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41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, I do, really,"
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'll get through his damned high-and-mighty attitude yet,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I say, he remarked,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Rather dangerous, wasn't it? he continued."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Suppose your wife got to know, Gilbert?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Look here, Ingworth, he said, and his face became menacing,"
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, I don't know about impudence, he answered pertly and with a red face."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Anyhow, Rita dined with _me_ last week!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, and you took her to that disgusting little café Maréchale in Soho. You ought not to take a lady to such a place as that. You've been long enough in London to know. Don't be such a babe. If you ever get a nice girl to go out with you again try and think things out a little more."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "She's been writing to you!"
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I _beg_ your pardon?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, she has! the young fellow hissed."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You're trying on a game with the girl. She's a lady, and a good girl, and you're a married man. She's been telling you about me, though I've a right to meet her and you've not!--Look here, if she realised and knew what I know, and Toftrees and Mr. Amberley know, what every one in London knows, by Jove, she'd never speak to you again!"
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You dirty little hanger-on, he said in a low voice,"
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now, then, he said,"
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's all right, Helzephron, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's a mistake, a damned silly mistake. As a matter of fact I lost my temper. Please let Mr. Ingworth go."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Very sorry, I'm sure,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm very sorry, Dicker, Lothian said impulsively;"
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I was abominably rude, Gilbert, he said frankly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Don't let's talk rot. I'm sorry."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's good of you to take it in that way, Dicker. I'm awfully sorry, too."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "All's well that ends well, he remarked sententiously."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's the best of gentlemen, they do settle these matters as gentlemen should. Now if you'll come with me, sir, I'll take you to the lavatory and you can sponge that blood off your face. You're not marked, really."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Good old sportsman, Dicker! he thought;"
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I say, Mr. Lothian, she remarked,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I know, Gilbert answered,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He's got such nice curly hair!"
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Barmaid wanted, must be attractive."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Young lady wanted for select wine-room in the West End, gentlemen only, must be well educated and of good appearance, age not over twenty-five."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Required at once, attractive young lady as barmaid--young. Photograph."
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He was sober when 'e come, she thought in the vernacular,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Something amusing you?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, just my thoughts, he replied."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Give me another whiskey and soda--a fat one, yes, a little more, yes, that'll do."
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, that I had the wings of a dove!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Juggins! she thought,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Wish you meant it!"
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now, Dicker, you just watch. They'll all be here soon for their afternoon drink--the local bloods, I mean. It's their substitute for afternoon tea, don't you know. They sit here talking about nothing to friends who have devoted their lives to the subject. Watch it for your work. You'll learn a lot. That must have been the way in which Flaubert got his stuff for 'Madame Bovary.'"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Madame Bovary,"
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'll run round to the post office, Ingworth said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Very well, Gilbert answered,"
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, Mr. Lothian, said the landlord."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don't often have the pleasure of a talk with you. Just one more with me before you go?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Please, sir, he said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, very well, Helzephron answered."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'll be out in a minute. Where is she?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "In the hall, sir. And shall Boots go down for her trunk?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes; tell him to go to the station at once with the hand-cart. A new barmaid, he said, turning to Gilbert,"
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There, there, said the landlord irritably, when he saw that consciousness was returning."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What in heaven's name did you go off like that for? You don't belong to do that sort of thing often I hope. If so I may as well tell you at once that you'll be no good here."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm very sorry, sir, said the poor creature, trembling and obviously struggling with rising hysteria."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It took me sudden. I'm very strong, really, sir. It shan't happen again."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I hope not, Helzephron answered in a rather more kindly tone."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Elsie, go into the lounge and ask Miss Palmer for a little brandy and water--but what took you like this?"
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm very sorry, she said again,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "This gentleman! Helzephron replied."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This is Mr. Gilbert Lothian, a famous gentleman and one of our country gentleman in Norfolk. What can you have to do with him?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, nothing sir, nothing. But there's a very strong resemblance in this gentleman to some one --she hesitated and shuddered--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now, drink this, said the landlord, handing her the brandy which the chambermaid had just brought."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Stop crying and Elsie will take you up to your room. Your references are all right and I don't want to know nothing of your history. Do your duty by me like a good girl and you'll find me a good master. Your past's nothing to me."
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I never saw a woman so frightened! said Mr. Helzephron."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You might have been old Bogy himself, Mr. Lothian. I didn't know what to think for a moment! I hope she doesn't drink."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, I suppose we've all got a double somewhere or other, Lothian answered."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I suppose she saw some likeness in me to some one who has ill used her, poor thing."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, yes, sir, Helzephron replied."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That's it--she said as much. Half the plays and novels turn on such likenesses. I used to be a great play-goer when I was in London and I've seen all the best actresses. But I'm damned if I ever see such downright horror as there was in that girl's face. He must have been a bad un whoever he was. Real natural tragedy in that face--William, put in Mr. Lothian's horse."
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Wenn Menschen auseinandergehn So sagen sie--auf Wiedersehn! Ja Wiederseh'n."
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Good news by this post, Dicker?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, rather. I've just heard from Herbert Toftrees. When I saw him last, just before I came down here, he hinted that he might be able to influence things for me in a certain quarter."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Really! Has something come off, Dicker, then? Do tell me, I should be so glad."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, Gilbert. It's the damnedst lucky thing! Toftrees is a topping chap. The other day he hinted at something he might be able to do for me in his deep-voiced, mysterious way. I didn't pay much attention because they say he's rather like that, and one mustn't put too much trust in it. But, by Jove! it's come off. The editor of the _Wire_--Ommany you know--wants somebody to go to Italy with the delegation of English Public School Masters, as special correspondent for a month. They've offered it to me. It's a big step, Gilbert, for me! They will pay awfully well for the job and it means that I shall get in permanently with the _Wire_."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm awfully glad, Dicker. Splendid for you! But what is it exactly?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The new movement in Italy, anti-Papal and National. It's the schools, you know. The King and the Mayor of Rome are frightfully keen that all the better class schools, like our public schools, you know--shall be taken out of the hands of the Jesuits and the seminary priests. Games and a healthy sort of school life are to be organised for the boys. They're going to try and introduce our system if they can. A Harrow tutor, a Winchester man, undermasters from Haileybury, Repton and Denstone are going out to organise things."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And you're going with them to tell England all about it! I congratulate you, Dicker. It's a big chance. You can make some fine articles out of it, if you take care. It should introduce your name."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Thanks awfully, I hope so. It's because I got my running blue I expect. But it's jolly decent of the old Toffer all the same."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, it is. When do you go?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "At once. They start in four days. I shall have to go up to town by the first train to-morrow."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm sorry, but of course, if you must"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, I must, Ingworth said importantly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have to see Ommany to-morrow night."
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, I _am_ so glad, Dicker! she said over and over again."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "My dear boy, I _am_ so glad! Now you've got your chance at last. Your real chance. Never come down here again if you don't make the most of it!"
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Think I shall be able to do it, Mrs. Gilbert?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Of course you will, Dicker! Put your very heart into it, won't you! It's your chance at last, isn't it?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I shall do it,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And now I must go in and write some letters. I shall have to be off quite early to-morrow, Mrs. Gilbert."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'll arrange all that. Go in and do your letters. We're not going to dine till eight to-night."
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm glad, dear, Mary said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He doesn't seem to have been treating you quite in the way he used to. He's been talking a good deal to me of some people who seem to have taken him up in London. And I can't help knowing that you've done everything for him in the past. Really, Gillie, I have had to snub him quite severely, for me, once or twice."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I know, he said,"
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What is it, dear?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, darling, she answered, with a sob in her voice,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I've had bad news from Nice."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "About Dorothy?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, Miss Dalton, the lady nurse who is with her has written. It's all been no use, Gillie, no use at all! She's dying, dear. The doctor from Cannes who has been attending her has said so. And Sir William Larus who is at Mentone was called in too. They give her three weeks or a month. They've cabled to India but it's a forlorn hope. Harold won't be able to get to her in time--though there's just a chance."
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Darling, he said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's dear of you to say so, Mary said at length,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, dear, of course not,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "She must have some one of her own people with her. Harold will most likely not arrive in time. I must go--mustn't I?"
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You must go to her at once, sweetheart,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, I _must_! You don't mind my leaving you?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How can you ask it? But I will come with you. We will both go. You will want a man."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I shall manage quite well by myself, she said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It will be better so. I'm quite used to travelling alone as you know. And the journey to Nice is nothing. I shall be in one carriage all the way from Calais. You could come out after, if necessary."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I would come gladly, dear."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I know, Gillie, and it's sweet of you. But you couldn't be of use and it would be miserable for you. It is better that I should be alone with Dolly. I can always wire if I want you."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "As you think best, dear. Then I will stay quietly down here."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, do. You have that poem to work on, 'A Lady in a Library.' It is a beautiful fancy and will make you greater than ever! It's quite the best thing you've done so far. And then there's the shooting."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, I shall do very well, Molly. Don't bother about me, dear."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But I always do bother about you, husband, she whispered,"
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It will be dreadful without you, darling, but you are quite right to go. Send for me if you want me. I'll catch the next boat. But I have my work to do, and I can see a good deal of Morton Sims --he knew well, and felt with shame, the cunning of this last statement--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Of course you can, dear. You won't feel so lonely then. Now about details. I must pack to-night."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, dear, and then you can go off with Dicker in the morning, and catch the night boat. If you like, that is."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, I shouldn't gain anything by that, dear. I should only have to wait about in Calais until one o'clock the next day when the train de luxe starts. But I should like to go first thing to-morrow. I couldn't wait about here the whole day. Dicker will be company of sorts. I shall get to town about two, and go to the Charing Cross Hotel. Then I shall do some shopping, go to bed early, and catch the boat train from the station in the morning. I would rather do it like that."
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I say, Dicker, let's have some champagne, shall we?--just to wish your mission success."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, do let's. I'm just in the mood for buzz-water to-night."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Here's to you, Dicker! May you become a G. W. Stevens or a Julian Ralph!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Thanks, old chap. I'll do my best, now that my chance has come. I say I am awfully sorry about Lady Davidson. It's such rough luck on Mrs. Gilbert. You'll be rather at a loose end without your wife, won't you?--or will you write?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, I shall be quite happy,"
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "So that is his game, damned hypocrite! Ingworth thought."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I shall be away, his wife will be out of the way and he will make the running with Rita Wallace just as he likes."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He's fat and bloated, he thought."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Surely a young and lovely girl like Rita _can't_ care for him?"
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Have a cigar, Dicker. No?--well, here's the very best of luck."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Thanks, the same to you!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe: let her breasts satisfy thee at all times: and be thou ravished always with her love."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We were two daughters of one race; She was the fairest in the face;"
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Lulu Bird"
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She was"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": ";"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sister Ethel"
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Everyman and"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "World's Classics series. She generally managed a book and a half each fortnight, and her horizon was bounded by the two-hundredth volume. Dickens she had very much neglected of late, the new Ruskin had kept the set at"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "David Copperfield"
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dicker or"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Curly."
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I hardly think that it's quite a _good_ face,"
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "For Miss Rita Wallace."
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A Duke might be glad to marry her,"
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How do I look, Wog dear?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Splendid, darling, Ethel answered eagerly--a pretty junior typist in Ethel's office, who had been snubbed, had once sent her homely senior a golliwog doll, and since then the good-humoured Ethel was"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Wog"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm so glad. I want to look my best to-night."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, then, you do,"
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Wog! You're dying to know where I'm going!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Of course I am, Cupid,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm going to dine with Gilbert."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Gilbert?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Gilbert Lothian I mean, of course. We are absolute friends, Wog dear--he and I. I haven't told you before, but I will now. You remember that night I was home so late, nearly a month ago? Yes?--well I had been motoring to Brighton with Gilbert. I met him for the first time at the Amberleys'--but that you know. Since then we have become friends--such a strange and wonderful friendship it is, Ethel! It's made things so different for me."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But how friends? Have you seen him often, then? But you can't have?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No! she cried, with a little tap of her shoe upon the carpet."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But there are such things as letters aren't there?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Has he been writing to you, then?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Writing! I have had four of the most beautiful letters that a poet ever wrote. It took him days to write each one. He chose every word, over and over again. Every sentence is music, every word a note in a chord!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dear old Cupid, she said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm so glad, so very glad. I don't understand his poems myself, but Father simply loves them. I am sure you will be very happy. Only I do hope he is a good man--really worthy of my dear! And so --she continued, with a struggle to get down to commonplace brightness of manner--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And so he's coming for you to-night! Now I know why you look so beautiful and are so happy."
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't understand you, Ethel, she said in a voice which was so cold and unusual that the other girl was dumb.--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What on earth do you mean?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mean, dear, Ethel faltered."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don't quite understand. I thought you meant--I thought . . ."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What did you think?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I thought you meant that you were engaged to him, Cupid darling!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Engaged!--_Why Gilbert is married._"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But the letters! she managed to say at length,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How limited and narrow you are, Ethel, she said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Have you such low ideals that you think friendship between a man and a woman impossible? Are you entirely fettered by convention and silly old puritanical nonsense? Wouldn't you be glad and proud to have a man with a wonderful mind for your friend--a man who is all chivalry and kindness, who pours out the treasures of his intellect for one?"
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You have nothing to say! Of course! There _is_ nothing that any wide-minded person could say. Ethel, you're a dear old stupe!"
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "At last!"
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sesame and Lilies."
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Inside the Horsel here the air is hot; Right little peace one hath for it, God wot; The scented dusty daylight burns the air, And my heart chokes me till I hear it not."
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I must write to Rita,"
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No one at all,"
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's marvellous, she said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The whole atmosphere is new. I did not think such a place as this existed."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And the Metropole at Brighton?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It was like a bathing machine is to Buckingham Palace, compared to this. How exquisite the band is! Oh, I am so happy!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That makes me happy, Cupid. This is the night of your initiation. Our wonderful weeks have begun. I have thought out a whole series of delights and contrasts. Every night shall be a surprise. You will never know what we are going to do. London is a magic city and you have known nothing of it."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "How could the 'Girl from Podley's' know?--That's what I am, the Girl from Podley's. I feel like Cinderella must have felt when she went to the ball. Oh, I am so happy!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Lalage! he murmured, more to himself than to her--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What--Gilbert?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I was quoting some Latin to myself, Cupid dear."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And it was all Greek to me! she said in a flash."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh! who _ever_ saw so many hors d'oeuvres all at one time! I love hors d'oeuvres, advise me, don't let me have too many different sorts, Gilbert, or I shan't be able to eat anything afterwards."
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Gilbert"
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, Gilbert dear! what is it now!"
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How _perfectly_ sweet! Like the little roast pigling was to Elia! Gilbert, I'm so happy."
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Cupid dear, he said with his open and boyish smile,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, I see, she replied thoughtfully, and then, with a radiant smile and the provocative, challenging look--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Gilbert dear, you seem just like a girl to me. I quite forgot you were a man. So it doesn't matter, does it?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Here is the dessert,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, I shouldn't have thought _this_ gentleman would have done such a thing."
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Cupid! he said suddenly, in a voice that was quite changed,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Rita dear, I'm going to show you something!"
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What, Gilbert?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You shall hear,"
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, Gilbert dear, what is the surprise?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Music, sweetheart. I've sent up to the band to play something. Something special, Cupid, just for you and me alone on the first of our Arabian Nights!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "upon it, hanging to the rail. And then a sallow man with a moustache of ink came to the balcony and removed the card, substituting another for it on which was printed in staring sable letters--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "BY DESIRE."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What's it going to be, Gilbert?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The 'Salut d'Amour' of Elgar, he answered her in a low voice,"
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The lasting hunger of the obscure artist for recognition by another and greater one was satisfied. Poor Toché went to his bed that night in Soho feeling as if he had been decorated with the Order of Merit. And though, during the supper hours from eleven to half past twelve he had to play"
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This is the moment of realisation, he thought,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "How well they play,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't let's talk for a minute,"
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She was for me! his heart cried out."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ah, if only I had met her first!"
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I cannot love her, he said in his mind."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have never loved her. I have been blind until this moment. A tear of sentiment welled into his eye at the thought of poor Mary, bereft of his love."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How sad life was!"
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I cannot love her,"
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What are we going to do now?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "When we went to Brighton together, Gilbert answered,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, how perfectly sweet! Take me to the Empire."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We ought to get there in time for the ballet, he said,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, Gilbert."
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, my love! he said with a sob in his voice."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "My dear little Love; at last, at last!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Turn your face to me, darling."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Gilbert, you mustn't."
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Kiss met Kiss me again! he said savagely."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You must, you must! Rita, my darling, _my darling_!"
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Are you unhappy, dearest?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Unhappy, Gilbert? With you? How could I be?"
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Surgit amari aliquid?"
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Gilbert, let's pretend we're married, just for this evening,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What do you mean, Rita?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's so nice to be together, she whispered."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am so happy with you. London is so wonderful with you to show it to me. I only wish it could go on always."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It can, always, if you wish,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hush, she said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You mustn't talk like that."
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "To-morrow! he said, trying to put something that he knew was not there into his dull voice."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "To-morrow night."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "To-morrow! she replied."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "At the same time,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mr. Gilbert"
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I couldn't possibly, Gilbert dear,"
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Gilbert, we simply must have the stage box. I'm not in the mood to sit _anywhere_ else to-night,"
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But surely one could get it _here_?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's not on the card, dear."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There _was_ some of the wine in the cellars, a half bin, just as there _was_ some of the famous White Hermitage--but, but --he whispered in Gilbert's ear,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The King of Spain, um um um--The Grand Duke Alexis--you'll understand, sir, 'm 'm."
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Damn you! he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What are you afraid of?--of compromising yourself? If there were half a dozen people in London who knew or cared what you did, you've done that long ago. And for heaven's sake don't play Tartuffe with me. Haven't I been kissing you as much as ever I wanted to for the last three days? Haven't you kissed me? You'll dine with me to-morrow night in St. James' Street or I'll get out of town at once and chuck it all. I've been an ass to come at all. I'm beginning to see that now. I've been leaving the substance for the shadow."
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Of course I'll come, Gilbert dear, she said softly--"
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Bees' Wedding"
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A mad scarlet thing by Dvôrak,"
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sweetheart, he said,"
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am very sorry, Gilbert dear, you can never know how sorry I am. But you know I care for you. That must be all."
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Merrily false and frankly furtive in many of the actions of life. A dear egoist! yet capable of self-abandoning enthusiasm, a brilliant embryo really wanting the guiding hand and master brain but reluctant to accept them until the last moment."
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A white and graceful yacht seriously setting out into dangerous waters with no more certainty than hangs upon the result of a toss up or the tinkle of a tambourine. Deeply desiring a pilot, but unwilling that he should come aboard too soon and spoil the fun of beating up into the wind to see what happens. Weak, but not with the charm of dependence and that trusting weakness which stiffens a man's arm."
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Arabian Nights. Every day he gave her a tablet upon which"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Sesame"
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My dearsh --like the amusing pictures in"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Punch."
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm a wicked little devil, she said to herself once or twice with a naughty inward chuckle,"
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Let us have a quiet hour, Let us hob-and-nob with Death."
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Je me nourris de flammes"
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And yet, darling, --so the letter had run--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Like bitter wine upon a sponge was the savour of remorse."
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's a good thing for him, Lothian thought."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don't suppose he's back from Italy yet. The old man must have died quite suddenly. I hope he'll settle down and won't be quite so uppish in the future."
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What a cock-sparrow Beelzebub the lad really is, he said in his mind."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And yet I liked him well enough. Even now he's not important enough to dislike. Rita likes him. She often talks of him. He took her out to dinner--yes, so he did--to some appalling little place in Wardour Street. She was speaking of it yesterday. He's written to her from Milan and Rome, too. She wanted to show me the letters and she was cross because I wasn't interested. She tried to pique me and I wouldn't be! What was it she said, oh, 'he's such nice curly hair.'"
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Where shall we go, Gilbert?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don't know, Rita, and I don't care. Ce que vous voulez, Mademoiselle des livres sans reproche!"
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Go to Madame Tussaud's,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why did you say that?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What difference _does_ it make? she replied."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You didn't seem to care where we went for this last hour or two. I said the first thing that came into my mind. I suppose we can get lunch at Madame Tussaud's. I've never been there before. At any rate, I expect they can manage a sponge cake for us. I don't want anything more."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, it's better for us both. It's a relief to me to think that the end has come. No, Rita dear, I don't want your hand. Let us make an end now--a diminuendo. It must be. Let it be. You've said it often yourself."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You shan't! she said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You shan't glide away from me like this."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What will you give?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I? What I choose to give! she replied."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Gillie, I'll do what I like with you."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No names like that, Rita! he said roughly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You shan't call me that."
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Colloque Sentimental"
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dost thou remember our old ecstasy?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Wherefore should I possess that memory?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Doth thy heart beat at my sole name alway? Still dost thou see my soul in visions?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Nay!"
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Room No. 1. Commencing Right-hand side"
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There's Charles the First,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He was fervently pious, a faithful husband, a fond parent, a kind master, and an enthusiastic lover and patron of the fine arts."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How familiar that sort of stuff sounds, she answered."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's written for the schools which come here to see history in the flesh--or wax rather. Every English school girl of the upper middle classes has been brought here once in her life. Oh, here's Milton! What does it say about him?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sold his immortal poem 'Paradise Lost' for the sum of five pounds,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "So you will be, Cupid, soon. Don't you see that all these people are only names to us. Here they are names dressed up in clothes and with pink faces and glass eyes. They're too remote. Neither of us is going to connect that thing --he flung a contemptuous movement of his thumb at Milton--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No. I don't want food. After all, this is strange and fantastic. We've lots more to see yet, and these kings and queens are only for the schools. Let's explore and explore. And let's talk about it all as we go, Gilbert! Talk to me as you do in your letters. Talk to me as you did at the beginning, illuminating everything with your mind. That's what I want to hear once again!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Colloque Sentimental"
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Wog and I find his tea really the best and cheapest,"
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Poor little man, Rita said, looking at the sad face of the comedian."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why should they put him here with the King and the Queen? Do they just plant their figures anywhere in this show?"
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What a little stupid you are, Rita! he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The man who arranges these groups is one of the greatest philosophers and students of humanity who ever lived. In this particular case the ghost of Heine must have animated him. The court jester! The clown of the monarch--I believe he did once perform at Sandringham--set cheek by jowl with the great people he amused. It completes the picture, does it not?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, Gilbert, since you pretend to see a design in the arrangement, I don't think it _does_ complete the picture. Why should a mere little comic man be set to intrude--?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, but you don't see it at all! he cried, and his vibrating voice, to which the timbre and life had returned, rang through"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Room No. 2."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "This place is designed for the great mass of the population. They all visit it. It is a National Institution. People like you and me only come to it out of curiosity or by chance. It's out of our beat. Therefore, observe the genius of the plan! The Populace has room in its great stupid heart for only a few heroes. The King is always one, and the popular comedian of the music halls is always another. These, with Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Toftrees, satisfy all the hunger for symbols to be adored. Thus Dan Leno in this splendid company. Room No. 2 is really a subtle and ironic comment upon the psychology of the crowd!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But where are the Toftrees?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "In the Chamber of Horrors, probably, for murdering the public taste. We are sure to find them here, seated before two Remingtons and with the actual books with which the crime was committed on show."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, I've heard about the 'Chamber of Horrors.' Can we go, Gilbert? Do let's go. I want to be thrilled. It's such a funereal day."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes it is, grey as an old nun. I'm sorry I was unkind in the cab, dear. Forgive me."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'll forgive you anything. I'm so unhappy, Gilbert. It's dreadful to think of you being gone. All my days and my nights will be grey now. However shall I do without you?"
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I couldn't have conceived it was so, so unnerving, Gilbert,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It is pretty beastly, Lothian answered."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's simply a dictionary of crime though, that's all--rather too well illustrated."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don't want to know of these horrors. One sees them in the papers, but it means little or nothing. How dreadful life is though, under the surface!"
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I will not,"
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde"
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Poor little Rita, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It was your choice you know. It _is_ horrible. But I expect that the weather, and the inexorable fact that we have to part this afternoon for a time, has something to do with it. Oh, and then we haven't lunched. There's a great influence in lunch. I want a drink badly, too. Let's go."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Soon, she said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Look here, Gilbert, we'll meet at the door. I'm going to flit down this aisle of murderers on the other side. You go down this side. And if you meet the Libricides--Toftrees et femme I mean, call out!"
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Gilbert, how silly to try and frighten me! It's not cricket in this horrid place, get down at once--oh!"
}
]
|
41139 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dear! he said in wild agitation."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What is it? I'm here, don't be frightened. What is it, Rita?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Thank goodness, she said, gasping."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, Gilbert, I'm a fool. I've been so frightened."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But, dear, what by?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "By that----"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I talked to _it_, she said with an hysterical laugh."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I thought _it_ was you! I thought you'd got inside the railing and were standing there to frighten me."
}
]
|
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