive--I know it is my lover--he will be dead before you can return. Dear Guides! Blessed friends of travellers! Look at me. Watch my hands. If they falter or go wrong, make me your prisoner by force. If they are steady and go right, help me to save him!"
}
]
|
1423 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She is inspired,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "By the Almighty's mercy! she exclaimed."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You both know that I am by far the lightest here. Give me the brandy and the wine, and lower me down to him. Then go for assistance and a stronger rope. You see that when it is lowered to me--look at this about me now--I can make it fast and safe to his body. Alive or dead, I will bring him up, or die with him. I love him passionately. Can I say more?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Lower me down to him, she said, taking two little kegs they had brought, and hanging them about her,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ma'amselle, ma'amselle, he must be dying or dead."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Dying or dead, my husband's head shall lie upon my breast, or I will dash myself to pieces."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Enough!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Is it really he, and is he dead?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He is insensible; but his heart beats. It beats against mine."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "How does he lie?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Upon a ledge of ice. It has thawed beneath him, and it will thaw beneath me. Hasten. If we die, I am content."
}
]
|
1423 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Courage! They will soon be here. How goes it? And the cry came up:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "His heart still beats against mine. I warm him in my arms. I have cast off the rope, for the ice melts under us, and the rope would separate me from him; but I am not afraid."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How goes it? The cry came up:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We are sinking lower, but his heart still beats against mine."
}
]
|
1423 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Thanks to God, all is ready. How goes it?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We are sinking still, and we are deadly cold. His heart no longer beats against mine. Let no one come down, to add to our weight. Lower the rope only."
}
]
|
1423 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Raise! Softly!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Raise! Softly!"
}
]
|
1423 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Courage, courage, my good fellow! said Maitre Voigt, patting Obenreizer on the knee, in a fatherly and comforting way."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You will begin a new life to-morrow morning in my office here."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The gratitude is here, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But the words to express it are not here."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ta-ta-ta! Don't talk to me about gratitude! said Maitre Voigt."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I hate to see a man oppressed. I see you oppressed, and I hold out my hand to you by instinct. Besides, I am not too old yet, to remember my young days. Your father sent me my first client. (It was on a question of half an acre of vineyard that seldom bore any grapes.) Do I owe nothing to your father's son? I owe him a debt of friendly obligation, and I pay it to you. That's rather neatly expressed, I think, added Maitre Voigt, in high good humour with himself."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Permit me to reward my own merit with a pinch of snuff!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Do me one last favour, sir, he said, when he raised his eyes."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do not act on impulse. Thus far, you have only a general knowledge of my position. Hear the case for and against me, in its details, before you take me into your office. Let my claim on your benevolence be recognised by your sound reason as well as by your excellent heart. In _that_ case, I may hold up my head against the bitterest of my enemies, and build myself a new reputation on the ruins of the character I have lost."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "As you will, said Maitre Voigt."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You speak well, my son. You will be a fine lawyer one of these days."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The details are not many, pursued Obenreizer."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My troubles begin with the accidental death of my late travelling companion, my lost dear friend Mr. Vendale."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mr. Vendale, repeated the notary."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Just so. I have heard and read of the name, several times within these two months. The name of the unfortunate English gentleman who was killed on the Simplon. When you got that scar upon your cheek and neck."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "From your own knife, assented the notary,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But the world, sir, returned Obenreizer,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "As I was saying, sir, the death of that dear travelling comrade begins my troubles. What follows? I save myself. I go down to Milan. I am received with coldness by Defresnier and Company. Shortly afterwards, I am discharged by Defresnier and Company. Why? They give no reason why. I ask, do they assail my honour? No answer. I ask, what is the imputation against me? No answer. I ask, where are their proofs against me? No answer. I ask, what am I to think? The reply is, 'M. Obenreizer is free to think what he will. What M. Obenreizer thinks, is of no importance to Defresnier and Company.' And that is all."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Perfectly. That is all,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But is that enough, sir?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That is not enough, said Maitre Voigt."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The House of Defresnier are my fellow townsmen--much respected, much esteemed--but the House of Defresnier must not silently destroy a man's character. You can rebut assertion. But how can you rebut silence?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Your sense of justice, my dear patron, answered Obenreizer,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "True, my poor boy, said the notary, with a comforting nod or two;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Rebels is too soft a word, retorted Obenreizer."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "My ward revolts from me with horror. My ward defies me. My ward withdraws herself from my authority, and takes shelter (Madame Dor with her) in the house of that English lawyer, Mr. Bintrey, who replies to your summons to her to submit herself to my authority, that she will not do so."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "said the notary, moving his large snuff- box to look among the papers underneath it for the letter,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Indeed? replied Obenreizer, rather checked."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, sir. Have I no legal rights?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Assuredly, my poor boy, returned the notary."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "All but felons have their legal rights."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And who calls me felon?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No one. Be calm under your wrongs. If the House of Defresnier would call you felon, indeed, we should know how to deal with them."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "In saying, observed Obenreizer, with recovered composure,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You think so?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am sure of it. I know him. He is obstinate and contentious. You will tell me, my dear sir, whether my authority is unassailable, until my ward is of age?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Absolutely unassailable."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I will enforce it. I will make her submit herself to it. For, said Obenreizer, changing his angry tone to one of grateful submission,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I owe it to you, sir; to you, who have so confidingly taken an injured man under your protection, and into your employment."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Make your mind easy, said Maitre Voigt."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No more of this now, and no thanks! Be here to-morrow morning, before the other clerk comes--between seven and eight. You will find me in this room; and I will myself initiate you in your work. Go away! go away! I have letters to write. I won't hear a word more."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "I ought to know England well enough by this time; so his meditations ran, as he sat on a bench in the yard;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "he looked involuntarily over his shoulder--"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "I will show you over the house and the offices, said Maitre Voigt,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Can't I save you the trouble, sir? he asked."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Can't I put those documents away under your directions?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Suppose you try, he said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "All my papers of importance are kept yonder."
}
]
|
1423 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There is a second door to this room?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, said Maitre Voigt."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Guess again."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There is a window?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nothing of the sort. The window has been bricked up. The only way in, is the way by that door. Do you give it up? cried Maitre Voigt, in high triumph."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Listen, my good fellow, and tell me if you hear nothing inside?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I know! he exclaimed."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I heard of this when I was apprenticed here at the watchmaker's. Perrin Brothers have finished their famous clock-lock at last--and you have got it?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Bravo! said Maitre Voigt."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The clock-lock it is! There, my son! There you have one more of what the good people of this town call, 'Daddy Voigt's follies.' With all my heart! Let those laugh who win. No thief can steal _my_ keys. No burglar can pick _my_ lock. No power on earth, short of a battering-ram or a barrel of gunpowder, can move that door, till my little sentinel inside--my worthy friend who goes 'Tick, Tick,' as I tell him--says, 'Open!' The big door obeys the little Tick, Tick, and the little Tick, Tick, obeys _me_. That! cried Daddy Voigt, snapping his fingers,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "May I see it in action? asked Obenreizer."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Pardon my curiosity, dear sir! You know that I was once a tolerable worker in the clock trade."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Certainly you shall see it in action, said Maitre Voigt."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What is the time now? One minute to eight. Watch, and in one minute you will see the door open of itself."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "You shall see the clock, he said proudly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I possess the greatest curiosity in Europe. It is only a privileged few whose eyes can look at it. I give the privilege to your good father's son--you shall be one of the favoured few who enter the room with me. See! here it is, on the right-hand wall at the side of the door."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "An ordinary clock, exclaimed Obenreizer."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No! Not an ordinary clock. It has only one hand."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Aha! said Maitre Voigt."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not an ordinary clock, my friend. No, no. That one hand goes round the dial. As I put it, so it regulates the hour at which the door shall open. See! The hand points to eight. At eight the door opened, as you saw for yourself."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Does it open more than once in the four-and-twenty hours?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "More than once? repeated the notary, with great scorn."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You don't know my good friend, Tick-Tick! He will open the door as often as I ask him. All he wants is his directions, and he gets them here. Look below the dial. Here is a half-circle of steel let into the wall, and here is a hand (called the regulator) that travels round it, just as _my_ hand chooses. Notice, if you please, that there are figures to guide me on the half-circle of steel. Figure I. means: Open once in the four-and- twenty hours. Figure II. means: Open twice; and so on to the end. I set the regulator every morning, after I have read my letters, and when I know what my day's work is to be. Would you like to see me set it now? What is to-day? Wednesday. Good! This is the day of our rifle-club; there is little business to do; I grant a half-holiday. No work here to- day, after three o'clock. Let us first put away this portfolio of municipal papers. There! No need to trouble Tick-Tick to open the door until eight to-morrow. Good! I leave the dial-hand at eight; I put back the regulator to I.; I close the door; and closed the door remains, past all opening by anybody, till to-morrow morning at eight."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Stop, sir! he cried, at the moment when the notary was closing the door."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Don't I see something moving among the boxes--on the floor there?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I. to the figure"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "II."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "There is nothing! said Maitre Voigt."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Your troubles have shaken your nerves, my son. Some shadow thrown by my taper; or some poor little beetle, who lives among the old lawyer's secrets, running away from the light. Hark! I hear your fellow-clerk in the office. To work! to work! and build to-day the first step that leads to your new fortunes!"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Vendale."
}
]
|
1423 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Pray do not pass my house, Mr. Bintrey, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Do me the honour to come in. It is one of our town half-holidays--our Tir--but my people will be back directly. It is droll that you should ask your way to the Hotel of me. Let us eat and drink before you go there."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Thank you; not to-night, said Bintrey."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Shall I come to you at ten to- morrow?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I shall be enchanted, sir, to take so early an opportunity of redressing the wrongs of my injured client,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, retorted Bintrey;"
}
]
|
1423 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Isn't it time he was here?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He _is_ here,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "For what reason have I been brought from Neuchatel to the foot of the mountain?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You shall be quite satisfied on that head before our interview is over, returned Bintrey."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "For the present, permit me to suggest proceeding at once to business. There has been a correspondence, Mr. Obenreizer, between you and your niece. I am here to represent your niece."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "In other words, you, a lawyer, are here to represent an infraction of the law."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Admirably put! said Bintrey."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If all the people I have to deal with were only like you, what an easy profession mine would be! I am here to represent an infraction of the law--that is your point of view. I am here to make a compromise between you and your niece--that is my point of view."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There must be two parties to a compromise, rejoined Obenreizer."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I decline, in this case, to be one of them. The law gives me authority to control my niece's actions, until she comes of age. She is not yet of age; and I claim my authority."
}
]
|
1423 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, my worthy friend, not a word. Don't excite yourself unnecessarily; leave it to me. He turned, and addressed himself again to Obenreizer."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I can think of nothing comparable to you, Mr. Obenreizer, but granite--and even that wears out in course of time. In the interests of peace and quietness--for the sake of your own dignity--relax a little. If you will only delegate your authority to another person whom I know of, that person may be trusted never to lose sight of your niece, night or day!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You are wasting your time and mine, returned Obenreizer."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If my niece is not rendered up to my authority within one week from this day, I invoke the law. If you resist the law, I take her by force."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Have some pity on the poor girl, pleaded Bintrey."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Remember how lately she lost her lover by a dreadful death! Will nothing move you?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nothing."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "There is somebody listening in there!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There are two people listening,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Who are they?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You shall see."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come in!"
}
]
|
1423 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Look at him!"
}
]
|
1423 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Somebody ought to speak to him, said Maitre Voigt."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Shall I?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The object of your appearance here is answered, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If you will withdraw for the present, it may help Mr. Obenreizer to recover himself."
}
]
|
1423 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Give him time!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, said Bintrey."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't know what use he may make of it if I do. He turned once more to Obenreizer, and went on."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I owe it to myself, he said--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't admit, mind, that I owe it to you--to account for my appearance in these proceedings, and to state what has been done under my advice, and on my sole responsibility. Can you listen to me?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I can listen to you."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Recall the time when you started for Switzerland with Mr. Vendale, Bintrey begin."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You had not left England four-and-twenty hours before your niece committed an act of imprudence which not even your penetration could foresee. She followed her promised husband on his journey, without asking anybody's advice or permission, and without any better companion to protect her than a Cellarman in Mr. Vendale's employment."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why did she follow me on the journey? and how came the Cellarman to be the person who accompanied her?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "She followed you on the journey, answered Bintrey,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I understand you, so far."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "My first knowledge of the crime that you had committed, pursued Bintrey,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "concluded Bintrey, producing two little slips of manuscript from his despatch-box,"
}
]
|
1423 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What are you waiting for?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Call them back, he answered."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have something to say in their presence before I go."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Say it in my presence, retorted Bintrey."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I decline to call them back."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Do you remember telling me that you once had an English client named Vendale?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, answered the notary."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And what of that?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Maitre Voigt, your clock-lock has betrayed you."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What do you mean?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have read the letters and certificates in your client's box. I have taken copies of them. I have got the copies here. Is there, or is there not, a reason for calling them back?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Now, Mr. Obenreizer, said Bintrey,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Before I resign my position as that young lady's guardian, said Obenreizer,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have a secret to reveal in which she is interested. In making my disclosure, I am not claiming her attention for a narrative which she, or any other person present, is expected to take on trust. I am possessed of written proofs, copies of originals, the authenticity of which Maitre Voigt himself can attest. Bear that in mind, and permit me to refer you, at starting, to a date long past--the month of February, in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mark the date, Mr. Vendale,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "My first proof, said Obenreizer, taking a paper from his pocket-book."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Copy of a letter, written by an English lady (married) to her sister, a widow. The name of the person writing the letter I shall keep suppressed until I have done. The name of the person to whom the letter is written I am willing to reveal. It is addressed to 'Mrs. Jane Anne Miller, of Groombridge Wells, England.'"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, said the pertinacious lawyer."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Leave it to me."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It is needless to trouble you with the first half of the letter, he said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I can give the substance of it in two words. The writer's position at the time is this. She has been long living in Switzerland with her husband--obliged to live there for the sake of her husband's health. They are about to move to a new residence on the Lake of Neuchatel in a week, and they will be ready to receive Mrs. Miller as visitor in a fortnight from that time. This said, the writer next enters into an important domestic detail. She has been childless for years--she and her husband have now no hope of children; they are lonely; they want an interest in life; they have decided on adopting a child. Here the important part of the letter begins; and here, therefore, I read it to you word for word."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "I must add a word as to my husband's wishes in this matter. He is resolved to spare the child whom we make our own any future mortification and loss of self-respect which might be caused by a discovery of his true origin. He will bear my husband's name, and he will be brought up in the belief that he is really our son. His inheritance of what we have to leave will be secured to him--not only according to the laws of England in such cases, but according to the laws of Switzerland also; for we have lived so long in this country, that there is a doubt whether we may not be considered as I domiciled, in Switzerland. The one precaution left to take is to prevent any after-discovery at the Foundling. Now, our name is a very uncommon one; and if we appear on the Register of the Institution as the persons adopting the child, there is just a chance that something might result from it. Your name, my dear, is the name of thousands of other people; and if you will consent to appear on the Register, there need be no fear of any discoveries in that quarter. We are moving, by the doctor's orders, to a part of Switzerland in which our circumstances are quite unknown; and you, as I understand, are about to engage a new nurse for the journey when you come to see us. Under these circumstances, the child may appear as my child, brought back to me under my sister's care. The only servant we take with us from our old home is my own maid, who can be safely trusted. As for the lawyers in England and in Switzerland, it is their profession to keep secrets--and we may feel quite easy in that direction. So there you have our harmless little conspiracy! Write by return of post, my love, and tell me you will join it."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Do you still conceal the name of the writer of that letter?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I keep the name of the writer till the last, answered Obenreizer,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "resumed Obenreizer, as Vendale, breaking loose from Bintrey, started to his feet."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I shall not keep the name concealed much longer. Two more little slips of paper, and I have done. Third proof! Certificate of Doctor Ganz, still living in practice at Neuchatel, dated July, 1838. The doctor certifies (you shall read it for yourselves directly), first, that he attended the adopted child in its infant maladies; second, that, three months before the date of the certificate, the gentleman adopting the child as his son died; third, that on the date of the certificate, his widow and her maid, taking the adopted child with them, left Neuchatel on their return to England. One more link now added to this, and my chain of evidence is complete. The maid remained with her mistress till her mistress's death, only a few years since. The maid can swear to the identity of the adopted infant, from his childhood to his youth--from his youth to his manhood, as he is now. There is her address in England--and there, Mr. Vendale, is the fourth, and final proof!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why do you address yourself to _me_?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Bravo! cried Bintrey."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Admirably put, Mr. Obenreizer! It only wants one word more to complete it. She marries--thanks entirely to your exertions--a man who inherits a handsome fortune, and a man whose origin will make him prouder than ever of his peasant-wife. George Vendale, as brother-executors, let us congratulate each other! Our dear dead friend's last wish on earth is accomplished. We have found the lost Walter Wilding. As Mr. Obenreizer said just now--you are the man!"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "I never loved you, George, as I love you now!"
}
]
|
1423 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "HONOUR AND LOVE TO MARGUERITE VENDALE!"
}
]
|
1423 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Forgive me, my beautiful, pleads Madame Dor,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Engaged to sit watching my so charming mouse,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, you were our best friend! George, dearest, tell Madame Dor. Was she not our best friend?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Undoubtedly, darling. What should we have done without her?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You are both so generous, cries Madame Dor, accepting consolation, and immediately relapsing."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But I commenced as a she-cat."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ah! But like the cat in the fairy-story, good Madame Dor, says Vendale, saluting her cheek,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don't wish to deprive Madame Dor of her share in the embraces that are going on, Mr. Bintrey puts in, watch in hand,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Clear, sir, replies Joey, with a gracious grin."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm clearer altogether, sir, for having lived so many weeks upon the surface. I never was half so long upon the surface afore, and it's done me a power of good. At Cripple Corner, I was too much below it. Atop of the Simpleton, I was a deal too high above it. I've found the medium here, sir. And if ever I take it in convivial, in all the rest of my days, I mean to do it this day, to the toast of 'Bless 'em both.'"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I, too! says Bintrey."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And now, Monsieur Voigt, let you and me be two men of Marseilles, and allons, marchons, arm-in-arm!"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Go to the side door, one moment, Monsieur Vendale. Alone. Leave Madame to me."
}
]
|
1423 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is here, Monsieur. Your litter. The very same."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "My litter is here? Why?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hush! For the sake of Madame. Your companion of that day--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What of him?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He had been living at the first Refuge, monsieur, for some days. The weather was now good, now bad."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He arrived at our Hospice the day before yesterday, and, having refreshed himself with sleep on the floor before the fire, wrapped in his cloak, was resolute to go on, before dark, to the next Hospice. He had a great fear of that part of the way, and thought it would be worse to-morrow."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He went on alone. He had passed the gallery when an avalanche--like that which fell behind you near the Bridge of the Ganther--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Killed him?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We dug him out, suffocated and broken all to pieces! But, monsieur, as to Madame. We have brought him here on the litter, to be buried. We must ascend the street outside. Madame must not see. It would be an accursed thing to bring the litter through the arch across the street, until Madame has passed through. As you descend, we who accompany the litter will set it down on the stones of the street the second to the right, and will stand before it. But do not let Madame turn her head towards the street the second to the right. There is no time to lose. Madame will be alarmed by your absence. Adieu!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Heaven's benediction on the dear girl! See where she goes in her youth and beauty; she who so nobly saved his life!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do not look round, my darling, for a reason that I have,"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Royal Thames Yacht Club,"
}
]
|
46597 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Indeed, your lordship, replied Captain Mangles,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I think it is a shark of large proportions."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A shark in these regions!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Without doubt, replied the captain."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This fish belongs to a species of sharks that are found in all seas and latitudes. It is the 'balance-fish,' and, if I am not greatly mistaken, we shall have an encounter with one of these fellows. If your lordship consents, and it pleases Lady Helena to witness such a novel chase, we will soon see what we have to deal with."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What do you think, MacNabb? said Lord Glenarvan to the major;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am of whatever opinion pleases you,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Besides, continued Captain Mangles,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Very well, captain,"
}
]
|
46597 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "kept him in a rigorously straight line. As he advanced, his great glaring eyes seemed inflamed with eagerness, and his yawning jaws, when he turned, disclosed a quadruple row of teeth. His head was large, and shaped like a double-headed hammer. Captain Mangles was right. It was a very large specimen of the most rapacious family of sharks,--the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "of the English and the"
}
]
|
46597 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ha! what is this?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That, replied one of the sailors,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Good! said another;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Good, said Glenarvan;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Be still, all of you! cried Tom Austin, the mate;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What! exclaimed Lord Glenarvan,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A real bottle! replied the mate,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, Tom, said Glenarvan,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do you think so?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I do; at least, that it may happen so."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh! I do not contradict you, replied the major."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Perhaps there may be a secret in this."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We shall see, said Glenarvan."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, Tom?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Here it is,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Good, said Glenarvan;"
}
]
|
46597 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "OLD IN BOTTLE."
}
]
|
46597 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A bottle of the Maison Cliquot,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "My dear major, said Lady Helena,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We shall know, my dear, said Lord Edward,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I cannot but be of your opinion, replied the major;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But whence does it come?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Wait, my dear Helena, wait. We must be patient with bottles. If I am not greatly mistaken, this one will itself answer all our questions."
}
]
|
46597 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This is a pity, said Glenarvan;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That's what I fear,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I will add, continued Glenarvan,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Certainly, interposed Captain Mangles;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We shall soon see,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, said Glenarvan;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am not mistaken! Here are papers!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Documents! documents!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Only, replied Glenarvan,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Let us break it,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I would rather keep it whole,"
}
]
|
46597 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I should, too,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Very true, added Lady Helena;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Let your lordship only break off the neck, said the captain,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, yes, my dear Edward!"
}
]
|
46597 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There are here, said he,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But these words have at least a meaning?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That is difficult to say, my dear Helena. The words traced on these papers are very imperfect."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Perhaps they will complete each other,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That may be, replied Captain Mangles."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It is not probable that the water has obliterated these lines in exactly the same places on each, and by comparing these remains of phrases we shall arrive at some intelligible meaning."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We will do so, said Lord Glenarvan;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That does not mean much,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Whatever it may mean, replied the captain,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There is no doubt of that, said his lordship."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The words _wreck, aland, this, and, lost_, are perfect. _Cap_ evidently means _captain_, referring to the captain of a shipwrecked vessel."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Let us add, said the captain,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, something is gained already!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Unfortunately, replied the major,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We shall find them,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Very likely, answered the major, who was invariably of the opinion of every one else;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "By comparing one document with another."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Let us see!"
}
]
|
46597 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This is written in German,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And do you know that language?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Perfectly, your lordship."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, tell us what these few words mean."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "First, the date of the event is determined. _7 Juni_ means June 7th, and by comparing this figure with the figures '62,' furnished by the English document, we have the date complete,--June 7th, 1862."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Very well! exclaimed Lady Helena."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Go on."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "On the same line, continued the young captain,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I find the word _Glas_, which, united with the word _gow_ of the first document, gives _Glasgow_. It is plainly a ship from the port of Glasgow."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That was my opinion,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The second line is missing entirely, continued Captain Mangles;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There were a captain and two sailors, then?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Probably,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I will confess, your lordship, said the captain,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, bring them assistance, said Glenarvan."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But where are the unfortunates? We have not yet a single indication of the place, and the scene of the catastrophe is absolutely unknown."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Let us hope that the French document will be more explicit,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Let us look at it, then, replied Glenarvan;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There are figures! cried Lady Helena."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Look, gentlemen, look!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Let us proceed in order, said Lord Glenarvan,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That is an important point, replied Captain Mangles;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That is indefinite,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I will continue, resumed Glenarvan."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The word _abor_ is the trace of the verb _aborder_ (to land). These unfortunates have landed somewhere. But where? _Contin!_ Is it on a continent? _Cruel!_"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "cried Mangles;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Go on, go on! cried Glenarvan, whose interest was greatly excited as the meaning of these incomplete words was elucidated."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But the longitude is wanting,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We cannot have everything, my dear major, replied Glenarvan;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Shall we make this translation in French, English, or German?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In English, answered Glenarvan,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Your lordship is right, said Captain Mangles,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is agreed, then. I will write this document, uniting these parts of words and fragments of phrases, leaving the gaps that separate them, and filling up those the meaning of which is not ambiguous. Then we will compare them and form an opinion."
}
]
|
46597 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What are your lordship's wishes?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Reach Dumbarton as quickly as possible, captain. Then, while Lady Helena returns to Malcolm Castle, I will go to London and submit this document to the authorities."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now, my friends, said Glenarvan,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We are ready, my dear Edward,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "First of all, continued Glenarvan,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Exactly,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "LINE UPON LINE."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What can we conjecture? resumed Glenarvan."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "First, that the shipwreck took place in the South Seas; and now I call your attention to the word _gonia_. Does it not indicate the name of the country which they reached?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Patagonia!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Probably."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But is Patagonia crossed by the thirty-seventh parallel?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That is easily seen, said the captain, taking out a map of South America."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It is so: Patagonia is bisected by the thirty-seventh parallel, which crosses Araucania, over the Pampas, north of Patagonia, and is lost in the Atlantic."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, let us continue our conjectures. The two sailors and the captain _abor, land_. Where? _Contin_,--the _continent_, you understand; a continent, not an island. What becomes of them? We have fortunately two letters, _pr_, which inform us of their fate. These unfortunates, in short, are _captured_ (pris) or _prisoners_. By whom? The _cruel Indians_. Are you convinced? Do not the words fit naturally into the vacant places? Does not the document grow clear to your eyes? Does not light break in upon your mind?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It is plain! it is plain!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "All these hypotheses, my friends, seem to me extremely plausible. In my opinion, the catastrophe took place on the shores of Patagonia. However, I will inquire at Glasgow what was the destination of the Britannia, and we shall know whether she could have been led to these regions."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We do not need to go so far, replied the captain;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have here the shipping news of the _Mercantile and Shipping Gazette_, which will give us definite information."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Let us see! let us see!"
}
]
|
46597 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "May 30, 1862, Callao, Peru, _Britannia_, Captain Grant, bound for Glasgow."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Grant! exclaimed Lord Glenarvan;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, answered the captain,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Exactly! exactly! said Glenarvan;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is of no account, added Captain Mangles,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We know all, then?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "All, my dear Helena: and these blanks that the sea has made between the words of the document, I can as easily fill out as though I were writing at the dictation of Captain Grant."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "June 7, 1862.--The brig Britannia of Glasgow was wrecked on the shores of Patagonia, in the Southern Hemisphere. Directing their course to land, two sailors and Captain Grant attempted to reach the continent, where they will be prisoners of the cruel Indians. They have thrown this document into the sea, at longitude ----, latitude 37° 11'. Bring them assistance or they are lost."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Good! good! my dear Edward! said Lady Glenarvan;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And they shall see it again, replied Glenarvan."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This document is too explicit, too clear, too certain, for Englishmen to hesitate. What has been done for Sir John Franklin, and so many others, will also be done for the shipwrecked of the Britannia."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But these unfortunates, answered Lady Helena,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You are right, my dear lady; and I charge myself with informing them that all hope is not yet lost. And now, my friends, let us go on deck, for we must be approaching the harbor."
}
]
|
46597 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "For any information concerning the brig Britannia of Glasgow, Captain Grant, address Lord Glenarvan, Malcolm Castle, Luss, County of Dumbarton, Scotland."
}
]
|
46597 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "illumined the horizon, they would stroll along the"
}
]
|
46597 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Please, madam, speak! I am strong against grief, and can hear all."
}
]
|
46597 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "People of the country?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, madam, replied the steward,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Bid them come up, steward,"
}
]
|
46597 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You wish to speak with me?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "ONE TOUCH OF NATURE."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, answered the boy, in a decided tone;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Excuse him, madam,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Lord Glenarvan is not at the castle, replied Lady Helena;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You are Lady Glenarvan?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, miss."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The wife of Lord Glenarvan, of Malcolm Castle, who published an advertisement in the _Times_ in regard to the shipwreck of the Britannia?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, yes! answered Lady Helena, with alacrity."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And you?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am Miss Grant, and this is my brother."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Miss Grant! Miss Grant!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Madam, replied the young girl,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "My dear child, said Lady Helena,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "God forbid that I should answer you lightly on such a subject; I would not give you a vain hope----"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Please, madam, speak! I am strong against grief, and can hear all."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My dear child, answered Lady Helena,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Alas, alas!"
}
]
|
46597 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, papa! my poor papa!"
}
]
|
46597 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, madam, the document! the document!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I no longer have it, my dear child,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You no longer have it?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No; for the very sake of your father, Lord Glenarvan had to take it to London; but I have told you all it contained, word for word, and how we succeeded in discovering the exact meaning. Among these remains of the almost effaced words the water had spared some characters. Unfortunately the record of the longitude had altogether been destroyed, but that was the only missing point. Thus you see, Miss Grant, the minutest details of this document are known to you as well as me."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, madam, replied the young girl;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, to-morrow, perhaps, Lord Glenarvan will return. My husband desired to submit this indisputable document to the authorities in London, to induce them to send a vessel immediately in search of Captain Grant."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Is it possible, madam! cried the young girl."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Did you do this for us?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, my dear miss, and I expect Lord Glenarvan every moment."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Madam, said the young girl, in a deep tone of gratitude, and with fervency,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dear child, answered Lady Helena,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Madam, said the young girl,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I would not presume on the sympathy you show to us strangers----"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Strangers! Dear child, neither your brother nor you are strangers in this house; and I desire that Lord Glenarvan on his arrival should inform the children of Captain Grant of what is to be attempted to save their father."
}
]
|
46597 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, mamma! my dear mamma!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "My father, my poor father!"
}
]
|
46597 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That Mary Grant is a brave girl,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "May Heaven grant my husband success in his enterprise! replied Lady Helena;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He will succeed, answered MacNabb,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "BROKEN CISTERNS."
}
]
|
46597 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, Edward!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, my dear Helena, he replied,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They refused?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, they refused me a vessel: they spoke of the millions vainly spent in searching for Franklin; they declared the document was vague and unintelligible; they said that the shipwreck of these unfortunates had happened two years ago, and that there was little chance of finding them. They maintained too, that, if prisoners of the Indians, they must have been carried into the interior of the country; that they could not ransack all Patagonia to find three men,--three Scotchmen; the search would be vain and perilous, and would cost the lives of more men than it would save. In short, they gave all the absurd reasons of people who mean to refuse. They remembered the captain's projects, and I fear that the unfortunate man is forever lost!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My father, my poor father!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Your father! What, Miss----?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, Edward, Miss Grant and her brother, replied Lady Helena;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ah, miss! answered Lord Glenarvan,"
}
]
|
46597 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then you have no more hope?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "None."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, cried young Robert,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I will go to these people, and--we shall see----"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, Robert, said she,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mary!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Miss, where would you go?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am going to throw myself at the feet of the Queen, replied the young girl,"
}
]
|
46597 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mary Grant, she exclaimed,"
}
]
|
46597 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "NOBLY PLANNED."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Edward, said she,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What do you mean, Helena?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I mean, replied Lady Helena,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Helena!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, you understand me, Edward. The Duncan is a good, staunch vessel. It can brave the Southern seas; it can make the tour of the world,--and it will, if necessary! Let us start, Edward,--let us go in search of Captain Grant!"
}
]
|
46597 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hurrah for the lady of Luss! Hurrah! three times hurrah, for Lord and Lady Glenarvan!"
}
]
|
46597 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Good! said Robert;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Be easy, my boy, replied Glenarvan, without adding that the use of the"
}
]
|
46597 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What a magnificent spectacle! said Lady Helena, at last."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "This is the beginning of a beautiful day. May the wind not prove contrary, but favor the progress of the Duncan!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No better weather could be desired, my dear Helena, replied Lord Glenarvan;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Will it be a long one, my dear Edward?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That is for the captain to answer, said he."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Are we progressing well? Are you satisfied with your vessel, captain?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Very well indeed, was the answer."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "She is a marvelous craft, and a sailor likes to feel her under his feet. Never were hull and engine more in unison. See how smooth her wake is, and how easily she rides the waves. We are moving at the rate of seventeen knots an hour. If this continues, we shall cross the line in ten days, and in five weeks shall double Cape Horn."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You hear, Mary, said Lady Helena:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, replied the young girl,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I hear; and my heart beat quickly at the words of the captain."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And how do you bear this voyage, Miss Mary?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Very well, my lord; I do not experience very many discomforts. Besides, I shall soon be accustomed to it."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And young Robert?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, Robert! replied Captain Mangles:"
}
]
|
46597 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, be easy, miss! said Captain Mangles."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I will answer for him, and promise you I will present, in a short time, a famous sailor to Captain Grant; for we shall find that worthy captain."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "May Heaven hear you, sir!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "My dear child, said Lord Glenarvan,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Edward, said Lady Glenarvan,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not so; but I have the best of crews, on the best of ships. Do you not wonder at our Duncan, Miss Mary?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "On the contrary, my lord, answered the young girl,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don't so much wonder as admire; for I am well acquainted with ships."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ah! indeed!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "When a mere child, I played on my father's ships. He ought to have made a sailor of me. If it were necessary, perhaps I should not now be embarrassed in taking a reef or twisting a gasket."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What is that you're saying, miss?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If you talk so, continued Lord Glenarvan,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Undoubtedly, your lordship, replied the young captain;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And especially when she admires the Duncan!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Right, my lord; for she deserves it."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Upon my word, said Lady Helena,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Admirably, replied the captain;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Indeed they are, my dear Helena, said Lord Glenarvan."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This yacht is a part of our old Caledonia,--a detached portion of the county of Dumbarton, traveling by special favor, so that we have not left our country. The Duncan is Malcolm Castle, and the ocean is Loch Lomond."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, then, my dear Edward, do the honors of the castle,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am at your disposal, madam, answered her husband;"
}
]
|
46597 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Olbinett, we are going to make a tour of the vessel before breakfast, said Glenarvan, as if a journey to Tarbet or Loch Katrine was in question."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I hope we shall find the table ready on our return."
}
]
|
46597 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do you accompany us, major?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If you order it,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh! said Lord Glenarvan,"
}
]
|
46597 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Steward!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Steward!"
}
]
|
46597 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Where did this person come from? said he to himself."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A friend of Lord Glenarvan? It is impossible."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Are you the steward of the vessel?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, sir, replied Olbinett;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am the passenger of cabin number six."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Number six?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Certainly; and your name is----?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Olbinett."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, Olbinett, my friend, answered the stranger of cabin number six,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I must think of dinner, and acutely, too. For thirty-six hours I have eaten nothing, or, rather, have slept, which is pardonable in a man come all the way from Paris to Glasgow. What hour do you dine, if you please?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "At nine o'clock,"
}
]
|
46597 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, said he,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, said he,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Here is the captain,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ah, I am delighted, cried the stranger,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Captain Burton,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Permit me to shake hands with you, and if I did not do so day before yesterday, it was that no one might be embarrassed at the moment of departure. But to-day, captain, I am truly happy to meet you."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now, continued the latter,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What do you mean by the Scotia?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, the Scotia that carries us: a good ship, whose commander, the brave Captain Burton, I have heard praised no less for his physical than his moral qualities. Are you the father of the great African traveler of that name? If so, my compliments!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Sir, replied Captain Mangles,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ah! said the unknown,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mr. Burdness?"
}
]
|
46597 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ah! passengers! passengers! excellent! I hope, Mr. Burdness, you are going to introduce me----"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Madam said he to Miss Grant,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Miss to Lady Helena,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Sir"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Lord Glenarvan,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "My lord, continued the unknown,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I beg your pardon for introducing myself, but at sea we must relax a little from etiquette. I hope we shall soon be acquainted, and that, in the society of these ladies, the passage of the Scotia will seem as short to us as agreeable."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Sir, said Glenarvan, at length,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Jacques Eliacim François Marie Paganel, secretary of the Geographical Society of Paris; corresponding member of the societies of Berlin, Bombay, Darmstadt, Leipsic, London, St. Petersburg, Vienna, and New York; honorary member of the Royal Geographical and Ethnographical Institute of the East Indies, who, after passing twenty years of his life in studying geography, designs now to enter upon a roving life, and is directing his course to India to continue there the labors of the great travelers."
}
]
|
46597 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And now that our introduction is over, added he,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Twenty, my lord, replied Jacques Paganel;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You arrived on board this vessel the day before yesterday?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, my lord, day before yesterday, at eight o'clock in the evening. I took a cab from the Caledonian Railway to the Scotia, in which I had engaged cabin number six at Paris. The night was dark. I saw no one on board. Feeling fatigued by thirty hours of travel, and knowing that a good way to avoid sea-sickness is to go to bed on embarking, and not stir from your bunk for the first days of the voyage, I retired immediately, and have conscientiously slept thirty-six hours, I assure you."
}
]
|
46597 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "So, Monsieur Paganel, said Glenarvan,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, my lord. To see India is an idea that I have cherished all my life. It is my brightest dream, which shall be realized at last in the country of the elephants and the Thugs."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then you would not care to visit another country?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, my lord; it would be even disagreeable, for I have letters from Lord Somerset to the governor-general of India, and a mission from the Geographical Society which I must fulfil."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ah! you have a mission?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, a useful and curious voyage to undertake, the programme of which has been arranged by my scientific friend and colleague, M. Vivien de Saint Martin. It is to follow in the steps of the brothers Schlagintweit, and many other celebrated travelers. I hope to succeed where Missionary Krick unfortunately failed in 1846. In a word, I wish to discover the course of the Yaroo-tsang-bo-tsoo, which waters Thibet, and finally to settle whether this river does not join the Brahmapootra in the northeast part of Assam. A gold medal is promised to that traveler who shall succeed in supplying this much-needed information on Indian geography."
}
]
|
46597 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Monsieur Jacques Paganel, said Lord Glenarvan, after a moment of silence,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Give it up! And why?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Because you are turning your back upon the Indian peninsula."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "How? Captain Burton----"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am not Captain Burton,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But the Scotia?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This vessel is not the Scotia."
}
]
|
46597 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What a joke!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The Duncan! the Duncan!"
}
]
|
46597 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "On the whole, I am not astonished at this on the part of Jacques Paganel, said Glenarvan;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But what are we going to do with the poor gentleman? asked Lady Helena."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We cannot take him to Patagonia."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why not? replied MacNabb gravely."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We are not responsible for his errors. Suppose he were in a railroad car, would it stop for him?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No; but he could get out at the first station,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, said Glenarvan,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The Duncan! the Duncan!"
}
]
|
46597 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And this Duncan is going----?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "To America, Monsieur Paganel."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And where especially?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "To Concepcion."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "To Chili! to Chili! cried the unfortunate geographer."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And my mission to India! But what will M. de Quatrefages say, the President of the Central Commission? How shall I represent myself at the sessions of the Society?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come, monsieur, said Glenarvan,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I thank you, my lord, and must be resigned. But we can say this is an extraordinary adventure, which would not have happened but for me. And my cabin which is engaged on board the Scotia?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, as for the Scotia, I advise you to give her up for the present."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But, said Paganel after examining the vessel again,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, sir, replied Captain Mangles,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Who begs you to make free use of his hospitality,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A thousand thanks, my lord, replied Paganel;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am truly sensible to your courtesy. But permit me to make a simple remark. India is a beautiful country. It offers marvelous surprises to travelers. These ladies have probably never visited it. Well, the man at the helm needs only to give a turn to the wheel, and the Duncan will go as easily to Calcutta as Concepcion. Now, since this is a pleasure voyage----"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Monsieur Paganel, said Lady Helena at length,"
}
]
|
46597 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Madam, said he,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Will you then join in our search?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is impossible, madam; I must fulfil my mission. I shall disembark at your first landing."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "At Madeira then,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "At Madeira let it be. I shall be only one hundred and eighty leagues from Lisbon, and will wait there for means of further conveyance."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, Monsieur Paganel, said Glenarvan,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, my lord, exclaimed the geographer,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am still too happy in being so agreeably disappointed. However, it is a very ludicrous situation for a man who takes passage for India, and is sailing to America."
}
]
|
46597 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My dear lord, replied Paganel,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I will not be formal with you. Before my arrival on board, did you intend to stop at Madeira?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, permit me to profit by the consequences of my unlucky blunder. Madeira is an island too well known. Everything has been said and written about it; and it is, moreover, rapidly declining in point of civilization. If, then, it is all the same to you, let us land at the Canaries."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Very well, at the Canaries, replied Glenarvan."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That will not take us out of our way."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I know it, my dear lord. At the Canaries, you see, there are three groups to study, not to speak of the Peak of Teneriffe, which I have always desired to see. This is a fine opportunity. I will profit by it; and, while waiting for a vessel, will attempt the ascent of this celebrated mountain."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "As you please, my dear Paganel,"
}
]
|
46597 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mr. Paganel!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "My dear captain,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Please cast your eyes in that direction. Do you see nothing?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Nothing."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You are not looking right. It is not on the horizon, but above, in the clouds."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "In the clouds? I look in vain."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Stop, now, just on a line with the end of the bowsprit."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I see nothing."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You do not wish to see. However that may be, although we are forty miles distant, you understand, the Peak of Teneriffe is visible above the horizon."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You perceive it now?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, yes, perfectly! replied Paganel."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And that, added he in a contemptuous tone,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The same."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It appears to be of very moderate height."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yet it is eleven thousand feet above the level of the sea."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not so high as Mont Blanc."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Very possibly; but when you come to climb it, you will find it, perhaps, high enough."
}
]
|
46597 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh! climb it, my dear captain? What is the use, I ask you, after Humboldt and Bonpland? What can I do after these great men?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Indeed, replied Captain Mangles,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Except my own, said Paganel, laughing."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But, my dear captain, have not the Cape Verd Islands important landings?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Certainly. Nothing is easier than to land at Villa-Praïa."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not to speak of an advantage that is not to be despised, answered Paganel;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "As you please, Mr. Paganel, replied Captain Mangles."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am certain that geographical science will gain by your sojourn in these islands. We must land there to take in coal; you will, therefore, cause us no delay."
}
]
|
46597 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is an imperative fact,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It is certain, replied Glenarvan,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I will see about that."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You cannot face such a storm,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I, madam? Certainly. I fear only for my baggage and instruments. They will all be lost."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Our landing is the only thing doubtful, resumed Glenarvan."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Once at Villa-Praïa, you will not have very uncomfortable quarters; rather uncleanly, to be sure, in the company of monkeys and swine, whose surroundings are not always agreeable; but a traveler does not regard that so critically. Besides, you can hope in seven or eight months to embark for Europe."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Seven or eight months!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "At least that. The Cape Verd Islands are very rarely frequented during the rainy season. But you can employ your time profitably. This archipelago is still little known. There is much to do, even now."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But, replied Paganel in a pitiful tone,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That is really a pity, said Lady Helena."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What will become of you, Monsieur Paganel?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You had decidedly better have landed at Madeira, rejoined Glenarvan,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "My dear Glenarvan, continued Paganel at last,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "At Concepcion."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Alas! but that would bring me directly away from India!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No; for when you have passed Cape Horn you approach the Indies."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I very much doubt it."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Besides, continued Glenarvan with the greatest gravity,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The inhabitants of the Pampas of Patagonia are Indians as well as the natives of the Punjab."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Eh! my lord, exclaimed Paganel,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And then, my dear Paganel, you know that you can gain the gold medal in any country whatever. There is something to do, to seek, to discover, everywhere, in the chains of the Cordilleras as well as the mountains of Thibet."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But the course of the Yaroo-tsang-bo-tsoo?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Certainly. You can replace that by the Rio Colorado. This is a river very little known, and one of those which flow on the map too much according to the fancy of the geographer."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I know it, my dear lord; there are errors of several degrees. I do not doubt that at my request the Society would have sent me to Patagonia as well as to India; but I did not think of it."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The result of your continual abstraction."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, Monsieur Paganel, shall you accompany us?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And my mission, madam?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I inform you that we shall pass through the Strait of Magellan,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "My lord, you are a tempter."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I add that we shall visit Port Famine."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Port Famine! cried the Frenchman, assailed on all sides;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Consider also, Monsieur Paganel, continued Lady Helena,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes; doubtless."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A geographer may be very serviceable to our expedition; and what is more noble than for science to enlist in the service of humanity?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That is well said, madam."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Believe me, try chance, or rather Providence. Imitate us. It has sent us this document; we have started. It has cast you on board the Duncan; do not leave her."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And do you, indeed, wish me, my good friends? replied Paganel."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, you desire me to stay very much?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And you, Paganel, you are dying to stay,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Truly, cried the geographer,"
}
]
|
46597 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A rough little gentleman, said he;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I will teach him geography."
}
]
|
46597 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The accent is what I need,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Let us go to the Custom-house,"
}
]
|
46597 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "TRY AGAIN!"
}
]
|
46597 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Paganel, I appeal to your sagacity. Is the interpretation we have made of this document incorrect? Is the sense of these words illogical?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Are we mistaken as to the supposed scene of the shipwreck? continued Glenarvan."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Does not the name Patagonia suggest itself at once to the mind?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "In short, said Glenarvan,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Perfectly,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And therefore, is it not evident that these shipwrecked men, when they wrote these lines, expected to be prisoners of the Indians?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There you are wrong, my dear lord, said Paganel, at last;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What do you mean?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I mean, answered Paganel, emphasizing his words,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Explain yourself, sir,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nothing is easier, my dear Mary. Instead of reading _they will be prisoners_, read _they are prisoners_, and all will be clear."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But that is impossible,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Impossible? And why, my noble friend?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Because the bottle must have been thrown when the vessel was breaking on the rocks. Hence the degrees of longitude and latitude apply to the very place of shipwreck."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nothing proves it, said Paganel, earnestly;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Simply, my dear Paganel, because to throw a bottle into the sea it is necessary, at least, that the sea should be before you."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Or, in the absence of the sea, added Paganel,"
}
]
|
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