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30222 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "IT AGAIN EMERGED."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Shall I shoot it?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You would more likely kill the man, he responded."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Follow as noiselessly as you can--it will not let its prey escape, be sure of that. Once we track it to its haunt we will soon dispatch it, big and fierce as it seems."
}
]
|
30222 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Kachyen is being dragged up a tree just in front--look!"
}
]
|
30222 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Harold, the Kachyen has fled, and his captor, determined to secure its prey, has betaken its crawling body after him. If only we had a light! I saw something like a black shadow moving onwards; get your pistol ready and follow."
}
]
|
30222 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Harold, cried my companion,"
}
]
|
30222 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A RELENTLESS FOE."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You missed it! I cried."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Look out, Hassan, guard the doorway!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I shot it through the head!"
}
]
|
30222 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You scoundrel! said Denviers to him,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have a good mind to serve you the same. You deserve to die as so many of these simple-minded, credulous Kachyens have done."
}
]
|
30222 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If we spare your life, will you promise to leave this village and never to return?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I will do whatever you wish."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is pretty apparent what this juggler has done. The man who first reported the discovery of this Nat, as the foolish Kachyens call it, simply disturbed a monstrous spider which had lived in the trees which he felled--that accounts for his seeing it. Finding animal food scarce, the reptile ventured into this village and tried to get into one of the huts. Its exertions were rewarded by the Kachyen coming to the door, whom it accordingly seized. To continue its plan, which proved so successful, needed very little reasoning power on the part of such a cunning creature. No doubt this Maw-Sayah purposely left the door of his hut unfastened each seventh night, and the spider thus became accustomed to seek for its victim there, I daresay it came the other nights, but the juggler was then careful enough to keep his hut well fastened."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What do the sahibs propose to do?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We will wait for daybreak; then, having dragged the dead spider out where the Kachyens may see that it is no longer able to harm them, we will take this Maw-Sayah down the mountain path away from the village as poor as he came."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "YOU SCOUNDREL!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A good plan,"
}
]
|
30222 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "OBSTRUCTION."
}
]
|
30222 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Who goes home?"
}
]
|
30222 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "EYE-GLASS PLAY."
}
]
|
30222 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Being interrupted with cries of"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Order! Order! he quietly played his trump card:"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If I am not allowed to explain, he said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I will conclude with a motion."
}
]
|
30222 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "DISGUST."
}
]
|
30222 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sir, nothing less than"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mr. Speaker, sir, would satisfy Mr. Biggar. No one who has not heard the inflection of tone with which this was uttered, nor seen the oratorical sweep of the hand that launched it on its course, can realize how much of combined deference and authority the phrase is capable of. Mr. Biggar, having in his early Parliamentary days defied the Chair and affronted the sensibilities of the House, alike in the matter of dress and deportment, developed into a portly gentleman of almost smug appearance, a terror to new members. Woe to any who in his ignorance passed between the Chair and the member addressing it; who walked in from a division with his hat on; or who stood an inch or two within the Bar whilst debate was going forward. Mr. Biggar's strident cry of"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Order! Order!"
}
]
|
30222 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Roderick Random."
}
]
|
30222 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "MOBBING HIM."
}
]
|
30222 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Whips."
}
]
|
30222 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "An Old English Song and"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Portraits, the latter a life-size composition of three young ladies. In 1865 he painted"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Challenge, which won a prize of £100 given by Mr. Wallace, and one of the very few Medals awarded to English painters at the Paris Universal Exhibition. In 1866 came"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The Story of a Life --an aged nun relating her experiences to a group of novices. Two years later, when he had only been four years in London, he was elected an A.R.A. Among his more recent pictures may be mentioned"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Napoleon on Board the _Bellerophon_ (1880),"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The Salon of Madame Recamier (1885),"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Young Duke (1889), and"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "St. Helena"
}
]
|
30222 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The History of Europe, was born at Edinburgh, and entered the Army at the age of twenty. He served in the Crimea, at the siege and fall of Sebastopol, at which date our second portrait represents him. During the Indian Mutiny he lost an arm at the relief of Lucknow. In 1882 he commanded the 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, during the expedition to Egypt, and at the decisive battle of Tel-el-Kebir he led the Highland Brigade which fought so gallantly on that memorable occasion, and after Arabi's surrender he was left in Egypt with the command of the British army of 12,000 men to restore order and protect the Khedive. Sir Archibald was included in the thanks of Parliament for his energy and gallantry, and was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant-General; he received his appointment as General in 1889. In 1869 Sir Archibald Alison published an able treatise,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "On Army Organization."
}
]
|
30222 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Le Bossu. At the age of thirteen she began work in earnest, having won"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "at the Marseille Conservatoire, and her talent having come to the ears of Mr. Plunkett, the director of the Palais Royal, he engaged her for the Palais Royal in Paris, where she created the part of _La Chaste Suzanne_, by Paul Ferrier. Giving up comic opera for comedy, Jane Hading went to the Gymnase, where she created the part of _Claire de Beaulieu_ in"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Le Maître de Forges. London had the opportunity of seeing her in that and"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Prince Zilah, by Jules Claretie, later on, and fully indorsed the Parisian verdict. These conspicuous successes were followed by others almost as notable, and her subsequent tour in America won her golden opinions, and was so successful that it was extended some months. Her latest Parisian success was"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Le Prince d'Aurec,"
}
]
|
30222 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ah, my dear Watson, said he, striding into the room."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am very delighted to see you. I trust that Mrs. Watson has entirely recovered from all the little excitements connected with our adventure of the 'Sign of Four.'"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Thank you, we are both very well,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And I hope also, he continued, sitting down in the rocking-chair,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "On the contrary, I answered;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I trust that you don't consider your collection closed?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Not at all. I should wish nothing better than to have some more of such experiences."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "To-day, for example?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes; to-day, if you like."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And as far off as Birmingham?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Certainly, if you wish it."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And the practice?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I do my neighbour's when he goes. He is always ready to work off the debt."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ha! Nothing could be better! said Holmes, leaning back in his chair and looking keenly at me from under his half-closed lids."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I perceive that you have been unwell lately. Summer colds are always a little trying."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I was confined to the house by a severe chill for three days last week. I thought, however, that I had cast off every trace of it."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "So you have. You look remarkably robust."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "How, then, did you know of it?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My dear fellow, you know my methods."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You deduced it, then?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Certainly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And from what?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "From your slippers."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "How on earth----?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Your slippers are new, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You could not have had them more than a few weeks. The soles which you are at this moment presenting to me are slightly scorched. For a moment I thought they might have got wet and been burned in the drying. But near the instep there is a small circular wafer of paper with the shopman's hieroglyphics upon it. Damp would of course have removed this. You had then been sitting with your feet outstretched to the fire, which a man would hardly do even in so wet a June as this if he were in his full health."
}
]
|
30222 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am afraid that I rather give myself away when I explain, said he."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Results without causes are much more impressive. You are ready to come to Birmingham, then?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Certainly. What is the case?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You shall hear it all in the train. My client is outside in a four-wheeler. Can you come at once?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In an instant."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Your neighbour is a doctor?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes. He bought a practice as I did."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "An old-established one?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Just the same as mine. Both have been ever since the houses were built."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ah, then you got hold of the best of the two."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I think I did. But how do you know?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "By the steps, my boy. Yours are worn three inches deeper than his. But this gentleman in the cab is my client, Mr. Hall Pycroft. Allow me to introduce you to him. Whip your horse up, cabby, for we have only just time to catch our train."
}
]
|
30222 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We have a clear run here of seventy minutes, Holmes remarked."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I want you, Mr. Hall Pycroft, to tell my friend your very interesting experience exactly as you have told it to me, or with more detail if possible. It will be of use to me to hear the succession of events again. It is a case, Watson, which may prove to have something in it, or may prove to have nothing, but which at least presents those unusual and _outré_ features which are as dear to you as they are to me. Now, Mr. Pycroft, I shall not interrupt you again."
}
]
|
30222 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "UP CAME A MAN AND ADDRESSED ME."
}
]
|
30222 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You may well look surprised, Dr. Watson, but it is this way, said he."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "When I was speaking to the other chap in London at the time that he laughed at my not going to Mawson's, I happened to notice that his tooth was stuffed in this very identical fashion. The glint of the gold in each case caught my eye, you see. When I put that with the voice and figure being the same, and only those things altered which might be changed by a razor or a wig, I could not doubt that it was the same man. Of course, you expect two brothers to be alike, but not that they should have the same tooth stuffed in the same way. He bowed me out and I found myself in the street, hardly knowing whether I was on my head or my heels. Back I went to my hotel, put my head in a basin of cold water, and tried to think it out. Why had he sent me from London to Birmingham; why had he got there before me; and why had he written a letter from himself to himself? It was altogether too much for me, and I could make no sense of it. And then suddenly it struck me that what was dark to me might be very light to Mr. Sherlock Holmes. I had just time to get up to town by the night train, to see him this morning, and to bring you both back with me to Birmingham."
}
]
|
30222 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Rather fine, Watson, is it not? said he."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There are points in it which please me. I think you will agree with me that an interview with Mr. Arthur Harry Pinner in the temporary offices of the Franco-Midland Hardware Company, Limited, would be a rather interesting experience for both of us."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But how can we do it?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, easily enough, said Hall Pycroft, cheerily."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You are two friends of mine who are in want of a billet, and what could be more natural than that I should bring you both round to the managing director?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Quite so! Of course! said Holmes."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I should like to have a look at the gentleman and see if I can make anything of his little game. What qualities have you, my friend, which would make your services so valuable? or is it possible that----"
}
]
|
30222 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is of no use our being at all before our time, said our client."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He only comes there to see me apparently, for the place is deserted up to the very hour he names."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That is suggestive,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "By Jove, I told you so! cried the clerk."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's he walking ahead of us there."
}
]
|
30222 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There he goes! cried Hall Pycroft."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Those are the company's offices into which he has gone. Come with me and I'll fix it up as easily as possible."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come in,"
}
]
|
30222 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "HE LOOKED UP AT US."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You look ill, Mr. Pinner,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, I am not very well, answered the other, making obvious efforts to pull himself together, and licking his dry lips before he spoke."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Who are these gentlemen whom you have brought with you?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "One is Mr. Harris, of Bermondsey, and the other is Mr. Price, of this town, said our clerk, glibly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "They are friends of mine, and gentlemen of experience, but they have been out of a place for some little time, and they hoped that perhaps you might find an opening for them in the company's employment."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Very possibly! Very possibly! cried Mr. Pinner, with a ghastly smile."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, I have no doubt that we shall be able to do something for you. What is your particular line, Mr. Harris?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am an accountant,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ah, yes, we shall want something of the sort. And you, Mr. Price?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A clerk,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have every hope that the company may accommodate you. I will let you know about it as soon as we come to any conclusion. And now I beg that you will go. For God's sake, leave me to myself!"
}
]
|
30222 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You forget, Mr. Pinner, that I am here by appointment to receive some directions from you,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Certainly, Mr. Pycroft, certainly, the other answered in a calmer tone."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You may wait here a moment, and there is no reason why your friends should not wait with you. I will be entirely at your service in three minutes, if I might trespass upon your patience so far."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What now? whispered Holmes."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Is he giving us the slip?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Impossible,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why so?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That door leads into an inner room."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There is no exit?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "None."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Is it furnished?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It was empty yesterday."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then what on earth can he be doing? There is something which I don't understand in this matter. If ever a man was three parts mad with terror, that man's name is Pinner. What can have put the shivers on him?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He suspects that we are detectives,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's it,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He did not turn pale. He _was_ pale when we entered the room, said he."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is just possible that----"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What the deuce is he knocking at his own door for?"
}
]
|
30222 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "WE FOUND OURSELVES IN THE INNER ROOM."
}
]
|
30222 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What do you think of him, Watson?"
}
]
|
30222 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It has been touch and go with him, said I,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's only a question of time now,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I suppose we ought to call the police in now, said he;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's a blessed mystery to me, cried Pycroft, scratching his head."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Whatever they wanted to bring me all the way up here for, and then----"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Pooh! All that is clear enough, said Holmes, impatiently."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is this last sudden move."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You understand the rest, then?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I think that it is fairly obvious. What do you say, Watson?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I must confess that I am out of my depths,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, surely, if you consider the events at first they can only point to one conclusion."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What do you make of them?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, the whole thing hinges upon two points. The first is the making of Pycroft write a declaration by which he entered the service of this preposterous company. Do you not see how very suggestive that is?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am afraid I miss the point."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, why did they want him to do it? Not as a business matter, for these arrangements are usually verbal, and there was no earthly business reason why this should be an exception. Don't you see, my young friend, that they were very anxious to obtain a specimen of your handwriting, and had no other way of doing it?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And why?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Quite so. Why? When we answer that, we have made some progress with our little problem. Why? There can be only one adequate reason. Someone wanted to learn to imitate your writing, and had to procure a specimen of it first. And now if we pass on to the second point, we find that each throws light upon the other. That point is the request made by Pinner that you should not resign your place, but should leave the manager of this important business in the full expectation that a Mr. Hall Pycroft, whom he had never seen, was about to enter the office upon the Monday morning."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "My God! cried our client,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now you see the point about the handwriting. Suppose that someone turned up in your place who wrote a completely different hand from that in which you had applied for the vacancy, of course the game would have been up. But in the interval the rogue learnt to imitate you, and his position was therefore secure, as I presume that nobody in the office had ever set eyes upon you?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not a soul,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Very good. Of course, it was of the utmost importance to prevent you from thinking better of it, and also to keep you from coming into contact with anyone who might tell you that your double was at work in Mawson's office. Therefore they gave you a handsome advance on your salary, and ran you off to the Midlands, where they gave you enough work to do to prevent your going to London, where you might have burst their little game up. That is all plain enough."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But why should this man pretend to be his own brother?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, that is pretty clear also. There are evidently only two of them in it. The other is personating you at the office. This one acted as your engager, and then found that he could not find you an employer without admitting a third person into his plot. That he was most unwilling to do. He changed his appearance as far as he could, and trusted that the likeness, which you could not fail to observe, would be put down to a family resemblance. But for the happy chance of the gold stuffing your suspicions would probably have never been aroused."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Good Lord! he cried."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "While I have been fooled in this way, what has this other Hall Pycroft been doing at Mawson's? What should we do, Mr. Holmes? Tell me what to do!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We must wire to Mawson's."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They shut at twelve on Saturdays."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Never mind; there may be some doorkeeper or attendant----"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ah, yes; they keep a permanent guard there on account of the value of the securities that they hold. I remember hearing it talked of in the City."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "PYCROFT SHOOK HIS CLENCHED HANDS IN THE AIR."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Very good, we shall wire to him, and see if all is well, and if a clerk of your name is working there. That is clear enough, but what is not so clear is why at sight of us one of the rogues should instantly walk out of the room and hang himself."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The paper!"
}
]
|
30222 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The paper! Of course! yelled Holmes, in a paroxysm of excitement."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Idiot that I was! I thought so much of our visit that the paper never entered my head for an instant. To be sure the secret must lie there."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Look at this, Watson! he cried."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It is a London paper, an early edition of the _Evening Standard_. Here is what we want. Look at the headlines--'Crime in the City. Murder at Mawson and Williams'. Gigantic Attempted Robbery; Capture of the Criminal.' Here, Watson, we are all equally anxious to hear it, so kindly read it aloud to us."
}
]
|
30222 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is customary at Mawson's for the clerks to leave at midday on Saturday. Sergeant Tuson, of the City Police, was somewhat surprised therefore to see a gentleman with a carpet bag come down the steps at twenty minutes past one. His suspicions being aroused, the sergeant followed the man, and with the aid of Constable Pollock succeeded, after a most desperate resistance, in arresting him. It was at once clear that a daring and gigantic robbery had been committed. Nearly a hundred thousand pounds worth of American railway bonds, with a large amount of scrip in other mines and companies, were discovered in the bag. On examining the premises the body of the unfortunate watchman was found doubled up and thrust into the largest of the safes, where it would not have been discovered until Monday morning had it not been for the prompt action of Sergeant Tuson. The man's skull had been shattered by a blow from a poker, delivered from behind. There could be no doubt that Beddington had obtained entrance by pretending that he had left something behind him, and having murdered the watchman, rapidly rifled the large safe, and then made off with his booty. His brother, who usually works with him, has not appeared in this job, so far as can at present be ascertained, although the police are making energetic inquiries as to his whereabouts."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "GLANCING AT THE HAGGARD FIGURE."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, we may save the police some little trouble in that direction, said Holmes, glancing at the haggard figure huddled up by the window."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Human nature is a strange mixture, Watson. You see that even a villain and a murderer can inspire such affection that his brother turns to suicide when he learns that his neck is forfeited. However, we have no choice as to our action. The doctor and I will remain on guard, Mr. Pycroft, if you will have the kindness to step out for the police."
}
]
|
30222 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Tom Thumb"
}
]
|
30222 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "TOM THUMB"
}
]
|
30222 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "While the moulds were being made Her Majesty removed all the rings from her fingers _except_ the wedding ring. This she was most anxious should not come off, and was in considerable fear lest the moulding process might remove it."
}
]
|
30222 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How pretty she is!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Stephano!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How gracefully she dances,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Stephano!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, father, cried Stephano, with a start, and coming forward."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Do you wish to speak to me?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "From your mysterious air and endless sighs these last few days, Stephano, I conclude that you are in love,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "In love! stammered the young man."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You think I am in love?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I do not think, my son--I am sure of it; and I have only one reproach to make to you, and that is that you have not made me a confidant of your secret before."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You shall know all, father,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "For the last month, he continued,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have had in my heart a love which nothing can subdue, and the object of my passion is a young girl here, a glance from whose eyes is worth more to me than all the world besides; but she shuns my love, and on every occasion strives to avoid me. She hardly permits me to speak to her for fear that the passion she reads in my eyes will break into words."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Bah! said the old man, merrily;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, if that were only true,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Now, said the old man,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Rosita! Rosita!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, well, my children, what is it you want?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We want Mlle. Rosita,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What, my niece? But is she not with you? I thought it was she whom you were leading just now round the corn sheaves."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That is true, replied one of the foremost of the crowd;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Did you explain to her, asked the old man,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, we told her all that was necessary: that it is an old custom in Panola on harvest day, after having escorted the daughter of the house round the last sheaves of corn, for all her admirers in the village to present her, each in his turn, with a bouquet; that she must then choose the one she loves amongst them by retaining his bouquet, whilst the others are rejected. She answered us by saying that she had only been in Panola a few months, and was therefore not forced to adopt our customs, and leaving us with these words she fled from us and escaped through the little granary door."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The little shrew! Don Pedro exclaimed, who, like an amiable old man, was always on the side of the young folk."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But my friends, he added,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That is just what we have done; but one cannot catch a bird without also having wings. She seemed to fly as we followed her, and on reaching the granary she entered and slammed the door in our faces; so we have come, as a last resource, to you, Don Pedro, to ask her to comply with our wishes."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You are right, replied the old man, with all the gravity of a judge,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "My son, he said,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I will go, father,"
}
]
|
30222 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Rosita, said Don Pedro to his niece, taking her hand,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have made your apologies to your friends for the trick you have played them. It is your turn now to atone for your misdeed, by submitting to an old custom. Among the brave Castilians who surround you there are many suitors for your hand. There must be one among them whom you secretly favour. Your choice is entirely free, and even the favoured one after the ceremony will then have only the right to please you and to merit your hand."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But, uncle----"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I will take no denial, my dear,"
}
]
|
30222 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My name is Geronimo Caldaroz, and I am twenty-five. It has been the talk of the village why I did not marry, and it has been said it was because I had never yet seen a maiden beautiful enough to please me. But now I have found her; it is you, Rosita. Will you accept my bouquet?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Refused! Refused!"
}
]
|
30222 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, my child, he said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, uncle, Rosita replied."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Did you not tell me yourself that I was perfectly free?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Free to choose, without doubt; but not to send all your suitors away."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Pardon me, father, but there still remains one,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Where is he?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Here he is."
}
]
|
30222 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What, Stephano? he said joyfully."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It is your cousin whom----"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, father, replied the young man."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It is she whom I love."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Rosita, I love you, he said, simply."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Will you keep this bouquet which I offer to you?"
}
]
|
30222 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Santa Maria! He also!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Do not condemn me without hearing my justification,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Your justification?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Uncle, she said, after a pause,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "To me!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I will come with you at once,"
}
]
|
30222 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "One word, father, said Stephano."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Does Rosita love me, and will she also become my wife?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You must forget Rosita, replied the old man."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You must tear from your heart even the remembrance of your love."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I shall never forget her, he said, passionately."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "My love for Rosita will only cease with my life."
}
]
|
30222 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Adlemar and Adalifa,"
}
]
|
30222 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I must be careful, the soldier muttered, as he drew his cloak more carefully round him."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "This Spaniard does not look over benevolent."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Who can this man be?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Noble Castilian, said the stranger,"
}
]
|
30222 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "THE STRANGER."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No unarmed man is my enemy, replied Stephano,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Shake hands on it! You are a fine fellow, cried the soldier, holding out his hand. At the same time he drew aside his mantle, and Stephano recognised the uniform worn by the French volunteers of Don Carlos's army."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Now, if you have a drop of anything to drink handy, I will tell you in a few words what has brought me here."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You see before you, he said, with frank abruptness,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Charles Dulaurier, a soldier by birth and profession, lieutenant in the Grenadiers of His Majesty Charles V.--pardon me, Don Carlos. Being stationed some few miles from here, I asked for leave of absence this morning to join some troops which (pardon me) are going to make a raid upon this very village this morning. But, thanks to my foolhardiness in starting off alone, I soon found myself in the hands of guerillas. I escaped. They pursued me. But I, though alone in a strange country and unarmed, led them a nice dance for half an hour. I was just about to fall again into their hands when I came in sight of this house. I duped them by my ruse of pitching my voice in such a manner as to lead them to think I was beyond the village, whilst I at the same time took refuge here. To conclude, my worthy fellow, no doubt the guerillas are not blind, and not finding any trace of me upon the route, will return to Panola. Consequently, if you are a host to my liking you will----"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Conceal you, said Stephano, quickly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You are right! and he glanced round with uneasiness. The lieutenant struck him on the shoulder."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "One minute, he said;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Go on,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I came here to look for a young girl, said the Frenchman, twisting his moustache,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A village in Navarre?"
}
]
|
30222 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But what is the matter?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I know enough, replied the young man in a hollow voice."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The village was Tafalla, and the young girl's name is Rosita."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But what is there in that? cried the lieutenant, who understood nothing of Stephano's emotion."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You know Rosita? She is here? You are silent. Heavens! Is she dead--or married?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, no, replied Stephano, with an effort."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Rosita is here. No doubt she loves you and watches for your return with impatience."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Where, then, shall I find my betrothed?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Softly! whispered Dulaurier as he crept towards the window."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, these are my friends. Where will you hide me?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This man comes here to blast my happiness, and I must protect his life at the peril of my own."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What am I to do?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Take this dagger, said Stephano,"
}
]
|
30222 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "THEY STOLE ALONG."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have a request to make to you, said the young man, clasping his father's hand convulsively."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I want you to let me start at once to join my brothers and to fight for Spain."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Can you then leave your cousin? said Don Pedro, sadly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And you do not know----"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I know more than you, father, more than Rosita herself about this affair, interrupted Stephano."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Is not Rosita betrothed to a French volunteer in Don Carlos's army, and is this not the secret she confided to you on harvest day?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It is true. But how have you discovered it?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "From a man flying from the pursuit of guerillas; no other than the man himself, Lieutenant Charles Dulaurier!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Is it possible?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You see, father, that it is absolutely necessary for me to go, cried Stephano."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I cannot wait until Rosita and Dulaurier are united. Their happiness would be more than I could bear, and I have thought of a plan by which the lieutenant can be saved without putting off my departure. I shall join the troop of guerillas who are seeking Dulaurier in the village. Seeing me become one of themselves their suspicions will be lulled, and I shall save my rival by departing with his enemies."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You are right,"
}
]
|
30222 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What are you going to do?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am going away, replied Stephano."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Farewell, Rosita, be happy. Farewell, father,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He is going, said Rosita, her eyes dim with tears,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "she exclaimed, springing forward."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You cannot part from me thus!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You are keeping me!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, she replied, seizing his hand."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Stay, Stephano, do not go. I implore you!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Remain! cried the young man, passionately."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Remain to see you in the arms of another? Never!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And what if it is you whom I love, Stephano? What if I have never loved anyone but you?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You love me? he repeated, approaching his cousin."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Rosita, for mercy's sake, repeat those words once more, so that I may be sure of having heard aright."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, I love you, repeated the young girl, tenderly;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "For ever, if you wish it! cried the enraptured youth, throwing down his gun and pistols."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Look at me, Rosita, that I may read in your eyes that word which gives me life, and which I have waited for so long. How blind and foolish I have been! But that will be all right now, will it not, my beloved?"
}
]
|
30222 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Stephano! he cried at last."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Remember Lieutenant Dulaurier!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "REMEMBER LIEUTENANT DULAURIER!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ah!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Rosita, said her lover,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Dulaurier! cried the startled girl."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Great Heaven! pardon me, I had forgotten."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If this man, continued Stephano,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, that is what I should answer; but he is not likely to come here, Stephano."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And what if he were here already?"
}
]
|
30222 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Father!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Silence! cried the old man."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Your duty is clear. What if Dulaurier were in the house, Rosita--what if, more faithful than you, he had come to claim his promise, made at the death-bed of your father? I ask you what you would answer."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I should reply to Lieutenant Dulaurier that, before God and man, I am his betrothed bride, and that while he lives no other can be my husband."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come then, my child, prepare to receive your _fiancé_,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You are destroying my happiness!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But in return I give you back your honour, replied Don Pedro."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Look after the lieutenant, for here come the guerillas!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What a dream, and what an awakening! murmured Stephano as he was left alone."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Rosita vows she loves me, and at the same time declares she will never be mine while Dulaurier lives. _While he lives!_ And I must take upon myself the peril of saving him, when I have only to let him----Oh, how despair tempts us to horrible deeds! Is there time to fly, to quit this spot where each thought is torture: to hasten and join the guerillas before they enter the house? For, alas! if they enter now and demand where their enemy is--by Heaven! I shall not have the strength to resist--I must fly!"
}
]
|
30222 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "IT IS TOO LATE!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Malediction--it is too late!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Two sentinels before each door and window, called out the captain to the soldiers who followed him."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "This is the last house in which our prisoner could take refuge, he continued, striking impatiently the butt end of his rifle upon the ground."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Search well, comrades; you know he who takes the Frenchman prisoner is to have the honour of firing the first shot upon him, and is also to receive twenty douros for reward. Thereupon he advanced into the room."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, my good fellow, he said to Stephano;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No one is hidden in this house, replied the young man, with the courage which peril bestows."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The La Sargas are known throughout the country to be devoted to Spain and the Queen. I have three brothers in the national army, and I have just picked up these weapons with the intention of joining your troops."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, have you found anything?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Only a young girl and an old man,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Bring the old man here, said the captain; then he turned to Stephano."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And you, sir, go with my lieutenant and these three men, and show them every room there is ; then he murmured in the lieutenant's ear, slipping at the same time a purse of gold into his hand:"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Spare neither threats nor persuasion to gain this young man over to our side. Whatever it costs, I must recapture our prisoner."
}
]
|
30222 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The bird is snared, or will be in a few minutes, he cried."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Our prisoner, he continued, pointing through the window,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How do you know this?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "From the young man who is upstairs with the lieutenant."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "From Stephano!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ah, ah! laughed the captain,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The lieutenant having discovered nothing, the man went on,"
}
]
|
30222 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Enough, wretch; enough! he cried."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What you say is impossible! It is an infamous calumny! My son is quite incapable of such villainy!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Look, senor,"
}
]
|
30222 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Remain with this fellow, he said, in a tone of contempt, pointing to Stephano,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Very good, captain,"
}
]
|
30222 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Great Heavens! He was there, and heard all! he murmured."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Father!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Call me your father no more, cried the old man, with flaming eyes,"
}
]
|
30222 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "His eye never quits this fatal window, he murmured to himself."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It looks as if he watched to see the success of his perfidy, that he wishes to assure himself that his rival does not escape. Wretch! he burst forth,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ah! it is you, Rosita! said Don Pedro with a bewildered stare."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Wretched man that I am, what was I about to do?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Stephano guarded by two soldiers! she cried."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Holy Virgin! what does this mean, and what has happened?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Keep away from this wretched man! he cried,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Betrayed my betrothed! cried the girl, with horror."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is impossible!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not only has he betrayed him, continued the old man, taking his niece's hand,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "he added, with heartrending despair,"
}
]
|
30222 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "THE POOR OLD MAN BROKE DOWN COMPLETELY."
}
]
|
30222 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dulaurier is dead!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He is saved! cried Stephano, coming forward, and throwing from him as he did so the purse of gold."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, father, yes, Rosita, the lieutenant is safe and sound, and will be with us in a few seconds."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "How can that be?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Before leaving Dulaurier in the pavilion we had arranged that he was to be informed by a pistol shot when he must leave his hiding-place for the granary whilst his enemies were searching the pavilion. You understand now how the guerilla's shot agitated me. For, of course, Dulaurier, taking the report for the signal agreed upon, would leave the pavilion for the granary, and would then fall into the hands of his pursuers. The only plan to save him was to get the soldiers away from the granary, which I did by feigning to betray Dulaurier, by accepting the purse, and pointing out the pavilion as his hiding-place. For a quarter of an hour I have endured the tortures of hell, but I have saved the man who confided in me, and I am still worthy of you both!"
}
]
|
30222 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dulaurier is not in the granary, he cried."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He cannot have taken the pistol shot for my signal. He must have remained, and that report we heard was his death-shot."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Victory! Victory!"
}
]
|
30222 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dulaurier!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Our enemies!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Say rather friends,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But how has all this happened?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "One minute's attention. For half an hour I waited patiently after your departure in the little pavilion, when I heard the signal we arranged on of the pistol shot. I quitted my hiding-place at once, and was preparing to creep towards the granary, when, casting a glance upon the road, I recognised the uniforms of the volunteers of my regiment. Briefly, continued Dulaurier, showing the soldiers who surrounded him,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The volley of which we believed you the victim!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You understand the rest. Not wishing to quit Panola without thanking you, and also wishing to see about that little matter which I mentioned to you this morning, we came on here. And now, he added to Stephano, with the air of a man who has no time to lose,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I must thank you most warmly for all you have done for me."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Anyone else? cried the effusive officer, looking quickly round."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You have a father, a mother, a wife, perhaps? Where are they? This noble old man must be your father,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Are there no ladies in your family?"
}
]
|
30222 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ah! here is one!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Most amiable senora, he began politely,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Good Heavens! he exclaimed,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You are right; it is I, Monsieur Dulaurier,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You can easily understand, my pretty one, what has led me to Panola,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I presume you have come to remind Rosita, answered Don Pedro,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Will you answer me yourself, Rosita? interrupted Dulaurier, marking her extreme pallor and agitation."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You know what I have the right of claiming; are you still able to give it me freely?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Without doubt, she murmured;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Words, nothing but words! thought the lieutenant, who grew pale in his turn."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "All women are weathercocks. It is clear I am superseded, and he bit his lip until it bled."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But I should like to know who is my substitute, and he turned mechanically to Stephano. He found him as mute and as troubled as Rosita. The truth flashed across him."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I cannot blame the brave young man, he murmured to himself,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mademoiselle, he began,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That is enough, senor, said Don Pedro."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But why have you then come to Panola to claim her promise?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Who said that I was here for that purpose? asked Dulaurier, abruptly. Stephano, indeed, recollected that the Frenchman had not said a single word which implied that he came to claim Rosita's hand."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I implore Mademoiselle Rosita to pardon me, pursued Dulaurier,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I PROPOSE THAT WE EXCHANGE RINGS AGAIN."
}
]
|
30222 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dulaurier! said the young man,"
}
]
|
30222 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Farewell, brave Castilians, he cried aloud,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Farewell!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Wheel to the right--forward!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Rosita, said Stephano to his cousin,"
}
]
|
30222 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "James, he said one day as they chanced to sight each other in the awful solitude of Space,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have been thinking over that world of yours, and your crowning absurdity, 'man.' Pray do not become too inflated with weak conceit at my condescending to think about such trivialities; for the fact is, any subject of thought--however hopelessly foolish--is a relief amid the tediousness of Space. Well, I have been reflecting upon that characteristic which you conceive as distinguishing your puppet 'man'--I allude to _intelligence_. I think you suggested that he would possess intelligence?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Very well, continued William."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Now, I have been putting two and two together, and have found out the nature of that quality which you mistake for intelligence; its true name is 'low cunning.' Every fresh piece of absurdity which you have told me touching the tricks of your queer creatures has supplied new evidence of this. Your creatures were to feed upon the substance of the 'world' on which they lived, and, ever increasing in numbers, would logically in course of time find there was not a mouthful apiece. I think we agreed about that? Well, let us consider that period, some time before the creatures should actually become exterminated by the natural evolution of events--the time when all the eatable products of their world would be growing scarce. You went so far as to imagine a great many products----"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes! said James, gazing afar off in the absorption of his imagination."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes--there were eggs, and oysters, and poultry, and mushrooms, and----"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ah!--the very things I've been reflecting about. Well, I've been dreaming that, at the period of which I speak, when all the commodities were becoming scarce, your human beings would agree to make poisonous artificial articles of consumption with which to poison themselves by degrees, and thus reduce the population to convenient limits."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No! cried James, pondering deeply."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Their idea would be to poison not _themselves_, but _each other_!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "POISON."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ah! I see. Then they would make some sort of effort to prevent themselves being poisoned?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, yes; they would pass Adulteration Acts for the purpose."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I see; and any creature who did not wish to be poisoned could take advantage of these Acts to protect himself?"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "If, on the other hand, the complainant should omit to secure the company of a custodian of the peace, or fail to stand on one leg with both hands on the counter, or take the knife in his right hand first, or should leave out the prescribed words, or blink his eye, or stammer, or sneeze, or in any other way fail to observe the regulations of the Act; he would, of course, have no case or remedy. The Adulteration Acts would be extremely stringent----"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Against the victim of adulteration?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ye--es,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "THE SHOP."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ah--well, then, I think we can afford to ignore these Adulteration Acts--like the adulterators and the public authorities would--and proceed with the question of the adulteration. I had a most vivid vision or dream of the details of this adulteration as they would be carried out on your world at the period we are now considering. I imagined that I was actually in a part of your world called 'America,' and that one of your human beings politely invited me to walk through his factory and see how things were made. I think you mentioned 'oysters'----"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "NO CASE."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, said James,"
}
]
|
30222 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "THEY RECEIVED US WITH OPEN ARMS."
}
]
|
30222 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "JUST TASTE THIS ONE."
}
]
|
30222 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The arrangements of the hospital were admirable. The kindliness and attention we received made our five years' sojourn there a time to look back upon with feelings of gratitude. We are assured that, with strict diet and unremitting care, we may last some time yet--possibly even three months."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It was a marvellous vision, said James, fervently, as the voice of William ceased."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Surely after that you must think better of those beings of mine?"
}
]
|
916792 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Didn't you convey the impression that you were poor?"
}
]
|
15886 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "De powerfulles' sehmont she ever had hyeahd in all huh bo'n days."
}
]
|
15886 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Merlatter Mag, who was famed all over the place for having white folk's religion and never"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "and swaying then and wailing in the dark woods, with grim branches waving in the breath of their own excitement, they could hear above the tumult the clamor of the fight, the clashing of the spears, and the ringing of the shields. They could see the conqueror coming home in triumph. Then when he cried,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A-who, I say, a-who is in Gideon's ahmy to-day? and the wailing chorus took up the note,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A-who! it was too much even for frail Cassie, and, deserted by the solicitous sisters, in the words of Mam' Henry,"
}
]
|
15886 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You 'Nelius, don' you let me ketch you th'owin' at ol' mis' guinea-hens no mo'; you hyeah me? or"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hi'am, you come offen de top er dat shed 'fo' you fall an' brek yo' naik all to pieces."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Turn Back Pharaoh's Army, at others"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Jinin' Gideon's Band. The latter was a favorite, for he seemed to have a proprietary interest in it, although, despite the martial inspiration of his name,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Gideon's band"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Bettah tek keer daih, Lucy Jane, Gawd's a-watchin' you; bettah tek keer."
}
]
|
15886 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, I never saw such a house; it seems as if there isn't a soul in it that can do without Gideon. Here I've got him up here to wait on me, and it's Gideon here and Gideon there, and every time I turn around some of you have sneaked him off. Gideon, come here!"
}
]
|
15886 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "that Gideon could start to which Martha could not sing an easy blending second, and never did she open a tune that Gideon did not swing into it with a wonderfully sweet, flowing, natural bass. Often he did not know the piece, but that did not matter, he sang anyway. Perhaps when they were out he would go to her and ask,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Sis' Martha, what was that hymn you stahrted to-day? and she would probably answer,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, dat was jes' one o' my mammy's ol' songs."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, it sholy was mighty pretty. Indeed it was."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, thanky, Brothah Gidjon, thanky."
}
]
|
15886 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oomph, said Mam' Henry, for she commented on everything,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Dey's lak de mo'nin' stahs,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How 'bout dat?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why, Mam' Henry, ain' you nevah hyeahd tell o' de mo'nin' stahs whut sung deyse'ves togeddah?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, I ain't, an' I been livin' a mighty sight longah'n you, too. I knows all 'bout when de stahs fell, but dey ain' nevah done no singin' dat I knows 'bout."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Do heish, Mam' Henry, you sho' su'prises me. W'y, dat ain' happenin's, dat's Scripter."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Look hyeah, gal, don't you tell me dat's Scripter, an' me been a-settin' undah de Scripter fu' nigh onto sixty yeah."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, Mam' Henry, I may 'a' been mistook, but sho' I took hit fu' Scripter. Mebbe de preachah I hyeahd was jes' inlinin'."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, wheddah hit's Scripter er not, dey's one t'ing su'tain, I tell you,--dem two is singin' deyse'ves togeddah."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hit's a fac', an' I believe it."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "An' it's a mighty good thing, too. Brothah Gidjon is de nicest house dahky dat I ever hyeahd tell on. Dey jes' de same diffunce 'twixt him an' de othah house-boys as dey is 'tween real quality an' strainers--he got mannahs, but he ain't got aihs."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Heish, ain't you right!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "An' while de res' of dem ain' thinkin' 'bout nothin' but dancin' an' ca'in' on, he makin' his peace, callin', an' 'lection sho'."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I tell you, Mam' Henry, dey ain' nothin' like a spichul named chile."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Humph! g'long, gal; 'tain't in de name; de biggest devil I evah knowed was named Moses Aaron. 'Tain't in de name, hit's all in de man hisse'f."
}
]
|
15886 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "An' you won't ma'y nobody else but me, Martha?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You know I won't, Gidjon."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But I mus' wait de yeah out?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, an' den don't you think Mas' Stone'll let us have a little cabin of ouah own jest outside de quahtahs?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Won't it be blessid? Won't it be blessid? he cried, and then the kindly moon went under a cloud for a moment and came out smiling, for he had peeped through and had seen what passed. Then they walked back hand in hand to the dance along the transfigured road, and they found that the first part of the festivities were over, and all the people had sat down to supper. Every one laughed when they went in. Martha held back and perspired with embarrassment. But even though he saw some of the older heads whispering in a corner, Gideon was not ashamed. A new light was in his eyes, and a new boldness had come to him. He led Martha up to the grinning group, and said in his best singing voice,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Whut you laughin' at? Yes, I's popped de question, an' she says 'Yes,' an' long 'bout a yeah f'om now you kin all 'spec' a' invitation."
}
]
|
15886 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Wha'd I tell you? wha'd I tell you? and Aunt Sophy replied,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hit's de pa'able of de mo'nin' stahs."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't talk to me 'bout no mo'nin' stahs, the mammy snorted;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Gawd jes' fitted dey voices togeddah, an' den j'ined dey hea'ts. De mo'nin' stahs ain't got nothin' to do wid it."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mam' Henry, said Aunt Sophy, impressively,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "At de ma'ige of de Lamb, oh Lawd, God done gin His 'sent. Dey dressed de Lamb all up in white, God done gin His 'sent. Oh, wasn't dat a happy day, Oh, wasn't dat a happy day, Good Lawd, Oh, wasn't dat a happy day, De ma'ige of de Lamb!"
}
]
|
15886 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What, you scamp! said Dudley Stone."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why, you've got even more sense than I gave you credit for; you've picked out the finest girl on the plantation, and the one best suited to you. You couldn't have done better if the match had been made for you. I reckon this must be one of the marriages that are made in heaven. Marry her, yes, and with a preacher. I don't see why you want to wait a year."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Better still, his master went on;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "--he put his arms on the black man's shoulders,--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I mean if I should die--I'm not going to run off, don't be alarmed--I want you to help your young Mas' Dud look after his mother and Miss Ellen; you hear? Now that's the one promise I ask of you,--come what may, look after the women folks."
}
]
|
15886 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Remember!"
}
]
|
15886 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Would you have me stay?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No! no! I know where your place is, but oh, my brother!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ellen, said the mother in a trembling voice,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We won't burden your heart, Dudley, with our tears, but we will weight you down with our love and prayers."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My baby! my baby!"
}
]
|
15886 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Gideon, said his master, pointing to his uniform,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, suh."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I wish I could take you along with me. But--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mas' Dud,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You remember father's charge to you, take care of the women-folks. He took the servant's hand, and, black man and white, they looked into each other's eyes, and the compact was made. Then Gideon gulped and said"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, suh"
}
]
|
15886 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Gidjon, she said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I's waited a long while now. Mos' eve'ybody else is gone. Ain't you goin'?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But, Gidjon, I wants to be free. I know how good dey've been to us; but, oh, I wants to own myse'f. They're talkin' 'bout settin' us free every hour."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I can wait."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "They's a camp right near here."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I promised."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The of'cers wants body-servants, Gidjon--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Go, Martha, if you want to, but I stay."
}
]
|
15886 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Look here, he said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I want a body-servant. I'll give you ten dollars a month."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I've got to stay here."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But, you fool, what have you to gain by staying here?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm goin' to stay."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why, you'll be free in a little while, anyway."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "All right."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Of all fools, said the Captain."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'll give you fifteen dollars."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I do' want it."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, your girl's going, anyway. I don't blame her for leaving such a fool as you are."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The camp is going to be moved up on this plantation, and there will be a requisition for this house for officers' quarters, so I'll see you again,"
}
]
|
15886 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm goin' to stay,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Martha! Martha!"
}
]
|
15886 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'll make it twenty dollars,"
}
]
|
15886 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come, Gidjon, she plead,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hunt me up when you do come, she said, crying bitterly,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Gideon! He stopped. He crushed his cap in his hands, and the tears came into his eyes. Then he answered,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, Mis' Ellen, I's a-comin'."
}
]
|
15886 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, no, Peggy, she was saying,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Sh,--sh, she said as if she were soothing a baby,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, mammy, mammy, she cried,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have tried so hard to be brave--to be really my father's daughter, but I can't, I can't. Everything I turn my hand to fails. I've tried sewing, but here every one sews for herself now. I've even tried writing, and here a crimson glow burned in her cheeks,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I wouldn't'a' nevah lef' you nohow, honey."
}
]
|
15886 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't know, she went on,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Of course you couldn't. Whut else do you 'spect? Whut you know 'bout mekin' a fortune? Ain't you a Ha'ison? De Ha'isons nevah was no buyin' an' sellin', mekin' an' tradin' fambly. Dey was gent'men an' ladies f'om de ve'y fus' beginnin'."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh what a pity one cannot sell one's quality for daily bread, or trade off one's blue blood for black coffee."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Miss Mime, is you out o' yo' haid?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, I'm not, Mammy Peggy, but I do wish that I could traffic in some of my too numerous and too genteel ancestors instead of being compelled to dispose of my ancestral home and be turned out into the street like a pauper."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Heish, honey, heish, I can' stan' to hyeah you talk dat-away. I's so'y to see dee ol' place go, but you got to go out of it wid yo' haid up, jes' ez ef you was gwine away fo' a visit an' could come back w'en evah you wanted to."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I shall slink out of it like a cur. I can't meet the eyes of the new owner; I shall hate him."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "W'y, Miss Mime, whaih's yo' pride? Whaih's yo' Ha'ison pride?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Gone, gone with the deed of this house and its furniture. Gone with the money I paid for the new cottage and its cheap chairs."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Gone, hit ain' gone, fu' ef you won't let on to have it, I will. I'll show dat new man how yo' pa would 'a' did ef he'd 'a' been hyeah."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What, you, Mammy Peggy?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, me, I ain' a-gwine to let him t'ink dat de Ha'isons didn' have no quality."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Good, mammy, you make me remember who I am, and what my duty is. I shall see Mr. Northcope when he comes, and I'll try to make my Harrison pride sustain me when I give up to him everything I have held dear. Oh, mammy, mammy!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Heish, chile, sh, sh, er go on, dat's right, yo' eyes is open now an' you kin cry a little weenty bit. It'll do you good. But when dat new man comes I want mammy's lamb to look at him an' hol' huh haid lak' huh ma used to hol' hern, an' I reckon Mistah No'thcope gwine to withah away."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Miss Mime'll be down in a minute, she told him, and as he sat in the great old room, and looked about him at the evidences of ancient affluence, his spirit was subdued by the silent tragedy which his possession of it evinced. But he could not but feel a thrill at the bit of comedy which is on the edge of every tragedy, as he thought of Mammy Peggy and her formal reception."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "She let me into my own house, he thought to himself,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mr. Northcope,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, he said,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "was delicate, she thought, but she only said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Let me help you to recovery with some tea. Mammy will bring some, and then she blushed very red."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My old nurse is the only servant I have with me, and she is always mammy to me."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "MAMMY PEGGY CAME MARCHING IN LIKE A GRENADIER."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "I feel very much like an interloper, he said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "fell from Mima's lips, but then she went on, hesitatingly,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I should like to come sometimes to the hill, out there behind the orchard. Her voice choked, but she went bravely on,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Some of my dear ones are buried there."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Go there, and elsewhere, as much as you please. That spot shall be sacred from invasion."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You are very kind,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I hope you will believe me, Miss Harrison, said Bartley, as Mima was starting,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I do not understand you,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I can explain. For some years past my father's condition has kept me very closely bound to him, and both before and after the beginning of the war, we lived abroad. A few years ago, I came to know and love a man, who I am convinced now was your brother. Am I mistaken in thinking that you are a sister of Philip Harrison?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, no, he was my brother, my only brother."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I met him in Venice just before the war and we came to be dear friends. But in the events that followed so tumultuously, and from participation in which, I was cut off by my father's illness, I lost sight of him."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But I don't believe I remember hearing my brother speak of you, and he was not usually reticent."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You would not remember me as Bartley Northcope, unless you were familiar with the very undignified sobriquet with which your brother nicknamed me,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Nickname--what, you are not, you can't be 'Budge'?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am 'Budge' or 'old Budge' as Phil called me."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am so glad to see you, she said, giving him her hand again, and"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mammy, she called,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mr. Northcope is an old friend of brother Phil's!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mas' Phil's,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "La, chile, she exclaimed, settling and patting the cushions of the chair in which he had been sitting,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I wasn't sure that I was standing in the house of my old friend. I only knew that he lived somewhere in Virginia."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He is among those out on the hill behind the orchard,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You have no reason to sorrow, Miss Harrison, said Northcope gently,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Won't you come out and look at his grave?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is the desire that was in my mind."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "To think of his having known Philip,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Now s'posin' you'd 'a' run off widout seein' him, whaih would you been den? You wouldn' nevah knowed whut you knows."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You're right, Mammy Peggy, and I'm glad I stayed and faced him, for it doesn't seem now as if a stranger had the house, and it has given me a great pleasure. It seemed like having Phil back again to have him talked about so by one who lived so near to him."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I tell you, chile, mammy supplemented in an oracular tone,"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "These Southerners, he mused aloud,"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "The old woman not only got his meals and kept him comfortable, trudging over and back every day from the little cottage, but she proved invaluable in the choice of domestic help. She knew her people thereabouts, just who was spry, and who was trifling, and with the latter she would have nothing whatever to do. She acted rather as if he were a guest in his own house, and what was more would take no pay for it. Of course there had to be some return for so much kindness, and it took the form of various gifts of flowers and fruit from the old place to the new cottage. And sometimes when Bartley had forgotten to speak of it before mammy had left, he would arrange his baskets and carry his offering over himself. Mima thought it was very thoughtful and kind of him, and she wondered on these occasions if they ought not to keep Mr. Northcope to tea, and if mammy would not like to make some of those nice muffins of hers that he had liked so, and mammy always smiled on her charge, and said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, honey, yes, but hit do 'pear lak' dat Mistah No'thcope do fu'git mo' an' mo' to sen' de t'ings ovah by me w'en I's daih."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Maybe I'm over soon in asking you, Mima dear, he faltered,"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "He loves me, he loves me, she kept saying to herself and with each repetition of the words, the red came anew into her cheeks. They were still a suspicious hue when she went into the kitchen to find mammy who was slumbering over the waiting dinner."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What meks you so long, honey,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh,--I--I--I don't know, answered the young girl, blushing furiously,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I--I stopped to talk."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why dey ain no one in de house to talk to. I hyeahed you w'en you come home. You have been a powahful time sence you come in. Whut meks you so red? Then a look of intelligence came into mammy's fat face,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oomph,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh mammy, don't look that way, I couldn't help it. Bartley--Mr. Northcope has asked me to be his wife."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Asked you to be his wife! Oomph! Whut did you tell him?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I didn't tell him anything. I was so ashamed I couldn't talk. I just ran away like a silly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oomph, said mammy again,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, I don't know. Don't you think he's a very nice young man, Mr. Northcope, mammy? And then his father's so nice."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I doan' see whaih yo' Ha'ison pride is, she said;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, mammy,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You do' know nothin' 'bout his quality. You a Ha'ison yo'se'f. Who is he to be jumped at an' tuk at de fust axin'? Ef he wants you ve'y bad he'll ax mo' dan once."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You needn't have reminded me, mammy, of who I am, said Mima."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I had no intention of telling Mr. Northcope yes. You needn't have been afraid for me."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now don't talk dat 'way, chile. I know you laks him, an' I do' want to stop you f'om tekin' him. Don't you say no, ez ef you wasn' nevah gwine to say nothin' else. You jes' say a hol'in' off no."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I like Mr. Northcope as a friend, and my no to him will be final."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "He proposed to me because he pitied me, oh, the shame of it! He turned me out of doors, and then thought I would be glad to come back at any price."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "She was only trying to be kind to father and me, he said,"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Men ain' whut dey used to be, she said,"
}
]
|
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