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5680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What[FN#95] shall I do next in this matter? said Fergus:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": ""
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, what shall we do next in the matter? said Ailill;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": ""
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Let one of us go to Ailill Finn, (said Maev),"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What shall I do next, that there be no loss of honour or renown to thee in the matter?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What brings you here? said Ailill Finn."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We had the intention of staying with you on a visit, for we have a quarrel with Ailill the son of Magach."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If it were one of thy people who had the quarrel, he should stay with me until he had made his peace. But thou shalt not stay, said Ailill Finn,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": ""
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We must have a gift of cows then, said Fergus,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": ""
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Thou shalt carry off no such present from me, he said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": ""
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I will eat not thy bread although offered (lit. however), said Fergus,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There was given to them one ox with bacon, with as much as they wished of beer, as a feast for them."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Out of my house with you all, then!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Let a man come at once to fight me beside a ford at the gate of this castle!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That[FN#98] will not for the sake of my honour be refused, said Ailill;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I will not hand it (the strife) over to another: I will go myself, said he. He went to a ford against him."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Which of us, said Fergus,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "O Dubhtach, shall encounter this man?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I will go, said Dubhtach;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am younger and keener than thou art!"
}
]
|
5680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "For my honour's sake, I could not draw back in this matter."
}
]
|
5680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I will not go, he said;"
}
]
|
5680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It was with no good omen that with which you went to this castle, said Bricriu."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "True indeed is the word that is spoken, said Ailill mac Mata."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The expedition is bad for the honour of the Ulstermen, in that their three heroes fall, and they take not vengeance for them. Each one (of the three) was a pillar of war, yet not a single man has fallen at the hands of one of the three! Truly these heroes are great to be under such wisps of straw as axe the men of this castle! Most worthy is it of scorn that one man has wounded you three!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "O woe is me, said Bricriu,"
}
]
|
5680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Good"
}
]
|
5680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "For him used every seventh day,"
}
]
|
5680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Tain bo Morrigna,"
}
]
|
5680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "TAIN BO REGAMNA"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What bringeth thee here? said Cuchulain: said Laeg,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "By a cry I was stirred, That across the plain came sounding."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And whence was the cry thou hast heard?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "From the north-west quarter it travelled, it crossed the great Cayll[FN#106] Cooen road!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Follow on, on that track, said Cuchulain,"
}
]
|
5680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "said Cuchulain,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": ""
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Faebor-bayg-byeo-ill, [FN#110] said the man."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Coom-diewr-folt-skayv-garry-skyeo-ooa is her name, if pronounce it you can! Then Cuchulain sprang at the chariot:"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Would ye make me a fool with your jest? He cried, as he leapt at the woman; his feet on her shoulders he pressed, And he set on her head his spear-point:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Now cease from thy sharp weapon-play! Cried the woman. Cuchulain made answer: Thy name to me truth fully say!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then remove thyself from me!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": ""
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Let its verses, said Cuchulain,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": ""
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then away from me stand! said the woman:"
}
]
|
5680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and as powerful in spell!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "she chanted,"
}
]
|
5680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nay, clearer my fame shall be ringing, the hero replied,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "How canst thou that strife be surviving? the woman replied to his song,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "For, when thou with a hero art striving, as fearful as thou, and as strong, Who like thee in his wars is victorious, who all of thy feats can perform, As brave, and as great, and as glorious, as tireless as thou in a storm, Then, in shape of an eel round thee coiling, thy feet at the Ford I will bind, And thou, in such contest when toiling, a battle unequal shalt find."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "By my god now I swear, by the token that Ulstermen swear by, he cried;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "On a green stone by me shall be broken that eel, to the Ford if it glide: From woe it shall ne'er be escaping, till it loose me, and pass on its way! And she said:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "As a wolf myself shaping, I will spring on thee, eager to slay, I will tear thee; the flesh shall be rended from thy chest by the wolf's savage bite, Till a strip be torn from thee, extended from the arm on thy left to thy right! With blows that my spear-shaft shall deal thee, he said,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I will force thee to fly Till thou quit me; my skill shall not heal thee, though bursts from thy head either eye! I will come then,"
}
]
|
5680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The word is imda, sometimes rendered"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "as here by Windisch sometimes also"
}
]
|
5680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A red woman there, with her two eyebrows red, and her cloak and her raiment: the cloak fell,"
}
]
|
5680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That cow is not joyful at being driven by you! said Cuchulain."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The cow does not belong to you, said the woman,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": ""
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The cows of Ulster, said Cuchulain,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": ""
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Dost thou give a decision about the cow? said the woman;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": ""
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why is it the woman who answers me? said Cuchulain,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": ""
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It was not the man whom you addressed, said the woman."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ay, said Cuchulain,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": ""
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Alas! his name is a wondrous one, said Cuchulain."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Let it be thyself who answers,[FN#122] since the man answers not. What is thine own name? said Cuchulain."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The woman to whom thou speakest, said the man,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "[FN#123]"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do ye make a fool of me? cried Cuchulain, and on that Cuchulain sprang into her chariot: he set his two feet on her two shoulders thereupon, and his spear on the top of her head."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Play not sharp weapons on me!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Name thyself then by thy true name! said Cuchulain."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Depart then from me! said she:"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am a female satirist in truth, she said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": ""
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Let me hear the poem then, said Cuchulain."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Only remove thyself from me, said the woman;"
}
]
|
5680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A dangerous[FN#126] (or magical) woman thou art, said Cuchulain:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Henceforward, said the woman,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and it has been the Grellach Dolluid ever since."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If only I had known it was you, said Cuchulain,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": ""
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What thou hast done, said she,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": ""
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Thou hast no power against me, said Cuchulain."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have power indeed, said the woman;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "said she."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I brought this cow out of the fairy-mound of Cruachan, that she might breed by the Black Bull[FN#127] of Cualnge, that is the Bull of Daire Mae Fiachna. It is up to that time that thou art in life, so long as the calf which is in this cow's body is a yearling; and it is this that shall lead to the Tain bo Cualnge."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I shall myself be all the more glorious for that Tain, said Cuchulain:"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I shall slay their warriors: I shall break their great hosts: I shall be survivor of the Tain."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "in his translation; it may also mean"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "though he thinks not. In a note he says that the meaning"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "In what way canst thou do this? said the woman,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": ""
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I swear to the god that the Ulstermen swear by, said Cuchulain,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I will break thee against a green stone of the ford; and thou shalt have no healing from me, if thou leavest me not."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I will in truth be a grey wolf against thee, said she,"
}
]
|
5680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I will beat thee from me, said he,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": ""
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I shall in truth, she said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": ""
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I will cast at thee with a cast of my sling, said Cuchulain,"
}
]
|
5680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "is from the Egerton version. The Yellow Book of Lecan gives"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The Badb thereon went from him, and Cuchulain went to his own house, so that,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "COURTSHIP OF ETAIN"
}
]
|
5680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "refers, not to the foxglove, but to the preceding line,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "and that the writer of this gloss gave the same meaning to the rather hard description of the colour of the eyes as is given in the verse translation (vol. i. p. 26), i.e. that the eyes had changing lights and shapes. We must hope, for the credit of his taste, that he did not think of the cheeks as many-coloured or freckled, but his gloss of lossa does not seem happy. The meaning"
}
]
|
5680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "is established for the word; the line possibly means"
}
]
|
360753 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "So! do you find it very, very awkward?"
}
]
|
290422 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is hardly worth her while to undertake nursing,"
}
]
|
361911 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't especially mind,"
}
]
|
537380 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Crazy, do you mean?"
}
]
|
7720 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My dear George, Edward would say,"
}
]
|
7720 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have sought you, said Montagu, with more than usual care upon his brow--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have sought you in consequence of an event that may lead to issues of no small moment, whether for good or evil. Clarence has suddenly left England for Calais."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I know it, Montagu; the duke confided to me his resolution to proclaim himself old enough to marry,--and discreet enough to choose for himself."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And you approved?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Certes; and, sooth to say, I brought him to that modest opinion of his own capacities. What is more still, I propose to join him at Calais."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "George!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Look not so scared, O valiant captain, who never lost a battle,-- where the Church meddles, all prospers. Listen! And the young prelate gathered himself up from his listless posture, and spoke with earnest unction."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Thou knowest that I do not much busy myself in lay schemes; when I do, the object must be great. Now, Montagu, I have of late narrowly and keenly watched that spidery web which ye call a court, and I see that the spider will devour the wasp, unless the wasp boldly break the web,--for woman-craft I call the spider, and soldier- pride I style the wasp. To speak plainly, these Woodvilles must be bravely breasted and determinately abashed. I do not mean that we can deal with the king's wife and her family as with any other foes; but we must convince them that they cannot cope with us, and that their interests will best consist in acquiescing in that condition of things which places the rule of England in the hands of the Neviles."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My own thought, if I saw the way!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I see the way in this alliance; the Houses of York and Warwick must become so indissolubly united, that an attempt to injure the one must destroy both. The queen and the Woodvilles plot against us; we must raise in the king's family a counterpoise to their machinations. It brings no scandal on the queen to conspire against Warwick, but it would ruin her in the eyes of England to conspire against the king's brother; and Clarence and Warwick must be as one. This is not all! If our sole aid was in giddy George, we should but buttress our House with a weathercock. This connection is but as a part of the grand scheme on which I have set my heart,--Clarence shall wed Isabel, Gloucester wed Anne, and (let thy ambitious heart beat high, Montagu) the king's eldest daughter shall wed thy son,--the male representative of our triple honours. Ah, thine eyes sparkle now! Thus the whole royalty of England shall centre in the Houses of Nevile and York; and the Woodvilles will be caught and hampered in their own meshes, their resentment impotent; for how can Elizabeth stir against us, if her daughter be betrothed to the son of Montagu, the nephew of Warwick? Clarence, beloved by the shallow commons; [Singular as it may seem to those who know not that popularity is given to the vulgar qualities of men, and that where a noble nature becomes popular (a rare occurrence), it is despite the nobleness,--not because of it. Clarence was a popular idol even to the time of his death.--Croyl., 562.] Gloucester, adored both by the army and the Church; and Montagu and Warwick, the two great captains of the age,--is not this a combination of power that may defy Fate?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "O George! said Montagu, admiringly,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Thou art profane, Montagu; the Church spoils no man,--the Church leads and guides ye all; and, mark, I look farther still. I would have intimate league with France; I would strengthen ourselves with Spain and the German Emperor; I would buy or seduce the votes of the sacred college; I would have thy poor brother, whom thou so pitiest because he has no son to marry a king's daughter, no daughter to wed with a king's son--I would have thy unworthy brother, Montagu, the father of the whole Christian world, and, from the chair of the Vatican, watch over the weal of kingdoms. And now, seest thou why with to-morrow's sun I depart for Calais, and lend my voice in aid of Clarence's for the first knot in this complicated bond?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But will Warwick consent while the king opposes? Will his pride--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "His pride serves us here; for so long as Clarence did not dare to gainsay the king, Warwick in truth might well disdain to press his daughter's hand upon living man. The king opposes, but with what right? Warwick's pride will but lead him, if well addressed, to defy affront and to resist dictation. Besides, our brother has a woman's heart for his children; and Isabel's face is pale, and that will plead more than all my eloquence."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But can the king forgive your intercession and Warwick's contumacy?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Forgive!--the marriage once over, what is left for him to do? He is then one with us, and when Gloucester returns all will be smooth again,--smooth for the second and more important nuptials; and the second shall preface the third; meanwhile, you return to the court. To these ceremonials you need be no party: keep but thy handsome son from breaking his neck in over-riding his hobby, and 'bide thy time!'"
}
]
|
7720 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What! he exclaimed,"
}
]
|
7720 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What, Master Warner, are you so wedded to your new studies that you have not a word to bestow on an old friend?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "En iterum! he said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Again, bold Robin Hilyard, and in a scholar's garb! Ha! doubtless thou hast learned ere this that peaceful studies do best insure man's weal below, and art come to labour with me in the high craft of mind-work!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Adam, quoth Hilyard,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well-a-day, said poor Adam,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am forbid to restore it, continued Adam, dolefully."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I must work day and night to make gold, and the gold comes not; and my only change of toil is when the queen bids me construct little puppet-boxes for her children! How, then, can I change the world? And thou, he added, doubtingly and eagerly--"
}
]
|
7720 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mine old friend, hope sustains us both; and in the wilderness we yet behold the Pisgah! But to my business. Doubtless thou art permitted to visit Henry in his prison."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not so, replied Adam;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ah, man, man, man, exclaimed Hilyard, bitterly,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Son Adam, said the holy man,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I crave your company an instant, oro vestrem aurem;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Is not that Friar Bungey, the notable magician?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Magician or not, answered Warner, with a lip of inexpressible contempt and a heavy sigh,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "God pardon his mother for giving birth to such a numskull!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hum, soliloquized Hilyard,"
}
]
|
7720 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Adam, said the friar, laying his broad palm on the student's reluctant shoulders,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Sapientes, brother,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's the old form, Adam, quoth the friar, superciliously,--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "O man, what lingo speakest thou?--stotis filibus!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Tush, if it is not good Latin, it does as well, son Adam. I say I have worked at it night and day, and it is now advanced eno' for experiment. But thou art going to sleep."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Despatch! speak out! speak on! said Adam, desperately,--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "See!"
}
]
|
7720 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There, said the friar, complacently, and rubbing his hands,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And for what hast thou kneaded up all this waste of wax? asked Adam."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Forsooth, I knew not you had so much of ingenious art; algates, the toy is somewhat ghastly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ho, ho! quoth the friar, laughing so as to show a set of jagged, discoloured fangs from ear to ear,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Thou art a devil to do this thing, and a blockhead to think it, O miserable friar!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ha! cried the friar, no less vehemently, and his burly face purple with passion,"
}
]
|
7720 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Verily, if thou canst do these things, there must be secrets in Nature which I have not yet discovered. Howbeit, though thou art free to try all thou canst against me, thy threats make it necessary that this communication between us should be nailed up, and I shall so order."
}
]
|
7720 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Pooh! we are brothers, and must not quarrel. I was over hot, and thou too provoking; but I honour and love thee, man,--let it pass. As for this figure, doubtless we might pink it all over, and the earl be never the worse. But if our employers order these things and pay for them, we cunning men make profit by fools!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It is men like thee that bring shame on science, answered Adam, sternly;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nay, but you must, said the friar, clutching Adam's robe, and concealing his resentment by an affected grin."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Thou thinkest me a mere ignoramus--ha! ha!--I think the same of thee. Why, man, thou hast never studied the parts of the human body, 1'11 swear."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm no leech, said Adam."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Let me go."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, not yet. I will convict thee of ignorance. Thou dost not even know where the liver is placed."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I do, answered Adam, shortly;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Thou dost?--I deny it. Here is a pin; stick it into this wax, man, where thou sayest the liver lies in the human frame."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well! the liver is there, eh? Ah, but where are the lungs?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, here."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And the midriff?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Here, certes."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Right!--thou mayest go now,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now I know where the lungs, midriff, and liver are, said the friar to himself,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I shall get on famously. 'T is a useful fellow, that, or I should have had him hanged long ago!"
}
]
|
7720 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, hard condition of my life! groaned the sage,--"
}
]
|
7720 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Father, said the low and touching voice of one who had entered unperceived, and who now threw her arms round Adam's neck,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Father, thou art ill, and sorely suffering--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "At heart--yes, Sibyll. Give me thine arm; let us forth and taste the fresher air."
}
]
|
7720 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes--air--air!"
}
]
|
7720 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There, said Adam, quietly, and pointing to the feudal roofs,"
}
]
|
7720 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Child, child, ye women know not what presses darkest and most bitterly on the minds of men. You know not what it is to form out of immaterial things some abstract but glorious object,--to worship, to serve it, to sacrifice to it, as on an altar, youth, health, hope, life,--and suddenly in old age to see that the idol was a phantom, a mockery, a shadow laughing us to scorn, because we have sought to clasp it."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, yes, Father, women have known that illusion."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What! Do they study?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, Father, but they feel!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Feel! I comprehend thee not."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "As man's genius to him is woman's heart to her, answered Sibyll, her dark and deep eyes suffused with tears."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Doth not the heart create, invent? Doth it not dream? Doth it not form its idol out of air? Goeth it not forth into the future, to prophesy to itself? And sooner or later, in age or youth, doth it not wake at last, and see how it hath wasted its all on follies? Yes, Father, my heart can answer, when thy genius would complain."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Sibyll, said Warner, roused and surprised, and gazing on her wistfully,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Think not of them, then. Let me never add one grief to thine."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Thou art brave and gay in thy silken sheen, said Adam, curiously stroking down the rich, smooth stuff of Sibyll's tunic;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Happy!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not happy! exclaimed Adam, almost joyfully,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, ob, yes!--but rather away, far away, in some quiet village, some green nook; for the desolate, ruined home was not safe for thine old age."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I would we could escape, Sibyll, said Adam, earnestly, in a whisper, and with a kind of innocent cunning in his eye,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, no, Father, not to him, cried Sibyll, turning pale,--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Child, he loves me, or why does he seek me so often, and sit and talk not?"
}
]
|
7720 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Fair mistress, canst thou prefer this solitary scene to the gay company about to take the air in her grace's gilded barge?"
}
]
|
7720 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Noble lady, whoever thou art, in thine old age, and thine hour of care, may thy child, like this poor girl, forsake all gayer comrades for a parent's side!"
}
]
|
7720 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Gentle sir, she said, after a short pause,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Tell her, then, my Sibyll,--tell Lord Warwick's sister to ask the king to give back to Adam Warner his poverty, his labour, and his hope,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Maiden, can there be confidence between thee and me?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Of what nature, lady?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Maiden, thou mayst resent and marvel at my words; but when I had fewer years than thou, my father said, 'There are many carks in life which a little truth could end.' So would I heed his lesson. William de Hastings has followed thee with an homage that has broken, perchance, many as pure a heart,--nay, nay, fair child, hear me on. Thou hast heard that in youth he wooed Katherine Nevile,--that we loved, and were severed. They who see us now marvel whether we hate or love,--no, not love--that question were an insult to Lord Bonville's wife!--Ofttimes we seem pitiless to each other,--why? Lord Hastings would have wooed me, an English matron, to forget mine honour and my House's. He chafes that he moves me not. I behold him debasing a great nature to unworthy triflings with man's conscience and a knight's bright faith. But mark me!--the heart of Hastings is everlastingly mine, and mine alone! What seek I in this confidence? To warn thee. Wherefore? Because for months, amidst all the vices of this foul court-air, amidst the flatteries of the softest voice that ever fell upon woman's ear, amidst, peradventure, the pleadings of thine own young and guileless love, thine innocence is unscathed. And therefore Katherine of Bonville may be the friend of Sibyll Warner."
}
]
|
7720 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "To what this tends, lady, I know not. The Lord Hastings is free to carry his homage where he will. He has sought me,--not I Lord Hastings. And if to-morrow he offered me his hand, I would reject it, if I were not convinced that the heart--"
}
]
|
7720 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I knew not, replied Sibyll, bitterly,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Thou art distraught with thy self-conceit, answered the dame, scornfully; and, losing all the compassion and friendly interest she had before felt,"
}
]
|
7720 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It hath reached me that certain disaffected men meditate a rising against the king, under pretext of wrongs from the queen's kin. It is even said that our kinsmen, Copiers and Fitzhugh, are engaged therein. Need I caution thee to watch well that they bring our name into no disgrace or attaint? We want no aid to right our own wrongs; and if the misguided men rebel, Warwick will best punish Edward by proving that he is yet of use."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The king, wroth with my visit to Calais, has taken from me the chancellor's seal. I humbly thank him, and shall sleep the lighter for the fardel's loss. Now, mark me, Montagu: our kinsman, Lord Fitzhugh's son, and young Henry Nevile, aided by old Sir John Copiers, meditate a fierce and well-timed assault upon the Woodvilles. Do thou keep neuter,--neither help nor frustrate it. Howsoever it end, it will answer our views, and shake our enemies."
}
]
|
7720 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Speak shortly, friend,--I have but little leisure."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And yet, Lord Montagu, my business may touch thee home."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Surely, I know thy face, friend,--we have met before."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "True; thou wert then on thy way to the More."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I remember me; and thou then seemedst, from thy bold words, on a still shorter road to the gallows."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The tree is not planted, said Robin, carelessly,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Traitor, hold!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A tyrant, continued Robin, heeding not the interruption nor the angry gesture of Montagu,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hush, man! Not so loud, said Montagu, in an altered voice."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Approach nearer,--nearer yet. They who talk of a crowned king, whose right hand raises armies, and whose left hand reposes on the block, should beware how they speak above their breath. Witchcraft, sayest thou? Make thy meaning clear."
}
]
|
7720 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A devilish malice, indeed, said he, when Hilyard had concluded;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "By your leave, not a step will I budge, my Lord Montagu, quoth Robin, bluntly,--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I know how these matters are managed at court. The king will patch up a peace between the duchess and you, and chop off my ears and nose as a liar and common scandal-maker. No, no; denounce the duchess and all the Woodvilles I will; but it shall not be in the halls of the Tower, but on the broad plains of Yorkshire, with twenty thousand men at my back."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ha! thou a leader of armies,--and for what end,--to dethrone the king?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That as it may be,--but first for justice to the people; it is the people's rising that I will head, and not a faction's. Neither White Rose nor Red shall be on my banner; but our standard shall be the gory head of the first oppressor we can place upon a pole."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What is it the people, as you word it, would demand?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I scarce know what we demand as yet,--that must depend upon how we prosper, returned Hilyard, with a bitter laugh;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What part, bold man?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This: we shall make our first complaint the baneful domination of the queen's family; and demand the banishment of the Woodvilles, root and stem."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hem! said Montagu, involuntarily glancing over the archbishop's letter,--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, trust me, my lord, the franklin's head contains as much north- country cunning as the noble's. They who would speed well must feel their way cautiously."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Twenty thousand men--impossible! Who art thou, to collect and head them?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Plain Robin of Redesdale."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ha! exclaimed Montagu,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Whatever they say of me, returned Robin,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But by what spell?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "By men's wrongs, lord, answered Robin, in a deep voice;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What the immediate cause of complaint?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The hospital of St. Leonard's has compelled us unjustly to render them a thrave of corn."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Thou art a cunning knave! Pinch the belly if you would make Englishmen rise."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "True, said Robin, smiling grimly;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Head you! No I"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Will you betray us?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It is not easy to betray twenty thousand men; if ye rise merely to free yourselves from a corn-tax and England from the Woodvilles, I see no treason in your revolt."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I understand you, Lord Montagu, said Robin, with a stern and half- scornful smile,--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Twenty thousand men in arms, he muttered to himself,--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "(and Montagu smiled),"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Whoever is fair and chaste, gentle and loving, is in the eyes of William de Hastings the mate and equal of a king. In visits that she had found opportunity to make to the Lady Longueville, these hopes were duly fed; for the old Lancastrian detested the Lady Bonville, as Lord Warwick's sister, and she would have reconciled her pride to view with complacency his alliance with the alchemist's daughter, if it led to his estrangement from the memory of his first love; and, therefore, when her quick eye penetrated the secret of Sibyll's heart, and when she witnessed--for Hastings often encountered (and seemed to seek the encounter) the young maid at Lady Longueville's house--the unconcealed admiration which justified Sibyll in her high-placed affection, she scrupled not to encourage the blushing girl by predictions in which she forced her own better judgment to believe. Nor, when she learned Sibyll's descent from a family that had once ranked as high as that of Hastings, would she allow that there was any disparity in the alliance she foretold. But more, far more than Lady Longueville's assurances, did the delicate and unceasing gallantries of Hastings himself flatter the fond faith of Sibyll. True, that he spoke not actually of love, but every look implied, every whisper seemed to betray it. And to her he spoke as to an equal, not in birth alone, but in mind; so superior was she in culture, in natural gifts, and, above all, in that train of high thought and elevated sentiment, in which genius ever finds a sympathy, to the court-flutterers of her sex, that Hastings, whether or not he cherished a warmer feeling, might well take pleasure in her converse, and feel the lovely infant worthy the wise man's trust. He spoke to her without reserve of the Lady Bonville, and he spoke with bitterness."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I loved her, he said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "May that be no sign of a yet tender interest?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nay, you know her not. Her heart is marble, as hard and as cold; her very virtue but the absence of emotion,--I would say, of gentler emotion; for, pardieu, such emotions as come from ire and pride and scorn are the daily growth of that stern soil. Oh, happy was my escape! Happy the desertion which my young folly deemed a curse! No! he added, with a sarcastic quiver of his lip--"
}
]
|
7720 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why was Sibyll sad?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Thou shalt spare that flower."
}
]
|
7720 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Katherine, the loved of thy youth, may yet be thine!"
}
]
|
7720 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "for the diversion of cards was in its zenith of fashion under Edward IV., and even half a century later was considered one of the essential accomplishments of a well-educated young lady. [So the Princess Margaret, daughter of Henry VIL, at the age of fourteen, exhibits her skill, in prime or trump, to her betrothed husband, James IV. of Scotland; so, among the womanly arts of the unhappy Katherine of Arragon, it is mentioned that she could play at"
}
]
|
7720 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "By your leave, fair lady, said Hastings,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I rebel against so distant an exile from such sweet company;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "So gay a presence, she said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You wrong their ardour in such noble studies. I would wager that nothing less than my entering your bower on horseback, with helm on head and lance in rest, could provoke even a smile from one pair of the twenty rosy lips round which, methinks, I behold Cupido hovering in vain!"
}
]
|
7720 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And what brings the Lord Hastings hither?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Can you never allow for motive the desire of pleasure, fair dame?"
}
]
|
7720 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "So much do I allow it in you, my lord, that hence my question."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Katherine!"
}
]
|
7720 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My lord chamberlain is, it seems, so habituated to lackey his king amidst the goldsmiths and grocers, that he forgets the form of language and respect of bearing which a noblewoman of repute is accustomed to consider seemly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Pardon, my Lady of Bonville and Harrington, I did indeed forget what reasons the dame of so wise and so renowned a lord hath to feel pride in the titles she hath won. But I see that my visit hath chanced out of season. My business, in truth, was rather with my lord, whose counsel in peace is as famous as his truncheon in war!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is enough, replied Katherine, with a dignity that rebuked the taunt,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Woman, without one soft woman-feeling!"
}
]
|
7720 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My child, thou art entangling thy skein, said the lady of Bonville, as she passed one of the maidens, towards the casement, which she opened,--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "How now, friend Adam? Thou art idle."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Lord Hastings, I am ill."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And thy child not with thee?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She is gone to her grace the duchess, to pray her to grant me leave to go home, and waste no more life on making gold."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Home! Go hence! We cannot hear it! The duchess must not grant it. I will not suffer the king to lose so learned a philosopher."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then pray the king to let the philosopher achieve that which is in the power of labour. He pointed to the Eureka."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Let me be heard in the king's council, and prove to sufficing judges what this iron can do for England."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Is that all? So be it. I will speak to his highness forthwith. But promise that thou wilt think no more of leaving the king's palace."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, no, no! If I may enter again into mine own palace, mine own royalty of craft and hope, the court or the dungeon all one to me!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Father, said Sibyll, entering,"
}
]
|
7720 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, flee not, sweet donzell; leave not the desert court, without the flower and the laurel, the beauty and the wisdom, that scent the hour, and foretype eternity. I have conferred with thy father,--I will obtain his prayer from the king. His mind shall be free to follow its own impulse, and thou --he whispered--"
}
]
|
7720 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "By Saint George! said he, then,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Curiosities of Literature"
}
]
|
7720 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And whither go you thus alone, fair mistress?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The duchess bade me seek the queen, who is taking the air yonder. My lady has received some tidings she would impart to her highness."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I was thinking of thee, fair damsel, when thy face brightened on my musings; and I was comparing thee to others who dwell in the world's high places, and marvelling at the whims of fortune."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Provoke not too much the aspiring folly of my nature. Content is better than ambition."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Thou ownest thy ambition?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ah, sir, who hath it not?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But for thy sweet sex ambition has so narrow and cribbed a field."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not so; for it lives in others. I would say, continued Sibyll, colouring, fearful that she had betrayed herself,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And so, if thou wert wedded to one worthy of thee, in his ambition thou wouldst soar and dare?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Perhaps,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But if thou wert wedded to sorrow and poverty and troublous care, thine ambition, thus struck dead, would of consequence strike dead thy love?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Nay, noble lord, nay; canst thou so wrong womanhood in me unworthy? for surely true ambition lives not only in the goods of fortune. Is there no nobler ambition than that of the vanity? Is there no ambition of the heart,--an ambition to console, to cheer the griefs of those who love and trust us; an ambition to build a happiness out of the reach of fate; an ambition to soothe some high soul, in its strife with a mean world,--to lull to sleep its pain, to smile to serenity its cares? Oh, methinks a woman's true ambition would rise the bravest when, in the very sight of death itself, the voice of him in whom her glory had dwelt through life should say, 'Thou fearest not to walk to the grave and to heaven by my side!"
}
]
|
7720 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, Sibyll! he exclaimed passionately, and yielding to the impulse of the moment,--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Dare I arede thy silence? Sibyll, thou lovest me--O Sibyll, speak!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why this, why this? Thou hadst promised not to--not to--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not to insult thee by unworthy vows! Nor do I. But as my wife."
}
]
|
7720 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, my lord--oh, Hastings! if thy calmer reason repent not these words, if thou canst approve in me what thou didst admire in Elizabeth the queen, if thou canst raise one who has no dower but her heart to the state of thy wife and partner, by this hand, which I place fearlessly in thine, I pledge thee to such a love as minstrel hath never sung. No! she continued, drawing loftily up her light stature,--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "she hesitated, with the most charming blush--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And all I ask or covet,"
}
]
|
7720 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hark! Edward summons me, he said, with a feeling of reprieve."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Farewell, dear Sibyll, farewell for a brief while,--we shall meet anon."
}
]
|
7720 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ha! death to the dove Is the falcon's love. Oh, sharp is the kiss of the falcon's beak!"
}
]
|
683063 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Lead the way, an' we will follow,"
}
]
|
587075 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We shall have to go up,"
}
]
|
297540 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What! It's only some of my fish. Fish is what they eat, ain't it?"
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Alcoholism"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The Drink Problem,"
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "THE ROARING GALLANT TOWN"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "FOR THE FIRST TIME, HE WAS GOING TO HAVE A GIRL FRIEND"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "GILBERT IS COMING HOME!"
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "MOST SELECT LOUNGE IN THE COUNTY"
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "WOG"
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How many bards gild the lapses of time A few of them have ever been the food Of my delighted fancy."
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hancock, the Hackney murderer, is to be executed to-morrow morning in The North London Prison at eight o'clock. It is understood that he has refused the ministrations of the Prison Chaplain and seems indifferent to his fate."
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The five o'clock post, sir,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, very well, Proctor, the doctor answered."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Is everything arranged for Miss Sims and Mrs. Daly?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, sir. Fires are lit in both the bedrooms, and dinner is for half-past six. The boat train from Liverpool gets in to Euston at a quarter to. The brougham will be at the station in good time. They will have a cold journey I expect, sir."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, I don't think so, Proctor. The Liverpool boat-trains are most comfortable and they will have had tea. Very well, then."
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "SURGIT AMARI"
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Forgive me, Julia, she said, in her clear bell-like voice--in America they had said that her voice"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But I haven't seen him for five months. John, here is Julia Daly at last!"
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Welcome, the doctor said simply."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We have been friends so long, we have corresponded so often, it is a great joy to me to meet you at last!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dinner at half past six, the doctor called after them."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I knew you'd want it. We can have a long talk then. At eight I have to go out upon an important errand."
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This has just come by messenger from North London Prison, sir,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Very well, he said, in a moment or two."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I need not write an answer. But go to the library, Proctor, and ring up the North London Prison. Say Doctor Morton Sims' thanks and he will be there punctually at half past eight."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It is a dreadful thing, he said, after a moment's hesitation,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How frightful, she said, growing rather pale;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I must go, he said,"
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You don't know, he went on."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Of course you have been out of England for some months. Well, it is this. Hancock is a youngish man of five and twenty. He was a chemist at Hackney, and of quite exceptional intelligence. He was at one time an assistant at Williamsons' in Oxford Street, where some of my prescriptions are made up and where I buy drugs for experimental purposes. I took rather an interest in him several years ago. He passed all his examinations with credit and became engaged to a really charming young woman, who was employed in a big ladies' shop in Regent Street. He wanted to set up in business for himself, very naturally, and I helped him with a money loan. He married the girl, bought a business at Hackney, and became prosperous enough in a moderate sort of way. He paid me back the hundred pounds I lent him and from time to time I heard that things were going on very well. He was respected in the district, and his wife especially was liked. She was a good and religious woman and did a lot of work for a local church. They appeared to be a most devoted couple."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, it's a hideous story, he said, with some emotion and marked distaste in his voice."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I won't go into the details. Hancock poisoned his wife with the most calculating and wicked cunning. He had become enamoured of a girl in the neighbourhood and he wanted to get rid of his wife in order to marry her. His wife adored him. She had been a perfect wife to him, but it made no difference. The thing was discovered, as such things nearly always are, he was condemned to death and will be hanged to-morrow morning at breakfast time."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And you are going to see him _to-night_, John?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes. It is my duty. I owe it to my work, and to the wretched man too. I was present at the trial. From the first I realised that there must have been some definite toxic influence at work on the man's mind to change him from an intelligent and well-meaning member of society into a ghastly monster of crime. I was quite right. It was alcohol. He had been secretly drinking for years, though, as strong-minded and cunning inebriates do, he had managed to preserve appearances. As you know, Edith, the Home Secretary is a friend of mine and interested in our work. Hancock has expressed a wish to see me, to give me some definite information about himself which will be of great use in my researches into the psychology of alcoholism. With me, the Home Secretary realises the value of such an opportunity, and as it is the convict's earnest wish, I am given the fullest facilities for to-night. Of course the matter is one of absolute privacy. There would be an outcry among the sentimental section of the public if it were known. But it is my clear duty to go."
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Again! she said in a low voice that throbbed with pain."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "At all hours, in all places, we meet it! The scourge of humanity, the Fiend Alcohol! The curse of the world!--how long, how long?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ma femme est morte, je suis libre! Je puis donc boire tout mon soûl. Lorsque je rentrais sans un sou, Ses cris me déchiraient la fibre."
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am Dr. Morton Sims, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have a special permit from the Home Secretary for an interview with the convict Hancock."
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You are expected, sir, said the giant with the keys."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Step this way if you please."
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Good-evening, sir, he said, deferentially, as Doctor Sims was taken up to him."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You have your letter I suppose?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I shall have to keep this, sir, he said, putting it under a paper-weight."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "My orders are to send you to the Medical Officer at once. He will take you to the condemned cell and do all that is necessary. The Governor sends his compliments and if you should wish to see him after your interview he will be at your service."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't think I shall want to trouble Colonel Wilde, thank you,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Very good, sir. Of course you can change your mind if you wish, afterwards. But the Governor's time is certainly very much taken up. It always is on the night before an execution. Jones, take this gentleman to the Medical Officer."
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The reception room, sir,"
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come in,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The gentleman to see Hancock, sir,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Wait in the passage till I call you, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "How-do-you-do, Dr. Morton Sims. We had your telephone message some time ago. You are very punctual! Do sit down for a minute."
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My name is Marriott, of 'Barts', said the medical officer."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Do take off your coat, sir, that fur must be frightfully hot in here and you won't need it until you leave the prison again."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Thank you, I will, Sims answered, and already his voice had regained its usual calmness, his eyes their steady glow. Anticipation was over, the deep depression was passing away. There was work to be done and his nerves responded to the call upon them."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There is no hitch, I suppose?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "None whatever. Hancock is waiting for you, and anxious to see you."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It will be very painful, Sims answered in a thoughtful voice, looking at the fire."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I knew the man in his younger days, poor, wretched creature. Is he resigned?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I think so. We've done all we could for him; we always do. As far as I can judge, and I have been present at nine executions, he will die quite calmly. 'I shall be glad when it's over,' he said to me this morning."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And his physical condition?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Just beginning to improve. If I had him here for six months under the second class regulations--I should not certify him for hard labour--I could turn him out in fair average health. He's a confirmed alcoholic subject, of course. It's been a case of ammonium bromide and milk diet ever since his condemnation. For the first two days I feared delirium tremens from the shock. But we tided over that. He'll be able to talk to you all right, sir. He's extremely intelligent, and I should say that the interview should prove of great value."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He has absolutely refused to see the Chaplain? I read so in to-night's paper."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes. Some of them do you know. The religious sense isn't developed at all in him. It will be all the easier for him to-morrow."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How so?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "So many of them become religious on the edge of the drop simply out of funk--nervous collapse and a sort of clutching at a chance in the next world. They often struggle and call out when they're being pinioned. It's impossible to give them any sort of anæsthetic."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Is that done then? I didn't know."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's not talked about, of course, sir. It's quite unofficial and it's not generally known. But we nearly always give them something if it's possible, and then they know nothing of what's happening."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The best way, he said sadly,"
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now, then, he said with a rather wan smile,"
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's the execution room, said Dr. Marriott in a whisper, pointing to one of the doors."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The other's the condemned cell. It's only about ten steps from one to the other. The convict, of course, never knows that. But from the time he leaves his cell to the moment of death is rarely more than forty-five seconds."
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This gentleman, said the Medical Officer,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Perfectly, sir."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You anticipate no trouble?--how is he?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Quiet as a lamb, sir. There's no fear of any trouble with him. He's cheerful and he's been talking a lot about himself--about his violin playing mostly, and a week he had in Paris. His hands are twitching a bit, but less than usual with them."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Very well. Jones will remain here and will fetch me at once if I am wanted. Now take Dr. Morton Sims in."
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You will find it quite ordinary, really, sir. You needn't hesitate in the very least"
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Enid and Herbert Toftrees."
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "So that's how it first began, Doctor. First one with one, then one with another. You know!"
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Business was going well. There seemed no prospect of a child just then, so Mary got in with Church work at St. Philip's. That brought a lot more customers to the shop too. Fancy soaps, scents and toilette articles and all that. Dr. Mitchell of Hackney, was a church-warden at St. Philip's and in time all his prescriptions came to me. No one had a better chance than I did. And Mary was that good to me."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You can't think, sir, being a bachelor. Anything I'd a mind to fancy! Sweet-breads she could cook a treat, and Burgundy we used to 'ave--California wine, 'Big Bush' brand in flagons at two and eight. And never before half-past seven. Late dinner you might have called it, while my assistant was in the shop. And after that I'd play to her on the violin. Nothing common, good music--'Orer pro Nobis' and 'Rousoh's Dream.' You never heard me play did you? I was in the orchestra of the Hackney Choral Society. I remember one day . . ."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And then?"
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why did you ask me to come here, Hancock? he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You know that I am glad to be here, if I can be of any use to you. But you don't seem to want the sort of sympathetic help that the chaplain here could give you far better than I can. What do you want to say to me? Have you really anything to say? If you have, be a man and say it!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, you are cruel, doctor, not 'arf!--and me with only an hour or two to live,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Who were your father and mother?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Who told you? he asked."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I thought nobody knew!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Answer my question, Hancock. Only a few minutes remain."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Will it be of use, sir?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Of use?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "In your work--It was so that I could leave a warning to others, that I wanted to see you."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Of great use, if you will tell me."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, Doctor, I never thought to tell any one. It's always been a sore point with me, but I wasn't born legitimate! I tried hard to make up for it, and I did so too! No one was more respectable than I was in Hackney, until the drink came along and took me."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes? Yes? --The hunter was on the trail now, Heredity? Reversion? At last the game was flushed!--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, tell me!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My father was a gentleman, Doctor. That's where I got my refined tastes. And that's where I got my love of drink--damn him! God Almighty curse him for the blood he gave me!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes? Yes?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My father was old Mr. Lothian, the solicitor of Grey's Inn Square. He was a well-known gentleman. My mother was his housekeeper, Eliza Hancock. My father was a widower when my mother went into his service. He had another son, at one of the big schools for gentlemen. That was his son by his real wife--Gilbert he was called, and what money was left went to him. My father was a drunkard. He never was sober--what you might rightly call sober--for years, I've heard . . . Mother died soon after Mr. Lothian did. She left a hundred pounds with my Aunt, to bring me up and educate me. Aunt Ellen--but I'm a gentleman's son, Doctor!--drunken old swine he was too! What about my blood now? Wasn't my veins swollen with drink from the first? Christ! _you_ ought to know--you with your job to know--_Now_ are you happy? I'm not a _love_ child, I'm a _drink_ child, that's what I am! Son of old Mr. Lothian, the gentleman-drunkard, brother of his son who's a gentleman somewhere, I don't doubt! P'r'aps 'e mops it up 'imself!--shouldn't wonder, this--brother of mine!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Have you got what you came to get?"
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I can't tell you how sorry I am, Dr. Morton Sims. I really can't say enough. I had no idea that the latent toxic influence was so strong. . . ."
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That'll be quite satisfactory, thank you, he was saying,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not now! said Dr. Marriott, as the executioner came up to him--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In half an hour. Now Dr. Morton Sims, please come away to my room. This must have been most distressing. I feel so much that it is my fault."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Thank you very much indeed, he was saying."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How could you possibly have helped it?--You'll take steps--?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm going back to the cell now. It's incipient delirium tremens of course--after all this time too! I shall inject hyoscene and he will know nothing more at all. He will be practically carried to the shed--Good-night! _Good_-night, sir. I hope I may have the pleasure of meeting you again."
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I must be present at the post mortem to-morrow, he said to himself as a new idea struck him."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There should be much to be learnt from an examination of the Peripheral Nerves. And the brain too--there will be interesting indications in the cerebellum, and the association fibres."
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Fiend Alcohol"
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But, I wonder . . . ?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Myself, arch traitor to myself, My hollowest friend, my deadliest foe, My clog whatever road I go."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Le véritable Amphitryon est l'Amphitryon où l'on dine."
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In the movement"
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "An Ode of Horace in Patch, Powder and Peruque!"
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Lamorna Cove"
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ince and Amberley are doing my new book, you know."
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Enid and Herbert Toftrees and they were quite at the head of their own peculiar line of business. They knew exactly what they were doing--"
}
]
|
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