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41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Cupid! he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I think I know why they used to call you Cupid at your school!"
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What would Mrs. Lothian think of your bringing me here to dinner?"
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She would be delighted that I was having such a jolly evening,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You little devil! he thought with an embarrassed mental grin."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How dare you."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Would you mind if my wife did care,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I ought to, but--I shouldn't!"
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Look, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There's Gilbert Lothian, the Christian Poet!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "So that's the man! said Lord Morston,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, that's not his wife, Toftrees answered with contempt."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I know who that is quite well. Lothian keeps his wife somewhere down in the country and no one ever sees her."
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dear little Rita, he said, as he held her hand outside the door of the block of flats in Kensington."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Dear child, I'm so glad."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And I'm glad, too, she answered,--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Gilbert!"
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dear little Rita,"
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Not with fine gold for a payment, But with coin of sighs, But with rending of raiment And with weeping of eyes, But with shame of stricken faces And with strewing of dust, For the sin of stately places And lordship of lust."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "GILBERT IS COMING HOME!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Elle se repand dans ma vie Comme un air imprégné de sel, Et dans mon âme inassouvie Verse le goût de l'éternel."
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Old House"
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nine miles to windward of Hell,"
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Morning, my girl!"
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There are them knives, she said shortly, pointing to a basket upon the table,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You needn't be so short with a man, Phoebe."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You needn't have been so beastly drunk last night. Then them knives wouldn't want doing this morning. If it hadn't been for me the dog wouldn't have had no food. If the mistress knew she would have given you what for, as I expect your missis have already if the truth were known."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Damn the mistress! said Tumpany. He adored Mary Lothian, as Phoebe very well knew, but his head burned and he was in the uncertain temper of the"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now, no beastly language in my kitchen, said the girl."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You go and do your damning--and them knives--in the outhouse. I wonder you've the face to come here at all, Master being away too. Get out, do!"
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Goodorg,"
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There! she said with a grin,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A good thing you've come early, and Mistress ain't up yet, she said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I went into the cellar as quiet as a cat, and I held a dish-cloth over the spigot when I knocked it in again so as to deaden the sound. You can hear the knock all over the house else!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Thank ye, Phoebe, my dear. That there beer's in lovely condition; and I don't mind saying I wanted it bad."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, take care, as you don't want it another day so early. I see your wife last night!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's all right, she said at length."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She was out when you come home from the public, and she found you snoring in the parlour. There was no words passed. I must get to work."
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sweet lips, whereon perpetually did reign The Summer calm of golden charity."
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "So just A type of womankind, that God sees fit to trust Her with the holy task of giving life in turn."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Crown'd Isabel, thro' all her placid life, The queen of marriage, a most perfect wife."
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I wish to goodness you would go to bed, Mary, he had said with a sullen look in his eyes."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I do hate being fussed over as if I were a child. I hate my comings and goings spied upon in this ridiculous way. I must have freedom! Kindly try and remember that you have married a poet--an artist!--and not some beef-brained ordinary fool!"
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's for the sake of my Art, he would say often enough, though she never reproached him with neglect."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I _must_ be a great deal alone now. Things come to me when I am alone. I love being with you, sweetheart, but we must both make a sacrifice for my work. It means the future. It means everything for both of us!"
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Darling, don't be an old goose! You don't understand a bit. What?--Oh, yes, I suppose I did have rather a lot of whiskey last night. But I did splendid work. And it is only once in a way. I'm as fit this morning as I ever was in my life. But I'm working double tides now. You know what an immense strain it is. Just let me consolidate my reputation, become absolutely secure, and--well, then you'll see!"
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Keys Of Heaven,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The Rain Is on the River,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My Dear Soul and the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Be My Dear and Dearest!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You don't perhaps quite understand, dear, but when Amberley asks one, one _must_ go"
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, dear, not now. I am going strictly on business. I couldn't give you the time I should want to, and I should hate that. It wouldn't be fair to you. We'll go up in the Autumn, just you and I together and have a really good time. That will be far jollier. For heaven's sake, don't let's try to mix up business with pleasure. It's fatal to both."
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "the voice of the tolling bell became muffled and funereal, and mildew lay upon the air."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Non sum qualis eram, the lorn interior seemed to echo to her steps,"
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Trouble and heaviness have laid hold upon me: Yet is my delight in thy commandments."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The righteousness of thy testimonies is everlasting: O grant me understanding and I shall live."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "God bless you, Ma'am,"
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No. There ain't no letter for you, said the Postman--a sly old crab-apple of a man who always knew far too much--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "he dangled it before her as a sweetmeat before a child,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That you were talking nonsense, William. There can't be a telegram. It's far too early!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, then, there _is_! said William triumphantly,"
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Master is coming home this evening, Tumpany!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Can I see you then, Mum?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "After breakfast. I've not had breakfast yet. Then we'll go into everything."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Them peas, said Tumpany to himself,"
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Seest thou a man diligent in his business: He shall stand before Kings. He shall not stand before mean men."
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am run down, said Morton Sims, during the meal."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have been too much in London lately. I've got a lot of important research work to do. I'm going to take a house in the country for a few months, only I don't know where."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I know of the very place, Sims. In my own village. How fortunate! The 'Haven.' Old Admiral Custance used to have it, but he's dead recently. There are six months of the lease still to run. Mrs. Custance has gone to live at Lugano. She wants to let the place furnished until the lease is up."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It sounds as if it might do."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But, my dear fellow, it's the very place you want! Exactly the thing! I can manage it for you in no time. Pashwhip and Moger--the house agents in our nearest town--have the letting. Do let me be of use!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's very kind of you, O'Donnell."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Delighted. It will be so jolly to have you in the village. I'm not there as much as I could wish, of course. My other work keeps me so much in London. But Medley, my colleague, is an excellent fellow. He'll look after you in every way."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Who lives round about?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, as far as Society is concerned, we are a little distance from anywhere. Lord Fakenham's is the nearest house----"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not in that way, O'Donnell. I mean interesting people. Lord Fakenham is a bore--a twelve-bore one might say. I hate the big shooting houses in East England."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, he said, reluctantly,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don't know about what you'd probably call _interesting_ people. Sir Ambrose McKee, the big Scotch distiller--Ambrosia whiskey, you know--has the shooting and comes down to the Manor House in September. Oh, and Gilbert Lothian, the poet, has a cottage in the place. I've met him twice, but I can't say that I know much about him. Medley swears by his wife, though. She does everything in the village I'm told. She was a Fielding, the younger branch."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Gilbert Lothian! He lives there does he! Now you tempt me. I've heard a good deal about Gilbert Lothian."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, most people have, he answered."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But I should hardly have thought that a modern poet was much in your line."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Perhaps not, he said,"
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Haven"
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Here is a rare bird,"
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Two or three times a year I go up, Medley said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I know, the doctor said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I was at Balliol you know--a little different, even in our day. But when I go up I'm always dreadfully busy, at the Museum or in the Medical School. It's the younger folk, the scientific dons and undergraduates who are reading science that I have to do with. I have not much time for the sentiments and caresses of the past. Life is so short and I have so much yet that I hope to do in it, that I simply refuse my mind the pleasures of retrospection. You'll call me a Philistine, but when I go to lecture at Cambridge--as I sometimes do--it stimulates me far more than Oxford."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Detestable place! said Mr. Medley, with a smile."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A nephew of mine is a tutor there, Peterhouse. He has quite a name in his way, they tell me. He writes little leprous books in which he conducts the Christian Faith to the frontier of modern thought with a consolatory cheque for its professional services in the past. And, besides, the river at Cambridge is a ditch."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, isn't it marvellous that they can row as they do!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You rowed then?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, yes. I was in the crew of--74--our year it was."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Really! really!--I had no idea, Dr. Morton Sims! I was in the Trials of--71, when Merton was head of the river, but we were the losing boat and I never got into the Eight. How different it all was then!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Those times will never come again,"
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And now, said the clergyman,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not yet. For the three days that I have been here I have been arranging my books and instruments, and turning that big room over the barn into a laboratory."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, yes. Where the Admiral used to keep his Trafalgar models. An excellent room! Now what do you say, Dr. Morton Sims, to a little progress through the village with me? I'm quite certain that every one is agog to see you, and to sum you up. Natural village curiosity! You might as well make your appearance under my wing."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Teucro auspice, auspice Teucro?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Precisely,"
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Really, this is a delightful house, the Doctor said as he stood in the library."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I wonder O'Donnell doesn't spend more time in Mortland Royal. Few parsons are housed like this."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's not his _metier_, Doctor. He hasn't the faculty of really understanding peasants, and I think he is quite right in what he is doing. And, of course, from a selfish point of view, I am glad. I have refused two college livings to stay on here. In all probability I shall stay here till I die. O'Donnell does a great work for Temperance all over England--though doubtless you know more about that than I do."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Er, yes, Morton Sims replied, though without any marked enthusiasm."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "O'Donnell is very eloquent, and no doubt does good. My dear old friend, Bishop Moultrie, in Norfolk here is most enthusiastic about his work. I like O'Donnell, he's sincere. But I belong to the scientific party, and while I welcome anything that really tends to stem inebriety, I believe that O'Donnell and Moultrie and all of them are on the wrong tack entirely."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I know very little about the modern temperance movement in any direction, said Mr. Medley with a certain dryness."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Blue Ribbons and Bands of Hope are all very well, I suppose, but there is such a tendency nowadays among Non-conformists and the extreme evangelical party to exalt abstinence from alcohol into the one thing necessary to salvation, that I keep out of it all as much as I can. I like my glass of port, and I don't mean to give it up!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It doesn't do you the least good really, he said, laughing."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I could prove to you in five minutes, and with entire certainty, that your single glass of port is bad, even for you! But I quite agree with your attitude towards all the religious emotionalism that is worked up. The drunkard who turns to religion simply manifests the class of ideas, which is one of the features of the epileptic temperament. It is a confession of ineptitude, and a recourse to a means of salvation from a condition which is too hard for him to bear. That is to say, Fear is at the bottom of his new convictions!"
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I know, he said, with a courtly hint of deference in his voice, that became him very well,"
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, he said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Of course, he said,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Possibly. I am not concerned to affirm or deny the power of an Act of the Supreme Being. Nor am I able to say anything about its operation. Science tells me nothing upon this point. About the act of the individual I have a good deal to say."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am most interested"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well then, what we want to do is to root out drunkenness by eliminating inebriates from society by a process of Artificial Selection. It is within the power of science to evolve a sober race. We must forbid inebriates to have children and make it penal for them to do so."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Forbid them to marry?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It would be futile. Drunkenness often develops after marriage. There is only one way--by preventing Drunkards from reproducing their like--by forbidding the procreation of children by them. If drunkards were taken before magistrates sitting in secret session, and, on conviction, were warned that the procreation of children would subject them to this or that penalty, then the birthrate of drunkards would certainly fall immensely."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But innumerable drunkards would inevitably escape the meshes of the law."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes. But that is an argument against all laws. And this law would be more perfect in its operation than any other, for if the drunken father evaded it in one generation, the drunken son would be taken in the next."
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "God Moves in a Mysterious Way,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But that seems to me quite horrible, he said, at length."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is opposed to the best instincts of human nature--as horrible as Malthusianism, as horrible and as impracticable."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don't want to be discourteous, it seemed to say,"
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The alternative is more horrible and more immoral still. There is absolutely no choice between Temperance Reform, by the abolition of drink, and Temperance Reform by the abolition of the drunkard. An ill thing is not rendered worse by being bravely confronted. An unavoidable evil is not made more evil by being turned to good account. It rests with us to extract what good we can from the evil. Horrible? Immoral? Perhaps; but we are confronted by two horrors and two immoralities, and we are compelled to make a choice. Which is best; to live safe because strong, or to tremble behind fortifications; to be temperate by Nature or sober by Law?"
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Awake from your slumber--your long slumber! Hear the words of Truth!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, that is my theory, at any rate, since you asked for it, Morton Sims said, the urgency and excitement quite gone from his voice."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And now, some more of the village, please!"
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We'll go through the wicket-gate in the south wall, he said, with alacrity."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's our nearest way, and there is a good view of the Manor House to be got from there. It's a fine old place, empty for most of the year, but always full for the shooting. Sir Ambrose McKee has it."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The whiskey man?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes. The great distiller,"
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Cross."
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's a nice little place, the doctor said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Whose is that?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's the house of our village celebrity,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Our local celebrity, Medley continued,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mr. Gilbert Lothian, the poet."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, I know, he said, with an assumed indifference which he was well aware would have its effect of provocation upon the simple mind of the Priest."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The name is quite familiar to me. Bishop Moultrie sent me a book of Lothian's poems last winter. And now that I come to think of it, O'Donnell told me that Mr. Lothian lived here. What sort of a man is he?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, he said at length,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, we all have our likes and dislikes. Every one has his private Dr. Fell and it can't be helped. But tell me about Lothian. I will remember your very honest warning! Don't you like his work?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I confess I see very little in it, Doctor. But then, my taste is old-fashioned and not in accord with modern literary movements. My 'Christian Year' supplies all the religious verse I need."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Keble wrote some fine verse,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Exactly. Sound prosody and restrained style! There is fervour and feeling in Lothian's work. It is impossible to deny it. But it's too passionate and feverish. There is a savage, almost despairing, clutching at spiritual emotion which strikes me as thoroughly unhealthy. The Love of Jesus, the mysterious operations of the Holy Ghost--these seem to me no proper vehicles for words which are tortured into a wild and sensuous music. As I read the poems of Gilbert Lothian I am reminded of the wicked and yet beautiful verses of Swinburne, and of others who have turned their lyre to the praise of lust. The sentiment is different, but the method is the same. And I confess that it revolts me to see the verbal tricks and polished brilliance of modern Pagan writers adapted to a fugitive and delirious ecstasy of Christian Faith."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I know all that you mean, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don't agree with you in the least, but I appreciate your point of view. But let me keep myself out of the discussion for a moment. I am not what you would probably be prepared to call a professing Christian. But how about Moultrie? He sent me Lothian's poems first of all. I remember the actual evening last winter when they arrived. A contemporaneous circumstance has etched it into my memory with certainty. Moultrie is a deeply convinced Christian. He is a man of the widest culture also. Yet he savours his palate with every _nuance_, every elusive and delicate melody that the genius of Lothian gives us. How about Moultrie's attitude?--it is a very general one."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I quite admit all you say, he replied,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Surgit Amari,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What's the real antagonism, Mr. Medley?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You press me, he said,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Conduct?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hardly to me! Then Mr. Lothian--?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He drinks, the Priest said bluntly,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ah!"
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't mean to say that he gets drunk, Medley continued hastily,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Most interesting to the scientific man--please go on."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, I don't know that there is much to say--I do hope I am not doing the man an injustice, because I am getting on for twice his age and envy the modern brilliance of his brain! But about a fortnight ago I went to see Crutwell--a poor fellow who is dying of phthisis--and found Lothian there. He was holding Crutwell's hand and talking to him about Paradise in a monotonous musical voice. He had been drinking. I saw it at once. His eyes were quite wild."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But the patient was made happier?"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "At any rate, I went into old Sarah's cottage about half an hour after Lothian had been there. The old lady in question lived a jolly, wicked life until senile paralysis intervened. She is now quite a connoisseur in religion. I found her, on the occasion of which I speak, lying back upon her pillows with a perfectly rapturous expression on her wicked and wrinkled old face. 'Oh, Mr. Lothian's been, sir!' she said, 'Oh, 'twas beautiful! He gave me five shillings and then he knelt down and prayed. I never heard such praying--meaning no disrespect, sir, of course. But it was beautiful. The tears were rolling down Mr. Lothian's cheeks!' 'Mr. Lothian is very kind,' I said. 'He's wonnerful,' she replied, 'for he was really as drunk as a Lord the whole time, though he didn't see as I saw it. Fancy praying so beautiful and him like that. What a brain!'"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "All the same, he said at length,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, no! he said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "For this reason. I admire and reverence Mrs. Lothian as I have never reverenced any other woman. Now and then I have met saint-like people, and the more saint-like they were--I hope I am not cynical--the less of comely humanity they seemed to have. Only once have I met a saint quietly walking this world with sane and happy footsteps. And that is Mary Lothian."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now you see why I am a little bitter about Gilbert Lothian! I don't think that he is worthy of such a perfect wife as he has got! I'll take you to tea with her this afternoon and you will see!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I should like to meet her very much. Lothian is not here then?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He has been away for a week or so, but he is returning to-night. Our old postman, who knows everything, told me so at least."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Haven."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Liver! he thought to himself."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That is why I am melancholy and depressed to-night. And then the storm that is hanging about has its effect too. But hardly any one realises that the liver is the seat of the emotions! It should be said--more truly--that such a one died of a broken liver, not a broken heart!"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "I will take a ten mile walk to-morrow,"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Six weeks ago a tippler was put into an alms-house in this State. Within a few days he had devised various expedients to procure rum, but had failed. At length he hit on one that was successful. He went into the wood yard of the establishment, placed one hand upon the block, and with an axe in the other struck it off at a single blow. With the stump raised and streaming he ran into the house and cried, 'Get some rum. Get some rum. My hand is off.' In the confusion and bustle of the occasion a bowl of rum was brought, into which he plunged the bleeding member of his body, then raising the bowl to his mouth, drank freely and exultantly exclaimed, 'Now I am satisfied!'"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "One thing I _will_ do, he said to the dark--and that he spoke aloud was sufficient indication of his state of mind--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'll get hold of Gilbert Lothian while I am here. I'll save him at any rate, if I can. And it is quite obvious that he cannot be too far gone for salvation. I'll save him from an end no less frightful than that of his brother of whom he has probably never heard. The good woman he seems to have married shall be happy! The man's fine brain shan't be lost. This shall be my special experiment while I am down here. Coincidence, no less than good-will, makes that duty perfectly plain for me."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Are you there, sir?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, here I am, Condon, what is it?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Please, sir, there's been an accident. A gentleman has been thrown out of a dog-cart. It's a Mr. Lothian. His man's here, and the gentleman's wife has heard you're in the village and there's no other doctor nearer than Wordingham."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'll come at once,"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Beg your pardon, sir, Tumpany began at once,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Certainly, I will, Sims answered, looking at the man with a keen, experienced eye which made him shift uneasily upon his feet."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Wait here for a moment."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Haven."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "He's made a direct statement so far, the doctor thought."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He's only on the border-land of intoxication. For as long as he thinks I have noticed nothing he will be coherent. Directly he realises that I have spotted his state he'll become confused and ashamed and he won't be able to tell me anything."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This is very unfortunate, he said in a smooth and confidential voice."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I do hope it is nothing very serious. Of course I know your master very well by name."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yessir, Tumpany answered thickly, but with a perceptible note of pleasure in his voice."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yessir, I should say Master is one of the best shots in Norfolk. You'd have heard of him, of course."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But how did it happen?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "This 'ere accident, sir?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, the accident,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I was driving master home, sir. It's not our trap. We don't keep one. We hires in the village, but the man as the trap belongs to couldn't go. So I drove, sir."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, you drove, and the horse stumbled. Did the horse come right down?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm not much of a whip, sir, as you may say, though I know about ordinary driving. They say that a sailor-man is no good with a horse. But that isn't true."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "But I expect you drove very well, indeed! Then the horse did _not_ come right down!"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, sir. The cob only stumbled. But master was sitting loose like. He fell out like a log, sir. He made a noise like a piece of luggage falling."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh! Did he fall on his head?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yessir. But he had a stiff felt hat on. I got help and as we carried him into the house he was bleeding awful."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Curious that he should fall like that. Was he, well, was he quite himself should you think?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, yessir! By all means, sir! Most cert'nly! Master was as sober as a judge, sir!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Of _course_, Sims replied in a surprised tone of voice."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I thought that he might have been tired by the journey from London."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, you've come, sir! she said--"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Not the least reason to be alarmed, said the doctor."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Some nasty cuts in the scalp, that is all."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is so kind of you to come, Doctor, she said.--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Then that deep spasmodic breathing--he has not really hurt his head?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Not in the least as far as I can say, and I am fairly certain. We must get him up to bed. Then I can cut away the hair and bandage the wounds. I must take his temperature also. It's possible--just possible that the shock may have unpleasant results, though I really don't think it will. I will give him some bromide though, as soon as he wakes up."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ah!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, he continued,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am sorry to say that he is under the influence of alcohol. He has obviously been drinking heavily of late. I am a specialist in such matters and I can hardly be mistaken. There is just a possibility that this may bring on delirium tremens--only a possibility. He has never suffered from that?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, never. Thank God never! A sob came into her voice. Her face glowed with the love and tenderness within, the blue eyes seemed set in a soul rather than in a face, so beautiful had they become."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He's so good, she said with a wistful smile."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You can't think what a sweet boy he is when he doesn't drink any horrible things."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Madam, I have read his poems. I know what an intellect and force lies drugged upon that sofa there. But we will soon have the flame burning clearly once more. It has been the work of my life to study these cases."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, I know, Doctor. I have heard so much of your work."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Believe then that I am going to save this foolish young man, to give him back to you and to the world. A free man once more!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Free! she whispered."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, free from his vice!"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, suppose we get him to bed, Doctor, she said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We can carry him up between us. There are two maids, and Tumpany is quite sober enough to help."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Quite! the doctor answered."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I rather like that man upon a first meeting."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She has a sense of humour too!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, she said,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Tumpany is a good fellow at heart. And, like most people who drink, when he is himself he is a quite delightful person."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Verbosa ac grandis epistola venit a Capreis."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "John Inglesant."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "There is something so comic about your hands, darling! she said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "They are so nice and fat and jolly. They make me want to laugh!"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "How are you feeling, darling? You're looking so much better!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "My head hurts a little, but not much. But my nerves are ever so much better. Look how steady my hand is."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And you'll see, Molly dear, that when I'm shaved, my complexion will be quite nice again! It's a horrid nuisance not to be able to shave. Do I look very bad?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, you wicked image! You're a vain little wretch, Gillie, really!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm quite sure that I'm not. But, Molly, it's so nice to be feeling better. Master of one's self. Not frightened about things."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Of course it is, you old stupid! If you were always good how much happier you'd be! Take my advice. Do what I tell you, and everything will come right. You've got a great big brain, but you're a silly boy, too! Think how much more placid you are now. Never take any more spirits again!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, I won't, darling. I promise you I won't."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That's right, dear. And this nice new doctor will help you. You like him, don't you?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Molly! What a dear simple fool you are! _Like_ him? You don't in the least realise who he is. It's Morton Sims, Morton Sims himself! He's a fearfully important person. Twice, they say, he's refused to take a baronetcy. He's come down here to do research work. It's an enormous condescension on his part to come and plaster up my head. It's really rather like Lord Rosebery coming to shave one! And he'll send in a bill for about fifty pounds!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He won't, Gillie dear. I'm sure. But if he does, what's the use of worrying? I'll pay it out of my own money, and I've got nearly as much as you--nasty miser!"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "But dear, she's _delighted_,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You've committed a crime! It's disgraceful. Oblige me by never doing anything of the sort again. Why didn't you give her a ham?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Molly, may I have a cigarette?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hadn't you better have a pipe? The doctor said that you smoked far too many cigarettes and that they were bad for you."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "I see, he said,"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Jesus!"
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Inglesant found that repeating the name of Jesus simply in the lonely nights kept his brain quiet when it was on the point of distraction, being of the same mind as Sir Charles Lucas when 'Many times calling upon the sacred name of Jesus,' he was shot dead at Colchester."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You old duffer, Mary said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Really, you are a perfect blighter--as you so often call me! Haven't you just been boasting about feeling so much better? And, fat wretch! am I not doing everything possible for you. _Of course_ I've talked you over with the doctor. We're going to make you right! We're going to make you slim and beautiful once more. My dear thing! it's all arranged and settled. Don't bubble like a frog! Don't look at your poor Missis as if she were a nasty smell! It's no use, Gillie dear, we've got you now!"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Of course you may, if you want one. It was only a general sort of remark that the doctor made. A few cigarettes can't harm any one. Don't I have two every day myself--since you got me into the habit? But you've been smoking fifty a day, for _weeks_ before you went to town."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, Molly! What utter rot! I _never_ have!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But you _have_, Gilbert. You smoke the Virginian ones in the tins of fifty. You always have lots of tins, but you never think how they come into the house. I order them from the grocer in Wordingham. They're put down in the monthly book--so you see I _know_!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Fifty a day! Of course, it's appalling."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, you're going to be a good boy now, a perfect angel. Here you are, here are three cigarettes for you. And you're going to have a sweet-bread for lunch and I'm going to cook it for you myself!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Dear old dear!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, I am. And Tumpany wants to see you. Will you see him? Dr. Morton Sims won't be here for another half hour."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, I'll have Tumpany up. Best chap I know, Tumpany is. But why's the doctor coming? My head's healed up all right now."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You know, darling! He wants to have a long talk with you."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Apropos of the reformation stakes I suppose."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "To give you back your wonderful brain in peace, darling!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And now suppose you send up Tumpany, dear."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, at once."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come in,"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Good God! he cried,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "First of August, sir. Wildfowling begins!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Heavens! so it is. I ought to have been out! I never thought about the date. Damn you for pitching me out of the dog-cart, William!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yessir! You've told me so before,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What are they, flappers?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, sir, mature birds. I was out on the marshes before daylight. The birds were coming off the meils--and North Creake flat. First day since February, sir! You know what I was feeling like!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't I, oh, don't I, by Jove! Now tell me. What were you using?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, sir, I thought I would fire at nothing but duck on the first day. Just to christen the day, sir. So I used five and a half and smokeless diamond. Your cartridges."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What gun?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, I used my old pigeon gun, sir. It's full choke, both barrels and on the meils it's always a case of long shots."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why didn't you have one of my guns? The long-chambered twelve, or the big Greener ten-bore--they're there in the cupboard in the gun room, you've got the key! Did a whole sord of mallard come over, or were those three stragglers?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A sord, sir. The two drakes were right and left shots and this duck came down too. As I said to the mistress just now, 'last year,' I said, 'Mr. Gilbert and I were out for two mornings after the first of August and we never brought back nothing but a brace of curlew--and now here's a leash of duck, M'm.'"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If you'd had a bigger gun, and a sord came over, you'd have got a bag, William! Why the devil didn't you take the ten-bore?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, sir, I won't say as I didn't go and have a look at 'im in the gun room--knowing how they're flighting just now and that a big gun would be useful. But with you lying in bed I couldn't do it. So I went out and shot just for the honour of the house, as it were."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, I shall be up in a day or two, William, and I'll see if I can't wipe your eye!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I hope you will, sir, I'm sure. There's quite a lot of mallard about, early as it is."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'll get among them soon, Tumpany!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yessir--the Mistress I think, sir, and the doctor."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Good heavens! the doctor was thinking."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What a brilliant brain's hidden behind those lint bandages! This is the man who can make the throat swell with sorrow and the heart leap high with hope! With all my learning and success, I can only bring comfort to people's bowels or cure insomnia. This fellow here can heal souls--like a priest! Even for me--now and then--he has unlocked the gates of fairyland."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Good Lord! Gilbert said to himself."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What wouldn't I give to be a fellow like this fellow. He is great. He can put a drug into one's body and one's soul awakes! He's got a magic wand. He waves it, and sanity returns. He pours out of a bottle and blind eyes once more see God, dull ears hear music! I go and get drunk at Amberleys' house and cringe before a Toftrees, Mon Dieu! This man can never go away from a house without leaving a sense of loss behind him."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, how are you, Mr. Lothian?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Much better, thanks, Doctor. I'm feeling quite fit, in fact."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, but you're not, you know. I made a complete examination of you yesterday, you remember, and now I've tabulated the results."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Tell me then."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If you weren't who you are, I wouldn't tell you at all, being who you are, I will."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Fire away! he said with his sweet smile, his great charm of manner--all the greater for the enforced abstinence of the last three days--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I shan't funk anything you tell me."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Very well, then. Your liver is beginning--only beginning--to be enlarged. You've got a more or less permanent catarrh of the stomach, and a permanent catarrh of the throat and nasal passages from membranes inflamed by alcohol and constant cigarette smoking. And there is a hint of coming heart trouble, too."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I know all that, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Really, Doctor, there's nothing very dreadful in that. I'm as strong as a horse, really!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, you are, in one way. Your constitution is a fine one. I was talking to your man-servant yesterday and I know what you are able to go through when you are shooting in the winter. I would not venture upon such risks myself even."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Then everything is for the best, in the best of all possible worlds?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Unfortunately, in your case, it's _not_, Morton Sims replied."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You seem to forget two things about 'Candide'--that Dr. Pangloss was a failure and a fool, and that one must cultivate one's garden! Voltaire was a wise man!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You've something to say to me, he answered,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I will. It's this, Mr. Lothian. Your stomach will go on digesting and your heart performing its functions long after your brain has gone."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You think that?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I know it. You are on the verge of terrible nervous and mental collapse. I'm going to be brutal, but I'm going to speak the truth. Three months more of drinking as you have been of late and, for all effective purposes you go out!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How dare you say such a thing to me, sir? he cried."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "How dare you tell me, tell _me_, that I have been drinking heavily. You are certainly wise to say it when there is no witness here!"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now really, Mr. Lothian! he said,"
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Look here, Doctor, he said after a moment,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I spoke like a fool, which I'm not. I have been rather overdoing it lately. My work has been worrying me and I've been trying to whip myself up with alcohol."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, we'll soon put you right,"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Of course, he said, talking in a quiet man-of-the-world voice,"
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'll tell you something, he said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not a _bit_, he said excitedly,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There _is_ no craving, the Doctor answered quietly--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, it's very hard to answer them at any rate. One somehow knows within oneself that they're all wrong, but one can't explain."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I can explain to you--I couldn't explain to, well to your man Tumpany for instance, _he_ couldn't understand."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Tumpany only drinks beer,"
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He seems a very good sort, that fellow of yours, the doctor continued indifferently, and then, with a more eager and confidential manner,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But let me explain where the ordinary temperance people are wrong. First, tell me, haven't you at times quarrelled with friends, because you've become suspicious of them, and have imagined some treacherous and concealed motive in the background?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't know that I've quarrelled much."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, perhaps not. But you've felt suspicious of people a good deal. You've wondered whether people were thinking about you. In all sorts of little ways you've had these thoughts constantly. Perhaps if a correspondent who generally signs himself 'yours sincerely' has inadvertently signed 'yours truly' you have worried a good deal and invented all sorts of reasons. If some person of position you know drives past you, and his look or wave of the hand does not appear to be as cordial as usual, don't you invent all kinds of distressing reasons to account for what you imagine?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If this man knew so much, a wizard who saw into the secret places of the mind, what more might he not know?"
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "May I have a cigarette?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, --puff-puff--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I see that and it's very true. Perhaps truer than you can know! Lothian said with a rather bitter smile."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But how does all this explain what we were talking about at first. The 'Craving' and all that?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am coming to it now. I had to make the other postulate first. In this way. We have seen in this suspicion--one of many instances--that an entirely fictitious world is created in the mind of a man by alcohol. It is one in which he _must_ live. It is peopled with unrealities and phantasies. As he goes on drinking, this world becomes more and more complex. Then, when a man becomes in a state which we call 'chronic alcoholism' a new Ego, a new self is created. _This new personality fails to recognise that it was ever anything else_--mark this well--_and proceeds to harmonise everything with the new state_. And now, as the new consciousness, the new Ego, is the compelling mind of the moment, the Inebriate is terrified at any weakening in it. _The preservation of this new Ego seems to be his only guard against the_ imagined _pitfalls and treacheries_. Therefore he does all in his power to strengthen his defences. He continues alcohol, because it is to him the only possible agent by which he can _keep grasp of his identity_. For him it is no poison, no excess. It sustains his very being. His _stomach_ doesn't crave for it, as the ignorant will tell you. It has no _sensual_ appeal. Lots of inebriates hate the taste of alcohol. In advanced stages it is quite a matter of indifference to a man what form of alcohol he drinks. If he can't get whiskey, he will drink methylated spirit. He takes the drug simply because of the necessity for the maintenance of a condition the falsity of which he is unable to appreciate."
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Thank you, he said simply."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I feel certain that what you say is true."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Perhaps nothing is quite true, he said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And that is?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'll tell you our theories at my next visit. You must be quiet now."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But there are a dozen questions I want to ask you--and my own case?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am sending you some medicine, and we will talk more next time. And, if you like, I will send you a paper upon the Psychology of the Alcoholic, which I read the other day before the Society for the Study of Alcoholism. It may interest you. But don't necessarily take it all for gospel! I'm only feeling my way."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'll compare it with such experiences as I have had--though of course I'm not what you'd call an _inebriate_."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Of course not! Did I ever say so, Mr. Lothian! But what you propose will be of real value to me, if I may have your conclusions."
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'll make notes, he replied,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Thanks, he answered."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It will be a help. But what we really require is an alcoholic De Quincey to detail in his graphic manner the memories of his past experiences--a man who has the power and the courage to lay open the cravings and the writhings of his former slavery, and to compare them with his emancipated self."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Do you mind if I leave you for an hour or two, dear? she asked."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have some things to get and I thought I would drive into Wordingham."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Of course not, I shall be quite all right."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, be sure and ring for anything you want."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Very well. I shall probably sleep. By the way, I thought of asking Dickson Ingworth down for a few days. There are some duck about, you know, and he can bring his gun."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do, darling, if you would like him."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Very well, then. I wonder if you'd write a note for me, explaining that I'm in bed, but shall be up to-morrow. Supposing you ask him to come in a couple of days."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, I will, she replied, kissing him with her almost maternal, protective air,"
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She has no changes, no surprises, he thought,"
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He was possessed of a Devil"
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Where is Tumpany, Blanche?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "In the garden, sir."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, tell him to come up, please. I want to speak to him."
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Thought you'd like to see him, sir, said Tumpany."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He know'd you'd come back right enough, and he's been terrible restless."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am very glad to see the old chap again. Look here, William, just you go quietly over to the Mortland Arms, don't look as if you were going on any special errand,--but you know--and get a bottle of whiskey. Draw the cork and put it back in the bottle so that I can take it out with my fingers when I want to. Then bring it quietly up here."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yessir, said Tumpany."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That'll be all right, sir,"
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Shall I leave the dog, sir?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, you may as well. He's quite happy."
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Beastly!"
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Milton bestowed the music of her voice, but it came from the second volume in which Comus lies hid. Her smile was half Herrick and half Heine, and her hair was spun in a 'Wood near Athens' by the fairies--Tom III, _Opera Glmi Shakespeare, Editio e Libris Podley!_--upon a night in Midsummer."
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "For a brief instant of recollection, he will have for you '_L'effet d'un clair-de-lune par une nuit d'été'_. And you will say to yourself, '_Ami du temps passés, vos paroles me reviennent comme un écho lointain, comme le son d'un cloche apporté par le vent; et il me semble que vous êtes là quand je lis des passages d'amour dans vos livres_'."
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "GILBERT LOTHIAN."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm drunk,"
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "On n'est jamais trahi que par ses siens."
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I can't understand Tumpany letting this beast down, Ingworth said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He's as sure footed as possible. Was Tumpany fluffed?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I suppose he was, a little."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Then why didn't you drive, Gilbert?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I? Oh, well, I did myself rather well in the train coming down, and so I thought I'd leave it to William!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I was drunk,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But you couldn't have been very bad?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, no, I wasn't, Dicker. But I was half asleep as we got into the village, and as you see this cart is rather high and with a low splashboard. My feet weren't braced against the foot-bar and I simply shot out!"
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Of course I wasn't tight,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "My dear old chap, the lad replied hastily--too hastily--"
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "One can see he's a big man, he thought with a slight feeling of discomfort."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I wonder if Toftrees is right and his reputation is going down and people are beginning to find out about him?"
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "sets, which are the despair of tutors and simply serve as an excuse for general slackness. The boy had announced his intention of embracing a literary career when he had managed to scrape through his pass schools. He had a hundred a year of his own--always spent before he received it--and the Wiltshire squire, quite confident in the ultimate result, had cut off his allowance."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Try it, he had said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No one will be more pleased than I if you make it a success. You won't, though! When you're tired, come back here and take up your place. It will be waiting for you. But meanwhile, my dear boy, not a penny do you get from me!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The caresses had not as yet been returned with any ardour. Conceit and a desire to taste"
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I've been seeing a good deal of Toftrees lately, Gilbert,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What? Oh, yes!--the Toftrees. Nice chap, Toftrees, I thought, when I met him the other night. Awfully clever, don't you think, to get hold of such an enormous public? Mind you, Dicker, I wouldn't give one of his books to any one if I could help it. But that's because I want every one to care for real literature. That's my own personal standpoint. Apart from that, I do think that Mr. and Mrs. Toftrees deserve all they get in the way of money and popularity and so on. There must be such people under the modern conditions, and apart from their work they both seem most interesting."
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I say, he said maliciously, though there was fear in his voice, too,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Herbert Toftrees has got his knife into you, Gilbert."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Got his _knife into me_?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, yes. He's going about town saying all sorts of unpleasant things about you."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes! he said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I remember! Miss Wallace told me so not long ago. How intensely amusing!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Toftrees is a very influential man in London,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, Dicker! he said,"
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Thanks awfully, old chap, Lothian said cheerfully as they turned under the archway into the stable yard."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You're a topping whip, you know, Dicker. I can't drive a bit myself. But I like to see you."
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come along, Jehu! he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I want a drink badly, and I'm sure you do, after the drive. I don't care what you say, that cob is _not_ so easy to handle."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "MOST SELECT LOUNGE IN THE COUNTY"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I strike quickly, being moved. . . . A dog of the house of Montague moves me."
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There was a flaunting gin palace at the corner of the street, --that is the sort of phrase you may read in half a hundred books. The holes and dens where working people get drunk, and issuing therefrom make night hideous at closing time, stink in the nostrils of every one. They form the texts and illustrations of many earnest lectures, much fervent sermonizing. But nothing is said of the suave and well-conducted establishments where the prosperous inebriates of stagnant county towns meet to take their poison. When the doors of the George closed in Wordingham and its little coterie of patrons issued forth, gravely, pompously, a little unsteadily perhaps, to seek their homes, the Police Inspector touched his cap--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The gentlemen from the George, going home!"
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Lodge Night, or the evening of Petty Sessions, a little shrivelled, trembling spinster would creep out of the house before breakfast and kneel in piteous supplication at the Altar rails for the big, blond and jovial brother who was"
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The most select lounge in the county"
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now tell me, Dicker, Lothian said, lighting a cigarette,"
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, he's jealous of you because you really can write, Gilbert! That must be it. But he really has got his knife into you!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, but I assure you he has not,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, you know what I mean, old chap, he replied."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He's going about saying that you aren't sincere, that you're really fluffed when you write your poems, don't you know. The other night, at a supper at the Savoy, where I was, he said you were making a trade of Christianity, that you didn't really believe in what you wrote, and couldn't possibly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Have another whiskey, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And what did you say, Dicker?"
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, I said you meant well,"
}
]
|
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