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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mercy Vint."
}
] |
57685
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Where do you live?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "At the 'Packhorse,' near Allerton, in Lancashire."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Go you, by all means, said he,"
}
] |
57685
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "GRIFFITH GAUNT."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That is my defense,"
}
] |
57685
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nay, do not look to the culprit for orders, said he."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Produce it, or confess the truth. Come, you never advertised for him."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sir, I did advertise for him."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Then produce the advertisement."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sir, I will not,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Then I shall move the court to commit you."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "For what offense, if you please?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "For perjury, and contempt of court."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am guiltless of either, God knows. But I will not show the advertisement."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "This is very extraordinary. Perhaps you have it not about you."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My lord, the truth is I have it in my bosom. But, if I show it, it will not make this matter one whit clearer, and 'twill open the wounds of two poor women. 'Tis not for myself. But, oh my lord, look at her; hath she not gone through grief enow?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Witness, said he,"
}
] |
57685
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "G. G. (The shirt was examined). Said I,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "For God's sake speak the truth: what does G. G. stand for? Then he told me his real name was Griffith Gaunt, and he had a wife in Cumberland."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Go back to her, said I,"
}
] |
57685
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Fie, sir, she cried."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The woman you insult is as pure as your own mother, or mine. She deserves the pity, the respect, the veneration of all good men. Know, my lord, that my miserable husband deceived and married her under the false name he had taken; she has the marriage certificate in her bosom. Pray make her show it whether she will or not. My lord, this Mercy Vint is more an angel than a woman. I am her rival after a manner; yet out of the goodness and greatness of her noble heart, she came all that way to save me from an unjust death. And is such a woman to be insulted? I blush for the hired advocate who cannot see his superior in an incorruptible witness, a creature all truth, piety, purity, unselfishness, and goodness. Yes, sir, you began by insinuating that she was as venal as yourself; for you are one that can be bought by the first comer; and now you would cast a slur on her chastity, For shame! for shame! This is one of those rare women that adorn our whole sex, and embellish human nature: and, so long as you have the privilege of exchanging words with her, I shall stand here on the watch, to see that you treat her with due respect: ay, sir, with reverence; for I have measured you both, and she is as much your superior as she is mine."
}
] |
57685
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Madam, the good taste of these remarks I leave the court to decide upon. But you cannot be allowed to give evidence in your own defense."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, but in hers I will, said Mrs. Gaunt;"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, now how do you know that this Thomas Leicester was Griffith Gaunt?"
}
] |
57685
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Young woman, I have no words to praise you as you deserve. You have shown us the beauty of the female character, and, let me add, the beauty of the Christian religion. You have come a long way to clear the innocent. I hope you will not stop there; but also punish the guilty person, on whom we have wasted so much pity."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Me, my lord, said Mercy,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I would not harm a hair of his head for as many guineas as there be hairs in mine."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Child, said my lord,"
}
] |
57685
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "She will go back to Lancashire to-morrow; nothing I can say will turn her."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, Dame, said Mercy, quietly,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Cumberland is no place for me. My work is done here. Our paths in this world do lie apart. George Neville, persuade her to go home at once, and not trouble about me."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Indeed, madam, said Sir George,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Are they so, said she, grimly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Then I'll baulk them. I'll steal away in the dead of night. No, miserable populace, that howls and hisses with the strong against the weak, you shall have no part in my triumph; 'tis sacred to my friends. You honoured me with your hootings; you shall not disgrace me with your acclamations. Here I stay till Mercy Vint, my guardian angel, leaves me for ever."
}
] |
57685
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "They sorrowed most of all for this, that they should see each other's face no more."
}
] |
57685
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "I cannot bear it, I cannot bear it!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why, what is amiss?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What is amiss? Why, 'tis all amiss. 'Tis so heartless, so ungrateful, to let that poor angel go home to Lancashire all alone, now she has served my turn. Sir George, do not think I undervalue your company, but if you _would_ but take her home instead of taking me! Poor thing, she is brave; but, when the excitement of her good action is over, and she goes back the weary road all alone, what desolation it will be. My heart bleeds for her. I know I am an unconscionable woman, to ask such a thing; but then you are a true chevalier; you always were; and you saw her merit directly; oh, do pray leave me to slip unnoticed into Hernshaw Castle, and do you accompany my benefactress to her humble home. Will you, dear Sir George? 'Twould be such a load off my heart."
}
] |
57685
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "If anything could make me easy, this would, said she:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am a happy man to have an opportunity of complying with your desires, madam, was the demure reply."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Tis not often you do me the honor to lay your orders on me."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You were right. I thank you for not leaving me."
}
] |
57685
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Packhorse,"
}
] |
57685
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am at your service, said he;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "These fears are idle, said Atkins."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mercy Vint declared in open court she will not proceed against you."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ay, but there's my wife."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She will keep quiet; I have Houseman's word for it."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ay, but there's the Attorney-General."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, he will not move, unless he is driven. We must use a little influence. Mr. Houseman is of my mind, and he has the ear of the county."
}
] |
57685
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "GRIFFITH GAUNT."
}
] |
57685
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My darling, papa wants us to go to his new house, and leave dear old Hernshaw; I know not what to say about that. What do _you_ say?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Tell him to come to us, said Bose, dictatorially."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Only, (lowering her little voice very suddenly),"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "As you please,"
}
] |
57685
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "CATHERINE GAUNT."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ay, 'tis in pomp and show we must seek our happiness now."
}
] |
57685
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Welcome, madam, a thousand times welcome to your new home, said he, in a stentorian voice, with a double infusion of geniality."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I claim the honour of showing you your part of the house, though 'tis all yours for that matter."
}
] |
57685
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "One would think I was a queen. Then she sighed,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ah, said she,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then, despondently,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Tell him I think it very beautiful."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nay, madam, I hope you will tell him so yourself."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And it was kind of him to have you here the first day: I do not feel so lonely as I should without you."
}
] |
57685
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "You need not run away from me, said she:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I did not come into your house to quarrel with you. Let us he friends."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I hope for nothing more, said Griffith."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If you ever have a wish, give me the pleasure of gratifying it--that is all."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I wish to retire to a convent,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And desert your daughter?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I would leave her behind, to remind you of days gone by."
}
] |
57685
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "All the better, my son, said the genial priest;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Then, observing a certain hideous expression distorting Griffith's face, he fixed his eyes full on him, and said, sternly,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Are you not cured yet of that madness of yours?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, no, no, said Griffith, deprecatingly;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You had better ask her."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not I. She will remind me I am nothing to her now. And, though 'tis so, yet I would not hear it from her lips."
}
] |
57685
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "I should have told you as soon as I knew it myself. But you were not with me. I was all by myself--in Carlisle gaol."
}
] |
57685
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come, sit beside me, said she,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Sit beside you, Kate, said Griffith;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "As you will, said she, softly; and continued, in the same tone,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Now listen to me; you and I are two fools; we have been very happy together in days gone by; and we should both of us like to try again; but we neither of us know how to begin. You are afraid to tell me you love me and I am ashamed to own to you or anybody else that I love you, in spite of it all--I do, though."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You love me! a wretch like me, Kate? 'Tis impossible. I cannot be so happy!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Child, said Mrs. Gaunt,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And even with the words she bowed herself and sank quietly into his arms, and he kissed her and cried bitterly over her: bitterly. But she was comparatively calm. For she said to herself,"
}
] |
57685
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "What is wrong, in God's name?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am sorry to say there has been a sudden hemorrhage, and the patient is much exhausted."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She is dying, she is dying!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not dying. But she will infallibly sink unless some unusual circumstance occur to sustain vitality."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, sir, take my whole fortune, but save her! save her! save her!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mr. Gaunt, said the young doctor,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Let me lean on you,"
}
] |
57685
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Death has got hold of my darling, he screamed."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Snatch her away! for God's sake, snatch her from him!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There, he cried,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mr. Gaunt consents. Now, Come, be quick with the lancet, and hold this tube as I tell you; warm it first in that water."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What? _your_ blood! What right have you to lose blood for her?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The right of a man who loves his art better than his blood,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Take every drop I have. No man's blood shall enter her veins but mine."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "My dear, do not thou fret. I died last night. I knew I should. But they gave me another life; and now I shall live to a hundred."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "My life is very dear to me now. 'Tis a present from thee."
}
] |
57685
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "What, George Neville!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The same,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "said he;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And to me too, for that matter,"
}
] |
57685
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "As for me, said he,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I always respected you, but now I revere you. You are a martyr, and an angel."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "George, said Mercy, gravely,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why, madam, said he,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I mean, our flatterers are our enemies."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "You have been very kind to me, George, said she."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Now Heaven bless you for it, and give you many happy days, and well spent."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Farewell, good, kind George, said she;"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, I thought I had lost you for good, said she."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Whither are you going? to Lancaster?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Not quite so far. I am going to the 'Packhorse.'"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am only a sort of servant in the matter. 'Twas Mrs. Gaunt ordered me."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I might have guessed it, said Mercy."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Bless her; she knew I should be lonely."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She was not easy till she had got rid of me, I assure you, said Sir George."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "So let us make the best on't, for she is a lady that likes to have her own way."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She is a noble creature. George, I shall never regret anything I have done for her. And she will not be ungrateful. Oh, the sting of ingratitude: I have felt that. Have you?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, said Sir George;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have escaped that, by never doing any good actions."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I doubt you are telling me a lie,"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Packhorse."
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This is a very dull place for the likes of you."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "said he;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I hope not,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I loved you the first day I saw you, and heard your voice. And now I love you ten times more. Let me dry thy tears for ever, sweet Mercy. Be my wife."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You are mad, said Mercy."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What, would you wed a woman in my condition? I am more your friend than to take you at your word. And what do you think I am made of, to go from one man to another, like that?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Take your time, sweetheart; only give me your hand."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "George, said Mercy, very gravely,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am beholden to you; but my duty it lies another way. There is a young man in these parts (Sir George groaned) that was my follower for two years and better. I wronged him for one I never name now. I must marry that poor lad, and make him happy, or else live and die as I am."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "One word: do you love him?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have a regard for him."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Do you love him?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hardly. But I wronged him, and I owe him amends. I shall pay my debt."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You were a good friend to me that bitter day, said she."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now let me be yours. Do not bide here: 'twill but vex you."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am going, madam, said Sir George, stiffly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I but wait to see the man you prefer to me. If he is not too unworthy of you, I'll go; and trouble you no more. I have learned his name."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I understand he has never been here."
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Welcome home, Mercy."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Thank you, Paul."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, I'm single still, lass."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "So I hear."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm come to say, let bygones be bygones."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "So be it,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You have tried a gentleman; now try a farrier."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have; and he did not stand the test."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Anan."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why did you not come near mo for ten days?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, said he,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'll tell you the truth. 'Twas our Jess advised me to leave you quiet just at first."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ay, ay. I was to be humbled, and made to smart for my fault; and then I should be thankful to take you. My lad, if ever you should be really in love, take a friend's advice; listen to your own heart, and not to shallow advisers. You have mortified a poor sorrowful creature who was going to make a sacrifice for you, and you have lost her for ever."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What d'ye mean?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I mean that ye are to think no more of Mercy Vint."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Then it is true, ye jade; ye've gotten a fresh lover already."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Say no more Than you know. If you were the only man on earth I would not wed you, Paul Carrick."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, said he,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He has come,--and gone."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And, said she, with a smile,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Reward me, reward me! said Sir George, gaily;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Nay, but I am too much _your_ friend,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Be less my friend, then, and more my darling."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "If Mrs. Gaunt thinks it will be for your happiness, I will--in six months' time: but you shall not marry in haste to repent at leisure. And I must have time to learn two things--whether you can be constant to a simple woman like me, and whether I can love again as tenderly as you deserve to be loved."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But then, said she,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Postscript--My poor friend, to what end think you I sent you down in the coach with her?"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "George; my child is dying. What shall I do?"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Packhorse"
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "I--Why, I can't take that money, Millie, from you!"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Look at his eyes, ma'am!"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's just how I found him,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It might have been apoplexy,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Good morning, Mrs. Pickett. I was told that--Good Lord!"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "He's been dead for hours, he announced."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "When did you find him?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Twenty minutes back, replied the old woman."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I guess he died last night. He never would be called in the morning. Said he liked to sleep on. Well, he's got his wish."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What did he die of, sir?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's impossible to say without an examination, the doctor answered."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It looks like a stroke, but I'm pretty sure it isn't. It might be a coronary attack, but I happen to know his blood pressure was normal, and his heart sound. He called in to see me only a week ago, and I examined him thoroughly. But sometimes you can be deceived. The inquest will tell us. He eyed the body almost resentfully."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I can't understand it. The man had no right to drop dead like this. He was a tough old sailor who ought to have been good for another twenty years. If you want my honest opinion--though I can't possibly be certain until after the inquest--I should say he had been poisoned."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How would he be poisoned?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That's more than I can tell you. There's no glass about that he could have drunk it from. He might have got it in capsule form. But why should he have done it? He was always a pretty cheerful sort of old man, wasn't he?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, sir, said the Constable."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He had the name of being a joker in these parts. Kind of sarcastic, they tell me, though he never tried it on me."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He must have died quite early last night, said the doctor. He turned to Mrs. Pickett."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What's become of Captain Muller? If he shares this room he ought to be able to tell us something about it."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Captain Muller spent the night with some friends at Portsmouth, said Mrs. Pickett."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He left right after supper, and hasn't returned."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't like it. I can't understand it. If this had happened in India I should have said the man had died from some form of snakebite. I was out there two years, and I've seen a hundred cases of it. The poor devils all looked just like this. But the thing's ridiculous. How could a man be bitten by a snake in a Southampton waterfront boarding-house? Was the door locked when you found him, Mrs. Pickett?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I opened it with my own key. I had been calling to him and he didn't answer, so I guessed something was wrong."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You ain't touched anything, ma'am? They're always very particular about that. If the doctor's right, and there's been anything up, that's the first thing they'll ask."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Everything's just as I found it."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What's that on the floor beside him?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Only his harmonica. He liked to play it of an evening in his room. I've had some complaints about it from some of the gentlemen, but I never saw any harm, so long as he didn't play it too late."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Seems as if he was playing it when--it happened, Constable Grogan said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That don't look much like suicide, sir."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I didn't say it was suicide."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You don't think----"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm not thinking anything--until after the inquest. All I say is that it's queer."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I guess this ain't going to do the Excelsior any good, ma'am,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I suppose I had better go and notify the coroner,"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sit down, Oakes, said Mr. Snyder."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I've got a job for you."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "I want you to go to this address --Mr. Snyder handed him an envelope--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Murdered?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't know. That's for you to find out. The coroner left it open. 'Death by Misadventure' was the verdict, and I don't blame him. I don't see how it could have been murder. The door was locked on the inside, so nobody could have got in."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The window?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The window was open, granted. But the room is on the second floor. Anyway, you may dismiss the window. I remember the old lady saying there was a bar across it, and that nobody could have squeezed through."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What was the cause of death?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Snake bite,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why, that's incredible!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's the literal truth. The medical examination proved that the fellow had been killed by snake poison--cobra, to be exact, which is found principally in India."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Cobra!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Just so. In a Southampton boarding-house, in a room with a locked door, this man was stung by a cobra. To add a little mystification to the limpid simplicity of the affair, when the door was opened there was no sign of any cobra. It couldn't have got out through the door, because the door was locked. It couldn't have got out of the window, because the window was too high up, and snakes can't jump. And it couldn't have gotten up the chimney, because there was no chimney. So there you have it."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "I should like further details,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You had better apply to Mrs. Pickett, who owns the boarding-house, Mr. Snyder said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It was she who put the case in my hands. She is convinced that it is murder. But, if we exclude ghosts, I don't see how any third party could have taken a hand in the thing at all. However, she wanted a man from this agency, and was prepared to pay for him, so I promised her I would send one. It is not our policy to turn business away."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "In pursuance of that policy I want you to go and put up at Mrs. Pickett's boarding house and do your best to enhance the reputation of our agency. I would suggest that you pose as a ship's chandler or something of that sort. You will have to be something maritime or they'll be suspicious of you. And if your visit produces no other results, it will, at least, enable you to make the acquaintance of a very remarkable woman. I commend Mrs. Pickett to your notice. By the way, she says she will help you in your investigations."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's a mistake to scoff at amateur assistance, my boy, said Mr. Snyder in the benevolently paternal manner which had made a score of criminals refuse to believe him a detective until the moment when the handcuffs snapped on their wrists."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Crime investigation isn't an exact science. Success or failure depends in a large measure on applied common sense, and the possession of a great deal of special information. Mrs. Pickett knows certain things which neither you nor I know, and it's just possible that she may have some stray piece of information which will provide the key to the entire mystery."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is very kind of Mrs. Pickett, he said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oakes rose, his face purposeful."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'd better be starting at once, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'll send you reports from time to time."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Good. The more detailed the better, said Mr. Snyder genially."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I hope your visit to the Excelsior will be pleasant. And cultivate Mrs. Pickett. She's worth while."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dashed young fool,"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Send Mr. Oakes to me directly he arrives,"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "I got your telegram,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It surprised you, eh?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, he replied,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I must say it did surprise me. I didn't gather from your report that you had even found a clue. Was it the Indian theory that turned the trick?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, I never really believed that preposterous theory for one moment. I just put it in to round out my report. I hadn't begun to think about the case then--not really think."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Light up, and tell me all about it,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, I won't say I haven't earned this,"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "My first act on arriving, Oakes said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Curious. She struck me as rather intelligent."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Not on your life. She gave me no assistance whatever. I then examined the room where the death had taken place. It was exactly as you described it. There was no chimney, the door had been locked on the inside, and the one window was very high up. At first sight, it looked extremely unpromising. Then I had a chat with some of the other boarders. They had nothing of any importance to contribute. Most of them simply gibbered. I then gave up trying to get help from the outside, and resolved to rely on my own intelligence."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It is a theory of mine, Mr. Snyder, which I have found valuable that, in nine cases out of ten, remarkable things don't happen."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't quite follow you there,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I will put it another way, if you like. What I mean is that the simplest explanation is nearly always the right one. Consider this case. It seemed impossible that there should have been any reasonable explanation of the man's death. Most men would have worn themselves out guessing at wild theories. If I had started to do that, I should have been guessing now. As it is--here I am. I trusted to my belief that nothing remarkable ever happens, and I won out."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "I believe in the logical sequence of events. I refuse to accept effects unless they are preceded by causes. In other words, with all due respect to your possibly contrary opinions, Mr. Snyder, I simply decline to believe in a murder unless there was a motive for it. The first thing I set myself to ascertain was--what was the motive for the murder of Captain Gunner? And, after thinking it over and making every possible inquiry, I decided that there was no motive. Therefore, there was no murder."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I then tested the suicide theory. What motive was there for suicide? There was no motive. Therefore, there was no suicide."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You haven't been spending the last few days in the wrong house by any chance, have you? You will be telling me next that there wasn't any dead man."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not at all. Captain John Gunner was dead, all right. As the medical evidence proved, he died of the bite of a cobra. It was a small cobra which came from Java."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How do you know?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I do know, beyond any possibility of doubt."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Did you see the snake?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Then, how in heaven's name----"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have enough evidence to make a jury convict Mr. Snake without leaving the box."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Then suppose you tell me this. How did your cobra from Java get out of the room?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "By the window,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "How can you possibly explain that? You say yourself that the window was high up."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nevertheless, it got out by the window. The logical sequence of events is proof enough that it was in the room. It killed Captain Gunner there, and left traces of its presence outside. Therefore, as the window was the only exit, it must have escaped by that route. It may have climbed or it may have jumped, but somehow it got out of that window."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What do you mean--it left traces of its presence outside?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It killed a dog in the backyard behind the house, Oakes said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The window of Captain Gunner's room projects out over it. It is full of boxes and litter and there are a few stunted shrubs scattered about. In fact, there is enough cover to hide any small object like the body of a dog. That's why it was not discovered at first. The maid at the Excelsior came on it the morning after I sent you my report while she was emptying a box of ashes in the yard. It was just an ordinary stray dog without collar or license. The analyst examined the body, and found that the dog had died of the bite of a cobra."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But you didn't find the snake?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No. We cleaned out that yard till you could have eaten your breakfast there, but the snake had gone. It must have escaped through the door of the yard, which was standing ajar. That was a couple of days ago, and there has been no further tragedy. In all likelihood it is dead. The nights are pretty cold now, and it would probably have died of exposure."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But, I just don't understand how a cobra got to Southampton,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Can't you guess it? I told you it came from Java."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How did you know it did?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Captain Muller told me. Not directly, but I pieced it together from what he said. It seems that an old shipmate of Captain Gunner's was living in Java. They corresponded, and occasionally this man would send the captain a present as a mark of his esteem. The last present he sent was a crate of bananas. Unfortunately, the snake must have got in unnoticed. That's why I told you the cobra was a small one. Well, that's my case against Mr. Snake, and short of catching him with the goods, I don't see how I could have made out a stronger one. Don't you agree?"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "I congratulate you, my boy, he said as heartily as he could."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "To be completely frank, when you started out, I didn't think you could do it. By the way, I suppose Mrs. Pickett was pleased?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If she was, she didn't show it. I'm pretty well convinced she hasn't enough sense to be pleased at anything. However, she has invited me to dinner with her tonight. I imagine she'll be as boring as usual, but she made such a point of it, I had to accept."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "How are you, Mrs. Pickett? said Mr. Snyder genially."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm very glad that you could find time to pay me a visit. Well, so it wasn't murder after all."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sir?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I've just been talking to Mr. Oakes, whom you met as James Burton, said the detective."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He has told me all about it."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He told _me_ all about it,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A conceited, headstrong young fool,"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Did not Mr. Oakes' solution of the mystery satisfy you, Mrs. Pickett?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It struck me as logical and convincing,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You may call it all the fancy names you please, Mr. Snyder. But Mr. Oakes' solution was not the right one."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Have you an alternative to offer?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If you have, I should like to hear it."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You will--at the proper time."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What makes you so certain that Mr. Oakes is wrong?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He starts out with an impossible explanation, and rests his whole case on it. There couldn't have been a snake in that room because it couldn't have gotten out. The window was too high."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But surely the evidence of the dead dog?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I had always heard _you_ spoken of as a man with common sense, Mr. Snyder."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have always tried to use common sense."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then why are you trying now to make yourself believe that something happened which could not possibly have happened just because it fits in with something which isn't easy to explain?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You mean that there is another explanation of the dead dog?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Not _another_. What Mr. Oakes takes for granted is not an explanation. But there is a common sense explanation, and if he had not been so headstrong and conceited he might have found it."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You speak as if you had found it,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What is it?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You will know before tomorrow. In the meantime try and think it out for yourself. A successful and prosperous detective agency like yours, Mr. Snyder, ought to do something in return for a fee."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We do our best, Mrs. Pickett, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But you mustn't forget that we are only human and cannot guarantee results."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "But you can't swear out a warrant without evidence,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have evidence,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Precisely what kind of evidence?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If I told you now you would think that I was out of my mind."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But, Mrs. Pickett, do you realize what you are asking me to do? I cannot make this agency responsible for the arbitrary arrest of a man on the strength of a single individual's suspicions. It might ruin me. At the least it would make me a laughing stock."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mr. Snyder, you may use your own judgment whether or not to make the arrest on that warrant. You will listen to what I have to say, and you will see for yourself how the crime was committed. If after that you feel that you cannot make the arrest I will accept your decision. I know who killed Captain Gunner, she said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I knew it from the beginning. It was like a vision. But I had no proof. Now things have come to light and everything is clear."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It--it sounds incredible."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mr. Snyder, I ask you to swear out that warrant."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Very well,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If you will come and dine at my house to-night I think I can prove to you that it will be needed. Will you come?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'll come,"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, this is more than a party souvenir, Mrs. Pickett, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's the kind of mechanical marvel I've always wanted to have on my desk."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm glad you like it, Mr. Oakes, Mrs. Pickett said, smiling."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You must not think of me simply as a tired old woman whom age has completely defeated. I am an ambitious hostess. When I give these little parties, I like to make them a success. I want each of you to remember this dinner."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm sure I will."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I think you all will. You, Mr. Snyder. She paused."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And you, Captain Muller."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "That, said Mrs. Pickett,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "She leaned toward the captain."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mr. Snyder is a detective, Captain Muller."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "So?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Now for yours, Captain, said Oakes."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I guess it's something special. It's twice the size of mine, anyway."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, Captain Muller, has it upset you? I thought that, as his best friend, the man who shared his room, you would value a memento of Captain Gunner. How fond you must have been of him for the sight of his harmonica to be such a shock."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mr. Snyder, as a detective, you will be interested in a curious and very tragic affair which happened in this house a few days ago. One of my boarders, Captain Gunner, was found dead in his room. It was the room which he shared with Captain Muller. I am very proud of the reputation of my house, Mr. Snyder, and it was a blow to me that this should have happened. I applied to an agency for a detective, and they sent me a stupid boy, with nothing to recommend him except his belief in himself. He said that Captain Gunner had died by accident, killed by a snake which had come out of a crate of bananas. I knew better. I knew that Captain Gunner had been murdered. Are you listening, Captain Muller? This will interest you, as you were such a friend of his."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yesterday we found the body of a dog. It had been killed, as Captain Gunner had been, by the poison of a snake. The boy from the agency said that this was conclusive. He said that the snake had escaped from the room after killing Captain Gunner and had in turn killed the dog. I knew that to be impossible, for, if there had been a snake in that room it could not have made its escape."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It was not a snake that killed Captain Gunner. It was a cat. Captain Gunner had a friend who hated him. One day, in opening a crate of bananas, this friend found a snake. He killed it, and extracted the poison. He knew Captain Gunner's habits. He knew that he played a harmonica. This man also had a cat. He knew that cats hated the sound of a harmonica. He had often seen this particular cat fly at Captain Gunner and scratch him when he played. He took the cat and covered its claws with the poison. And then he left it in the room with Captain Gunner. He knew what would happen."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Kitty! she called."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Kitty! Kitty!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Gott! Gott!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Captain Muller, you murdered Captain Gunner!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Gott! Yes, I killed him."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You heard, Mr. Snyder, said Mrs. Pickett."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He has confessed before witnesses. Take him away."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "You are forgetting your souvenir, Captain Muller,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Spider"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "So you're out, young feller?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Um,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Feeling fine, eh?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Um."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Goin' round to see some of the chaps and pass them the time of day, I shouldn't wonder?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Um."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, you keep clear of that lot down in Frith Street, young feller. They're no good. And if you get mixed up with them, first thing you know, you'll be in trouble again. And you want to keep out of that now."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Um."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If you never get into trouble, said the policeman sententiously,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Um,"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You have our leave to depart,"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Good-morning, Mr. Keating,"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hi, Spider, said Mr. Butler,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Sid wants to see you a minute."
}
] |
8176
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Your pal Keating pinched Porky Binns this mornin',"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You and that slop, observed Sid dreamily,"
}
] |
8176
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Strike me, Sid, he stammered,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm layin' for him, Sid, babbled Mr. Buffin."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's true. Strike me if it ain't. I'm just tryin' to find out where he goes when he's off duty. He pinched me, so I'm layin' for him."
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You can hop it this time, he said,"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Tell her, said Mr. Keating,"
}
] |
8176
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Wearing of the Green."
}
] |
8176
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's the stuff, said a voice."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Pour some more into him, Jerry."
}
] |
8176
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|
[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't--don't move. I'm pointing a pistol at you."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Foolish child! he said, indulgently."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Suppose it went off!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You! What are you doing here, Mr. Rayner?"
}
] |
8176
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|
[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm eating, thank goodness! said Peter, helping himself to a cold potato."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I had begun to think I never should again."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Eating!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Eating. I know a man of sensibility and refinement ought to shrink from raiding his hostess's larder in the small hours, but hunger's death to the finer feelings. It's the solar plexus punch which puts one's better self down and out for the count of ten. I am a large and healthy young man, and, believe me, I need this little snack. I need it badly. May I cut you a slice of chicken?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You're sure? Poor little thing; I know you're half starved."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How dare you speak to me like that, Mr. Rayner?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What made you come down? I suppose you heard a noise and thought it was burglars?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That was very plucky of you. Won't you sit down?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, I'm going back to bed."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not just yet. I've several things to talk to you about. Sit down. That's right. Now cover up your poor little pink ankles, or you'll be catching----"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mr. Rayner!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Sit down."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now, said Peter,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Good night, Mr. Rayner."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sit down. You've given me a great deal of trouble. Do you know it cost me a sovereign in tips to find out your address? I couldn't get it out of my sister, and I had to apply to the butler. I've a good mind to knock it off your first week's pin-money."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I shall not stay here listening----"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You knew perfectly well I wanted to marry you. But you fly off without a word and bury yourself in this benighted place with a gorgon who nags and bullies you----"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A nice way to speak of your hostess,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A very soothing way. I don't think I ever took such a dislike to a woman at first sight before. And when she started to bullyrag you, it was all I could do--But it won't last long now. You must come away at once. We'll be married after Christmas, and in the meantime you can go and live with my sister----"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "When can you start? I mean, do you have to give a month's notice or anything?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Good night, Mr. Rayner, she said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You have been very amusing, but I am getting tired."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm glad it's all settled, said Peter."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Good night."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do you imagine, she said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Rather! said Peter."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You shall have a splendid time from now on, to make up for all you've gone through. I'm going to be awfully good to you, Eve. You sha'n't ever have any more worries, poor old thing. He looked at her affectionately."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I wonder why it is that large men always fall in love with little women. There are you, a fragile, fairy-like, ethereal wisp of a little creature; and here am I----"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A great, big, greedy pig! burst out Eve,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I wasn't going to have put it quite like that,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I hate a greedy man,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have a healthy appetite, protested Peter."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nothing more. It runs in the family. At the time of the Civil War the Rayner of the period, who was King Charles's right-hand man, would frequently eat despatches to prevent them falling into the hands of the enemy. He was noted for it."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I despise you,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Good night, said Peter, tenderly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "To-morrow morning we'll go for a walk."
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Are you ready to come out, Mr. Rayner? she said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mrs. Rastall-Retford says I'm to take you to see the view from the golf links."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You'll like that,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I shall not like it, snapped Eve."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But Mrs. Rastall-Retford is paying me a salary to do what she tells me, and I have to earn it."
}
] |
8176
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mr. Rayner,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I was talking to Mrs. Rastall-Retford after breakfast, said Eve,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "My conscience is clear."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, nothing bad. Some people would say it was very much to your credit. She looked away across the fields."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I told her you were a vegetarian,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You little devil!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You see! she said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now perhaps you will go."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Without you? said Peter, stoutly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Never!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "In London you will be able to eat all day--anything you like. You will be able to creep about your club gnawing cold chicken all night. But if you stay here----"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You have got a wrong idea of the London clubman's life, said Peter."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If I crept about my club gnawing cold chicken I should have the committee after me. No, I shall stay here and look after you. After all, what is food?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'll tell you what yours will be, if you like. Or would you rather wait and let it be a surprise? Well, for lunch you will have some boiled potatoes and cabbage and a sweet--a sort of light _soufflé_ thing. And for dinner----"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, but one moment, said Peter."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If I'm a vegetarian, how did you account for my taking all the chicken I could get at dinner last night, and looking as if I wanted more?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, that was your considerateness. You didn't want to give trouble, even if you had to sacrifice your principles. But it's all right now. You are going to have your vegetables."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't care, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, and I forgot, interrupted Eve."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I told her you were a teetotaller as well."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The best train, said Eve, at last,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The best train?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "For London."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What makes you think that I am interested in trains to London?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mr. Rayner, she said, after a pause,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, nothing, said Eve."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Only I made a stupid mistake. I told the cook you were devoted to parsnips. I'm sorry."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm putting up with a lot for your sake,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You needn't. Why don't you go away?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And leave you chained to the rock, Andromeda? Not for Perseus! I've only been here one night, but I've seen enough to know that I've got to take you away from this place. Honestly, it's killing you. I was watching you last night. You're scared if that infernal old woman starts to open her mouth. She's crushing the life out of you. I'm going to stay on here till you say you'll marry me, or till they throw me out."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There are parsnips for dinner to-night,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I shall get to like them. They are an acquired taste, I expect. Perhaps I am, too. Perhaps I am the human parsnip, and you will have to learn to love me."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You are the human burr, said Eve, shortly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I shouldn't have thought it possible for a man to behave as you are doing."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well?"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You're pale to-night,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have a headache."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "H'm! How is our hostess? Fair? Or stormy?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "As I was passing her door I heard her bullying her maid, so I suppose stormy."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That means a bad time for you?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I suppose so. If we play bridge. But she may go to bed directly after dinner."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Eve, he said, quickly,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Perhaps you can give me the address of some lady who wants a companion to love and make a fuss of?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I can give you the address of a man."
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Have you no clubs, Miss Hendrie?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No,"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What are you doing, Miss Hendrie?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I--I thought that Mr. Rayner might like a sandwich."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A sandwich! Kindly do not be so officious, Miss Hendrie. The idea--in the middle of a hand----"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I hope at least you have had the sense to remember that Mr. Rayner is a vegetarian, Miss Hendrie, said Mrs. Rastall-Retford."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That is not a chicken sandwich?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, said Eve;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Miss Hendrie!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Miss Hendrie, will you be good enough to play? The king of clubs to beat. I can't think what's the matter with you to-night."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm very sorry,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This is absurd, she cried."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You _must_ have the ace of clubs. If you have not got it, who has? Look through your hand again. Is it there?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Then where can it be?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Where can it be?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why--why, said Eve, crimson,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I--I--have only five cards. I ought to have six."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Five? said Mrs. Rastall-Retford"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nonsense! Count again. Have you dropped it on the floor?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It is not on the floor, he said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I suppose it must have been missing from the pack before I dealt."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I shall go to bed,"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This is considerably sharper than a serpent's tooth, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You should be fawning gratefully upon me, not laughing. Do you suppose King Charles laughed at my ancestor when he ate the despatches? However, for the first time since I have been in this house I feel as if I had had a square meal."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mr. Rayner, please don't think I'm ungrateful. I couldn't help laughing, but I can't tell you how grateful I am. You don't know what it would have been like if she had found out that I had revoked. I did it once before, and she kept on about it for days and days. It was awful. She shivered."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I think you must be right, and my nerves _are_ going."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "So are you--to-morrow, by the first train. I wonder how soon we can get married. Do you know anything about special licenses?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You're very obstinate,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Firm, he corrected."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Firm. Could you pack to-night, do you think, and be ready for that ten-fifty to-morrow morning?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I can't imagine why you are fond of me! she said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I've been very horrid to you."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nonsense. You've been all that's sweet and womanly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And I want to tell you why, she went on."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Your--your sister----"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ah, I thought as much!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She--she saw that you seemed to be getting fond of me, and she----"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "She would!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Said some rather horrid things that--hurt,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Don't you worry about her, he said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She's not a bad sort really, but about once every six months she needs a brotherly talking-to, or she gets above herself. One is about due during the next few days."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Fasting, he said, thoughtfully,"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And what might all this be, Jeeves?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The gentleman has arrived from England, I understand, sir. He called to see you earlier in the day."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Good Lord, Jeeves! You don't mean to say the day starts earlier than this?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He desired me to say he would return later, sir."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I've never heard of him. Have you ever heard of him, Jeeves?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am familiar with the name Bassington-Bassington, sir. There are three branches of the Bassington-Bassington family--the Shropshire Bassington-Bassingtons, the Hampshire Bassington-Bassingtons, and the Kent Bassington-Bassingtons."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "England seems pretty well stocked up with Bassington-Bassingtons."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Tolerably so, sir."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No chance of a sudden shortage, I mean, what?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Presumably not, sir."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And what sort of a specimen is this one?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I could not say, sir, on such short acquaintance."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Will you give me a sporting two to one, Jeeves, judging from what you have seen of him, that this chappie is not a blighter or an excrescence?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, sir. I should not care to venture such liberal odds."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I knew it. Well, the only thing that remains to be discovered is what kind of a blighter he is."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Time will tell, sir. The gentleman brought a letter for you, sir."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, he did, did he? I said, and grasped the communication. And then I recognised the handwriting."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I say, Jeeves, this is from my Aunt Agatha!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Indeed, sir?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Don't dismiss it in that light way. Don't you see what this means? She says she wants me to look after this excrescence while he's in New York. By Jove, Jeeves, if I only fawn on him a bit, so that he sends back a favourable report to head-quarters, I may yet be able to get back to England in time for Goodwood. Now is certainly the time for all good men to come to the aid of the party, Jeeves. We must rally round and cosset this cove in no uncertain manner."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, sir."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He isn't going to stay in New York long, I said, taking another look at the letter."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He's headed for Washington. Going to give the nibs there the once-over, apparently, before taking a whirl at the Diplomatic Service. I should say that we can win this lad's esteem and affection with a lunch and a couple of dinners, what?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I fancy that should be entirely adequate, sir."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This is the jolliest thing that's happened since we left England. It looks to me as if the sun were breaking through the clouds."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Very possibly, sir."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Not those socks, Jeeves, I said, gulping a bit but having a dash at the careless, off-hand tone."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Give me the purple ones."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I beg your pardon, sir?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Those jolly purple ones."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Very good, sir."
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ask Dad"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mr. Bassington-Bassington has just telephoned, sir."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, sir."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Where is he?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In prison, sir."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "In prison!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, sir. He said on the telephone that he had been arrested and would be glad if you could step round and bail him out."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Arrested! What for?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He did not favour me with his confidence in that respect, sir."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "This is a bit thick, Jeeves."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Precisely, sir."
}
] |
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|
[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Halloa! Halloa! Halloa! I said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What?"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I got your message,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, are you Bertie Wooster?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Absolutely. And this is my pal George Caffyn. Writes plays and what not, don't you know."
}
] |
8176
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This is a rotten country,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, I don't know, you know, don't you know!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We do our best,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Old George is an American, I explained."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Writes plays, don't you know, and what not."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Of course, I didn't invent the country, said George."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That was Columbus. But I shall be delighted to consider any improvements you may suggest and lay them before the proper authorities."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, why don't the policemen in New York dress properly?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't see anything missing,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I mean to say, why don't they wear helmets like they do in London? Why do they look like postmen? It isn't fair on a fellow. Makes it dashed confusing. I was simply standing on the pavement, looking at things, when a fellow who looked like a postman prodded me in the ribs with a club. I didn't see why I should have postmen prodding me. Why the dickens should a fellow come three thousand miles to be prodded by postmen?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The point is well taken, said George."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What did you do?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I gave him a shove, you know. I've got a frightfully hasty temper, you know. All the Bassington-Bassingtons have got frightfully hasty tempers, don't you know! And then he biffed me in the eye and lugged me off to this beastly place."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'll fix it, old son,"
}
] |
8176
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ask Dad."
}
] |
8176
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This is rummy, Jeeves!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, sir."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Very rummy and dashed disturbing!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Will there be anything further to-night, sir?"
}
] |
8176
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nothing more, thanks."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Good night, sir."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Good night."
}
] |
8176
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'll come in for a bit if I may, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Got something rather priceless to tell you."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oughtn't to have looked at this, I suppose. Caught sight of my name and read it without thinking. I say, Wooster, old friend of my youth, this is rather funny. Do you mind if I have a drink? Thanks awfully and all that sort of rot. Yes, it's rather funny, considering what I came to tell you. Jolly old Caffyn has given me a small part in that musical comedy of his, 'Ask Dad.' Only a bit, you know, but quite tolerably ripe. I'm feeling frightfully braced, don't you know!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You know, I've always wanted to go on the stage, you know, he said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But my jolly old guv'nor wouldn't stick it at any price. Put the old Waukeesi down with a bang, and turned bright purple whenever the subject was mentioned. That's the real reason why I came over here, if you want to know. I knew there wasn't a chance of my being able to work this stage wheeze in London without somebody getting on to it and tipping off the guv'nor, so I rather brainily sprang the scheme of popping over to Washington to broaden my mind. There's nobody to interfere on this side, you see, so I can go right ahead!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But your guv'nor will have to know some time."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That'll be all right. I shall be the jolly old star by then, and he won't have a leg to stand on."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It seems to me he'll have one leg to stand on while he kicks me with the other."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, where do you come in? What have you got to do with it?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I introduced you to George Caffyn."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "So you did, old top, so you did. I'd quite forgotten. I ought to have thanked you before. Well, so long. There's an early rehearsal of 'Ask Dad' to-morrow morning, and I must be toddling. Rummy the thing should be called 'Ask Dad,' when that's just what I'm not going to do. See what I mean, what, what? Well, pip-pip!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Toodle-oo!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I say, George, what's all this about Cyril Bassington-Bassington?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What about him?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He tells me you've given him a part in your show."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, yes. Just a few lines."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But I've just had fifty-seven cables from home telling me on no account to let him go on the stage."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm sorry. But Cyril is just the type I need for that part. He's simply got to be himself."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's pretty tough on me, George, old man. My Aunt Agatha sent this blighter over with a letter of introduction to me, and she will hold me responsible."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "She'll cut you out of her will?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It isn't a question of money. But--of course, you've never met my Aunt Agatha, so it's rather hard to explain. But she's a sort of human vampire-bat, and she'll make things most fearfully unpleasant for me when I go back to England. She's the kind of woman who comes and rags you before breakfast, don't you know."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, don't go back to England, then. Stick here and become President."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But, George, old top----!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Good night!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But, I say, George, old man!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You didn't get my last remark. It was 'Good night!' You Idle Rich may not need any sleep, but I've got to be bright and fresh in the morning. God bless you!"
}
] |
8176
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|
[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sir?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Deuced sorry to wake you up, Jeeves, and what not, but all sorts of dashed disturbing things have been happening."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I was not asleep. It is my practice, on retiring, to read a few pages of some instructive book."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That's good! What I mean to say is, if you've just finished exercising the old bean, it's probably in mid-season form for tackling problems. Jeeves, Mr. Bassington-Bassington is going on the stage!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Indeed, sir?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ah! The thing doesn't hit you! You don't get it properly! Here's the point. All his family are most fearfully dead against his going on the stage. There's going to be no end of trouble if he isn't headed off. And, what's worse, my Aunt Agatha will blame me, you see."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I see, sir."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, can't you think of some way of stopping him?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Not, I confess, at the moment, sir."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, have a stab at it."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I will give the matter my best consideration, sir. Will there be anything further to-night?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I hope not! I've had all I can stand already."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Very good, sir."
}
] |
8176
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, I say, Jeeves! I said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Sorry to interrupt the feast of reason and flow of soul and so forth, but----"
}
] |
8176
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hallo! Hallo! Hallo! I said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What?"
}
] |
8176
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What's your name?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "My name? Oh, Wooster, don't you know, and what not."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My pop's richer than you are!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I say, Jeeves, can you spare a moment? I want to show you something."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Very good, sir."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Who is your little friend, Sidney the Sunbeam, Jeeves?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The young gentleman, sir?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's a loose way of describing him, but I know what you mean."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I trust I was not taking a liberty in entertaining him, sir?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not a bit. If that's your idea of a large afternoon, go ahead."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I happened to meet the young gentleman taking a walk with his father's valet, sir, whom I used to know somewhat intimately in London, and I ventured to invite them both to join me here."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, never mind about him, Jeeves. Read this letter."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Very disturbing, sir!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What are we going to do about it?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Time may provide a solution, sir."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "On the other hand, it mayn't, what?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Extremely true, sir."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I say, Wooster, old thing, he said,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I want your advice. You know this jolly old part of mine. How ought I to dress it? What I mean is, the first act scene is laid in an hotel of sorts, at about three in the afternoon. What ought I to wear, do you think?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You'd better consult Jeeves,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A hot and by no means unripe idea! Where is he?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Gone back to the kitchen, I suppose."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'll smite the good old bell, shall I? Yes? No?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Right-o!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, I say, Jeeves, began Cyril,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I just wanted to have a syllable or two with you. It's this way--Hallo, who's this?"
}
] |
8176
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|
[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Fish-face!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Eh? What?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You've a face like a fish!"
}
] |
8176
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|
Unknown Author
|
[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, I'm dashed! he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm dashed if I'm not!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I wouldn't have a face like that, proceeded the child, with a good deal of earnestness,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He thought for a moment, then corrected himself."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Two million dollars!"
}
] |
8176
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|
[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Who's that frightful little brute, Wooster?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don't know. I never saw him before to-day."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I gave him a couple of tolerably juicy buffets before he legged it. I say, Wooster, that kid said a dashed odd thing. He yelled out something about Jeeves promising him a dollar if he called me--er--what he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What would Jeeves do that for?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It struck me as rummy, too."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Where would be the sense of it?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's what I can't see."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I mean to say, it's nothing to Jeeves what sort of a face you have!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No! said Cyril. He spoke a little coldly, I fancied. I don't know why."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, I'll be popping. Toodle-oo!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Pip-pip!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ask Dad,"
}
] |
8176
|
Unknown Title
|
Unknown Author
|
[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ask Dad"
}
] |
8176
|
Unknown Title
|
Unknown Author
|
[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Pop!"
}
] |
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