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46597 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Does Mr. John still hope?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, replied Robert."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He is a brother who will never forsake us. I shall be a sailor, shall I not, sister,--a sailor to seek my father with him? Are you willing?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, said Mary."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But must we be separated?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You will not be alone, Mary, I know. John has told me so. Lady Helena will not permit you to leave her. You are a woman, and can and ought to accept her benefits. To refuse them would be ungrateful. But a man, as my father has told me a hundred times, ought to make his own fortune."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But what will become of our house at Dundee, so full of associations?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We will keep it, my sister. All that has been well arranged by our friend John and Lord Glenarvan, who will keep you at Malcolm Castle like a daughter. He said so to John, who told me. You will be at home there, and wait till John and I bring back our father. Ah, what a joyful day that will be!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My brother, my child! exclaimed Mary,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "God grant it, Mary!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But how shall we pay our debt to Lord and Lady Glenarvan?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, that will not be difficult, answered Robert, with his boyish impulsiveness."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We will tell them how much we love and respect them, and we will show it to them by our actions."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That is all we can do! added the young girl, covering her brother's face with kisses;"
}
]
|
46597 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "METHOUGHT, THE BILLOWS SPOKE!"
}
]
|
46597 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Help! help!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mary, said Robert,"
}
]
|
46597 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Robert, said Mary, pale with emotion,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I thought--yes, I thought like you."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My father! my father!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Help! cried Robert."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My sister! my father! help!"
}
]
|
46597 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My sister is dying, and my father is yonder!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, repeated he,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My father, my father is yonder!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "My lord! Madam! repeated she, clasping her hands,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I tell you my father is there! I declare to you that I heard his voice issue from the waves like a despairing wail, like a last adieu!"
}
]
|
46597 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My father! my father is there! I am sure of it, my lord!"
}
]
|
46597 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You heard your father's voice, my dear boy?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, my lord. Yonder, in the midst of the waves, he cried, 'Help! help!'"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And you recognized the voice?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Did I recognize it? Oh, yes, I assure you! My sister heard and recognized it, too. How could both of us be deceived? My lord, let us go to his rescue. A boat! a boat!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hawkins, asked he,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, my lord,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And you did not see or hear anything?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Nothing."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You see how it is, Robert."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If it had been _his_ father, answered the lad, with irrepressible energy,"
}
]
|
46597 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Poor orphans! said Captain Mangles;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "God tries them in a terrible way!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, replied Glenarvan,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Upon both! murmured Paganel."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That is strange!"
}
]
|
46597 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is strange! repeated the geographer, returning to his cabin;"
}
]
|
46597 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes: the flag of England!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It is true!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My lord! exclaimed the boy, trembling with excitement,--"
}
]
|
46597 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Lower the boat!"
}
]
|
46597 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My father!"
}
]
|
46597 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How he has grown! He is a man!"
}
]
|
46597 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My lord and lady, join with me to bless our children!"
}
]
|
46597 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He is a shrewd and courageous man, added he;"
}
]
|
46597 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That rascal Ayrton will have no cause to complain, cried he in his enthusiasm."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The island is a paradise!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, replied Harry Grant,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And why, captain?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Because I would have laid here the foundation of that colony that I wish to present to Scotland."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ah! said Glenarvan."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then you have not abandoned the idea that has made you so popular in your native land?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, my lord; and God has saved me, through your instrumentality, only to permit me to accomplish it. Our poor brothers of old Caledonia shall yet have another Scotland in the New World. Our dear country must possess in these seas a colony of her own, where she can find that independence and prosperity that are wanting in many European empires."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That is well said, captain, replied Lady Helena."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It is a noble project, and worthy of a great heart. But this island----?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, madam, it is a rock, only large enough to support a few colonists; while we need a vast territory, rich in all primitive treasures."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, captain, cried Glenarvan,"
}
]
|
46597 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It was on the night of the 26th of June, 1862, that the Britannia, disabled by a six days' tempest, was wrecked on the rock of Maria Theresa. The sea was so high that to save anything was impossible, and all the crew perished except my two sailors, Bob Learce and Joe Bell, and myself; and we succeeded in reaching the coast after many struggles. The land that we thus reached was only a desert island, two miles wide and five long, with a few trees in the interior, some meadow land, and a spring of fresh water that, fortunately, has never ceased to flow. Alone with my two sailors, in this quarter of the globe, I did not despair, but, placing my confidence in God, engaged in a resolute struggle. Bob and Joe, my companions and friends in misfortune, energetically aided my efforts. We began, like Robinson Crusoe, by collecting the fragments of the vessel, some tools, a little powder, several weapons, and a bag of precious seeds. The first weeks were very toilsome, but soon hunting and fishing furnished us subsistence, for wild goats swarmed in the interior of the island, and marine animals abounded on its coast. Gradually our daily routine was regularly organized. I determined our exact situation by my instruments, which I had saved from the shipwreck. We were out of the regular course of ships, and could not be rescued except by a providential interposition. Although thinking of those who were dear to me, and whom I never expected to see again, still I accepted this trial with fortitude, and my most earnest prayers were for my two children. Meantime we labored resolutely. Much of the land was sown with the seeds taken from the Britannia; and potatoes, chicory, sorrel, and other vegetables improved and varied our daily food. We caught several goats, which were easily kept, and had milk and butter. The breadfruit-tree, which grew in the dry creeks, furnished us with a sort of nourishing bread, and the wants of life no longer gave us any alarm. We built a house out of the fragments of the Britannia, covered it with sails, carefully tarred, and under this shelter the rainy season was comfortably passed. Here many plans were discussed, and many dreams enjoyed, the best of which has just been realized! At first I thought of braving the sea in a boat made of the wreck of the vessel; but a vast distance separated us from the nearest land. No boat could have endured so long a voyage. I therefore abandoned my design, and no longer expected deliverance, except through a Divine interposition. Ah, my poor children, how many times, on the rocks of the coast, have we waited for ships at sea! During the entire period of our exile only two or three sails appeared on the horizon, and these soon to disappear again. Two years and a half passed thus. We no longer hoped, but still did not wholly despair. At last, yesterday afternoon, I had mounted the highest summit of the island, when I perceived a faint smoke in the west, which grew clearer, and I soon distinctly discerned a vessel that seemed to be coming towards us. But would she not avoid this island, which offered no landing-place? Ah, what a day of anguish, and how my heart throbbed! My companions kindled a fire on one of the peaks. Night came, but the ship gave no signal for approach. Deliverance was there, and should we see it vanish? I hesitated no longer. The darkness increased. The vessel might double the island during the night. I threw myself into the sea, to swim to her. Hope increased my strength. I beat the waves with almost superhuman energy, and approached the yacht. Scarcely thirty yards separated me, when she tacked. Then I uttered those despairing cries which my two children alone heard, for they were no illusion. I returned to the shore, exhausted and overcome by fatigue and emotion. It was a terrible night, this last one on the island. We believed ourselves forever abandoned, when, at daybreak, I perceived the yacht slowly coasting along the shores. Your boat was then lowered,--we were saved, and, thanks to the Divine goodness of Heaven, my dear children were there to stretch out their arms to me!"
}
]
|
46597 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Captain, will you tell me what your undecipherable document contained?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, captain, said Paganel,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Perfectly, replied Harry Grant;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And what are they, captain? inquired Glenarvan."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Tell us, for our curiosity is great."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am ready to satisfy you, continued Harry Grant;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They are not identical, then?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, almost to a word."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, give us the French document, said Glenarvan."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "This one was spared the most by the waves, and has served as the principal basis for our search."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This is it, my lord, word for word,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ha!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "resumed Harry Grant,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Tabor,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How Tabor Island? It is Maria Theresa."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Certainly, Mr. Paganel, replied Harry Grant;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Maria Theresa on the English and German, but Tabor on the French maps."
}
]
|
46597 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A fine geographer you are! said MacNabb, in a tone of badinage."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But no matter, since we have succeeded."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No matter? cried Paganel;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I ought never to have forgotten that twofold appellation! It is an unpardonable mistake, unworthy of the secretary of a Geographical Society. I am disgraced!"
}
]
|
46597 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is I, Ayrton,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, captain, replied Ayrton, without betraying any astonishment at Harry Grant's appearance."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, I am not sorry to see you again in good health."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It seems, Ayrton, that I made a mistake in landing you on an inhabited coast."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It seems so, captain."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You will take my place on this desert island. May Heaven lead you to repentance!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "May it be so,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Do you still adhere, Ayrton, to this determination to be abandoned?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, my lord."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Does Tabor Island suit you?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Perfectly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Now listen to my last words. You will be far removed from every land, and deprived of all communication with your fellow-men. Miracles are rare, and you will not probably remove from this island, where we leave you. You will be alone, under the eye of God, who reads the uttermost depths of all hearts; but you will not be lost, as was Captain Grant. However unworthy you may be of the remembrance of men, still they will remember you. I know where you are, and will never forget you."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Thank you, my lord!"
}
]
|
46597 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Must it then be so? inquired the young wife of her husband."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Must this unfortunate be abandoned?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "FAREWELL! A LONG FAREWELL!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He must, Helena, answered Glenarvan."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is his punishment."
}
]
|
46597 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Shall we start, my lord?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, John,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "All right!"
}
]
|
46597 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Does not Miss Arabella please you?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, major, she is charming! cried Paganel,--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Be easy, answered the major;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I do not dare."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But, my learned friend, why do you hesitate?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am unworthy of her!"
}
]
|
46597 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Bah!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It is as I tell you,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What matter, my worthy friend?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Is that your opinion?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "On the contrary, you are only more remarkable. This adds to your personal advantages. It makes you the inimitable individual of whom Arabella has dreamed."
}
]
|
360372 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Wild Will"
}
]
|
586881 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What is it? I asked, springing up;"
}
]
|
307209 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No!"
}
]
|
639371 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I know she will, you scoundrel!"
}
]
|
491510 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Not so indeed. But she is so young--so fair--"
}
]
|
43621 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Before leaving the dinner-table we were warned that if anyone ventured into the streets he must, by law, carry a lantern; but that, as the city was full of soldiers, and a good deal of excitement prevailed--a number of Druse prisoners being expected--we had better stay indoors. There was not much temptation to do otherwise after a weary day's travel beyond stepping into the street to look up at the brilliant stars sparkling in the cold night, as they must have done to the eyes of patriarchs and perhaps of Magi, of Naaman and of Omar. And in the drawing-room there had actually been lighted a real fire--a rare luxury in Syria and Palestine. Of course, one must send some postcards to friends at home--it is not every day you can date a letter from Damascus--and there is always a diary waiting to be"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "STRAIGHT."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "them; but it was pleasant to drive along the banks of the Abana, which flows through the city, and feel that one was on the extreme verge of modern civilisation. Entering"
}
]
|
43621 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "House of Ananias. Oblivious of the historic record that St. Paul lodged in the house of Judas, in the street called Straight, and was visited there by Ananias, local tradition shows the cave in which the meeting took place in Ananias' house! We have to be satisfied, as in the case of many traditional sacred sites, with the reflection,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It was somewhere near here ; but as we continued our drive through"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Straight Street we read St. Luke's account of that journey to Damascus, and the events which were the means of changing the pupil of Gamaliel into the Apostle of the Gentiles. We were reminded of him again as we passed out of the triple East Gate. Its central arch is now built up, as well as one of the side ones; but by this, quite possibly, Saul was actually led in his blindness into the city. Not far away is pointed out the window by which he was let down. The house is in reality a modern one, but there are many examples round us of the kind of place in the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "not many yards away. The traditional site is now suitably occupied by a leper hospital; and about its gateway we can see unhappy creatures in various stages of this living death. As we drove away, we read the story of Naaman, and opportunely noticed, if not a mule, at least an ass, with a"
}
]
|
43621 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Pearl of the East, which lies, as is sometimes said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "the handle being the long straggling suburb which has grown up along the line of march by which Mecca pilgrims leave the city year by year. The resemblance was less striking to us than it would have been a month or two later, when the leafy springtime had clothed in green the broad expanse of trees, spreading around the minarets and domes and flat-roofed houses of the city. Snow-capped Hermon stood out quite clear to the west; and towards the east were pointed out the Meadow lakes, in which the"
}
]
|
43621 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "fair indeed to eyes accustomed to the dreary desert; and, declaring that man could not have his heaven both here and hereafter, refused to enter the city. By the time we were in our hotel once more, it was the hour for lunch; and, that over, a party sallied forth on foot to visit the Bazaars. All the Western associations of this word must be banished from the mind, before one can call up a picture of the thing as it is in Cairo or Jerusalem, or, most picturesque of all, in Damascus. The"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "which Ahab won the Israelites the privilege of making in this city, were, I suppose, nothing else than bazaars. According to time-honoured custom, we have here a classification by trades: silversmiths, leather-merchants, silk-merchants, brass-workers, shoemakers, sellers of"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Turkish delight, and other sweets, vendors of inlaid work and so on, all have their well-known places. Lofty arcades cover some of the rows of little open shops, with no door but a net, drawn across the front during its owner's absence. The shopkeepers themselves seem to come out of the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Arabian Nights ; so does the stream of passengers on foot or horseback, or with mules or donkeys, or even in carriages, passing through these busy scenes of traffic. On our way thither, we stopped for a moment to admire the"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Plane-tree of Omar,"
}
]
|
43621 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Advancement of Learning and the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Novum Organum."
}
]
|
43621 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Bible only is the religion of Protestants. The author of this oft-quoted and often misinterpreted saying was William Chillingworth, who died on January 30th, 1644. The sentence comes from his chief work,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The Religion of Protestants a Safe Way to Salvation."
}
]
|
43621 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A Daughter of Erin,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have bad news for you, Anthony,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Not very bad, I trust, mother?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It is about your poor Uncle Wilton. I did not bother you with it till you had had your dinner. He is ill."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ill? What's the matter with him?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A very serious collapse, I'm afraid. The last letter said he was unconscious. You'll have to go to him, Anthony, I suppose."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "His state is not dangerous? Surely not, or you would not have delayed about telling me?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There is no immediate fear, said Lady Jane coldly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have only known of his illness a few days. If you had not been coming, I should have wired to you, of course. But since you were coming, I didn't see the use of it. The doctor said that everything was being done."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Poor old Uncle Wilton. He is alone and ill, then?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He is always alone, so I do not see that that fact adds anything to his being ill."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Of course, I must go to him. I didn't want to, though. Not just now."
}
]
|
43621 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You won't rush away, headlong? You can spare a day or two to me--and to Kitty? She smiled frostily."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Kitty has been looking forward to your coming, Anthony."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is very good of Lady Kitty, he said, contracting his eyebrows in a frown."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "She is still with you, then?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She is good enough to brighten up my loneliness, dear child. I don't know what I should do without Kitty."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You seem to get on well together."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She is a dear child to me, said Lady Jane, her face becoming almost warm."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I wish she had been my daughter, really."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You would rather have her than your son, mother?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You have never given me any trouble, Anthony, but you are more your father's child than mine."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Some women would have loved me all the more,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It was good of Lady Kitty to go out to-night. I suppose she thought we would have things to talk about after nearly six months of absence."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, dear, no, said the mother."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It was an old engagement, that was all. Kitty knows I'm not sentimental."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Except where she is concerned."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I shall think you are jealous, Anthony,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Of whom, mother?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not of your mother, Anthony."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You are not interested in my six months of absence."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Among savages, my poor Anthony."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They are not the least bit in the world savages, mother. They are very charming people."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I daresay, but who are _they_?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mr. Graydon--and his family."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, I didn't know he had a family. Of course, he was married before he sold out. He married beneath him. It was something rather disgraceful, I think. Afterwards--he went under."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am sure he did nothing disgraceful, mother. He would be no more capable of it than--my father. Besides, I have seen Mrs. Graydon's picture; it hangs over his study mantelpiece. She was a lovely young woman, and very distinctly a lady."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Indeed! I am not interested in Mr. Graydon's family affairs. I know he married beneath him."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mother, why do you detest Graydon so much?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am not aware that I detest him. You are like your father, always making absurd friendships, and jumping to absurd conclusions."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am glad to be like my father."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, of course, I must go to uncle at once. If I go to Liverpool to-morrow night, I should get a boat on Thursday. Yet I did not want to go now."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, surely. Why, you haven't yet even seen Kitty. She will be vexed that she was out."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I wasn't thinking of Lady Kitty."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh! and her face stiffened again."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don't profess to understand the young men of the present generation."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mother, said the young man--and he blushed like a girl--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What do you mean, Anthony? It is a question you should ask Kitty yourself. You are not afraid of the answer, surely?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I hope she cares nothing for me."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You _hope_!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, said her son doggedly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It is a disgustingly foppish thing for a man to have to say; but I hope it----"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Are you mad, Anthony?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not that I know, mother. You have always suggested a marriage between us, and have behaved as if there were some such understanding, but it has been entirely your doing. I was a young idiot not to have put my foot on it long ago, but worse than that I have not been."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You will not dare to play with Kitty."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I play with no lady, said her son, meeting her glance steadily."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have fetched and carried for Kitty, because she was always here, and a woman--and young and pretty perhaps; I have never said a word of love to her."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You have allowed it to be understood; and if you play her false now, you will kill her. You know how delicate she is. She is dearer to me than you are, ten thousand times over."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I daresay, but that is no reason why you should persuade me that your will is, or has been, or ever will be, mine."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Kitty's money would make you very rich."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That would be the last reason, mother."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If you brought me Kitty for a daughter, I should love you."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have grown used to doing without your love."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There is someone else, I suppose?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There is someone else,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not someone you have met over there?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I thought ill would come of it; but you cared no more for my wishes than your father before you. Who is it?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am sorry you are so bitter, mother. It is Mr. Graydon's daughter."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Archibald Graydon's daughter!"
}
]
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "You are going to jilt my Kitty for that man's daughter!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There is no question of jilting Lady Kitty, he answered steadily."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But I am certainly going to marry Mr. Graydon's daughter, Pamela."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Some wild savage."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A beautiful and gentle girl."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You will be beggars together."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Not necessarily. We shall not be very rich, but that is another thing."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You will go your own way, I suppose--only give me time to soften the blow it will be to Kitty."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Kitty loves you. Why she should I do not know, but, most unfortunately, it is true. I shall never speak of it again after this. Give me time, I beg you."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You can have plenty of time, he said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But even yet I cannot believe she loves me. A woman's love is not given on such slight grounds. Why, I have never pressed her hand even."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You know nothing about it. Would it have made any difference to you if you had believed she loved you?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "None. I love once and for ever."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If I believed that to be true, I should be sorry for you."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is true, mother."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It is true of a few people in this world, but you are not one of them."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mere assertion is nothing."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Are you engaged to this--this young woman?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In honour, yes; formally, no."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ah, then you will go away, and I shall have my own time for telling Kitty."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, if you wish for it."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You will not engage yourself to the girl till Kitty knows?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You are exacting, mother. I have to think of Miss Graydon too."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You can think of her all your life. It is my Kitty that is to be deserted and betrayed. You don't know what you are doing."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mother, it is some mania of yours. Desertion and betrayal are strong words."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Let them pass. Technically, I suppose you are free from reproach."
}
]
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ah, here is my Kitty, said Lady Jane."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Are you cold, my darling? and was your party pleasant? Come to the fire."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "So you have come, Anthony, she said, extending a white hand to him."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I hope you had a pleasant journey."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "How cosy you are here! she said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It was a horrid party--so dull! That is why I came home early."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You would like some tea?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, please. Oh, thank you, as Anthony rang the bell."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is pleasant to see you home again."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He is leaving us very soon, said Lady Jane, and her tones were again cold and measured."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He feels it his duty to go to nurse his Uncle Wilton."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why? said the young woman, lifting her eyebrows."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Is there no one at Washington to look after him? Or is the lot of a diplomat so friendless?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He is very ill, and he is my father's only brother. My place is with him."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You are a self-sacrificing young man. First, you bury yourself among Irish savages; now, at a moment's notice, you are off to nurse the sick. I should think a valet would do quite as well."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Here is your tea, Lady Kitty,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "By the way, I sat beside such a pleasant old man at dinner, Sir Rodney Durant. He asked me about you, and I told him of your exile. I ought to apologise for calling your hosts savages, by the way, for he told me a most interesting story about your tutor--Graydon, isn't it? It seems old Lord Downside cut him off with an angry penny because he married some friendless little beauty. Scandal said the old lord himself had pretensions. And then, to spite his heir, he married his cook or someone, and has a wretchedly delicate little boy of thirteen or thereabouts. Why didn't you tell me, Auntie Janie, or did you not know?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I never take notice of gossip, Kitty."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But is it gossip? You ought to know, for your husband and this man were friends. To hear Sir Rodney, the man Graydon was a sort of hero of romance."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "An old man's stories, my dear."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Graydon is a splendid fellow, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am sure he is all Sir Rodney said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, I'm sure it's nice to hear of such people nowadays, said Lady Kitty, yawning,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I thought they only existed in books. But such an interesting story, Auntie Janie! If you knew of it, why didn't you tell me, instead of treating the man as a kind of bucolic savage?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Go to bed, my darling, she said;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Bother my beauty-sleep!"
}
]
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "The child will do, said Miss Spencer to herself, when Sir John Beaumont, an old admirer of hers, had gone to fetch her some refreshment."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Wonderful how she makes all those men look so delighted with her and themselves! It reminds me of a girl who could do that. Who was it? And what happened afterwards?... Ah! Pamela, she said, speaking aloud,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "To stay with you awhile, Miss Spencer,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And where are all the beaux, my dear? It is not as if your heart was elsewhere."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm tired, Miss Spencer. I can't keep it up like Sylvia."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hoity-toity, _tired_! No, you can't be tired. It will be years before there is another event like this. Let me call Mr. Wandesforde over there to take you to hear this Dublin singer, Madame Squallini, or whatever the woman's name is. All the people have gone trooping off to the music-room to hear her."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Please don't, dear Miss Spencer, I would so much rather sit here by you. I have heard a great many fine singers already."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why, what's come to you, Pam? You used to be as full of fun as Sylvia. Now you are like a girl whose lover has gone away--I know how such a one would feel--and has never come back to her."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't know whether your father or your sister is in the greatest demand, Miss Graydon, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I heard peals of laughter as I passed the sitting-room, and, looking in, I saw your father delighting them. He's a charming fellow, upon my word. He's wasted on rusticity."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Indeed, Sir John, I suppose the rustics ought all to be plain and stupid,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ah, my dear lady, murmured the old gentleman,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, I daresay; you always had a pretty speech ready. And what about Pam here?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Miss Pamela belongs to the country, as lilies and roses do."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She likes to bloom in the shade, said Miss Spencer, a bit irritably."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What do you think of a girl who prefers to sit in the corner rather than hold a court as her younger sister is doing?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's cruel to the young fellows, Miss Pamela--that's what it is."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It isn't as if she were an engaged girl."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ah! that would be rough on the young fellows, before they had more than a chance of seeing her."
}
]
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "You poor dears, said Sylvia, standing over them, and still waving her great fan,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm afraid I've been keeping you out of your beds an unconscionable time."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hear her! cried Miss Spencer."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You'd think we were her grandmothers."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Only Pam, said Sylvia."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I've been watching you. You didn't seem to find it dull."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm afraid we're much of a muchness, she said;"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Graydon'll be up all night, said Miss Spencer as they rolled away."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He enjoyed himself immensely and added to the enjoyment of others. Your father's well-fitted to shine in society, girls. 'Tis a pity, as Beaumont says, he should be shut up here."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Didn't he propose Mr. Vandaleur's health beautifully after dinner? said Sylvia."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I sat where I could see him, and all the time he had a twinkle in his eye."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He ought to be in Parliament himself, said Miss Spencer emphatically."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Vandaleur isn't worth a rush."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But what was the matter with Pam? asked Sylvia."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why, Pam's asleep!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Never mind your sister, minx, but tell me about your conquests. Which of them did you like best?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Let me see, said Sylvia."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There was Captain Vavasour--from the barracks. He asked leave to call."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Did he, indeed, and what did you say?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I told him yes, if he'd chance finding me unemployed. I'd so much to do feeding the fowls, and washing the dogs, and keeping the pony clean, let alone my household duties."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why, you've none, except eating the jam--and that's a pleasure. What did he say?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He said he'd be enchanted to help me at any of these occupations."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That was nice of him. What about the other lad from the barracks?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mr. Baker? Oh, I like him. He's game for anything. He's coming ratting with Pat one day. He has an English terrier, but I told him he wouldn't be a patch on Pat."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You talked of ratting in that frock?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, he was delighted. He confessed it was a passion with him."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I saw you talking to the Master. He's a fine-looking fellow, but not a patch on Tom Charteris."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Wake up, sleepy-head!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He asked me why I didn't hunt. I said I often thought of doing it on Neddy, only he was a buck-jumper. He said that wouldn't matter, except that all the world would be riding to hounds on donkeys presently and taking the ditches backward. He, too, is coming to call. They're all coming to call. I should like to see Bridget's face when she's expected to provide afternoon tea. If they keep ringing at the door, she won't pretend not to hear them; she has the excuse that the bell's broken. Then they'll have to go away in tears. I told that young St. Quintin, the Eton boy, so. He said, after he'd done crying, he'd come in by the window. I really believe he would. He's so cheeky."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But you don't tell me which you liked best. I daresay they all thought you no end of a minx."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Let me see, said Sylvia, with a dispassionate air."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, Lord Glengall, of course."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Glengall! with his hatchet face and his forty odd years!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I think he has a dear face; his eyes are just like Pat's."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I wouldn't think of Glengall--that is, if I were free."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ah, you see, I don't care seriously for boys. I like them well enough to talk to; but Glengall one can take seriously."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He didn't join your court, though."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, he wouldn't. I actually went up to have a little chat with him, and he said, as if I were four years old: 'Now you must go and talk to the boys, Miss Sylvia. I don't want a dozen duels on my hands.'"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I daresay he thought you a forward minx."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't think he would. Only he would take some persuading to believe that I really preferred talking to him. He stood in a corner then, and watched Pam out of his nice, kind, faithful eyes."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He wouldn't have any nonsense in his head about Pam? You don't mean that?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, I don't think he's in love with Pam. He'd look just the same at me if he thought I was tired or melancholy. I think I'll try it."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Let him alone, minx. But here we are, as the carriage stopped."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Wake up, sleepy-head! --to Pam--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm too excited to sleep, you old dunderhead, she said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I wish it was all to come over again."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You will be tired in the morning, Sylvia."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, I shan't; I shall be as fresh as possible. I shall dream it all over again. There, wait till I've brushed my hair, and I'll let you go to sleep. Not that I can understand your wanting to sleep; you were just as keen about this as I was."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm downright disappointed in you. Don't you know I'd have enjoyed it all twice as much if you were enjoying it too? I'm glad papa was there; the glances of enjoyment he sent me from the high table were exhilarating. Wasn't it nice the way all those little round tables were set out? And didn't Vandaleur junior do his duty well as a host? By the way, wasn't it low of Trevithick not to come back after all?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I daresay there was some good reason."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then he ought to have said there was. It is very uncivil to papa, too, not to return on the date arranged, and not to write."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He couldn't mean to be uncivil,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'll tell you what. If I hadn't eaten those old sweets he sent me at Christmas I'd fire them back at his head: wouldn't you his old violets if they weren't dead and gone?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You are too impulsive, Sylvia, she said, stung out of her silence."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why should Sir Anthony be uncivil or unkind? I know he meant to return to-night."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "So I heard him say, said Sylvia, cynically;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, Sylvia! I'm sure Sir Anthony has plenty of ballast. There must be some explanation, and when we have heard it you'll be ashamed of your rash judgment."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not I, for if it isn't true of him, it's true of most youths of his age. Do you think his mother's at the bottom of it, Pam?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How should I know, Sylvia? What makes you think of her?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, from something he let fall one day, I guessed that she didn't want him to come here. Then he showed me her photograph in his album. She looked chock-full of pride and insolence. I believe a woman who looked like that would do anything."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I should think Sir Anthony would know his own mind in the matter."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I daresay, but she may have been up to some mischief. And talking of mothers makes me think of Glengall."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why should it, Sylvia?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, there was that old mother of his. Think of his hard years, poor dear! No prosperity would wipe out the traces. He is as anxious-looking as Pat, and Pat is the very image of Micky Morrissy, who is always six months in arrear with his rent, and expects a notice of eviction any day. I say, Pam --suddenly--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sylvia!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Would you? I know he's nearly as old as dad, and all that--but would you?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, Sylvia."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, then, I would. But he likes you better than me."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He likes us both as his friend's little girls."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I know; he'd never think of us in any other light. Still, if he liked me best, I'd make him think."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How, Sylvia?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why, I'd just ask him to marry me."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He'd think you wanted the gold."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That he wouldn't. It shows how little you know of him."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, then, other people would."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We shouldn't care about that."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We? Who?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Glengall and I."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sylvia, you're talking as if you were really in earnest."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "So I am, but he likes you better than me. You ought to marry him, Pam."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I shall never marry anyone,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You poor dear old duffer, I was advising you for your good. But you're tired out. There, go asleep. I shan't take you to any more functions."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "THE WORLD IS SO CRUEL."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There's a horse-fair at Kilmacredden on Saturday, said Lord Glengall."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I was thinking you might find time to come along with me and see what's to be picked up."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It isn't time I'd be wanting, said Mr. Graydon,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Very well, then, you'll come. We'll have to make an early start and give the mare her time over the mountain. Will four o'clock do?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "For me, yes. Will you get up on Saturday morning and see that there's a cup of tea ready for me by four o'clock?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You know I will. Next to being up all night I like to get up before daybreak."
}
]
|
43621 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "he said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You must marry, Glengall, and be properly taken care of,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm past marrying, said Lord Glengall;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I leave that to the girls and boys."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They'd make foolish marriages, said Sylvia,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "he said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You should turn match-maker, Miss Sylvia."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "For you, Lord Glengall?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'll go bail you'd find no one to have me, Miss Sylvia."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If I do will you entertain the proposal, Lord Glengall?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Provided she's not too old and will marry me for myself."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I think I can find her for you, Lord Glengall."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come, Sylvia, give Glengall his tea, and don't be talking nonsense,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Here it is for you, Lord Glengall, just as you like it--hot, strong and sweet."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Thank you, Miss Sylvia; it's as good as ever I made for myself in the Bush."
}
]
|
43621 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If they don't come soon, muttered Sylvia over her teacup,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Some of those young fellows from the barracks, Sylvia,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It can't be, said Sylvia."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mr. Baker was here yesterday, and Mr. De Quincy on Tuesday, and Captain Vavasour's coming to-morrow."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Lady Jane Trevithick,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, dear! muttered Sylvia;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How do you do? said Mr. Graydon, going to meet her."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "This _is_ a pleasure. My daughter, Lady Jane. My friend, Glengall. No, don't sit there. There's a dog in that chair."
}
]
|
43621 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I find myself unexpectedly almost a neighbour of yours, Mr. Graydon, and I did myself the pleasure of calling."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You are very good, Lady Jane."
}
]
|
43621 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am staying with Mr. Verschoyle, she went on;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I suppose you count him a neighbour?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, as country neighbours go. I have met him sometimes on the Bench. I was not aware you knew him."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I knew him years ago, she said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But, by the way, have you heard from my boy?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not directly--nothing since your Ladyship's letter."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That is careless of Anthony! But he is nursing his uncle, you know, and I daresay is finding time for a little mild amusement as well."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Trevithick is no better?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, I am sorry to say. There is no saying when he will be better, or if he will ever be really better. My son thinks he ought to stay with him, however."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am sure he is right,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And this is--Pamela, I suppose?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No; Pam will be here presently. This is Sylvia, my youngest girl."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am very much indebted to you all, Mr. Graydon, for making my son so happy. He was grieved not to return to you, I know."
}
]
|
43621 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ugh! said Lady Jane to herself;"
}
]
|
43621 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I can't feel, she said to Mr. Graydon,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, indeed, said Mr. Graydon, to whom belief in the goodwill of all the world came easily,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I should hope that we need not be strangers to a Trevithick. I have never forgotten my love for Gerald, Lady Jane."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He was devoted to you,"
}
]
|
43621 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What a charming woman!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I call her a cat!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, Sylvia!"
}
]
|
43621 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Not well, Pam?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A little out-of-sorts,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "When did it begin, Pam--this being out-of-sorts? Up to Christmas I thought you were blooming like a wild rose."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "One is not always just the same, she said;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Glengall noticed it, too. Don't go, child--we haven't finished our conversation."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Lord Glengall is as fatherly to us as you are. He is always watching us like a mother-hen over a brood of ducklings."
}
]
|
43621 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Glengall is a good fellow, Pam,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He's a dear,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A girl might do worse than marry Glengall."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That's what Sylvia says."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sylvia's a wise child. And what do you think, Pam?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I?--I haven't thought about it."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Could you think of it, Pam?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Poor Glengall would like to marry you, Pam. He's troubled about you, poor fellow. He'd like to take you away, and show you all the beautiful world, and lavish his wealth upon you. Could you do it, Pam?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There, Pam, there! I didn't mean to distress you, and I know Glengall wouldn't for the world. I only told you because I thought you ought to know. He has no hope at all himself--and would never ask you, I am sure. Only he is so good. I should know a little girl of mine was safe with him."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There, there, child! said her father,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't want to marry anyone, sobbed Pam."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why can't I join a sisterhood and be at peace?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You'd hate it, Pam, that's what you would. You'd come back again in a week."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I hate the world! cried Pam."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The world is so cruel."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Poor little girl!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Pam, he said suddenly,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There isn't, sobbed Pam,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I only asked, Pam, because I thought I might be able to help you."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No one can help me, cried Pam,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Very well, then, said her father patiently."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'll let you alone. Only dry your eyes, and be comforted. I'm afraid you'll have to wash your face, Pam. You've been flooding my old tattered Euripides with your tears, and you've carried off half the dust from him. There, child, be comforted. I won't say another word about Glengall. He's just like myself, poor fellow, only anxious to take care of you. Sure, I know you're a child, and ought to have your freedom for years yet."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I wish her mother were here now,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I wish I had your wisdom, darling, he muttered."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is so hard for a man to deal with little girls. And, ah! what they lost when you went to heaven!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'll do it, he said, half-aloud, at last."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I expect money difficulties would really stand in the way. I know Trevithick died poor, and Lady Jane had little of her own. The lad _must_ love her if she loves him. And it will smooth the way. At worst I shall only suffer a rebuff. I can bear it for the sake of Mary's children. And poor Molly too! Why need she spend her girlhood fretting for her lover when a little money would make things straight?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am doing the best I can for them, Mary,"
}
]
|
43621 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I may be an old fossil, he said,"
}
]
|
43621 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now, who can this be from? he said, putting it down and looking at it curiously."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Better open it and see,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's from Lady Jane Trevithick, he said soberly;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'd rather not go, said Pam, putting down the letter."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I can't go--I've no frocks."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I should like you to go, Pam, said her father, wistfully."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The invitation is kindly meant, and Lady Jane moves in very good society, and is influential. Why should my girls be buried here? As for the frocks--I can spare ten pounds--I really can manage that. How much can be done with ten pounds, Mary?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Poor little girl!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A good deal. Oh! I hope Nancy Cullen is still at home! We'll go round after breakfast and see."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Must I go?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I think you ought to go, Pam, said her father;"
}
]
|
43621 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I used to think her a proud and cold girl in the old days, he said to himself;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You will go then, Pam? he said aloud."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The change will do you good; and you will enjoy yourself."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Very well, said Pamela, listlessly;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I would rather be here, but if you wish I will go."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Do not interpretations belong to God?"
}
]
|
43621 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do not interpretations belong to God?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I too have known my visions--beautiful visions of life's triumphs and life's joys. They faded with my growing years; and instead of the achievements which I saw in my dreams, there came false accusation, imprisonment, and neglect; but though the golden light of those visions is gone, they were not meaningless. I wait still for the unfolding of their significance. Still I rely upon Him who will make all things plain--for do not interpretations belong unto Him?"
}
]
|
43621 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Thou wert a vision of delight To bless us given; Beauty embodied to our sight, A glimpse of heaven."
}
]
|
43621 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do not interpretations belong to God?"
}
]
|
43621 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh! joy that in our embers Is something that doth live."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "With trailing clouds of glory did we come From God, who is our home!"
}
]
|
43621 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do not interpretations belong to God?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What I do thou knowest not now; but thou shalt know hereafter. So at another time He spoke:"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is not for you to know the times and the seasons. There is a sweet interpreting"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "of life's bitter experience."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No chastening seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby."
}
]
|
43621 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Lady Jane's Companion."
}
]
|
43621 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I--I--I thought that Freddy----"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Impossible! said Georgiana; her voice vibrated with a little more than disdain."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, what could he see in a stupid little goose like that? It would be cheaper to buy a sixpenny doll and set it up in his house; then at least he could always change it. But if he wants a wife----"
}
]
|
43621 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'll tell!"
}
]
|
43621 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If she would only come out of the gate! he said, hitting wildly at all the buttercups in his reach."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If she'd only give me a chance. But she's just pinned to Dolly, and I never can get a minute."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And I'm off to-morrow!"
}
]
|
43621 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I know she thinks I'm not good enough for Dolly, he said;"
}
]
|
43621 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, Freddy!"
}
]
|
43621 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do you want Georgiana? she said, bravely,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Dolly, he said,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You used always to jump it, she said. Their hands touched as they fumbled at it, and she felt a new and disturbing thrill."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hadn't you better do that, if you have not become too grand?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't, said Freddy. Ah, their fingers had been too near; he caught hers and held them tight."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "They are all chaffing me about being a Vicar and having a house and all that. Asking if I've got anybody to put into it. But what's the good if you can't get the girl you want?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Dolly, he said,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Is that you, Freddy? What a blessing! I wanted to tell you what you must do about the study."
}
]
|
43621 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If a man can't furnish his own study as he likes----"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What was Freddy saying?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I--I don't know, Georgiana. He was just beginning--I think he has fallen in love again."
}
]
|
43621 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He did not say who it was?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, answered Dolly,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Can't you?"
}
]
|
43621 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Good-bye, my dear boy. We shall hear how you get on. Your mother will write and tell us----"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You must let me know how you manage about the stairs,"
}
]
|
43621 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Will you come to the gate with me, Dolly?"
}
]
|
43621 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, Dolly--come along!"
}
]
|
43621 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I can't do it,"
}
]
|
43621 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's no good, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I can't put it in a letter, and it does look a cowardly way of--asking. Like chalking up a thing and running round the corner. If I were a girl and a fellow wrote to me instead of coming and standing to his guns, I should call it--cheek."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dear Dolly----"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "She would think it was a joke and show it all round the family for them to laugh at it too, he lamented;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hurrah!"
}
]
|
43621 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What is the matter, Freddy?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I was thinking, said the Vicar soberly,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If you think the place is ready for visitors,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, you might ask Dolly; I'm sure she wouldn't mind."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why not Georgiana? she inquired."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Eldest first."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't think she could be spared just now, said the Vicar, hiding his alarm,"
}
]
|
43621 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then, mother, of course, you'll ask Georgiana?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Do you want her?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Want her? cried the Vicar."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Rather!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I didn't know she would come, but if Dolly's to manage the school treat this year, and if Dolly's to take the club, they won't want Georgiana. Tell her we can't possibly get the house put to rights without her. Say whatever you think will bring her. Only make her come."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Tell her she _must_ come!"
}
]
|
43621 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's Georgiana then, after all,"
}
]
|
43621 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't believe she hates me really, he thought."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It was only that she didn't want me to marry Dolly."
}
]
|
43621 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Good morning, Freddy. Your mother is breakfasting in her room. What a wilderness your house is at present! The first thing after breakfast will be to have a man in and put down the carpets."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But they _are_ down,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "All crooked,"
}
]
|
43621 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, by-the-bye, she said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Your idea of furnishing the drawing-room is too ridiculous. It ought to be smart and shiny--a company room. You don't want old pictures and comfortable chairs!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't I?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, said Georgiana. Her tone was lordly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'll tell you what I will do. You shall drive me into the town, and I will help you to choose what you really want."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Do----, began the Vicar, and then stopped hastily, reddening. She looked at him witheringly, unaware that the word suppressed had been simply"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dolly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "In the meantime----"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm afraid you'll be dull, Georgiana, he said, rising."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's awfully good of you to come, and perhaps you can find some amusement. You can do what you like, you know--so long as you don't touch my study, or trick it up like a heathen place in Japan. The fact is, I find I must leave you and mother for a day or two. Is that the dogcart? My train is at half-past ten."
}
]
|
43621 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Dolly!"
}
]
|
43621 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Important business."
}
]
|
43621 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I must go off at once, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Georgiana will explain. And I say, mother --in a tone of anxious hospitality--"
}
]
|
43621 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Freddy says she _must_ come,"
}
]
|
43621 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh!"
}
]
|
43621 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dolly!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "How did you get here?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "By train, he said coolly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "As soon as I'd got Georgiana safe I bolted."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Will you come in to mother?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, he said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I won't."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Dolly, he said,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I've got my chance at last. Georgiana thinks I'm not half good enough for you, and I'm sure it's true, but I don't care, she'd no right to fight as she did for her lofty plans. It's your business. And Dolly--Dolly--I love you so!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I like the house,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is rather big, she said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But if Freddy should marry and settle down----"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It will not be too big, declared Georgiana."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have been drawing up my ideas about the rooms. And I have toiled all the morning in the study."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He will not like you to touch his study."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I know. He charged me to let it alone, said Georgiana calmly;"
}
]
|
43621 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, where have you been?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I've been to the old place, he said,"
}
]
|
43621 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Parson Drury,"
}
]
|
43621 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Parson Drury. It was felt, when the good man died, that no better memorial could be raised than a stone which might be utilised as a pulpit in the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Nature's church"
}
]
|
43621 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Egg Service,"
}
]
|
43621 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Egg Service, like most other things, had a small beginning, for only 220 eggs were contributed the first year. In 1895 the number of eggs rose to 446, while the year following no less than 1,618 eggs were given. It was felt, however, that in Jubilee year a special effort ought to be made in view of the general assistance then being afforded to the hospitals by the scheme of the Prince of Wales, and so a"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Jubilee"
}
]
|
43621 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Egg Services"
}
]
|
43621 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Egg Services, inasmuch as they help the needy, call to mind the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Doll Service"
}
]
|
43621 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Gwennap Pit"
}
]
|
43621 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "May Morning"
}
]
|
43621 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In loving memory of George Wilkins, who died November 19th, 1872, aged fifty-three years. He was a faithful servant of the Midland Railway Company, and under God's guidance the beginner of a work for Christ which lives on still, though he is gone. Out of love for his character and gratitude for his work, his friends and fellow-workmen have erected this stone. His constant song was 'God is Love.'"
}
]
|
43621 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Solomon Built Him an House,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am such a one. Do you not know me? To such a query I felt I should have to reply,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I knew you twenty years ago, and if you assure me you are the very same person, I know you now. But the identification must come from yourself."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The gig's ready, sir,"
}
]
|
43621 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Rose,"
}
]
|
43621 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You lads are strong of build and dull of wit. Why don't you exert your strength in other spheres than this, and leave the farm to little Arthur when he grows up? You, Hugh, might, for instance, go to America. William, you might take a piece of land of your own--you are old enough to manage it and strong enough to work it. You, Robert, should apply for the post of farm bailiff with Mr. Weatherstone or somewhere else; and you, Thomas, should go in for sheep farming in the colonies. There is your life mapped out for you all. It will be many years before I am laid on the shelf; and you are all getting too old to be anything but drags on me; while by the time I am about settling down in my chimney corner, to take my ease henceforth, Arthur will be just of an age to take the farm off my hands and commence the management of it. This will, moreover, keep the land in one piece, instead of chopping it up into five."
}
]
|
43621 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mr. Calthorpe, I don't think I can stand it any longer, sir--at least, without telling father; and then, if I do that, I don't know what might be the consequences. He would certainly be so angry that he would send all my brothers away, which I should never wish to be done. Or, if he did not, they would persecute me still worse than they are doing. So between the two things I don't know what to do."
}
]
|
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