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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm more likely to say ay than nay,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It is just to go to chapel with me; and then you can judge for yourself."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why not, dearest, just for once?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, you see, parties run so high in this parish; and everything one does is noted. Why, if I was to go to chapel, they'd say directly, 'Look at Griffith Gaunt: he is so tied to his wife's apron he is going to give up the faith of his ancestors.'"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The faith of your ancestors! That is a good jest. The faith of your grandfather at the outside: the faith of your ancestors was the faith of mine and me."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, don't let us differ about a word, said Griffith;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That is not the same thing, said she."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I do profess religion: you do not. You scarce think of God on week days; and, indeed, never mention his name except in the way of swearing; and on Sunday you go to church--for what? to doze before dinner, you know you do. Come now, with you 'tis no question of religion, but just of nap or no nap: for Brother Leonard won't let you sleep, I warn you fairly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You are too hard on me, wife. I know I am not so good as you are, and never shall be; but that is not the fault of the Protestant faith, which hath reared so many holy men: and some of 'em our _ancestors_ burnt alive, and will burn in hell themselves for the deed. But, look you, sweetheart, if I'm not a saint I'm a gentleman, and, say I wear my faith loose, I won't drag it in the dirt none the more for that. So you must excuse me."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Besides, Kate, it would come to the parson's ears, and he is a friend of mine, you know. Why, I shall be sure to meet him to-morrow."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ay, retorted the lady,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Nay, Kate, said Griffith,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "With that he rose and rang the bell."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Order the chariot, said he,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am to go with our dame."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Stay you at home, my dear. We shall meet at dinner."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "As you will,"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Forty-five minutes past one, Kate,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, why not bid them serve the dinner?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What, dine alone o' Sunday? Why, you know I couldn't eat a morsel without you, set opposite."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, then, my dear, we had better order dinner an hour later next Sunday."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But that will upset the servants, and spoil their Sunday."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And am I to be their slave? said Mrs. Gaunt, getting a little warm."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dinner! dinner! What! shall I starve my soul, by hurrying away from the oracles of God to a sirloin? Oh, these gross appetites! how they deaden the immortal half, and wall out Heaven's music! For my part, I wish there was no such thing as eating and drinking; 'tis like falling from Heaven down into the mud, to come back from such divine discourse and be greeted with 'dinner! dinner! dinner!'"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Nothing, said he,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, but you have not waited."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, I did, a good half-hour. Till I could wait no longer."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, dear, if I were you I would not have waited at all, or else waited till your wife came home."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ah, dame, that is all very well for you to say. You could live on hearing of sermons and smelling to rosebuds. You don't know what 'tis to be a hungry man."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "No matter, child, said she;"
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nay, they are both abroad till supper time,"
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "This would give me the vapours. But, doubtless, angels come and brighten it for _him._"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not always, said Betty."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I do see him with his head in his hand by the hour, and hear him sigh ever so loud as I pass the door. Why, one day he was fain to have me and my spinning wheel aside him. Says he, 'Let me hear thy busy wheel, and see thee ply it.' 'And welcome,' says I. So I sat in his room, and span, and he sat a gloating of me as if he had never seen a woman spin hemp afore (he is a very simple man): and presently says he--but what signifies what he said?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Nay, Betty; if you please. I am much interested in him. He preaches so divinely."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ay, said Betty,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But what did he say to you that time?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well says he, 'My daughter,' (the poor soul always calls me his daughter, and me old enough to be his mother mostly;) says he, 'how comes it that you are never wearied, nor cast down, and yet you but serve a sinner like yourself; but I do often droop in my Master's service, and he is the lord of Heaven and Earth?' Says I, 'I'll tell ye, sir: because ye don't eat enough o' vittels.'"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What an answer!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why 'tis the truth, dame. And says I, 'If I was to be always fasting, like as you be, d'ye think I should have the heart to work from morn till night?' Now, wasn't I right?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don't know till I hear what answer he made,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, he shook his head, and said he ate mortal food enow (poor simple body!), but drank too little of grace divine. That was his word."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No man is a hero to his valet"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Alas! poor man, said she,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ay, you hear him preach, and it is like God's trumpet mostly, and so much I say for him in all companies. But I see him directly after; he totters into this very room, and sits him down pale and panting, and one time like to swoon, and another all for crying, and then he is ever so dull and sad for the whole afternoon."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And nobody knows this but you? You have got my old petticoat still, I see. I must look you up another."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You are very good, dame, I am sure. 'Twill not come amiss; I've only this for Sundays and all. No, my lady, not a soul but me and you; I'm not one as tells tales out of doors: but I don't mind you, dame; you are my old mistress, and a discreet woman. 'Twill go no further than your ear."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Betsy Gough, said she,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am thinking."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have heard, and I have read, that great and pious and learned men are often to seek in little simple things, such as plain bodies have at their fingers' ends. So now, if you and I could only teach him something for all he has taught us. And, to be sure, we ought to be kind to him if we can; for oh, Betty, my woman, 'tis a poor vanity to go and despise the great, and the learned, and the sainted, because forsooth we find them out in some one little weakness, we that are all made up of weaknesses and defects. So, now, I sit me down in this very chair: so. And sit you there. Now let us, you and me, look at his room quietly, all over, and see what is wanting."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "First and foremost methinks this window should be filled with geraniums; and jessamine; and so forth. With all his learning perhaps he has to be taught, the colour of flowers and golden green leaves, with the sun shining through, how it soothes the eye and relieves the spirits; yet every woman born knows that. Then do but see this bare table! a purple cloth on that, I say."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Which he will fling it out of the window, I say."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Nay: for I'll embroider a cross in the middle with gold braid. Then a rose-coloured blind would not be amiss; and there must be a good mirror facing the window; but indeed, if I had my way, I'd paint these horrid walls the first thing."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How you run on, dame! Bless your heart, you'd turn his den into a palace: he won't suffer that; he is all for self-mortification, poor simple soul."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, not all at once, I did not mean, said Mrs. Gaunt;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ay, ay, said she:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Could you make his eggs into omelets? and so pound in a little meat with your small herbs; I dare say he would be none the wiser, and he so bent on high and heavenly things."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You may take your oath of that."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, then. And I shall send you some stock from the castle, and you can cook his vegetables in good strong gravy, unbeknown."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But stay, said Mrs. Gaunt;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Let that flea stick in the wall, said Betty, contemptuously."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Find you the meat, and I'll find the deceit: for he is as poor as a rat into the bargain. Nay, nay, God Almighty will never have the heart to burn us two for such a trifle. Why, 'tis no more than cheating a froward child taking's physic."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ah!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Now blessed be the heart that hath conceived this thing, and the hand that hath done it, said he."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My poor room it is a bower of roses, all beauty and fragrance."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ye don't ask me who sent them,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Nay, nay, said he;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Divine then, said Betty, roughly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Which I suppose you means 'guess.'"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nay, but let me be quiet awhile, said he, imploringly;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No more an angel than I am, said the practical widow."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But, now I think on't, y'are not to know who 'twas. Them as sent them they bade me hold my tongue."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "I see who it is, said he, with an air of absolute conviction."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It must be the lady who comes always when I preach, and her face like none other; it beams with divine intelligence. I will make her all the return we poor priests can make to our benefactors. I will pray for her soul here among the flowers God has made, and she has given his servant to glorify his dwelling. My daughter, you may retire."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "And she knows me better than I know myself, said he:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ah!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How should I know? said she, roughly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I dare say they dropped from Heaven. See, there is a cross painted on 'em in gold letters."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And so there is!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That means nobody is to use them but you, I trow,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I will use them this instant, said he."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I will revive my drooping children, as they have revived me."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What, with the sun hot upon 'em? screamed Betty."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, saving your presence, you are a simple man."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, good Betty, 'tis the sun that makes them faint,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, well, said she, softening;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Betty, said Leonard, smiling,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I yield to thy superior wisdom, and I will water them at morn and eve. In truth we have all much to learn: let us try and teach one another as kindly as we can."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I wish you'd teach me to be as humble as you be, blurted out Betty, with something very like a sob:"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Poor Brother Leonard."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why, what's wrong with him now?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That was him watering his flowers."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, is that all?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I go too little abroad among my people."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "So this is the hand that hath solaced my loneliness, said he:"
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "But perhaps he will be angry if we move his papers,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not he, said Betty."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He has no secrets from God or man."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, _I_ won't take it on me, said Mrs. Gaunt, merrily."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I leave that to you."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "What is the matter?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A wench's glove, as I'm a living sinner,"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "He have had a hussy with him unbeknown, said Betty,"
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "You know whose 'tis?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why, Betty, said she,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Humph! said Betty, doubtfully."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Then why keep it under cover? Now you can read, dame; let us see if there isn't a letter or so writ by the hand as owns this very glove."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "There, didn't I tell you? Here she is! the brazen, red-haired--Lawk a daisy! why, 'tis yourself."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Me! cried Mrs. Gaunt, in amazement: then she ran to the picture, and at sight of it every other sentiment gave way for a moment to gratified vanity."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nay, said she, beaming and blushing,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I was never half so beautiful. What heavenly eyes!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The fellows to 'em be in your own head, dame, this moment."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Seeing is believing, said Mrs. Gaunt, gaily, and in a moment she was at the priest's mirror, and inspected her eyes minutely, cocking her head this way and that. She ended by shaking it, and saying,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nay. He has flattered them prodigiously."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not a jot, said Betty."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If you could see yourself in chapel, you do turn 'em up just so, and the white shows all round. Then she tapped the picture with her finger:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh them eyes! they were never made for the good of his soul; poor simple man."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mr. Gaunt would give fifty pounds for this,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'll tell you what I think, said she, calmly:"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, if ye must, said Betty;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Humph! said Mrs. Gaunt,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have done all I can for him; and perhaps more than I ought. But there's nothing to hinder you from coming to me. I'll be as good as my word; and I have an old Paduasoy, besides; you can do something with it perhaps."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You are very good, dame,"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "My dear, Brother Leonard is so grateful for your flowers,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm sure he is very welcome, said Griffith."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why doesn't he sup with us and be sociable, as Father Francis used? Invite him; let him know he will be welcome."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He never calls on us."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, well, every man to his taste,"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Griffith, I shall go to the parish church with you, and then we will dine together afterwards."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You don't mean it, Kate? said he, delighted."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ay, but I do. Although you refused to go to chapel with me."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, give me your church for a sleeping draught. You all slumbered, more or less: those that survived the drowsy, droning prayers, sank under the dry, dull dreary discourse. You snored, for one."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Nay, I hope not, my dear."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You did, then, as loud as your bass fiddle."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And you sat there and let me!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "To be sure I did. I was too good a wife, and too good a Christian, to wake you. Sleep is good for the body, and twaddle is not good for the soul. I'd have slept too, if I could; but, with me going to chapel, I'm not used to sleep at that time o' day. You can't sleep, and Brother Leonard speaking."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "But how is it you are here so soon?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, we had next to no sermon to-day. He couldn't make no hand of it: dawdled on a bit; then gave us his blessing, and bundled us out."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then I've lost nothing,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not you. Well, I don't know. Mayhap if you had been there he'd have preached his best. But la, we weren't worth it."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What, are you going to strip the house, my woman?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There is none on't stolen, any way,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Taking my perquisites on the sly, that is not so very far from stealing."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, there's plenty left for you, my fine lady. Besides, you don't want her; you can set your cap at the master, they say. I'm too old for that, and too honest into the bargain."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Too ill-favoured, you mean, ye old harridan,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You are right, said she,"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Forgive me, madam, said he;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have unawares intruded on your privacy; I will retire."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nay, said she, falteringly,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "then, recovering herself,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nay, my daughter, said the priest,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Indeed it is, said Mrs. Gaunt, earnestly. Then, like a woman as she was,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "So you came to see my trees, not me."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I did not design to return without paying my respects to her who owns this temple, and is worthy of it; nay, I beg you not to think me ungrateful."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Father Francis used to visit us often, said she."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He made friends with my husband, too. And I never lacked an adviser while he was here."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nay, nay, said she, earnestly,"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "That but shows, said he,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You make me ashamed, said she."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Things are come to a pass indeed if a lady may not send a few flowers and things to her spiritual father without being--thanked for it. And, oh, sir, what are earthly flowers compared with those blossoms of the soul you have shed so liberally over us? Our immortal parts were all asleep when you came here, and wakened them by the fire of your words. Eloquence! 'twas a thing I had read of, but never heard, nor thought to hear. Methought the orators and poets of the Church were all in their graves this thousand years, and she must go all the way to heaven, that would hear the soul's true music. But I know better now."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Such praise from you is too sweet, he muttered."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I must not court it. The heart is full of vanity."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Kate, said he one day,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Indeed! said 'Mrs. Gaunt, frigidly;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have not discovered it."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "What is to do? said she."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Is it because I chid you, child? Nay, you need not take that to heart; it is just my way: I can bear anything but my hair pulled."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "I shall go mad, or else expose myself, and be turned away with loss of character; and then what will become of me, and my child? Better lose life or reason than character. I know what I have to go through; I have left a man ere now with my heart tugging at me to stay beside him. It is a terrible wrench: and then all seems dead for a long while without him. But the world goes on and takes you round with it; and by-and-by you find there are as good fish left in the sea as ever came out on't. I'll go, while I've sense enough left to see I must."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Certainly, said Mrs. Gaunt, coldly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "May I ask the reason?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, I have no complaint to make, ma'am, none whatever; but I am not happy here; and I wish to go when my month's up, or sooner, ma'am, if you could suit yourself."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You came all the way from Gloucestershire to me: had you not better give the place a fair trial? I have had two or three good servants that felt uncomfortable at first; but they soon found out my ways, and stayed with me till they married. As for leaving me before your month, that is out of the question. To this Ryder said not a word, but merely vented a little sigh, half dogged, half submissive; and went cat-like about, arranging her mistress's things with admirable precision and neatness. Mrs. Gaunt watched her, without seeming to do so, and observed that her discontent did not in the least affect her punctual discharge of her duties. Said Mrs. Gaunt to herself,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "This servant is a treasure: she shall not go. And Ryder to herself,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, 'tis but for a month; and then no power shall keep me here."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "She does nothing but fast, and pray, and visit the sick. He added, with rather a weak smile:"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I see next to nothing of her. A minx stood by and put in her word."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You should catch the small-pox; then who knows? she might look in upon _you_."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My wife is turned saint. 'Tis a sin to dance, a sin to hunt, a sin to enjoy ourselves. We are here to fast and pray, and build schools, and go to church twice a day."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Are you going to be jealous of my confessor?"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Red Lion."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Red Lion,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh! said he, doggedly,"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "If you please, ma'am, have you any one coming in my place?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You know I have not,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then, if it is agreeable to you, ma'am, I will stay. To be sure the place is dull; but I have got a good mistress-and----"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That will do, Ryder: a servant has always her own reasons, and never tells them to her mistress. You can stay this time; but the next, you go; and once for all. I am not to be trifled with."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, I have my own reasons, said she."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Keep you the priest, and I'll take the man."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Red Lion,"
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "My dear, said she, sweetly,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "With all my heart, said Griffith."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nay, I forgot; my viol da gambo is not here. 'Tis at the 'Red Lion.'"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "At the 'Red Lion!' said she, bitterly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What, do you sing there as well as drink? Oh, husband, how can you so bemean yourself?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What is a poor man to do, whose wife is priest-ridden, and got to be no company--except for angels?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I did not come here to quarrel,"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hey-day, lasses, said he;"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "What for?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Nay, sir, sobbed Jane,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come, you must not blame the mistress, said the sly Ryder."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "She is a good mistress as ever breathed: 'tis all the priest's doings. I'll tell you the truth, master, if you will pass me your word I shan't be sent away for it."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I pledge you my word as a gentleman,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, then, sir, Jane's fault is yours and mine. She is not a papist; and that is why she is to go. How I come to know, I listened in the next room, and heard the priest tell our dame she must send away two of us, and have Catholics. The priest's word it is law in this house; 'twas in March he gave the order: Harriet, she went in May, and now poor Jane is to go--for walking to church behind you, sir. But there, Jane, I believe he would get our very master out of the house if he could; and then what would become of us all?"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mrs. Ryder, said she,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I never thought to like you so well; and, with that, gave her a great, hearty, smacking kiss; which Ryder, to judge by her countenance, relished, as epicures albumen."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I won't cry no more. After all, this house is no place for us that be women: 'tis a fine roost to be sure! where the hen she crows and the cock do but cluck."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Our master is one of those that bite. I've done the priest's business. He is as like to get the sack as you are."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "So Jane is turned off now,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don't know about being turned off, replied Mrs. Gaunt, calmly;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And Cicely Davis is a useless slut that cannot boil a potato fit to eat; but then she is a Papist, and poor Jenny is a Protestant, and can cook a dinner."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "My dear, said Mrs. Gaunt,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And welcome; but this is not your doing, it is that Leonard's: and I cannot allow a Popish priest to turn off all my servants that are worth their salt. Come, Kate, you used to be a sensible woman, and a tender wife: now I ask you, is a young bachelor a fit person to govern a man's family?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A young bachelor! said she;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, he is not married, so he must be a bachelor; and I say again it is monstrous for a young bachelor to come between old married folk, and hear all their secrets, and have a finger in every pie, and set up to be master of my house, and order my wife to turn away my servants for going to church behind me. Why not turn me away too? Their fault is mine."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Griffith, you are in a passion, and I begin to think you want to put me in one."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, perhaps I am. Job's patience went at last, and mine has been sore tried this many a month. 'Twas bad enough when the man was only your confessor: you told him everything, and you don't tell me everything. He knew your very heart, better than I do, and that was a bitter thing for me to bear that love you and have no secrets from you. But every man who marries a Catholic must endure this; so I put a good face on it, though my heart was often sore; 'twas the price I had to pay for my pearl of womankind. But since he set up your governor as well, you are a changed woman; you shun company abroad, you freeze my friends at home. You have made the house so cold that I am fain to seek the 'Red Lion' for a smile or a kindly word: and now, to please this fanatical priest, you would turn away the best servants I have, and put useless, dirty slatterns in their place, that happen to be Papists. You did not use to be so uncharitable, nor so unreasonable. 'Tis the priest's doing. He is my secret, underhand enemy; I feel him undermining me, inch by inch, and I can bear it no longer. I must make a stand somewhere, and I may as well make it here; for Jenny is a good girl, and her folk live in the village, and she helps them. Think better of it, Kate, and let the poor wench stay, though she does go to church behind your husband."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Griffith, said Mrs. Gaunt,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I might retort, and say that you are a changed man; for to be sure you did never use to interfere between me and my maids. Are you sure some mischief-making woman is not advising you? But there, do not let us chafe one another, for you know we are hot-tempered both of us. Well, leave it for the present, my dear; prithee let me think it over till to-morrow, at all events, and try if I can satisfy you."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That is to say, you must ask your priest first for leave to show your husband one grain of respect and affection, and not make him quite a cipher in his own house. No, Kate, no man who respects himself will let another man come between himself and the wife of his bosom. This business is between you and me; I will brook no interference in it; and I tell you plainly, if you turn this poor lass off to please this d----d priest, I'll turn the priest off to please her and her folk. They are as good as he is, any way."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "As good as he is? The scum of my kitchen! You will make me hate the mischief-making hussy. She shall pack out of the house to-morrow morning."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Then I say that priest shall never darken my doors again."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then I say they are my doors, not yours; and that holy man shall brighten them whenever he will."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Good God! what have I said to him?"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "What have ye got there? said Griffith, roughly; not that he was angry with the man, but that his very skin was full of wrath, and it must exude. Mr. Leicester did not relish the tone, and replied, bluntly and sulkily,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Pike for our Papists. The answer, though rude, did not altogether displease Griffith; it smacked of odium theologicum, a sentiment he was learning to understand."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Put 'em down, and listen to me, Thomas Leicester,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "How, my man, why do I keep you here?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "To take care of your game, Squire, I do suppose."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What? when you are the worst gamekeeper in the county. How many poachers do you catch in the year? They have only to set one of their gang to treat you at the public-house on a moonshiny night, and the rest can have all my pheasants at roost while you are boozing and singing."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Like my betters in the parlour,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But that is not all, continued Gaunt, pretending not to hear him."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You wire my rabbits, and sell them in the town. Don't go to deny it; fore I've half a dozen to prove it. Mr. Leicester looked very uncomfortable. His master continued--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have known it this ten months, yet you are none the worse for't. Now, why do I keep you here, that any other gentleman in my place would send to Carlisle gaol on a justice's warrant?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Stuff and nonsense! cried Gaunt."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Speak your mind, for once, or else begone for a liar as well as a knave."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "D----n the rabbits! I wish my hand had withered ere I touched one on them. But after this preface he sunk his voice to a whisper, and said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I see what you are driving at, Squire; and since there is nobody with us (he took off his cap)--why, sir, 'tis this here mole I am in debt to, no doubt."
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Tom Leicester; I have been insulted."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That won't pass, sir. Who is the man?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "One that I cannot call out like a gentleman, and yet I must not lay on him with my cane, or I am like to get the sack, as well as my servants. 'Tis the Popish priest, lad; Brother Leonard, own brother to Old Kick; he has got our Dame's ear, she cannot say him 'nay.' She is turning away all my people, and filling the house with Papists, to please him. And when I interfered, she as good as told me I should go next; and so I shall, I or else that priest."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Say ye so, Squire? then just you whisper a word in my ear, and George and I will lay that priest by the heels, and drag him through the horse-pond. He won't come here to trouble you after that, I know."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A friend in need is a friend indeed, said he."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ay, you are right, lad. There must be no broken bones, and no bloodshed; the horse-pond is the very thing: and if she discharges you for it, take no heed of her. You shall never leave Hernshaw Castle for that good deed; or, if you do, I'll go with you; for the world it is wide, and I'll never live a servant in the house where I have been a master."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Red Lion."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "However, said he,"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "HONEST FOLK, BEHOLD A MISCHIEVIOUS PRIEST, WHICH FOR CAUSING OF STRIFE 'TWIXT MAN AND WYFE HATH MADE ACQUAINTAUNCE WITH SQUIRE'S HORSE-POND."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "How ill, she thought,"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Red Lion."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "If somebody would like to make friends, here is the door open."
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Griffith!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Sweetheart, she murmured,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I was to blame. I was ungenerous. I forgot myself. Let me recall my words. You know they did not come from my heart."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You need not tell me that, said Griffith doggedly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have no quarrel with you, and never will. You but do what you are bidden, and say what you are bidden. I take the wound from you as best I may: the man that set you on, 'tis him I'll be revenged on."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Alas! that you will think so, said she."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Believe me, dearest, that holy man would be the first to rebuke me for rebelling against my husband and flouting him. Oh, how could I say such things? I thank you, and love you dearly for being so blind to my faults; but I must not abuse your blindness. Father Leonard will put me to penance for the fault you forgive. He will hear no excuses. Prithee, now, be more just to that good man."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Till that mischief-making villain came between you and me, you never gave me a bitter word: we were the happiest pair in Cumberland. But now what are we? And what shall we be in another year or two?--REVENGE!!"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ay! he cried,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Madman that you are, said she."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I throw away excuses on Jealousy, and I waste reason upon phrenzy. I'll say no more things to provoke you; but, to be sure, 'tis I that am offended now, and deeply too, as you will find."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "So be it, said Griffith, sullenly; then, grinding his teeth,"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If you please, Dame, I have somewhat to tell you."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, Dame, I dare say I am risking my place, but I can't help it."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Another time, Ryder, said Mrs. Gaunt."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am in no humour to be worried with my servants' squabbles."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nay, madam, 'tis not that at all: 'tis about Father Leonard. Sure you would not like him to be drawn through the horse-pond; and that is what they mean to do next time he comes here."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "You must be mistaken, said she."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Who would dare to lay hands on a priest in my house?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, Dame, you see they egg one another on. Don't ask me to betray my fellow-servants; but let us baulk them. I don't deceive you, Dame: if the good priest shows his face here, he will be thrown into the horse-pond, and sent home with a ticket pinned to his back. Them that is to do it are on the watch now, and have got their orders; and 'tis a burning shame. To be sure I am not a Catholic; but religion is religion, and a more heavenly face I never saw: and for it to be dragged through a filthy horse-pond!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The villains! the fiends! she gasped."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Go ask your master to come to me this moment."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Alack, Dame, said she,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't tell me that he has ordered this impious, cruel, cowardly act. He is a lion: and this comes from the heart of cowardly curs. What is to be done, woman? tell me; for you are cooler than I am."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, Dame, if I were in your place, I'd just send him a line, and bid him stay away till the storm blows over."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You are right. But who is to carry it? My own servants are traitors to me."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'll carry it myself."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You shall. Put on your hat, and run through the wood; that is the shortest way."
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "CATHERINE GAUNT."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No more than that? said Ryder."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ay, she guessed as I should look."
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Forgive me, mistress, I fear I startled you."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Indeed you did, sir,"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Our Dame is in the Grove, sir, said she."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am to bring you to her."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Go you to the stable-gate: I'll bring him round that way: hide now; he suspects."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ay, ay,"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "They 'shall not lay a finger on you, sir, said she."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'll scratch and scream, and bring the whole parish out sooner; but the best way is not to give them the chance: please you follow me."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "No,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ah! would you were, he said, earnestly. So then added, sweetly,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "To be sure I have all the more reason to be grateful to you."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You are very welcome, reverend sir, said Ryder, graciously."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Religion is religion: and 'tis a barbarous thing that violence should be done to men of your cloth."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Sir, said she,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Since they won't let you come to her, she will come to you."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Do you think so?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nay, I am sure of it, sir. So would any woman. We still follow our hearts, and get our way by hook or by crook."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't you take on for that, said she."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why, she will be more at her ease when she visits you at your place than here; and she won't give you up, I promise."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But, my daughter, said he,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am perplexed and grieved. It seems that I make mischief in your house: that is an ill office; I fear it is my duty to retire from this place altogether, rather than cause dissension between those whom the Church by holy sacrament hath bound together."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why take other people's faults on your back? said she."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "My mistress is tied to a man she does not love; but that is not your fault; and he is jealous of you that never gave him cause. If I was a man he should not accuse me--for nothing: nor set his man on to drag me through a horse-pond--for nothing. I'd have the sweet as well as the bitter."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, hush! my daughter, hush! he said;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There, I have offended you by my blunt way,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nay, not so; but oh speak not so lightly of things that peril the immortal soul."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, I have done, said Ryder."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You are out of danger now; so give you good day."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What, before I have thanked you for your goodness? Ah, Mistress Ryder, 'tis on these occasions a priest sins by longing for riches to reward his benefactors. I have nought to offer you but this ring: it was my mother's, my dear mother's."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nay, poor soul, I'll not take it,"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "said she."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He is something more than mortal: why, he told me of his own accord what you were there for; but, that if you were so unlucky as to lay hands on him, you would rot alive. It seems that has been tried out Stanhope way; a man did but give him a blow, and his arm was stiff next day, and he never used it again; and next his hair fell off his head, and then his eyes they turned to water and ran all out of him, and he died within the twelve-month."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Murrain on him, said Leicester."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Catch me laying a finger on him. I'm glad he is gone; and I hope he won't never come back no more."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Not likely, since he can read all our hearts. Why, he told me something about you, Tom Leicester; he says you are in love."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No! did he really now? and Leicester opened his eyes very wide."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And did he tell you who the lass is?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He did so; and surprised me properly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Who is it, mistress?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He didn't say I was to tell you, young man."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He turned as white as a sheet, ma'am, when I told him, and offered me his very ring off his finger, he was so grateful; poor man!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You did not take it, I hope?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "La, no, ma'am. I hadn't the heart."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That I did: and it brought the tears into his poor eyes; and such beautiful eyes as he has, to be sure. You would have pitied him if you had seen him read it, and cry over it, and then kiss it and put it in his bosom he did."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "To think of that face, more like an angel's than a man's, to be dragged through a nasty horse-pond. 'Tis a shame of master to set his men on a clergyman."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Not-one-word-from my servant against my husband in my hearing!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Child, said Mrs. Gaunt,"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Was I mad? said she to herself."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "My business is to keep him sweet upon her, till they can't live without one another: and then I'll tell him; and take your place in this house, my lady."
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "At Wisdom's gate Suspicion slept;"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "She will come to-day,"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dear father and friend, said she."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What! have you missed me? Think, then, how I have missed you. But 'twas best for us both to let their vile passions cool first."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dear father, she said,"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I pity you, said she, angelically."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What? you jealous of my husband! Oh, pray to Christ and our Lady to cure you of this folly."
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Griffith, she said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why, sweetheart, it takes a deal of money to go abroad; we must get in our rents first."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nay, I have a hundred pounds laid by."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, but what a fancy to take all of a sudden!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, Griffith, don't deny me what I ask you, with my arm round your neck, dearest. It is no fancy. I want to be alone with you, far from this place where coolness has come between us."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Just let me get my hay in, said he,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, no: to-day, or to-morrow at furthest, or you don't love me as I deserve to be loved by you this day."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Now Kate, my darling, be reasonable. I must get my hay in; and then I am your man."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Your hay! she cried, with bitter contempt;"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, my poor Kate!"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hallo! said he,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Had words with your sweetheart?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You know I have no sweetheart, sir."
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There, never heed me. I'm a foolish woman; I can't bear to see my dear master so abused."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What d'ye mean?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, no matter! why should I be your friend and my own enemy? If I tell you I shall lose my place."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Nonsense, girl, you shall never lose your place while I am here."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, I hope not, sir; for I am very happy here; too happy methinks, when you speak kindly to me. Take no notice of what I said. 'Tis best to be blind at times."
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ah! but I am so afraid you will hate me, said she;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What is it?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is nothing, said she; then she paused, and added,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Do you mean to say that my wife is pretending?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How can I say that? I wasn't there: nobody saw her fall; nor heard her either; and the house full of people. No doubt there is something the matter with her; but I do believe her heart is in more trouble than her back."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And what troubles her heart? Tell me, and she shall not fret long."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, sir: then just you send for Father Leonard: and she will get up, and walk as she used, and smile on you as she used. That man is the main of her sickness, you take my word."
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What d'ye mean, woman? said he."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The priest hasn't been near her these two months."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That is it, sir, replied Eyder, quietly;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That is true! gasped the wretched husband. Yet he struggled again."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But she made it up with me after that. Why, 'twas but the other day she begged me to go abroad with her, and take her away from this place."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ah? indeed! said Ryder, bending her black brows,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That she did, said Griffith, joyfully:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You should have taken her at her word, sir,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, you see the hay was out: so I put it off; and then came the cursed rain day after day; and so she cooled upon it."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Of course she did, sir. Then, with a solemnity that appalled her miserable listener,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'd give all I'm worth if you had taken her at her word that minute. But that is the way with you gentlemen: you let the occasion slip: and we that be women never forgive that: she won't give you the same chance again, I know. Now if I was not afraid to make you unhappy, I'd tell you why she asked you to go abroad. She felt herself weak and saw her danger; she found she could not resist that Leonard any longer; and she had the sense to see it wasn't worth her while to ruin herself for him; so she asked you to save her from him: that is the plain English. And you didn't."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There, there, said she,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, God! he gasped,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Don't talk so, said she, hastily;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, I will: for I do believe you care a little for me."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Then don't you believe anything against our Dame. Keep quiet till you know more. Don't you be so simple as to accuse her to her face, or you'll never learn the truth. Just you watch her quietly, without seeming: and I'll help you. Be a man, and know the truth."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I will! said Griffith, grinding his teeth."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And I believe she will come out pure as snow."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, I hope so too, said Ryder, drily. Then she added,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But don't you be seen speaking to me too much, sir, or she will suspect me, and then she will be on her guard with me. When I have anything particular to tell you, I'll cough, so; and then I'll run out into the Grove: nobody goes there now."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Red Lion;"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, said he,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And all for a woman that is not young, nor half so handsome as yourself. Well, sir, I'll try and cure you of your doubt, if that is what torments you. When you threatened that Leonard, he got his orders to come here no more. But she visited him at his place again and again."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "As soon as your back was turned she used to order her horse and ride to him."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "How do you know she went to him?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I mounted the tower, and saw the way she took."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, he is her confessor. She always visited him at times."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ay, sir; but in those days her blood was cool, and his too; but bethink you now, when you threatened the man with the horse-pond, he became your enemy. All revenge is sweet; but what revenge is so sweet to any man as that which came to his arms of its own accord? I do notice that men can't read men, but any woman can read a woman. Maids they are reserved, because their mothers have told them that is the only way to get married. But what have a wife and a priest to keep them distant? Can they ever hope to come together lawfully? That is why a priest's light-o'-love is always some honest man's wife. What had those two to keep them from folly? Old Betty Gough? Why, the mistress had bought her, body and soul, long ago. No, sir, you had no friend there; and you had three enemies--love, revenge, and opportunity. Why, what did the priest say to me? I met him not ten yards from here. 'Ware the horse-pond!' says I. Says he, 'Since I am to have the bitter, I'll have the sweet as well.'"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My poor master, said she, tenderly,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I never will say a word to you again. It is better to be blind. My God! how you cling to her that feigns a broken back to be rid of you, when there are others as well to look at, and ever so much younger, that adore every hair on your head, and would follow you round the world for one kind look."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Let no one love me like that, said Griffith, feebly,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Pity her then, at least,"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My poor girl, said he,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I see what you are driving at. But that will not do. I have nothing to give you in exchange. I hate my wife that I loved so dear: d--n her! d--n her! But I hate all womankind for her sake. Keep you clear of me. I would ruin no poor girl for heartless sport. I shall have blood on my hands ere long, and that is enough."
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Curse your cunning,"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This must end, and shall, said Mrs. Gaunt, firmly;"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And I would go with you, my dear, said she;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, I will, said Griffith."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'll not mope here when all the rest are merry-making."
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come quietly with me,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Where did you leave her?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In her own room."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "See if she is there now,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nor is she to be found in the house, said Ryder;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Where is she?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Humph! said Ryder, fiendishly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Find him, and you will find her."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'll find them if they are above ground,"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What would you do? cried she."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Madman, would you hang for them? and break my heart; the only woman in the world that loves you. Give me the pistol. Nay, I will have it."
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I won't let you get into trouble for a priest and a wanton, she cried;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, no: if you are a woman have pity on me; let me come at them. There, I'll use no weapon. I'll tear them to atoms with these hands. Where are they?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "May I put the pistol away, then?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, take it out of my sight; so best. Where are they?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Follow me."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If you are a man, and have any feeling for a poor girl who loves you; if you are a gentleman, and respect your word--no violence."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I promise, said he."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Where are they?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nay, nay. I fear I shall rue the day I told you. Promise me once more: no bloodshed--upon your soul."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I promise. Where are they?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "God forgive me; they are in the Grove."
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You vile wretch! he cried:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He raised his hand high over her head; she never winced."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh! but for my oath, I'd lay you dead at my feet. But no; I'll not hang for a priest and a wanton. So, this is the thing you love, and pay it to love you."
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, mercy! mercy! she cried;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Don't touch me, woman, he cried,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And in a moment, with gigantic strength and fury, he dashed the priest down at her feet."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I know ye, ye proud devil, he cried,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "None, in this world or the next, roared Griffith; but the next moment he took fright at himself."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "God! he cried,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I must go, or kill. Live and be damned for ever, the pair of ye."
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I too will be a pedlar."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What is up?"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Master! for the love of Heaven, speak to me, cried Leicester."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What have they done to you? Whither be you going, with the face of a ghost?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Away, from the hangman, shrieked Griffith, still staring at the horizon."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Stay me not; my hands itch for their throats; my heart thirsts for their blood; but I'll not hang for a priest and a wanton. Then he suddenly turned on Leicester,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Let thou go, or----,"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Packhorse,"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Packhorse, happened just then to be lounging at the kitchen door, and saw him come in. He turned directly, and shouted into the house,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ho! Master Vint, come hither. Here's Black Dick come home, and brought you a worshipful customer."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They are welcome both."
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Please you come in, sir,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Would your worship be private? We keep a parlour for gentles."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ay, let me be alone,"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Churl or not, his coin is good, said Harry Vint, philosophically."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'll eat his supper, dame, for that matter."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Father, whispered Mercy,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I do think the gentleman is in trouble."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And that is no business of mine, neither,"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Take it, lass, and welcome for me,"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The wine, sir, an if it please you."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Here's perdition to all false women!"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But nothing is what it was, said he."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Even I was happy once. But that seems years ago."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Alas! poor gentleman; God comfort you, said Mercy Vint, and came with the tears in her dove-like eyes, and said to her father,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "To be sure his worship hath been crossed in love; and what could she be thinking of? Such a handsome, well-made gentleman!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now that is a wench's first thought, said Harry Vint:"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Tell me, first, who is to pay the fee, said he."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I've seen a fine coat with the pockets empty, before to-day."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Out, fie! said Mercy;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why, there's his horse, ye foolish man,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ay, ye are both wiser than me,"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nay, father, said she;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I must take charge of these: and well do you know why."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "--"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Packhorse"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What should it be, said she,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Let me see him,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ay, he is booked, said the farrier."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Doctor has taken too much blood out of the man's body. They kill a many that way."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Alack, Paul! must he die? Can nought be done?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't say that, neither, said the farrier."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He is a well-made man: he is young. I might save him, perhaps, if I had not so many beasts to look to. I'll tell you what you do. Make him soup as strong as strong; have him watched night and day, and let 'em put a spoonful of warm wine into him every hour, and then of soup; egg flip is a good thing, too; change his bed-linen, and keep the doctors from him: that is his only chance: he is fairly dying of weakness. But I must be off; Farmer Blake's cow is down for calving: I must give her an ounce of salts before 'tis too late."
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Packhorse"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What is that you are making?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Plague take the man! said she;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I ask you what is that you are making,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Baby's frills,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ye lie, said Griffith."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And there is a shroud. Who is that for?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Who should it be for, thou simple body? Keep quiet, do, till the change comes. 'Twon't be long now; art too well to last till sun-down."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "So 'tis for me, is it? screamed Griffith."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'll disappoint ye yet. Give me my clothes. I'll not lie here to be measured for my grave, ye old witch."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Here's manners! cackled the indignant crone."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ye foul-mouthed knave! is this how you thank a decent woman for making a comfortable corpse of ye, you that has no right to die in your shoes, let a be such dainties as muslin neck-ruff, and shroud of good Dutch flax."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": ""
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": ""
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You'll work yourself a mischief, said she;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They want me dead,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "So it seems, said Mercy, cunningly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But I'd baulk them finely. I'd up and order a beef-steak this minute."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And shall, said Griffith, with feeble spite."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Leastways, do you order it, and I'll eat it:-- d----n her!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Now for't. Marry come, up, with her winding-sheets!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We have brought him to a true intermission, said he;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What, drench his honour's worship! said Mercy, innocently."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nay, send thou the medicine, and I'll find womanly ways to get it down him."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "How are we all upstairs?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why couldn't you come afore? replied Mrs Vint, crossly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Here's farrier Carrick stepped in, and curing him out of hand; the meddlesome body."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A farrier rob me of my patient!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Nay, good sir, 'tis no fault of mine. This Paul is a sort of a kind of a follower of our Mercy's: and she is mistress here, I trow."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And what hath his farriership prescribed? Friar's balsam, belike."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Nay, I know not; but you may soon learn, for he is above, physicking the gentleman (a pretty gentleman!) and suiting to our Mercy--after a manner."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Give me my fee, dame, said he:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mercy, the good doctor wants his fee. Who is to pay it, I wonder?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'll bring it him anon,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "said the doctor, when she was gone;"
}
] |
57685
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My good lass, said he,"
}
] |
57685
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Unknown Title
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Good sir, at the 'Packhorse,' said she, smiling."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The 'Packhorse?' and where is that?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hard by Allerton village."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And where is that? not in Cumberland?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nay, in Lancashire, your worship. Why, whence come you that know not the 'Packhorse,' nor yet Allerton township? Come you from Cumberland?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No matter whence I come. I'm going on board ship; like my father before me."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Alas, sir, you are not fit; you have been very ill; and partly distraught."
}
] |
57685
|
Unknown Title
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Unknown Author
|
[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What, are you there still?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ay, sir; but I'll go, sooner than be troublesome. Can I fetch you anything?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No. Ay, wine; bring me wine to drown it all."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Pledge me,"
}
] |
57685
|
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|
Unknown Author
|
[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nay, said she,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The doctor! what doctor?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Doctor Paul, said she, demurely."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He hath saved your life, sir, I do think."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Plague take him for that!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "So say not I."
}
] |
57685
|
Unknown Title
|
Unknown Author
|
[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There, now, that is too high, said he:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I lack experience, sir, but not good will. There, now, is that a little better?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ay, a little. I'm sick of lying here: I want to get up. Dost hear what I say? I--want--to get up."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And so you shall. As soon as ever you are fit. To-morrow, perhaps. To-day, you must e'en be patient. Patience is a rare medicine."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What a noise they are making downstairs. Go, lass, and bid them hold their peace."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Good lack-a-day! we might as well bid the river give over running; but, to be sure, this comes of keeping a hostelry, sir. When we had only the farm, we were quiet, and did no ill to no one."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, sing me, to drown their eternal buzzing: it worries me dead."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Me sing! alack, sir, I'm no songster."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That is false. You sing like a throstle. I dote on music; and, when I was delirious, I heard one singing about my bed; I thought it was an angel at that time; but 'twas only you, my young mistress: and now I ask you, you say me nay. That is the way with you all. Plague take the girl, and all her curst, unreasonable, hypocritical sex. I warrant me you'd sing if I wanted to sleep; and dance the devil to a standstill."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That is right, sir: tax us all to your heart's content. O, but I'm a joyful woman to hear you; for 'tis a sure sign of mending when the sick take to rating of their nurses."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In sooth, I am too cross-grained,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not a whit, sir, for my taste. I've been in care for you: and now you are a little cross, that maketh me easy."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Thou art a good soul. Wilt sing me a stave after all?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "La, you now; how you come back to that. Ay, and with a good heart: for, to be sure, 'tis a sin to gainsay a sick man. But indeed I am the homeliest singer. Methinks 'tis time I went down and bade them cook your worship's supper."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nay, I'll not eat nor sup, till I hear thee sing."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Your will is my law, sir,"
}
] |
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