Alignment-Lab-AI/GutenDialogue · Datasets at Hugging Face

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21725	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "You don't seem quite to have recovered your spirits yet, Mitford, said Massey to the long comrade." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Have a bit o' pork? There's nothin' like that for givin' heart to a man." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Ay, 'specially arter a bout o' sea-sickness, put in Slag, who was himself busily engaged with a mass of the proposed remedy." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It 'ud do yer wife good too. Try it, ma'am. You're not half yerself yit. There's too much green round your eyes an' yaller about yer cheeks for a healthy young ooman." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Thank you, I--I'd rather not, said poor Mrs Mitford, with a faint smile--and, really, though faint, and called forth in adverse circumstances, it was a very sweet little smile, despite the objectionable colours above referred to." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I was never a great 'and with victuals, an' I find that the sea don't improve appetite--though, after all, I can't see why it should, and--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "flowed" } ]
21725	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Try a bit o' plum-duff, Mrs Mitford," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh! please--don't! Some tea! Quick! I'll go--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Poor Peggy, she never _could_ stand much rough an' tumble, said her husband, returning from the berth to which he had escorted his wife, and seating himself again at the table." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "She's been very bad since we left, an' don't seem to be much on the mend." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Och! niver give in, said the assistant cook, who had overheard the remark in passing." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The ould girl'll be all right before the end o' this wake. It niver lasts more nor tin days at the outside. An' the waker the patients is, the sooner they comes round; so don't let yer sperrits down, Mr Mitford." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Thank 'ee, kindly, Terrence, for your encouragin' words; but I'm doubtful. My poor Peggy is so weak and helpless!" } ]
21725	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "You don't seem to be much troubled wi' sickness yourself," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, I am not, which is a blessin'. I hope that Mrs Massey ain't ill?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "No; my Nell is never ill, returned the coxswain, in a hearty tone." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "She'd have been suppin' along with us to-night, but she's nursin' that poor sick lad, Ian Stuart, that's dyin'." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Is the lad really dyin'?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, it looks like it. The poor little fellow seemed to me past recoverin' the day he came on board, and the stuffy cabin, wi' the heavin' o' the ship, has bin over much for him." }, { "from": "human", "value": "The doctor says there's no hope, she said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The poor boy may last a few days, so he tells us, but he may be taken away at any moment. Pour me out a cup o' tea, Bob. I must go back to him immediately. His poor mother is so broken down that she's not fit to attend to him, and the father's o' no use at all. He can only go about groanin'. No wonder; Ian is their only child, Bob--their first-born. I can't bear to think of it." }, { "from": "human", "value": "But you'll break down yourself, Nell, if you go nursin' him every night, an' all night, like this. Surely there's some o' the women on board that'll be glad to lend a helpin' hand." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I know _one_ who'll be only too happy to do that, whether she's well or ill," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Sure it's durty weather we're goin' to have, annyhow." } ]
21725	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "My dear, said the latter, in a kindly but vain endeavour to comfort Mrs Mitford," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "There! there's another," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well, my dear, said Slag, in a soothing, fatherly tone," } ]
21725	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I don't know what _you_ think, she said, faintly, when two little boys rolled out of their berths and went yelling to leeward with a mass of miscellaneous rubbish," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You make your mind easy, my woman, said her husband, coming forward at the moment and sitting down to comfort her." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Things are lookin' a little better overhead, so one o' the men told me, an' I heard Terrence say that we're goin' to have lobscouse for dinner to-day, though what that may be I can't tell--somethin' good, I suppose." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Something thick, an' luke-warm, an' greasy, _I_ know," } ]
21725	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Dear Peggy," } ]
21725	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ned Jarring, if you ever again dare to take liberties with _me_, I'll tell my 'usband, I will; an' as sure as you're a-sittin' on that seat 'e'll twist you up, turn you outside in, an' fling you overboard!" } ]
21725	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "It do seem more dreary than I expected, she said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I wouldn't be a sailor, Bob, much as I've bin used to the sea, an' like it." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Ah, Nell, that's 'cause you've only bin used to the _sea-shore_. You haven't bin long enough on blue water, lass, to know that folks' opinions change a good deal wi' their feelin's. Wait till we git to the neighbour'ood o' the line, wi' smooth water an' blue skies an' sunshine, sharks, and flyin' fish. You'll have a different opinion then about the sea." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Right you are, Bob, said Joe Slagg, coming up at that moment." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Most people change their opinions arter gittin' to the line, specially when it comes blazin' hot, fit to bile the sea an' stew the ship, an' a dead calm gits a hold of 'e an' keeps ye swelterin' in the doldrums for a week or two." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But it wasn't that way we was lookin' at it, Joe, returned Nellie, with a laugh." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Bob was explainin' to me how pleasant a change it would be after the cold grey sea an' sky we're havin' just now." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, it may be so; but whatever way ye may look at it, you'll change yer mind, more or less, when you cross the line. By the way, that minds me that some of us in the steerage are invited to cross the line to-night--the line that separates us from the cabin--to attend a lectur' there--an' you'll niver guess the subjec', Bob." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I know that, Joe. I never made a right guess in my life, that I knows on. Heave ahead, what is it?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "A lectur' on the `Lifeboat,' no less! But it aint our lifeboat sarvice: it's the American one, cause it's to be given by that fine young fellow, Dr Hayward, who looks as if suthin' had damaged his constitootion somehow. I'm told he's a Yankee, though he looks uncommon like an Englishman." }, { "from": "human", "value": "He's tall an' 'andsome enough, anyhow," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ay, an' he's good enough for anything, said Nellie, with enthusiasm." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You should see the kind way he speaks to poor Ian when he comes to see him--which is pretty much every day. He handles him, too, so tenderly-- just like his mother; but he won't give him medicine or advice, for it seems that wouldn't be thought fair by the ship's doctor. No more it would, I suppose." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "D'ee know what's the matter wi' him?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Not I, returned Massey." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It seems more like gineral weakness than anything else." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I can tell you, said a voice close to them. The voice was that of Tomlin, who, although a first-class passenger, was fond of visiting and fraternising with the people of the fore-cabin." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He got himself severely wounded some time ago when protecting a poor slave-girl from her owner, and he's now slowly recovering. He is taking a long voyage for his health. The girl, it seems, had run away from her owner, and had nearly escaped into Canada, where of course, being on British soil, she would be free--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "God bless the British soil! interrupted little Mrs Mitford, in a tone of enthusiasm which caused a laugh all round; but that did not prevent some of the bystanders from responding with a hearty" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Amen!" } ]
21725	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "This was enough, however, for Hayward, who is a man of few words and swift action. He was unarmed, but carried a heavy-handled whip, with this he instantly felled the slave-owner and one of his men to the ground before they had time to wink, but the third man drew a pistol, and, pointing it straight at the doctor's head, would have blown out his brains if the landlord had not turned the weapon aside and tripped the man up. Before he could recover Hayward had swung the girl on his horse, leaped into the saddle, and dashed off at full speed. He did not draw rein till he carried her over the frontier into Canada, and had placed her beyond the reach of her enemies." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Brayvo! the doctor," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Then he found, continued Tomlin," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ah, poor thing, said Mitford;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Not at all, returned Tomlin," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "How--what then about that splendid wife that he's got in the after-cabin _now_?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "That's her. That's Eva, the quadroon. She's not only as white as Mrs Massey or Mrs Mitford there, but she's been educated and brought up as a lady and among ladies, besides having the spirit of a _real_ lady, which many a born one hasn't got at all." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Not a drop of black blood in her body!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "An' what if there was? demanded Slag, in a tone of indignation." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "D'ee think that white blood is worth more than black blood in the eyes o' the Almighty as made 'em both?" } ]
21725	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I _don't_ believe in 'em," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I do believe in 'em, said Mrs Massey," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Flyin' she exclaimed," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Look-out!" } ]
21725	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, well, she said, raising her hands and eyes to heaven, as though she addressed her remarks chiefly to celestial ears," } ]
21725	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I think he's dying, sor," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Has the doctor seen him this morning?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "He's seed him twice, sor, said Terrence," } ]
21725	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "My poor boy, do you suffer much?" } ]
21725	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, thank you--thanks--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "There, don't speak, dear boy, said the doctor, gently." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I see you have been thinking about our last conversation. Shall I read to you?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No--no. Jesus is speaking--to me. His words are crowding on me. No need for--reading when He speaks; `Come--unto Me--I will _never_-- leave--'" } ]
21725	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mother--father, he said, after a short pause," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "King of Terrors" } ]
21725	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Cheer up, David, said the poor wife, grasping her husband's hand, and striving to check her sobs," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ian said truth, it won't be long afore we jine him, the dear, dear boy." } ]
21725	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Fire!" } ]
21725	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, as I was sayin', Nellie, remarked Peggy, in her soft voice, after a brief pause, during which a variety of weak little expressions crossed her pretty face," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I never could abide the sea. It always makes me sick, an' when it doesn't make me sick, it makes me nervish. Not that I'm given to bein' nervish; an', if I was, it wouldn't matter much, for the sea would take it out o' me, whether or not. That's always the way--if it's not one thing, it's sure to be another. Don't you think so, Nellie? My John says 'e thinks so--though it isn't to be thought much of what _'e_ says, dear man, for 'e's got a way of sayin' things when 'e don't mean 'em--you understand?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well, I don't quite understand, answered Mrs Massey, cutting in at this point with a laugh," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Perhaps you're right, Nellie, rejoined Mrs Mitford, with a mild nod of assent;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I've sometimes thought on these things when I've 'ad one o' my sick 'eadaches, which prevents me from thinkin' altogether, almost; an', bless you, you'd wonder what strange idears comes over me at such times. Did you ever try to think things with a sick 'eadache, Nellie?" } ]
21725	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hold on, Peggy!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "rang through the ship from stem to stern, until it became known that it was a woman. Then the cries redoubled. In the midst of the hubbub the strong but calm voice of the captain was heard to give orders to lower a boat and port the helm--" } ]
21725	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Stop that bell! boat ahoy!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ship aho-o-oy! came faintly back on the breeze, while every voice was hushed and ear strained to listen," }, { "from": "human", "value": "All right! all saved!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Thank the Lord!" } ]
21725	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "The best an' the worst men i' the ship!" } ]
21725	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I don't like the look o' things at all," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Perhaps it would be well, sir, to lay-to till daylight," } ]
21725	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Breakers ahead!" } ]
21725	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Clear the anchor, and stand by to let go!" } ]
21725	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Let go," } ]
21725	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "God help us, exclaimed the captain," } ]
21725	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Get down below, all of you!" } ]
21725	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "D'ee know when it'll be low water, sir?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Not for three hours yet, but it's falling. I expect there will be less sea on in a short time. If the ship holds together we may yet be saved." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I wish it was the risin' tide, he said, and the words took his mind back, like a flash of lightning, to the time when he used them in a very different sense. Then all was peace, hope, sunshine, and his bride was sitting like a good angel beside him, with a sweet smile on her fair face. Now, something like darkness visible, showed him his poor wife-- still beside him, thank God--but clinging to his arm with looks of terror amounting almost to despair." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What a contrast!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "There's no use o' sittin' here to be drowned like rats, he cried, starting up." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'll go on deck an' take a cast o' the lead, an' see what chances we have." }, { "from": "human", "value": "No, you won't, Bob, cried Nellie, throwing her arms firmly round him." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "There's big stones falling all about the deck yet. Don't you hear them?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "No use going up just now, Joe, he said, as he sat down beside his wife, and permitted her to tie a kerchief round his head." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Only a slight wound, Eva, got while taking soundings. I find that there are sixteen fathoms of water under us, and, although I couldn't see my hand held up before my face, I managed to make out by the flash of a match, which burned for a moment before being blown out, that the sides of the cave are quite perpendicular, not the smallest ledge to stand on. The tide, however, is ebbing fast, and the water in the cave calming, so that if no bad leak has been made by all this thumping we may yet be saved. Our only chance is to stick to the ship." } ]
21725	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "There is no bad leak as yet, said the captain, re-entering the cabin, which he had quitted for the purpose of sounding the well." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If we can keep afloat for an hour or two we may be able to use the boats. Just now it would be useless to attempt launching them." } ]
21725	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Shall we launch the boats now, sir?" } ]
21725	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Not yet--not yet, returned the captain, hurriedly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We must have more light first. The loss of a boat would be fatal. I'm afraid of the rising tide." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Afraid of the rising tide!" } ]
21725	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "A black look-out, Joe," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ay, Bob, an' the worst of it is that the tide's risin'. A boat can live here as long as that ridge o' rocks keeps off the seas, but in an hour or so it'll be rollin' in as bad as ever." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I knows it, Joe, an' the more need to look sharp." } ]
21725	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Peggy first, Bob; I'll wait for _you_," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Look sharp!" } ]
21725	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Does any one know if there's anything to eat aboard?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We'd better see to that," } ]
21725	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "There is nothing for it but to push on till we come to an inlet, or break of some sort in the cliffs, by which we may land, said Hayward, speaking encouragingly to the women." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "God helping us, we are sure to find some such place ere long." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Don't look very like it," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We can see how it looks about as well as you can, retorted John Mitford, indignantly." }, { "from": "human", "value": "If ye can't say somethin' to cheer the women, there's no need for to look blue an' tell us what a mere babby could see for itself." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "True for ye, he said," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Besides, there may be a flat shore on the other side o' the island, added Bob Massey in a cheerful tone;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I've often noticed islands o' this build, and when they're so high on one side they usually are low on the opposite side; so we'll only have to pull round--an' mayhap there are people on it--who knows?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Ay, natives pr'aps, growled Jarring," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Shut up your black muzzle, or I'll heave ye overboard!" } ]
21725	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Nellie, dear, said Massey, when the boat was brought up under the lee of the rocks," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Not very, replied his wife, raising her head." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'm strong, thank God, and can stand it; but Peggy here is shudderin' awful bad. I believe she'll die if somethin' isn't done for her." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I think if she could only ring the water out of her clothes, whispered Mrs Hayward to her husband," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I know that, Eva: it would do you all good, and we must have it done somehow--" } ]
21725	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now, Peggy, my dear, said her husband when it was finished," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Th-thank you, J-John, replied Peggy, whose teeth chattered like castanets," } ]
21725	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "La! if the sun ain't blazin' 'ot! An' I'm so 'ungry. Dear, dear, 'ave you bin rowin' all night, John? 'Ow tired you must be; an' your 'ands blistered, though you are pretty tough in the 'ands, but you couldn't 'old a candle to Bob Massey at that--Yes, yes, Nellie, I 'ear you, but la! what does it matter 'ow your 'air an' things is deranged w'en you're wrecked at sea and--" } ]
21725	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "She's all right, anyhow," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "She's always all right, remarked Mitford in a funereal tone, which, however, was meant to be confidential." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Bless your heart, I've seen that woman under all circumstances, but although she's timid by nature, an' not over strong in body, I've never seen her give in or fairly cast down. No doubt she was pretty low last night, poor thing, but that was 'cause she was nigh dead wi' cold--yet her spirit wasn't crushed. It's my solemn conviction that if my Peggy ever dies at all she'll die game." } ]
21725	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "How did you get on with poor Peggy last night, Eva?" } ]
21725	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Pretty well, Tom, but she's troublesome to manage. She is so unusually timid, poor creature, so prone to give way to despair when things look bad, yet so sweetly apt to bound into high spirits when things are looking hopeful,--and withal, so amusingly garrulous!" } ]
21725	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is lucky that one of the pieces of pork happened to be cooked, observed Dr Hayward, as he served out the allowance," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Right you are, sir! said Slag, with his mouth full, while with a clasp-knife he carefully cut off another morsel to be ready," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I say, Joe," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Sir?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Will you just go to the bow and take a squint ahead? I think there seems to be something like an end o' the cliffs in view--your eyes are better than mine." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Your eyes are better than you think, sir, for the end o' the cliff is visible, an' a spit o' sand beyond is quite plain." } ]
21725	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Thank God, Eva, said Hayward, as he steered into the bay," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, no, sir, I don't think as _my_ strength would fail, said Peggy, in a feeble voice, for she had overheard the remark." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Not that I shouldn't be thankful all the same, I allow--for thankfulness for mercies received is a dooty, an' most on us do fail in that, though I say it that shouldn't, but my strength ain't quite gone yet--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Stand by, Slag, to fend off with your oar when we get close in," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Have any of you got matches in your pockets?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ye may well ax that, Bob, said O'Connor, using his own hands in the same way." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Cold, wet weather, and no house! It 'ud be death to the women, sure, av--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Here you are!" } ]
21725	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I hope they ain't wet," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Wrap 'em well up," } ]
21725	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Everything must be quite ready, first, said Hayward to Tomlin," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I will, replied Tomlin," }, { "from": "human", "value": "D'you know it never occurred to me before how tremendously important the element of fire is? But how will you ever manage to make the branches catch, everything being so thoroughly soaked?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You shall see. I have had to make a fire in worse circumstances than the present, returned Hayward," }, { "from": "human", "value": "All ready, sir." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Now look here, Tomlin." } ]
21725	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now, Tomlin, get out your matches," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Wet?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I fear they are." } ]
21725	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Och! let Bob Massey try it! cried O'Connor." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Sure he's used to workin' in throublesome weather." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Right, boy, said Slag," } ]
21725	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I knowed it! said Nellie, in a quiet tone, as she saw the bright flame leap up and almost set her husband's beard on fire." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Bob never fails!" } ]
21725	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sure ye've smothered it intirely," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, me!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "No fear, it's all right," } ]
21725	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "It's going to do," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Any child might tell that," } ]
21725	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now, said Dr Hayward, when the fire was safely established," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, doctor, since you're good enough to ask me, I would advise that we should appoint a leader. You see, mates, he continued, addressing himself to the company in general," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Right you are, Bob, said Joe Slag. (" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "As he always is, said Nellie, _sotto voce_.)" }, { "from": "human", "value": "So I second the move--if that's the reg'lar way to do it." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Hear, hear!" } ]
21725	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "The first thing, then, is to thank God for our deliverance, which we all do, I am sure, most heartily." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Amen" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Next, we must find fresh water and boil a bit of pork--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ah, then, we haven't a kittle!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Haven't we a big baling-dish, Terrence?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Sure we have, sor, an' it's a tin wan as'll stand fire," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well, then, you go fetch it; wash it well out, and get the pork ready. Jarring and Tomlin will gather as much dead wood as they can find and pile it beside the fire. Mitford will search for fresh water--there must be a spring or brook not far off--and Massey and I will rig up some sort of shelter for the night." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Please, sir, may I go with Mitford to seek for water?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "By all means, if you wish to." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And I will keep you company, Nell," }, { "from": "human", "value": "So will I, chimed in little Mrs Mitford, feebly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I was always fond of water. As a child I used to paddle about in it continually, an' sometimes tumbled into it, for of course young people will--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "No, Peggy, you must sit by the fire with my wife, said the doctor." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Neither of you is fit for work of any kind yet, so sit down and warm yourselves." } ]
21725	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "said the doctor, when our coxswain led him to the spot," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That's true, sir, returned Massey," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well, I've been thinking about that, said Hayward," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Hm! not very comfortable, said Massey," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Admitted; but what else can we do? said Hayward." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It would risk our lives to sleep without covering of any kind in such cold weather, and with sleet falling as it does now. Better have the sheet spread upon us than merely over our heads. So now let's kindle another fire, and do you arrange our couch, Bob." } ]
21725	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ah! now there's nothin' wantin' to produce parfit felicity but a pipe," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That's so, lad," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Here, Terrence," } ]
21725	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I couldn't do that, Bob, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh! it's 'baccy as is my chief joy, At mornin', noon and night; An' it's verily my belief, boy, That I love it with all my might. If your liver an' lungs are squeakin', An' your head is growin' cracky, There's nothin' so sure to kill or cure, As fumes o' the strongest 'baccy." }, { "from": "human", "value": "If it would improve your voice, Terrence, observed Mr Mitford, meekly," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'm sure I wish ye had pounds of it, for it's that harsh-- though, of course, I make no pretence to music myself, but--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Just listen to that now, `Harsh!' an' that to a man whose own mother, by the father's side, towld him he shud make music his purfession! Arrah, howld on, Black Ned, ye spalpeen; ye've had two helpin's already!" } ]
21725	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Haven't ye a small bit o' 'baccy in the corner o' wan o' yer pockets, doctor, dear? asked Terrence, insinuatingly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "May be ye'd find a morsel if ye'd try." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Quite useless to try, my poor fellow, returned the doctor, with a look of affected pity," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Sure, it's a true proverb that says `doctor's differ,' retorted O'Connor," }, { "from": "human", "value": "More's the pity, Terrence, but if you'll heave on some more firewood you'll have a smoke that may do as a substitute at present." } ]
21725	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh! I _do_ so wish that we had oysters for breakfast!" } ]
21725	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I fear there are no oysters hereabouts, said Hayward," } ]
21725	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "You see, we must go about this business thoroughly, said the doctor, when they were all assembled in the camp one day after their frugal meal, excepting O'Connor, who was a short distance off, trying, with unwearied perseverance and unvaried failure, to kill gulls with stones." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And for this purpose, we must hold a council of war. Where's Terrence?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "He's pelting the gulls as usual," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "A-missin' of 'em, you mean," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Hallo, Terrence! shouted Hayward, catching sight of the Irishman at that moment." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Here! we want you." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Comin', sor, jist wan more shot at this baste. He's bin flyin' round me hid for half-an-hour at laste, winkin' at the stones as they go by him. Och! missed again--bad luck to ye!" } ]
21725	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well done, Terrence! cried Hayward as he came up with his prize." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I regard it as a good omen--a sort of turn in the tide which will encourage us on our contemplated expedition." } ]
21725	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "In short, said the doctor in conclusion," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Grub," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Just so. Grub is our first and greatest necessity. Meanwhile, Peggy, Nell, and Eva will do what they can to make our camp comfortable: gather mussels and other shell-fish and see that the coxswain does not eat more than a fair share of victuals, and conducts himself in all respects like an obedient and trusted servant." } ]
21725	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "The very thing!" } ]
21725	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "And how would you propose to cut the bones, John?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Cut 'em? eh! well--wi' the knife, of course." } ]
21725	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "This won't do, said Slag, on making the discovery." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We'll have to steer d'rect for the highest land." }, { "from": "human", "value": "That's so, Joe, said Mitford," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I sees it, John--but, I say, what's the matter wi' Terrence?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "and his comrade whispered," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Sh! he sees suthin'!" } ]
21725	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sure it's a rabbit I saw, he said, returning to his companions," } ]
21725	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "It's freezin' I am, if not froze, said Terrence O'Connor at the end of the second sleepless hour." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If we could have only brought away some o' the fire in our pockets, what a comfort it would have bin!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'm beginnin' to feel better on the outside, continued O'Connor, pausing," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Pity it's too dark to see yer face, John, said Terrence." }, { "from": "human", "value": "It must be a sight worth seein'. Och, av I only had a good-sized pocket-han'kicher I'd wrap me feet in it, anyhow." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Suppose we cut some grass and try that?" } ]
21725	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Breakfast fust, said Slag, on completing a tremendous stretch and yawn." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It's always bin my way since I was a babby--business first; pleasure to foller. Grub is business, an' work is pleasure--leastwise, it ought to be to any man who's rated `A. One' on the ship's books. Hallo! sorrowful-monkey-face, clap a stopper on yer nose an' tumble up,--d'ye hear?" } ]
21725	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "The spalpeen! he's off again, said O'Connor, turning round as they halted to rest a minute, after breasting the hill for half-an-hour." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Hallo, John! Where are ye, boy?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Here--all right, shouted a voice in the distance," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'm exploring behind the knoll here. Go ahead; I'll meet ye at the top o' the hill." } ]
21725	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "We must go back at wance, said O'Connor, with anxious looks," } ]
21725	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is very sad to give over our search for poor Mitford, said Dr Hayward one morning, while seated on a ledge of rock near the beach, taking counsel with his male companions as to the order of procedure for the day," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "All right, cap'n, answered Massey." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You've only got to say the word. But who's to stop at home to mind the camp-fire and the women?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'm afraid, returned Hayward, with a deprecatory smile," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Faix, he might consider himself the luckiest man o' the lot!" } ]
21725	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "You see, said the latter," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I've heard--though I can't rightly say I've seed it done myself--that the seal-hunters o' the north do their work wi' clubs; so, if one man can kill a seal wi' such a thing, I don't see why another shouldn't." } ]
21725	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "That is--if Nellie has got enough of line made." } ]
21725	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Keep up your spirits, dear Peggy, said Nell, in that sweet, cosy tone--if we may say so--which played such havoc in Bob's bosom at the time when she was known as the coxswain's bride." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I feel _sure_ that your dear husband will return to us. No doubt, some sort o' misfortune has come to him; but he's such a sensible, handy man, is John, that I can't help feelin' he'll come back to us; an' when I _feel_ anything very strongly, d'ee know, I've almost always found it come true. Do you believe in strong feelin', Peggy?" } ]
21725	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Believe in strong feelin's, Nellie? I should just think I do. Not to mention my own feelin's--which are so strong that I never felt nothink like 'em before--any one who has been married to my John must know well what st-strong--oh! no, I shall never see 'im again; dear Nellie, don't tell me, she said, beginning to cry." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I know--I know--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "There, now--there's a good soul. Don't go off again. Look! D'ee know what this is for?" } ]
21725	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, you see, Peggy, replied her friend, with the confidential air of one who has a secret to tell," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Lawks! Nellie, an' that _will_ give 'em a surprise! interrupted Mrs Mitford, drying her eyes." }, { "from": "human", "value": "How ever can any man _fish_ for a bird-- unless, indeed, it goes under water an' changes its nature, which no creetur can do; though, now I come to think of it, I have seen flyin' fish, an' so, perhaps, there may be albytresses, or other birds, that--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Hallo! Nellie, hard at the twine, lass? You've made about enough of it now," } ]
21725	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'm glad you think there's enough, Bob, for I've come to the end o' the stuff you gathered for me." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Plenty more where that came from, Nell; but there's no need to gather more than enough; for enough, you know, is as good as a feast. Well, Peggy, he added, turning to the poor woman, and patting her gently on the shoulder," }, { "from": "human", "value": "She was beginnin' to tell me, Mr Massey, when you came in, something about fishin' for albytresses, an' I always thought albytresses was birds, and--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Quite right, Peggy. See, this is how it is: you bait a hook--but come, said the coxswain, rising suddenly, and taking up the ball of twine," } ]
21725	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Never fear, said Eva, who carried the baling-dish full of shell-fish in her hands." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I shall never forget the fright we got that time Joe let it get so low that it was almost at the last spark. You won't be long away, will you?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Not long. Anyhow, we'll be sure to turn up for dinner." } ]
21725	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now, Nell, he said, on landing," } ]
21725	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now, then, Hercules, lead the way with your club," } ]
21725	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Good luck! exclaimed O'Connor, springing forward, and grasping an object which lay on the ground. It was a hatchet, covered with red rust." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Here is something else that will be useful," } ]
21725	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Gin, I hope," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Physic, I think," }, { "from": "human", "value": "A paper!" } ]
21725	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now, we must find that garden, said the doctor," } ]
21725	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hooroo, Bob! exclaimed O'Connor, flourishing the frying-pan in his excitement," } ]
21725	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Call upon Me in the time of trouble and I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify Me. He had seen this invitation accepted by the dying man and deliverance obtained--if a happy smile and a triumphant gaze across the river of death were to be regarded as testimony." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But, then, thought John Mitford," }, { "from": "human", "value": "With God all things are possible?" } ]
21725	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Strange! thought the man, as he moved slowly forward." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Was this split made hundreds--perhaps thousands--of years ago, for the purpose of enabling me to escape?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Certainly not--absurd, presumptuous idea," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It was, remarked Faith, slowly," } ]
21725	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Thank God!" } ]
21725	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Weary, weary--desolation!" } ]
21725	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "We can't be far from it now," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It's a gruesome place," }, { "from": "human", "value": "To think that so many lives were lost here--or hereabouts," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "An' their ghost, maybe, hangin' about!" } ]
21725	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Come along, let's take 'im home at wanst, cried the Irishman, when they had got the poor dazed man into the boat." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Isn't it Peggy that'll open her eyes an' screech for joy when she sots her eyes on ye!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "We'll have to wash and comb an' clothe him first," } ]
21725	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Nell, murmured the coxswain in a deep, earnest whisper to his wife, who stood at his elbow," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What d'ee mean, Bob?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Five men went away, Nell; _six_ are comin' back!" } ]
21725	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Peggy!" } ]
21725	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "But a ship is long, long o' comin'," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "A ship'll come, Joe, when God sees fit to send it," } ]
21725	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "The only thing I feel an awful longin' for now, at times, is a bit o' 'baccy," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "So does I, Ned, an' I sometimes think Dr Hayward has got the advantage of us there, for he never smoked, so he says, an' in coorse it stands to reason that he can't have no longin' for a thing he don't want--an' he seems as jolly an' happy as the best of us without it!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Ay, jollier and happier!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But, I say, Ned, don't ye ever feel a longin' for grog? Ye used to be raither fond of it." }, { "from": "human", "value": "No--not now, Joe. It's the best thing as ever happened to me, bein' cast on this here island--wi' Dr Hayward to give a feller a word of advice." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You should be thankful for that, Ned." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I _am_ thankful," } ]
21725	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sure it's devils that must live in the bodies o' some men," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You're too hard on the devils, Terrence, said Bob Massey." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Some men in this world do the worst _that they can_, an' surely devils can do no more than that." } ]
21725	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Pears" } ]
21725	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Are you goin' to fish for sharks to-day?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Faix, no; it's to the woods I'll go fishin' to-day, Joe. Now, Nell, gi' me the stoutest line ye've got on hand, mavourneen." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Will that do? I made it the other day specially for sharks--or whales!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The very thing, Nell. Hand it over. Now, boys, I'm off to try my luck i' the woods, for I'm gittin' tired o' the say." } ]
21725	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "It's risin' tide with us again, after a fashion, Nell," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It is, Bob, she said," }, { "from": "human", "value": "What! alongside o' Aunt Betty?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, even alongside o' Aunt Betty; for if this voyage has taught me anything at all, it has taught me that, after all, `there's no place like home!'" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Right you are, Nell, said Joe Slag, who came up at that moment," } ]
21725	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Get out the boat, boys!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Get ready, quick! Eva; a steamer at last, thank God, in the offing! Don't lose a moment. They may have little time to wait. Boat will be ready in a few minutes." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Ay, an' pack up all you want to carry away," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "So it is all going to end suddenly like a dream!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Home, sweet home!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Wherever you are, my dear, the home will be sweet, said Peggy." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Though of course it wouldn't be that without your 'usband, for it takes two to make a fight, you know, an' it takes two no less, I think, to make things pleasant, but--dear, dear, what a disagreeable thing it is to 'ave to dress in a 'urry, though one shouldn't--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Look alive, there! look al-i-ve! roared O'Connor, putting his head in at the door." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Daylight's a-breakin', an' they won't--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh! Terrence, that reminds me--don't forget our pets, cried Nellie, who had steadily declined to speak of them as" }, { "from": "human", "value": "All right, missis. It's lookin' after them I am this minnit." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Out wid ye! he cried," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Be aff, at wance, hooroo! cried the excited man, with a clap of his hands and a Donnybrook yell that sent all the" } ]
21725	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Fifteen saved this time, Nell," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Thank the Lord!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "You mustn't come near us, said the nurse, with a look of warning." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Only a look just now." }, { "from": "human", "value": "The tide has risen to the flood now, Bob," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ay, said the coxswain in a deep voice," } ]
21725	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Jeames" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You don't seem quite to have recovered your spirits yet, Mitford, said Massey to the long comrade." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Have a bit o' pork? There's nothin' like that for givin' heart to a man." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Ay, 'specially arter a bout o' sea-sickness, put in Slag, who was himself busily engaged with a mass of the proposed remedy." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It 'ud do yer wife good too. Try it, ma'am. You're not half yerself yit. There's too much green round your eyes an' yaller about yer cheeks for a healthy young ooman." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Thank you, I--I'd rather not, said poor Mrs Mitford, with a faint smile--and, really, though faint, and called forth in adverse circumstances, it was a very sweet little smile, despite the objectionable colours above referred to." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I was never a great 'and with victuals, an' I find that the sea don't improve appetite--though, after all, I can't see why it should, and--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "flowed" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Try a bit o' plum-duff, Mrs Mitford," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh! please--don't! Some tea! Quick! I'll go--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Poor Peggy, she never _could_ stand much rough an' tumble, said her husband, returning from the berth to which he had escorted his wife, and seating himself again at the table." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "She's been very bad since we left, an' don't seem to be much on the mend." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Och! niver give in, said the assistant cook, who had overheard the remark in passing." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The ould girl'll be all right before the end o' this wake. It niver lasts more nor tin days at the outside. An' the waker the patients is, the sooner they comes round; so don't let yer sperrits down, Mr Mitford." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Thank 'ee, kindly, Terrence, for your encouragin' words; but I'm doubtful. My poor Peggy is so weak and helpless!" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You don't seem to be much troubled wi' sickness yourself," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, I am not, which is a blessin'. I hope that Mrs Massey ain't ill?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "No; my Nell is never ill, returned the coxswain, in a hearty tone." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "She'd have been suppin' along with us to-night, but she's nursin' that poor sick lad, Ian Stuart, that's dyin'." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Is the lad really dyin'?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, it looks like it. The poor little fellow seemed to me past recoverin' the day he came on board, and the stuffy cabin, wi' the heavin' o' the ship, has bin over much for him." }, { "from": "human", "value": "The doctor says there's no hope, she said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The poor boy may last a few days, so he tells us, but he may be taken away at any moment. Pour me out a cup o' tea, Bob. I must go back to him immediately. His poor mother is so broken down that she's not fit to attend to him, and the father's o' no use at all. He can only go about groanin'. No wonder; Ian is their only child, Bob--their first-born. I can't bear to think of it." }, { "from": "human", "value": "But you'll break down yourself, Nell, if you go nursin' him every night, an' all night, like this. Surely there's some o' the women on board that'll be glad to lend a helpin' hand." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I know _one_ who'll be only too happy to do that, whether she's well or ill," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Sure it's durty weather we're goin' to have, annyhow." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My dear, said the latter, in a kindly but vain endeavour to comfort Mrs Mitford," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "There! there's another," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well, my dear, said Slag, in a soothing, fatherly tone," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I don't know what _you_ think, she said, faintly, when two little boys rolled out of their berths and went yelling to leeward with a mass of miscellaneous rubbish," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You make your mind easy, my woman, said her husband, coming forward at the moment and sitting down to comfort her." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Things are lookin' a little better overhead, so one o' the men told me, an' I heard Terrence say that we're goin' to have lobscouse for dinner to-day, though what that may be I can't tell--somethin' good, I suppose." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Something thick, an' luke-warm, an' greasy, _I_ know," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Dear Peggy," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It do seem more dreary than I expected, she said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I wouldn't be a sailor, Bob, much as I've bin used to the sea, an' like it." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Ah, Nell, that's 'cause you've only bin used to the _sea-shore_. You haven't bin long enough on blue water, lass, to know that folks' opinions change a good deal wi' their feelin's. Wait till we git to the neighbour'ood o' the line, wi' smooth water an' blue skies an' sunshine, sharks, and flyin' fish. You'll have a different opinion then about the sea." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Right you are, Bob, said Joe Slagg, coming up at that moment." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Most people change their opinions arter gittin' to the line, specially when it comes blazin' hot, fit to bile the sea an' stew the ship, an' a dead calm gits a hold of 'e an' keeps ye swelterin' in the doldrums for a week or two." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But it wasn't that way we was lookin' at it, Joe, returned Nellie, with a laugh." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Bob was explainin' to me how pleasant a change it would be after the cold grey sea an' sky we're havin' just now." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, it may be so; but whatever way ye may look at it, you'll change yer mind, more or less, when you cross the line. By the way, that minds me that some of us in the steerage are invited to cross the line to-night--the line that separates us from the cabin--to attend a lectur' there--an' you'll niver guess the subjec', Bob." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I know that, Joe. I never made a right guess in my life, that I knows on. Heave ahead, what is it?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "A lectur' on the `Lifeboat,' no less! But it aint our lifeboat sarvice: it's the American one, cause it's to be given by that fine young fellow, Dr Hayward, who looks as if suthin' had damaged his constitootion somehow. I'm told he's a Yankee, though he looks uncommon like an Englishman." }, { "from": "human", "value": "He's tall an' 'andsome enough, anyhow," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ay, an' he's good enough for anything, said Nellie, with enthusiasm." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You should see the kind way he speaks to poor Ian when he comes to see him--which is pretty much every day. He handles him, too, so tenderly-- just like his mother; but he won't give him medicine or advice, for it seems that wouldn't be thought fair by the ship's doctor. No more it would, I suppose." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "D'ee know what's the matter wi' him?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Not I, returned Massey." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It seems more like gineral weakness than anything else." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I can tell you, said a voice close to them. The voice was that of Tomlin, who, although a first-class passenger, was fond of visiting and fraternising with the people of the fore-cabin." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He got himself severely wounded some time ago when protecting a poor slave-girl from her owner, and he's now slowly recovering. He is taking a long voyage for his health. The girl, it seems, had run away from her owner, and had nearly escaped into Canada, where of course, being on British soil, she would be free--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "God bless the British soil! interrupted little Mrs Mitford, in a tone of enthusiasm which caused a laugh all round; but that did not prevent some of the bystanders from responding with a hearty" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Amen!" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This was enough, however, for Hayward, who is a man of few words and swift action. He was unarmed, but carried a heavy-handled whip, with this he instantly felled the slave-owner and one of his men to the ground before they had time to wink, but the third man drew a pistol, and, pointing it straight at the doctor's head, would have blown out his brains if the landlord had not turned the weapon aside and tripped the man up. Before he could recover Hayward had swung the girl on his horse, leaped into the saddle, and dashed off at full speed. He did not draw rein till he carried her over the frontier into Canada, and had placed her beyond the reach of her enemies." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Brayvo! the doctor," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Then he found, continued Tomlin," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ah, poor thing, said Mitford;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Not at all, returned Tomlin," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "How--what then about that splendid wife that he's got in the after-cabin _now_?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "That's her. That's Eva, the quadroon. She's not only as white as Mrs Massey or Mrs Mitford there, but she's been educated and brought up as a lady and among ladies, besides having the spirit of a _real_ lady, which many a born one hasn't got at all." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Not a drop of black blood in her body!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "An' what if there was? demanded Slag, in a tone of indignation." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "D'ee think that white blood is worth more than black blood in the eyes o' the Almighty as made 'em both?" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I _don't_ believe in 'em," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I do believe in 'em, said Mrs Massey," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Flyin' she exclaimed," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Look-out!" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, well, she said, raising her hands and eyes to heaven, as though she addressed her remarks chiefly to celestial ears," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I think he's dying, sor," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Has the doctor seen him this morning?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "He's seed him twice, sor, said Terrence," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My poor boy, do you suffer much?" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, thank you--thanks--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "There, don't speak, dear boy, said the doctor, gently." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I see you have been thinking about our last conversation. Shall I read to you?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No--no. Jesus is speaking--to me. His words are crowding on me. No need for--reading when He speaks; `Come--unto Me--I will _never_-- leave--'" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mother--father, he said, after a short pause," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "King of Terrors" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Cheer up, David, said the poor wife, grasping her husband's hand, and striving to check her sobs," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ian said truth, it won't be long afore we jine him, the dear, dear boy." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Fire!" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, as I was sayin', Nellie, remarked Peggy, in her soft voice, after a brief pause, during which a variety of weak little expressions crossed her pretty face," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I never could abide the sea. It always makes me sick, an' when it doesn't make me sick, it makes me nervish. Not that I'm given to bein' nervish; an', if I was, it wouldn't matter much, for the sea would take it out o' me, whether or not. That's always the way--if it's not one thing, it's sure to be another. Don't you think so, Nellie? My John says 'e thinks so--though it isn't to be thought much of what _'e_ says, dear man, for 'e's got a way of sayin' things when 'e don't mean 'em--you understand?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well, I don't quite understand, answered Mrs Massey, cutting in at this point with a laugh," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Perhaps you're right, Nellie, rejoined Mrs Mitford, with a mild nod of assent;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I've sometimes thought on these things when I've 'ad one o' my sick 'eadaches, which prevents me from thinkin' altogether, almost; an', bless you, you'd wonder what strange idears comes over me at such times. Did you ever try to think things with a sick 'eadache, Nellie?" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hold on, Peggy!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "rang through the ship from stem to stern, until it became known that it was a woman. Then the cries redoubled. In the midst of the hubbub the strong but calm voice of the captain was heard to give orders to lower a boat and port the helm--" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Stop that bell! boat ahoy!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ship aho-o-oy! came faintly back on the breeze, while every voice was hushed and ear strained to listen," }, { "from": "human", "value": "All right! all saved!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Thank the Lord!" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The best an' the worst men i' the ship!" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I don't like the look o' things at all," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Perhaps it would be well, sir, to lay-to till daylight," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Breakers ahead!" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Clear the anchor, and stand by to let go!" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Let go," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "God help us, exclaimed the captain," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Get down below, all of you!" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "D'ee know when it'll be low water, sir?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Not for three hours yet, but it's falling. I expect there will be less sea on in a short time. If the ship holds together we may yet be saved." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I wish it was the risin' tide, he said, and the words took his mind back, like a flash of lightning, to the time when he used them in a very different sense. Then all was peace, hope, sunshine, and his bride was sitting like a good angel beside him, with a sweet smile on her fair face. Now, something like darkness visible, showed him his poor wife-- still beside him, thank God--but clinging to his arm with looks of terror amounting almost to despair." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What a contrast!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "There's no use o' sittin' here to be drowned like rats, he cried, starting up." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'll go on deck an' take a cast o' the lead, an' see what chances we have." }, { "from": "human", "value": "No, you won't, Bob, cried Nellie, throwing her arms firmly round him." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "There's big stones falling all about the deck yet. Don't you hear them?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "No use going up just now, Joe, he said, as he sat down beside his wife, and permitted her to tie a kerchief round his head." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Only a slight wound, Eva, got while taking soundings. I find that there are sixteen fathoms of water under us, and, although I couldn't see my hand held up before my face, I managed to make out by the flash of a match, which burned for a moment before being blown out, that the sides of the cave are quite perpendicular, not the smallest ledge to stand on. The tide, however, is ebbing fast, and the water in the cave calming, so that if no bad leak has been made by all this thumping we may yet be saved. Our only chance is to stick to the ship." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There is no bad leak as yet, said the captain, re-entering the cabin, which he had quitted for the purpose of sounding the well." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If we can keep afloat for an hour or two we may be able to use the boats. Just now it would be useless to attempt launching them." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Shall we launch the boats now, sir?" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Not yet--not yet, returned the captain, hurriedly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We must have more light first. The loss of a boat would be fatal. I'm afraid of the rising tide." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Afraid of the rising tide!" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A black look-out, Joe," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ay, Bob, an' the worst of it is that the tide's risin'. A boat can live here as long as that ridge o' rocks keeps off the seas, but in an hour or so it'll be rollin' in as bad as ever." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I knows it, Joe, an' the more need to look sharp." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Peggy first, Bob; I'll wait for _you_," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Look sharp!" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Does any one know if there's anything to eat aboard?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We'd better see to that," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There is nothing for it but to push on till we come to an inlet, or break of some sort in the cliffs, by which we may land, said Hayward, speaking encouragingly to the women." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "God helping us, we are sure to find some such place ere long." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Don't look very like it," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We can see how it looks about as well as you can, retorted John Mitford, indignantly." }, { "from": "human", "value": "If ye can't say somethin' to cheer the women, there's no need for to look blue an' tell us what a mere babby could see for itself." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "True for ye, he said," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Besides, there may be a flat shore on the other side o' the island, added Bob Massey in a cheerful tone;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I've often noticed islands o' this build, and when they're so high on one side they usually are low on the opposite side; so we'll only have to pull round--an' mayhap there are people on it--who knows?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Ay, natives pr'aps, growled Jarring," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Shut up your black muzzle, or I'll heave ye overboard!" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Nellie, dear, said Massey, when the boat was brought up under the lee of the rocks," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Not very, replied his wife, raising her head." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'm strong, thank God, and can stand it; but Peggy here is shudderin' awful bad. I believe she'll die if somethin' isn't done for her." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I think if she could only ring the water out of her clothes, whispered Mrs Hayward to her husband," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I know that, Eva: it would do you all good, and we must have it done somehow--" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now, Peggy, my dear, said her husband when it was finished," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Th-thank you, J-John, replied Peggy, whose teeth chattered like castanets," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "La! if the sun ain't blazin' 'ot! An' I'm so 'ungry. Dear, dear, 'ave you bin rowin' all night, John? 'Ow tired you must be; an' your 'ands blistered, though you are pretty tough in the 'ands, but you couldn't 'old a candle to Bob Massey at that--Yes, yes, Nellie, I 'ear you, but la! what does it matter 'ow your 'air an' things is deranged w'en you're wrecked at sea and--" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "She's all right, anyhow," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "She's always all right, remarked Mitford in a funereal tone, which, however, was meant to be confidential." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Bless your heart, I've seen that woman under all circumstances, but although she's timid by nature, an' not over strong in body, I've never seen her give in or fairly cast down. No doubt she was pretty low last night, poor thing, but that was 'cause she was nigh dead wi' cold--yet her spirit wasn't crushed. It's my solemn conviction that if my Peggy ever dies at all she'll die game." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How did you get on with poor Peggy last night, Eva?" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Pretty well, Tom, but she's troublesome to manage. She is so unusually timid, poor creature, so prone to give way to despair when things look bad, yet so sweetly apt to bound into high spirits when things are looking hopeful,--and withal, so amusingly garrulous!" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is lucky that one of the pieces of pork happened to be cooked, observed Dr Hayward, as he served out the allowance," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Right you are, sir! said Slag, with his mouth full, while with a clasp-knife he carefully cut off another morsel to be ready," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I say, Joe," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Sir?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Will you just go to the bow and take a squint ahead? I think there seems to be something like an end o' the cliffs in view--your eyes are better than mine." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Your eyes are better than you think, sir, for the end o' the cliff is visible, an' a spit o' sand beyond is quite plain." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Thank God, Eva, said Hayward, as he steered into the bay," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, no, sir, I don't think as _my_ strength would fail, said Peggy, in a feeble voice, for she had overheard the remark." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Not that I shouldn't be thankful all the same, I allow--for thankfulness for mercies received is a dooty, an' most on us do fail in that, though I say it that shouldn't, but my strength ain't quite gone yet--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Stand by, Slag, to fend off with your oar when we get close in," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Have any of you got matches in your pockets?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ye may well ax that, Bob, said O'Connor, using his own hands in the same way." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Cold, wet weather, and no house! It 'ud be death to the women, sure, av--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Here you are!" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I hope they ain't wet," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Wrap 'em well up," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Everything must be quite ready, first, said Hayward to Tomlin," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I will, replied Tomlin," }, { "from": "human", "value": "D'you know it never occurred to me before how tremendously important the element of fire is? But how will you ever manage to make the branches catch, everything being so thoroughly soaked?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You shall see. I have had to make a fire in worse circumstances than the present, returned Hayward," }, { "from": "human", "value": "All ready, sir." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Now look here, Tomlin." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now, Tomlin, get out your matches," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Wet?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I fear they are." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Och! let Bob Massey try it! cried O'Connor." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Sure he's used to workin' in throublesome weather." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Right, boy, said Slag," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I knowed it! said Nellie, in a quiet tone, as she saw the bright flame leap up and almost set her husband's beard on fire." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Bob never fails!" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sure ye've smothered it intirely," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, me!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "No fear, it's all right," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It's going to do," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Any child might tell that," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now, said Dr Hayward, when the fire was safely established," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, doctor, since you're good enough to ask me, I would advise that we should appoint a leader. You see, mates, he continued, addressing himself to the company in general," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Right you are, Bob, said Joe Slag. (" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "As he always is, said Nellie, _sotto voce_.)" }, { "from": "human", "value": "So I second the move--if that's the reg'lar way to do it." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Hear, hear!" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The first thing, then, is to thank God for our deliverance, which we all do, I am sure, most heartily." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Amen" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Next, we must find fresh water and boil a bit of pork--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ah, then, we haven't a kittle!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Haven't we a big baling-dish, Terrence?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Sure we have, sor, an' it's a tin wan as'll stand fire," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well, then, you go fetch it; wash it well out, and get the pork ready. Jarring and Tomlin will gather as much dead wood as they can find and pile it beside the fire. Mitford will search for fresh water--there must be a spring or brook not far off--and Massey and I will rig up some sort of shelter for the night." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Please, sir, may I go with Mitford to seek for water?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "By all means, if you wish to." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And I will keep you company, Nell," }, { "from": "human", "value": "So will I, chimed in little Mrs Mitford, feebly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I was always fond of water. As a child I used to paddle about in it continually, an' sometimes tumbled into it, for of course young people will--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "No, Peggy, you must sit by the fire with my wife, said the doctor." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Neither of you is fit for work of any kind yet, so sit down and warm yourselves." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "said the doctor, when our coxswain led him to the spot," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That's true, sir, returned Massey," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well, I've been thinking about that, said Hayward," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Hm! not very comfortable, said Massey," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Admitted; but what else can we do? said Hayward." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It would risk our lives to sleep without covering of any kind in such cold weather, and with sleet falling as it does now. Better have the sheet spread upon us than merely over our heads. So now let's kindle another fire, and do you arrange our couch, Bob." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ah! now there's nothin' wantin' to produce parfit felicity but a pipe," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That's so, lad," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Here, Terrence," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I couldn't do that, Bob, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh! it's 'baccy as is my chief joy, At mornin', noon and night; An' it's verily my belief, boy, That I love it with all my might. If your liver an' lungs are squeakin', An' your head is growin' cracky, There's nothin' so sure to kill or cure, As fumes o' the strongest 'baccy." }, { "from": "human", "value": "If it would improve your voice, Terrence, observed Mr Mitford, meekly," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'm sure I wish ye had pounds of it, for it's that harsh-- though, of course, I make no pretence to music myself, but--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Just listen to that now, `Harsh!' an' that to a man whose own mother, by the father's side, towld him he shud make music his purfession! Arrah, howld on, Black Ned, ye spalpeen; ye've had two helpin's already!" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Haven't ye a small bit o' 'baccy in the corner o' wan o' yer pockets, doctor, dear? asked Terrence, insinuatingly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "May be ye'd find a morsel if ye'd try." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Quite useless to try, my poor fellow, returned the doctor, with a look of affected pity," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Sure, it's a true proverb that says `doctor's differ,' retorted O'Connor," }, { "from": "human", "value": "More's the pity, Terrence, but if you'll heave on some more firewood you'll have a smoke that may do as a substitute at present." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh! I _do_ so wish that we had oysters for breakfast!" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I fear there are no oysters hereabouts, said Hayward," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You see, we must go about this business thoroughly, said the doctor, when they were all assembled in the camp one day after their frugal meal, excepting O'Connor, who was a short distance off, trying, with unwearied perseverance and unvaried failure, to kill gulls with stones." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And for this purpose, we must hold a council of war. Where's Terrence?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "He's pelting the gulls as usual," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "A-missin' of 'em, you mean," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Hallo, Terrence! shouted Hayward, catching sight of the Irishman at that moment." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Here! we want you." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Comin', sor, jist wan more shot at this baste. He's bin flyin' round me hid for half-an-hour at laste, winkin' at the stones as they go by him. Och! missed again--bad luck to ye!" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well done, Terrence! cried Hayward as he came up with his prize." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I regard it as a good omen--a sort of turn in the tide which will encourage us on our contemplated expedition." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "In short, said the doctor in conclusion," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Grub," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Just so. Grub is our first and greatest necessity. Meanwhile, Peggy, Nell, and Eva will do what they can to make our camp comfortable: gather mussels and other shell-fish and see that the coxswain does not eat more than a fair share of victuals, and conducts himself in all respects like an obedient and trusted servant." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The very thing!" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And how would you propose to cut the bones, John?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Cut 'em? eh! well--wi' the knife, of course." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This won't do, said Slag, on making the discovery." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We'll have to steer d'rect for the highest land." }, { "from": "human", "value": "That's so, Joe, said Mitford," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I sees it, John--but, I say, what's the matter wi' Terrence?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "and his comrade whispered," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Sh! he sees suthin'!" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sure it's a rabbit I saw, he said, returning to his companions," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It's freezin' I am, if not froze, said Terrence O'Connor at the end of the second sleepless hour." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If we could have only brought away some o' the fire in our pockets, what a comfort it would have bin!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'm beginnin' to feel better on the outside, continued O'Connor, pausing," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Pity it's too dark to see yer face, John, said Terrence." }, { "from": "human", "value": "It must be a sight worth seein'. Och, av I only had a good-sized pocket-han'kicher I'd wrap me feet in it, anyhow." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Suppose we cut some grass and try that?" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Breakfast fust, said Slag, on completing a tremendous stretch and yawn." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It's always bin my way since I was a babby--business first; pleasure to foller. Grub is business, an' work is pleasure--leastwise, it ought to be to any man who's rated `A. One' on the ship's books. Hallo! sorrowful-monkey-face, clap a stopper on yer nose an' tumble up,--d'ye hear?" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The spalpeen! he's off again, said O'Connor, turning round as they halted to rest a minute, after breasting the hill for half-an-hour." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Hallo, John! Where are ye, boy?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Here--all right, shouted a voice in the distance," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'm exploring behind the knoll here. Go ahead; I'll meet ye at the top o' the hill." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We must go back at wance, said O'Connor, with anxious looks," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is very sad to give over our search for poor Mitford, said Dr Hayward one morning, while seated on a ledge of rock near the beach, taking counsel with his male companions as to the order of procedure for the day," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "All right, cap'n, answered Massey." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You've only got to say the word. But who's to stop at home to mind the camp-fire and the women?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'm afraid, returned Hayward, with a deprecatory smile," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Faix, he might consider himself the luckiest man o' the lot!" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You see, said the latter," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I've heard--though I can't rightly say I've seed it done myself--that the seal-hunters o' the north do their work wi' clubs; so, if one man can kill a seal wi' such a thing, I don't see why another shouldn't." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That is--if Nellie has got enough of line made." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Keep up your spirits, dear Peggy, said Nell, in that sweet, cosy tone--if we may say so--which played such havoc in Bob's bosom at the time when she was known as the coxswain's bride." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I feel _sure_ that your dear husband will return to us. No doubt, some sort o' misfortune has come to him; but he's such a sensible, handy man, is John, that I can't help feelin' he'll come back to us; an' when I _feel_ anything very strongly, d'ee know, I've almost always found it come true. Do you believe in strong feelin', Peggy?" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Believe in strong feelin's, Nellie? I should just think I do. Not to mention my own feelin's--which are so strong that I never felt nothink like 'em before--any one who has been married to my John must know well what st-strong--oh! no, I shall never see 'im again; dear Nellie, don't tell me, she said, beginning to cry." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I know--I know--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "There, now--there's a good soul. Don't go off again. Look! D'ee know what this is for?" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, you see, Peggy, replied her friend, with the confidential air of one who has a secret to tell," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Lawks! Nellie, an' that _will_ give 'em a surprise! interrupted Mrs Mitford, drying her eyes." }, { "from": "human", "value": "How ever can any man _fish_ for a bird-- unless, indeed, it goes under water an' changes its nature, which no creetur can do; though, now I come to think of it, I have seen flyin' fish, an' so, perhaps, there may be albytresses, or other birds, that--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Hallo! Nellie, hard at the twine, lass? You've made about enough of it now," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'm glad you think there's enough, Bob, for I've come to the end o' the stuff you gathered for me." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Plenty more where that came from, Nell; but there's no need to gather more than enough; for enough, you know, is as good as a feast. Well, Peggy, he added, turning to the poor woman, and patting her gently on the shoulder," }, { "from": "human", "value": "She was beginnin' to tell me, Mr Massey, when you came in, something about fishin' for albytresses, an' I always thought albytresses was birds, and--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Quite right, Peggy. See, this is how it is: you bait a hook--but come, said the coxswain, rising suddenly, and taking up the ball of twine," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Never fear, said Eva, who carried the baling-dish full of shell-fish in her hands." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I shall never forget the fright we got that time Joe let it get so low that it was almost at the last spark. You won't be long away, will you?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Not long. Anyhow, we'll be sure to turn up for dinner." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now, Nell, he said, on landing," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now, then, Hercules, lead the way with your club," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Good luck! exclaimed O'Connor, springing forward, and grasping an object which lay on the ground. It was a hatchet, covered with red rust." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Here is something else that will be useful," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Gin, I hope," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Physic, I think," }, { "from": "human", "value": "A paper!" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now, we must find that garden, said the doctor," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hooroo, Bob! exclaimed O'Connor, flourishing the frying-pan in his excitement," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Call upon Me in the time of trouble and I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify Me. He had seen this invitation accepted by the dying man and deliverance obtained--if a happy smile and a triumphant gaze across the river of death were to be regarded as testimony." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But, then, thought John Mitford," }, { "from": "human", "value": "With God all things are possible?" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Strange! thought the man, as he moved slowly forward." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Was this split made hundreds--perhaps thousands--of years ago, for the purpose of enabling me to escape?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Certainly not--absurd, presumptuous idea," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It was, remarked Faith, slowly," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Thank God!" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Weary, weary--desolation!" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We can't be far from it now," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It's a gruesome place," }, { "from": "human", "value": "To think that so many lives were lost here--or hereabouts," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "An' their ghost, maybe, hangin' about!" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Come along, let's take 'im home at wanst, cried the Irishman, when they had got the poor dazed man into the boat." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Isn't it Peggy that'll open her eyes an' screech for joy when she sots her eyes on ye!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "We'll have to wash and comb an' clothe him first," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Nell, murmured the coxswain in a deep, earnest whisper to his wife, who stood at his elbow," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What d'ee mean, Bob?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Five men went away, Nell; _six_ are comin' back!" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Peggy!" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But a ship is long, long o' comin'," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "A ship'll come, Joe, when God sees fit to send it," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The only thing I feel an awful longin' for now, at times, is a bit o' 'baccy," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "So does I, Ned, an' I sometimes think Dr Hayward has got the advantage of us there, for he never smoked, so he says, an' in coorse it stands to reason that he can't have no longin' for a thing he don't want--an' he seems as jolly an' happy as the best of us without it!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Ay, jollier and happier!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But, I say, Ned, don't ye ever feel a longin' for grog? Ye used to be raither fond of it." }, { "from": "human", "value": "No--not now, Joe. It's the best thing as ever happened to me, bein' cast on this here island--wi' Dr Hayward to give a feller a word of advice." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You should be thankful for that, Ned." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I _am_ thankful," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sure it's devils that must live in the bodies o' some men," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You're too hard on the devils, Terrence, said Bob Massey." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Some men in this world do the worst _that they can_, an' surely devils can do no more than that." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Pears" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Are you goin' to fish for sharks to-day?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Faix, no; it's to the woods I'll go fishin' to-day, Joe. Now, Nell, gi' me the stoutest line ye've got on hand, mavourneen." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Will that do? I made it the other day specially for sharks--or whales!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The very thing, Nell. Hand it over. Now, boys, I'm off to try my luck i' the woods, for I'm gittin' tired o' the say." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It's risin' tide with us again, after a fashion, Nell," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It is, Bob, she said," }, { "from": "human", "value": "What! alongside o' Aunt Betty?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, even alongside o' Aunt Betty; for if this voyage has taught me anything at all, it has taught me that, after all, `there's no place like home!'" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Right you are, Nell, said Joe Slag, who came up at that moment," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Get out the boat, boys!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Get ready, quick! Eva; a steamer at last, thank God, in the offing! Don't lose a moment. They may have little time to wait. Boat will be ready in a few minutes." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Ay, an' pack up all you want to carry away," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "So it is all going to end suddenly like a dream!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Home, sweet home!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Wherever you are, my dear, the home will be sweet, said Peggy." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Though of course it wouldn't be that without your 'usband, for it takes two to make a fight, you know, an' it takes two no less, I think, to make things pleasant, but--dear, dear, what a disagreeable thing it is to 'ave to dress in a 'urry, though one shouldn't--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Look alive, there! look al-i-ve! roared O'Connor, putting his head in at the door." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Daylight's a-breakin', an' they won't--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh! Terrence, that reminds me--don't forget our pets, cried Nellie, who had steadily declined to speak of them as" }, { "from": "human", "value": "All right, missis. It's lookin' after them I am this minnit." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Out wid ye! he cried," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Be aff, at wance, hooroo! cried the excited man, with a clap of his hands and a Donnybrook yell that sent all the" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Fifteen saved this time, Nell," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Thank the Lord!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "You mustn't come near us, said the nurse, with a look of warning." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Only a look just now." }, { "from": "human", "value": "The tide has risen to the flood now, Bob," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ay, said the coxswain in a deep voice," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Jeames" } ]