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18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Art thou the king? Then, bowing down his head, King Robert crossed both hands upon his breast, And meekly answered him,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Thou knowest best! My sins as scarlet are; let me go hence, And in some cloister's school of penitence, Across those stones that pave the way to heaven Walk barefoot till my guilty soul be shriven!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He has put down the mighty from their seat, And has exalted them of low degree! And through the chant a second melody Rose like the throbbing of a single string:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am an angel, and thou art the king!"
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Birds can fly, An' why can't I? Must we give in, Says he with a grin,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ner I can't see What's ta' use o' wings to a bumblebee, Fer to git a livin' with, more'n to me;-- Ain't my business Important's his'n is? That Icarus Was a silly cuss,-- Him an' his daddy Daedalus. They might 'a' knowed wings made o' wax Wouldn't stan' sun-heat an' hard whacks. I'll make mine o' luther, Er suthin' er other."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But I ain't goin' to show my hand To mummies that never can understand The fust idee that's big an' grand. They'd 'a' laft an' made fun O' Creation itself afore't was done!"
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Take that! an' ef ever ye get a peep, Guess ye'll ketch a weasel asleep!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The weasel's head is small an' trim, An' he is leetle an' long an' slim, An' quick of motion an' nimble of limb, An' ef yeou'll be Advised by me Keep wide awake when ye're ketchin' him! So day after day He stitched and tinkered and hammered away, Till at last 'twas done,-- The greatest invention under the sun!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "An' now, says Darius,"
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now I sha'n't go Along 'ith the fellers to see the show. I'll say I've got sich a terrible cough! An' then, when the folks 'ave all gone off I'll hev full swing For to try the thing, An' practyse a leetle on the wing."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ain't goin' to see the celebration? Says Brother Nate."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No; botheration! I've got sich a cold--a toothache--I-- My gracious!--feel's though I should fly!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What on airth is he up to, hey?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don'o,--the' 's suthin' er other to pay, Er he wouldn't 'a' stayed to hum to-day. Says Burke,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "His toothache's all 'n his eye! _He_ never'd miss a Fo'th-o'-July, Ef he hedn't some machine to try. Le's hurry back and hide in the barn, An' pay him fer tellin' us that yarn!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Agreed! Through the orchard they creep back, Along by the fences, behind the stack, And one by one, through a hole in the wall, In under the dusty barn they crawl, Dressed in their Sunday garments all; And a very astonishing sight was that, When each in his cobwebbed coat and hat Came up through the floor like an ancient rat. And there they hid; And Reuben slid The fastenings back, and the door undid."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Keep dark! said he,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "While I squint an' see what the' is to see."
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hush! Reuben said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He's up in the shed! He's opened the winder,--I see his head! He stretches it out, An' pokes it about, Lookin' to see 'f the coast is clear, An' nobody near;-- Guess he don'o' who's hid in here! He's riggin' a spring-board over the sill! Stop laffin', Solomon! Burke, keep still! He's a climbin' out now--of all the things! What's he got on? I van, it's wings! An' that t'other thing? I vum, it's a tail! An' there he sets like a hawk on a rail! Steppin' careful, he travels the length Of his spring-board, and teeters to try its strength. Now he stretches his wings, like a monstrous bat; Peeks over his shoulder, this way an' that, Fer to see 'f the' 's anyone passin' by; But the' 's on'y a ca'f an' a goslin' nigh. _They_ turn up at him a wonderin' eye, To see--The dragon! he's goin' to fly! Away he goes! Jimmmy! what a jump! Flop-flop-an' plump To the ground with a thump! Flutt'rin an' flound'rin', all in a lump!"
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Song of the Shirt!"
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, but for one short hour,-- A respite, however brief! No blessed leisure for love or hope, But only time for grief! A little weeping would ease my heart; But in their briny bed My tears must stop, for every drop Hinders needle and thread!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Song of the Shirt."
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In the city of David, a King in his might."
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Look! the earth is aflame with delight, O sons of the morning, rejoice at the sight."
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Vision of Sir Launfal"
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Who planted this old apple-tree? The children of that distant day Thus to some aged man shall say; And, gazing on its mossy stem, The gray-haired man shall answer them:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A poet of the land was he, Born in the rude but good old times; 'Tis said he made some quaint old rhymes On planting the apple-tree."
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Forward, the Light Brigade! Charge for the guns,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Forward, the Light Brigade!"
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have brought you Sheridan all the way From Winchester down to save the day!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Here is the steed that saved the day, By carrying Sheridan into the fight, From Winchester--twenty miles away!"
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "O lovely Pussy! O Pussy, my love! What a beautiful Pussy you are,-- You are, What a beautiful Pussy you are!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You elegant fowl! How wonderful sweet you sing! Oh, let us be married,--too long we have tarried,-- But what shall we do for a ring?"
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dear Pig, are you willing to sell for one shilling Your ring? Said the Piggy,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I will."
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now I shall be out of sight; So through the valley and over the height In silence I'll take my way. I will not go on like that blustering train, The wind and the snow, the hail and the rain, That make so much bustle and noise in vain, But I'll be as busy as they!"
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now, just to set them a-thinking, I'll bite this basket of fruit, said he;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "This costly pitcher I'll burst in three; And the glass of water they've left for me Shall 'tchick!' to tell them I'm drinking!"
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Doth God exact day-labor, light denied? I fondly ask. But Patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "God doth not need Either man's work or His own gifts. Who best Bear His mild yoke, they serve Him best. His state Is kingly: thousands at his bidding speed, And post o'er land and ocean without rest; They also serve who only stand and wait."
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Let me fly, says little birdie--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mother, let me fly away."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Birdie, rest a little longer, Till the little wings are stronger."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Let me rise and fly away."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Baby, sleep a little longer, Till the little limbs are stronger. If she sleeps a little longer, Baby, too, shall fly away."
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You are more than the Earth, though you are such a dot! You can love and think, and the Earth can not."
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The days are evil. Who's to blame?"
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I can!"
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Princess"
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hamlet"
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Little Prig. Bun replied,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You are doubtless very big; But all sorts of things and weather Must be taken in together, To make up a year And a sphere. And I think it no disgrace To occupy my place. If I'm not so large as you, You are not so small as I, And not half as spry. I'll not deny you make A very pretty squirrel track; Talents differ; all is well and wisely put; If I cannot carry forests on my back, Neither can you crack a nut."
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It isn't fair"
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Give us a song!"
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We storm the forts to-morrow; Sing while we may, another day Will bring enough of sorrow."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Annie Laurie."
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Annie Laurie."
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, the world's running over with joy! Don't you hear? don't you see? Hush! Look! In my tree, I'm as happy as happy can be!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A nest do you see, And five eggs hid by me in the juniper tree? Don't meddle! don't touch! little girl, little boy, Or the world will lose some of its joy! Now I'm glad! now I'm free! And I always shall be, If you never bring sorrow to me."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, the world's running over with joy; But long it won't be, Don't you know? don't you see? Unless we are as good as can be!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The Merchant of Venice"
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My plans That soar, to earth may fall, Let once my army-leader Lannes Waver at yonder wall,"
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, cried he,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Emperor, by God's grace We've got you Ratisbon! The Marshall's in the market-place, And you'll be there anon To see your flag-bird flap his vans Where I, to heart's desire, Perched him!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You're wounded!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Nay, his soldier's pride Touched to the quick, he said:"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm killed, Sire!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The Princess"
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Who kissed you through the dark, dear guesser?"
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dear work, good night, good night!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Caw, caw, on their way to bed; She said, as she watched their curious flight,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Little black things, good night, good night!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "came over the road, And all seemed to say, with a quiet delight,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Good little girl, good night, good night!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Good night,"
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Good morning, good morning, our work is begun!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Lady Moon, Lady Moon, where are you roving?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Over the sea."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Lady Moon, Lady Moon, whom are you loving?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "All that love me."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Are you not tired with rolling and never Resting to sleep? Why look so pale and so sad, as for ever Wishing to weep?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ask me not this, little child, if you love me; You are too bold I must obey my dear Father above me, And do as I'm told."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Lady Moon, Lady Moon, where are you roving?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Over the sea."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Lady Moon, Lady Moon, whom are you loving?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "All that love me."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The Lay of the Last Minstrel"
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Shall I take them away? said the Frost, sweeping down."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, leave them alone Till the blossoms have grown,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Shall I take them away? said the Wind, as he swung,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, leave them alone Till the blossoms have grown,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "May I gather thy berries now?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, all thou canst see: Take them; all are for thee,"
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come, Peter, come! I want you to go, While there is light to see. To the hut of the blind old man who lives Across the dike, for me; And take these cakes I made for him-- They are hot and smoking yet; You have time enough to go and come Before the sun is set."
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He will come at morning, So I need not fret nor grieve-- Though it isn't like my boy at all To stay without my leave."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ah! well for us, said Peter,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That the gates are good and strong, And my father tends them carefully, Or they would not hold you long! You're a wicked sea, said Peter,"
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He is dead! she cries,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And the startled father hears. And comes and looks the way she looks, And fears the thing she fears; Till a glad shout from the bearers Thrills the stricken man and wife--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Give thanks, for your son, has saved our land, And God has saved his life!"
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I will blow you out. You stare In the air Like a ghost in a chair, Always looking what I am about; I hate to be watched--I will blow you out."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I've done for that Moon."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I will blow you out again."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "With my sledge And my wedge I have knocked off her edge! If only I blow right fierce and grim, The creature will soon be dimmer than dim."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "One puff More's enough To blow her to snuff! One good puff more where the last was bred, And glimmer, glimmer, glum will go the thread!"
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What's that?"
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What a marvel of power am I! With my breath, Good faith! I blew her to death-- First blew her away right out of the sky-- Then blew her in; what a strength have I!"
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Wake! said the sunshine,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And creep to the light!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Wake!"
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If the British march By land or sea from the town tonight, Hang a lantern aloft in the belfry arch Of the North Church tower, as a signal light,-- One, if by land, and two, if by sea; And I on the opposite shore will be, Ready to ride and spread the alarm Through every Middlesex village and farm, For the country folk to be up and to arm."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Good-night"
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "All is well!"
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now, don't you go till I come, he said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And don't you make any noise!"
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You ought to've kept the animals in view, And drove 'em in; you'd nothing else to do. The heft of all our life on me must fall; You just lie round and let me do it all."
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Good-by, I shut the door, And left her as I never had before. But when at noon my lunch I came to eat. Put up by her so delicately neat-- Choicer, somewhat, than yesterday's had been, And some fresh, sweet-eyed pansies she'd put in--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Tender and pleasant thoughts, I knew they meant-- It seemed as if her kiss with me she'd sent; Then I became once more her humble lover, And said,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "To-night I'll ask forgiveness of her."
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The cows have strayed away again, I fear; I watched them pretty close; don't scold me, dear. And where they are, I think I nearly know: I heard the bell not very long ago.... I've hunted for them all the afternoon; I'll try once more--I think I'll find them soon. Dear, if a burden I have been to you, And haven't helped you as I ought to do. Let old-time memories my forgiveness plead; I've tried to do my best--I have indeed. Darling, piece out with love the strength I lack, And have kind words for me when I get back."
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Track her, old boy!"
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Brave heart, I said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Such pangs of joy I never felt before."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You've come!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have tried to do my best--I have, indeed."
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Careful with fire, is good advice we know:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Careful with words,"
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Happy dreams!"
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Smoot Farm, 'bout four mile from town-- On"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The Smoot Farm"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "an'"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Haw"
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Old Bear-shooter'll shoot 'em dead! An' race' an' chase' em, an' they'd ist run When he pint his hoe at 'em like it's a gun An' go"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Bang!-Bang!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "an' steal the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "-- And steal us, too, an' grab an' hold An' pack us off to his old"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Cave !-An' Haymow's the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Cave"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "When you're big like your Pa is, Air you go' to keep a fine store like his-- An' be a rich merchunt--an' wear fine clothes?-- Er what air you go' to be, goodness knows? An' nen he laughed at 'Lizabuth Ann, An' I says"
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Thanks! said the Judge;"
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And I'd feed the hungry and clothe the poor, And all should bless me who left our door."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But low of cattle and song of birds, And health and quiet and loving words."
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Free as when I rode that day, Where the barefoot maiden raked her hay."
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It might have been."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It might have been!"
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Bessie, oh, Bessie! so sad, That, when I looked down affrighted, It drove me _mad--mad_! Only her golden hair streaming Out on the rippling wave, Only her little hand reaching Up, for someone to save; And she sank down in the darkness, I never saw her again, And this is a chaos of blackness And darkness and grief since then. No more playing together Down on the pebbly strand; Nor building our dolls stone castles With halls and parlors grand; No more fishing with bent pins, In the little brook's clear waves; No more holding funerals O'er dead canaries' graves; No more walking together To the log schoolhouse each morn; No more vexing the master With putting his rules to scorn; No more feeding of white lambs With milk from the foaming pail; No more playing"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Over the fence of rail; No more telling of stories After we've gone to bed; Nor talking of ghosts and goblins Till we fairly shiver with dread; No more whispering fearfully And hugging each other tight, When the shutters shake and the dogs howl In the middle of the night; No more saying"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Our Father, Kneeling by mother's knee-- For, Maggie, I _struck_ sister! And mother is dead, you see. Maggie, sister's an angel, Isn't she? Isn't it true? For angels have golden tresses And eyes like sister's, blue? Now _my_ hair isn't golden, My eyes aren't blue, you see-- Now tell me, Maggie, if I were to die, Could they make an angel of me? You say,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, yes ; you think so? Well, then, when I come to die, We'll play up there, in God's garden-- We'll play there, sister and I. Now, Maggie, you needn't eye me Because I'm talking so queer; Because I'm talking so strangely; You needn't have the least fear, Somehow I'm feeling to-night, Maggie, As I never felt before-- I'm sure, I'm sure of it, Maggie, I never shall rave any more. Maggie, you know how these long years I've heard her calling, so sad,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Bessie, oh, Bessie! so mournful? It always drives me _mad_! How the winter wind shrieks down the chimney,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Bessie, oh, Bessie! oh! oh! How the south wind wails at the casement,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Bessie, oh, Bessie! so low, But most of all when the May-days Come back, with the flowers and the sun, How the night-bird, singing, all lonely,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Bessie, oh, Bessie! doth moan; You know how it sets me raving-- For _she_ moaned,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "just so, That time I _struck_ little sister, On the May-day long ago! Now, Maggie, I've something to tell you-- You know May-day is here-- Well, this very morning, at sunrise, The robins chirped"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Bessie! so clear-- All day long the wee birds singing, Perched on the garden wall, Called"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Bessie, oh, Bessie! so sweetly, I couldn't feel sorry at all. Now, Maggie, I've something to tell you-- Let me lean up to you close-- Do you see how the sunset has flooded The heavens with yellow and rose? Do you see o'er the gilded cloud mountains Sister's golden hair streaming out? Do you see her little hand beckoning? Do you hear her little voice calling out"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Bessie, oh, Bessie! so gladly,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Bessie, oh, Bessie! Come, haste"
}
]
|
34148 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "which"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "there are thousands who welcome and forget not"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Next comes the New Year--the bottle, the hot pint, and the _first-foot_--and we might notice, also, Hansel Monday, and"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Auld Hansel Monanday, which follow in their wake, and keep up the merriment till the back of January is broken. But our business at present is with the _first-foot_, and we must hold. It matters not on what side of the Borders it may be--and northward the feeling extends far beyond the Borders--there is a mysterious, an ominous importance attached to the individual who first crosses the threshold, after the clock has struck twelve at midnight, on the 31st of December, or who is the _first-foot_ in a house after the New Year has begun. The _first-foot_ stamps the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "of the house--the good fortune or the evil fortune of its inmates throughout the year! But to begin with our story. There was not a person on all the Borders, nor yet in all Scotland, who attached more importance to the first-foot than Nelly Rogers. Nelly was a very worthy, kind-hearted, yea, even sensible sort of woman; but a vein of superstition ran through her sense: she had imbibed a variety of"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "in infancy, and, as she grew up, they became a part of her creed. She did not exactly believe that ghosts and apparitions existed in her day, but she was perfectly sure they _had_ existed, and _had_ been seen; she was sure, also, there was something in dreams, and she was positive there was a great deal in the luckiness or unluckiness of a first-foot; she had remarked it in her own experience thirty times, and, she said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Nelly was the wife of one Richard Rogers, a respectable farmer, whose farmhouse stood by the side of the post-road between Kelso and Lauder. They had a family of several children; but our business is with the eldest, who was called George, and who had the misfortune to receive, both from his parents and their neighbours, the character of being _a genius_. This is a very unfortunate character to give to any one who has a fortune to make in the world, as will be seen when we come to notice the history of George the Genius--for such was the appellation by which he was familiarly mentioned. Now, it was the last night of the old year--George was about twelve years of age, and, because he was their first-born, and, moreover, because he was a genius, he was permitted to sit with his father and his mother, and a few friends, who had come to visit them, to see the old year out, and the New Year in. The cuckoo clock struck twelve, and the company rose, shook hands, wished each other a happy new year, and, in a bumper, drank,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "May the year that's awa be the warst o' our lives."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I wonder wha will be our first-foot, said Nelly;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I hope it will be a lucky ane."
}
]
|
34148 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There's somebody, said Nelly;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Nonsense!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's nae nonsense, replied Nelly;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "added she, addressing the genius;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Did ever ye hear the like o' the woman? said her husband."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Sic havers! Rin awa, George, hinny; open the door."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Who's there?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A stranger,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What do ye want?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have a letter to Master Rogers, from his brother,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A letter frae my brother John! cried Richard, starting from his seat;"
}
]
|
34148 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Tak a seat, sir--tak a seat, sir, said Richard, addressing the sailor;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "added he, anxiously;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I left him at Liverpool, sir, replied the queer-looking sailor;"
}
]
|
34148 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Preserve us, Richard! said Nelly,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's a kind, sensible, weel-written letter, said Richard,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "DEAR DICK,--As one of my crew, Bill Somers, who has sailed with me for a dozen years, is going down to Scotland, and will pass your way, I take the opportunity of writing to you, and letting you know that I am as well as a person who has as much cause to be unhappy as I have can desire to be. The cause of that unhappiness you don't know, and few know it--but I do, and that's enough. I have made some money--perhaps a good deal--but that's of no consequence. I once thought that I might have _them_ of my own flesh and blood to inherit it; however, that was not to be. It is a long story, and a sad story--one that you know nothing about, and which it is of no use to tell you about now. As things are, my nevy George is to be heir to whatever money, goods, and chattels I possess."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Read on, George, said his father,"
}
]
|
34148 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Otherwise, JACK THE RAMBLER."
}
]
|
34148 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I wonder in the world, said Richard,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why, said the seaman, as he sat leaning forward, and turning round his sou-wester between his knees,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I believe I know, or I can guess a something about the matter. It's about ten years ago, according to my reckoning, we were coming down the Mediterranean--the captain was as fine a looking young fellow then as ever stood upon a deck. Well, as I was saying, we were coming down the Mediterranean, and at Genoa we took a gentleman and his daughter on board. She was a pretty creature; I've seen nothing like her neither before nor since. So, as I'm telling you, we took them on board at Genoa, for England, and they had not been many days on board, till every one saw, and I saw--though my eyes are none o' the smartest--that the captain could look on nothing but his lovely passenger. It wasn't hard to see that she looked much in the same way at him, and I have seen them walking on the deck at night, with her arm through his, in the moonlight; and, let me tell you, a glorious sight it is--moonlight on the Mediterranean! It is enough to make a man fall in love with moonlight itself, if there be nothing else beside him. Well, d'ye see, as I am saying, it wasn't long until the old gentleman, her father, saw which way the land lay; and one day we heard the lady weeping; she never came out of her cabin during the rest of the voyage, nor did her father again speak to the master. We were laid up for a long time, and there was a report that the captain and her had got married, unknown to her father. However, we sailed on a long voyage; we weren't back to England again for more than twelve months; but the day after we landed, the captain shut himself up, and, for long and long, we used to find him sitting with the salt-water in his eyes. We again heard the report that he had been married, and also that his lady had died in childbed; but whether the child was living or ever was living, or whether it was a boy or a girl, we didn't know; nor did he know; and, I believe, he never was able to hear any more about the old gentleman--so, as I say, that's all I know about the matter, poor fellow."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What siller he thought the captain might be worth? --"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, I'm saying, answered the sailor,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Captain Rogers is worth a round twenty thousand, if he be worth a single penny;--and that, I'm thinking, is a pretty comfortable thing for Master George to be heir to! --"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ay, and so it is,"
}
]
|
34148 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If we had your genius, George, we could make a fortune. And George thought he would and could. The joiner in the next village, however, said, that"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Wi' a' George's genius, he didna believe he could mak an elshin-heft, and stick him!--and, in his opinion, there was mair to be made by making elshin-hefts than by writing ballants!"
}
]
|
34148 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A licht! exclaimed Betty, half petrified at the request;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ye hae nao business to travel at siccan a time o' nicht, replied Betty to all his arguments. Her husband said little, for he entertained some of his wife's scruples against giving a light at such a time. George mildly ridiculed the absurdity of the refusal; but--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am mistress o' my ain house, answered his mother,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Pray, good people, do permit us to light the lamps, and you shall have any recompense. No sooner did George hear the lady's voice, than, in despite of his mother's frowns, he sprang to the door and unlocked it. With an awkward sort of gallantry he ushered in the fair stranger. She was, indeed, the loveliest first-foot that had ever crossed the threshold of Mrs Rogers. She had no sooner entered, than Nelly saw and felt this, and, with a civility which formed a strange contrast to her answers to the driver, she smoothed down for her the cushioned arm-chair by the side of the fire. The young lady (for she hardly appeared to exceed seventeen) politely declined the proffered hospitality."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sit down, my sweet young leddy; now, do sit down just to oblige me, said Nelly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ye are our first-foot, and I hope--I'm sure ye'll ba a lucky ane; and ye wadna, ye canna be gaun out without tasting wi' us on a New-year's morning."
}
]
|
34148 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now, make yoursel at hame, my dear leddy, said Nelly;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "All's ready, ma'am; the horses will get no good in the cold. She arose, and took leave of her entertainers; and George accompanied her to the chaise, and shook her hand, and bade her farewell, as though she had been an old and a very dear friend. He even thought, as she replied,"
}
]
|
34148 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It was borne in upon me, said she,"
}
]
|
34148 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, I'm ruined!--I'm ruined! cried Richard;"
}
]
|
34148 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now, I am a beggar!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, black sorrow tak that leddy! cried Nelly, wringing her hands;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and, if the doctor was _sure_ of that, George was as _sure_ that he was a genius, and therefore ho considered the reward as certain. So George determined, as his uncle might live many years, that he would go to London and make a fortune for himself, and to assist his father in the meantime. A cow was taken to Kelso market and sold for eight pounds, and the money was given to George, to pay his expenses to the metropolis, and to keep him there until his genius should put him in the way of making the anticipated fortune. His coat was not exactly such a one as his uncle desired he should be sent out into the world in--not that it was positively a bad coat, but it was beginning to be rather smooth and clear about the elbows, a lighter shade ran up on each side of the seams at the back, and his hat was becoming bare round the edges on the crown. To be sure, as his mother said,"
}
]
|
34148 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "So you are a _great genius_, young man, my friend informs mo, said the broker;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Is it a genius for making machines--or playing the fiddle--or what?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then I hope it's not a genius for making ballads, is it?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have written ballads,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, then, you must try the west end--you won't do for the city, added the broker;"
}
]
|
34148 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "exclaimed George, dropping the magazine--"
}
]
|
34148 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I want a hero!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mr Rogers, I would thank you for last week's rent."
}
]
|
34148 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What is it?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A poem, answered George--"
}
]
|
34148 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A poem! replied he;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "he waited upon several magazine publishers. One told him he was overstocked with contributions; another, that he might leave the papers, and he should have an answer in two or three weeks. But three weeks was an eternity to a man who had not tasted food for three days. A third said,"
}
]
|
34148 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, Mr Rogers, said the bookseller,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have just heard of a little job which will suit you. Lord L---- wishes me to find him a person to write a pamphlet in defence of the war. You are just the person to do it. Make it pungent and peppery, and it will be five or ten guineas for you, and perhaps the patronage of his lordship; and you know no bookseller will look at genius without patronage."
}
]
|
34148 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Inform his lordship, said George,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Stand back! At length he desired our author to remain where he was, and to read his manuscript. The chagrin which he felt at this reception marred the effect of the first two or three sentences, but, as he acquired his self-possession, he read with excellent feeling and emphasis. Every sentence told."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Good! good! said the peer, rubbing his hands--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A Defence of the War with France, said he;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am, your lordship,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You are!--you! said his lordship,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "So saying, he rang the bell, and addressing the servant who entered, added,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Give that gentleman a guinea."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Just published, A DEFENCE OF THE WAR WITH FRANCE, by the Right Hon. Lord L----."
}
]
|
34148 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "By goam! chap, said the countryman, when he regained his speech,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have made thee a spencer; but I might have run the fork through thee, and it would have been no blame of mine."
}
]
|
34148 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Holloa! shouted the astonished boatmen--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Holloa! stop thief!--stop thief!"
}
]
|
34148 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Stop, young man! cried a voice from behind him. But George walked on as though he heard it not. The word"
}
]
|
34148 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "worketh miracles, and where the children of Israel are its high priests. Within an hour, wonderful was the metamorphosis upon the person of George Rogers. At eleven o'clock he was clothed as a beggar--at twelve he was shabby-genteel. The hat in ruins was replaced by one of a newer shape, and that had been brushed and ironed till it was as clear as a looking-glass. The skirtless coat was thrown aside for an olive-coloured one of metropolitan cut, with a velvet collar, and of which, as the Israelite who sold it said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The buttonless vest was laid aside for one of a light colour, and the place of the decayed trousers was supplied by a pair of pure white; yea, his feet were enclosed in sheep-skin shoes, which, he was assured, had never been upon foot before. Such was the change produced upon the outer man of George Rogers through twenty shillings; and, thus arrayed, with a beating and an anxious heart, he proceeded in the afternoon to the home of the beautiful stranger who had been the eventful first-foot in his father's house. As he crossed the Park by the side of the Serpentine, he could not avoid stopping to contemplate, perhaps I should say admire, the change that had been wrought upon his person, as it was reflected in the water as in a mirror. When he had arrived at Pimlico, and been ushered into the house, there was surprise on the face of the gentleman as he surveyed the change that had come over the person of his guest; but in the countenance of the young lady there was more of delight than of surprise. When he had sat with them for some time, the gentleman requested that he would favour them with his history and his adventures in London. George did so from the days of his childhood, until the day when the fair lady before him became his mother's first-foot; and he recounted also his adventures and his struggles in London, as we have related them; and, as he spoke, the lady wept. As he concluded, he said--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And, until this day, I have ever found an expression, which my uncle made in a letter, verified, that 'the moment the elbows of my coat opened, every door would shut.'"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Your uncle! said the gentleman, eagerly;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He commands a vessel of his own in the merchant service, replied George,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "John Rogers! added the gentleman;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Richard Rogers,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Isabel, love, I wish to speak with this young man in private; and she withdrew. When they were left alone, the gentleman remained silent for a few minutes, at times gazing in the face of George, and again placing his hand upon his brow. At length he said--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I know your uncle, and I am desirous of serving you--he also will assist you, if you continue to deserve it. But you must give up book-making as a business; and you must not neglect business for book-making. You understand me. I shall give you a letter to a gentleman in the city, who will take you into his counting-house; and if, at the expiration of three months, I find your conduct has been such as to deserve my approbation, you shall meet me here again."
}
]
|
34148 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "His mother added an important postscript, in which she informed him that"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "She was sorry she was richt after a', that there wasna luck in a squintin first-foot; for he would mind o' the sailor that brought the letter, that said he was to be his uncle's heir; and now it turned out that his uncle had found an heir o' his ain."
}
]
|
34148 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Past nine o'clock,"
}
]
|
34148 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "When I last saw you, sir, said the latter,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "My cousin!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My cousin!"
}
]
|
34148 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The town is still in great danger, Anne, said he, as he took a seat by her side, at the fire of blazing faggots, that threw a bright glare over the beautiful face of his daughter."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The enemies of Edward seem to be on the increase. Dundee has surrendered, the whole of Galloway has been ravaged, and Bruce, become bolder by his success, lies looking on our good town, as the wolves of Atholl look on the sheepfold in the glen."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If there had been lions in these parts, father, answered Anne,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I might have heard from thee a comparison more suitable to the qualities of that brave soldier."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "These words, Anne, replied Peter,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But I need not so speak to the pretty Anne, he added, returning her smile;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And wilt thou give it him, father? said Anne."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Of a surety, thou wilt lose it, if thou dost; for, were Perth as strong as Roxburgh, which, they say, is the strongest hold of these parts, it would not stand against such a warrior as Robert Bruce; and where wilt thou get thy money again, if the town falls into the hands of the Scots?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That is a good point of argument for a woman, love, replied Peter."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I fear for the old town myself; for they tell me that Bruce's fame has brought to his blue banner three French knights, with their left eyes bound up by ladies' favours, who deem that their feats of arms in an escalade of Perth may restore to them their sight. Doubtless they will fight like lions or devils; but seest thou not, that, whether I give the money or not, the town may fall, and all I have in the world may be wrenched from me by these naked caterans, to whom a single merk, albeit it were clipped to the dimensions of King David's bodles, would be a fortune?"
}
]
|
34148 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But Peter of Ghent, he again said,"
}
]
|
34148 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "William Oliphant, the Governor of Perth, she replied, as she held down her face towards the blazing faggots,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Money will make any man stoop, fair Anne, replied Peter."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have heard the back armour of the bravest knight of the lists crack with the bow to Mammon, as loud as when he knelt to the peacock. A merchant knows the science of provisos, and conditions, and stipulations, and never a Scotch plack will William Oliphant get from Peter of Ghent, but upon the condition that he wed my Anne, when the town is saved from the arms of Bruce and his blind knights, and the promised succours shall arrive from England. By Saint Dennis, we may have a jolly wedding in the midst of our jubilee of liberation. What sayest, my love?"
}
]
|
34148 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Speak, Anne, he said;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "William Oliphant is not a man according to my heart, father, answered she, at last, with a trembling heart;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Most certainly, love, replied Peter;"
}
]
|
34148 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, Peter of Ghent, began Oliphant,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The sum thou mentionest, Sir Governor, replied the cunning burgher,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, yes, Peter of Ghent, I do, replied Oliphant, who probably saw some obscure connection between Peter's sentences which the words themselves scarcely supplied."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No man with a heart could see that maiden once, and forget her ever. Less beautiful women have been the cause of the meeting of bleeding heads and sawdust; and thou wilt not be far beyond the Saracen's head of thy suspicion, if thou deemest me a lover of fair Anne of Ghent."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That I have had a fair cause to suspect, said Peter;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A right fair point of dialects, Peter of Ghent, replied Oliphant;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well and veritably indited, said Peter;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And, by the honour of a governor! I am well pleased to think that I am thus estimated by so fair a creature. Let us have the money; and, if all goes well with the town, I shall look for a second tocher, of another thousand, with the hand of thy daughter."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Concluded, Sir Governor,"
}
]
|
34148 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, sirrah, are these rebels still determined to hold out?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There are many murmurs in the town, sire, replied the man;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And what is the name of this rich citizen?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "How could it be any other than Peter of Ghent? said the man, with a smile;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We have heard of this same Peter of Ghent, said Bruce;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Anne of Ghent she is called, replied the man;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And when is the wedding to be?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "When the governor can declare the town to be safe from the Bruce,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And that will be when the hares in the pass of Ben Cruachan are safe from the wolves of Lorn, replied Bruce, laughing, and looking around to his chiefs."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Now, look around you, sir, at these warriors, and after thou hast made a gauge of their numbers, and learned that every castle we have yet attempted hath fallen before us, go and tell William Oliphant that we intend to be present at his wedding with the fair Anne of Ghent, and cannot think of waiting either for the succours of King Edward, or for our own defeat. Hie thee on our message, sirrah."
}
]
|
34148 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We must know the depth cf this miniature Styx,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But we have no measuring-rods,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "By thine own St Bride! we have though, replied Bruce, smiling."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am six feet two inches in height."
}
]
|
34148 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The design of these bold spirits, she said,"
}
]
|
34148 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Welcome, my love, said he to her, as she sat down by the fire."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have been with the governor, who is full of rejoicing at this unexpected quittance of the Bruce and his host of wolves. The period of the fulfilment of our condition approaches. The succours of Edward are expected every hour; and then, Anne, I have a right to claim for thee a lord, who is worthy of thy beauty and thy goodness."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Bruce may return, father, replied Anne."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It is not thus that he resigns his prey."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That is nothing to thee or to me, Anne, said Peter, somewhat roused."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A knighthood will be the more sure to the governor; and I should like as well to see that honour bestowed on thy husband as on thy betrothed. Get ready thy marriage-gear, love, and lay aside thy maiden blushes, which can aid thee as little in capturing a husband, as Bruce's backwardness in the taking of Perth."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The governor hath not claimed me, father, replied Anne, hesitatingly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He hath not called here since the money was paid to him."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "More still of thy doubtful questionings, wench! cried Peter, rising in his anger."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What is his remissness to thee, if I adhere to my condition, and demand my bond? He is bound by his honour; to-morrow he is to be here, and thou must show thy fairest qualities in his presence. Go and assign thee thy appurtenances and paraphernals."
}
]
|
34148 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Art ready?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ay--on, noble king!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come on, then,"
}
]
|
34148 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What shall we say of our French lords, cried another, in a French accent,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Shall a Frenchman, who hath not yet redeemed the sight of his left eye, bound by a lady's pledge, be the second to mount the wall,"
}
]
|
34148 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come on, come on, brave warriors,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Who art thou, in Heaven's name?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Anne of Ghent, thy friend. The guard is asleep, and the governor deemeth thee far away. I claim indemnity in life and limb to Peter of Ghent."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Granted, noble damsel, by the sword of Bruce! was the answer;"
}
]
|
34148 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Bruce is in the act of storming the city, father,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Then are the dreams of my ambition finished, replied Peter;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Fear not, father, said Anne, calmly;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Peter of Ghent, replied he,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Thou canst be safe only in this house, said Anne."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The Bruce hath, by his sword, pledged his faith to me that Peter of Ghent shall be safe in life and limb."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What meaneth the damsel's strange words? cried the father."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Art thou mad? Where couldst thou have seen the Bruce?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Concern not thyself for that, father, replied she, with the same unperturbed air."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Thou art safe. The Bruce hath said it."
}
]
|
34148 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He is safe by the word of the Bruce,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "His name, then?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Peter of Ghent,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "To pe sure he will pe safe if that pe his name, said the man, with a grim smile."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Te prince has said it. Here, Tuncan, guard this maiden and her father, while I and Tonald will pe after sending te neebours to their lang hames."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Peter of Ghent,"
}
]
|
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