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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A thing of beauty a joy for ever" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "must have glanced round in expectation of the general appeal," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "After that let us take breath." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Great Emperor!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "the tropes and the phrases of _a jester_ of genius, I have only to answer that it very probably may be so, but that the excuse for such error must be sought in the existence of the genius. A man of genius is scarcely at l...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Paradox is discoloured by personality, and merriment is distorted by malevolence." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Hearken to me, you cry," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If --" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If Japanese Art is right in confining itself to what can be broidered upon the fan ... and again ..." }, { "from": "human", "value": "... and further ..." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Amateur writer!" } ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "my works" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Exposition Internationale," }, { "from": "human", "value": "The French" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I believe the _Herald_ made the statement, said Mr. Whistler," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You can imagine that a few etchings do not have any effect at all; so I sent what I could get together. Shortly afterwards I received a note saying: 'Sir--Ten of your exhibit...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well! the next day I went to Paris and called at the American headquarters of the Exhibition. I was ushered into the presence of this gentleman, Hawkins, to whom I said:--'I am Mr. Whistler, and I believe this note is from you. I have come to remove my etchings'; but I did not m...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "in his turn, on his excitable opponent. The General did feel" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "and proceeded, in popular parlance, to" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Mr. J. McNeill Whistler and" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "In this species of l...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Our way of doing business was not, it seems, up to Mr. Whistler's standard of politeness, so he got angry and took away, not only the ten rejected etchings, but seventeen others which had been accepted. It is a little singular that among about one hundred and fifty artists who r...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "While we rejected only ten of his etchings, the English department rejected eighteen of them, and of the nine accepted, only hung two on the line." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "--one of whom, by the way, I am informed upon undoubted authority, had never before come upon an" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "and unpleasant; in his last combat with Mr. Oscar Wilde--(" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oscar, you have been down the area again )--he comes off a palpable second; his treatment of 'Arry dead and" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Critic's Friend" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "? And knowing your analytical conscientiousness, I can even understand the humble comfort you take in Oscar's meek superiority; but, for the life of me, I cannot follow your literary intention when you say that my care of" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "goes far to pr...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You must feel that, for me, said Mr. Whistler," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Gentlemen, said he," }, { "from": "human", "value": "It has before now been borne in upon me, that in surroundings of antagonism, I may have wrapped myself, for protection, in a...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "they distinctly spoke of it as unfinished; nor can I imagine any one acquainted with Mr. Whistler's works speaking of any of them as" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "In" }, { "from": "human", "value": "L'Envoi of the catalogue of his exhibition held at Mess...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I do not know when so much amusement has been afforded to the British public as by Mr. Whistler's pictures." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "With the exception, perhaps, of one of Mr. Whistler's meaningless canvases, there is nothing that is actually provocative of undue mirth or ridicule." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "In some of the Nocturnes the absence, not only of definition, but of gradation, would ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Painting, or art generally, as such, with all its technicalities, difficulties, and particular ends, is nothing but a noble and expressive language, invaluable as the vehicle of thought, but by itself nothing." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Modern Painters." }, {...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mr. Whistler paints subjects sadly below the merit of his pencil." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "A worse specimen of humanity than could be found on the oldest piece of china in existence." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is Mr. Whistler's way to choose people and things for painting which other painters would turn from, and to combine these oddly chosen materials as no other painter would choose to combine them. He should learn that eccentricity is not originality, but the caricature of it." ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "These weird productions--enigmas sometimes so occult that OEdipus might be puzzled to solve them--need much subtle explanation." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Mr. Whistler has whole-length portraits, or rather the shadows of people, shapes suggestive of good examples...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A dark bluish surface, with dots on it, and the faintest adumbrations of shape under the darkness, is gravely called a Nocturne in Black and Gold." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "His Nocturne, black and gold, 'The Falling Rocket,' shows such wilful and headlong perver...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "With what feelings must we regard the mad new style, the Nocturnes in 'Blue and Silver,' the Harmonies in Flesh-colour and Pink, the Notes in Blue and Opal." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The blue and black smudges which purport to depict the 'Thames at Night.'" },...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He is really building up art out of his own imperfections [_sic!_] instead of setting himself to supply them." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "J. M. Whistler is here again with his nocturnes." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Mr. Whistler confines himself to...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He must not attempt, with that happy, half-humorous audacity which all his dealings with his own works suggests, to palm off his deficiencies upon us as manifestations of power." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "There is always danger that efforts of this class may dege...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Will you be good enough to give over that hideous noise?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The donkeys decided that the young donkey's song was a most symphonious and harmonious, sweet song; so he continues to bray as melodiously as ever. There is, we believe, a moral t...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The rest of the collection is marred by the impatience which has prevented his achieving any finished work of Art." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "HARMONY IN GREY AND GREEN." }, { "from": "human", "value": "A sketch of Miss Alexander, in which much must be...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Other people paint localities; Mr. Whistler makes artistic experiments." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Nor can I imagine any one acquainted with Mr. Whistler's works speaking of any of them as 'completed.' --_Letter to" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Pall Mall." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Another picture, 'The Little White Girl' was exhibited about the...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I have expressed, and still adhere to the opinion, that these pictures only come one step nearer than a delicately tinted wall paper." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Times" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Paintings, like some of the 'Nocturnes' and some of...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He has no atmosphere and no light. Instead of air he studies various kinds of fog--and his 'values' are the relative powers of darkness, not of light. He never paints a sky." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "In Mr. Whistler's productions one might safely say that there is no culture." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Imagine a man of genius following in the wake of Whistler!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "The measure of originality has at times been overrated ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We want not always the blotches and misty suggestions of the impressionist, _&c._" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It is perhaps a little difficult for any critic to be quite absolutely just to Mr. Whistler at present, on account of his eccentricities and his apparent ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A portrait which omits entirely to bring out the individuality of the sitter, stands but little chance of recognition even from immediate posterity." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Glasgow Herald," }, { "from": "human", "value": "We cannot forget his encou...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Could there be a better epitome of the recent history of art in England? One work of Mr. Whistler's is received with high honour in the Luxembourg on its way to the Louvre; and at that very moment another work of his, worthy to rank with the first, is hoist with equally high dis...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A dim, cold light fills the room, where the flat, grey wall is only broken by a solitary picture in black and white; a piece of foldless, creaseless, Oriental flowered crape hangs from the cornice. And here, in this solemn chamber, sits the lady in mournful garb. The picture has...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Has he, like Diderot, inquired curiously into the meaning and message of this thing and that? And _appreciating Greuze_, been able to _appreciate Chardin_?(!!)" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Nineteenth Century." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Mr. Ruskin'...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is true that the originality of his painted work is somewhat apt to be dependent on the innocent error that confuses the beginning with the end, accepts the intention for the execution, and exalts an adroit sketch into the rank of a permanent picture." }, { "from": "g...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Inconspicuous solitude would not have had the same charms for him." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Au musée du Luxembourg, vient d'être placé, de M. WHISTLER, le splendide _Portrait de Mme Whistler mère_, une oeuvre destinée à l'éternité des admirations, une oeuvre su...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Times," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Balaam's Ass" }, { "from": "human", "value": "National Art Exhibition," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Confidences" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Catching on," }, { "from": "gpt", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Jeux Innocents" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ten o'Clock" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Noblesse oblige" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Pall Mall" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Whacking Whistler" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Mr. Whistler had on his own Toast" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Error of the Day may be defined as" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The difference between the distance or range which must be put upon the sights in order to hit the target and the actual distance from the gun to the target." }, { "from": "human", "value":...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, father, dear father, come home with me now, The clock in the steeple strikes one; You said you were coming right home from the shop As soon as your day's work was done. Come home--come home--" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You said you were coming right home from the shop As soon as your day's work was done. Come home--come home--" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "As soon as your day's work was done. Come home--come home--" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why don't you hit out, sergeant?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You used to be a little quicker, Nett." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Down--down, to your knees, you skunk," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There's a limit, and he reached it. Your mouths are your own, and you can blow off to suit your fancy, but if any one thinks I'm a tame coyote to be poked with a stick--!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Hell, but you're a twister!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Say, boys, this mine's worked out. Let's leave the Happy Land to Foyle. Boys, what is he--what--is he? What--is--Sergeant Foyle--boys?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Sergeant Foyle, oh, he's a knocker from the West, He's a chase-me-Charley, come-and-kiss-me tiger fro...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It was time you hit out, Nett, she said, half shyly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You're more patient than you used to be, but you're surer. My, that was a twist you gave him, Nett. Aren't you glad to see me?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Glad to see...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You were always quizzing, she said with an attempt at a laugh--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You were meant to succeed--you had to," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I've been a failure--a dead failure, he answered slowly." }, { "from": "gpt", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Did he do that, Jo?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "After Cynthy's death I kept house for him for a year, taking care of little Bobby. I loved Bobby so--he has Cynthy's eyes. One day Dorland --oh, Nett, of course I oughtn't to have stayed there, I know it now; but I was only sixteen, and what did I understand! And my mother was d...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "See--he's come, she said in a whisper, and as though not realising Goatry's presence." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He's come." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Halbeck--the devil!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Stand by, Goatry. I want you to...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'll do this myself, Jo, he whispered to the girl presently." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Go into another room. I'll bring him here." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hi, there, you damned sucker!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What the hell--!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Keep quiet, Dorl. I want to have a little talk with you. Take your hand away from that gun--take it away," }, { "from": "gpt", "valu...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why did I never notice the likeness before? Goatry said to himself." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But, gosh! what a difference in the men. Foyle's going to double cinch him this time, I guess." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "As pants the hart for cooling streams, When heated in the chase--" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now, hurry up! What do you want with me?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Take your time," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'm in a hurry, I tell you. I've got my plans. I'm going South. I've only just time to catch the Canadian Pacific three days from now,...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, I suppose you'd have potted me, Dorl," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You'd have thought no more of doing that than you did of killing Linley, the ranchman; than you did of trying to ruin Jo Byndon, your wife's sister, when she was sixteen years old, when she was...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It's not too late to do the decent thing. You'll never repent of all you've done; you'll never do different." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I've lived as I meant to, and I'm not going to snivel or repent now. It's all a rotten business, anyhow," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It's with you to do what you ought to do. Of course you can kill me. My pistol's in my pocket. But I don't think you will. You've m...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He had the pluck," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Sergeant Foyle arrested Halbeck, and Halbeck's shot himself," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Come away-come away, Jo," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And thou shalt be brought down and shalt speak out of the ground, and thy speech shall be low out of the dust, and thy voice shall be as of one that hath a familiar spirit out of the ground, and thy speech shall whisper out of the dust." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Where do you come from?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I come from a camp beyond --she indicated the direction by a gesture." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I had been fishing --she took up the basket--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "You killed it in the nick of time, he said, in a voice that still spoke of ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Too far to go back," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If you cannot go back, you can go forwards, she said firmly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why should you be the only man in this beautiful land who lives like this, who is idle when there is so much to do, who sleeps in the daytime when there is so much time to sle...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is never too late to mend," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I've had a hunt--such a hunt for you," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "In Heaven's name, why did you talk to that man? he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You ought not to have trusted yourself near him." }, { "from": "human", "value": "What has he done? she asked." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Is he so bad?...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What is his name?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Roger Lygon," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Roger Lygon," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "O come, let us camp on the North Trail together, With the night-fires lit and the tent-pegs down." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It was the price of fire, and blood, and shame. You did it--you--you--you! You are down, and you will never get up. You can only go lower still--fire, and blood, and shame!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You--you--you! Fire, and blood, and shame!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Dupont," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Qui reste la--Lygon?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Dupont, was the nervous, hesitating reply. Dupont came forwards quickly." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Ah, ben, here we are again--so," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ben, you will do it to-night--then? Dupont said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Sacre, it is time!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Do what?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You not unnerstan' my letters- bah! You know it all right, so queeck." ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It comes to suit us. He is over there at the Old Man Lak', where you can get at him easy, not like in the city where he lif'. Over in the States, he laugh mebbe, becos' he is at home, an' can buy off the law. But here--it is Canadaw, an' they not care eef he have hunder' meellio...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He will be here only three days more--I haf find it so. To-night it mus' be done. As we go I will tell you what to say. I will wait at the Forks, an' we will come back togedder. His cheque will do. Eef he gif at all, the cheque is all right. He will not stop it. Eef he haf the m...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What are you doing here? Who are you?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Don't you know me?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You will know me better soon," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You can do nothing; there is no proof," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "There is Dupont," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Who is Dupont?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The French Canadian who helped me--I divided with him." }, { "from": ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What do you want? How much did you figure you could get out of me, if I let you bleed me? he asked sneeringly and coolly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Come now, how much?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Daddy, Daddy!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "May I come in?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh! she exclaimed." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh--you!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Did you want to see me?" } ]
6190
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This was the man I told you of--at the reedy lake. Did you come to see me?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I did not know you were here, he answered." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I came --he was conscious of Henderley's staring eyes fixed upon him help...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What do you want for your shack and the lake?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Five hundred dollars, answered Lygon quickly. Henderley would have handed over all that lay on the table before him but that he thought it better not to do so." }, { "from": "human",...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Eh ben, it is all right--yes?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, it is all right," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You got the ten t'ousan' each--in cash or cheque, eh? The cheque or the money-hein?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I've got nothing," }, { "from": "human", "value": "You got not'ing! You said eet was all right," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I must do it. I must get there if I can. I will not be afraid to die then," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "God help him--oh, God help him! she was saying. He drew a long quiet breath." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I will sleep now," }, { "from": "human", "value": "What can I do, Dan? I'm broke, too. My last dollar went to pay my last debt to-day. I've nothing...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What is it? Rawley asked rather sharply, his fingers running through his slightly grizzled, black hair, but not excitedly, for he wanted no scenes; and if this thing could hurt Di Welldon, and action was necessary, he must remain cool. What she was to him, Heaven and he only kne...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You've not been a saint, and Di knows it," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I haven't been a saint, and she knows it, as you say, Dan; but the law is on my side as yet, and it isn't on yours. There's the difference." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You used to gamble yourself; you were pretty tough, and you oughtn't to walk up my back with hob...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No, Dan. I'd rather take you to her in your coffin. She's never known you, never seen what most of us have seen, that all you have--or nearly all--is your lovely looks, and what they call a kind heart. There's only you two in your family, and she's got to live with you--awhile, ...