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[ { "from": "human", "value": "National Guard. The unit that used this particular plate was from New Jersey, for scratched on the reverse is" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Sergeant O. Clinton, October 9th, 1851, 1st Reg Hudson Brigade, NJSM" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "C G in silver applied with wire fasteners is another of that sizable group of lettered insignia that cannot be attributed definitely to a particular organization. The" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "C G" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "S V G substituted for" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "U. S. The specimen bears a touchmark" }, { "from": "human", "value": "W. Pinchin Philad" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "S F" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "B L I ," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "ERIN GO BRAGH" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "S L I" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "On a Wreath a dexter Arm cloathed and ruffled proper, grasping a Broad Sword.... [139] The designer has placed the arm in armor and replaced the" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "L and" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "A are subject to several interpretations, the more probable being" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Light Artillery." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "S N Y for State of New York is copied directly from the 1836 plate for noncommissioned officers of the Regular Establishment. The example is the oldest known use of the letters" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "S N Y for New York Militia. In later patterns, the letters"...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "National Guards or" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "National Greys that existed in a number of states. The letters" }, { "from": "human", "value": "N G" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "P V M" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "P G to indicate organizational designation--the Philadelphia Guards and the Philadelphia City Greys. This brass-cast plate is believed to have been worn by the Philadelphia Guards, whose buttons were marked" }, { "from": "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Gray Guards. The central" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "G probably indicates" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Company G." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "E. Other specimens in the national collections have the letters" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "D," }, { "from": "human", "value": "F," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "K, and" }, { "from": "human", "value": "R." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "has been applied with wire fasteners rather than cast integrally with the two portions of the plate. The national collections also contain similar plates with the numerals" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" }, { "from": "human", "value": "and" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "T C B" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "H R on this specimen cannot be specifically identified. Similar unidentified plates in the national collections have the letters" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "S O I and" }, { "from": "human", "value": "P B." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "on a rectangle of rolled brass was worn for at least half a century after it first appeared. Similar plates are known with all numerals through 9 and a few higher numbers. Other plates of the same general type are known with company letters" }, { "from": "gpt", "valu...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "TC" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Republican Guards, and this silver" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "RG" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "GG" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "AG is unidentified, but it might well have been worn by the American Guards, or by a uniformed company from some city as Atlanta or Albany, with the letter" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "G representing" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Grays," }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "New Amsterdam" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "K L G" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "SG" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Rifle Guards, and this plate with the initials" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "C R G probably falls into such a category. The" }, { "from": "human", "value": "C," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Scott Legion" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "F applied with simple wire fasteners. Although the piece has the appearance of a waist-belt plate or cartridge-box plate, the wire fasteners on the reverse indicate that it was intended for shoulder-belt wear. In the national collections is a similar plate with the letter" }, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A and pile of cannon balls topped by the hand die-struck motto" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "ALWAYS READY is unidentified beyond the fact that it was worn by a member of Company A of a Militia unit using a popular motto. Similar specimens in the national collections...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "S F are interpreted as" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "State Fencibles, and the" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Excelsior buttons on the ends of the crescent identify the origin of the unit as New York State. Fencibles were basically troop units organized...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "After all, I may be fighting windmills, and years hence may laugh at this morning's work as an example of the folly of yielding to unnecessary alarm. Danvers is getting childish. All physicians get to be old fogies, I fancy, a natural sequence to a life spent in hunting down ger...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, Methusaleh, where are you off to now?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "To camp-meetin', Mass Hildreff. I hez your permission, sah?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You seem to have taken it, you rascal. It is rather late in the day to ask for permission when you and your store clothes are all ready for a start." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "with another deprecating wave of the palm-leaf hat," }, { "from": "human", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Methusaleh, I say, Methusaleh!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, sah," }, { "from": "human", "value": "What about that turkey of mine that you stole last week? You can't go to camp-meeting with that on your conscience. Come, now, better take off your fi...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "he asked wistfully." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Are you quite sure about that?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Happy! the girl echoed the word with an incredulous smile." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why, dearest, what has come to you? Yo...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Dearest, how pale you look! Are you very tired?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It is only the heat, he answered lightly." }, { "from": "human", "value": "We had a pretty stiff walk this morning, you know." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And I c...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Forever! Forever! Forever!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Poor little lass!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Has it refreshed you, dearest?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Immensely! Now you shall read me some of Lalla Rookh, and after dinner I will set about making a Mecca for your crab." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Poor little chap! So you are a pilgrim lik...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What is the news from the great world, Geoff? I saw a troop ship signaled this morning. Have you been on board yet?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, sir, I have been looking over the plantation with my father all day, and only got home in time for dinner." }, {...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A sudden sound may start the hemorrhage again,--the slightest shock is sure to." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Vad, darling, I have made an awful mistake! I thought everything a sham. I know better now. Make it the business of your life, little Vad, to find Jesus Christ." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If you would only have a good cry, Evadne, Geoffrey Chittenden said at last," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Will crying give me back my father?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Why, no, dear. Of course I didn't mean that. But these things are bound to hap...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Dr. Danvers says your father told him some time ago that, in the event of his death, he wished you to make your home with your uncle in America?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, my dear young lady, you will find it in all respects a most desirable home, I feel co...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Your Uncle Lenox is dead," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Dead! Mrs. Hildreth's voice broke the hush which had fallen in the room." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Why, Lawrence, this is very sudden! We have looked upon Lenox as being perfectly well." },...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And what will become of Evadne?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Evadne? the Judge looked full in his wife's face." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Why, my dear, there is only one thing to be done. I shall cable immediately to have her come to us." }, {...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My dear, you have a great sorrow? she said gently." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I hope you have the consolations of our holy religion to help you bear it." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Can you help me to find him?" }, { "from": "gpt", "va...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Miss Hildreth, I believe?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have the honor of introducing myself as your cousin Louis." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Pompey, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'se very glad to see Miss 'Vadney, he said with simple fervor." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I was powerful fond of Mass Lennux;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What splendid horses you have! Surely they must be thoroughbreds? No ordinary horses could ever hold their heads like that." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You have a quick eye, he said approvingly." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Most girls would not kno...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I hope you have had a pleasant journey, my dear, although you must find our climate rather stormy. I think you might as well let the girls take you at once to your room and then we will have dinner." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Where is the Judge?" }, { "fr...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Can _you_ tell me where I shall find Jesus Christ?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "My goodness, Evadne, what a strange question! You took my breath away." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Is it a strange question? she asked wistfully." }, { "from": ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And you call this sport?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You are a brute, John Randolph!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is the privilege of everyone to become an exact copy of Jesus Christ." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, John Randolph, can you picture to yourself Jesus Christ shooting a squirrel for sport?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Are you there, Jesus Chri...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Here lies the germ of a resolve. July 17th, 18--" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, Primrose, old lady, you're as dainty as your namesake, and as sweet. Ah, Sylph, you beauty! he continued, as a calf like a young fawn approached the gate," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Hulloa, John! and a boy about two years his junior threw himself off a hors...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Serve you right if there were! and his voice was full of scorn." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You're about as fit to handle horseflesh as an Esquimaux." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, pish! You're a regular old grandmother, John. There's nothing to ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How did you get him into such a mess?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I don't know, I didn't do anything to him, and Reginald kicked the gravel discontentedly." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I believe he's getting lazy." }, { "from": "gpt", "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Finish your work! Even the cannibals do that." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Pshaw! he said contemptuously," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I guess Sultan misses you, John. Over at the college livery their fingers are all thumbs." }, { "from": "g...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hah, Primrose! Are you awake, old lady? What are your views of life now, Prim? Do the shadows make it seem more weird and grand, or does midnight lose its awesomeness when one is upon four legs?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "he repeated slowly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why, to most people life seems all darkness! What is 'the light of life'?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "he whispered." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why, it is a personality. It is Jesus himself! He is the way to the kingdom, the truth of the kingdom and the life of it. The kingdom of heaven, not far away in space, but set up here and now in the hearts of men who live ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Don, Don, me's tumin'," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "All right, Nansie, wait for me at the gate." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now, Nan, I'll give you a ride to the house. Can't go any further to-day, for I have to cross the river." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Me 'll go too, Don." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'm afraid not, Nan. The river is so deep, we'll have to swim for ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Gee, gee, Nepshun. Nan loves you, dear." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Are you afraid, Nansie?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Me'll do anywhere, wiv 'oo, Don." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Upon my word, John, you're a perfect slave to that youngster! What mad thing will you be doing next, I wonder?" }, { "from": "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I don't see how you accomplish anything with that child everlastingly under your feet! Reginald continued," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I _do_ love it, Rege. Jesus Christ was a carpenter, you know. I get very near to him out here." }, { "from": "human", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sultan, old boy, we seem down on our luck this morning. We had better take a speeder to raise our spirits. It is hardly the thing for Judge Hawthorne of Hollywood to envy John Randolph his humdrum life of mending rakes and shoes," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I beli...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Did you really know my father?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Laws, yes, Missy! and Pompey's honest black face grew tender with sympathy." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Mass Lennux stayed with the Jedge 'fore he went ter Barbadoes, an' he spen' powerful...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is ridiculous, absurd! he exclaimed impatiently." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Just of a piece with all of Len's quixotic theories. By what possible chance could a child of that age know how to manage money? She would make ducks and drakes of the whole business i...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is not a question to be decided by your judgment. There is no other course left open to you." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It is a most unprecedented proceeding. You should have been appointed her guardian, with sole control." }, { "from": "human", "v...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I cannot imagine, Evadne, said Isabelle one evening at dinner," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Christ was born in a stable, Isabelle." }, { "from": "human", "value": "What in the world has that to do with you?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I a...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I do think he is the loveliest man! she continued rapturously," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Very ill-timed of Providence! said Louis gravely." }, { "from": "human", "value": "What a pity it is, Isabelle, that you couldn't have the regulation of affairs....
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, Evadne, does it please you?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It is the first time I have felt as if I could breathe," }, { "from": "human", "value": "So you don't take kindly to Marlborough? Well, I suppose it is a rude awakening from your sunny land,...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Money is one of the greatest things in the world, her uncle had said, and she had read that morning," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If I only belonged,--like the cows!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Pitty lady!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You little darling!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, me is, said the child, resting contentedly within Evadne's embrace, as if, with the mysterious telepathy of childhood, she recognized a spiritual affinity which she was bound to help." }, { "from": "huma...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Halloo, Nansie!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is so beautiful! she said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have been waiting for my uncle and lost myself among the harmonies of Nature." }, { "from": "human", "value": "It is God's world," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Do you know Jesus C...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Pitty lady!--Nan loves oo, dear," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Good-bye, she said," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It fits her, he said to himself." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "There's a sweet elusiveness about her. She makes me think of a bird. She'll let you come just so far, until she gets to trust you, and then you'll have all her sweetness." }, { "from": "human", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Jesus Christ never seemed to care about externals, said Evadne softly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He chose his friends among the common people." }, { "from": "human", "value": "For pity's sake, Evadne! cried Isabelle." }, { "from": "gpt", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, I wish I were dead! No one would care. Yes, Pompey would be sorry. Louis would call it 'a sable attachment,' but Pompey loved my father. Oh, dearest! dearest!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "A beautiful possibility" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Shal...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "De Lord Jesus, he say to me,--'Pompey, you must be faithful in de little things as well as in de big. I never slurred nuthin when I wuz a walkin' up and down troo Palestine. I sees you, Pompey; don't make no difference whether de earthly master does or not.' So I does all de lit...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You are a coward! she cried passionately." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You would not have dared to do that to a man who could hit you back. You forced him to tell you and then struck him for doing it! If this is your culture and refinement, I despise it! I am going...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I did not know anything could taste quite so good! Evadne said when she had finished," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "When de Lord gives us everything in perfecshun, 'specs it would be terrible shifles' of me ter spoil it in de cookin', Miss 'Vadney." }, { "fr...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I don't see what you find to look so pleased about, Evadne, grumbled Isabelle, as they drove homeward." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "For my part I think the whole thing was a fizzle." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I was thinking, said Evadne slowly," ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is a serious case, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If you please, Missus, he said, touching his hat," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Dyce would come. She's hed a powerful sight of 'sperience nussin' fevers in New Orleans. She'd be proper glad ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Dyce! she cried softly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have found Jesus Christ!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, Rege, how goes it?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I wish I was dead!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Don't dare to wish that! said John quickly," }, { "from": "human", "value": "The most of my life! echoed Reginald contemptuously." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That's well put, John, I must sa...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There's been no end of a row this time, he soliloquized." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It is a mystery to me why John puts up with it. He's free to go when he chooses. I'm sure I'd clear out if I wasn't such a good-for-nothing. The governor is getting to be more lik...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why, John, what has happened! cried Reginald, as his faithful nurse came to make him comfortable for the night." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You look like a ghost, and you have had no dinner! What the mischief is to pay? You must have been precious busy to leave me...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "They pitched on Neptune at last, and asked if he had been registered. I said 'No,' so then they refused to pay the price your father asked, and he had to come down on him. He was furious, and, as soon as the men's backs were turned, he ordered me out of his sight forever. He say...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Nansie, baby, I have come to say good-bye." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Not dood-bye, Don, oo always say dood-night." }, { "from": "human", "value": "But it is good-bye this time, little one, there will be no more good-nights for you and me. I am going ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I don't see what we are to do about Evadne! and Mrs. Hildreth sighed disconsolately." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "She looks like a walking shadow. I should not be surprised if she had inherited her father's disease, and they say now that consumption is as contagiou...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am like a poor, lonely bird, she said to herself," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ah, Squire Higgins, good-evening. My niece by marriage, Miss Hildreth of Barbadoes." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You dear child!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why, this is home!" } ]