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45556 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, get the child ready,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But I don't want to go,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "exclaimed Guiseppe."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There's many would be glad of your chance."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, signor, said Elisa, throwing her arm about her child,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The bargain's closed. Quick, get her clothes, we must be off."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She is ready as she stands,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What, no clothes!"
}
]
|
45556 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come, little one, come, he said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Will you take me to the Toledo, where all the lords and ladies are?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Go with him, _bambina_. It is best,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm ready,"
}
]
|
45556 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Where am I? Is this a dream?"
}
]
|
45556 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Pretty, pretty,"
}
]
|
45556 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I like it,"
}
]
|
45556 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Signor, why don't you say good-morning to Pappina? she asked."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I shan't like you if you look so cross."
}
]
|
45556 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm good and I'm cross, _bambina_. I'm clouds and I'm sunshine. Sometimes I'll be kind. Sometimes, maybe, I'll beat you."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, you won't, retorted Pappina, darting from Marta's side."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, no, signor! If you should dare, I'd run away from you."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "he told himself, smiling as though he enjoyed the prospect. Bowing with great courtliness, he said aloud:"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ah, a very beautiful morning to you, Madamigella Pappina."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Call me, Guiseppe, the man interrupted."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We're just old Guiseppe and Marta to every one."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, then, old Guiseppe--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Guiseppe, without the old, if you please, signorina."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Signor Guiseppe, you have not told me at what time you will take me to the Toledo. I want the new dress you promised to buy me to-day."
}
]
|
45556 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Marta, buy the minx stuff for a dress--and shoes, too, I suppose. We can't have her toes sticking out as they are now,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And stockings?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She'll do without them, Guiseppe replied grimly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If her feet are covered she'll get along. I'll go alone with the Punchinellos this morning. This afternoon I'll keep my promise and take the child to the Toledo, although why she's so crazy to go there is more than I know."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You'll let me go with you, won't you, Marta? I want so to go, and if there's money enough. Marta--dear, good Marta--may I have some of that stuff that smells like flowers? I smelt it on those foreign ladies when they took out their handkerchiefs at the Marina."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There'll be only enough for the dress and the shoes to-day, _carina_."
}
]
|
45556 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Marta, wait! she commanded."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Maybe it's Vittorio or Filippo. Sometimes they don't come home at night. I must see if it is my brothers."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "First the pretty red dress, _carina_."
}
]
|
45556 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mayn't I have that shawl for my head? Please, Marta, buy it for me!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, _carina_--just the dress and shoes to-day. There is money only for them."
}
]
|
45556 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Are we going to make the dress right away, the minute we get home, Marta?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You will let me help?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Can you sew, _carina_?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "My sister Angela knit when she was only four, and I can sew, I'm sure I can. You'll let me, won't you, Marta?--so it will be done before I go with Signor Guiseppe?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You shall wear it this afternoon, _carina_."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He'll be sure to like the color of the dress. He can't help it, can he? Shan't I be grand, Marta, when I have on my splendid new dress and shoes!"
}
]
|
45556 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No money, he growled as he rattled the Punchinellos into a corner."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I might as well have stayed at home. I'm sick of playing to such dogs. Pappina and Marta were silent."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Is it done?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'll try what youth and beauty will do. I'll take her to the Toledo with the Punchinellos. Can you sing, girl?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Get up and give us a song; dance if you can. I feed and clothe no one who can't earn what I give."
}
]
|
45556 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why don't you do as I tell you, girl?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Because, Signor Guiseppe, I couldn't sing for you when you are so cross and mean. When we go this afternoon to the Toledo, if you're good to me, I will sing and dance, and they'll give me money, lots of it."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Guiseppe muttered, then added gruffly:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Dress, then, at once. We'll go and see what stuff you're made of."
}
]
|
45556 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, Signor Guiseppe, she exclaimed, all her anger forgotten,"
}
]
|
45556 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, Marta, can't you wait just a minute to see these pretty things?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not to-day, _carina_--another day. Now we must hurry."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But just to see these pictures--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, _carina_, look! Guiseppe is far ahead. It is there at the bend of the street by that statue that he always stops when he plays on the Toledo."
}
]
|
45556 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Marta, is this the Toledo?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then where are all the grand people in their fine carriages?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The grand people have nearly all gone away from Naples, away to the coast, where it is cool,"
}
]
|
45556 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Try your luck, girl, he said roughly to Pappina."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Sing, dance, give us a gay one."
}
]
|
45556 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Pass your tambourine,"
}
]
|
45556 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The girl's too good for such beggars,"
}
]
|
45556 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Guiseppe, where are we going now?"
}
]
|
45556 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We are going now to Porta Capuana, songstress, he laughingly replied. Noticing Marta's surprised look, he added kindly to her:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I've never done well there myself, but if all those others can make a living there I guess Pappina can draw the money with her voice."
}
]
|
45556 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm tired of singing and dancing and being stared at, she would say, with a determined look on her little face that warned the man not to force her."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I've earned enough for to-day."
}
]
|
45556 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Where are you going now, Guiseppe? she asked, seizing hold of him."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Is there a crowd some place, that you hurry so?"
}
]
|
45556 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You see, _bambina_, the heavy-browed man graciously replied with a good-natured twinkle in his bright black eyes,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But Marta bought my new dress over there in the shops, where there is everything in the world,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ah, but I don't buy, I trade, little one. It's Rag Fair day."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Rag Fair day,"
}
]
|
45556 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Guiseppe, you look just lovely."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You like my coat, _bambina_? he said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then come along. It takes money to buy good coats and bright red dresses."
}
]
|
45556 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Keep your eyes open for a likely house where they will pay for entertainment,"
}
]
|
45556 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We'll save your voice and strength for to-morrow, _bambina_. Not another song to-day. Come along, Marta. Old Guiseppe's getting to be a kind master, eh, Pappina?"
}
]
|
45556 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come, Marta! Up, little one! he exclaimed."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The day can neither begin too soon nor last too long for me."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nor for me,"
}
]
|
45556 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, I like the soldiers,"
}
]
|
45556 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Marta, is the whole world here to-day?"
}
]
|
45556 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Bravo! Bravo! Encore! Encore!"
}
]
|
45556 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Get up, girl. We must be moving,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Take me home, Guiseppe, she begged,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm so tired."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There's a crowd up the street; come,"
}
]
|
45556 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm too tired to walk, Guiseppe, she said quietly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm going home now, and I'm going to ride, for I've earned lots of money to-day."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come on, I say! he growled."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Don't you see that crowd? Come!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Guiseppe, I'm going home, and I'm going to ride, for I've earned lots of money to-day."
}
]
|
45556 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Confound her! he muttered."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Get in, Marta,"
}
]
|
45556 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She always takes advantage of me when I can't help myself, he began."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The upstart! Am I, Guiseppe, to give in to her, an imp raised in poverty and dirt? He beat his hand on his breast."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Marta, I'll show her. I'll teach her who is master. I'll curb her temper. I'll conquer her or I'll die. Bah! Do you hear me? I say I'll conquer her or I'll die."
}
]
|
45556 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Full! Full! he exclaimed softly. He smiled grimly as he counted the coins."
}
]
|
45556 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ready to start! Marta cried."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Have you no eyes except for money? Look at her! Do you not see that it is impossible to keep the child always singing and dancing?"
}
]
|
45556 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "he said, raising his hand to silence Marta. Then he glanced toward the cot. He could see how pale and still Pappina lay."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's early yet. An hour in bed will put her right."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "An hour! Marta exclaimed, darting up to him in her indignation at his heartlessness."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Do you wish to kill the hen that lays the golden eggs?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She laid many yesterday, he replied, taking out his money-bag."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "They are all in here, francs and _soldi_, and there are many of them. He patted the bag affectionately, looked again at Pappina, and added:"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'll let her rest. It's quiet after the fete, and I can't lose much to-day."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "To-day! Guiseppe, she shall not leave the house till she is quite well. You know how high-strung and sensitive she is, like a golden lute that responds to the slightest touch of any breeze, no matter how mild and soft. You must let her rest. You must, Guiseppe."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'll not break her down and lose her, Guiseppe replied."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "She did well at the fete. After all, what will a few days matter? He walked to the little cot and continued:"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I know you, _bambina_, I know you. If you don't feel right you may as well stay at home, for you can't sing and you won't dance."
}
]
|
45556 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "All right again, Marta?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A few days' rest is all she needs,"
}
]
|
45556 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's no use, he said to Marta one evening as he came in."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The foreigners have sought the cool resorts. The wealth of Naples is leaving also. It's along the coast they go to enjoy the fresh breezes of the Bay of Naples, and we may as well follow them and their money."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You really mean we are going away?--away from Naples?--away from home?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What's the use of staying in Naples? he growled."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's money I want--money, I say. Old Parisotti goes down the coast every year. His old guitar isn't fit to listen to; neither can that girl of his sing. We have Pappina, and as soon as she's able we'll go."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Can we go soon, Marta?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "As soon as you are well enough, _carina_. It is beautiful along the coast. You will like to be away from the crowded city--away, _carina_, where the birds sing, the flowers grow, the grass and trees are green, and the air is cool and fresh."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm ready to start, and I want to go at once."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Guiseppe, are you angry with me?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There, there, _carina_, he said,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Guiseppe's a bear--old and often crabbed. Just forget his faults and try to like him."
}
]
|
45556 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She must not know how angry my heart has been against her. She must not know how I have missed her, with her moods, her storms, her sunshine, and her prattle,"
}
]
|
45556 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Guiseppe, dear Guiseppe, she cried,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm so glad we're going away! I'm tired of being shut up in the house. When shall we go? To-day, good Guiseppe?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Marta! he exclaimed,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I do, Guiseppe; truly I do!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then, if I'm good, I'll see that my little one is quite strong before she is taken on a long, hard tramp, with plenty of singing and dancing wherever we meet people."
}
]
|
45556 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I want some, Marta. Tell Guiseppe I want some macaroni,"
}
]
|
45556 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "O--oh, Marta! Pappina exclaimed, pausing abruptly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Marta! Look! See! What is it?"
}
]
|
45556 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What is it, Marta?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Vesuvius, _carina_."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Where does all the smoke come from? Where's the fire?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Travelers from all parts of the world come and climb the volcano to look down into the crater, the mouth from which the smoke comes. I went up once with Countess Filota. People melt coins in the lava--that's the melted rock that comes out with the smoke. Sometimes the guides boil eggs over the lava to show how hot it is."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Marta, can't we go up? Weren't you afraid to look down into the mouth?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, _carina_. They tell the story of an Englishman who went too close and fell in, but that was because of his own carelessness. There is no danger. Perhaps sometime we shall be able to go, so you can see for yourself."
}
]
|
45556 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How long it is since I came here with my dear Countess Filota! She and her friends spoke of Cicero and Virgil, their homes beneath this hillside. We turned and went--let me see, which way was it? It is so long ago I have almost forgotten. Oh! this way, to the left and we visited the tomb of Virgil; we--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Who were they, Marta? Pappina interrupted her,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, no, _carina_. They were great poets. I wish you might-- She left the sentence unfinished, for glancing toward Guiseppe, plodding ahead, she noticed something queer in his gait. She ran forward, calling:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Guiseppe! What's the matter, Guiseppe?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm not well, Marta, he gasped as they reached him."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "My legs and breath shouldn't give out like this. It won't do. I tell you. I'm not well."
}
]
|
45556 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We'll stop at the Valley of Pompeii. We'll go to the church Santa Maria dell Rosario [Saint Mary of the Rosary]. It will do us all good to pray. The blessed Virgin makes the blind see and the lame walk. She cured Genario's boy who had been sick two years. She'll make me well."
}
]
|
45556 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Marta, he cried,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm faint, he said,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The town is called Resina,"
}
]
|
45556 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hasten, so that I can get to the Virgin of Santa Rosario before I die,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "La Favorita,"
}
]
|
45556 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, Guiseppe, she exclaimed,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Guiseppe, they were splendid to me! she cried."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A grand gentleman gave me this, showing a franc."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He told me to keep it myself, that it was all for me, but it's yours, Guiseppe. Oh, I can't bear to have you sick,"
}
]
|
45556 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Shall I sing?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "First we must pray,"
}
]
|
45556 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "So long ago,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, answered Pappina,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I was not speaking of Guiseppe, Pappina, but of my life so long ago, when I was maid to the Countess Filota. We took this same trip, but we rode in carriages. We did not come to this church. We stopped at the ruins of Pompeii."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Where are they, Marta?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There, _carina_. You can see them dimly in the distance, she said, pointing toward them,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Go on Marta, tell me about them."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You are such a child, _carina_. You wish to know about the ruins? Every one who visits Italy comes to Vesuvius and Pompeii--Vesuvius the mountain, and Pompeii the city that once waked and slept at the foot of the mountain. One day the sky grew dark, completely hidden by the volumes of smoke that rose like a huge pine tree from Vesuvius. The stones, lava and ashes entirely buried the city and the people, and now when men dig in the ruins they find--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm well, Marta! I'm well, Pappina! Praise the Santa Maria del Rosario! Come."
}
]
|
45556 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come, he commanded Marta and the child late in the afternoon."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We must move on to Cava. To-morrow is fete day there and we must reach the place to-night."
}
]
|
45556 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sing,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I won't!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Won't sing, eh? No songs, no supper,"
}
]
|
45556 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You're a disgrace to me and yourself, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I might as well have let my puppets dance. You did no better."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If I were not so hungry, she whispered to Marta, her eyes blazing as she gazed after Guiseppe,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'd show him, but I'm so hungry!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come on, growled the man as he emerged from the shop and gave them their share of the food he had purchased."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's six miles to Cava, and we must get there to-night, so eat as you go. Come on, I say, and don't go to sleep as you walk, you two."
}
]
|
45556 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He said I was no better than his puppets. I hate him! she muttered to herself as she trudged along in the growing dusk."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That franc was mine; that fine gentleman gave it to me. I wish I hadn't given it to Guiseppe. It was mine. If any one gives me money again I'll keep it for myself. I'll hide it away for Marta and me. Guiseppe may starve--I shan't care. I hate him."
}
]
|
45556 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She is such a tired little girl, Marta said after a few moments, as she took Pappina gently by the hand."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "For you, Marta, for you, because you are good to me."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He'll kill the baby, her thoughts ran."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He shows her no mercy. Oh! what can I do? There'll be trouble--I feel it, I know it. I must protect her. How sweet, how patient, how gentle she is when he is good to her!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I hate him! I hate him!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Shake the willful child; bid her get up at once. It's fete day."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, Guiseppe, it is fete day, and for that reason you had better let Pappina rest for a little while. She is exhausted from her long tramp yesterday. She will have much excitement, singing and dancing all day, even late in the evening. We can find our breakfast and I will bring Pappina's to her. Let her rest, I pray you, Guiseppe; let her rest."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Bravo, Marta! he cried."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I didn't know you had it in you. You want the child to sleep, eh? Then closing his eyes just a little, like a tiger before he springs, he went on:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "So you will not awaken her? Then it is Guiseppe, the tyrant--eh, Marta?--who must rudely arouse the sleeping princess from her morning slumber."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Guiseppe, I have always obeyed you, have I not? she entreated in a low voice."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Look at Pappina: her restlessness shows how tired she is. Guiseppe, hear me! I beg you to let her sleep and be rested for her hard day's work. Marta leaned forward and placed her hands on the man's arm as she went on:"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have asked few favors, demanded none, but now for this once, Guiseppe, I pray you grant me my request! Let her rest!"
}
]
|
45556 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Guiseppe,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Come on, he said roughly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'll humor you this time. I'll let her sleep."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Marta, Marta!"
}
]
|
45556 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Guiseppe! Gui--oh! I hate him! I hate him more than I did last night! The memory of how he had treated her the day before came over her like a flood."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It is fete day at Cava; he said so. All I earn is mine, and when I sing the Garibaldi I shall have my tambourine full of money. Oh, how glad I am! Then I can go home."
}
]
|
45556 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, Marta! If you were only with me, I should not care,"
}
]
|
45556 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She'll like what I have brought her, she took pleasure in thinking as she approached the spot where they had camped for the night. She saw no signs of Pappina astir."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "She's still asleep, tired out, poor baby! I'm so glad Guiseppe let her rest."
}
]
|
45556 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Pappina gone! She stood speechless and terrified. Recovering herself, she ran through the bushes, crying:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Pappina, Pappina, Pappina! Where are you, _carina_?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, what shall I do? What shall I do? she moaned as she ran to and fro, wringing her hands."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What will Guiseppe say? How can I tell him Pappina is gone? He'll say it is all my fault. How can I endure his rage and disappointment? And my Pappina!--oh, I should not care for Guiseppe's anger if I knew she was safe."
}
]
|
45556 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What detains them? he asked himself. Then the thought occurred to him that perhaps Marta's warning had come true and the child was sick again."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "God forbid that she is ill!"
}
]
|
45556 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Perhaps they've forgotten I'm waiting. Marta may have forgotten. She's getting to be a bigger fool every day over that headstrong child. Well, the minx certainly has grit, and such spirit! _Per bacco!_ She's lamb and tigress combined. If she were like other children I could beat her, but--well, I'll be hanged if I could beat Pappina!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The crowds are even now going to mass, he muttered."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'll go and meet them."
}
]
|
45556 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What! he exclaimed,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Pappina not here! Where is she?"
}
]
|
45556 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You fool! You dog! And to-day is fete day. You're in league with the little imp against me."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, Guiseppe--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't speak to me! I humored you, and what do I get in return? You rob me of my living. Thief! Snake! In his anger he kicked over the Punchinello box."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And I've only these poor puppets left,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Guiseppe, have pity! Marta begged, shrinking as far away from him as she could."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The crowd may be great, but we shall find her. I will rest neither night nor day till we have found Pappina."
}
]
|
45556 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am hungry, she said, eyeing the milk wistfully."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If I sing for you, will you give me a drink of milk?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You need not sing to earn the milk. All Betty's milk is sold, but she will give an extra glass for a hungry little girl; won't you, Betty?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "First I will go to mass, she promised herself as she pursued her way."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then the crowd will fill my tambourine and I can go home to my mother. Oh, I want so to see them all!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, she cried,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I hate him! Perhaps he remembered that it is fete day and went back for me. I won't let him find me. I must run and hide."
}
]
|
45556 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't want to go back to Guiseppe, she sobbed."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I love you, Marta, but I hate Guiseppe. If you take me back he'll try to beat me."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Look at my eyes, _carina_. Are they not still red from weeping? There is no happiness for me away from the little one who holds my heart."
}
]
|
45556 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Must we go to him? she asked plaintively."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He looks so cross, Marta."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, yes, we must go, but you must not fear. Guiseppe will be glad to have you back."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "So you found her, he said curtly to Marta."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is well for you both. Come on."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I know I shall always hate Guiseppe, Pappina said softly to Marta."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If he's bad to me I won't sing."
}
]
|
45556 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Guiseppe, I'm starved for a piece of pig."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I've already had trouble enough with you for one day, he said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You are here to sing, to dance, to earn money; do you hear? Come at once."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, Guiseppe, I hear you, but you know I can't sing when I'm hungry. I do no better than your puppets. You said so yourself."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Buy me some, she begged."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'll sing, then, the very best I can. Won't you, please, Guiseppe?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Guiseppe, do you hear? Only a penny."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Only a _soldo_, dear Guiseppe, Pappina pleaded,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Stop now and sing for a half-penny's worth of pig! Simpleton! If you must have some, here--"
}
]
|
45556 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Stop, Guiseppe, I beg you! Let me sing for them."
}
]
|
45556 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Clear and sweet rang the child's voice."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Amen, and the crowd gathered about the diminutive singer murmured softly,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Amen."
}
]
|
45556 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hermit of Monte Castello."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Will the day never end?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, said Guiseppe, looking about him,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Is there not money enough--can we not afford to remain in Cava over night, to have beds? Marta timidly asked."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The ground is so hard for the child,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Marta, you have less sense every day, was Guiseppe's angry reply."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Bed for the child, eh? Next thing you'll be wanting me to carry around a cradle for her to sleep in. You'll want her to ride in a carriage. Aren't the nights warm and pleasant? The ground is good enough for me to sleep on; it's good enough for you; and it's good enough for the child."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I've had a happy day. Oh, I liked the lights, the music and the people, but I'm so tired,"
}
]
|
45556 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's been a good day, Marta, the best I've ever had. _Per bacco_, how she sang the Ave Maria! A good day. He patted his money bag."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A good day. Good-night, Marta."
}
]
|
45556 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's a crime to make her the object of so much attention. It may spoil her, ruin her. What can I do? If only together we might run away to England, to America!"
}
]
|
45556 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I will pray, she said softly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I will ask God to save my baby Pappina from this strain, these hardships, and the wrong we are doing her."
}
]
|
45556 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We will wait, she murmured to herself."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A prevision will be made. We will wait."
}
]
|
45556 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'll sell these old puppets, he said to himself."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What do the few _soldi_ they bring in amount to, compared with Pappina? If the minx only remains as bewitching as she is now, I'll not complain. Hang it all! Why can't every day be fete day!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I may as well let her rest. It isn't much of a trip to Salerno, and I don't suppose it matters much when we get there; nothing special on hand there that I know of. I hope we'll find plenty of foreigners everywhere we go. They appreciate Pappina."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'll take her to America! he chuckled to himself."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why not? The Punchinellos too! His countenance fell."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, no, he muttered,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I can't talk in English for the puppets. How, how am I to manage that?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Aha! I have it! A hand-organ in America with my beautiful Pappina! She'll make our fortune."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Get up, Marta, and wake the beauty! Up, I say! Let's be off. Make haste, Marta. We'll soon be rich; do you hear?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Was I dreaming, Guiseppe, or did you--did I really hear you say we'll soon be rich?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, I'd like that!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Come, girl, he said cheerfully,"
}
]
|
45556 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "that beautiful air from"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Faust,"
}
]
|
45556 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What is it you have?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What have I? Why, don't you know, little one? It is my pet pig."
}
]
|
45556 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How pretty! she exclaimed."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He won't hurt me, will he? What's his name?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I named him Savio, because he is so wise."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Isn't he beautiful! May I pet him?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You see, she said confidingly,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "When you come back from America, you shall have my dear Savio. Now I must be going. Good-by."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Pappina, Pappina."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Is it not you he calls? she asked."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Are you not Pappina?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, yes, but I want to walk just a little way with you and Savio. You'll let me, won't you?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Pappina!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You had better go back, little one. _Addio._"
}
]
|
45556 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Guiseppe, she cried,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I must learn the new song at once. I want to earn lots of money, so we can go to America, and get rich, and have pet pigs. Wasn't he just beautiful? His name is Savio, and she says I may have him when we come back from America. Oh, you don't know how much I want a pig like Savio!"
}
]
|
45556 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Wouldn't you rather have Savio cooked like the piece of pig you had at Cava? _Ebbene!_ Now for the song. Where did we stop?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have been thinking, Marta timidly interrupted,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How about it, little one? he asked, turning to Pappina."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Would you like to learn to sing an English song?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "she cried."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, Guiseppe, let me learn it now, this very minute! won't you please, Guiseppe? Because you know we are sure to need it in America. Come, quickly, Marta."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I cannot sing, she cried,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have no music in my voice, but I--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Never mind your voice! Pappina will do the singing. Are you both ready? Then why don't you begin?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Bravo, bravo! he cried."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Teach it well, Marta! She can sing it here for all the English and Americans we meet. It will charm them to hear her sing in their own tongue; it will mean money, and it's money that will take us to America."
}
]
|
45556 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Aha! he cried, holding them up for view,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Guiseppe, I want them. Give them to me. Pappina dug her little sun-browned hand into his pocket and brought up the bright beads. Guiseppe snatched them from her. Pappina stamped her foot."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Guiseppe, I want those beads!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You can't have them."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Guiseppe, give them to me! Please, dear Guiseppe!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Enough, enough, I say! Come on,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'll not stir till you give me those beads,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'll not sing for you ever, Guiseppe, if you keep those pretty beads. I'll never, never sing for you again, and then we can never go to America. I'd sooner give up the pet pig than those gold beads."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, please let her have them,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hold your tongue! her husband answered roughly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You'd have me give her my head if she asked for it."
}
]
|
45556 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Poor little thing, she looks ready to cry. Do find out about them,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Do you understand English?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, sir,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What have you to entertain us?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We have the Punchinellos, and we have the child, who sings and dances."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We had enough of the Punchinellos in Naples. Let the little girl give us a song, cried an Englishman, taking a coin from his pocket. Others did the same."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A song, a song!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Pappina, sing,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Pappina, sing for America,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I told you, Guiseppe, she answered,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'll never sing till you give me those beads."
}
]
|
45556 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Guiseppe, won't you give me the beads? she pleaded."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I want them so much. Please, dear Guiseppe!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Stop, we are ready,"
}
]
|
45556 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That pretty lady in blue, said Marta as the travelers departed,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why didn't you tell her that I always love you, Marta? she cried."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And sometimes I love Guiseppe."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "she said,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I love you to-day because you gave me the beads. Perhaps to-morrow I shall hate you, and--really, Guiseppe--I can't help it. Sometimes you're so mean I could kill you, but to-day, Guiseppe, fondling her beads,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I love you almost as well as I do Marta."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I guess we'll be moving."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "How good you are, Guiseppe!"
}
]
|
45556 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hurry! There's the cutest little church down the road. Come quickly! We must all pray."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's a wayside shrine,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Not a church? Then can't we go there and pray?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, dear. Everywhere through this country we find these shrines. They are built for just such wanderers as we, that we may always remember to pray."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There's a light. See, Marta."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There is always a candle or a little lamp burning at the altar, where we pray to either a picture or a statuette of the Madonna."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If you hadn't given me the beads, she said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I shouldn't want to pray."
}
]
|
45556 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, no, not yet, little one, Guiseppe said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "This is not the place for you. You and Marta sit down and wait for me here. I'll look about a bit and find out what is going on in the town."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I just love Guiseppe when he is good! cried the child."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I hope he won't be gone long,"
}
]
|
45556 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Aha, Guiseppe Capasso! the man cried."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What good fate leads me to you, or you to me, as it may be?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The luck is mine, signor, with a hearty hand-shake Guiseppe replied."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Out of Naples, where I was born and bred, I feel indeed a stranger in a strange land."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come, Guiseppe, let's celebrate our fortunate meeting. A game or two--what do you say, my friend?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mora."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'll drink and forget,"
}
]
|
45556 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, _carissima_, she whispered,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There's no fete day here till September, St. Matthew's Day, he said. Turning to Pappina, he continued:"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Look here, girl, we are going where there will be a crowd of people promenading to-night. We are going to the Quay--they call it Corso Garibaldi. I'll have none of your impudence in that crowd to-night--none of your stubbornness; do you understand? When I say sing, you will sing. When I say dance, you will dance. Do you hear?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Then remember. He shook his fist in her face. She flushed scarlet, but said nothing. Guiseppe evidently was expecting a reply. He waited a moment, then continued his tirade:"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why don't you speak, girl? You stand there, red in the face, ready to kill me, and say nothing. Have out with it; what you've got to say I want to hear right now. I'll have none of your impudence to-night."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, afraid of me for once, are you? he sneered."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Marta, the minx is afraid of me. Bravo! Bravo! I'll drink to her health as soon as we find a wine-shop. Ha, ha, Marta! She's a coward, after all."
}
]
|
45556 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Guiseppe, Guiseppe, she cried,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Don't! she screamed."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't! You shan't! She'll run away. Stop, Guiseppe! You know you can't strike her and keep her."
}
]
|
45556 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Let go, you fiend!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Never, Guiseppe, till you promise you will not harm her. She is only a child."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You hurt me! Let go, I say!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Then promise."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Fiend, let go! I promise."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You little vixen! Guiseppe shouted,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'll make you rue this day! You shall pay dearly for this! Smothering his anger, he took up the Punchinellos."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Come, he commanded,"
}
]
|
45556 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They are both against me, he muttered."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Marta--staid, timid Marta--she becomes a lioness when she fights for Pappina. Who would believe it? But she is right, Marta's right. I can't beat the minx and keep her. They are two against me, two against me."
}
]
|
45556 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Where is he going? I can't walk much farther. I feel weak, Marta."
}
]
|
45556 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You remember what I said? he asked."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You shall sing all night if I will it so. Marta knows me. She can tell you that I say what I mean and mean what I say. It is not the Punchinellos to-night, it is you."
}
]
|
45556 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is best to obey to-night, she whispered."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Sing for me, my bird, for I love you."
}
]
|
45556 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Give! Give! Here, little one, pass your tambourine."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Fill, so the brute will take her home."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am thirsty. Wine, wine! he exclaimed,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I must have wine. Who wouldn't drink, with her-- He pointed to Pappina and left the sentence unfinished."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Wait for me here, and don't move or I'll kill you both."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "she said,"
}
]
|
45556 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Bravo, bravo!"
}
]
|
45556 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "See, Marta, yours to-night--not Guiseppe's--yours!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, not mine; it is yours alone, _carissima_."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then it is yours and mine. Come, let's go. Macaroni, Marta! Hurry, dear Marta."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Pappina, _mia carissima_, Pappina! Marta walked a few steps then stopped."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Should Guiseppe return and find us gone!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But I am starved, Marta. I must eat, unless, dear, good Marta, you who love me say I mustn't."
}
]
|
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