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34148 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Thou hast given me no reason, girl, he whispered to her,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If thou wilt stand by thy pledge, father, answered Anne,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Of a surety I will stand by my pledge, girl; but I cannot rest satisfied till I hear thy reason for the confidence thou reposest in the clemency of the Scottish leader, whose name is a terror to every enemy of his country."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Nay, father, I am now trafficking with thee--driving a bargain, as thou sayest, replied she, with a smile, which the still terrified Fleming could not for the soul of him understand."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The bargain is concluded, and I cannot, for my honour, say more, even to my father."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Tell me, man, cried Peter, to the Highlander, who still stood guarding the door, with the drawn sword in his hand--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hoigh, hoigh, man! replied Duncan;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I will give thee money, my brave preserver, rejoined Peter, as he ran forward."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Let me escape, and I will reward thee with ten nobles. Here they are--see, see--it is meet thou shouldst have them, seeing thou wilt get no share of the spoils of the city."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Keep him securely, whispered Anne, in the ear of the Highlander,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Thou art mad, Anne. What means the rebellious wench? cried Peter, angrily."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Thou hast become a trafficker with the enemies of thy father. Henceforth I have no faith in thee. Wilt thou not let me free, good Master Mohr?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "To pe surely, she will pe keeping her prisoner, said he, in aid of the imputed design of the fair accomplice, and with a twinkle in his eye."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Te auld merchant's head will pe worth more than te ten nobles, she will pe thinking."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dost thou not hear, Anne, that I am, as I suspected, doomed to lay my head on the block? cried Peter again."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Thou hast apparently some power over the savage, he added, in a whisper;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have told thee that thou art safe, and thou wilt not listen to me, replied she."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Thou oughtst to be thankful for thy condition. Hearest thou not the groans of the dying citizens amidst the loud clang of arms? Thousands are now dying, and thou hast a royal guard to save thee from harm; yet art thou grumbling at thy fate!"
}
]
|
34148 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Let Peter of Ghent and his fair daughter Anne be called to our presence,"
}
]
|
34148 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What does that inhabitant of old Scotland deserve, he said, as he fixed his eyes on Peter,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Speak, sirrah!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What it meriteth in the mind of Scotland's lawful king, replied Peter, at length;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Flattery is no atonement for rebellion,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "God have mercy upon me! cried Peter of Ghent."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Thou knowest, my liege, that I had no power to resist the command of the governor, when he demanded of me a thousand nobles; nor could I resist thy higher authority, wert thou to ask of me to lay another thousand at this moment at thy royal feet."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Thou wouldst now even bargain for thy head, as thou didst for the marriage of thy fair daughter, cried Bruce."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Is it not true, sir, that thou didst sell the maiden to the traitor Oliphant?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is even true that I did make it a condition of the advance of the thousand nobles, that he should fulfil the intentions he had manifested towards my daughter; yet I was not the less necessitated to give the money, seeing it would have been taken from me otherwise."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Then what does the man merit who sells his daughter for the liberties of the country by whose industry and means he liveth? replied the king."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I put it to the nobles here assembled."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The heading-block--the heading-block,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Will she not yet throw off her veil?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Lead Peter of Ghent to the block,"
}
]
|
34148 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Is this the reward, my liege, she said, in a clear, tuneful voice,"
}
]
|
34148 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is the privilege of beauty, said the king, still smiling,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And he undid her own riband from his arm, and put it around the neck of the supplicant."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The colour of this streamer shall afterwards be that of the banner of Perth. Thy father is safe in life and limb; but tell us, fair damsel, what other method could we have adopted, to gratify our sense of justice and our love of beauty, than to show thy father that he owes his safety to thee, and to make thee throw off the veil that concealeth so fair a face?"
}
]
|
34148 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "By the patron saint of the house of Leon, cried the Frenchman,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If thou art Rolande de Leon, said Anne, as she rose, by the hand of the king,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ha, well timed! cried Bruce."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hear the command of thy liege sovereign. We command Anne of Ghent to give the light of heaven to that occluded organ, which is so well entitled to see the glitter of the sword of knighthood, and the charms of her who restores it to its natural rights."
}
]
|
34148 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Rise not yet, said Bruce, when he saw the operation concluded; and, taking his sword, he touched the back of the squire, and pronounced the words,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Rise, Sir Rolande de Leon, one of the bravest knights that it has been our good fortune to see fighting under the blue banner of Scotland."
}
]
|
34148 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "On Fastening's E'en we had a rocking"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "for more than fifty years. Yet my early boyhood was familiar with these social senile and juvenile festivities. _There_ still sits Janet Smith, in her toy-mutch and check-apron, projecting at intervals the well-filled spindle into the distance. Beside her is Isabel Kirk, elongating and twirling the yet unwound thread. Nanny Nivison occupies a _creepy_ on the further side of the fire (making the third Fate!), with her shears. Around, and on bedsides, are seated Lizzy Gibson, with her favoured lad; Tam Kirkpatrick, with his jo Jean on his knee; Rob Paton the stirk-herd; and your humble servant. And"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The story of past times; the report of recent love-matches and miscarriages; the gleeful song, bursting unbid from the young heart, swelling forth in beauty and in brightness like the waters from the rock of Meribah; the occasional female remonstrance against certain _welcome_ impertinences, in shape of,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Come now, Tam--nane o' yer nonsense."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Will! I say, be peaceable, and behave yersel afore folk. 'Od, ye'll squeeze the very breath out o' a body."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Till, in a social glass o' strunt, They parted off careering On sic a night."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ye've heard a lilting at our ewes-milking."
}
]
|
34148 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The labour much of man and dog"
}
]
|
34148 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Weer up that ewe, Jenny, lass. Wha kens but her woo may yet be a blanket for you and ye ken wha to sleep in!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Haud yer tongue, Tammie, and gang hame to yer books and yer schoolin. Troth, it will be twa days ere the craws dirty your kirk riggin!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Troth, Jenny, that ewe will waur ye; 'od I think ye hae gotten haud o' the auld tup himsel. He's as powerfu, let me tell ye, as auld Francie, wham ye kissed sae snug last nicht ayont the peat-mou."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Troth, at weel, Tam, ye're a fearfu liar. They wad be fonder than I am o' cock birds wha wad gie tippence for the stite o' a howlet."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Howlet here, howlet there, Jenny, ye ken weel his auld brass will buy you a new pan."
}
]
|
34148 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sycorax, toads, beetles, bats, light on him who shall first invent a reaping-machine! The best of all reaping-machines is"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "whether brawny or muscular, or soft and rounded. The old woman of sixty sits all year long at her domestic occupations--you would deem her incapable of any out-door exertions; but, at the sound of the harvest-horn, she renews her youth, and sallies forth into the harvest-field, with hook over shoulder, and a heart buoyant with the spirit of the season, to take her place and drive her rig with the youngest there. The half-grown boy and girl of fourteen are mingled up in duty and in frolic, in jest and jibe, and jeer and laugh, with the stoutest and the most matured. Mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, and, above and beyond all,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "mix and mingle in one united band, for honest labour and exquisite enjoyment; and when at last the joyous kirn is won--when the maiden of straw is borne aloft and in triumph, to adorn for twelve months the wall of the farmer's ben--when the rich and cooling curds-and-cream have been ram-horn-spooned into as many mouths as there are persons in the"
}
]
|
34148 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, to feel as I have felt, Or be what I have been!"
}
]
|
34148 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ah, little did thy mother think, That day she cradled thee, What lands thou hadst to travel in, What death thou hadst to dee!"
}
]
|
34148 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There's no a star in a' the cary,"
}
]
|
34148 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The bleezing ingle, and the clean hearth-stane"
}
]
|
34148 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "or some such amusement. At school, Nanny had ever a faithful defender and avenger in me; and I have even purloined apples and gooseberries from the castle garden--and all for the love I bore"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Is there a man whose blood is warm within him"
}
]
|
34148 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Will Mather, and such was"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Nancy Morrison"
}
]
|
34148 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "John Scott! said the son, in a firm and terrible tone, grasping his parent meantime convulsively round the neck--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "John Scott of Auchincleuch, _I am thy son_!"
}
]
|
34148 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But who are you that makes this averment?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am thy son, father--oh, I am thy son!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, replied the parent, after a convulsive solemn sob--(O Heaven! thou art just!)--"
}
]
|
34148 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Peat-casting Time,"
}
]
|
34148 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My frolicsome days will sune be owre, she cried, laughing;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Weel dune, Nancy! cried I;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There's the Laird o' Auchincleuch coming, cried Peggy Chalmers, one of the peat-casters, who was standing aside along with several others."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He's nae langer the daft Will Mather, wha liked a jump as weel as the blithest swankie o' the barnyard. Siller maks sair changes; and yet, wha wad exchange the Will Scott of Auchincleuch, your rich bridegroom, Nancy, for the Will Mather, your auld lover? Dinna tempt Providence, my hinny! The laird winna like to see his bride jumpin frae knowe to knowe like a daft giglet, within a week o' her marriage."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Tout! cried Nancy, bursting out into a loud laugh;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Weel dune, Nancy!"
}
]
|
34148 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Here is a better moss-brow,"
}
]
|
34148 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now!"
}
]
|
34148 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There is a silent sorrow here, A grief I'll ne'er impart; It breathes no sigh, it sheds no tear, But it consumes my heart."
}
]
|
34148 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dear happy scenes of innocence and ease-- Scenes of my youth, when every sport could please!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "King o' Cantilon,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and"
}
]
|
34148 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Was fresher than the morning rose When the dew wets its leaves--unstain'd and pure As is the lily or the mountain snow."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "and scarcely thought of either the past or the future, being so completely engrossed with the present. Time flew by on angel wings, fleeting as bright, and the period of my examination, previous to my receiving license, at last approached. I had all the while a secret misgiving that I would not stand a trial, in the Presbytery of Edinburgh in particular; but I had no other residence for several years, and, consequently, no other way of becoming a licentiate. As good fortune would have it, the mother of my betrothed, through her interest with the Duke of Queensberry's factor, had every chance of procuring me a presentation the moment I was qualified to accept of it; and both she and her daughter would as soon have dreamed that I would fail in opening my eyes, as in obtaining the indispensable requisite of a license. What I had anticipated, however, actually took place: I was found so deficient in the classics of Greece and Rome, that my license was delayed, and I was remitted for twelve months to my studies. This was a degree of disgrace and degradation which altogether unmanned me. I could not face my beloved Mary, or her mother, or any of my own friends and acquaintances, under such circumstances. Sleep fled my eyes, and my mind became unhinged. Existence itself became a positive, insupportable misery. I fled to the mountains; but they, through all their glens and streams, had tongues that syllabled beloved names, which I wished, were it possible, to forget. Wherever I went, the horrors of the past were ever present. People seemed to me to stop and point the finger of scorn at me from every street and doorway. At last, in a fit of despair, I rashly resolved on self-destruction, and plunged headlong into Leith harbour. I have the sound of the waters still in my ears, and that sound will, I verily believe, remain till that of the last trumpet shall mingle with it. When I awoke from seeming nonentity, I was surrounded by many and unknown faces; and my passage back to life was more terrific and painful by far than my exit. I had been for some time in a warm bed, and undergoing the means of resuscitation."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Much kinder, thought I,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "My name, parentage, &c., having been ascertained, my father was written to, and I was kept in close custody till his arrival. My father was a respectable farmer in Dumfries-shire, and immediately hurried me away to my native glen. My mother met me with tears; but they were those of sympathy and affection, and one word of reproach she never uttered. I became gradually more and more calm: but at times the thoughts of the paradise which I had lost, and the hell I had earned, would throw me absolutely into convulsions. The calmness which gathered over my soul was not that of resignation--it was the settled gloom of despair. Religion was talked of and pressed upon me; but as yet I had no settled views on that subject. I neither believed nor disbelieved: I was willing, when the subject obtruded itself upon my thoughts, to get rid of it the best way I could. At last my melancholy gradually undermined a naturally good constitution, and it was manifest to my medical adviser that I was verging towards that degree of weakness and decay which, under various distinctive appellations, is sure to terminate in death. A change of scene was urged, and I was hurried away to Saturness Point, that I might inhale the sea breeze, and be interested in new objects. This measure was at first partially successful; but, happening to see a newspaper one day, in which the settlement of my more steady companion in the very church which I had once destined for myself was mentioned, and reading in the very same page a notice of his marriage with my beloved Mary, I became immediately frantic. For years my mind was so far unhinged that a person was appointed to watch my motions, and guard me from self-destruction."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, that cursed medal! was I heard again and again to exclaim;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The Shepherd of Israel neither slumbers nor sleeps. My sheep hear my voice. He shall separate the sheep from the goats. The streams that run amongst the hills. Mount Carmel, Mount Zion, Mount Horeb."
}
]
|
34148 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And better thence again, and better still, In infinite progression."
}
]
|
34148 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "of booths--the gay and well-dressed parties of gentlefolks--the cheerful, joyous faces of the lower orders--the handsome equipages--the green at a distance, swarming with cattle of various kinds--with a bright and genial sun shining over all--formed altogether a pleasing and animated scene. Pleased as I was, however, I caught myself several times involuntarily yawning, and turning my eyes towards the barn; and I was not at all sorry when the welcome sound of the drum announced that"
}
]
|
34148 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Old Ship."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Sandford!--in the name of all that's strange, is that you?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My name is Sandford Grant, said he,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Look up at that board--perhaps it will assist your recollection, as it did mine."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Old Ship! exclaimed he, with a look of wonder and inquiry."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The Old Ship! he repeated, slowly and distinctly, and then he gazed long and earnestly in my face, till at length the look of indecision and doubt gave place to a sudden glow of delighted recognition."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Douglas!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The same, my dear fellow. It is ten long years since we met, and time has left his marks upon us both; no wonder we did not recognise each other at first; particularly as it was in such a very different scene we last met, or rather parted."
}
]
|
34148 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "For three years we were class-fellows and friends; for we were just of the same age, and a Scottish feeling of clannish regard made us cling to each other more perhaps than we otherwise would have done. He was a handsome, spirited boy, or rather child, and was always ready, at a word, to fight my battles as well as his own. He was a great favourite on account of his frank, liberal disposition; but the most unlucky little dog that ever lived. If ever there was any mischief going on, he was sure to be concerned in it, and as sure of being discovered and punished; if there was only one puddle in the road on a Sunday, he, somehow or other, contrived to go out of his way to tumble into it, dirty his white stockings, and be recommended by the mistress to her husband's tender mercies. In fact, he was constantly getting into scrapes; so much so that"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Sandford's luck"
}
]
|
34148 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sandford's luck."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You would not say so, my dear fellow, said he,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nonsense, said I;"
}
]
|
34148 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My old luck,"
}
]
|
34148 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Thank goodness! there is a breeze at last! said Captain Driver; and in half-an-hour's time the Dolphin was once more dancing along, like a living creature, over the waves. During the night, the wind drew gradually round to the northward; and before morning we had a fine steady north-east trade, which carried us as far as twenty-nine degrees north. From this time nothing particular occurred, till we arrived nearly in the parallel of the English Channel--the Lizard bearing about north-east-by-east of us, fifteen hundred miles distant. Here, after a succession of south-easterly breezes, we had another taste of"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Sandford's luck,"
}
]
|
34148 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Here's a pretty business! said Captain Driver."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We will give them a run for it, however."
}
]
|
34148 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Talk away, my boys, said the gallant little captain."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have no time to return the compliment. If I can only keep clear of you till dark, I will weather you yet."
}
]
|
34148 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now, my lad, said Driver to the man at the helm,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Put the helm hard a-starboard!"
}
]
|
34148 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hurrah, my little beauty! said Captain Driver, apostrophising his ship;"
}
]
|
34148 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sandford's luck, again, said I."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Poor fellow, how strange it is that such a fatality always seems to attend him!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You forget, said Captain Driver,"
}
]
|
34148 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And now, my dear Sandford, said I,"
}
]
|
34148 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "After a few hours spent in repairing damages, and in vigorous exercise at the pumps of the privateer, the Hawk, with her prize in tow, stood to the northward and eastward; and in a few days the Hercule, with the red ensign proudly floating above the flag of France, followed her captor into Spithead. As soon as I possibly could, I hastened up to town, where I found a letter lying for me at my agent's, to be delivered as soon as the Dolphin arrived (my friends knew I had taken my passage in that ship), begging me to hasten over to Ireland immediately, to attend the death-bed of a maternal uncle. I arrived in Dublin in time to attend the old gentleman's funeral, and to find, to my great surprise, that he had left the whole of his Irish property and a large estate in this country to his grateful nephew, on condition that I took his name. Fortune was tired of plaguing me at last. I was obliged to remain nearly three years in Ireland, in order to arrange matters satisfactorily with my agent, and to put everything in train for making my tenants as comfortable as possible. My other estate is in Perthshire, where I shall be delighted to enjoy the pleasure of _your_ society, until you are wearied of _ours_.--I say ours, because I have a new friend to introduce to you in the person of my wife."
}
]
|
34148 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mr Douglas, said she,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am delighted to see you; often and often has Sandford talked over your mutual adventures, and regretted the evil destiny that separated him from his earliest and dearest friend. Your character is so familiar to me, that I feel as if, instead of addressing a stranger, I were talking to an old friend. I hope you will soon learn to look upon all here in the same light."
}
]
|
34148 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This is an unexpected pleasure, Miss Sandford, said I."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Your brother wished to give me an agreeable surprise, I suppose; for he never told me that you formed one of his family party."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sandford may have neglected to mention his sister to you, Mr Grant, said she, her bright eyes sparkling with animation, and giving life and energy to her features;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Upon my word, Ned Douglas, muttered I to myself, when I was comfortably settled into my soft bed,"
}
]
|
34148 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What strange beings sailors must be! said Alice to me one evening;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Do you remember that strange old fellow, Rodney, the quartermaster, said Grant,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come, Mr Douglas, said Alice,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, Miss Alice, I will endeavour to gratify your love of the novel and marvellous; but, remember, the story I am about to tell is Rodney's, not mine. You talked of the superstition of sailors--I will repeat you one of his ghost stories, as it is less improbable than most of his yarns; and I know for a fact that there were numbers besides Rodney who firmly believed it."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, but, Douglas, said Sandford,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, do, Mr Douglas--now do! It will add so greatly to the effect of the story; and I am sure you will not say anything to shock our ears."
}
]
|
34148 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Fisherman's walk"
}
]
|
34148 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There was no answering such a truism; so I thanked the old man for his yarn, and giving him a stiff'ner,[4] when the watch was over, turned into my snug cot, little dreaming that I would ever repeat the story on the banks of the Tay."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Thank ye, Mr Douglas, for your 'yarn,' said Alice,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I really think you would make as good a 'spinner of yarns,' as you call it, as old Rodney himself."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What became of old Rodney, did you ever hear?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes. He was lost from the Dundas Indiaman, poor fellow! some years ago. I used often to be talking of him on board the Dolphin, and Captain Driver told me that he knew the man, and that he had heard his fate. He went out to put additional lashings on the sheet-anchor in a heavy gale of wind, a sea struck the bow, and tore him away while clasping the anchor in his arms. He was swept twenty yards from the ship, poor fellow! at once, and all hopes of saving him were at an end. He was an excellent swimmer, and was seen to take off his pea-jacket with the greatest coolness, and, whenever he rose on the top of a sea, he was seen waving his hat for assistance; at last he was seen on the crest of a sea, but when it rose again Rodney was gone----"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Where many a true heart has gone before him!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How happy ought you and I to be, Douglas, enjoying all the comforts of a cheerful home, while so many brave fellows are exposed to all the storms and dangers of the deep!"
}
]
|
34148 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Lay her i' the earth; And from her pure and unpolluted flesh May violets spring!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But its beauty is of a quiet, unimposing description; the characteristic feature of the landscape which would strike the eye of a spectator who surveyed it from the highest neighbouring eminence, is simply--repose. There are no mountains, properly so called, within a circuit of many miles--none of those natural pyramids which, in various parts of our beloved land of mountain and of flood, of battle and of song, rise in majestic grandeur, like columns of adamant to support the vault of heaven. The nearest are situated at such a distance that they appear like clouds, and might readily be mistaken for such, but for their death-like stillness, and the everlasting monotony of their outline. No waterfalls hurl their bolts of liquid crystal into dark, frowning, wave-worn chasms, which had echoed to the thunder of their fall since the birth of time. There is no far-spreading forest--no yawning ravine, with"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "--no beetling cliff or precipice,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "with brushwood, as Milton hath it. There is nothing of the grand, the sublime, the terrible, or the magnificent--there is only quiet; or, if the terms do not sound affected to"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "modest, unassuming beauty, such as a rainbow, were it perpetually present in the zenith, might form a characteristic and appropriate symbol of. Nature has not here wrought her miracles of beauty on a Titanic scale. What, then, is so attractive about Grassyvale? it will be asked. We are not sure but we may be as much stultified with this question as was the child in Wordsworth's sweet little poem,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We are Seven"
}
]
|
34148 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "in the rear constitutes no inappropriate appendage. There is one of those dwellings conspicuous from the rest by its standing apart from them, and by an additional air of comfort and neatness which it wears, and which seems to hallow it like a radiant atmosphere. It is literally covered with a network of ivy, honeysuckle, and jasmine, the deep green of whose unvarnished leaf renders more conspicuous"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The windows are literally darkened by a multitude of roses, which seem clustering and crowding together to gain an entrance, and scatter their"
}
]
|
34148 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Weep not for her whose mortal race is o'er; She is not lost, but only gone before."
}
]
|
34148 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, call it _fair_, not pale!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The countenance, in general, affords an index of the mental character--it takes its"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "as it were, from the predominant workings of that inward principle which is the source of thought and feeling. It is there that thought and feeling, those subtle essences, are made visible to the eye--it is there that mind may be seen. The most casual observer could not fail to perceive that the soul which spoke eloquently in the eye,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "of May Darling, was a worshipper of nature, of poetry, and of virtue; for they are often combined--they have a natural relation to one another; and, when they exist simultaneously in one individual, a mind so constituted has a capacity for enjoying the most exalted pleasure of which humanity is susceptible. May Darling was indeed imaginative and sanguine in a very high degree; and books of a romantic or dramatic character were mines of"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Many are poets who have never penn'd Their inspirations."
}
]
|
34148 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Amongst the other accomplishments of our heroine, skill in music was not the least prominent. Not that she excelled in those intricate graces which are often had recourse to by vocalists to conceal a bad voice, and atone for want of feeling and expression; but her"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "had any pernicious influence over her mind. She was neither puffed up with vain conceit, nor display of haughty reserve and distance towards those who numbered fewer worshippers than herself; still humility of heart, which was"
}
]
|
34148 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "So pass'd their life--a clear united stream, By care unruffled; till, in evil hour----"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "but in lighthearted"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "--full of eagerness and expectation, like the Jews to the Pool of Bethesda, when the angel was expected to make his annual descent, and impart a healing virtue to its waters; for there there is to be found variety of amusement for every mind--from the Katerfelto wonderer,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "down to the more humble establishment of the halfpenny showman, with his"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "his"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "or"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But, on the occasion to which we refer, there was an exhibition in the shape of a theatrical booth, which presented extraordinary attractions for May Darling; and, accordingly, after deliberately balancing the gratification which she anticipated with the expense which it would cost (her exchequer was, of course, not very rich), she at length found herself comfortably seated near the front of the stage. The tragedy of"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "George Barnwell was going off with prodigious _eclat_; and the performers had arrived at that scene where the hero is about to assassinate his uncle, when the insecure props that supported the gallery began to indicate a disposition to disencumber themselves of their burden, and at last finally gave way. The confusion which now ensued, not to mention the shrieks and other vocal notes of terror and dismay, it is needless to describe--these have nothing to do with our tale. Barnwell, instead of imbruing his hands in innocent blood, even"
}
]
|
34148 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "--her love--the love of Desdemona, pure, exalted, all-enduring, such as death alone could quench--her wo and her fate, so replete with all that can agonise the human soul, and awaken its profoundest sympathies;--of Ophelia--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "the young, the beautiful, and the gentle--her devoted, child-like affection, her mournful distraction, and her untimely doom;--of Miranda, the island bride--the being of enchantment--half-earthly, half-heavenly--around whom the spirits of the air hovered, and ministered unto as vassals;--of Imogen, the fair and faithful--the patient, long-suffering, and finally fortunate Imogen;--of Cordelia--she of the seraph-spirit, pure and peaceful--whose love for a father surpassed that of the Roman daughter;--of Perdita,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "--the shepherdess and the princess;--of Juliet--the martyr of passion--she who drew poison from earth's sweetest flower, love, and died thereby; by love's own flame"
}
]
|
34148 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "These things to hear Would Desdemona seriously incline; But still the house affairs would draw her thence; Which ever as she could with haste despatch She'd come again, and with a greedy ear Devour up his discourse."
}
]
|
34148 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sweet hour that wakes the wish and melts the heart!"
}
]
|
34148 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And fades at last into a spirit from heaven!"
}
]
|
34148 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This touches your feelings, Henry, said May;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Nay, dearest love, said Wilkinson;"
}
]
|
34148 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They say he's gaun to learn folk ellykeashun,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And what's that, Janet?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ne'er a bit o' me kens very weel, rejoined Janet;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ay! ay! that's an idle kind o' way o' makin ane's bread, sighed Nelly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's naething else than beggin. He'd better pit a nappin-hammer in his hand, and tak the roadside for an honest livelihood."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "said Janet."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm sair mistaen if he's no a hempie; and we'll maybe hear mair aboot him yet than some folks wad like to ken o'. I never liked your land-loupers and spoutin gentry a' my days. They're nae better than tinklers, that carry aff whatever they lay their hands on, nae matter whether it's beast or body. It cowes the gowan hoo sae sensible a man as John Darling wad e'er hae looten his dochter tak up wi' sic-like clam-jamphrey. But he was aye owre easy wi' his family, and gied them owre muckle o' their ain wull frae the first. But the mother was sair to blame in pittin sic daft-like notions intil a bairn's head as to read playactorin books and novels. Wae am I to say sae, noo that she's whar the Lord wull."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Is't true, Janet, that they're to be coupled i' the kirk? asked Nelly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They say the minister's taen an unco likin to the lad; and, to mak things look as genteel as possible, he's offered the use o' the kirk for marryin them in; and's to gie them a ploy forbye, after it's a' owre."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Guid faith, it's a true sayin, 'The fat sow gets a' the draff,' rejoined Janet."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It wad be lang or he did a turn like that for ony puir body like oorsels. The birkie doesna stand in need o' cash; for he gies saxpence to this ane, and a shillin to the tither ane, for gangin errans. He micht hae provided something for the waddin folks doun at Michael Crummie's, whase tred's no sae brisk noo, sin' that kick-up wi' him and the mason-lodge folk, wha swore he gied them up ill whusky--and that was maybe nae lee. He ne'er, since ever I mind, keepit the real stuff, like that o' mine. But see, Nelly, whatna puir, waebegone-lookin cratur's that comin alang the road, scarcely able to trail ae leg after anither? and a bairn, too, help us a'!"
}
]
|
34148 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Five miles guid, said Janet Baird, and continued--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But ye'll no think o' gaun there the nicht; it's gettin dark, and ye've mair need o' a while's rest; and maybe ye wadna be the waur o' something to support nature; for, wae's me! ye do look thin and hungert like! Tak her in by, Nelly, and I'll fetch her some cordial, as weel as a morsel to eat."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ye'll hae travelled a gey bit the day, na, I sudna wonder?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, said the stranger, whom we shall now designate as Mrs B----."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Since morning I have prosecuted my journey with all the speed which want and weariness would permit of. But these were nothing, did I only know how it was to terminate."
}
]
|
34148 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It'll be the guidman that ye're gaun to meet at H----? said Janet."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He'll be in the manufacturing line, nae doot; for there's little else dune there; and, indeed, that itsel has faun sair aff sin' that dirt o' machinery was brocht in to tak the bread oot o' the puir man's mou."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes--no; he is not in that line, nor do I know, indeed, if he is to be found there at all. But--but--excuse me, kind friends, for showing a little reserve touching one who----"
}
]
|
34148 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He never saw thee, my little Henry, my sweet boy! Methinks, that cherub smile of innocence which lies upon that countenance would be powerful enough to melt the icy feelings of his soul, and recall ----. Pardon me, kind friends, she continued;"
}
]
|
34148 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Rambler, never to return. The sun arose and set, and arose again and again, and week after week, but still he came not; nor was she ever able to obtain the faintest trace of him. Her health began to droop, and, in the depth of her humiliation and misery, like the prodigal of old, she was compelled to seek for shelter under the paternal roof. Her father received her even with kindness; for time, the softener of affliction, the soother of wrath, had not passed over his head without exercising its due influence upon his feelings. Here she gave birth to a child, the baby which now lay at her breast. Time passed away, and still no intelligence of her runaway husband reached her, till,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "she said,"
}
]
|
34148 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Can it be? she at last exclaimed, with wild emotion--"
}
]
|
34148 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is to you, then, she said, after recovering from her surprise--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It is, he replied;"
}
]
|
34148 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Base, inhuman miscreant!"
}
]
|
34148 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Henry, she said, holding up their child, and stretching forth her arms--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Henry, look on this dear pledge of our affection, the child of love, though born in bitterness and tears, the offspring of your choice--look on him, Henry, and let the voice of conscience in your breast, which must be heard now or hereafter, plead in his behalf. The helpless darling innocent--of what crime has he been guilty, that his natural protector should cast him forth to meet the buffetings of fate without a shield--that he should be launched upon the sea of life without an oar? If not for my sake, at least for the sake of little Henry--for he bears your name--restore us both to honour and society, by returning to the path of duty. The arms that have so often embraced you will again encircle the neck to which they have clung so often and so fondly. O Henry, Henry! reflect for an instant on my destitute outcast condition--without you, I am a weed cast from the rock, to be driven whithersoever the storm sets wildest. Think what my sufferings have been and must be!--God alone can estimate them. Henry, hear me. Stay but one instant--Henry, Henry!"
}
]
|
34148 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am coming--I am coming! I knew we would be in time!--I knew we would be in time! He is there!--he--he!----Who?"
}
]
|
34148 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "May Darling, hear me--do not curse me--I am miserable enough without the malison of her whom---- But his feelings, for a moment, choked his utterance."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Through a thousand dangers and difficulties have I sought this interview, only that I might obtain your forgiveness, and acceptance of this small gift. Here he flung a purse down by her side."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Say you forgive me, May--breathe but the word, and in a few days an ocean shall roll between us."
}
]
|
34148 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed."
}
]
|
34148 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Here's a bonny day, sir, said old Willie Grant,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, I canna be fashed,"
}
]
|
34148 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Willie, tie yer whings,[5] and dinna let yer shoon be shaughlin aff yer feet in that gate, or ye maun gang barefoot. Folk shouldna hae shoon that dinna ken hoo to wear them."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I canna be fashed, faither,"
}
]
|
34148 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ay, man! says he,"
}
]
|
34148 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Willie, laddie, gie me aff your stockings instantly. Preserve us! the callant has holes in their heels ye micht put yer nieve through!--There's what ye've dune wi' your running about without yer whings tied."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hoot, mother, cried I,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I canna be fashed--darn them again' nicht."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'll '_canna be fashed_' ye--ye lazy monkey, ye. Did your faither no gie ye aneugh for that no ten minutes syne, and ye'll tell me ony siccan a story!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'll _canna be fashed_ ye! And at last she threw aff my shoon, and pulled the stockings aff my legs, and pushed me awa frae her wi' a great drive, crying,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Now, only let me hear ye making use o' thae words again, and ye'll maybe see what I can be fashed to do."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh dear me! thought I,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Kick awa there, my man, said my mother--for she was a woman that never got into what ye could call a passion in her family, as I have seen some mothers do--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "says she;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I canna be fashed"
}
]
|
34148 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now, bairns, haud awa to your beds, and before school-time the morn, gang and howe the potatoes, or weed the corn."
}
]
|
34148 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What!--what!--hoots!--I canna be fashed!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What's that he's saying?--I'll _be fashed_ him!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Where's my stockings? and to another,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Where's my jacket?"
}
]
|
34148 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Get up, Willie--ye haena your task yet."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "in guid braid Scotch. The words literally seemed born wi' me. And, as I was telling ye about getting up to learn my tasks in the morning, many, many is the time, in the cauldest day o' winter, that my favourite phrase has caused the tawse to warm my hands, when the fingers o' a' the rest o' the scholars were dinnlin wi' cauld, and they were holding them at their mouths, and blowing their hot breath on them to take out the frost. My faither should have paid no coal-money for me. And more than this, the four insignificant and carelessly-uttered words which I allude to, while I was at school, always kept me near the bottom o' the class; or, if I rose one or two towards the top, it was purely on account o' others having been awa from the school for a day, or half-a-day, and having to take the foot o' the class, on account o' their absence, as a matter o' course. Often and often I could have tripped their heels, and taken my place aboon them--and the teacher kenned it as weel, and many a weary time has he said to me,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, ye stupid stirk! why do ye stand there? why didna ye trap him?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I couldna be fashed, sir!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Fashed! he cried, in a perfect fury, and he raised the tawse to his teeth--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "he cried again;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Heard ever onybody the like o' that! Canna be fashed, truly!--I'll fash ye, my man!--I'll learn ye to gie me an answer o' that kind again!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ou, I carena; I canna be fashed--I'll do very weel as I am. And there wasna less than three or four young lasses that I had a particular liking for--and each o' them, I daresay, would made an excellent wife, and I could been very happy wi' ony o' them--but they all broke off acquaintance wi' me,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "as they said to their friends,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Losh-a-day, thought I,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I wonder what folk would hae me to be at, or how they can gie themsels sae meikle trouble, and be sae particular?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I canna be fashed."
}
]
|
34148 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What did the joiner say last nicht, Willie?--will he be sure no to disappoint us wi' the furniture?--for I would like everything richt at the very first."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Eh! weel-minded, my dear, says I;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I really forgot to gang and see him, for I was sae tired when I got hame last nicht, that--I couldna be fashed."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That was silly o' ye, man, said she;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Save us a', hinny! said I,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Very weel, Willie, says she, and apparently a good deal hurt,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I wouldna thought it o' ye--but no matter."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, love, said I,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Indeed, no, said she,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Very well, love, said I,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Maybe sae, said she. But I thought there was something unco dry in her manner o' saying"
}
]
|
34148 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Willie, I thought you was to have been cried to-day."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I beg your pardon, sir, said I;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You were very considerate, said he, wi' a smile;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'll be obliged to ye, sir,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now, I expect that ye'll no disappoint me wi' the furniture."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ye needna be feared o' that, Mr Grant, said he;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Weel, thought I,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Weel, she'll ne'er think o' coming to meet me the nicht. She'll no be sae daft. It's o' nae use o' me gaun, and--I canna be fashed."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No."
}
]
|
34148 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Will ye speak at the door, Isabella dear?"
}
]
|
34148 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, ye foolish lassie, ye! said her mother, who was sorry for me,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Get up!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I canna be fashed!"
}
]
|
34148 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mercy me! Isabella! says I,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ready! returned she--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Isabella, said I,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ay! said she,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, confound it! cried I;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Isabella, do ye want to drive me mad?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I dinna think there's ony danger o' that,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Weel! exclaimed I,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nor man o' me,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Be it sae, said I;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Earnest! said she;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I tell you I canna be fashed."
}
]
|
34148 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I canna be fashed"
}
]
|
34148 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and"
}
]
|
34148 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, you're one of his ghosts, are you? well, I wish you may get it--he's _got the bag_.[8]"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "So, so, I would say;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I couldna be fashed wi' the like o' that; but they said they gave me the names and number o' the individuals with whom they had intrusted both porter and pewter-pots; and if I did not mark it down and see after it, it was my look-out, and not theirs. In this way, I believe, I lost five butts o' porter within twelve months. Yet, sir, these were not the only griefs and the only losses that the four words which are the subject of my story have brought upon me. Not only did I frequently neglect to insert in my own books what I had sent out on credit, but I as frequently delayed to mark down what had been sent to me by the brewer or distiller, and said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hoot, I haena time--I canna be fashed to enter it to-day, I will do it the morn, or the next day."
}
]
|
34148 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Grant, you have acted like a fool."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I dinna doubt, says I, for I was perfectly aware that I often had;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, says he,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "So-and-so has taken you in. He is preparing to be off, bag and baggage, for America, and you will be left to pay the piper."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, ye are a suspicious wretch, says I;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Believe it or not, says he,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hoot! babbles! said I,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Canna be fashed! cried my acquaintance, hurrying from the shop;"
}
]
|
34148 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Grant, if you don't look after your money, and that very sharply, you will find your friend's property is no go, and you are in for paying the three thousand."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ye dinna mean to say the like o' that?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Say that, you blockhead! returned my acquaintance--"
}
]
|
34148 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come home, Grant, said my friend,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, dinna speak to me, says I--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I canna be fashed; my three thousand pounds!--my poor three thousand pounds!"
}
]
|
34148 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What to do wi' a surgeon? says I;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I canna be fashed wi' them. The arm will get better itsel."
}
]
|
34148 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ev'n kings hae taen a queen out o' the plain, And what has been before may be again."
}
]
|
34148 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Boar-hills."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Heritable Keeper of the Kingsmuir."
}
]
|
34148 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That once he could have entertained him better, but now he had little more to offer than a hearty welcome."
}
]
|
34148 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I was formerly Earl of Northumberland, and husband of Juditha, grand-daughter of William the Conqueror. Our family were nearly connected with royalty, and my possessions in lands, flocks, and herds, exceedingly extensive and valuable. I lived in becoming splendour. I was beloved by my neighbours, and happy in my family. My estates are situated not far from the borders of Scotland, and were frequently invaded by the Scottish chiefs. For a long time my tenants and servants bravely repelled these attacks, but at length increasing in their numbers, we were overpowered. They spoiled and ravaged all our lands, and drove away our flocks and herds, save a small portion, with which I removed to the East of Fife, to find security and protection. Here have I since lived--suppressed my style and title, and passed myself off as a poor old shepherd, with this my humble but virtuous and affectionate daughter, the comfort and support of my declining years."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No; my family, consisting of but myself and young Matilda, and my desires being confined to narrow bounds, by the dictates of religion and philosophy, I thought it unjust to ask of this country that support which health and honest industry could procure, and thereby deprive more useful subjects of their just reward."
}
]
|
34148 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "From my own poor stock. She was my sole companion. I thought it my interest as well as my duty to teach her every science I knew. She had an apt and comprehensive intellect, and easily received instruction."
}
]
|
34148 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sweet Matilda, began David,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, my dear earl, I am the happiest man that ever breathed."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What is all this?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Is it possible, said the king,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My gracious sovereign, cried the earl,"
}
]
|
34148 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Filius Willielmi de Candela, domini de Anstruther:"
}
]
|
34148 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The King! the King!"
}
]
|
34148 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "His staff his sceptre, his grey hairs his crown,"
}
]
|
34148 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "History of Tithes,"
}
]
|
34148 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Thy will be done! A thousand voices as by one impulse, blending into chaos, made response,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Amen, amen!"
}
]
|
34148 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Battle of the May."
}
]
|
34148 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Flower, and the other"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The Yellow Carvel, were observed to come in sight, on which the English commander made preparations for engaging them, and distributed wine amongst his men to raise their courage. With regard to the Scottish admiral, Pitscottie the historian says,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "On the other hand, Sir Andrew Wood came pertly forward, knowing no impediment of enemies to be in his gate, till at last he perceived their three ships under sail, and coming fast to them in fier of war. Then Sir Andrew Wood, seeing this, exhorted his men to battle, beseeching them to take courage against their enemies of England, who had sworn and made their vows that they should make us prisoners to the King of England, but, God willing, they shall fail of their purpose. Therefore set yourselves in order, every man in his own place. Let the gunners charge their artillery and the cors-bows make them ready; with the lyme-pots and fire-balls in our tops, and twe-handed swords in your fore-arms; and let every man be stout and diligent for his own part and for the honour of Scotland, and thereto he caused fill the wine, and every man drank to other."
}
]
|
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