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[ { "from": "human", "value": "She'll not dream anything's wrong here if we're careful, said Green." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Will you wait for her, or shall I?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "This is up to you, Green. I'll leave you. You might have had Malley, but I can't drive ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You'll charge him with the murder directly you reach town, I suppose?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Murder? repeated Foyle." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Grell did not commit the murder. I shall detain him a day before making any charge against him at...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "On inquiry at Scotland Yard yesterday, a representative of this journal was informed that the officers engaged on the case expect to be in a position to clear up the mystery in the course of the next few days." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That ought to do, he mutte...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sir Hilary just come in, sir," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "One moment, Sir Hilary, said the superintendent, and dashed out, to return again almost immediately." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I just wanted to make certain that we shouldn't be disturbed. There's a lot to tell you. Things have been happening." }, { "fro...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I don't believe it, man! he cried." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I don't believe it! It's incredible. You've made a mistake. It can't be. Why, you've believed it was Grell yourself all along. If you've made a mistake, then why not now?" }, { "from": "human",...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Brixton Prison," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sorry to trouble you, Abramovitch, he said briskly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I just wanted to have a little talk with you." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You must go to my solicitor if you have any questions to ask," }, { "from": "gpt", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, next day I was fired from my job. I could guess that the people whose game I'd spoilt were at the bottom of it, but that didn't worry me much. I had a bit of money and I came back to Europe--London, Paris, Vienna, Rome--everywhere but Russia. I lived sometimes by my wits, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It was at his suggestion that I travelled as his valet. My appearance had altered since I was last in Russia, but difficulties might have arisen. We travelled night and day, but we were too late. The girl who had never harmed a single person in her white life was dead--killed by...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That was enough for me. I showed them up and left them. I did not hear Mr. Grell return, but about ten o'clock he rang for me and met me at the door of his study. He told me that he was expecting a lady, and if she called she was to be brought straight up; and he said the other ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "When I got back with the bag, he had finished. He put on a hat and overcoat and we went out, walked to Victoria Station, and from there took a taxicab to Charing Cross. From there we walked to an all-night Turkish bath establishment, and that gave us an opportunity to change int...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mr. Grell knew nothing about that incident till it was over. He was staying in Grave Street at the time, and the idea occurred to me of holding your man as a hostage. We meanwhile contrived to send a note to Sir Ralph Fairfield. In case of accidents, I was to meet him in Grave S...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Princess undertook to see Lady Eileen--with what result you know. You know all that has happened since. I do not regret what I have done. If the killing of you or any other man would have saved Grell, I would not have hesitated." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Tha...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, sir, answered Green." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "She's at Malchester Row now. There was no trouble at all. She came up to the Grange at half-past three, in a car, and asked the maid who answered the door for Mrs. Ellis. The girl showed her into a sitting-room...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Then Grell admitted the murder to Ivan? said the latter, turning a puzzled face to Foyle." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You told me he was not the murderer." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Nor was he, answered the superintendent." }, { "from": "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Do you know Sir Hilary Thornton?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "How do you do, Mr. Grell? I should have been glad to have met you under happier circumstances, but I assure you that the respect in which I have always held you is not lessened by this unfortunate busine...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That's very good of you, I'm sure, said Grell, and a smile illumined his face as he added:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Though I don't know why this matter should increase your respect." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Don't you? said Foyle, laying stre...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We are only anxious to spare you as much as possible. You are a prominent man, and though you must be brought in, it will serve no purpose to increase what will create enough scandal." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I fear you are wasting your time, gentlemen, said Gr...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Where did you get that? demanded Grell." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Eileen told me she had burnt it." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "She did burn it, he answered." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I chanced to be able to retrieve the message. I feel certain that, however dire your necessity, you would not have written to her in that strain unless you had some strong reason. Who did you mean when you ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am shielding no one," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You can, of course, make any answer you like. Suppose we go on to another point which perhaps you will have no objection to clearing up now. We have Harry Goldenburg's record. We know he had been blackmailing you,...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That was the beginning. After that I never had a secure moment unless I was away on an exploring expedition. The moment I reappeared in civilisation my brother would seek me out. He was cunning enough to press me only to the verge of endurance. He could judge exactly how much I ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But all her efforts went for nothing. He recognised the value of her co-operation in the circumstances, but would give her no hint of the place where he had concealed the letters. Time drew on. You will know enough of her to recognise Lola as a clever, resolute woman. She made u...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You did not want any one to know that you were absent from the club, remarked Foyle." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "That was merely a matter of precaution. I wanted my interview with Goldenburg to be secret. I had giv...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You liar! raved Grell." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "How dare you bring her name into it!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "This excitement will not advance matters, said Foyle placidly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Sit down for a little, Mr...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My dear Mr. Grell, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I don't want to use the ordinary cant about duty and all the rest of it. We may sympathise with you--personally, I admire the attitude you have taken, though perhaps I shouldn't say it--but our own feelings d...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ours is an ungrateful business, Sir Hilary, he grumbled," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Poor chap, he said reflectively." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Poor chap! And then, after an interval," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Poor girl! Couldn'...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Just caught him, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I've sent him to collect all the men he can find to make some fresh inquiries." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'm a little bewildered, confessed Thornton, jingling some money in his trousers pocke...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Then the Princess Petrovska paid her a visit and told her that Grell was not dead but in hiding. There was nothing for it, in default of any explanation, but to revert to the thought that he was the murderer. She went to extreme lengths to help him--even to forgery. She believes...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Anything for me, Slack? he asked." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Has Mr. Bolt come in? Ah, there you are, Bolt. Come down to my room." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have seen the manager, a hall-porter ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, it's worth trying," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What is, sir?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Ah, Green. I was just thinking aloud. Everything all right in Berkeley Square?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Everything quiet, sir." }, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I've got faith in your idea, sir, he admitted at last." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It's likely to be right as anything. But I am doubtful if we shall be able to get any admission from the Princess." }, { "from": "human", "value": "One never knows, reto...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You must dress at once. Some gentlemen are waiting to see you." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Waiting to see me? Who are they?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I don't know who they are," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sit down, will you, said Foyle suavely, when the matron had gone, closing the door behind her." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We're sorry to trouble you at this hour, but matters of urgency have arisen." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I am quite at your ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I never left finger-prints, she exclaimed wildly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I wore gloves.... Oh, my God!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That will do, I think, he said in an ordinary tone of voice, as though resuming a dropped conversation." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Have you got that down, Green? Mrs. Goldenburg, --he gave her her real name,--" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That ought to do, Green, said the superintendent, as he strung tape round the discarded bundles." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We'll have the lady brought up at the afternoon sitting of the court. That'll give us time to talk it over with the people from the Treasur...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You are not well, Lady Eileen, said Foyle, slipping to her side." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Shall I do something?--send for a doctor?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I--I shall be all right in a minute, she gasped. Her throat worked." }, { "f...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Drink this, he said sympathetically." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You will feel better afterwards. That's right. Now, you wanted to tell me something." }, { "from": "human", "value": "The paper--this morning! she exclaimed incoherently." }, { "f...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You have made a ghastly mistake, she said, and her voice was level and dull." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Mr. Grell had nothing to do with the murder. I killed that man. I have come here to-day to give myself up." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That's curious, he said slowly," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The third!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, the third. The others are Mr. Robert Grell and the woman you know as the Princess Petrovska, who in our police jargon would be described as ali...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I won't deny that if you had told me you killed Harry Goldenburg a day or two ago, I might have believed you, and it might have made things awkward. But there is now no question of that. We know now that it was neither you nor Mr. Grell. If you had told us the real facts at firs...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You know about the letter? she asked." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The letter I got from Goldenburg." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Assume that I know nothing. Begin at the beginning." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, that was the begin...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Then I wanted to scream, to call out for help, but I could not. It was all too terrible--horrible--like a ghastly dream. Gradually my wits and my senses returned to me. It came into my mind like a flash that the letter I had received hinted at blackmail. I could not see the dead...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A day or two ago he sent me a note--a mysterious note--saying we were both in danger. I could not understand that part of it, but it was clear he wanted money. I could not get it except by putting my father's name to a cheque. You know all about that. I took a taxicab and arrang...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I have sent for Mr. Grell. He will be here shortly. There is still some light that he may be disposed to throw on the affair--now. Meanwhile, if you do not object, I should like to have the statement you have just made put in writing. I will have a shorthand writer in and place ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Congratulations, Foyle. I hear it's all plain sailing now. Come and tell me all about it." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Petrovska has killed herself, he exclaimed." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The matron found her poisoned in her cell, a minute or so after I reached Malchester Row. There was poison in one of her rings. She left this letter addressed to you." }, { "from": "hu...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This explanation should make the things clear you do not already know,--L.P." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It was she, then, not--not----" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Not Lady Eileen Meredith, interrupted Foyle." }, { "from": "gpt", "valu...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, I think I am at least entitled to that," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "As you like, gentlemen. You once complained, Sir Hilary, that I talked like a detective out of a book. This kind of thing makes me feel like one--except that, in this case, I cannot claim muc...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Previously, the time of the murder had been fixed by Professor Harding as between ten and twelve. It was our business to find out who had been with Harry Goldenburg at that time. Among those persons was the guilty one." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I can't see how t...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The first attempt to communicate with Fairfield failed, not through the working of any miracle on our part, but by patient watching. I stole a note from Fairfield, which gave us something to act upon, in the East End. Remember, the immediate object of our search was Robert Grell...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We deciphered the message, and it enabled us to discover your hiding-place on the river. But the business was muddled, and you got away. We found the sheath of the knife used in the murder among other belongings you left behind. By the way, we understand that that dagger had bel...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Meanwhile, Pinkerton's had been hard at work on the other side of the Atlantic, and many episodes of your private life were minutely examined. Their detectives it was, too, who had discovered that Goldenburg and Petrovska had in some way been associated with you. What they found...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Your clumsy attempts to take the guilt on yourself made me more sure than ever of your innocence. This morning we laid a trap for Lola. She was suddenly aroused out of her sleep, and I surprised her into what amounted to an admission of guilt." }, { "from": "gpt", "v...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "from which the story takes its name was a tall tree that stood in solitary splendor on a mountain top. The fame of the pine lured a young engineer through Kentucky to catch the trail, and when he finally climbed to its shelter he found not only the pine but the _foot-prints of a...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Blight. Two impetuous young Southerners' fall under the spell of" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The Blight's" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Hell fer-Sartain" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Harvester, David Langston, is a man of the woods and fields, who draws his living from the prodigal hand of Mother Nature herself. If the book had nothing in it but the splendid figure of this man, with his sure grip on life, his superb optimism, and his almost miraculous kn...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Angel" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A Spinner in the Sun" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Cremona." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A Gentleman of Leisure," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Good-evening, Mr. Quinney!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Good-evening!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "My lad." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "So, Old Joe is dead, and Young Joe reigns in his stead?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Right you are," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Left you everything? continued the burly man. Quinney nodded, and after a pause the other continued huskily:" }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Young Joe, he reflected," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Quinney’s. The shutters were up—stout oak boards sadly in need of a coat of paint. Quinney opened a side door, and entered his own house—his—his! He could think of nothing else. Quinney’s, and all it contained, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yes; I am Quinney’s." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Gosh! I’m jolly glad that I gave him a tip-top funeral. He’d have pinched something awful over mine." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Genuine Antiques." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sorry to disturb you, Joe, on such a sad occasion." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "snapped joe." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You know as well as I do that the old man gave me a hell of a time. Now he’s gone, and that’s all there is about it." }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How much?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "They’re not for sale." }, { "from": "human", "value": "What?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I should say that I’m keepin’ ’em for a party I know." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Anything el...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ho! That’s the game, is it? As Quinney nodded, he continued:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Me and you can do business together." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Together?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I say—together. How would a trip abroad ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Never could persuade the old man that the ’Genuine Antiques’ card was a dead give-away." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You’re yer father without any moss on you, he remarked, as he took his leave, promising to return on the morrow. Upon the threshold he asked," }, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Never expected to see you this evening, Mr. Quinney." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I’m tired of doing the things that are expected, was the surprising reply. Then, with a flush, he blurted out," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Susan in?" }, { "fr...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The funeral was well attended," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The old man was hardly what one might call popular," }, { "from": "human", "value": "He’ll be missed in Melchester." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Missed, but not regretted," }, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I ain’t here to talk about him. Less said on that subject the better. I’m my own master now, ma’am, able to please myself. Lord! How he hated my coming here!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I know, I know!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Never appreciated...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Are you thinking of leaving Melchester?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Not yet, although I am goin’ abroad." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Abroad?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "To France, ma’am." }, { "from": "human", "value": "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Lord bless you, I know all about that. You pinched to get that piano, he indicated an ancient instrument," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It’s perfectly true." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Gracious!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Give us yer blessin’," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Settled between us three months ago, he explained fluently." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We dassen’t tell a soul, not even you, because of the ol...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Quinney’s." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Isn’t Susie going to help? she asked." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Why not ’Quinneys’?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "By Gum, you’re right. Of course she’s going to help. Make a rare saleswoman, to...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Please—don’t! And to this he replied tempestuously," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Sue, darling, you like it; you know you like it. What’s the use of trying to flimflam me?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hammocks?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "On Sunday, said Susan," }, { "from": "human", "value": "By Gum! You have ideas, Sue." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Mother always said I was too romantic." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I’ve drunk my Joe’s blood," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, you jolly cannibal!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I believe this’ll do? and she answered ecstatically," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It’s exactly right." }, { "from": "h...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Bird-nestin’, we are," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Just so. Did you like the nest you saw yesterday?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "It’s too sweet for anything!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Is there anything else on your books prettier t...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Where is this other cottage?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "On the Mel, five minutes’ walk from your place. It belongs to the widow of an artist, and it’s a real bargain. You ought to see it." }, { "from": "human", "value": "We will see it," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Come on, Sue," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You ain’t tired?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Tired? Not a bit, but I’m sure that our cottage is the prettier." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Please suspend judgment," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This looks all right, but what’s wrong with it? Why hasn’t it been gobbled up long ago?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "There is something wrong with it—the price." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I guessed as much." }, { "from": "gpt", "value"...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Let us go," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "At a great pennyworth pause awhile; many are ruined by buying bargains. Moreover, the first cottage was to be had at a modest rent. Number two was not offered on lease; the owner wanted spot cash for the freehold. Before the ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How horrid of you to bring me here, she whispered." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I hate the sight of it now." }, { "from": "human", "value": "But why? Queer things girls are, to be sure." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If it’s queer not to sta...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Desperate diseases require desperate remedies. Now that we’re here, we’ll go in, and I’ll let it soak in that the place is really and truly sold. Quinney nodded, and Miss Biddlecombe continued fluently," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "After I’ve seen it once more I sh...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You’ve taken cold," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That rot would make any man choke, said Quinney." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Makes me perfectly sick, he continued, warming to his work, as he encountered the amazed stare of the women," }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Perhaps more, he added flamboyantly," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Don’t be blasphemous, Joseph!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Blasphemous? he repeated derisively." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It’s blasphemy to my notion to prefer ugline...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ever seen the Saloon at Mel Court?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Never, Joe." }, { "from": "human", "value": "It’s furnished just right according to my ideas. I want to have furniture of that sort. Georgian—hey? We’ll go there together, when the family a...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sue, dear, it’s not surprisin’ that I surprise you, because, as I told you before, I surprise myself. I lie awake nights wondering at the ideas that come into my head. I suppose the old man was such an example——" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "An example, Joe?" }, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I’ll leave the kitchen and the bedrooms to you, but, remember, no rubbish." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "as he expressed it, before. And it was humiliating to reflect that his small Susan could confront without a qualm wild waves when he lay prostrate, limp in mind and body, capable only of cursing Tomlin, who had dispatched him upon this perilous enterprise. He was not too well pl...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Would it be wicked, Joe, to kneel down here?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Do you want to?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Ye-es." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, then, do it. You ain’t going to pray to that?" }, { "from": "human...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What do you make of this show?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "They recognize that the poor must be always with them." }, { "from": "human", "value": "How does this apply to you and me?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We must help when we can, d...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I’ve powers within me, he explained, over a matutinal pipe." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "They push me on—see?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Pushed you across the Channel?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Just so. Beastly crossin’—humiliatin...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ain’t we wastin’ valuable time?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Vous voyez, madame, je ne cache pas mon jeu, moi." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What’s he sayin’?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "He assures us that he’s not a faker." } ]