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29753 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do you know what she answered? She told me to come to you and truckle for another big loan, which I am not capable of handling, to cheat legally and never hint to the world the truth of the affair. She hadn't the most remote idea that I was in earnest when I told her I was going to be a failure in the eyes of the world--but I was not going to have my wife's father support me. I'm not sorry this has happened--feel as if the Old Man of the Sea had dropped off me. But this is the thing: either my wife and I will live in a home of our own, and such a home as I can provide, being an independent and proper family and keeping our problems and responsibilities within our gates; or else your daughter is going to stay with you and lose her one chance of freedom while I leave town."
}
]
|
29753 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is you I blame, he added before Constantine could make answer."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You kept her as useless as a china shepherdess; it is not her fault if she fails to rise to the occasion now."
}
]
|
29753 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You young fool, don't you suppose I made the stock exchange yield you the sugarplums? Gad, I knew every cent you spent and made. It was for my girl, my Gorgeous Girl, so why wouldn't I do it? I saved your ideals and kept your hands white so that you would be good enough for her; that was what I figured out the hour after you had told me your intentions. I followed you like the fairy books tell of; I brought you your fortune and your factory and scotched all the enemies about you--and gave you the girl. And you thought you killed the seven-headed dragon yourself.... I don't blame you for the foozle, Steve; I cotton-woolled you all along--it was bound to come. But, damme, you'll come down to brass tacks and take more of my money now and keep her from being unhappy and stop this snivel about earning what you get and needing responsibilities--or you'll find you've put your foot into hell and you can't pull it out!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Do you see this, O God?"
}
]
|
29753 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now, my dear Stevuns, why did you get me all upset? And yourself and poor papa, to say nothing of my having to send word at the last moment that we could not attend the dinner. Oh, Steve, Steve, will you ever be really tamed?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Come and sit beside me. He drew out a notebook and pencil."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I must tell you some things."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm still cross,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Look here, dear, he began, patiently;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I thought we talked that all out before, she interrupted, half petulantly, half wistfully."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why do you keep repeating yourself? You'll be thumping your fists the first thing we know!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Do you fancy I am not going to do this? Are you not sufficiently concerned to listen, to realize that I have been a blind, conceited fool? But I have learned my lesson. I shall support my wife from now on and live in my own house or else I shall no longer be your husband."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Steve!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You were never keen for details, so I shall not irritate you now by introducing them. But the fact remains that I have been made and backed by your father merely because he wished me to be your husband. You picked me out--and I was keen to be picked out--and he decided to make me as proper a companion for you as possible. I am in some ways as untried to-day as any youngster starting out; as I was when I fancied I made the grand and initial stride by myself. Your father feels that I ought to be eternally grateful--but then, what else could the father of the Gorgeous Girl think? He has harmed me--but he has ruined you. I hardly thought you would meet me halfway, still it was worth the try."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Are you taking this way of getting out of it?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Good heavens! Steve murmured, half inaudibly,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I keep forgetting you have never been taught values or sincerity! There is no way I can prove to you how in earnest I am, is there?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You mean to say that I am a failure?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The most gorgeous failure we have with us to-day! And the worst of it is it is growing to be a common type of failure since gorgeousness is becoming prevalent. There are many like you--not many more gorgeous, and thousands less so. You are a type that has developed in the last twenty years and is developing these days at breakneck speed! And you can't understand and you don't want to and I'm damned if I'll try to explain again."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, she asked, shrewdly, quite the woman of the world,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No; that is another type we plain Americans have on our hands."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Don't spar for time."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm not. I'm through sparring; I want to go to work. I want----"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I suppose you want to marry that woman--Mary Faithful, who has loved you so long and made herself so useful! She was clever enough to pretend to efface herself and go to work for someone else, but I dare say you have seen her as often as before. Oh, are you surprised I know? I gave you the credit of being above such a thing, but Trudy told me that this woman had told her the truth--so you see even your Mary Faithful cannot be trusted. You had better turn monk, Steve, be done with the whole annoying pack of us! Anyway, Trudy came running to me, but I never lost sleep over the rumour. I felt you were above such things, as I said, but presently little indications--straws, you know--told me she cared; and if a woman cares for a man and is able to pass several hours each day in his employ, unless she is cross-eyed or a blithering idiot she cannot fail to win the game! Now can she, Stevuns?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Please leave her out of it."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "So--we must talk about my being a failure, my father clipping your wings of industry and all that--yet we must not mention a woman who has loved you--and gossiped about it."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She did not! You know Trudy--you know her nature,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Taking up her defence! Noble Stevuns! Then you do reciprocate--and you are planning one of those ready-to-be-served bungalows with even a broom closet and lovely glass doorknobs, where Mary may gambol about in organdie and boast of the prize pie she has baked for your supper. Oh, Stevuns, you are too funny for words!"
}
]
|
29753 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Suppose we do not try to talk any more just now? he suggested."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We are neither one fit to do so. Wait until morning and then come to an agreement."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am agreed, she said, after a second's hesitation."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Do not fancy my father and I will come on our knees to you."
}
]
|
29753 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He is impossible! was all she said, giving way to hysterical sobs."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Don't even try talking to him again----"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He'll do what I say or he'll not stay in this house. I expected this----"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, you don't understand, papa. He doesn't want to stay here, not at all! He does not want me. There, now you know it! He must have said something of this to you--perhaps you didn't believe him. Neither did I--at first. Oh, my head aches terribly and I know I shall be ill. He wants me to be a poor man's wife--starting again, he calls it--while he earns a salary and we live in a poky house and I do the cooking. I'd think it awfully funny if it was happening to any of my friends--but this is terrible! Well, goat-tending tells, doesn't it? And after all we have done for him--to babble on about honesty and earning and all those socialistic ideas. He is a dangerous man, papa; really. I don't care."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Look up at me. He made her lift her face from the tangle of silk bed quilts."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Do you love him?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, papa, I always adored Stevuns--but of course I can't give up the things to which I've been accustomed! It's so silly that I think he is queer even to suggest it--don't you?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You won't love him if he goes out of here and you stay, the old man said, slowly;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes --with great relief that she was not called upon to keep on explaining and analyzing her own feelings and Steve's motives; it was entirely too much of a strain--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "She drew away from her father and the same cold, shrewd look of the mature flirt replaced her confusion."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't you think that is sensible?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "So you don't love him."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You can't be expected to love people that make you unhappy."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, can't you? he asked."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Can't you? Did you never think that loving someone is the bravest thing in the world? It takes courage to keep on loving the dead, for instance; the dead that keep stabbing away at your heart all through the years. Loving doesn't always make you happy, it makes you brave--real love!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Isn't it time for your drops? You're too excited, papa dear."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then you don't love him, he repeated."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, then, it's best for you both that he go--that's all I've got to say. I thought you cared."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Really, I can't find any one who can talk about this thing sensibly,"
}
]
|
29753 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It has been quite too strenuous an evening, she said, in conclusion,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I've seen you make more fuss when your lap dog had a goitre operation, her father surprised her by way of an answer."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's all different in my mind now. The thick fingers picked at the bed quilt."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I thought it would break your heart, but it's just that you want to break his spirit; so it's better he should go."
}
]
|
29753 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My marriage? Steve answered, too pleasantly to be safe."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I dare say in time I'll come to realize it is always the open season for salamanders."
}
]
|
29753 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I hope you agree with me, he began, in businesslike fashion as he noted the prayer books, the untouched breakfast tray, the snapping Pom, which never tolerated his presence without protest."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am going to see your father, out of courtesy, and explain more in detail how things stand. It won't interest you so I sha'n't bore you. I have enough money and securities to cover the loss of any of his money. I shall apply for a position in another city. I am reasonably sure of obtaining it. It seems to me it would be better that I go away."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I forgive you, Steve,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I presume you will want to do something about a legal separation--and if you do not I shall."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "So you do love her! There was a hint of a snarl in her high-pitched voice."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "So you want to marry her after all!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I think, Steve continued, in the same even voice,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "So you do love her,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, I do,"
}
]
|
29753 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have loved her a long time. I could no more have refrained from it than you can refrain from feeling a pique at the fact, though you have nothing but contempt for us both and only a passing interest if the truth were known. I am glad you have persisted in asking me until I told you. I think one of the most promising signs that women will survive is the fact that they are never afraid to ask questions, no matter how delicate the situation. Men keep silence and often bring disaster on their sulky heads as a result."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "So--and you dare tell me this?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Of course I do. I dare to tell you the truth, which no one else has ever taken the pains to tell you. If you do not get a divorce I intend to. Not that I champion the custom as a particularly healthy institution, but it is sometimes a necessary one. If it is any satisfaction to you I do not think Miss Faithful has the slightest idea of marrying me. She has put that part of her aside for business and taking care of Luke. The time has passed when she would have married me. Still, I shall try to make her change her mind, he added with the same spirit he had once displayed toward winning the Gorgeous Girl."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Only this time I shall not bargain for her."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Quite a satisfactory arrangement all round. I hope you do not bother me again. Tell my father what you like, and then take yourself off to the new position and do as you please. When I decide what course I shall pursue you will be informed. Would you please pick up my prayer book?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Good-bye, Beatrice,"
}
]
|
29753 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Good-bye, Stevuns, she answered, in the same gay voice--but a trifle forced if one knew her well."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I hope you have a wonderful time leading a mob somewhere and your wife selling your photographs on the next corner curbstone!"
}
]
|
29753 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't know how well informed you are in business reports, she began in her high-pitched voice,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The report of the new leather trust--without including your husband's factory? Yes--but it was bound to come. I always told him so."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You have told my husband a great many things, haven't you? she insisted."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Don't seem to be surprised. I am quite well informed."
}
]
|
29753 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have always wished to speak to you about something Mrs. Vondeplosshe told you shortly before her death. Won't you sit down? I am sure we have much to say to each other."
}
]
|
29753 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You and I know, however, that love does not stop to ask if this is the case, and I sometimes feel--impersonally, remember--that the business women earn the love of their employers and associates more than said employers' and associates' wives. Does it sound strange? Of course you need not agree--I hardly expect it. Yet the fact remains that we watch and save that you Gorgeous Girls may spend and play. In time the man, tense and non-understanding of it all, discovers that his trust and confidence may be placed in the business woman while romantic love is not enduring in his home. Not always, of course; but many times in these days of overnight prosperity and endless good times. So I have neither shame nor remorse--I have as much right to love your husband as you have--and because of that I shall be as fair to you as I would ask any woman to be toward me in similar circumstances."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I think I understand, the Gorgeous Girl said, swiftly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I see something of the light. She laughed nervously. It was easier to laugh than to cry, and one or the other was necessary at this moment."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I wanted to tell you that my husband is going away to take a rather mediocre position. I shall divorce him."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He's won out,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Has he? So you have been the urge behind him and his poverty talk?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'd like to claim the credit,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Really?"
}
]
|
29753 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "After all, I shall play square with you because you have played square with him. I'll give you the best advice a retiring wife can give her advancing rival. Don't copy me--no matter how Steve may prosper in years to come, do you understand? Oh, I'm not so terrible or abnormal as you people think. I'd have done quite well if my father had never earned more than three thousand a year and I had had to put my shoulder to the wheel. But don't ever start to be a Gorgeous Girl--stay thrifty and be not too discerning of handmade lace or lap dogs. You know, there's no need to enumerate. Stay the woman who won my husband away from me--and you'll keep him. What is more, I think you will make him a success--in time for your golden-wedding anniversary! There, that's as fair as I can be."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Quite,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Once you admit to him there is a craving in your sensible heart to be as useless as I am--then someone else will come along to play Mary Faithful to your Gorgeous Girl. There was a catch in the light, gay voice."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don't want him, she added, vigorously."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Heavens, no, we never could patch it up! I shall always think of this last twelve months as _l'année terrible!_ My Tawny Adonis was a far more soothing companion than Steve. Nor do I envy you and your future. I don't really want Steve--and you deserve him. Besides, we women never feel so secure as novelists like to paint us as being in their last chapters! So I'm giving you the best hint concerning our mutual cave man that a defeated Gorgeous Girl ever gave a Mary Faithful. As far as I am concerned the thing is painless. I shall have a ripping time out West, and some day perhaps marry someone nice and mild, someone who will stand for my moods and not spend too much of my money in ways I don't know about--a society coward out of a job! The thing that does hurt, she finished, suddenly,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Thanks, Mary said, lightly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I may as well tell you I've determined never to marry Steve, for all your good advice."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why?"
}
]
|
29753 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Because,"
}
]
|
29753 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's me, too, Mame, all over--and when she tried telling me she was a natural blonde, never using lemon juice in even the last rinse water--well, when you've been handing out doll dope and baby bluster over the counter of a beauty department as long as I have you know there ain't no such animal! Good-bye, Mame. I hope you get home safe."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There ain't no such animal, Mary found herself repeating."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, there sure ain't!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There ain't no such animal."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Look what's happened--the O'Valley Leather Company has gone under! Won't Constantine help him out? I always said you were the mascot----"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'd rather not talk about it."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why? I always tell you everything."
}
]
|
29753 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's such a horrid day. I rode on a car that was as crowded as a cattle shipment. My head aches. The stenographer has left to be married."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You mean you are not interested about Steve O'Valley?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Of course I am. But what right have I to be? she asked, almost bitterly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It never pays to be too keenly interested."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mary, he began, his voice very basso profondo,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Stop--all of you--all of you!"
}
]
|
29753 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "See here, he began, shyly,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "he finished with emphasis."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I know it. I've known it all along."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, Luke! Mary said, helplessly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Luke!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There--now I wouldn't--please don't, it makes me feel awful bad--there's no sense worrying about it--you have a lot of good things ahead of you. There, that's the girl."
}
]
|
29753 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I had to come, Steve said, simply."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I've been like the man who never took time to walk because he had always been so busy running. I want to walk but I don't know how."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Go away, Steve."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I shall, after a little. But I had to come now. Her aunt said she saw you and made quite a time of it. I'm sorry."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm not. We are good friends, in a sense; far better than we have ever been before. We found we were in accord--after all."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "She will divorce you and marry someone else and continue to be a Gorgeous Girl, Mary finished, quietly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No terrible fate will overtake her, nothing occur to rouse or develop her abilities. She will remain young and apparently childish until she suddenly reaches the stately dowager age overnight. Gorgeous Girls are like gypsies--they should either be very young and lissom or old, crinkled, and vested with powers of fortune-telling--the middle stage is impossible. I realized this morning that I've been fooling myself, all the heart in me trying to be 100 per cent efficient, when I really want to be a Gorgeous Girl--fluffy, helpless--a blooming little idiot. And I'm glad you have come so I can tell you."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You don't mean that,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Being incurably honest I am bound to tell tales on myself. Yes, I do mean it. I'd probably be rushing round for freckle lotion and patent nose pins, to give me a Greek-boy effect. I'd take to swathing myself in chiffons and have my hair a different tint each season. I think every business woman would do the same, too--if she had the chance. We have to fool ourselves to keep on going down the broad highway; or else we would be sanitarium devotees, neurasthenic muddles. So we strike our brave pose and call ourselves superwomen, advanced feminists, and all the rest of the feeble rubbish until the right man comes along. Sometimes he never comes--so we keep right ahead, growing dry as dust at heart and even fooling ourselves. I did. But it took your wife to show me my smug conceit, my fancy that I was a bulwark of commerce, so proper, so perfect! She showed me that I was just plain woman making the best of having been born into the twentieth century! There is a Gorgeous Girl in all of us, Steve. So I can't advise or comfort or do any of the things I used to--a bag of tricks we women in business have adopted to make the heart loneliness the less. Go away and make good! That is just what she told you--isn't it? You will never believe in any of us again. And I don't know that you should, after all. For cave men need Gorgeous Girls."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "True--but they need the right Gorgeous Girl. I'm glad you have finally told the truth; I always suspected it. You have over-emphasized it somewhat--and the woman I married was unfairly over-emphasized as well. But in the main, what you have said is the truth. I assure you I am twice as glad to have an incentive instead of a lady directress. And I want you to be helpless--if you can; and fluffy--if you will! Don't you see that you are the right Gorgeous Girl--and she was the wrong one--and I'm the culprit? Why, Mary, the worst thing you could do would be to descend upon me in curl papers under a pink net cap. Even that prospect does not frighten me!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Are you going away?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not far--nothing spectacular or romantic. I'm done with that. Beatrice goes West, I believe. She is quite happy. She is going to New York first to get her divorce wardrobe. It is her father I pity--he has to face another son-in-law, Steve laughed."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am merely going to work for an old and reliable firm--use my nest egg for a house. A brown-shingled house, I think, with plain yard and a few ambitious shrubs blooming along the walks. I don't know what they will be; I leave that to you!"
}
]
|
29753 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Luke, dear, she said in as feminine a manner as Beatrice might have done,"
}
]
|
29753 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Of course this is very hard --feeling it the thing to say--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I always knew it, he supplemented, feeling that the gates of paradise were slowly opening for him. Within a year or so he would not even have the pretense at a business."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I understand only too well. May I say to my old friend, one whose opinions have swayed me far more than she has imagined, that I, too, have experienced a similar disillusionment which terminated more tragically?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Really? Beatrice roused from her cushions."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Tell me, Gay, just when did you begin to regret having married Trudy?"
}
]
|
29753 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, that setting is just a little different from any I have, she said, almost crossly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I never saw it before."
}
]
|
29753 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Take best care of yourself--miss you worlds--do be careful--will write every day."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm sorry, he said, in childish fashion, as she waited for an equally conventional reply."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Your mother would have liked Steve."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Papa! --shocked at his lack of fairness--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Maybe I was wrong--maybe if your mother had lived it would have been different. She would have liked Steve."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He is going to marry Miss Faithful. He has loved her for a long time. Now you see what I have endured."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Are you sure?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, quite. He admitted it. So did she. Beatrice knew that Mary's declaration against ever marrying Steve would have as much effect as to attempt to keep the sun from shining if it so inclined."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I've no doubt they will be the model couple of a model village, for if ever there was a reformer it is Steve. He never should have been a rich man."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not at thirty, his father-in-law championed."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "So--it's the woman who worked for him that won.... I guess it's the way of things, Bea."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You uphold him?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm out of it all, he excused himself."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There's a check for you on the table."
}
]
|
29753 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Steve--Hannah--Hannah--Steve."
}
]
|
29753 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You have renounced your economic independence and you are now approaching the legal-vassal stage, Steve warned Mary as they viewed the rooms of the new brown house."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Do you know what it all means?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No; probably that is why we women do so, she retorted."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Luke says you are bully and everything is fino--and I set quite a store by Luke's opinions."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You'll have green-plush and golden-oak people call on you, I'm afraid, and a few who run to Sheraton and crystal goblets. There will be funny entertainments and dinner parties where the hostess fries the steak and then removes her apron to display her best silk gown."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am prepared. And the maid will leave us before the month is over and I shall be her understudy. Well, I can. That is something."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm not going to ask permission to smoke--I'm going to sprawl in all the chairs and puff away at my leisure."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Do. I'll try to remember it is good for moths."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mary, are you satisfied?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Of course. It never does to have it all perfect--to the last detail of the wallpaper designs. That never lasts."
}
]
|
29753 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, Stevuns, he almost fancied her light, gay voice saying,"
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "NORMAL INSTRUCTOR-PRIMARY PLANS"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "POEMS OUR READERS HAVE ASKED FOR"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Rock Me to Sleep"
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Breathes There the Man"
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Breathes There the Man"
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Not Understood"
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Poems Our Readers Have Asked For."
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Biographical Edition of the Complete Works of James Whitcomb Riley,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The Poetical Works of J.G. Holland"
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Locksley Hall,"
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Marie, will you marry me? For you know how I love thee! Tell me, darling, will you be The wife of Bobby Shaftoe?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Bobby, pray don't ask me more, For you've asked me twice before; Let us be good friends, no more, No more, Bobby Shaftoe."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If you will not marry me, I will go away to sea; And you ne'er again shall be A friend of Bobby Shaftoe."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He will soon come back to me, And how happy I shall be, He'll come back and marry me, Dearest Bobby Shaftoe."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, we sadly mourn for thee, And regret we ne'er shall see Our friend Bobby, true and free, Dearest Bobby Shaftoe."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Bobby Shaftoe's lost at sea. And can ne'er come back to me, But I'll ever faithful be, True to Bobby Shaftoe."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Darling, I've come home from sea, I've come back to marry thee, For I know you're true to me, True to Bobby Shaftoe."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, I always cared for thee, And now you've come back to me, And we will always happy be, Dearest Bobby Shaftoe."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Bobby Shaftoe's come from sea, And we will united be, Heart and hand in unity, Mr. and Mrs. Shaftoe."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "ROBERT REESE"
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Twinkle, little star,"
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come!"
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm sent to warn the neighbors. He isn't a mile behind; He sweeps up all the horses--every horse that he can find. Morgan, Morgan the raider, and Morgan's terrible men, With bowie knives and pistols, are galloping up the glen!"
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Kentuck! I called--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Kentucky!"
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do you know the Blue-Grass country?"
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, I must go, he muttered;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I must be up and away! Morgan--Morgan is waiting for me; Oh, what will Morgan say?"
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Little woman, --for that was my old pet-name,--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If my plan succeeds, you shall have a coach and pair, and a fine silk dress!"
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Any pay, my dear? with the answer,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not a cent!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't send me back; the children tease me so!"
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Maggie, he said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have killed this child, and now I am killing you! I swear by heaven, I will give it up!"
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How can you dare to rob us so? --and I seized the little lad;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "How can you dare to rob your wife and your little helpless child?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Maggie, he said in a low, low voice,"
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Little woman, you've saved my life!"
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Let us tell tales of the past to each other; I can tell of banquet and revel and mirth, Where I was king, for I ruled in might; For the proudest and grandest souls of earth Fell under my touch, as though struck with blight. From the heads of kings I have torn the crown; From the heights of fame I have hurled men down. I have blasted many an honored name; I have taken virtue and given shame; I have tempted youth with a sip, a taste, That has made his future a barren waste. Far greater than any king am I, Or than any army beneath the sky. I have made the arm of the driver fail, And sent the train from the iron rail. I have made good ships go down at sea. And the shrieks of the lost were sweet to me. Fame, strength, wealth, genius before me fall; And my might and power are over all! Ho, ho, pale brother, said the Wine,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Can you boast of deeds as great as mine?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I cannot boast Of a king dethroned, or a murdered host; But I can tell of hearts that were sad, By my crystal drops made bright and glad; Of thirsts I have quenched and brows I have laved, Of hands I have cooled, and souls I have saved. I have leaped through the valley, dashed down the mountain, Slipped from the sunshine, and dripped from the fountain, I have burst my cloud-fetters, and dropped from the sky, And everywhere gladdened the prospect and eye; I have eased the hot forehead of fever and pain, I have made the parched meadows grow fertile with grain. I can tell of the powerful wheel of the mill, That ground out the flour, and turned at my will. I can tell of manhood debased by you That I have uplifted and crowned anew; I cheer, I help, I strengthen and aid, I gladden the heart of man and maid; I set the wine-chained captive free, And all are better for knowing me."
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Punch."
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Forever--never! Never--forever!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Forever--never! Never--forever!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Forever--never! Never--forever!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Forever--never! Never--forever!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Forever--never! Never--forever!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Forever--never! Never--forever!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Forever--never! Never--forever!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ah! when shall they all meet again? As in the days long since gone by, The ancient timepiece makes reply,--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Forever--never! Never-forever!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Forever--never! Never--forever!"
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Spectator."
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sisters and brothers, little Maid, How many may you be?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "How many? Seven in all,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Two of us in the church-yard lie, My sister and my brother; And, in the church-yard cottage, I Dwell near them with my mother."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You say that two at Conway dwell, And two are gone to sea, Yet ye are seven!--I pray you tell, Sweet Maid, how this may be."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Seven boys and girls are we; Two of us in the church-yard lie, Beneath the church-yard tree."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You run about, my little Maid, Your limbs they are alive; If two are in the church-yard laid, Then ye are only five."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And when the ground was white with snow, And I could run and slide, My brother John was forced to go, And he lies by her side."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "How many are you, then, said I,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If they two are in heaven? Quick was the little Maid's reply,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "O Master! we are seven."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But they are dead; those two are dead! Their spirits are in heaven! 'T was throwing words away; for still The little Maid would have her will, And said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Nay, we are seven!"
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But if some maid with beauty blest, As pure and fair as Heaven can make her, Will share my labor and my rest Till envious Death shall overtake her? Quoth Echo (sotto voce),--'Take her!'"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Too-tee-too! Long 'fore the pilot swings in sight. Bill Madden's drivin' her in to-day, An' he's calling his sweetheart far away-- Gertrude Hurd lives down by the mill; You might see her blushin'; she knows it's Bill."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Tudie, tudie! Toot-ee! Tudie, tudie! Tu!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Lou-ie! Lou-ie! Lou-iee!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You-oo! Su-u-u-u-u-e!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Nell, Nell, Nell! Nell, Nell, Nell!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Lu-Lu! Loo-Loo! Loo-oo!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Too-too-too"
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Your name? said the judge, as he eyed her With kindly look yet keen,--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Is Mary McGuire, if you please, sir. And your age?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am turned fifteen."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, Mary,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You look not like an offender, And I hope that you can show The charge to be false. Now, tell me, Are you guilty of this, or no?"
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I could get no more employment. The weather was bitter cold, The young ones cried and shivered-- (Little Johnny's but four years old)-- So what was I to do, sir? I am guilty, but do not condemn. I _took_--oh, was it _stealing?_-- The bread to give to them."
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The sentence of this young prisoner Is, for the present, deferred. And no one blamed him or wondered When he went to her and smiled And tenderly led from the court-room, Himself, the"
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm after axin', Biddy dear--"
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I've come to ax ye, Biddy dear, If--"
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I've come-- and then he took her hands And held them in his own,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "To ax-- and then he watched the buds That on her cheeks had blown,--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Me purty dear--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Och! don't be tazin' me, said she, With just the faintest sigh,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I've sinse enough to see you've come, But what's the reason why?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "To ax-- and once again the tongue Forbore its sweets to tell,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "To ax--_if Mrs. Mulligan, Has any pigs to sell_."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Curfew must not ring to-night."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sexton, Bessie's white lips faltered, pointing to the prison old, With its turrets tall and gloomy, with its walls dark, damp and cold,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I've a lover in that prison, doomed this very night to die At the ringing of the curfew, and no earthly help is nigh; Cromwell will not come till sunset, and her lips grew strangely white As she breathed the husky whisper:"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Curfew must not ring to-night."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Bessie, calmly spoke the sexton--every word pierced her young heart Like the piercing of an arrow, like a deadly poisoned dart,--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Long, long years I've rung the curfew from that gloomy shadowed tower; Every evening, just at sunset, it has told the twilight hour; I have done my duty ever, tried to do it just and right; Now I'm old I will not falter,--curfew, it must ring to-night."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "At the ringing of the curfew, Basil Underwood must die. And her breath came fast and faster, and her eyes grew large and bright; In an undertone she murmured,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Curfew must not ring to-night."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Curfew must not ring to-night."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Curfew shall not ring to-night!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That twilight curfew rang young Basil's funeral knell. Still the maiden clung more firmly, and with trembling lips so white, Said, to hush her heart's wild throbbing:"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Curfew shall not ring to-night."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Curfew did not ring that night."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Go! your lover lives, said Cromwell,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Curfew shall not ring to-night."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Darling, you have saved me--curfew will not ring to-night."
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I must save the express--'twill be here in an hour!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The bridge! To Moingona, God help me to go!"
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Save the lightning express! No--hang out the red light! There's death on the bridge at the river to-night!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Down brakes!"
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have shared thy joys since our marriage vow, Conceal not from me thy sorrows now."
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Another--the dearest, the fairest, the best-- Was taken by angels away, And clad in a garment that waxeth not old, In a land of continual day; Oh! wonder no more at the dimmed eye-light, When I mend the one pair of stockings to-night."
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Pretty Katie, Willie said-- And there came a dash of red Through the brownness of his cheek--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Boys are strong and girls are weak, And I'll carry, so I will, Katie's basket up the hill."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You shall carry only half ; And then, tossing back her curls,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Boys are weak as well as girls."
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Will you trust me, Katie dear,-- Walk beside me without fear? May I carry, if I will, All your burdens up the hill? And she answered, with a laugh,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, but you may carry half."
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What writest thou? The vision raised its head, And, with a look made all of sweet accord, Answered,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The names of those who love the Lord."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And is mine one? said Abou."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Nay, not so, Replied the angel.--Abou spoke more low, But cheerily still; and said,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I pray thee, then, Write me as one that loves his fellow-men."
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm sorry that I spelt the word: I hate to go above you, Because, --the brown eyes lower fell,--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Because, you see, I love you!"
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Tis plain to see, said a farmer's wife,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "These boys will make their mark in life; They were never made to handle a hoe, And at once to a college ought to go; There's Fred, he's little better than a fool, But John and Henry must go to school."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, really, wife, quoth Farmer Brown, As he set his mug of cider down,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Fred does more work in a day for me Than both his brothers do in three. Book larnin' will never plant one's corn, Nor hoe potatoes, sure's you're born; Nor mend a rod of broken fence-- For my part, give me common sense."
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "H. Brown, M.D."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "into his head;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But for all that, added Farmer Brown,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He's the smartest boy there is in town."
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "moved into town-- The people called him Governor Brown; And the brothers who went to the city school Came home to live with"
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "One water-million stoled by Wi'yam Josephus Vetters."
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What is the real good? I asked in musing mood. Order, said the law court; Knowledge, said the school; Truth, said the wise man; Pleasure, said the fool; Love, said the maiden; Beauty, said the page; Freedom, said the dreamer; Home, said the sage; Fame, said the soldier; Equity, the seer. Spake my heart full sadly:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The answer is not here. Then within my bosom Softly this I heard:"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Each heart holds the secret: Kindness is the word."
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'll gie a penny, the stingy man said:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The poor must not gifts of pennies despise."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The world is full of the poor, he thought,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I can't help them all--I give what I can."
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No matter, he said;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He keeps an account, na doubt, for the puir; But in that account He'll set down to thee Na mair o' that golden guinea, my mon, Than the one bare penny ye mean to gie!"
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dake any dings, But leaf dot Yawcob Strauss."
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now, who will buy my apples? he shouted, long and loud; And,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Who wants my potatoes?"
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "May I have a dozen apples for a kiss?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You may have them all for nothing, and more, if you want, quoth he."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I will have them, my good fellow, but can pay for them,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Quick! the letters! thrust them underneath my shawl! Carry back again _this_ package, and be sure that you are spry!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Miss, I have good apples, a bolder lad did cry; But she answered,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, I thank you,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There is nothing worth the doing that it does not pay to try,"
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I envy nobody--no, not I-- And nobody envies me!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Thou'rt wrong, my friend, said good King Hal,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "As wrong as wrong can be; For could my heart be light as thine, I'd gladly change with thee. And tell me now, what makes thee sing, With voice so loud and free, While I am sad, though I'm a king, Beside the river Dee?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I earn my bread, quoth he;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I love my wife, I love my friend, I love my children three; I owe no penny I cannot pay, I thank the river Dee That turns the mill that grinds the corn That feeds my babes and me."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Good friend, said Hal, and sighed the while,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Farewell, and happy be; But say no more, if thou'dst be true That no one envies thee; Thy mealy cap is worth my crown, Thy mill my kingdom's fee; Such men as thou art England's boast, O miller of the Dee!"
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Commodore,"
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They shall not pass"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Liberty, sweet Liberty, thou shalt not die!"
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Men Wanted, Walked right in with manner fittin' up to where the Boss was sittin', And he said:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "My name is Bob, and I'm lookin' for a job; And if you're the Boss that hires 'em, starts 'em working and that fires 'em, Put my name right down here, Neighbor, as a candidate for labor; For my name is just plain 'Bob, And my pulses sort o' throb For that thing they call a job. Bob kept askin' for a job, And the Boss, he says:"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What kind? And Bob answered:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Never mind; For I am not a bit partic'ler and I never was a stickler For proprieties in workin'--if you got some labor lurkin' Anywhere around about kindly go and trot it out. It's, a job I want, you see-- Any kind that there may be Will be good enough for me."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "By thunder, we have got the world's Eighth Wonder! Got a feller name of Bob who just asked me for a job-- Never asks when he engages about overtime in wages; Never asked if he'd get pay by the hour or by the day; Never asked me if it's airy work and light and sanitary; Never asked me for my notion of the chances of promotion; Never asked for the duration of his annual vacation; Never asked for Saturday half-a-holiday with pay; Never took me on probation till he tried the situation; Never asked me if it's sittin' work or standin', or befittin' Of his birth and inclination--he just filed his application, Hung his coat up on a knob, Said his name was just plain Bob-- And went workin' at a job!"
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Times."
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Turn again, turn again,"
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The child is a woman, the book may close over, For all the lessons are said."
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Too deep for swift telling; and yet, my one lover, I've conned thee an answer, it waits thee to-night."
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Heart, thou art wide though the house be but narrow,"
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Go back with your corps,"
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Johnny, our Drummer Boy, is grievously shot and lies Just under the enemy's breastwork; if left on the field he dies."
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But now I nevermore will climb, and, Sergeant, when you see The men go up those breastworks there, just stop and waken me; For though I cannot make the charge and join the cheers that rise, I may forget my pain to see the old flag kiss the skies."
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Fighting Joe"
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hold on!"
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I've plenty, thanks!"
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The school is dismissed!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Now, Dasher! now Dancer! now, Prancer! now Vixen! On, Comet, on, Cupid! on, Donder and Blitzen!-- To the top of the porch, to the top of the wall! Now, dash away, dash sway, dash away all! As dry leaves that before the wild hurricane fly, When they meet with an obstacle, mount to the sky, So, up to the house-top the coursers they flew, With the sleigh full of toys, and St. Nicholas too, And then in a twinkling I heard on the roof The prancing and pawing of each little hoof. As I drew in my head, and was turning around, Down the chimney St. Nicholas came with a bound. He was dressed all in fur from his head to his foot, And his clothes were all tarnished with ashes and soot; A bundle of toys he had flung on his back, And he looked like a peddler just opening his pack. His eyes how they twinkled; his dimples how merry! His cheeks were like roses, his nose like a cherry; His droll little mouth was drawn up like a bow, And the beard on his chin was as white as the snow. The stump of a pipe he held tight in his teeth, And the smoke, it encircled his head like a wreath. He had a broad face and a little round belly That shook, when he laughed, like a bowl full of jelly. He was chubby and plump--a right jolly old elf-- And I laughed when I saw him, in spite of myself. A wink of his eye, and a twist of his head, Soon gave me to know I had nothing to dread. He spake not a word, but went straight to his work, And filled all the stockings; then turned with a jerk, And laying his finger aside of his nose And giving a nod, up the chimney he rose. He sprang to his sleigh, to his team gave a whistle, And away they all flew like the down of a thistle; But I heard him exclaim, ere they drove out of sight,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good-night!"
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come, master, awake, attend to the switch, lives now depend upon you. Think of the souls in the coming train, and the graves you are sending them to. Think of the mother and the babe at her breast, think of the father and son, Think of the lover and the loved one too, think of them doomed every one To fall (as it were by your very hand) into yon fathomless ditch, Murdered by one who should guard them from harm, who now lies asleep at the switch."
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mamma,"
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hanged by the neck until dead. Then I felt myself pulled once again, and my hand caught tight hold of a dress, And I heard,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What's the matter, dear Jim? You've had a bad nightmare, I guess! And there stood Maggie, my wife, with never a scar from the ditch, I'd been taking a nap in my bed, and had not been"
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Once more, my gallant boys! he cried;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "muttered he,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But I will lay this cable!"
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Go hunt up the rest o' the earth!"
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "La Illah illa Allah!"
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Soft thy skin as silken skein, Soft as woman's hair thy mane, Tender are thine eyes and true; All thy hoofs like ivory shine, Polished bright; O life of mine, Leap, and rescue Kurroglou!"
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Allahu! Cried he."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "In all Koordistan Lives there not so brave a man As this Robber Kurroglou!"
}
]
|
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