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38976 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My mistress sends you these, and begs that you will eat and drink, for you must be both hungry and thirsty;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I seek the heart of Princess Joan; I beg you to give it to me."
}
]
|
38976 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Still I will neither eat nor drink, he said,"
}
]
|
38976 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh! Why have I toiled for seven years, he cried aloud,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And why should you be starved to death, my Prince?"
}
]
|
38976 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My poor love, how long you have worked for me! Pray drink now, that you may be refreshed ere we two start for our home."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Can it be my Joan, and that I have truly won her?"
}
]
|
38976 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Heart of Joan Lost and won Fly back home, Thy journey's done. Take back joy Take back pain Heart of Joan, Fly home again."
}
]
|
38976 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is for the marriage of the King's daughter Joan, said the woman;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "To-morrow she is to be married to old King Lambert, and the wedding will be very grand, but none of the country folk like it, for he is old and ugly, and they say he does not love her at all, but only marries her that he may be king of this country as well as his own. The Queen is in sore distress about it, and for seven years refused her consent; but they will be over to-morrow, and so they will be wed, and the guests are already beginning to arrive at the palace, and each one brings some splendid gift."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I will be a guest at that wedding, cried Michael;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And I bring the best gift of all for the bride;"
}
]
|
38976 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Please tell me where is the Princess Joan, and what she is doing."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "She is sitting with the King and Queen and King Lambert in the state-room, to receive the guests and accept the presents they bring,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am a guest, and I bring a present for her, cried Michael;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Tell me how I shall get into the palace that I may give it to her."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Not now--wait till the wedding is over to-morrow, and then we will see how he will punish the beggar-man for his impertinence."
}
]
|
38976 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Of what avail were all my years of toil, and for what am I gray and old before my time, he cried,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Joan! Joan! I am here--I who have worked for you for years, and brought home your stolen heart, and now will you wed King Lambert in spite of all?"
}
]
|
38976 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do you not know me? You at least, who bid me go, and praised me then, should remember me now. On hearing this the old nurse drew near the prison window, and looked at him, and said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Who are you, and why are you here? My eyes are old, and my ears are deaf, but I think I have seen you, and heard your voice before."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Seven years ago, said Michael,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I too was a bridegroom, who came to wed your Princess, and for seven long years have I worked, that I might bring home to her the heart she had not. Go and ask your Queen, why she has broken her pledge to wait for seven years, till Prince Michael should return."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Prince Michael! Is it really Prince Michael? cried the old nurse joyfully."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And you come in time, for our Princess is not married yet, and she must pass by here, on her way to church. So you shall call to her as she passes by, and speak for yourself."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then keep near and tell me when she comes, said Michael,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Here she is,"
}
]
|
38976 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Heart of Joan Lost and won Fly back home, Thy journey's done. Take back joy Take back pain Heart of Joan, Fly home again;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Look at the pink bird!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My mother! My father! What has happened? Oh see, it is Michael who has returned!"
}
]
|
38976 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Michael, my love! she cried,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "How gray and worn you are now. How hard you must have laboured for me through these long years. Now, how shall I pay you, save by loving you all my life!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is Prince Michael, who went seven years ago, and who we all thought was dead, and he is returned in time to marry our Princess. Now will we indeed have a wedding, and she shall marry the Prince who has toiled so long for her;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Nay! said the Queen,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She has been pledged to Prince Michael for seven years. We are grieved for your sake, King Lambert, but we cannot break our royal word."
}
]
|
38976 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "For now we are sure of a good King, the people said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "See, he has already shown what he can do. Surely no one else could ever have found the heart of Princess Joan."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Good-day, friend, said he."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If you have nothing to do, perhaps you would not mind carrying my load for me for a little."
}
]
|
38976 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Good-day, friend, said he."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If you have nothing to do, perhaps you would not mind carrying my load for me for a little."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If I do so, what will you give me?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I will give you two pieces of gold,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Agreed,"
}
]
|
38976 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Good-morrow, black friend. If you are going our way, you would do well to sit upon my back and drive away the flies, which worry me sadly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And what will you pay me to do this?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Money is no object to me, said the donkey,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Agreed,"
}
]
|
38976 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Good-day, little cousin. Do you want to earn a little money? If so, bring me some worms from the bank as we go along, for I had no breakfast, and am very hungry."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What will you give me for it?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Let us say four pieces of gold, said the raven grandly;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Very well,"
}
]
|
38976 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What will you take for that little blanket? It seems to be a good one. Name your price and you shall have it whatever it is, for I am badly in want of a blanket just now;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The price of the blanket is five pieces of gold,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That seems to me to be very dear, said the hedge-sparrow."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don't mind giving you four pieces of gold for it, but five is too much."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Agreed, said the pedlar, and he chuckled to himself and thought,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Now I shall be able to pay the donkey, otherwise I might have had some trouble in getting rid of him."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Please to pay me the four pieces of gold you owe me, for we are coming to a town, and I must be turning back."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Four pieces of gold is really too much for bringing a few worms, said the raven."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is absurd to expect such payment, but I will give you three, and you shall have them almost immediately,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "My friend, it is time you paid me the three pieces of gold which you promised, for the pedlar will stop at this town, and you will not have to go farther with him."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "On thinking it over, said the donkey,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have come to the conclusion that three pieces of gold are really a great deal too much to give for having a few flies driven away. You must have known that I was only joking when I said it, but I will let you have two, though I consider that it is much more than the job was worth; and the donkey turned again to the pedlar, saying,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now, good sir, your two pieces of gold, if you please."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "In a moment, said the pedlar, and turning to the hedge-sparrow, said,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I really must have the money for the blanket at once."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "So you shall, answered the hedge-sparrow, and cried angrily to the raven,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I want my money now, and cannot wait."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "In an instant, answered the raven, and again whispered to the donkey,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why can't you pay me honestly? I should be ashamed of trying to slip out of my debts in such a way."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I won't keep you waiting a second, said the donkey, and he turned once more to the pedlar and cried,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come, give me my money. For shame! a man like you trying to cheat a poor beast like me."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Pay me for my blanket, or I'll wring your neck."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Give me my money or I'll peck out your eyes."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If you don't pay me, I'll bite off your tail."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You dishonest wretch, pay me my money or I'll kick you soundly."
}
]
|
38976 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You are a set of rogues and vagabonds, said the beadle,"
}
]
|
38976 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now, whom have we here? cried he."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A pedlar, a donkey, a raven, and a hedge-sparrow. A set of worthless vagabonds, I'll be bound! Let us hear what they have to say for themselves."
}
]
|
38976 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am convinced that you are a set of good-for-nothing fellows, and one is quite as bad as the other, so I order that the pedlar be locked up in the prison, that the donkey be soundly well thrashed, and that the raven and the hedge-sparrow both have their tail-feathers pulled out, and then be turned out of the town. As for the blanket, it seems to me to be the only good thing in the whole matter, and as I cannot allow you to keep the cause of such a disturbance, I will take it for myself. Beadle, lead the prisoners away."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It is very sad to think to what straits an honest man may be brought, he sighed to himself as he sat lamenting his hard fate."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In future this will be a warning to me to keep clear of hedge-sparrows. If the hedge-sparrow had paid me as he ought, I should not be here now."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Alas! alas! See what comes to an innocent quadruped for having to do with human beings. Had the pedlar given me the money he owed, I should not now be beaten thus. In future I will never make a bargain with men."
}
]
|
38976 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Alas! croaked the raven,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It all comes of my being so taken in by that raven, he sighed."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But I should have known that these large birds are never honest. In future I will be wise, and never make a bargain with anything bigger or stronger than myself."
}
]
|
38976 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What are you making all this fuss about, Master Baker? said he."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If you will give me a home in your oven I will see to the baking of your bread, and will answer for it that you shall never have so much as a loaf spoiled."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If you will give me a home in your oven I will see to the baking of your bread, and will answer for it that you shall never have so much as a loaf spoiled."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And pray what sort of bread would it be, if you were in the oven, and helped to bake it? said the baker;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I think my customers might not like to eat it."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "On the contrary, said the imp,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why should it make them unhappy? said the baker."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If it is good bread it won't do any one harm, and if it is bad they won't buy it."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It will taste very good, replied the imp,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Agreed!"
}
]
|
38976 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This is excellent bread, he said, taking a large slice;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I wish everything else were as good;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why? cried his wife, who had not yet begun to eat."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "This morning, I am sure, there is nothing for you to complain of."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nay! said the mayor;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Nonsense! cried his wife, who was now eating her breakfast also;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nay, cried the daughters;"
}
]
|
38976 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "See, dear husband, she said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, indeed, said the doctor;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and then he began to eat."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am not sure, after all, that I have done such a good thing in curing this man. It is true that his broken leg hurt him very much, but perhaps when he is well again, he may break his back, and that would be much worse. Perhaps I had better have left him to die. I daresay when he is quite well, all kinds of misfortunes will befall him; I had much better have let him alone."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, cried his wife in surprise,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I wish I were not a doctor, said the husband, sighing."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It would be much better if there were no doctors at all;"
}
]
|
38976 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is a very terrible thing to think how happy we are, for it cannot last. Something melancholy is sure to happen to us, and till it comes we shall live in dread of it; for we know happiness never lasts, and this is a thought that makes me very sad."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What is this you are saying? she said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How can you think such dreadful things? I do not like you when you talk like that; and I think it is very hard for me to be married to a man who wants to be unhappy."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The best thing we can hope for, said the husband, sighing,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now, cried his wife,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am indeed unfortunate. What could be worse than to have a husband who does not like being happy? I wish I had married some one else; or indeed had no husband at all."
}
]
|
38976 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "thought he, as he took a large piece of bread,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What should I do if it were to fall down and crush me some day, he said to himself."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "After all, 'tis only built of brick, and might tumble any day. How much stronger it would have been if it had been built of stone. Then it would not have been nearly so likely to give way. Really when my great-grandfather built it he should have thought of this. How selfish all men are;"
}
]
|
38976 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Our baker really bakes very decent bread, said she;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Here they come, said she;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How bonny they look. Really I ought to be very proud of them. I don't know which is the prettier, Janey or Jimmy, but 'tis a pity, for sure, that Janey is the eldest. It would be much better if Jimmy were older than she. 'Tis a bad thing for the sister to be older than the brother. Now, if he were her age, and she were his, that would be really nice, for then he could take care of her and see after her; but, as it is, she will try to direct him, and boys never like to obey their sisters; I really almost think I had better not have had any children at all,"
}
]
|
38976 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What on earth are you making that whistling for? he asked."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I declare one would think that you were as happy as a man could be."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And so I am, said the baker,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And so I should think were you too, for you have nothing to trouble you."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nothing to trouble me, forsooth! cried the doctor in a rage."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "How dare you insult me in this way? I tell you what it is, my fine fellow, I think you are very impertinent, and if I have any more of your impudence I will take my stick and thrash you soundly. It really is not to be borne, that one man should be allowed to tell another that he has nothing to complain of."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nay, _you_ can have as much to complain of as you like, so long as I have not,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Was there ever such a village as this? he cried."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is not fit for any one to live in, there is always such fighting and quarrelling going on. What is the matter here?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Matter enough, cried the doctor."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Here is a fellow dares to tell me I have nothing to complain of, nor he either."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "This is monstrous! said the farmer;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, Master Farmer, cried the baker,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And I tell you that it is enough to make one grumble, said the farmer."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It should have been fair yesterday, and should have rained to-day. You ought to be ashamed of such talk, Master Baker, and I think it would serve you justly right if we took you before the Justice and let us see what he thinks of your conduct."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Nay! cried the baker, beginning to be frightened,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What have you done, indeed! said the doctor."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We will see if the Justice cannot find that out pretty quickly."
}
]
|
38976 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now what is all this uproar for? cried he."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Am I never to be left in peace? How hard is the life of a Justice!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "See here, cried the doctor;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Certainly not, cried the Justice,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then, said he,"
}
]
|
38976 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Let us go to his house and pull it down."
}
]
|
38976 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Stop! What is all this uproar about? And what has this man done that you are beating him without my orders? and the people in the crowd whispered to each other;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It is true,--what has he done?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There, my man, you are forgiven for this once, and now go your way, and see that you behave better in future;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "This all comes of the oven imp, cried he, as he limped home."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Directly I get home I will drive him out of my oven, and away from my house. Better to have a hundred batches of bread spoiled than to be flogged for saying one is happy."
}
]
|
38976 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My dear nephews, I feel that my days are now drawing to an end, and one of you will have to be King when I am dead. But there is no pleasure in being King. My people have been difficult to govern and never content with what I did for them, so that my life has been a hard one, and though I have watched you all closely, still I know not, which is most fit to wear the crown; so my wish is that you should each try it in turn. You, Aldovrand, as you are the oldest, shall be King first, and if you reign happily, all well and good; but if you fail, let Aldebert take your place; and if he fail, let him give it up to Alderete, and then you will know which is the best fitted to govern."
}
]
|
38976 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "cried he in much glee;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Now I can amuse myself and do just as I please, and there will be no one to stop me, and I will lie in bed as late as I like in the morning, for who dares blame one, if one is King?"
}
]
|
38976 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This is a bad beginning,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Very bad,"
}
]
|
38976 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A pretty thing, he cried,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That I the King am to be sent for hither and thither as if I were a lacquey. They must go away and come another time;"
}
]
|
38976 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Here, let one of my cousins be King, for I will not bear this longer. It is much more trouble than it is worth, so Aldebert or Alderete may try it and see how they like it, but as for me, I have had enough of it,"
}
]
|
38976 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Work? cried the farmer, little thinking he was talking to his late king."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why, what sort of work can you do?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, said Aldovrand,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am not very fond of running about, but if you want any one to mind your sheep, or keep the birds from your corn, I could do that nicely."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I tell you what you can do if you like, said the farmer."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am wanting a goose-boy to take care of my geese. See, there they are on the common. All you will have to do is to see that they don't stray away, and to drive them in at night."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That will suit me exactly, cried Aldovrand."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I will begin at once;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This is capital, he cried,"
}
]
|
38976 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I will do my best, quoth he;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Now we have got the right sort of King,"
}
]
|
38976 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Your Majesty, said he,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I come to you on an affair of much importance. A great part of our city is falling down, and it is very necessary that we should rebuild it at once. If you will command it, therefore, I will see that it is done."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have no doubt you are right, said the King;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Your Majesty, said he,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I wish to lay before you the state of our army. Our soldiers have had a great deal of fighting to do lately, and are beginning to be discontented, but the late King, your uncle, would never attend to their wants."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Pray do what you like,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "To satisfy them, said the Commander-in-Chief,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I think that we should double their pay. This would keep them in a good humour, and all will go well."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "By all means, that will certainly be the best way, said Aldebert."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Let it be given to them at once;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Your Majesty, he said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have this morning been to the treasury, and I find that there is scarcely any money left. The late King, your uncle, spent so much in spite of all I could say, that now it is almost all gone. Your Majesty must now save all you can for the next year or two, and you ought also to lower the soldiers' pay, and stop all public works."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have no doubt you are quite right, cried the King."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You know best, let it be done as you wish."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How is this, your Majesty? cried he."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Just as we are beginning our buildings, the Chancellor comes and tells us that we are not to have any money to build with."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yesterday your Majesty told me that all the soldiers should have double pay, and this morning I hear, that instead of that, their wages are to be lowered!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Your Majesty, he cried,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am sure you are each of you quite right; but I think I am scarcely fit to be a King. Indeed I think you had better find my cousin Alderete, and let him be crowned, and I will seek my fortune elsewhere."
}
]
|
38976 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How cleverly you mend those holes! You must lead a pleasant life, going from house to house in the green lanes mending wares. Do you think I could learn how to do it if you would teach me?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, I don't mind giving you a trial if you like to come with me, for I want a strong young man sometimes to help me wheel my little cart, and I'll teach you my trade, and we'll see what you can make of it."
}
]
|
38976 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This will never do, cried they;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Now, cried he,"
}
]
|
38976 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My friends, said he to them,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I fear, your Majesty, your people will not like to be too much meddled with."
}
]
|
38976 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I already see much to be altered in my kingdom. I do not like the houses in which many of the people dwell, nor indeed the dresses they wear; but what strikes me most of all is, that wherever I go I smell a strong smell of pea soup. Now, nothing is so unwholesome as pea soup, and therefore it would not be right in me to allow the people to go on eating it. I command, therefore, that no one shall again make, or eat pea soup, within my realm on pain of death."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Your Majesty, your subjects will surely not like to be hindered from eating and drinking what pleases them!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Go at once and do as I bid you."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The King, the King! Where is this King who would dictate to us what we shall eat and drink?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Pray go and tell them to eat what they like, he cried when they arrived;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But, do you know, I find it will not at all suit me to be King. You had best try Aldovrand, or Aldebert, again;"
}
]
|
38976 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My friend, cried Alderete, stopping him,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Of all things in the world I should like to be a sweep and learn how to sweep chimneys. May I go with you, and will you teach me your trade?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, Alderete could go with him if he chose, and as he was now going on to the farmhouses, on the road, to sweep the chimneys, he could begin at once."
}
]
|
38976 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This will never do, cried they."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We must have a King somehow, so we had best have back one of the others."
}
]
|
38976 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Good day, my friends, cried he when he saw them;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And how are things going on at the palace? I hope my cousins like reigning better than I did. Now, here I lie peacefully all day long and watch my geese, and it is much nicer than being King."
}
]
|
38976 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now, here I lie peacefully all day long and watch my geese, and it is much nicer than being King."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No indeed! cried he,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I would not be King again for any man living. You had best go and seek my cousin Aldebert, and ask him. I saw him go down the road with a tinker, helping him to mend his tins. So go and ask him, and leave me to mind my geese in peace."
}
]
|
38976 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Heyday, whom have we here? cried he."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The Prime Minister and the Chancellor! And I am right glad to see you both. See how clever I have grown; I am learning to be a tinker, and I mended that hole all myself."
}
]
|
38976 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No indeed; go and ask my cousins, who are both much cleverer than I. I really don't do for it at all, but I make a very good tinker, and I like that much better."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Then what can we do? cried the Prime Minister,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I saw him go by here with a sweep a little time ago, said Aldebert;"
}
]
|
38976 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nay, said she;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "On hearing this, the Prime Minister and Chancellor at once ran into the farmhouse, and saw the old sweep standing by the kitchen fire-place."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And where is the other sweep? cried they."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He is gone up the chimney, and is just going to begin sweeping, said the old man."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "So if you want to speak to him you must shout."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "King Alderete, King Alderete!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "King Alderete, King Alderete! It is the Prime Minister and I, the Chancellor, come to fetch your Majesty back to the palace."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm not going to come down; I don't want to be King. I am going to be a sweep, and I like that much better. I shan't come down till you are gone away, and now you had best go quickly, for I am going to begin sweeping, and all the soot will fall on your head,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We must go and look for a King elsewhere, they said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It is no use troubling about Aldovrand, Aldebert, and Alderete."
}
]
|
38976 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Your Highness should not wish to know too much,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I want to know everything."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is not enough; I want to know more."
}
]
|
38976 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Who are you, and what do you want with me?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am the Princess Fernanda, she said,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why do you wish for that? said the Wizard:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am not happy now, said the Princess sighing wearily."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Teach me and you shall find me an apt pupil, and I will pay you with gold."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I will not have your gold, said the Wizard,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How much she knows! How wise she is!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Go! I can teach you no more now. You are as wise as I."
}
]
|
38976 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How should physicians help me, my father, she said,"
}
]
|
38976 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What do you want? he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have taught you all I know."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nay, said the Wizard with a very mournful smile;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I cannot teach you that, for I do not know it myself. Go and ask it of them who know and are wiser than I."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then the Princess left the cave and wandered down to the sea-shore."
}
]
|
38976 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Surely that bird is happy,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why do you sing?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I sing because I am so happy,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And why are you so happy?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "So happy? said the lark."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "God is so good. The sky is so blue, and the fields are so green. Is that not enough to make me happy?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Teach me, then, that I may be happy too,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I cannot, said the lark;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't know how to teach;"
}
]
|
38976 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Little dog, she said;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why am I so happy? said the little dog, surprised."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have plenty to eat, and a soft cushion to rest upon, and you to caress me. Is not it enough to make me happy?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It is not enough for me,"
}
]
|
38976 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Doris, she said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Please your Royal Highness, I am going to the fair, answered Doris,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "she added, pouting a little,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I wish I had a pretty new hat to wear with my new dress."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then you are not perfectly happy, so you cannot teach me,"
}
]
|
38976 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You have a fine little child there, she said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Surely you must be very happy."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, she said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Then you could not teach me, said the Princess, sighing to herself as she moved away. She wandered on till she came to a church, which she entered. All was still within, for the church was empty; but before the altar, on a splendid bier, lay the body of a young man, who had been killed in the war. He was dressed in his gay uniform, and his breast was covered with medals, and his sword lay beside him. He was shot through the heart, but his face was peaceful and his lips were smiling. The Princess walked to his side, and looked at the quiet face. Then she stooped and kissed the cold forehead, and envied the soldier."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If he could speak, she said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You have taught him, she said, holding out her arms."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Will you not teach me to smile like that?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Nay, said Death, pointing to the medals on the dead man's breast,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I taught him whilst he was doing his duty. I cannot teach you."
}
]
|
38976 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now, said he, clasping her in his arms,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I will teach you all you want to know;"
}
]
|
38976 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She was so wise, sobbed her little maid, as she placed flowers in the cold hand,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not everything, said the skylark from the window;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That was the one thing I could not teach her, said the old Wizard, looking at the dead Princess's face."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yet I think now she must be wiser than I, and have learned that too. For see how she smiles."
}
]
|
451181 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Out o' the way, you women!"
}
]
|
223920 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, yes."
}
]
|
903622 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now you are lost, my brother of the tribe of Abs,"
}
]
|
771154 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How that great spotted cat stares at me!"
}
]
|
286511 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Evadne will not be down,"
}
]
|
303368 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How long since you left her?"
}
]
|
49263 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It was never merry world in England since gentlemen came up."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Opinion's but a fool that makes us scan, The outward habit by the inward man."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You live a respectable man, but I ask If it's worth the trouble."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The Beggar's Soliloquy."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "nor do the majority of the working class bow down before it. Respectability stands for gentility, and the genteel folk are not often of the orders aristocratic and proletarian, but of the bourgeoisie. To call a decent, intelligent man respectable is to dub him genteel, and to label him so implies that he has reached about the lowest level of mental degradation. Would it not be an act of sheer defamation of character to describe Ben Jonson, Shakspere, Dryden, Fielding, and Burns as"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No great man has ever been, or ever can be, of the respectabilities, for the simple reason that the great are not ordinary, and the ordinary alone are respectable. Have you ever read or heard of a truly noble man or woman who was also respectable? Nobility of character and a reputation for respectability, the two things are utterly incompatible! Supposing it possible for an original mind to pursue the preposterous chimera of respectability, where would such a mind find itself ultimately? Prone and lazy on"
}
]
|
49263 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He who lets the world, or his portion of it, choose his plan of life for him, says J. S. Mill,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It is by the exercise of this simious instinct that"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "people order their lives down to the minutest detail. They scout eccentricity and individuality of speculation and judgment; they live in streets of houses all built alike; they imitate each others' mode of dress, think each others' thoughts, and say"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It is better to be dead than out of the fashion!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, say the Respectables,"
}
]
|
49263 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A most respectable man. We all know him--a sort of factory-made cheap line in humanity, with a few prim, precise, little superstitions, no reasoned morals, and no intellectual or æsthetic needs. He is a big man of a petty sect, and on Sunday he troops a stout, silk-dressed wife and seven or eight children to hear Boanerges hold forth at the tin Bethel at the end of the street. This is one type, perhaps the commonest. Another sort is not particularly pietistic, but"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He lives at Brixton or Clapham in a continuous struggle to keep up a"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "appearance among the neighbours. His wife"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "and his daughters spend most of their time in blocking the pavement in front of drapers' shops. Mamma and the girls are gangrened with respectability and snobbishness, but were it not for the inherited virus they might have been decent and wholesome women. Their minds are blank to all the wider interests of life; they are simply mechanical dolls. Says a woman concerning these types:"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have known miners, railway men, iron and cotton and wool workers, many who have denied themselves physical necessities to buy and read a book, attend lectures, or a concert. I never knew a middle-class woman guilty of such a glaring want of common-sense."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What we are in and for ourselves, says that philosopher,"
}
]
|
49263 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "An Enemy of Society, is ostracised by respectable society because he refuses to be an unmitigated liar. A finer satire on Respectability has never been written. Stockman discovers that the water supply of the town is polluted, and he tells the truth about it. The respectable authorities, the tag-rag of the bourgeoisie, and the toady editor of the local journal--who is at heart a Freethinker--hoot him down in compliance with the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am going to make a great revelation to you, fellow-citizens! I am going to disclose that to you which is of infinitely more moment than the unimportant fact that our waterworks are poisonous, and that our hygienic baths are built upon a soil teeming with pestilence.... I have said I should speak of the great discovery I have made within the last few days--the discovery that all our spiritual sources of life are poisoned, and that our whole bourgeois society rests upon a soil teeming with the pestilence of lies. For I am going to revolt against the lie that truth resides in the majority."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I must be an eccentric sort of fellow: but is it such a great fault to have preserved amid all the friction of society some vestiges of the angularity of nature?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "as Mill says,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No fanatical fakir ever endured the torments that some English folk inflict upon themselves before the Mumbo Jumbo of respectability. Dwarfed social endeavour, suppressed healthy desires, degraded faculties--these are the sacrifices in the name of conventionality. Daily, men and women do a score of things that they know to be hurtful and insane, because they fear to be accounted"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "and"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and so it comes about that"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Primitive Folk,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "These savage women win hearts by their frank and open manners and naïve gaiety. Mixing freely from earliest childhood with the other sex, they have none of the prudery of Hindoos and Mussulmans, who have been brought up in strict seclusion; a prudery which at moments gives place to unclean talk, and is full of suggested obscenities. On the other hand, the modest grace of young Hos or Moonah maidens and the little girls of the Larkas is a subject of praise. Patience! Civilisation will soon cure them of this barbarism, will correct their ignorance."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "at Calcutta, is one of the pitiful examples of the indecency of thought born of our ideas of respectability. These damsels of the Curumbas tribe wore aprons of leaves suspended from a bead waistband. Such garb was not only suited to the climate, but it was charming as well as healthy. The Calcutta British Matrons thought such wear abominable. How could these women be respectable in such scanty drapery? Accordingly, by direction of Bumble, four corporals and two sergeants of infantry were told off with a company to drag the leaf aprons from the front and behind, and to put the women into petticoats. The greenery was then burned in a bonfire. What a glorious triumph of Respectability! How thoroughly British matronly and indelicate in conception was this compulsory clothing of innocent modest women by Tommy Atkins and his"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Is there the least need to dwell upon the contrast of decency that these Curumbas women present to the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud, says Schopenhauer,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The evil is not merely a stagnation of blood, but a stagnation of spirit. Many, no doubt, are well disposed, but sluggish by constitution and by habit, or they cannot conceive of a man who is actuated by higher motives than they are."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "depressed him by reason of its"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I wish, said he,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Though I have endured much from the Philistine, I still love him."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "the veneering girls"
}
]
|
49263 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is a serious and important fact to be carefully noted by the Respectable, that many incurable imbeciles are the descendants of steady, stolid, and apparently well-conducted ancestors of the trading order, the folk who live in a petty round of narrow interests, without the inclination to form their minds, and without any cultivation of the æsthetic and poetic sides of their natures. If you add to this a dour religiosity of the ultra-puritanic type, you have an excellent nidus of insanity. In every asylum you may find the heirs of such unfortunate prenatal influences. They are the victims of certain forms of Respectability, the result of"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "telling"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "All their"
}
]
|
49263 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, not if all the available hygienic remedies are employed while the Respectable is young."
}
]
|
49263 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sound as a bell! Look at my appetite!"
}
]
|
49263 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The snob in soul who looks above, Trampling on what's beneath."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Is she a Lady or a Person? asked a British Matron when I spoke of a certain young woman. The question is well calculated to set one pondering on those nice distinctions of class, and sub-distinctions within the classes, characteristic of most semi-civilised and so-called highly civilised nations of the world. Unquestionably, my interrogator was a"
}
]
|
49263 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and very much worse than that, got drunk nearly every night, and debauched a great number of maids were the only respectable gentlemen in the land, all the rest, who were not"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "this"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "with harlots, gamblers of shady notoriety, and ruffianly hybrid sportsmen of the turf and ring, drinks to excess, and, after a career of low vice and mean trickery, he pays his creditors--many of them struggling tradesmen--sixpence in the pound, or less than that. _You_ say he is no gentleman. Quite so; but he is received in that polite company where you and I would be cold-shouldered, and the society that receives him is undoubtedly very high and good society. Moreover, the Respectable million, though they may roll their eyes unctuously at his misconduct, would be extremely delighted to have the honour of entertaining Lord A. at afternoon tea. You know perfectly well, my friend, that his lordship is"
}
]
|
49263 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "When the majority disagree as to the outward semblance and the inner attributes of"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "friend:"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My dear, there is really _no one_ here but us. I looked around, and saw"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "with their resplendent wives and daughters, and a great number of social small-fry. But these were nobodies. They were not lawyers, or the sons and daughters of lawyers, therefore they were nonentities. How quaint are the invidious distinctions and the usages of Snobbery! For example, it is considered impertinence if a brewer follows the hounds in a scarlet coat, but a banker may wear the"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Such, at any rate, is the unwritten law in some hunting districts. As for army snobbishness, it is well known that in several regiments the impecunious officer, not"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "the extravagant"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "of the mess, is regarded as a cad by brainless, swaggering subalterns, whose expenditure on their stomachs amounts to several hundred pounds per annum. But to write upon the inflated Respectability of"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "would require a separate section of this essay. It is enough to say that the bullying, blustering military Respectable is usually a scion of a _parvenu_ family. The type is not only to be found in the regular forces; it is very common in the county militia and in the provincial volunteer corps. A son of a wine merchant, or some other prosperous tradesman, secures a lieutenancy in the volunteers, and soon rises to a higher rank. He is an officer, and therefore a"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and he lords it over other tradesmen and tradesmen's sons with the air of a patrician major-general. One of these precious jackanapes once abused me for a"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "and threatened me with"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "in a raucous tone of wrath, because I inadvertently trespassed within the lines of a volunteer camp. I said:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Where is the orderly? I'll wait for him, and I sat down on the grass and smoked my pipe, and summoned fortitude for the awful tribunal of a court-martial. But the orderly came not, though the"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "so admirably adapted to my purpose in delineating certain phases of Respectability that I may perhaps be pardoned for using them in this attempt at a scientific exposition. Side and bounce will carry you far in Respectable society. Self-assertiveness is an excellent thing. Johnson and Carlyle were born with the faculty; they knew how to inspire awe, and no one dared to contradict them. The Yankees call this quality"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They say that an egotistical, swaggering, dominant man"
}
]
|
49263 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Chuck him out! Burnaby knew the value of"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Pray, sir, are you anyone in particular?"
}
]
|
49263 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You have no idea how much time it takes to kick sense into nigger servants."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Now I'll be a gentleman! I'll be a _gentleman_, by God! You will possibly try to convince me that this fellow never could become a gentleman. Why not? Money makes the man. He may not be a _gentle_-man in _your_ sense, but he is a _gentleman_ in the estimation of an immense number of the"
}
]
|
49263 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "of gentleman if you wish to fog your mind still more upon this subject:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Gentleman (from _genteel_ and _man_)--In a general sense, every educated person above a labourer, an artisan, or a tradesman, an individual possessed of the conduct, habit, and outward appearance which belong, or are expected to belong, to persons born and educated in a high social position; a man in any station of life who is possessed of good breeding and refined manners, strict integrity and honour, kindliness of heart, and suchlike qualities; in a limited sense, a person of good fortune and good family, whether titled or not; one who bears a coat of arms; a term of complaisance or respect, as in the plural _gentlemen_, when addressing a number of persons."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": ""
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I endeavour, writes M. Taine,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Notes on England."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Their hypocrisy is a perpetual marvel to me, and a constant exercise of cleverness of the finest sort."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mr. Brown's Letters to a Young Man."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It would take a large volume to contain the authentic accounts of deception practised by women."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Change of Life."
}
]
|
49263 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Respectable members of society. Is it a matter for wonder? Naturally, the romantic youth puzzles over this shrewd, business-like phase of woman's character; but he forgets that"
}
]
|
49263 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "beyond gaining a friend in one of the Little Muddleton Road girls. He may simply desire social intercourse with one of the feminine kind, out of obedience to an eternal and immutable law of attraction. But no, such intimacies, unless they are distinctly understood to be the prelude to marriage, are rarely permitted by the Respectables."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It is not proper for Ethel to be seen about with that young Simpkins. What will Mrs. Robinson think?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You mustn't be a close friend of my daughter. That will never do! If you were engaged to her it would be a different matter; but you're not, and people would talk. So Simpkins goes away, and"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "very questionable girls in the street, and buys his first experience of"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And the saddest thing is that he forms his opinion about women from these types, which is, of course, unwise, to say the least. But is he wholly to blame for this? No, he is one of the victims of Respectability, the grim tyrant who mars and blasts millions of human lives in England. At thirty-five Simpkins is a _blasé_, cynical young man-about-town, a sufferer, probably, from inordinate sexuality, with a profound contempt for all women, founded on his miserable experiences with female harpies and panders."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A fool and sinner,"
}
]
|
49263 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Schopenhauer says:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Individual and partial exceptions do not alter the fact that women are, and will always remain, the most thorough and incurable Philistines.... Their domination and influence ruins modern society.... The essentially European lady is a being who ought to have no existence at all; there ought, on the other hand, to be housewives and girls who hope to become such, and who are, in consequence, brought up to domesticity by subordination. Just because there are _ladies_ in Europe, women of a lower grade, who form, therefore, the great majority of the sex, are much more unhappy than they are in the East."
}
]
|
49263 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A man glories in being considered bold, but a woman shrinks from the charge of boldness, as degrading to her sex. [2] And here I shelter myself behind a doughty champion of women, because if I wrote the indictment which he has set down, my ethical-cum-philosophical Gamaliel, and possibly many of my women readers, would charge me with"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "and"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I quote again from Mr. Gibson, who, in this charge of the alleged untruthfulness of women, is almost as emphatic as Schopenhauer:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Owing to the subordinate position of women, _they are less truthful than men_. They work up to their ends without the exercise of force, and must therefore use guile. Men lie as readily as women when they think lies will serve their purpose, but, having more freedom, and being less afraid of conflict, they have less cause to lie. _Women are taught to lie from their childhood, in order to hide their desires, their disappointments, and their sufferings._ Women are driven in upon themselves, and in sheer self-defence lie as men are not called upon to lie."
}
]
|
49263 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How one knows the kind of girl! One meets a specimen in almost every house-party. She is nicely dressed, but not quite so nicely as the other girls staying in the house. She has charming manners, but there is something of the offensive and defensive sharpness of the street Arab about her. She has had to take care of herself ever since she was grown up, and make her tongue do the work of chaperonage. If it rains, she is in mute agony, because she cannot afford to spoil her clothes. She takes Champagne regularly at dinner because she does not have it at home. She is at some pains to propitiate her hostess, because she intends to be asked again. She holds her tongue when grand functions are mentioned, because she was not there. In short, she is a kind of innocent whited sepulchre; a frail, jerry-built edifice, whose prestige may be destroyed at any moment by untoward revelations as to her social standing, whose whole endeavour is to give the impression that she lives in a mentionable part of London, and dresses on more than thirty pounds a year."
}
]
|
49263 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Emancipation of Women,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We men will sometimes lie outright: women, like all passive creatures, seldom invent, but can so distort a fact that they can thereby injure us more surely than by a downright lie."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Way of Marriage."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ghosts."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "OTHELLO."
}
]
|
49263 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ghosts"
}
]
|
49263 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oswald: Well, you may take their word for it. They know what they are talking about! (Presses his hands to his head). Oh! that that great, free, glorious life out there should be defiled in such a way!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He shows the whites of his eyes on the Sabbath, and the blacks all the rest of the week, says Thoreau. When the plate is passed around after divine service, the Respectable ostentatiously deposits a florin upon it, registering a secret vow that he will get back that coin, with ample interest, by some shady trick of trade on Monday morning. He gets it, too, you may be sure, and with a swinging profit on it, in consideration of his Sabbath generosity. There may be treasure laid up in heaven for the Respectable, but he is not the fool to despise the good things of this life. He believes that all things have been given unto him richly to enjoy, here and hereafter, and he takes care that none of these good things go by mistake to the wrong quarters. His golden rule is, obtain from others all that you can. However latitudinarian he may be upon some points of doctrine, he is strictly orthodox in the application of that useful text,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Blessed are the poor."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Decent Society"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and the institution of the peerage, and without intending to whitewash blackguards, whether they be mere patricians or simple costermongers. A friends of mine, a man of feeling, once sojourned for a space in the home of a provincial linen-draper of eminent, Respectability. I don't know what my friend was doing in that galley; I can't explain the juxtaposition of a Man of Feeling in such company; but it is enough to say that my eccentric friend was there. Well, the highly Respectable linen-draper was likewise"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "as the phrase is, and he used continually to dwell upon the importance of devotional exercise, as most Respectables do. He read Scripture aloud to his family and assistants, went to chapel regularly, observed Sunday scrupulously, behind drawn window blinds, believed in small profits and quick returns, drove a good trade, and held his head high, for the sober, God-fearing, enterprising shopkeeper that he was. At meal times this fellow would hold forth on grace--a virtue in which he was strangely lacking--also on obeying the precepts of Christ."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ah, he would say, rolling the yellows of his greedy little eyes;"
}
]
|
49263 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Like the Master! he cried vehemently."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You wish to be like the Master, and you pay your female assistants eight or ten shillings a week, and expect them to live on that miserable sum! Don't insult Christ! Don't cant and pretend that you wish to be a penniless socialist, and go about trying to do good. _You!_"
}
]
|
49263 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "that this or that work of genius is"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "that one brilliant man is morally incapacitated from assisting in legislation, and that another ought to be imprisoned for the expression of heterodox religious or political opinions. British Respectability makes Britain the laughing-stock and butt of the wits of the world. Nay, more; the Respectable's stupid blatant"
}
]
|
49263 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Notes on England."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am acquainted with a London merchant who visits Paris twice yearly on business. When he is there he is very jovial, and amuses himself on Sunday as freely as anyone else. His Paris host, who visited him at his home in London, where he was made thoroughly welcome, going downstairs on Sunday to the room where there was a miniature billiard table, pushed the balls about on it. The merchant in alarm begged him to stop at once, saying, 'The neighbours will be scandalised should they hear this.'"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I hardly know an _intellectual_ man, even, who is so broad and truly liberal that you can think aloud in his society. Most with whom you endeavour to talk soon come to a stand against some institution in which they appear to hold stock--that is some particular, not universal way of viewing things."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Do you persuade yourself that I respect you?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "MEASURE FOR MEASURE."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "and that monkeys must have been fashioned as travesties of men. But though we have moved upwards,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Man still exhibits race prejudice, patriotic bias, and the low instinct of class exclusiveness. Perhaps at no period of our social evolution have we been more cultured, and yet more vulgar, than at the present time. Such a juxtaposition may appear to indicate that a little knowledge for the masses is not without its disadvantages as well as its blessing. The proletarian of the sixteenth century could not read nor write; but he was probably less vulgar than those among his descendants whose acquaintance with modern literature is restricted to the gutter library of cuts and snips and racing tips. Simple, merry Dick trolled"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Old Rose ; flash 'Arry and his blatant mates hiccough the staccato of"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Glorious Beer."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "for"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and in society you must know, or affect to know, something about evolution, the higher criticism, Ibsen, Whistler's pictures, and Chippendale furniture. You may learn much about these, and be"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "at the same time; for smartness and culture go hand-in-hand to the"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "and are as brother and sister one to the other. To use a phrase from the vocabulary of culture-cum-smartness, you are"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Cheshire Cheese or the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Cock Tavern."
}
]
|
49263 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I promised not to return there before my hands were white. Of course, I shall never enter the house again,"
}
]
|
49263 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and the recusant and the pariah sat down to table with the imposing dignitaries of the Church and State. It may be well on the whole, but these gracious concessions from the Philistine are not without their perils for the philosopher and the artist. Even the wisest of them cannot always escape the moral and mental deterioration that comes of being _au fait_ in the whiffles and frothy small talk of drawing-rooms, the parlour tricks and pretty deportments; and the donning of a chimney-pot hat and a dress coat is often the first step on the downward career of the intellectual. Have we not seen it? One season will transform the modest, single-hearted, plain-living artist or student into a vain, insufferable, intellectual mountebank. A few months of interviewing, and"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "and posturing in Mayfair, and you change your ideas, stultify your conscience, and degenerate into a Respectable. It is almost inevitable. We are all sweetly human, and vanity is one of our prime characteristics. Most of us, also, as some critic of life observes, would rather be"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "An author of mediocre ability, possessing that quality of self-assertiveness known commonly as"
}
]
|
49263 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is an unjust way of compute to magnify a weak head for some Latin abilities; and to under-value a solid judgment because he knows not the genealogy of Hector"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "; he described Lecky as"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "he called Landor a"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "and sighed"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Maurice was"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "and it is said that the most he could say for George Meredith was that he was"
}
]
|
49263 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oxford manner,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oxford was beautiful even in the nineteenth century, when Oxford, and its less interesting sister, Cambridge, became definitely commercial. They (and especially Oxford) were the breeding places of a peculiar class of parasites, who called themselves cultivated people; they were, indeed, cynical enough, as the so-called educated classes of the day generally were; but they affected an exaggeration of cynicism, in order that they might be thought knowing and worldly-wise. ("
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "News from Nowhere."
}
]
|
49263 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My position is simple, he writes."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Since there is an Academy in France, I ought to belong to it. I have stood for election, and I cannot recognise anything wrong on my part in having done so. So long as I continue to stand, I am not beaten, therefore I will always stand."
}
]
|
49263 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I know, he says,"
}
]
|
49263 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A most competent professor of political economy, in one of the greatest of our universities, allowing himself to become an advocate of the ownership and operation of our telegraphs by the Government, was compelled to give up his place by the influence of one of the trustees, who happened to be a large owner of telegraph stock.... The victorious trustee carries about with him in his pocket-book a little printed slip, containing the offensive views of the discharged professor, and it is his pleasant habit to read this when occasion offers, to instructors or students who may, he thinks, need bracing up, and he accompanies the reading with cheering comments on the fate which befel the heretic who uttered such doctrines."
}
]
|
49263 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Jude the Obscure."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Freedom in the American Colleges, in"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Progressive Review,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Constant at church and change; his gains were sure, His givings rare, save farthings to the poor."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Of the Use of Riches."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Here you a muckworm of the town might see At his dull desk, amid his ledgers stall'd, Eat up with carking care."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Castle of Indolence."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "and even obtruding their hideous drawing of the pickle bottles ("
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ask for Pugsley's, Pure and Piquant"
}
]
|
49263 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Universal Provider"
}
]
|
49263 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "local snobs, and gave"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "attended by inferior celebrities and"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "At forty Pugsley was a Constitutional candidate for Diddleham, the hope of the Respectables, the cynosure of the hide-bound conventionalists in politics. You may remember that he was returned by the imposing majority of six. Now came the zenith of his fame. Pugsley's politics like his pickles, are notoriously piquant. He has voted against every democratic measure, and prated about"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Gadabout."
}
]
|
49263 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Really, Mrs. ----, he said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am not responsible for the morals of my working people."
}
]
|
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