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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Fellow Terrans, I shall not take your time for a lengthy introduction of the envoy from the stars. I will only say that, without doubt, this is the most important moment in the history of the human race. We will now hear from the first being to come to Earth from another world."...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Faith, an' what was that last you said?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We will now hear from the first being ever to come to Earth from another world." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Sure, an' ye wouldn't jist be frightenin' a body, would ye? You don't m...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now you are here, he said urgently," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Do I look daft? Begorry, I should have been a-knowin' something was queer. All your weapons and your strange ideas. Faith, I wouldn't be surprised if ye hadn't yet established a planet-wide government...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You've forgotten your pets. We would be glad if you would accept them as--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Faith, an' I'd almost forgotten, he said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "If I'd taken a crature from this quarantined planet, my name'd be _nork_. ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hole! said Mr. Polly, and then for a change, and with greatly increased emphasis:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He paused, and then broke out with one of his private and peculiar idioms." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh! Beastly Silly Wheeze of a Hole...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I s'pose you'd like me to wear that silly Mud Pie for ever, eh? I tell you I won't. I'm sick of it. I'm pretty near sick of everything, comes to that.... Hat!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Hat!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Shan't go out!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Beauty! said Mrs. Polly at last to a tremendous silence, picking up and dusting the rejected headdress." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Tantrums, she added." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I 'aven't patience." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Tantrums!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why did I ever get in this silly Hole? he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why did I ever?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Never have the sense to get your hair cut till it's too long, said Mr. Polly catching sight of his shadow," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Hole!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Ro-o-o-tten Be-e-astly Silly Hole!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "First the infant, mewling and puking in its nurse's arms." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Lining in" }, { "from": "human", "value": "irregularly but thoroughly, one of those inspiring weeklies that dull people used to call" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "admirable weeklies crammed with imagination tha...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "they ran," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It's time that dratted boy did something for a living." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Didn't save much money though," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "every morning, and for a period it seemed to him the most significant event in his day. When she said," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I _do_ hope it will be fine to-morrow," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Romeo and Juliet at the Port Burdock Theatre Royal, and hung over the gallery fascinated. After that they made a sort of password of:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Do you bite your thumbs at Us, Sir?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "We bite our thumbs." ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Rabooloose." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We got a perfect right to do what we like in our corner, Platt maintained." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You do what you like in yours." }, { "from": "human", "value": "But the language!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "roared Parsons," }, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He's no hypocrite, said Parsons," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Short of sugar, O' Man," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, _carm_ on, said Parsons." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Always do it on tuppence for a bitter." }, { "from": "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Joy de Vive." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Back to the collar, O' Man," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Don't mention it," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ready, Sir! or" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ready, Gentlemen. Better hearing that than" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Forward Polly! look sharp!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Bread, O' Man?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Rig...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Nice little place for business," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sesquippledan, he would say." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Sesquippledan verboojuice." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Eh?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Eloquent Rapsodooce." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Where?" }, { "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, O' Man, he used to say," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The art of window dressing is in its infancy, O' Man--in its blooming Infancy. All balance and stiffness like a blessed Egyptian picture. No Joy in it, no blooming Joy! Conventional. A shop window ought to get hold of people, _grip_ 'em as they go along. It stands to reason. Gri...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Where are you going?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Lill Dog," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Cosy Comfort at Cut Prices, and" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Curl up and Cuddle below Cost." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Cosy Comfort at Cut Prices, said Polly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Allittritions Artful Aid." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Want to speak to Parsons, Sir," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What on Earth do you think you are doing with that window, Parsons?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Dressing it, Sir--on new lines." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Come out of it," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Where's Morrison? Morrison!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Take this window over, said Mr. Garvace pointing his bunch of fingers at...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Get him out," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Say I can't dress a window, you thundering old Humbug," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Get him out of the window. He's mad. He's dangerous. Get him out of the window." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Help him!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You--you--you--you annoyed me," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He ought to have left my window alone, O' Man. He didn't ought to have touched my window." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "and packing his box. Polly knew himself well enough to know he would make a bad witness. He felt sure of one fact only, namely, that" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He was all right, O' Man--according to his lights, said Parsons." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It isn't him I complain of." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I shall '_ave_ to pay a fine, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No good trying t...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Right O," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He tried to put in a good word for Parsons by saying he was" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You mean 'E 'As a 'Ot temper," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I mean 'E 'As a 'Ot temper," }, { "from": "human", "value": "You don't mean 'E ketches cholera." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I mean--he's easily put out." }, { "from": "hum...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ugh!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He's gone already, said Platt." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Might have stopped to say good-by to a chap." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Bit on that beastly tooth of mine, he said, still not looking at Pl...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Christian World" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Helpful, said Mr. Polly;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Soulful Owner of the Exorbiant Largenial Development." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Earnest Joy." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Exultant, Urgent Loogoobuosity." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Lill' dog," }, { "from": "human", "va...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I want a smart, willing young man, thoroughly willing--who won't object to take trouble. I don't want a slacker, the sort of fellow who has to be pushed up to his work and held there. I've got no use for him." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Chubby Chops, or" }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Portly _capóns_," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Metrorious urnfuls," }, { "from": "human", "value": "" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "for example. He wandered about the precincts and speculated about the people who lived in the ripe and cosy ho...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Chequers," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Cultured Rapacicity," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Vorocious Return to the Heritage." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Now does this Marlowe monument really and truly _matter_? he had heard the little lady enquire." }, { "from": "gpt", "value"...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A Tide's a Tide, Sir, said Mr. Polly, feeling that things were not so bad." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I've no lune-attic power to alter that." }, { "from": "human", "value": "And besides, what good are you to me this morning, do you think? said the Ca...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Nar then Polly!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Look alive Polly! became the burthen of his days." }, { "from": "human", "value": "As smart a chap as you could have, said the chief shopwalker," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "who ought to" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "? He couldn't find it in him to believe it. He blamed his father a good deal--it is what fathers are for--in putting him to a trade he wasn't happy to follow, but he found it impossible to say what he ought to have followed...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Death" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Looks peaceful," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It was a merciful relief," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Second--Second Departed I've ever seen. Not counting mummies," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We did all we could." }, { "from": "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He was really quite cheerful at the end, she said several times, with congratulatory gusto," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You'll have a hearse of course, said Mrs. Johnson." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Not one of them combinations with the driver sitting on the coffin. Disrespectful I think they are. I can't fancy how people can bring themselves to be buried in combinations. She flatt...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Don't seem to get the hang of the business somehow, said Mr. Polly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Too much blooming humbug in it for my way of thinking." }, { "from": "human", "value": "If I were you, said Mr. Johnson," }, { "from": "gpt", "v...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "These shops aren't in a bad position," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "a board at the end of the row promised; and behind was the door space and a glimpse of stairs going up to the living rooms above." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Not a bad position, sai...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Rooms in a new house always look a bit small," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Rymer, Pork Butcher and Provision Merchant, and then with voluptuous elaboration:" }, { "from": "human", "value": "The World-Famed Easewood Sausage." }, { "from": "gpt", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "These are your cousins Larkins, said Mrs. Johnson;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Right-O, said Mr. Polly, emerging a little crumpled and breathless from this hearty introduction." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I see." }, { "from": "gpt", "v...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "he said to Aunt Larkins and then;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You _would_ be.... These your gals?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "They are, said Aunt Larkins," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That Annie?" }, { "from": "human", "v...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'm glad you were able to come, Uncle," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, I _came_ said Uncle Pentstemon." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I _came_." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Gals in service?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "T...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now, gals, said Mrs. Larkins," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I hope everyone'll take a glass of sherry and a biscuit, said Mrs. Johnson." }, { "from": "human", "value": "We don't stand on ceremony," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Don't you go s...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "said one of Mrs. Johnson's friends." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "There's a little pair there for Willie," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Right O," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "There'll have to be a walking party, said Mrs. Johnson cheerfully." }, { "from": "human", "value": "There's only two coaches. I daresay we can put in six in each, but that leaves three over." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It'll be a squeeze," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Hysterial catechunations." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Bearing up, he said cheerfully, rubbing his hands together." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Bearing up!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You're wise," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Glad you think so," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I likes a bit of walking before a meal, said Uncle Pentstemon, and made a kind of large hiccup." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That sherry rises, h...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You didn't, I suppose, Mr. Polly, think to '_ave_ your poor dear father post-mortemed--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I was just reminding Grace of the dear dead days beyond recall--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Didn't think of it for a moment. Can't...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "They ain't real, said Annie coquettishly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Got 'em out of a prize packet." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Prize packet in trousers, I expect," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh! the things you say!" }, { "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hen-witted gigglers," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Gowlish gusto, said Mr. Polly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Jumping it in. Funererial Games. Don't hurt _him_ of course. Doesn't matter to _him_...." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You've merely anti-_separated_ me by a hair," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You'll do that all right, said Ascough, the head of the boot shop." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It's quite the fashion just at present. Six Weeks in Wonderful Wood Street. They're running excursions...." }, { "from": "human", "value": "A little holiday"...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Bocashiew," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Do what thou wilt." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Arabian Nights, the works of Sterne, a pile of" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Tales from Blackwood, cheap in a second-hand bookshop, the plays of William Shakespeare, a second-hand copy of Belloc's" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Road to Rome, an odd...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why! she said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Thought I'd look you up," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Fancy! you coming to see us like this!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Explorations menanderings," }, { "from": "human", "value"...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I didn't mean to shut you out, she said, coming out upon the step." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I just told Ma. How are you, Elfrid? You _are_ looking well. I didn't know you rode a bicycle. Is it a new one?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Bright it is...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You must come in 'ere, said Mrs. Larkins," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I _am_ glad to see you again, Elfrid, with a warm contiguous intimacy that betrayed a broken tooth. Mrs. Larkins got out tea things, and descanted on the noble simplicity of their lives, and how...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No foreseeing little accidentulous misadventures, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Stout elderly gentleman--shirt sleeves--large straw wastepaper basket sort of hat--starts to cross the road--going to the oil shop--prodic refreshment of oil can--" }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "El-_lo_" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'm going to '_ave_ 'im now, said Annie." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You two've been 'aving 'im all the afternoon. Besides, I've got something to say to him." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I say, she said abruptly." }, { "from": "gpt", "v...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He would ride off in the afternoon upon that research, remarking that he was going to" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He turned aside from the road, wheeled his machine along a faintly marked attractive trail through bracken until he came to a heap of logs against a high old stone wall with a damaged coping and wallflower plants already gone to seed. He sat down, balanced the straw hat on a con...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Goodness!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Dear me! Can I be of any assistance?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I don't know," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I didn't know there was anyone here," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Sorry...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Let's talk," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You make me feel like one of those old knights, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh! she said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Why?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Beautiful maiden," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Nonsense!...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Boom!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Lordy!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Knight! she cried from the other side of the wall." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Knight there!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Lady!" }, { "from...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He don't seem, said Johnson," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Look here, said Mr. Polly," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'm wild for the love of you! I can't keep up this gesticulations game any more! I'm not a Knight. Treat me as a human man. You may sit up there smiling, but I'd die in torments to have you mine for an hour. I...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mercy! mercy! Ooo! Christabel!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You idiot! cried Christabel." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You giggling Idiot!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Fool, he said at last;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Law! said Mrs. Larkins," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Been seeing to business," }, { "from": "human", "value": "None of 'em ain't at 'ome, but Miriam's just out to do a bit of shopping. Won't let me shop, she won't, because I'm so keerless. She's a wonde...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You're a long time finding that shop of yours," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Don't do to be precipitous," }, { "from": "human", "value": "No, said Mrs. Larkins," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Mother, she said," }, { "from": "human", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'm never within sixpence of what I reckon to be, she said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It's a bit too 'ot." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Found your tongue again," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "When I get this shop of mine I shall have a cat. Must make a home for a cat, you know." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What, to catch the mice?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "No--sleep in the window. A venerable _signor_ of a cat. Tabby. Cat's no good if...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I like cats, said Minnie after a thoughtful pause." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'm always saying to mother, 'I wish we 'ad a cat.' But we couldn't '_ave_ a cat 'ere--not with no yard." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Never had a cat myself, said Mr. Po...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Thought my bicycle was on fire, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Outside. Funny fancy! All right, reely. Little dog outside.... Miriam ready?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "What for?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "To go and meet Annie...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You really think you'll open a shop?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I hate cribs, said Mr. Polly, adopting a moderate tone." }, { "from": "human", "value": "In a shop there's this drawback and that, but one is one's own master." }, { "from": "gpt"...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I wonder what they call those flowers, she said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I always like them. They're handsome." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Floriferous corner," } ]