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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ah!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The paper I now produce is a copy of that particular bequest which I have decided to communicate to you in strict and sacred confidence." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And I give and bequeath to Mistress Catherine Peyton of Peyton Hall in the said county of Cumberlan...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why, said Houseman," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You have made me very uneasy." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why, said Houseman," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Mr. Neville is a man of sense, and every man of sense makes his will; and, as for Mr. Gaunt, he has just come into prospect of an estate; that's why." }, { "from": "human", "value": "All, but why could no...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I almost think you are right, said he;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Nay, let _me_ see," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "G. G." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Now, first of all, said she," }, { "from": "human", "value": "What answer should I make? I pledged my word to be at Bolton at nine of the clock." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, blind! sighed Kate." }, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is not to be thought of, said she;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Wait till to-morrow, said Mr. Houseman. (Procrastination was his daily work, being an attorney.)" }, { "from": "human", "value": "To-morrow! cried Catherine." }, { "from": "gpt",...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This way!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But, Mr. Neville?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No, no, said Kate," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Gone out? Whither? On horseback?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But, dear heart, Mistress, said she," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Nay, my good girl, said Kate;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I could not eat; but bring me a mug of new milk if you will. I have not broke...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If so be you are Mistress Peyton, why this letter is for you: Master left it on his table in his bedroom." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Murder! Murder! she shrieked." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Tell me where to find him, ye wretches, or may his blood be on your heads!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "FOLLOW ME," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Here they be. He pointed to some enormous footsteps in the snow, and bade her notice that they commenced at a certain glass door belonging to the house, and that they all pointed outwards. The lawn was covered with such marks, but the scamp followed those his intelligence had se...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Didn't I tell you? said he." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'd run you to Peyton Hall for a pot o' beer." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh you good, brave, clever boy, said Kate:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why you see I am none of Daddy ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Pistols!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Don't lose your stomach for that, he panted out." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Gentlefolks do pop at one another all day sometimes, and no harm done." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, bless you! cried Kate;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Who--op! muttered Tom, with horrible sang-froid." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "There's one done for this time. Couldn't shoot back, ye see." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Got your tools, doctor?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The devil! said he;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Don't like his looks; doesn't march like a winner. A job for you or the sexton, you mark my words." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Stand sharp. Keep your arm close to your side. Don't fire too high. How do you feel?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Like a man who must die; but will try to die in company." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Gentlemen, are you ready?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Then, said Major Rickards," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes." }, { "from": "gpt", "v...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Aim lower," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I mean to," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "One----two----three!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Nay, it is nothing, said he," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I shoot far better with my left hand than my right. Give me another pistol, and let me have fair play. He has hit me. And now I'll hit him." }, { "from": "human", "value": "It is the chance of wa...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My man will kill yours this time, said he, quietly, to Neville's second." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I can see it in his eye; he is hungry; t'other has had his bellyful." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Are you both ready?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "One----" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "N.B.: This is rote sarcasticul," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This is my business, said he, authoritatively;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Don't be alarmed, said he:" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Nay, we are all friends," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Who the deuce is it?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Don't you know? whispered the other in return." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Why Mistress Peyton herself." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What, the girl it is all about? Well, I never heard...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But indeed, resumed Kate, blushing," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I did not come here to make a fuss, and be troublesome; but to prevent mischief, and clear up the strangest misunderstanding between two worthy gentlemen that are, both of them, my good friends." } ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Gentlemen, thus it is: a few days ago Mr. Gaunt bade me farewell, and started for foreign parts. He had not been long gone when word came from Bolton that Mr. Charlton was no more. You know how sudden it was. Consider, gentlemen; him dead, and his heir riding off to the Continen...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If you did exchange horses with him, of course I have only to ask his pardon--and go." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, said she," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I did exchange, and I did not. Why quarrel about a word? certainly he took my horse, and ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Bless my soul! said Mr. Islip," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I forgot that; I was so taken up with the lady." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I find myself in a difficulty, sir. You did me the honor to invite me to Mr. Charlton's funeral, and I accepted: but now I fear to intrude a guest, the sight of whom may be disagreeable to you. And, on the other hand, my absence might be misconstrued as a mark of disrespect, or ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "In that which shall decide my whole life," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But first, murmured she," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Be it so, said Father Francis, resignedly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Confession is the best preface to Dire...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I fasted yesterday," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I have to accuse myself of many vices. Alas! In one short fortnight I have accumulated the wickedness of a life. I have committed the seven deadly sins. I have been guilty of Pride, Wrath, Envy, Disobedience, Immodesty, Vanity, Luxury, Fibs----" }, { "from": "gpt", "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Small! cried the culprit, turning red:" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And now, said he," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Not so fast, said the priest." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Even zeal is nought without obedience. If you could serve the Church better than by going into a convent, would you be willful?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh no, father. But how can I serv...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now I know my daughter again," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A young man! screamed Kate." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Hang young men! They have got me a fine scolding just now. Which is it, pray?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "He is a stranger to me." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Perhaps he comes w...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, it is you, child, said she:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "She then dismissed her maid, and went up-stairs, and soon returned with two guineas, a crown piece, and three shillings in her hand." }, { "from": "human", "value": "There, said she, smiling,"...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Obedience," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is three parts an island (for the river Wey curls round it lovingly); but backed by wooded slopes that keep off the north and east winds: a hidden and balmy place; such as the forefathers of the Church did use to choose for their rustic abbeys, whose ruins still survive to re...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Good night, my Lady Neville." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Lady Neville! Lady Neville! Lady Neville!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, I am so glad to see you here," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Guess by that what my delight at meeting you must be," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I mean, that your coming here gives me good hopes there will be no more mischief." }, { "from":...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yes; and, more than that, had come to a clear understanding with him." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We agreed that it was no use fighting for you. I said if either of us two was to kill the other, it does not follow you would wed the survivor." }, { "from": ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What a question!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Kate, said he, hurriedly," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Did I? said Kate." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What a sensible speech! But the worst of it is I'm never in the same mind long." }, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I, Septimus Charlton, of Hernshaw Castle and Holton Grange, in the county of Cumberland, Esquire, being of sound mind, memory, and understanding--thanks be to God--do make this my last will and testament as follows:--First I commit my soul to God who gave it, and my body to the ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And as to all my messuages, or tenements, farms, lands, hereditaments, and real estate, of what nature or what kind soever, and wheresoever situate, together with all my monies, mortgages, chattels, furniture, plate, pictures, wine, liquors, horses, carnages, stock, and all the ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Madam, I wish you joy." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mistress Kate, I do wish you joy. Then with sudden and touching earnestness," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Never did good fortune light on one so worthy of it." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Thank you, Griffith, replied Kate, softly. (She had called hi...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Nay, never mind the house, said Kate:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Lud! here's a colored room to show _me_ into, said the blonde Kate:" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Alack, mistress, said the woman, feeling very uneasy," }, { "from": "gpt", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ah! said Kate," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Not, said Griffith," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ah! well, said Squire Peyton, coolly," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why, Master Gaunt, said he," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Come, don't be sulky, said he;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'm her father: give me an answer, ay or no." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Old man, he almost shrieked," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You are mad, young sir, said the Squire, st...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No, she thought;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I play the host for this one day," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I shall not go home to-night. Then he bawled across the table to his daughter:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, papa!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Our worthy host is setting us an example of conviviality, said he." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He is getting drunk." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, I hope not, said Kate." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Has he no friend to tell him not ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Methinks some of the gentlemen will be glad to be rid of us," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He is very drunk." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Let him alone," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ah! said she. Then, quietly," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am so glad you are come. Then, kindly and regretfully," }, { "from": "human", "value": "How pale you look! you are unhappy." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I hope you are not angry w...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Don't leave me so, she said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I know I have affronted you; but I meant all for the best. Do not let us part in anger." }, { "from": "human", "value": "It is your fault for making me speak, he cried" }, { "from": "gpt"...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, take care! take care! she cried." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You'll break your neck." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Nay, cried he," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I must come at you, if I die for it." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sweet mistress, said he," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, no, said she;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "How he loves me! more than his own neck. And then she thought." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I shall be wife to a strong man; that is o...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I LOVE KATE." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ah, Griffith! Griffith!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You must go to bed, she said, austerely;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, I know you would do anything stupid for me, said she;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Give your orders, mistress, said Griffith;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well, then, said Kate," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'll throw myself on Fat...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Gracious Heavens! she cried;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But is it true? asked Griffith:" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Hum! said Kate;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Are you happy, dearest?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ay, Kate, the happiest of the happy." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Then so am I," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "So then, sir, we placed our men for the third time, and you may take my word for it, one or both of these heroes would have bit the dust at that discharge; but, by Jove, sir, just as they were going to pull trigger, in galloped your adorable daughter, and swooned off her foaming...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Here's a pretty scandal! said he:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I must marry the silly girl out of hand, before this gets wind; and you must help me." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You wretch, said she," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "With your good leave, gentlemen, said Father Francis, drily," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I will be the next to pay my respects to her." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What, I may go into a convent now that I can bribe the door open?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Not with my good will, my daughter, said he;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I am of the same mind still, and more than ever. You must marry forthwith, and r...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That you never did, I'll be sworn," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Not in so many words, perhaps; but I said enough to show you." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh! said Kate," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You are a very apt young lady, said ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That is the gentleman you arranged matters with last night?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Was this scene part of the business?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh father!" }, { "from": "human", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Summon all your courage, my young friend, he said, with feeling;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "She is engaged to Gaunt, since last night: and she loves him." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The double-faced jade! cried Peyton, with an oath." }, { "from": "human", "value": "The heartless coquette!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Nay, nay, s...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I scarce knew my own heart till I saw him wounded and poor, and myself rich at his expense. Entreat Mr. Neville to forgive me." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What, not one word in reply to so humble a request?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Le bruit est pour le fat, la plainte est pour le sot, L'honnête homme trompé s'éloigne et ne dit mot.'" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "GEORGE NEVILLE." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Poor fellow! How noble of him! What can such men as this see in any woman to go and fall in love with her?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What, give him _myself_, and then grudge him my _estates!_" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Red Lion," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You may be as affectionate as you please dear, and you may smell of wine, if you will; but please not to smell of wine and be affectionate at the same moment. I value your affection too highly to let you disgust me with it." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "and sometimes the" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Dame's Haunt." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am sorry for it, said Griffith, heartily; and Mrs. Gaunt echoed him out of politeness; but, when husband and wife came to talk it over in private, she let out all of a sudden, and for the first time, that the spiritual coldness of her governor had been a great misfortune to he...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ah, my dear friend, I foresee I shall miss you terribly." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My daughter, excuse me; but confession is one thing, gossip about ourselves is another." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The man is a spiritual machine," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, I am of your mind; he is very poor company compared with that jovial old blade, Francis. But why so many words, Kate? You don't use to bite twice at a cherry: if the milksop is not to your taste, give him the sack and be hanged to him." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, Griffith, I have heard the voice of God." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Speaking by the lips of his servant. But she fired again the next moment, and said," }, { "from": "human", "value": "The grave hath given us back St. Paul in the Church's need; an...