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43621 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is all this incense that comes to the boy along of his singing that is spoiling him, he said to me one day."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And you, Mr. Calthorpe, are partly to blame for encouraging it. What good can all that howling and caterwauling do the lad? Not a bit, that I can see, except that it takes him into company from which he would be better away. It stuffs the boy's head with nonsense, sir, and it will never bring him to any good."
}
]
|
43621 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I disown him, sir."
}
]
|
43621 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Tell father, sir, that I am unjustly condemned. Tell him it was a plot of my brothers, and that I would scorn to do such an action. But tell him, moreover, that after this disgrace I could never bear to show my face in the village again, and when I come out of this place I shall go beyond the seas or somewhere, but certainly shall never come to Hambleton, nor shall he be troubled by seeing my face again."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Aye, aye, sir, he said in reply, as with black face and lowering brow he sat in his parlour with his sons around him."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The lad has brought disgrace on the family. I disown him, sir. I knew what all this singing and caterwauling would lead to: I said so from the first, and my words have come true. He need never seek to see my face again until he has redeemed his character. Then I'll see him, but not till then. Meantime, as you are going to the reformatory occasionally to visit him, tell the lad--for, although a thief, he is a son of mine--that I will provide him with what money is necessary, when he leaves that home of thieves and vagabonds, to set up in something or to go away to some colony, or anything he likes; and then, as I say, when he has redeemed his character, he can come and see me--but not till then. Tell him he shall have the money, sir, when he wants it; but tell him that till he has redeemed his character I disown him."
}
]
|
43621 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I suppose, said one of them,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I suppose he's gone to the bad."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Gone to the bad!"
}
]
|
43621 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, Thomas, I said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I cannot lend you that money; for, in the first place, it is your father, not you, who ought to have asked for it, if the object is to make repairs on your farm; and, in the second place, I think I am considerably poorer than you. A well-to-do farmer has considerably more cash than a poor parson, and so for the second reason I must absolutely decline."
}
]
|
43621 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You remember that young choir boy of yours, Arthur Brownlow? Harrowby was remarking."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, I saw him some years ago--about ten years, I think--and he had developed then into a man of means. He had plenty of money, I was told, and was in every respect a fine fellow. I often wondered what it was in his private history which you used to allude to in such a guarded manner----"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The very man that is wanted! Where does he live, Harrowby, and what is his address?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "As to that, replied my friend, with a look of amused surprise,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I cannot tell you to a street now. But I suppose he will be somewhere in the neighbourhood where I knew him, and that was in such and such a street, Bloomsbury (naming it),"
}
]
|
43621 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The very man that is wanted!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We must apply to him at all costs for the money, I remarked."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He will never refuse to help his father, even if his brothers were traitors. One of them must go to London to-morrow and search out Arthur and obtain the funds needed."
}
]
|
43621 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is just this, sir, said Hugh, rubbing his mouth with his sleeve preparatory to making a speech,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "These speeches are all idle, responded Mr. Saumarez testily."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I made up my mind long ago. I know you to be good-for-nothing men, through whose laziness your old father's farm has got into its present condition. You deserve no pity, and you deserve no delay. For the present state of affairs you have only yourselves to blame. You must take the consequences of your conduct."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, sir. began Hugh, who was the spokesman of the rest,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Into this, replied Mr. Saumarez,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I cannot go. When the mortgage came into my hands--which it did along with some adjoining property about a year ago, on my return from abroad--I made a particular point of asking my agent what sort of men conducted the farm. And hearing from him that they were four brothers, all men of questionable character, named Brownlow, who owed their present degradation to their own laziness and folly, I said I wished to hear no more, and that the farm, which stood conveniently adjacent to a manor which is also mine, must be appropriated with no more delay than the usual legal routine permitted of. That is what I said to my agent. I presume--in fact, I know--he has acted on my orders. I have nothing more to say about it, so I wish you a good evening."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We have children--two of us are married men,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We have had sickness in the family for months past,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is not our fault--the harvests have been bad year after year."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don't know, said Thomas, who had not hitherto spoken,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What? inquired Mr. Saumarez sharply, turning round,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Is your old father still alive?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, he is,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I understood from my agent, replied Mr. Saumarez, his voice getting thick as he spoke,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How do we treat him, sir? inquired Hugh Brownlow and the rest, speaking slowly and gazing at Mr. Saumarez as if they had seen a ghost."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why, as to that----"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "As to that, I said, appearing from the drawing-room with old Mr. Brownlow on my arm--for in deference to his expressed wish, after the departure of his sons, I had travelled with him by train to Ashcroft in order that he too might plead, and we had just arrived--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, exclaimed the old man on my arm, his eyes streaming with tears,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is true, said Arthur Brownlow in a voice choked with emotion;"
}
]
|
43621 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Can it be true, they said,"
}
]
|
43621 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, he said;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "As the conversation continued, he mentioned two changes which had occurred in the House of Commons--one a mere matter of costume; the other of much greater significance. An American guest at the dinner-table had observed that he could not remember any other party since he had been in England at which he was the only person present who wore a moustache. Mr. Gladstone said that, when he first entered Parliament, there were actually more members who still wore pigtails than those who wore the beard or moustache. At that time no one, as a rule, indulged in those appendages except officers in the army. There was one exception, the late Mr. Muntz, who was for many years member for Birmingham; and so noticeable was this exception, that in the House he was popularly known as"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In old days, said Mr. Gladstone,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Few of the members took frequent part in the debates. Discussion seemed, by common consent, to be left mainly to a score or two of leaders. There were gentlemen who had been for long years representatives of important cities, who were never known to have opened their lips. I myself in my boyhood knew one highly respected member who, if I remember rightly, had sat for a county town for nearly fifty years, and whose sole contribution to the debates in Parliament, for all that period, had been the single sentence,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I second the motion! It is widely different now. I suppose that now any member who has sat for a number of years, and never even made his maiden speech, is a rare exception. Although the gift of utterance is supposed to be very much less rare than once it was, yet the few only are able to speak really well. This, however, does not prevent members from the free expression of their opinions, because in print one speech does not look very much unlike another. In many cases in these days members are speaking with far less reference to the House than to the Press gallery. Their constituents expect them to speak, and like to see their names and remarks in the daily papers, however ruthlessly they may be abbreviated by the reporters. In former days a bore was never tolerated. After a very few sentences the House gave such unconcealed expression to its impatience, and the orator was interrupted by such a continuous roar of"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Divide, divide!... 'vide!... 'vide!... 'vide! that the stoutest-hearted, after a short effort, gave way, and the House was not afflicted with a wearying tide of commonplace,"
}
]
|
43621 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, yes, he answered."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I see him now before my mind's eye, as, with a broad gleam of amusement over his face, he kept looking up at Colonel Sibthorpe, the somewhat eccentric member for Lincoln, and then jotting down something in his notes. Colonel Sibthorpe, having been an officer in the army, was exempt from the then current convention of being close-shaven, and he was bearded like a pard. I cannot recall the exact epigram, but I remember the incident perfectly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, these colonels! said O'Connell,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Three colonels in three distant counties born, Armagh and Clare, and Lincoln did adorn; The first in lengthiness of beard surpassed, The next in bushiness, in both the last: The force of nature could no further go-- To _beard_ the third she _shaved_ the other two!"
}
]
|
43621 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The first in direst bigotry surpassed, The next in impudence--in both the last."
}
]
|
43621 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I shall not notice any of the concluding observations of the right honourable gentleman, because I am sure that the House will agree with me in thinking that they were due to --and then he added with marked emphasis--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The characteristic of Mr. Gladstone's mind was an intense moral sincerity, and he could not return the compliment. One cannot but regret that he felt himself unable cordially to reciprocate the kindly expression. Had he felt able to do so--had these two political opponents been able from that time to speak of each other as"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "--many acerbities of debate might have been materially softened. But in his reply, Mr. Gladstone, while he spoke with kind appreciation, could not, or would not, use the phrase which Mr. Disraeli had on that single occasion adopted. Perhaps he attached to it a meaning far deeper than its conventional significance. At any rate, the fact remains that, while in his response he spoke with dignified recognition of his opponent's gifts, and was evidently gratified by the expression he had used, he could not get himself to call Mr. Disraeli by the sacred name of"
}
]
|
43621 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Really the right honourable gentleman sprang up with such vehemence, and spoke with such energy, that he was often glad that there was between them --and here he laid his hands on the large table at which the clerks sit and at which members take the oath, which occupies the greater part of the space between the Government bench and the leading members of the Opposition--"
}
]
|
43621 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have, he said,"
}
]
|
43621 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Great men have been among us; hands that penned And tongues that uttered wisdom:--better none."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Our Home Rulers,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Domestic economy consists in spending a penny to save a pound. Political economy consists in spending a pound to save a penny."
}
]
|
43621 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Cheap and nasty"
}
]
|
43621 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She looketh well to the ways of her household was said of the virtuous woman of old. In the House Economical we must most closely follow her example in its ingle-nooks. Our average cook thinks it good to use only lumps of orrell in the range, ignoring the possibilities of saving in any form. Now all housekeepers know that pokers should be absent from the hearth if we would limit coal bills; that cinders, sifted and washed, are most useful fuel for frying and laundry work; that a judicious admixture of wet slack with wood or"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "is advisable. There are two economical ways of building and maintaining good fires in our parlours. One is to ignite at the top and suffer to burn _downwards_. The other is to lay and light after the usual fashion and"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "with a bucket of damp coal dust. Either procedure gives a fire that will burn for hours without attention, if not"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "by Mary Jane. We need not, like the ghost in Hamlet,"
}
]
|
43621 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But insertion of a clause in our hiring lease would show them what is required in this line. To keep woollies soft and unshrunken, they must be soaked in a bath containing two parts cold to one of hot water. In this, a handful of boiled soap jelly is stirred (to a lather) and to it one tablespoonful of ammonia (liquid) added. This volatile spirit loosens all dirt, and our clothing requires no rubbing, only a thorough rinsing. After shaking well, the garments must be hung out in a shady, sunless place to dry, and finished with a warm smoother. No"
}
]
|
43621 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A stitch in time saves nine"
}
]
|
43621 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "but we must remember that limbs imply mouths, and that mouths must be filled. Hence, in the House Economical, each child will have its own vineyard to keep. Helpful, willing little fingers will be trained to usefulness. Our young folk find as much pleasure in _resultful_ effort as in objectless employment--making beds can be as much"
}
]
|
43621 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Common tasks require all the force of a trained intellect to bear upon them."
}
]
|
43621 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "One of the Greatest,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Closely Veiled,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "BIP? BIP?"
}
]
|
43621 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, I am glad to see you up, and looking well,"
}
]
|
43621 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How dreadfully busy Mr. Bethune looks! Is it another book?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I had better go and look after the boys,"
}
]
|
43621 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What a big girl Marjorie grows! She is quite startling sometimes. One forgets she isn't a child."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "She has grown up early--to fill my place,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, I hope not, was the cheery response."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "She could not do that, you know--at any rate, not so successfully. By the way, I came partly to ask about her. Is she engaged to Mr. Warde?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Engaged? No. She is scarcely eighteen."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But he evidently admires her--there is no mistaking that--he takes complete possession of her. Now, what do you wish about it?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It isn't what I wish, gently."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You are very kind--but Marjorie is a girl who will settle such a matter for herself."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, but that is nonsense! Those things can always be managed with proper care."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But I should be sorry to have her managed. Nothing forced upon Marjorie will make her happy. She must be left to herself."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How mistaken! You would not leave her to herself if a bad man were in question."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I should take care not to put her in the way of a bad man,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You would prevent her meeting him? Exactly; then why act differently when it is someone you like? However, there is time for that. There is another matter. Do you know anything of Mr. Pelham's household?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, nothing."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Bishop likes him, thinks him a great acquisition, and he visits at Oldstead. I had him to dinner, and he and Charity sang nicely. I'm not sure, looking wise,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You share Sandy's opinion."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ah! I heard your boys had taken to the baby. Perhaps that was what made her so tiresome this morning. I warned Mr. Pelham what mischiefs they were, candidly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But the nurse is insufferable. Dressed in a sort of dove-coloured dress and a hat, and all her hair waved--kid gloves, and an embroidered skirt under her dress. I asked her if Mr. Pelham had given her leave to dress like that."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A man does not notice,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I told her that I should speak to him, as she did not seem to realise her own duty, and also about the child's dress. It was ridiculous."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A man could not know,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "She was very impertinent, and then we found that the baby had run away. We could not find her anywhere, and she had got to the Bishop's room through the window. It seems that your boys had shown her the way. It seems rather hard that the Bishop of the diocese shouldn't be free from intrusion in his own palace. And he was very busy--just going off."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He is always good to the boys,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Good, yes--but that should prevent advantage being taken. And the baby has a temper, pursued Mrs. Lytchett."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She fought and screamed when I took her from his knee. She is evidently being brought up very badly indeed. I am going to see about it now. Do you think he will be back? I hear, in accents of disgust,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I hope he won't introduce these things into the Precincts, now we have kept them away so long. I should have thought they might very well be left to Blackton and such places."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Even the Duchess rides,"
}
]
|
43621 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Duchess is the Duchess, sharply."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "She does and tolerates many things that seem to me a great pity."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mother will know ; Charity had said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ask Mrs. Bethune, she is the nicest woman to consult"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This is very kind of you,"
}
]
|
43621 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Bring Miss Barbara, nurse,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What a remarkable apartment! Mrs. Lytchett said in her deep voice, looking round."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What alterations you have made!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I hope you like it,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I daresay I shall, when I get used to it. I'm not one that approves of changes,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Your little girl came to see me this morning. I am afraid that nurse of yours is very unfit for her position, and is doing her great harm. She is spoilt and very wilful."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My little Barbara!"
}
]
|
43621 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Noo f'ock,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Bip? Bip?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Bip? Bip?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What is it, Barbie?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She means the Bishop, explained the Bishop's wife in disgusted tones."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That is what she was screaming all through the hall this morning, when I brought her from his study. It is a dreadful name. You must say 'Bishop,' little one,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Barbedie say Bip,"
}
]
|
43621 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Boy,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I think it is the Bethune boys on their way home from school,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It certainly sounds like them--no one else could make such a dreadful noise, Mrs. Lytchett answered."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Are you going to let that child go out like that, with no shoes on, and in that dress? Ah, there!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What a remarkable apartment!"
}
]
|
43621 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That dress will be ruined,"
}
]
|
43621 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I daresay she is right, he thought."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But what unpleasant 'right.' I will ask Mrs. Bethune."
}
]
|
43621 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I thought you had come for your little girl. She came down half an hour ago with my boys, in a dress fit for a princess. I feared they had stolen her away. We have ventured to take it off, and put her into one of the boy's blouses. I really couldn't let her go and dig in such clothes. Yes, in response to his look,"
}
]
|
43621 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Bardedie go dig,"
}
]
|
43621 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Settlers have spades; we shan't want any, as ours isn't diggin' ground,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's ridic'lus to go settling wivout spades,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Less to carry, and there'll be enough, and it isn't like straight, even ground."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We must have a blanket. That can come off a bed. It's a mountain, Dave, 'member--the top of a mountain. An' our fambly to get up an' all. It'll be awfly hard,"
}
]
|
43621 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Me, she demanded,"
}
]
|
43621 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How shall we get her? inquired David, pausing and looking at the baby, working so ardently."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Must she come too?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "said Sandy."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We ain't got no other girl. 'Sides, it ud be a shame to leave her out just when the fun begins. She'll have to be fetched. We'll get her to tea."
}
]
|
43621 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Your baby likes our house, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "May she come to-morrow, and stop to tea?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We'll bring her back some time--honour bright. Don't want that nasty nurse prancing 'bout."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hush, Sandy!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Don't, reiterated Sandy sturdily;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I hope it is quite safe, Marjorie said a little anxiously, as Barbara was marched off to the nursery by all her swains, to be cleaned, and reinstated in her satin gown."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Sandy doesn't quite realise what a baby she is."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No harm could happen on the way down, Mr. Pelham said thoughtfully,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Are you dining at the Deanery to-morrow?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, answered Marjorie."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Charity has some musical people coming down from London--and you----"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mr. Pelham and I have been practising together a good deal--he sent for some new songs from town. Our voices suit perfectly--there are very few evenings, when we are disengaged, that he doesn't find his way down the hill."
}
]
|
43621 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is my own life I have to live. Why should I marry Mr. Warde if I don't love him?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Life isn't a fairy tale, she settled with a sigh, at the remembrance of an arresting look she could not banish."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He cares for Charity. Everybody says so. How can I be so silly? And yet--and yet----"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Could you not come up and see my house some day? Mr. Pelham had asked that evening, as he was leaving."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh! as a sudden thought struck him,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have a carriage--scarcely ever used. I believe it could be made as comfortable as your chair. Would it shake you too much? And then, turning eagerly to Marjorie,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mother does drive sometimes. Mr. Warde---- and with angry dismay, the looker-on beheld the mounting flush."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, everybody is very kind in that way,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But come and see my house and pictures, he persisted, turning to Mrs. Bethune."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Come to-morrow, and I will be at home to show you them, and see that you are not tired."
}
]
|
43621 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "When is that engagement to be announced? Is it settled yet?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What engagement?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Pelham and your friend, Charity. I never drop in of an evening but I find him there."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Perhaps he says the same about you,"
}
]
|
43621 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, Marjorie, you have something to say to me? and she heard him catch his breath, and pause to recover, before he added:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Say it quickly, dear. Have you changed? Have you reconsidered?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mother---- stammered Marjorie, taken by surprise;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes,"
}
]
|
43621 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mother said--it is love."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And you--and you?"
}
]
|
43621 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, do not, she implored."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I do not know--I do not feel like that."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nay, Marjorie, he said, and he grew rigid again in self-control;"
}
]
|
43621 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I do not think--I do not know whether it is love, she said at last. The man winced unconsciously at the icy aloofness of the girlish voice."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But--if--you--care----"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If I care? he repeated slowly, and his voice was as cold as hers in the effort at repression;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "--he paused--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You will like to be alone; I will go. Do not think of me in any other way than as just your old friend, until--until you give it me willingly. I will claim nothing more."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What's he been doin', Margie?"
}
]
|
43621 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What's he been doin', Margie?"
}
]
|
43621 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Seems you're struck all of a heap, Margie!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Seems you're all struck of a heap, Margie, said David now."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Has he been scolding?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not exactly,"
}
]
|
43621 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ain't we goin' to have any tea?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Is it tea-time?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Bell went ever so long ago."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Didn't you hear it, Margie?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, Ross. Go in, all of you, and get clean,"
}
]
|
43621 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sandy had exhorted beforehand,"
}
]
|
43621 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ain't had a good tea--me hungry as hungry."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Me, too,"
}
]
|
43621 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I can't think,"
}
]
|
43621 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, dear! sighed Marjorie, her mind travelling back to all her misdemeanours."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What can it be? I hope not the cycling."
}
]
|
43621 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I hope it isn't true, Marjorie, what I hear?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What is that?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Three of those horrid bicycles passed me this afternoon close, whirling by at a furious pace. I had been to the Deanery, to tell Charity how sorry the Bishop was to miss her music. She wasn't in; and passing the garden entrance--the garden entrance--ah, I see it is true!"
}
]
|
43621 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "So I asked; I could scarcely believe my eyes. That young footman was lounging near; I suppose he was waiting for the bicycles, wasting his time. And he said you have all been riding a long time."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not so very long, Marjorie answered in excusing accents."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Only about a month."
}
]
|
43621 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I thought you knew how much the Bishop and I hated the horrid things."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I thought--he--had changed,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No; he will never change, neither shall I --in accents of certainty."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The Bishop thinks them most unbecoming. How did you learn? I hope that young footman----"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We learnt--Mr. Pelham showed us--in the Deanery garden. It isn't difficult."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am sorry you didn't think more of your position in Norham before setting such an example. And they cost so much!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mine was a present,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A present! From Mr. Pelham?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It came with Charity's."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "From the Dean. Oh! that is different."
}
]
|
43621 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "One for me! she had exclaimed, reading the label in delight."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "How kind of the Dean!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Who sent for it for me? Can it really be for me? Not Mr. Pelham, surely?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But you know?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, I know. The giver is one who has every right to give you pleasure."
}
]
|
43621 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I like to see you enjoying yourself, my dear, he answered in his kind tones."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I thought how bright and happy you both looked the other day. Only don't have any accidents."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't think it was the Dean, Marjorie's truthful nature prompted her to answer now."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It was--the Bishop."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And I asked him not! I begged him not to carry out his intention. Poor Norham! with a sigh,"
}
]
|
43621 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The boys have got some scheme on, I believe, mother, she said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Dave and Sandy have been full of mystery all day, and Ross is pompous. I wish we weren't going to leave you alone to-night,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I like you to go with your father, dear--he will not stay for the music, so I shall not be alone long. And now--I must expect to lose you gradually, dear."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, not yet."
}
]
|
43621 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Is all girl's hair done like that? What a bover it must be, he remarked after a little time."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I _should_ like that tiny, squinchy, soft brush, Margie."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What for?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "To brush Barbie's hair. It's in a awfle mess."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, take it, said Marjorie kindly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And it's time you took her home. She goes to bed at seven, and you promised."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, but --objected Sandy eagerly--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mine. What a funny boy you are, Sandy."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Could I have a blanket off your bed, Margie? Nurse'll fuss ever so, if I take ours--an' I can't poss'bly do wivout one."
}
]
|
43621 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You look very nice, Margie, her mother said softly, looking at the tall, slim form, crowned by its cold pure face."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That dress is a success. Look, father."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, he said;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "his voice lingering and breaking,"
}
]
|
43621 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I saw nothing of the children. I quite forgot them. Did you see them?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mother said --it was work-a-day"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "now, not the tenderly breathed"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Alysson --"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh! I hope so, said Marjorie, with a little cold thrill of prophetic fear."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "How careless of me not to see! However, mother will see that it is all right."
}
]
|
43621 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Tell Mr. Pelham, please, immediate! Mr. Bethune is gone to the police--but he is to go, and Miss Bethune, at once to Mrs. Bethune. Poor lady, she is----"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What is it, nurse? she asked breathlessly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Barbara?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Neither Miss Barbara nor any of the young gentlemen can be found anywhere, miss. They have all clean disappeared. Oh, sir, in accents of direful import, as Mr. Pelham reached Marjorie's side,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Miss Barbara is lost!"
}
]
|
43621 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We shall soon find her, never fear, he said kindly--he had only heard the end of nurse's message."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I will call my servants, and be with you directly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But many of the priests and Levites and chief of the fathers, who were ancient men, that had seen the first house, when the foundation of this house was laid before their eyes, wept with a loud voice; and many shouted aloud for joy."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But many of the priests and Levites and chief of the fathers, who were ancient men, that had seen the first house, when the foundation of this house was laid before their eyes, wept with a loud voice; and many shouted aloud for joy."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is nothing to what used to be in the old days."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There ne'er shall be a new house Can seem so fair to me."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Speak to the children of Israel, that they go forward. Age is for retreat, for regress toward a former day; it would say with the ancient poet,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Return unto thy rest, O my soul."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He that spared not His own Son, shall He not with Him also freely give us all things?"
}
]
|
43621 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What will my friend think when he hears of it?"
}
]
|
43621 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Not to-morrow, nor to-morrow, nor to-morrow, but the next day. And so our Father has always begun by showing us the next day. He came to Abraham and said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Get thee out of thy country, and I will make of thee a great nation. He did not tell him that Egypt and the desert and the Jordan lay between. If He had, his steps would have been paralysed on the threshold. Did you ever ask yourself what is the earliest revealed doctrine of the New Testament? Is it justification, sanctification, effectual calling, the perseverance of the saints? No, it is none of these: it is the second coming of Christ--the completed glory of redeeming love. When Paul sat down to write his first epistle to the Thessalonians--the earliest book of the New Testament--he began at the end. He let the world hear the final bells ringing across the snow. He concealed the snow; he veiled the intervening years; he said,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "To-morrow. He did not tell that a Red Sea of trouble and a desert of visionless waiting lay between. And he was right. Men heard only the bells, and the bells lured them on. They helped them to tread the snow; they nerved them to cross the sea. They sustained them to meet the desert. They sounded nearer than they were; they rang ever the one refrain,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Christ is coming"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Say not that the former days were better than these is a counsel wise and true. But it is none the less wise and true that to the eye of the old man the past ought to be _glorified_. It ought to be glorified because it _needs_ to be glorified. The past never got justice while it was passing. Childhood ignored it; youth disparaged it. The hour laid gems at our feet which we did not see, or which, seeing, we despised. We kept asking when Elias would come; and Elias had come already. To us, as to Moses, the hand of God was laid over the face while God was passing by; we did not discern the actual blessings of the day. Are we never to discern them here below? Must we go hence without seeing the world in which we dwell? Shall we be sent forth to gaze on things unseen before we have looked at the objects which have been actually in our hands? God says"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No."
}
]
|
43621 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Surely the Lord was in this place, and we knew it not; this was none other than the house of God."
}
]
|
43621 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am all right _now_. Have I not wasted time? Are there not years which the locusts have eaten? Might not this emancipation have come sooner? Why should I not always have been free? Is it any vindication of God's dealings with Job that at the end he gets back houses and brethren and lands? No; that is a mere appendage to the story. The patriarch wants to learn, and _we_ want to learn, why he was afflicted at all. We are not satisfied merely because the grey is followed by the gold. We wish to know that the grey has _made_ the gold. The song of Moses may tell how the peace came _after_ the storm; but the song of the Lamb alone can say,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "God answered Job _out of_ the whirlwind."
}
]
|
43621 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "NOT TOO LATE."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Give up the strife; Too late thou seek'st to change thy life. Another spake--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Make God thy Friend, And then 't is not too late to mend."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Give up thy hope: Some paths to hell _must_ downward slope. The other said,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "God is thy Friend; Why should it be too late to mend?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Thou art long In conqu'ring foes so old and strong, The other cried,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "With God thy Friend It cannot be too late to mend."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "God is thy Friend, It cannot be too late to mend."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "BAREFOOT MISSION."
}
]
|
43621 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The commercial instincts of the American nation show themselves in its very infants! they reflected amusedly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A few years hence that twelve-year-old, grown to be a man, is likely to make Wall Street hum."
}
]
|
43621 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am twelve years old, ran the leading article,"
}
]
|
43621 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "THE SUNNY HOUR."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "saying,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Here, this little thing isn't a bad idea at all! Be sure you notice it in your reviews."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "THE SUNNY HOUR."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dear Queen"
}
]
|
43621 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Barefoots, a library for the older ones, a reception-room for"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Barefoots, a storeroom for boots and shoes, and the editorial and publishing offices of _The Sunny Hour_. Though the help of grown-up people was always gladly received, only little folks were employed about the headquarters of the boy-editor and missionary. His assistant editor was a boy of his own age, Jack Bristol, whose happy face and manner gained for him the title of"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Jolly Jack."
}
]
|
43621 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Barefoots. He also was of very tender years--or rather I should say months, for Prince Roland Bonaparte, the St. Bernard puppy, though very much larger than many of the children who took the shoes he carried to them in his mouth, was only a few months old when the mission was started."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Prince, as he was called for short, was (and is) one of the most indefatigable and enthusiastic supporters of the Barefoot Mission in New York. As a puppy he always had a place of honour in the reception-room where the barefooted children went to make their requests. By the time he was four months old"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Prince learned to tell a"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Barefoot on sight, so that, as soon as a poor little shivering tot made its appearance, the puppy would wag his tail and gravely trot into the storeroom, procure a pair of boots, and, returning, lay them at the bare feet of the applicant. It must be confessed that"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Prince's sagacity, great though it was, did not always enable him to select just the right-sized boot for the would-be wearer. There were also a few occasions, during his initiation into his new duties, when he disgraced himself by chewing up one shoe while the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Barefoot"
}
]
|
43621 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "DEAR MR. TELLO,--Me and my little sister and the baby can't have no crismus this year 'cause our father is dying and granma is sick with perelisis and our little bruther died two weeks ago and the city had to bury him. Mother is not working 'cause the baby is too little--there's ten of us all counted. So if you have any crismus won't you let us come, for we all haven't got clothes to keep us warm nor shoes, and no coal except what my big brother picks up--nothing to eat hardly. Yours respecfully."
}
]
|
43621 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Jolly Jack, the assistant editor. The boy carried copies of his little paper along with him, his object being to interest everyone he met in his work, and this object was attained to such an extent that on his return he numbered among his subscribers nearly every Oriental potentate. He was received in audience by the Sultan and the Khedive. The latter was especially kind to him, delegating one of his sons to show him about Cairo, and became so interested in the Barefoot Mission that he contributed one hundred dollars towards it. It was during his visit to Egypt that Tello d'Apery became distinguished as the only American boy who has ever been decorated by a foreign potentate. The Khedive conferred upon him the Order of the Medjidieh, which carried with it the title of Bey. Other orders, medals, and titles have been showered upon the young American. He is a Chevalier of the Order of Bolivar, conferred upon him by the President of Colombia. The Order of Umberto was also conferred upon him in Italy. He is also a Chevalier of the Order of St. Katherine, and another order gives him the title of"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Don. He has received in all eighteen decorations and medals, and it is by special request that he has had his portrait taken with a number of his decorations fastened to his coat. In writing to me recently concerning this portrait, he says:"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Of course, being an all-round and patriotic American boy, I could not use a title, and care only for my decorations because of the good friends who gave them to me and the interest that they show has been taken in my work by great people abroad."
}
]
|
43621 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "THE SUNNY HOUR."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Chevalier d'Apery,"
}
]
|
43621 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I promise to give one hour each week to some good action. I will be kind to my parents, to my brothers and sisters, to the poor and the unfortunate, and to animals."
}
]
|
43621 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Europe Seen through a Boy's Eyes, all the profits of which went to buy shoes for the barefooted children of New York. He also, in order to get more money for his work, started a little book and stationery shop, spending a part of his time there behind the counter and a part of it behind his editorial desk. Recently his health has again failed, and he has been obliged to lessen some of his arduous labours. He is now trying to establish a mammoth boot- and shoe-mending shop of his own, where old foot-gear may be repaired at less expense than it is now. When this object is accomplished, some of the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Barefoots"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Barefoots and teach them the trade of cobbling. Only such boys as show a liking and aptitude for the work will, of course, be chosen as apprentices. They will spend the whole day or only a few hours a day at the work, as their other duties permit. Not only will they be taught to mend boots--they will also be taught to make them. When they have learned their trade they will receive the same wages as other workmen are paid. Of course, when _The Sunny Hour_"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Barefoots (or, rather, those who have been"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Barefoots"
}
]
|
43621 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "THE SUNNY HOUR"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The Oiled Feather,"
}
]
|
43621 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Green Dragon,"
}
]
|
43621 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Green Dragon,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I tell you, said old Joe Crupper, the saddler,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But I'm told, chimed in a meek little man, who frequented the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Green Dragon more for gossip than for drink,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Joseph Simmons, said the saddler, looking witheringly into the little man's face,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "--here the saddler looked round--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "--and here the saddler paused, evidently seeking for a further variety in sex, which he could not find--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "said he, looking deprecatingly round,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I humbly beg pardon if I've given any offence, said the meek little man."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You were once in London for a day, and you ought to know more than I do."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "All the haristockracy wear gold crowns,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ah, you're now coming to your senses, said the saddler."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I always knew that you were a sensible man; the best of us forget ourselves at times, as you did just now. You just mind what I say: no good will come of this haristocrat."
}
]
|
43621 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dragon,"
}
]
|
43621 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "(for the saddler's word had got all over the village)"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "said Dolly, exhibiting a long rent in her frock;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "said Dolly, with a leer in her eye,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don't know about dress, said Martha Furblow;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And she has dozens of dolls, you may be sure, said Mary Mater."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I've heard say that there are dolls that say 'Papa' and 'Mamma,' and that open their eyes and shuts 'em too, and winks when they wants to look knowin'. She'll have some that asks you how you are, and says, 'Very well, thank ye, and how are you?'"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ah, said Jenny Giblet,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And a gold crown--only not quite so grand as the Queen's, said Dolly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "All the haristockracy wear gold crowns when they go to see the Queen, and on Sundays when they go to church."
}
]
|
43621 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, yes, said Dolly Strap;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, they all said,"
}
]
|
43621 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Lady, said Dolly Strap, who was rather rude,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "They call me 'the Countess,' said the child,"
}
]
|
43621 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and the little man cock-a-doodle-doo'd over him tremendously at the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Green Dragon."
}
]
|
43621 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "through which Ireland has passed during this eventful period, the fact that this ancient society still survives is a tribute to the enthusiastic labours of its executive officers of which they may well be proud. The old-fashioned method of"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "is still kept in the forefront at all the meetings of the society. It rejoices in a coffee palace with a commodious public hall, in the very heart of the city of Dublin, and from year's end to year's end there is one attractive round of lectures, entertainments, clubs, and popular festivities, variously adapted to meet the requirements of the young and old alike. It was at a meeting under the auspices of this association that the late Sir Benjamin Ward Richardson, F.R.S., made the memorable deliverance:"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The sale of drink is the sale of disease; the sale of drink is the sale of poverty; the sale of drink is the sale of insanity; the sale of drink is the sale of crime; the sale of drink is the sale of death."
}
]
|
43621 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "DICTIONARY"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "in the new dictionary, Dr. Murray quoted from the"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Clerical Testimony to Total Abstinence, published in 1867, in which the present Bishop of Carlisle stated that a certain"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Who was she? Well, first of all, let us clear the way by saying that Dr. Bardsley, in his testimony, cited the case of his own family. He said he was the eldest of seven sons, who were brought up as total abstainers by total abstaining parents. He then added,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "To some readers who, upon occasions of family festivities, have been perplexed by their abstaining principles, it may not be uninteresting to learn that when, recently, one of the seven entered the happy estate of matrimony, the bride was the daughter of an abstaining clergyman. Here, then, was a difficulty. Should the wedding-day be regarded as an exception, and a little laxity allowed? The question was decided in the negative, and, notwithstanding the little protests as to 'such a thing never having been heard of before,' and the fear as to what that mythical personage Mrs. Grundy would say, the wedding was conducted on total abstinence principles. Amongst the good things of God provided, the spirits of evil were _wanting--but not wanted_, for the general remark was 'How little they are missed!' We ask again,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Who was the bride?"
}
]
|
43621 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What is that to Me and thee?"
}
]
|
43621 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You have made a mistake, my good woman. My father is a king; he does not sell, but gives."
}
]
|
43621 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Finding of the Saviour in the Temple."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Truth to Nature being the principle of his art, he desired to get as near as possible to the probable aspect of the scene he was attempting to depict. The Temple he had to construct for himself, and this he did after studying Eastern, and especially ancient Jewish, architecture, the only part painted from an actual fact being the marble pavement. This he copied from the floor of the Mosque of Omar, which, according to tradition, is the only remaining portion of Herod's Temple. He experienced great difficulty in getting models for his figures, owing to the suspicion having arisen that he was a Christian missionary in disguise. By the end of eighteen months, however, he had painted in all the adult figures from actual models, and, returning to England, he managed, by the help of Mr. Mocatta, to get a boy from the Jewish community in the East-End of London to sit for the figure of Christ. Every detail of the picture has a symbolic interest. The rabbi on the left, clasping in his arms the _Torah_ or sacred roll of the Law, is blind and decrepit, and the other rabbis, with their phylacteries and scrolls, are all characteristic of the proud, self-righteous, sects to which they belonged. Joseph carries his own and Mary's shoes over his shoulders--even in their haste they had remembered the injunction to remove them when entering the house of the Lord--and Mary is clad in robes of grey and white, with a girdle fringed with orange-red, the colours of purity and sorrow. Christ wears a _kaftan_, striped with purple and blue, the colours of the royal house of David. He is pulling the buckle of the belt tighter--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "--and in spite of the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Wist ye not that I must be about My Father's business? has one foot advanced in readiness to go with His earthly parents. Through the doorway the builders are still at work; they are hoisting into position the block which is to be"
}
]
|
43621 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Inventor of the Numeral Type for China."
}
]
|
43621 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Studies in Texts (Horace Marshall and Son) is as full of pregnant and forceful thoughts as its predecessor; whilst in"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Love to the Uttermost (Morgan and Scott) our old friend, the Rev. F. B. Meyer, has tenderly and reverently expounded the principal incidents and texts contained in the latter portion of the Gospel of the disciple"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "--From Mr. Elliott Stock comes a small volume of"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Addresses to all Sorts and Conditions of Men, which have been delivered at various times and in various places by Archdeacon Madden, who is well known as an earnest and gifted preacher to young men, and we can but hope that these outspoken truths may, in their more permanent form, be the means of much lasting good. We hope shortly to introduce Archdeacon Madden more directly to our readers by means of our own pages, and also Dr. R. F. Horton, who is responsible for"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Commandments of Jesus, which has just reached us from Messrs. Isbister. It should be emphasised at once that the book does not deal with the commandments given to Moses, but with the commandments delivered by our Lord whilst on earth. Dr. Horton claims that a careful study of these will prove that they form"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "at the present day, and he has ably upheld and explained what he so happily terms"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "--To turn from theological to lighter works, we are pleased to draw attention to Mr. S. H. Hamer's"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Whys and Other Whys (Cassell and Co.), which would form an admirable present for little people. The author tells a number of humorous stories of"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Curious Creatures and their Tales, which will amuse and delight the children, whilst the many quaint and clever illustrations by Mr. Neilson combine to make this one of the best gift-books of the season.--For the little ones and also to"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "we can heartily commend Mrs. Orman Cooper's life of"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "John Bunyan, the Glorious Dreamer (Sunday School Union), which is written from an extensive knowledge of the subject (gained principally from many years' residence in Bedford), and is also copiously illustrated.--We have also to acknowledge the receipt of"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Rabbi Sanderson (Hodder and Stoughton) by Ian Maclaren, which forms a companion to his former short story,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A Doctor of the Old School, though we feel it is not so brilliant as the latter; of"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Neil Macleod (same publishers), an interesting and well-written story of literary life in London; and also of"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Silver Tongues"
}
]
|
43621 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "on St. Paul's disastrous voyage towards Rome,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There is many a reef of rocks which threatens a young man or woman's barque, as it is pushed off across the waters of life's ocean; and, at the close of this century, one such reef is certainly the neglect and desecration of the Sabbath. It is difficult, perhaps undesirable, to lay down minute rules upon a subject concerning the details of which good folks conscientiously differ; but, in days when the social trend is distinctly towards laxity, there are four main principles which must be binding on all who acknowledge the New Testament as the supreme law of life. Little, comparatively, is said there about the observance of the first day of the week, but that little is very helpful and suggestive. (1) Sunday should be a day of joy. It was"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "that the holy women returned from the sepulchre after the resurrection. Let us try and make Sunday bright and happy, especially to children and to the poor. (2) Sunday must be a day of worship. The disciples were wont to meet together to break bread in remembrance of their Master, and (Acts xx. 7) to hear a sermon. (3) Sunday must be a day of generosity and kindness. The apostle specially enjoins that each one should"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The spirit of this command must forbid selfish entertainments and recreations, which impose extra toil on hard-worked servants. (4) Sunday should be a day of rest, and (to some extent, at least), of holy contemplation. St. John the Divine at Patmos was"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "when he saw the vision of the New Jerusalem. Sundays upon earth are a preparation for"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Neglect and desecration are"
}
]
|
43621 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, indeed, said Lincoln;"
}
]
|
43621 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Quiver"
}
]
|
43621 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My Father worketh hitherto, and I work,"
}
]
|
43621 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Behold, I will send My messenger, and he shall prepare the way before Me"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "For thou art an holy people unto the Lord thy God; the Lord thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto Himself"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We have found Him, of whom Moses in the law, and the prophets, did write"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Before that Phillip called thee, when thou wast under the fig tree, I saw thee"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Behold the Lamb of God!"
}
]
|
43621 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "God answered Job out _out of_ whirlwind. The transcriber has change this line to:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "God answered Job _out of_ the whirlwind."
}
]
|
232486 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't know, answered Diggory;"
}
]
|
14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Andromeda and Perseus ; his poetic precocity; origin of"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The Flight of the Duchess"
}
]
|
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