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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We will just take a rapid look at a few of the principal things, she told Katy," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How charming it is to have money to spend in such a place as this! she said to herself with a sigh of satisfaction as she surveyed these delightful buyings." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I only wish I could get ten times as many things and take them to ten times as ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "From an orange grove," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Blue Grotto, which can only be entered under particular conditions of tide and weather. And they climbed the great cliff-rise at the island's end, and saw the ruins of the villa built by the wicked emperor Tiberius...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Katy, said Mrs. Ashe, one afternoon in early February," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I heard some ladies talking just now in the _salon_, and they said that Rome is filling up very fast. The Carnival begins in less than two weeks, and everybody wants to be there the...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The marble things are so cold, and the old broken things make me so sorry, she explained;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I should be very lonely sometimes if it were not for my dear little fawn, she told Katy once." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He is so sweet that I don't miss you and mamma very much while I have him to play with. I call him Florio,--don't you think that is a pretty n...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I wonder who she is, said Mrs. Ashe in a low tone." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "She might be almost anybody from her looks. She keeps glancing across to us, Katy. Do you know, I think she has taken a fancy to you." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Isn't she exquisite? demanded Katy, her eyes shining with excitement." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Did you ever see any one so lovely in your life, Polly dear? I never did. There, now! she is buying those birds to set them free, I do believe." }, { "from": ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, you angel! cried Katy, leaning over the edge of the balcony and kissing both hands impulsively," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I never saw any one so sweet as you are in my life. Polly dear, I think carnivals are the most perfectly bewitching things in the world....
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Amy is ill, she cried." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "She has been hot and feverish all night, and she says that her head aches dreadfully. What shall I do, Katy? We ought to have a doctor at once, and I don't know the name even of any doctor here." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I will write a note to Mrs. Sands, she said. Mrs. Sands was the wife of the American Minister, and one of the few acquaintances they had made since they came to Rome." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You remember how nice she was the other day, and how we liked her; an...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I won't have this horrid pillow any longer, poor Amy was screaming." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It's got bricks in it. It hurts the back of my neck. Take it away, mamma, and give me a nice soft American pillow. I won't have this a minute longer. Don't you hear me,...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Certainly, dear, anything you say," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How hateful it all was! she said to herself. Then she remembered a sentence read somewhere," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "How heavily roll the wheels of other people's joys when your heart is sorrowful!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We sisters care for the sick; we are not allowed to converse with porters and hotel people." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We sisters are for nursing only; we do not visit shops. And when she was asked if she could make beef tea, she replied calmly but decisively," ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I won't stay here alone with Sister Embroidery, she would cry, if her mother and Katy went into the next room for a moment's rest or a private consultation;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I hate Sister Embroidery! Come back, mamma, come back this moment! She's making...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sister Nutmeg Grater." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Polly dear" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Polly bears it wonderfully, she wrote her father;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "She has got a fever, too, and it's a great deal badder than mine is, she protested." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Her cheeks are as hot as fire. She ought to have ice on her head, and how can she when her bang is so thick? Cut it all off, every bit, and then I will ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What is the matter?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, Katy, I am so glad you have come, cried poor Mrs. Ashe." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I can hardly understand a word that this horrible woman says, but I think she wants to turn us out of the hotel...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mademoiselle, stormed the landlady," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I give you my word, four people have left this house already because of the noises made by little miss. More will go. I shall lose my winter's profit,--all of it,--all; it will be said there is fever ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But it is not the money,--it is my prestige," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Thank Heaven! here is the doctor now," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Prestige of thy miserable hotel! he thundered;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, doctor--pardon me--I regret what I said--I am afflicted--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I will post thee in the railroad stations, continued the doctor, implacably;" },...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I wanted to tell you, he said in a hushed voice," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Thank God!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How sweet the sun looks! she said presently, releasing herself, with a happy smile flashing through her tears;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Come, Polly, don't beat about the bush any longer, he said at last, amused and a little irritated at her half-hints and little feminine _finesses_." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I know what you want to ask; and as there's no use making a secret of it, I will take my...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I never knew anything like it. Fancy! that makes four times that hat has fallen on me. The young man is a feedgit! He's the most feegitty creature I ever saw in my life." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I do think that the manner in which people over here can make homes for themselves at five minutes' notice is perfectly delightful, cried Katy, at the end of their first day's housekeeping." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I wish we could do the same in America. How co...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But, chicken, we have plenty of figs for to-day." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No matter; get some more, please do. I'll eat them all; really, I will." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Americani are a nation of spend-thrifts, she would mutter to herself, as she quickened the charcoal in her droll little range by fanning it with a palm-leaf fan;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But, Maria, it was only sixteen cents that we paid, and look at those ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I didn't write you that I had applied for leave, he explained," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, she seems perfectly well again, and as strong as before she had the fever, though that dear old Goody Swift is just as careful of her as ever. She would not let us brin...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "indeed, as Katy seated herself for the first time in a gondola, and looked from beneath its black hood at the palace walls on the Grand Canal, past which they were gliding. Some were creamy white and black, some orange-tawny, others of a dull delicious ruddy color, half pink, ha...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Katy, she began," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am grown such a coward, I am so knocked up and weakened by what I suffered in Rome, that I find I cannot face the idea of going on to Germany and Switzerland alone, without Ned to take care of me. You are a perfect an...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why yes, indeed, dear Polly, there is nothing to forgive. You are perfectly right to go home if you feel so. Then with another swallow she added:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You have given me the loveliest six months' treat that ever was, and I should be a greedy ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No, I'm not sorry, she told herself;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am glad. Poor Polly! it's no wonder she feels nervous after all she has gone through. I hope I wasn't cross to her! And it will be _very_ nice to have Lieutenant Worthington to take care of us as f...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This is a fascinating little shop, said Mrs. Ashe." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I wonder what is the price of that queer old chatelaine with the bottles hanging from it." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If you have done your shopping now, Polly, can't you come out for a last row?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Katy may, but I can't, replied Mrs. Ashe." }, { "from": "human", "value": "The man promised to bring me gloves at six o'clock, and I must be there...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, Katy, think what she was a few weeks ago and look at her now! Can I ever be thankful enough?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "she said,--and Ned was equally undemonstrative; but they looked so happy, both of them, that" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Polly dear" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Florio" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That child has hardly been out of the trunk since we started, she said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "She hasn't seen anything except a little bit of Nice. I shall really be ashamed when the other children ask her about it. I think I shall play that she was left at ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It seems a dreadful pity that you had to come so soon, she said one day when they were alone in their bedroom." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It's delightful to have you, of course; but we had braced ourselves to do without you till October, and there are such lots o...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What does it mean? Oh, dear me! is that what Katy is going to do next?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Worse, he repeated." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You don't mean to say--" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You might do much, said Olivia:" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What means this affectation of _naïveté_. has been changed to" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What means this affectation of _naïveté_?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "American Register," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "New York Herald," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Pall Mall Gazette," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We have seen the paragraph in yesterday's 'Pall Mall Gazette' relating to the publication of Mr. Whistler's letters. You may like to know that we recently put into type for a certain person a series of Mr. Whistlers letters and other matter, taking it for granted that Mr. Whistl...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Pall Mall Gazette." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Second Exhibition of Venice Etchings, February 19, 1883," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Pall Mall Gazette," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "MESSIEURS LES ENNEMIS!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "For Mr. Whistler's own sake, no less than for the protection of the purchaser, Sir Coutts Lindsay ought not to have admitted works into the gallery in which the ill-educated conceit of the artist so nearly approac...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "and then followed the paragraph of which Mr. Whistler now complained, and which was:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "For Mr. Whistler's own sake, no less than for the protection of the purchaser, Sir Coutts Lindsay ought not to have admitted works into the gallery in ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I have sent pictures to the Academy which have not been received. I believe that is the experience of all artists.... The nocturne in black and gold is a night piece, and represents the fireworks at Cremorne." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Not a view of Cremorne?" ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What was the subject of the nocturne in blue and silver belonging to Mr. Grahame?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "A moonlight effect on the river near old Battersea Bridge." }, { "from": "human", "value": "What has become of the nocturne in black and gold?...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Nocturne in Black and Gold was again produced, and Mr. WHISTLER was further cross-examined by the ATTORNEY-GENERAL:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The picture represents a distant view of Cremorne with a falling rocket and other fireworks. It occupied two days, and i...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I offer the picture, which I have conscientiously painted, as being worth two hundred guineas. I have known unbiassed people express the opinion that it represents fireworks in a night-scene. I would not complain of any person who might simply take a different view." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Enter now the great room with the Veronese at the end of it, for which the painter (_quite rightly_) was summoned before the Inquisition of State." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I have now given up ten years of my life to the single purpose of enabling myself to judge rightly of art ... earnestly desiring to ascertain, and _to be able to teach_, the truth respecting art; also knowing that this truth was _by time and labour_ definitely ascertainable." ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Canaletto, had he been a great painter, might have cast his reflections wherever he chose ... but he is a little and a bad painter." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I repeat there is nothing but the work of Prout which is true, living, or right in its general impressio...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh! you have ridiculed Mr. Whistler's pictures." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now it is evident that in Rembrandt's system, while the contrasts are not more right than with Veronese, the colours are all wrong from beginning to end." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "In conduct and in conversation, It did a sinner good to hear Him deal in ratiocina...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I was pleased by a little unpretending modern German picture at Dusseldorf, by Bosch, representing a boy carving a model of his sheep dog in wood." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have just said that every class of rock, earth and cloud must be known by the painter w...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Vulgarity, dulness, or impiety will indeed always express themselves through art, in brown and gray, as in Rembrandt." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It is physically impossible, for instance, rightly to draw certain forms of the upper clouds with a brush; nothing wil...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "His work, first, is simply the only art-work at present produced in England which will be received by the future as 'classic' in its kind--the best that has been or could be." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am a painter, and have devoted about twenty years to the st...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Do you think two hundred guineas a large price for that picture?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes. When you think of the amount of earnest work done for a smaller sum." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Does it show the finish of a complete work of art?" ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Nov. 28." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I think Mr. Whistler had great powers at first, which he has not since justified. He has evaded the difficulties of his art, because the difficulty of an artist increases every day of his professional life." }, { "from"...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am an art critic of long standing. I have been engaged in this capacity by the _Times_, and other journals, for the last twenty years. I edited the 'Life of Reynolds,' and 'Haydon.' I have _always_ studied art. I have seen these pictures of Mr. Whistler's when they were exhibi...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Arrangement in Frith, Jones, _Punch_ and Ruskin, with a touch of Titian, is a joy! and in itself sufficient to satisfy even my craving for curious" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "of the critic. The cry, on their part, of" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Il faut vivre, I most certainly meet, in this case, with the appropriate answer," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Je n'en vois pas la nécessité." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What is to become of painting if the critics withhold their lash?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Slade Professor" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "C'est bien écrit! and of a subject," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "C'est bien dit!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "they are all" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There are some people who would do away with critics altogether." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "--how he grovelled in happiness over a Turner--that was no Turner at all, as Mr. Ruskin wrote to show--Ruskin! whom he has since defended. Ah! Messieurs, what our neighbours call" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What does anything matter!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Taste has long been confounded with capacity, and accepted as sufficient qualification for the utterance of judgment in music, poetry, and painting. Art is joyously received as a matter of opinion; and that it should be based upon laws as rigid and defined as those of the known ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Times" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Art and Art Critics, with" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Sans rancune" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Sans rancune," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "in the critical line; whether it affect" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A rat! A rat!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Balaam's Ass" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "would, he says," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You cannot understand me, he must also say," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I did not understand myself and you, to whom I speak, sufficiently well to make you understand me." }, { "from": "human", "value": "What have I done unto thee, said he," }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Symphony in White No. III." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Not precisely a symphony in white ... for there is a yellowish dress ... brown hair, etc.... another with reddish hair ... and of course there is the flesh colour of the complexions." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Season Number of _Vanity Fair_ contains ... Mr. Whistler's etching of" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "St. James's Street" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Il n'est pas nécessaire que vous sachiez ces choses-là, mon révérend père!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Confidences" }, { "from": "human", "value": "HOUR." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "impression left upon his mind by the supposition that" ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "that I" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It is true that occasionally it has been borne in upon my mind that those whose" }, { "from": "human", "value": "that has led me (in his eyes at least) to paint so that he speaks of me in the same breath with Velasque...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am not arguing with you--I am telling you." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "should be" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A Storm in an Æsthetic Teapot." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Frank Duveneck, were sent to the Painter-Etchers' Exhibition from Venice. The Painter-Etchers appear to have suspected for a moment that the works were really Mr. Whistler's; and, not desiring to be the vi...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If the Editor of the '_Cuckoo_' should see his way to the publication of the accompanying paragraph as it stands, twenty copies may be sent, for circulation among the Council of the Society of Painter-Etchers, to Mr. Piker, newsvendor, Shepherd's Market." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is a pity a clever man like Mr. Whistler is yet not clever enough to see that while habitual public attacks on a _near relative_ cannot fail to be, to the majority of people, unpalatable, they are likely to be, when directed against a brother etcher, even _suspecte_." }, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "THE FINE ART SOCIETY," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "To Seymour Haden, Esq.--My dear Sir,--Mr. Whistler has called upon me respecting your visit here yesterday with Mr. Legros and Dr. Hamilton, the purport of which had been communicated to him by Mr. Brown." }, {...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "CUCKOO." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "ARTS CLUB," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Painter-Etchers' Society." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "described by Mr. Haden as a" }, { "from": "human", "value": "of the enclosed literary ventu...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "--rather telling in its way--but shallow! shallow!--for after all, Gentlemen, a brother-in-law is _not_ a connection calling for sentiment--in the abstract, rather an intruder than" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "--indeed," }, { "from": "human", "value": "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "To Ernest Brown, Esq.--Dear Sir,--We know all about Mr. Frank Duveneck, and are delighted to have his etchings.--Yours faithfully," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "F. SEYMOUR HADEN." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Methinks, he doth protest too much!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Painter-Etcher" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A foolish man's foot is soon in his neighbour's house; but a man of experience is ashamed of him." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ne pas confondre intelligence avec gendarmes --but surely, dear Atlas, when the art critic of the _Times_, suffering possibly from chronic catarrh, is wafted in at the Grosvenor without guide or compass, and cannot by mere sense of smell distinguish between oil and water colour,...