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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Philip, what is it? she said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Whatever it is, tell me quickly, my dear. I can bear to know anything. I cannot bear not to." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Madge? said Mrs. Home." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Is...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No, she is not dead, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I wish she was. She has betrayed me and thrown me over. She is probably by this time married to Evelyn Dundas!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "That is what has happened, he said;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ah, dear Philip, unsay that, unsay that! she cried." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Whatever happens to one, it is impossible that you should feel that!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I don't unsay it, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Poor mother, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am sorry for you, indeed I am that. We have not kissed yet, or shaken hands." }, { "from": "human", "value": "No, Philip, she said;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, it is I who have spo...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You know I can never cast you off, she said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Poor mother!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That was the phrase of" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "which crystallised any vague or fluid speech that might find utterance." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Just a little silent" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Black nine, he said;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, Philip! she cried," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I can't bear it, I can't bear it. Oh, my darling! put your head on my lap as you used to do when you were a little boy and in trouble, and let me s...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Not one atom can you comfort me, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We have both to bear what has to be borne, and as I have said, it is better to bear in silence. I think now I had better go; I have those matters to arrange to-night which I spoke to you of. Per...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am not sorry for myself, he said," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Of course, dear Alice, she was saying," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I can say these things to you, because I know you won't repeat them, and, of course, we all want it talked about as little as possible. But Madge has really behaved too abominably; it's all very we...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Imagine the marriage! she went on." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "A sexton and a sextoness were probably the witnesses, and they probably came--the happy pair, I mean--in a hansom and went away in a four-wheeler. Such nonsense to wreck your life like that. And a wrec...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And so, said Evelyn, in conclusion of the short panegyric which, in capacity of preacher as well as architect, undertaker, and mason, he pronounced when the rites were over," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I don't think I ever saw anyone so ridiculous, she said;" },...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Evelyn, she said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You are adorable," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I don't know, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "How am I to know whether I am serious or not? I suppose one says a hundred stupid things ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ah! with all my heart I wish they didn't matter. I wish nothing mattered, I ask for nothing better than to sit here with you, to go on living as we have lived this last week. But the time must come when we shall have to consider what we shall do next. Are we going back to London...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now attend!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "After you have ruined the picture of my life, said he." }, { "from": "human", "value": "It was more like you than anything. You are being consumed with moral responsibility for me. I object to that, you know; you...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, it does matter, she said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "and she dug impatiently in the sand with scooping fingers--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, I know so well! he exclaimed;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, it is exactly that...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The sand will be rubbed through the skin, and cause mortification," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ah, can't you see, she cried," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Dearest, I am sorry, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I thought we were sti...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, how delicious, I am so hungry!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We won't be breaking any rules, said he," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Even that branch of my career hasn't suffered," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Is there nothing?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, not a birth or death even. Oh, by-the-way, you called me imprudent the other day! Now we'll find the money-market, and see what my two thousand pounds is worth. Great Scott, what names they deal in--Metiekull, that...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No quite frankly if you don't want me. I therefore ask you if I may come down and stay with you a bit. I thought of going home, but I should be alone there, as my mother is away just now, or on the point of going, and I don't want to bring her back, and I really think I should g...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It was awfully good of you to let me come, Tom, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And what has been happening to you? If I had not known you ten years ago, I should scarcely have recognised you now." }, { "from": "human", "value": "And in ten days y...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "So this is the Hermitage, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Dear God, you have found peace." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, I've been overworking, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I don't altogether agree with your idea of h...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Make allowance for me, Tom," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ah, there you are, he cried in a tone of obvious relief when his white-flannelled figure appeared against the deep dusk of the bushes that lined the stream." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I was getting anxious, and I did not know what to do. I should have come out to...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Is it all worth while?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Home's August," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ah, there is no mood of Nature, he cried," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I would give all I have for just one day of your life," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Ah, my dear fellow, he cried," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It is true that a for...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I love her still, he said," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My house is in ruins, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But as there is no such futile fool as the pathetic fool, said he," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I will not go on about that. I want, and I want you to help me in this, to look the other way...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, my dear chap, he said," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You talk of fears, he said;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We were talking about fear, he said;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am sorry, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What time will you be called, sir?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Usual time; you can go to bed." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I fear all I have not learned, he said." }, { "from":...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, it was Evelyn who suggested that to me, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "His idea, I think, was that somehow and somewhere the balance is struck, that if one is overloaded with joy, some compensating pain has got to be put in before one is complete. It ma...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But during these last years, he went on," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have consciously and deliberately turned my back on pain, because it is hideous, because it is a foe to joy, and because I have not and do not now realise its necessity. All I can say is, with ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I wonder if all that you have been saying is a fairy tale, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You mean the Pan-pipes, for instance, which I heard for the first time at Pangbourne, and which I hear so often now?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, t...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I know what you mean, he said," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That minx!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "She arrived at Golspie, an open motor-car was waiting for her, and it was" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Also the motor could not take all her luggage; that was to follow in a cart. The cart, so she mentally calculated, if it did not stick in a bog (not a wet one, on...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Devilish evening, eh? said Lord Ellington." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Makes one wonder if it's worth while. Thirty miles of this, isn't it, shofer?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, my lord; thirty-two miles." }, { "from": "gpt", "valu...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, of course, it has been terrible, she said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "My poor girl has gone so utterly astray. What could have been nicer than the marriage that was arranged?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well, she seems to have found somethin...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Dear Lady Ellington, she said," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Gladys caught that grilse only this afternoon, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "A beautifully fresh fish, is it not? Mr. Osborne calls her the fishmonger. Lady Fishmonger Ellington, was it not, Osborne?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "But Lady Ell...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, the sunset was one sheet of intolerable glory, said Seymour Dennison to his hostess," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I did not see the sunset, said she." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I returned to write a few letters. You must describe it to us, Mr...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ah, but we don't all live in cities, Mr. Aintree, she said," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "though why" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We already have Lady Grilse Ellington, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We all go to bed very early here, Lady Ellington, she said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Being out all day in the fresh air makes one sleepy. What is the glass doing, Dover...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We landscape painters, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Quite a small picture, he said," }, { "from": "human", "value": "But a portrait-painter, Mr. Dennison, she said;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, I don't think so, he said." },...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And how is dear Madge, Lady Salmon? she said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I wonder if we could induce her and Mr. Dundas to come for a week or two before we go south? It would be such a pleasure. She would enjoy these beautiful walks, I am sure, and Mr. Dundas mus...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am sure Madge would love to come, she said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "--she could not help hesitating a moment--" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, Susan, she said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, dear?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I know you see what I mean. The marriage with Philip Home was so nice, so suitable, and it was all arranged. People stopped in London particularly for it." }...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How lovely those lights on the hillside are, said Lady Dover, in parenthesis." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Mr. Dennison ought to see them before he settles on the subject of his next picture. Yes, about Madge. I don't know what other people think about it all, I on...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There is publicity, it is true, she said;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You see, she has not married Tom or Dick or James, she said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Mr. Dundas, in fact, is a sufficiently important person. Was it that you meant, by the w...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is a great, great relief to me to know you feel like that, she said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Of course one is always sorry for people in trouble, said Lady Dover," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Poor Mr. Dennison, she said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I was so sorry for him at breakfast when he said he thought we had heard the last of Evelyn. I am always sorry for people who put their foot in it. But I suppose that would be the middle-class view of poor M...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am so glad you take it like that, she said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Of course I was bitter about it at first, said Lady Ellington." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Who could help being, when all my plans were upset, and poor Philip Home was suffe...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Lady Salmon Ellington, my lady." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes or" }, { "from": "human", "value": "No what has been thought of, Mr. Osborne, on learning that they had thought of fish, instantly guessed" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Salmon...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And Mr. Dennison has promised to show us a new conjuring trick this evening. I can't think how he does them. So very clever. And what a resource in the evening; I am sure I should never be dull if he would conjure for me always after dinner." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, champagne, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "One bottle, half for you and half for me. Oh, let me explain. I got a dividend this morning of eight shillings and sixpence from twenty-five shares in something which I had forgotten, and which had therefore cea...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I don't know whether it was all accidents, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Then nothing is an accident?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, my buying this bottle of champagne was an accident, because I didn't mean to. But as it has happened, we ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You are so undeveloped," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Surely, he said," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You called me undeveloped just now, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "--and his face lit up even more with this piece of intuition--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I expect it is that which you miss in me. He also said I had no depth. You miss tha...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ah, I'm an ungrateful little brute, she said;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, she said at length," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, I was just arranging it in my head in beautiful language, he said," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Take care of the habit of beautiful language, dear, she said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It grows on you without your knowing it. And surely it's dinner time." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Ah, there it is, he cried." }, { "from": "gpt", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Good morning for it as that with which he had said" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Good night" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, let's go, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Surely Scotland is better than London. What is there here? Just a stuffy town, and Battersea Park, and nothing whatever to do." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Why?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "One doesn't want meat food in the summer, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Tea and marmalade--how delicious!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "You dear, she said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It is high, and it's my fault; I thought it...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ah, dear Madge, she said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "My dearest Madge, she cried, kissing her," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Dear mother, I haven't got one to bring." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No? Evelyn, she must have a maid. But P...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How very amusing, she said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You called her Lady Grilse (I see, do I not), because she had caught one. Evelyn, I said nothing of the kind; I only said that I rather liked the smell of a cigarette." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, Lady Dover, he was saying," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I only touched the canvas a dozen times to-day, yet I have done, as I said, a full day's work. _C'est le dernier pas qui coûte_; it is on those last touches that the whole thing depends. I knew when I wen...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, just that, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Take any of the arts. Surely it is because a play has a hundred interpretations that it is worth seeing, and because a hundred different people will experience a hundred different emotions that an opera is worth...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That is a delightful doctrine, Mr. Dundas, she said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You must really do a portrait of yourself, and if we think it is unlike, the remedy will be that we must see more of you." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'm afraid I talk awful rot," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But that does not diminish my pleasure in meeting you, Mr. Dundas," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Good night" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Dear Madge, she had said," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I know your mother will want to talk to you, so I shall not come to see you to your room. I hope you have everything you want. Breakfast at a quarter to t...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, may I go and shoot if it is fine, he had said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "he added." }, { "from": "human", "value": "My goodness, Madge, think of the King's Road and the 'buses." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My dear boy, he said," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We are so late, dear Madge, she said," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, mother, she said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have been disquieting myself in vain. All this last month I have been wondering secretly whether people were going to be horrid to us. How senseless it all was! I have been thinking all sorts of things." }, {...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "All in vain, she said;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have been making myself--no, not miserable, because I can't be otherwise than happy, but disquieted with all sorts of foundationless fears. I thought people would disregard--yes, it is that--would disregard Evel...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Dearest Madge, she said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I don't believe that. She could not be held responsible for it, for it was not a thought she consciously entertained. It just put its head out and said" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Here I am." ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What is happening, do you think?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What is it?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "An accident, ma'am, he said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I don't know what." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ah, my dear Mrs. Dundas, he said;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "No, not k...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The traces of that are cleared away, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The tree that was struck is firewood in the wood-shed now. But there is a wound; the senseless fire came down from Heaven; it killed a beautiful living thing, that tree." }, { "from"...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ah, you know my gospel well enough, said Merivale." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The joy of life; the joy inherent in the fact of life. I have really nothing more to tell you of it--from living here with me you know it all. And you have to peel life like an orange, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Good night! he said;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hush-sh-sh! A sense of deadly oppression and coming calamity filled him, he was waiting for something, not knowing what it was. Then the coils of sleep began to be more loosened, and before long he awoke. His room looked out over the garden, and the" }, { "from": "gpt", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, my God! it yelled." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, Christ!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It was from the garden, sir, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It was Mr. Merivale's voice." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "For though, he said," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Philip, dear, she said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ah, mother, when I have finished you will see, he said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Let me go on." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "All this, of course, came out at the inquest, where I told all I knew, and Flynn corroborated it. I saw also what Tom had told me that afternoon, how a huge goat had sparred and gambolled round him as he came home across the forest. And the verdict, as you say, perhaps, was brou...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You see, I saw such strange and impossible things there, he went on," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And so my lesson came home to me, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "A month ago I said, as you know, 'I will hate, I will injure.' A fortnight ago I said, 'What good is that?' But now, when poor Tom, who was all kind and all gentle, had to be taught like that, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He won't die, my dear lady, he had said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I feel sure of that. He will get over it, and live to be strong again. But--yes, you must be brave about it, and more than that, you must help him to be brave, poor fellow." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, you have got to make him brave, he repeated," } ]