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6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Brigand N. Y."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Those boats are from Barr's yacht,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "So they are, cried M. Desplaines,"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come here, young master, he said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I want a word with you. You are one of the Boy Aviators?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am! replied Frank,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "My name's Al Davis; I was a skipper once--but never mind that now. But if you want to make a piece of money out of salvage I'll tell you how if you make it worth my while."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What is it you have to tell me?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Is that worth anything?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well I should say so,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'll buy everybody a drink,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come on, boys, we've no time to lose!"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Save me! save me! the ship is going down!"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We'll get you off if you'll agree to do something for us,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Anything, anything!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Will you sign a release for the ivory you stole from us, admitting your theft?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, yes, my boys. I'll sign anything, but get me off. I don't want to die like this. Oh this is a terrible end!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What are you going to do, Frank?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You see that sand bank that the falling tide has exposed,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am going to land there and we can wade through the water to the yacht. I judge the water isn't more than three feet deep at the deepest part."
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This is better than I deserve, boys; better than I deserve,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You had better stop your sniveling, said Frank sharply, thoroughly disgusted with the cowardly old rascal."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Where are pens, ink and paper?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Be quick, boys--she might sink,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I, Luther Barr, of New York, do here by deed, make over and assign to the Boy Aviators--namely Frank and Harry Chester, William Barnes and Lathrop Beasley, all my share, claim or equity in the ivory which I wrongfully stole from them, which fact I with shame acknowledge. I hereby affix my signature which I admit in the presence of witnesses to be my true manner of signing."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Now, said Frank,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh thank you, boys; thank you, I'll find it, I'll find it,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We have a lot to do. Leave the Golden Eagle ashore to be packed and forwarded later. Hurry back in the launch."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What are you going to do?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I think that your interest in our movements ceased with the signing of this paper,"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now then to work,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What are you going to do?"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You'll see, replied Frank."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "In the first place, Harry, the Brigand was never in any danger of sinking. She is as sound as a dollar."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Are you crazy? cried Harry,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There are more ways of killing a cat than by choking it with cream, was his cryptic remark."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What would you say if I told you that in an hour's time we, will have every drop of water out of the yacht, and that following that we will have her afloat again at high-water."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That you are a marvel."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, it's going to happen--come with me."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Luckily I know something about marine engines since we took that trip on the gun boat in Nicaragua."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Not much--but enough,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What in the world are you doing?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Closing the sea-cocks which were opened by Al Davis, the former bos'n, in revenge for a blow Luther Barr struck him when the ship went aground,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But how in thunder do you know about that?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Davis told me while you were trying to get something out of those fellows who were all gabbling at once."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And when you have closed up the sea-cocks?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then I shall start the centrifugal pumps going to empty the engine-room, and we'll soon have her as sound as a dollar."
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There, that will do, exclaimed Frank, as, pretty well tuckered out, they threw aside their shovels."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Now we have to wait for the tide and reinforcements."
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ahoy!"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But--but, said Frank amazedly, as the men piled on board and the boys all shook hands madly with everybody."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We can't take this yacht--it isn't ours, we have no right."
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But, said Frank,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "In that case, why does not Mr. Barr come back to New York on her?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He thinks he is on the track of more ivory and has already engaged part of an expedition, he replied."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "To tell you the truth, his anxiety to save expense on the yacht has had quite as much to do with his loaning her to you as anything else. He expects you to pay the crew. If you wish to go back to New York on this yacht I will have your aeroplane dismantled and forwarded by freight."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, laughed Frank,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I should say we will!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And steam back to old New York?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You bet."
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, said Frank, as the distance shut out the picture,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What ever will they say when they hear of our adventures?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And the recovery of the ivory? chimed in Lathrop,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And the narrative of George Desmond and our own experiences with the Flying Men?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, you'll have to can that rarebit dream!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I will not! exclaimed Billy indignantly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm going to print it."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "On the funny page maybe. I'd like to see the newspaper that would publish such a yarn."
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's a strange termination to our adventures to be steaming home on Barr's yacht,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I should say so, cried Lathrop."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's as near as I ever want to get to him, too."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Same here, joined in Billy,"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "THE BOY AVIATORS' TREASURE QUEST; or THE GOLDEN GALLEON."
}
]
|
191700 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How d'ye do?"
}
]
|
944107 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But,"
}
]
|
38875 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "LADY GRIZEL,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "THE LORDS OF STROGUE,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "ABIGEL ROWE"
}
]
|
38875 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What was, and what might have been,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The king is much to blame, he wrote,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He told of the strange and aggressive proceedings of that impudent body, the National Assembly, of the treasonous language employed by some of its members. These impertinent rascals babbled of the Rights of Man in a manner which, to one of superior birth, was disgusting. He related that their majesties had been forcibly taken from Versailles and bidden to dwell in the metropolis, and told stories of Monsieur de Lafayette, whose conduct was the more to be regretted in that he was himself a noble. He had actually proclaimed in a public séance of the rabble who directed affairs, that,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "When oppression renders a revolution necessary, insurrection is the most sacred of duties. Good heavens! what next? Political societies had thrown off the mantle of secrecy and openly paraded their abominable sentiments. The"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Society of the Jacobins"
}
]
|
38875 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You are so good to all of us, softly remarked Clovis."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Camille and Victor, say, do you appreciate mademoiselle?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I try to be a mother to them,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Aglaé? of course we love her."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Be still, my pet, or you will make me hurt your father."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That mademoiselle had come down from heaven. But, never mind, he added,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How's that?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You'll have a nice place, too, continued the urchin."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Every evening when I say my prayers, I ask heaven to be good to papa and mademoiselle."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "They are complete without me, she moaned, panting like a hunted animal."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There is no place for me! no place in all the world!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No place for me! no place for me!"
}
]
|
38875 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "For me there is no place in all the world,"
}
]
|
38875 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dungeon ghosts--rattling their gyves, Jean observed, quietly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "See--there's another yonder."
}
]
|
38875 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is Gabrielle! Gabrielle! he shrieked."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Save her! save her! save her!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The useless imbecile,"
}
]
|
38875 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Save her! The marquis disappeared from the balcony, and touching a spring, vanished down a secret staircase which gave upon the slippery gangway, accompanied by Mademoiselle Brunelle, who with a new care upon her brow was swiftly following his lead. De Gange received the inanimate burthen into his arms, while tears poured down his face."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "God bless you, Jean, he sobbed,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "God bless you. I will never forget this deed. She will live--she has but swooned. Jean, you have saved her from death--me from a life-long remorse."
}
]
|
38875 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He takes my cloak, she muttered,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Aglaé, feel, he whispered anxiously."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Am I not right? Does not her pulse still beat?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, she declared, with authoritative promptitude."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The poor crazy lady lives. Toinon, warm a bed without delay. Jean, take horse at once and fetch a doctor. We two will see to her meanwhile."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "She went in the boat alone, poor thing, he whimpered,"
}
]
|
38875 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Thank God, she's saved; thank God!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Who would have ever thought, reflected the governess aloud,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hush! shuddered the marquis."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ever after I should have deemed myself her murderer!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A thousand pities, mused mademoiselle."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If he had only let her drown, at this moment you would be free."
}
]
|
38875 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The precedents of Lorge were pretty ones to follow, retorted her neighbour."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Many of the chatelaines were murdered, poor things! and the rest so wretched that murder, however atrocious, would have been hailed as a release."
}
]
|
38875 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Husband! I was driven to do that wicked thing by a mistake. God will forgive. Can you, too, pardon?"
}
]
|
38875 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is not you who are to blame, dear. Occupied as your mind is, you are unable to conceive what to a loving woman are isolation and indifference. I teased and annoyed you with my jealousy; but then, as a girl, I was so pampered--steeped to the lips in love! Give me confidence and perfect trust and you shall be vexed no more. Obedient in all things, assuming no right to counsel or rebuke, I will be your faithful life-companion, the half of your very self!"
}
]
|
38875 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I want your love and nothing else,"
}
]
|
38875 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "but which we are powerless to alter? The brief period of _tête-à-tête_ when they first came to live at Lorge had been ghastly dull, and he, like a sensible man, had sought refuge from it in his books. Then merciful Providence had sent a set of people to make his situation more bearable--his and hers also. Why could she not let herself drift in calm content, as he had done? It always came back to that, and every time he was the more convinced of it. His wife was an unreasonable creature, who persisted in pining for what she could not get instead of making the best of what she had. Perhaps he had not behaved quite nicely in the matter of the prodigies. Yet after all, was it not essential that they should receive trained instruction, and had they not of their own accord turned from their mother to the governess? He had never said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "My dears, you must care no longer for mamma, and adore your governess."
}
]
|
38875 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If with those sad eyes welling with tears, she persists that she is happy, and vows that on that night her foot slipped, in courtesy we must pretend to believe her. To which the baron pertinently replied,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Foot slipped, indeed! and in the middle of the river, too. What was it doing on the gunwale?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If he had let her drown, you would be free!"
}
]
|
38875 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Not guessing that she was so sensitive, I went too far and am deeply distressed, Aglaé mendaciously wrote;"
}
]
|
38875 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Her friend! the abbé laughed with a malevolent twitch of his thin lips as he folded and pocketed his letters."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "So long as she is useful, yes--a dear trusty loyal friend--but not an instant longer! If she cannot behave with decency and common prudence, we must unite and sweep her into space."
}
]
|
38875 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If only she could have loved me, he whimpered with clasped hands more aspen than of yore,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What a ninny to be taken in! He said,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A bit of jealous temper, nothing more, for which she is sorry now, for she has gained naught by the dramatic ducking except an attack of illness."
}
]
|
38875 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "B[oe]uf Gras or the London Guido Fawkes! The scum themselves were so taken aback by the prodigious spectacle that many burst into tears, while others stood dumbfoundered. Then, the shock of surprise over, there followed inevitably excess, the boisterous stretching of untried limbs, for the first time free. In some parts of the country this took the form of a meaningless upheaval, just to test the new-found liberty. Chateaux of unpopular proprietors were sacked and burnt. The dwelling of the de Vaux family was somewhat injured, and its inmates alarmed for their property; but, at a critical moment, Jean Boulot appeared upon the scene and scornfully rated the rioters for their cowardice."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Shame! he cried,"
}
]
|
38875 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My blessed Gabrielle! he cried, archly shaking a finger."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You are very very naughty, and I have come to scold you! At a time when we ought all to hang together you avoid us as if we had the plague, and shun the family councils. Do you not know what is happening; that we are all tinkering with might and main to prepare our ark for the Deluge? I am sure the Noah family must have been an united one, or they would never have achieved the task of heralding all those beasts. Just think what a genius for organization some of them must have had! A pair of each after their kind! I declare that the beetles and flies alone would have reduced me to a state of madness!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You should know, she quietly observed, looking up from her book with a serious wrapt expression which seemed as if reflected from beyond the gates,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "This mopish place affects your nerves, and no wonder, he said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Change of air and scene will set you up again."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Change of air and scene!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What would you say, he suggested,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No one will ever make me happy, she returned, composedly,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A la bonheur,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Where I contemplated going I might achieve content; but then, much as I yearn for it, there are earth-born ties which detain me within these walls, despite my judgment."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A fig for such ties! cried Pharamond with conviction."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Clovis has behaved in a disgraceful way, and you will be fully justified in considering him no more. Another woman occupies your place. Unless I am mistaken one so proud as you would not deign to thrust her thence by the moving of a finger. Clovis, by his own acts has placed himself beyond the pale. He is out of court. The nobles are leaving France in droves. Common prudence bids you follow."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I never thought of leaving France,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Does Clovis want to go? I have more than once contemplated asking him to permit me to retire to a convent. I know too well, she added, wearily,"
}
]
|
38875 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Their governess is devoted to the little ones and loves them, mused Gabrielle, sadly sighing."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Were I not assured of that I should do something desperate. It would be too much--I could not bear it!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Excuse my disrespectful merriment, laughed Pharamond,"
}
]
|
38875 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You see, dear Gabrielle, the abbé whispered drawing his chair close and laying a persuasive hand upon her arm,"
}
]
|
38875 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I see that you have reflected, and that you have made the best selection. That is well. You recall my words before I went away? I meant them then, and mean them still. My will is iron, Gabrielle. A resolve once taken hardens into adamant. Mine you are to be, and mine you will be; so further struggling is useless."
}
]
|
38875 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is indeed I, and no other, who am to teach you love, my Gabrielle, he whispered tenderly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It is written! Mine too shall be the privilege to return the children to your keeping. You bear me no malice in that I parted you from them for awhile? You know right well that what I have done I can undo. Ha! Your bosom heaves! You yield at last! Was ever woman so strangely wooed----and won!"
}
]
|
38875 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Abbé, she said, clasping her bosom with her hands,"
}
]
|
38875 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Take care! he muttered, hoarsely."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That I have already done is nothing! I have wooed you long, and in the end you shall give way--I swear it!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Wickedness and conceit disturb your reason, Gabrielle replied, with a calm which increased his fury."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The crafty and unscrupulous often over-reach themselves. Therein lies the salvation of those who have naught but innocence for armour."
}
]
|
38875 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I spoke at random, when I said I dreaded you; what is there left for me to dread? I have passed along the stony path of the black valley of the shadow, and, thanks to you, nothing can affect me now. I defy you to do your worst. Having bereft me of children and husband, what is there left for me to bear? Whatever you may devise, I shall thank heaven for the burthen as a merciful atonement for my sin."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You scoff at my love and brave my hate! returned the abbé, striving hard to control his voice."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You have finally refused the one, and for the first time shall know the other."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I despise both. To me you are more vile a reptile than the bloated hideous toad from which by instinct we recoil. Your poisonous breath infects the air; your vampire face insults God's image. In place of the abject thing which you call love, and which I rightly spurned, you offer hate? So much the better. As the more honest I accept it."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You have spoken your own sentence. A day will come when you shall sue for mercy and find none!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Never! Go!"
}
]
|
38875 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What will he do? What will he do? she moaned, trembling, as she crouched down upon a seat."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What hideous form will his revenge take? Shall I implore the protection of my husband?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh! fatal gift of beauty, she murmured,"
}
]
|
38875 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I want to talk to you about affairs, Aglaé began."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Since you do not ask me to sit, I will choose a chair myself."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I congratulate madame on her humility, observed the governess, in her rolling bass, with a condescending headshake."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The Christian virtues are rare, alas, just now in persons of your birth and breeding."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "To what do I owe this visit?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Do not ring; you will regret it, returned the other."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "For all our sakes, I would not have you despised by the domestics, if I can help it. You are so apathetic to the stirring history which is being made under your very nose that I am compelled to enlighten your lamentably darkened mind. It is quite on the cards that we may find it convenient to leave Lorge until the storm that threatens is past. By the dear marquis's wish I and the sweet children will accompany him into temporary banishment, and it becomes necessary to know what madame will do in that contingency. Of course she is a free agent to go where she pleases, and the marquis is too good and generous not to see that she is well provided for. It is best for madame to know that her presence with us would, for various reasons, be inconvenient--calculated, indeed, to produce scandal, which, for the sake of monsieur and the little ones, madame will desire to avoid."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Is this an ambassage from the Marquis de Gange?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "His interests and mine have become identical, drawled mademoiselle,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I will go to him myself! exclaimed the outraged marquise with trembling lips,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He should know that betwixt himself and his wife no ambassador is needed."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "How lamentable that madame should take no interest in what is passing, she exclaimed."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She knows so little of her husband as to be unaware that he has gone to Blois on business and will not return until to-morrow."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Madame had better listen and be calm, suggested Aglaé."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It is always better to be calm."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Wherever they may go, my place is with my husband and my children,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Cannot madame perceive a troublesome _nuance_, which, in another place, might make her position uncomfortable?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Enough of this impertinence, returned the other, sternly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You forget that you are my servant, to be dismissed at pleasure. Speak plainly and briefly, or I will have you ejected by the valets."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Impertinent, am I? cried mademoiselle, losing her temper."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Since you wish it, I will speak plainly. Here, within these gaunt grey walls, what passes within concerns nobody without; but if we should have to fly--which may or may not prove expedient--we shall be dwelling in a public place, where others will criticise our acts. It will be said that the Marquise de Gange is a mean-spirited creature to eat her bread on sufferance at the table of a man who hates her, and of his mistress who treats her with contumely. That is what will be said of the pretty, empty-headed doll who was too stupid to hold her place as the reigning belle of Paris. They will also say that she is bad, as well as mean, to have abandoned her own offspring to the mistress to mould according to her fancy. Madame will probably now perceive that her presence with us anywhere except in the privacy of Lorge, will be an abiding source of scandal."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "You wicked, wicked woman! Gabrielle gasped, choking."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have never wittingly done you aught but kindness. You are a fiend."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A fiend!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Every female envelope contains an angel and a devil combating; which gains the mastery depends upon the men, who, I regret to say, are usually guided by the lowest motives. That is an elementary lesson which I think I shall teach Camille. I shall teach the darling many curious things before I've done with her."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "We will come to an arrangement, mademoiselle suggested cheerfully,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh! the wicked, wicked woman! the marquise ejaculated, inwardly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There must be a hell somewhere for the punishing of such villanous dastards. But in her new-born strength, the possession of which was unaccountable and amazing, she found herself enabled to smile sadly, and remark, without a tremor in her voice,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You will leave me now, if you please, and give me time to think."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "By all means, returned the enemy, with bonhomie."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Take time, my dear; but you must not be too long deciding. A little friendly counsel before I go: when _our_ Clovis comes back to-morrow--for, oddly enough, he is for the present _ours_--better say nothing, you have disgusted him enough already."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Something has happened, dear good friends, whom I can trust, she explained, rapidly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Something so terrible, that I cannot tell it you. I am still scared and horrified, but Heaven permits me to retain my senses. Jean, for love of me and mine, you will saddle your horse and ride leisurely to Onzain, as though bent on ordinary business; and there engage with the Maître de Poste to send this letter by special courier. He must take no rest till he reaches Paris. Two precious souls--three--depend on punctual obedience. I may trust you, Jean? Let none suspect your mission."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My life is madame's,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Embrace me, my Toinon, Gabrielle cried, falling on the neck of her foster-sister in a paroxysm of hysterical weeping."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have been for years in a foolish day-dream. I am awake now to sleep no more."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Monsieur Galland,"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Madame la Marquise is an angel of charity, demurely remarked the abbé,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We all know that madame is an angel, agreed the grave stranger;"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Will monsieur kindly explain his business? enquired the abbé, with his sweetest smile."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Of course, any emissary from one who has all our respect and affection is most welcome at his chateau of Lorge. Yet we cannot expect that our poor attractions should lure anyone to so quiet a retreat."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "His chateau of Lorge? thought the governess, surprised."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Surely it belongs to the marquis?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I hope M. de Brèze is not seriously ill?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Too indisposed, unfortunately, to travel, even on important business. You are aware that Madame la Marquise has made a communication to her father?"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "The communication was a sad blow to the maréchal, the solicitor continued quietly,"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "I--offend madame?"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have always done my duty by madame's children, whom she never looked after herself. I was engaged by M. le Marquis, who has expressed himself satisfied with my efforts."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Do I understand that mademoiselle declines to go? enquired the solicitor."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "M. le Marquis is strangely silent. Shall I, to my infinite regret, be compelled to carry out my instructions in full?"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "My instructions are, pursued the solicitor,"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Am I to gather, he at length said, huskily,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It is always such angels as she, the solicitor observed sternly,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I will go when you will, she said, preparing to withdraw, with a whimsical attempt to don a martyr's chaplet."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I thank the marquis for his many kindnesses. May I have a moment to embrace the cherubs? I am glad to think that they will miss me more than anyone. As for madame, I can only pity her delusions, knowing that she will be sorry some day when she comes to know me better."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dear M. Galland, she said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "My father!----"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Was sorely troubled by what you wrote to him."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I feared it, she replied dejectedly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But there were reasons."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Reasons! cried the old gentleman with warmth."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I can read the reasons in your saddened face. I am sorry to be unable to congratulate madame upon her blooming looks. She was wrong not to have spoken sooner."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I could not, pleaded Gabrielle."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It takes long for a loyal love to smoulder out of life. I could have borne all, if she there had not threatened to instil poison into a child's mind. Just think of it! My God! How monstrous!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "She never did that, Clovis put in hotly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Never, never! You may see the children yourself, sir, and question them. Such a calumny is atrocious!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Thanks! Oh--thanks for that! murmured the deep tones of mademoiselle, as with theatrical gesture she hastily knelt and kissed his hand."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "When I have been chased away, it will be a comfort to remember that I never lost your confidence."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "In this affair, I play a pretty part!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Between us, Gabrielle said mournfully, gazing at her husband's averted back as he crouched in his fauteuil,"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "If the person intends to obey orders, the solicitor said curtly, looking at his watch,"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Is there no hope?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "None! was the blunt rejoinder."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You must submit to instant banishment, which serves you right. So it was you who, by your besotted folly drove her to this? I hope you will die in penury. Idiot! Not to know that the vilest animal will turn if threatened in its offspring."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "she said lightly, holding out her large brown hand."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You are not merciful, but I forgive you: am I not admirably generous? You think I am cast out for ever. A grievous mistake; so we had best still be friends. Look at him. He is chafing now, wincing under the whip thong. In the distractions of the capital he might forget me. Here he will miss me and be sorry."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "I was mad--driven quite out of myself by your marvellous beauty, Gabrielle, he murmured, in broken accents."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Believe me if you can, after the past, that I am not altogether bad. Forgiveness is a divine attribute which will well become your angelic nature. Like him from whom the unclean spirit was cast, I no longer shriek, and howl, and tear my flesh, but am subdued, clothed, and in my right mind again. I look upon my other self with horror, and praise God for the miracle whereby I am saved. Pardon, Gabrielle; without it I shall never know another instant's peace."
}
]
|
38875 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They shall come twice a week, the marquise explained,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "she added cheerily, bent on helping him to forget,"
}
]
|
38875 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Where should we send him to alone? he asked."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He would get into trouble and disgrace us. It was you who saddled us with him, so you must help us to bear the burthen."
}
]
|
38875 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "To a man of spirit, he would remark, deprecatingly,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "On such occasions, Clovis would turn to his brother with puzzled wrinklings of the brow that were piteous and yet ludicrous."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What am I to do? he would groan."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The situation, as you say, is horrible; but I don't see a way out of the difficulty. Then the abbé would tap his shoulder and murmur, sighing,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Poor fellow. I pity you with all my being, but for all our sakes must exhort you to be civil to madame. Her wish is law to her papa. If she chose to ask the old scamp to eject us into the road, what else could we do but go?"
}
]
|
38875 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My poor fellow, he said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I bleed for you, but we must make the best of a bad job. Be civil to her, always civil, and she will let you dip into her purse."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Let me, indeed!"
}
]
|
38875 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I suppose, he cried, in his vexation,"
}
]
|
38875 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come, come! he laughed."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It is only silly children who quarrel with their bread and butter. The proceedings of the maréchal were malignant and preposterous. Curb your feelings, and bury your chagrin deep down, and never let her guess your most righteous indignation. You shall not be so far degraded if I can help it, as to have to sue in person for money. She likes and trusts me. Let me be your _homme d'affaires_, and act as mediator between you."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "What he wants for his pleasures, he can have, and welcome, she said, with a sad smile;"
}
]
|
38875 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, replied Gabrielle, quietly,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have no intention of leaving at present; my place is here, and I am no poltroon. My mother wants me, and so does the queen; and there is much business to arrange with M. Galland. The little ones are happy at Lorge with Toinon, where we will go and see them later."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But Lorge may be burnt over our heads, objected Pharamond."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Excuse me; but you fail to grasp the situation, which is much more serious than you suppose."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I shall certainly not leave France, returned Gabrielle, with decision."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No one will hurt us in Touraine, for we are beloved and respected, and the hearts of the people shall be our bulwarks."
}
]
|
38875 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It was too bad,"
}
]
|
38875 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The iron grave-clothes, as was foretold, are slowly wrapping me, she said,"
}
]
|
38875 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In the solitude of the country, she had said,"
}
]
|
38875 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Some one flourished a pike aloft on which was transfixed the bleeding heart of a calf. Through the drip the scrawled description could be deciphered--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "This is the heart of an aristocrat!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If the accepted authorities were to be bearded thus, what next? suggested Marie Antoinette."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We are marching straight downwards to our doom. We know it, and being blameless, look to the end with thankfulness. But when we are sacrificed--what then--afterwards. Après?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Conflict with the inevitable is not always an absurd mockery, for self-respect, when we are innocent, insists on battle to the death."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "They have burst into the gardens. Where are the little ones? cried Gabrielle, thinking of her own cherubs, happily far away."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I will fetch them. Their Royal Highnesses are in the next room, reading."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hist! she said, her voice scarce audible above the noise."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The wretches have invaded the palace--do they intend to fire it? Amid yonder sea of pikes and staves there is a cannon which they are dragging up the stairs. What for--for me? Into what a pandemonium were we born!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Unbar the door or we will blow it down,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "They will kill him. They will kill him! Why am I not by his side?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am here--what would you?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Vive la nation!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes. Vive la nation. I am its best friend,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There she is--the curse of France. The Austrian! The Austrian! Down with her!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My God! muttered the queen."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It must be Elizabeth whom they mistake for me! My place is with them. Is a child of Maria Theresa to play the cur? Why am I skulking here?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Madame! They will tear you in pieces!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "So be it,"
}
]
|
38875 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, said Marie Antoinette, gloomily,"
}
]
|
38875 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You should know, but for your innate selfishness, complained the old dame,"
}
]
|
38875 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You dear guileless dove of a Gabrielle! he laughed."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yet not so simple as you seem, for you have guessed aright. Alack, yes! Unpardonably sensitive as he may appear to you, your little escapade--you will allow me to call it an escapade?---cut him so completely to the quick that he has never recovered it, but crouches down and winces still like a well-whipped hound, dreading another scourging. You deem yourself proud? Learn that an honest man's pride is of more delicate texture than a woman's. And it _is_ hard, you know, for a proud man to be placed before witnesses in so equivocal a position as that in which you placed your husband."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Since you forgave me, I take Heaven to witness, he purred, bending as near to her as he dared,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Differences? There need be none; my love for him is dead, Gabrielle remarked slowly, so absorbed in the contemplation of shattered Penates as to pass unheeded the gleam of triumph on the face that was so near her shoulder."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You may tell him, if you like, that I shall not behave ill to him, because he has outraged me. A fair allowance shall be regularly paid to him, or to you if he prefers it. Monsieur Galland is coming here this afternoon about my testament, and the arrangement shall be carried out at once. Then after a gloomy pause, she added with a sigh,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "To think he could ever suppose that I should want him to ask me favours!"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "M. Galland--about your will, this afternoon? the abbé echoed with raised brows."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "On whose advice are you acting? I declare you are marvellously changed, every inch a woman of business. Pooh, pooh! Is there not ample time? For a beautiful young creature like yourself to prate of such grisly things seems like an untimely invitation to the worms."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Little I care for life, God knows! sighed Gabrielle, wearily,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, yes, I know--the cherubs. About this will. It takes me by surprise, and you have deigned to trust me. Your pardon if I seem importunate. I scarcely dare to ask, and yet----"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What its conditions are to be? There need be no secret as to that, since my mind is quite made up. I intend to leave my dear father's fortune to my mother, in trust for Victor and Camille?"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Clovis is to be made a laughing stock to suit your malice! he exclaimed hotly, as he turned on the astonished marquise."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He counts for nothing, although your lawful husband. No wonder if you have earned his hate as well as mine, since you are resolved to pour insult upon insult."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Of course, he will have his allowance secured until his death,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Pah! Allowance! Allowance! A pittance for a schoolboy, which he will fling back into your face. If he takes my advice, he will toss your paltry allowance in your lap, since you treat him like a baby! A dole of charity to a beggar!"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Women's horizon is so circumscribed, her stream of thought so narrow, that if left alone she rarely avoids being ungenerous. Engrossed by trivialities how can it be otherwise? Sly, too, and double-faced. So this is your sublime forgiveness, in which I was fool enough to trust! A trap! A trick! You were but biding your time, till you could injure me by maltreatment of my brother. My first duty is to him, and I tell you plainly, that never with my consent will he accept your ignoble terms."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Eh, bien, madame, he cried, suddenly wheeling round and standing in front of her, his thin lips curled into a snarl."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The result of your insensate acts be on your head. Mark that the fault is yours if, after all my efforts to annihilate the past, you force me to be your enemy. Here below we must be judged by acts, madame, not by sugared words that mean nothing. Why compel me to war when I would fain bring peace? If you execute so iniquitous an instrument as you propose, you will have made thereby three implacable enemies; and a woman without friends should think twice before making one. Your husband never wronged you with that governess, you foolish girl; you were racked by your own silly phantom jealousy. If you must have revenge, wreak it upon me, whose only fault was loving you too much. No need to start. Cards down! Why should I deny that I loved you? The more fool I! But as your love for him has been crushed out, so, too, has mine for you, as to your sorrow you will learn."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "I understand my instructions, madame, the solicitor said, as the pair were driven along."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But, if without breach of respect, I may be permitted to say so, you must be suffering from hallucination. Your will being safely deposited with me, it is manifest that its terms are your safeguard, even if any of them should wish to harm you. We will admit that M. le Marquis got into bad hands, and that your hours were made unpleasant by another of your charming sex. But from that point to personal violence is a great stride, and you must pardon me if I fail to see any justifiable cause for apprehension. It is a morbid fancy, believe me. However, your wishes shall be gratified, and you will be able to retire to the chateau of Lorge with mind relieved. This is the house. I follow you to the first floor. You will make the declaration I suggested, before my friend, M. Sardeigne, who is a magistrate, and proper witnesses."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If you say so, madame, he observed, with a gallant bow,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am bound to believe you. I should have thought it more likely that someone would take to kidnapping, for the sake of being proud possessor of the fairest woman in France."
}
]
|
38875 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dear me! A presentiment? laughed M. Sardeigne,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "proceeded the magistrate, perceiving that his mirth was ill-timed,"
}
]
|
38875 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Clovis, she had said, when composedly making the announcement,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have thought it all over carefully, and am acting for the best according to my lights. I should like you to feel assured that the revenues I hand to you for your own use are, indeed, your own; I mean that however ill you may behave to me I will never withdraw them, for I do not wish you to feel, on your good behaviour, at the mercy of your wife."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I know you to be a worm while I am an æglet, and the lower you may elect to grovel, I shall myself, by contrast, appear to soar the higher."
}
]
|
38875 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Here we are at last! said the marquise, with an assumption of gaiety."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why, how odd you look. This is not a cordial welcome!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Madame is welcome,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The children--they are well?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Monsieur Victor and Mademoiselle Camille are well,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Of course, the little dears are well, cried the abbé, cheerfully,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He is at Blois, busy."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "So much the better, for I don't mind confessing now that I was a wee bit afraid of his rough ways and stalwart bulk. His room is better than his company--a Jacobin!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No one who is good need be afraid of Jean,"
}
]
|
38875 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What is it? Toinon, tell me, she whispered."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Has something dreadful happened?"
}
]
|
38875 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Not here? Where are they?"
}
]
|
38875 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She! murmured the startled chatelaine, clasping her hands upon her breast."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mademoiselle Aglaé Brunelle!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It was a trick, then, Toinon muttered, with a deepening frown."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "She knew not of her coming!"
}
]
|
38875 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The good marquise! she cooed."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The dear excellent marquise! I am so glad, so glad, to have been summoned! There was a little unpleasantness, was there not? A deplorable misunderstanding, and our dearest lady like the angel that she is, has forgiven and forgotten, and we are better friends than ever."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I never summoned you,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I know--I know, she purred, with kittenish gestures of overweening joy."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It was but a tiny ripple on our ideal life! Madame was sorry to have so misread her Aglaé's devotion, and bade the dear abbé to invite her hither on a visit. Did I delay an instant? Surely not, for I burned to show the good marquise how cruelly she'd wronged me. Oh! What ineffable delight! Is it not well to be divided by a tiff to taste the glad moment of reunion?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I arrived yesterday, a whole day before you, and have been so good--have I not, Mademoiselle Toinon? You like not poor Aglaé, and frown at her, but must speak honest truth. Knowing to my dismay and grief when I went hence that madame could deign to be jealous of one so insignificant, I refrained from embracing my pets until madame should grant permission. And since I adore them as if they were my own, madame can guess what that has cost me. Yes! I can hardly believe it possible myself, but I've not yet seen either Victor or Camille, the sweet ones!"
}
]
|
38875 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Reconciled? I knew it, he cried, rubbing his white hands with relief."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Clovis, come and witness this delightful spectacle. The past is past and buried. We shall now begin afresh, and, profiting by experience, will be so happy, that madame will forgive our little _ruse_. The fact is, my sweet Gabrielle, that Clovis intends to devote himself to a yet deeper course of study, which requires a secretary and a partner--one who has an inkling of the secrets which are to be unearthed for the world's benefit. I took on myself, therefore, to risk the vials of a transient annoyance for the ultimate good of all. Mademoiselle will now be so occupied with her new duties that, to her regret, she must renounce all intercourse with the little ones. This, I believe, will meet your wishes? You are not angry? That is well. We are both pardoned, are we not?"
}
]
|
38875 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No news is good news, believe me, the abbé whispered in caution, as hour succeeded hour, and their patience began to ooze."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If she accepts her position without a struggle, a most important point is gained."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That is mighty well, she said, tartly;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No more blunders! returned the abbé, sternly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You have not the skill to read her. Do not forget that it was by your wrong-headedness and bungling that you brought about your own defeat. Remember the terms of the agreement which was to bring you back among us. You were to be guided by me absolutely, and abstain from silly little private plots which could only prove disastrous to us both."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Of course, I will do as you bid, she said,"
}
]
|
38875 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Gabrielle Marquise de Gange."
}
]
|
38875 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mademoiselle Brunelle has developed a fancy to wear a coronet. The said coronet would prove a paltry bauble unless handsomely gilt and jewelled. The gold and jewels are unluckily in possession of a lady who at present holds the coronet, and who has no intention of resigning either the one or the other. She must be made to give up both--how?"
}
]
|
38875 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Abbé, remarked mademoiselle, curtly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "As usual, you beat about the bush. There is none to overhear. What you would suggest, state plainly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Am I not plain enough?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, returned Aglaé, drawing down her brows in thought."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You say that our views run parallel. How can that be? You love that mawkish creature, and, for my part, as I have said before, you may wear her and welcome, though I don't admire your taste. I tried to assist you in the past, but--well--my efforts were not successful. How can I help you now, without injury to my own prospects? You are not so foolish as to suppose that I would accept Clovis without a sou, nor am I so silly as to imagine that you would take that chit without her fortune."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mademoiselle sketches a situation with such brief lucidity, that it is a privilege to listen to her, replied Pharamond, with a tight twitch of his thin lips, that was intended for a smile."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But as there are blotches on the sun, so is not even she quite perfect. She forgets that the world is ever rolling, and that as we roll with it our views change and give place to others. She will remember, perhaps, that but for me she would still be an angel without the gate, and grant that I am not likely to employ the paw of one so clever, without sharing the chestnuts which she rescues."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A compromise, then? said Aglaé."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am still completely in the dark."
}
]
|
38875 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If I could have my way, I would take her with me for a while, and then fling her, soiled and broken, to the lowest of my lackeys! It would be a sweet and complete vengeance, which, alas, prudence bids me to forego."
}
]
|
38875 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How wise we are, he said,"
}
]
|
38875 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Pooh! retorted Pharamond."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Do I not know him? When a thing is irrevocably done, he will be glad to benefit by the results. You must keep him in play like a struggling fish, and when the time comes bring him to land. With half a great fortune, and the removal of its importunate owner, he would soon grow content."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Half the fortune, mused Aglaé, deep down within herself."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "H'm! H'm! Half the fortune! Why not the whole? Half-measures are not satisfactory!"
}
]
|
56325 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No boy alive will be able to peruse Mr. Westerman's pages without a quickening of his pulses."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Fusi Yama"
}
]
|
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