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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hypocrite! I know--" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Do, sir? exclaimed old Matt, pausing in his occupation of pulling the string to make a lathen figure throw out arms and legs for the delectation of little Tom,--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "--This in a parenthesis to the little boy between his knees.--" }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He has the money, continued Septimus," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Don't speak of her, exclaimed Mrs Septimus angrily," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Hush! said Septimus sternly," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You see, sir, said Matt, continuing a conversation that had evidently been broken off," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You see, said Matt," }, { "from": "human", "value": "And about the sinews?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Blame them sinews! ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I beg your pardon, ma'am! cried Matt, hurriedly sopping up the ink with his wisp of a handkerchief;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "exclaimed Matt, scratching his head," }, { "from": "human", "value": "But about finding the doctor," }, { "from": "g...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now, sir, he said upon catching the troubled man's eye," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Dead before now, said Septimus." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Allowing him to have been quite young for a doctor, he would be eighty now, and how few men reach that ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No more business in him, sir, said Matt as he descended the stairs," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Hush! she whispered," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I only wanted to ask you to please be careful. I was so frightened this afternoon." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mr F's aunt" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Rag--bone! but his was labour in vain: he took nothing further from the Rents to glut the shop of Mrs Slagg, and, reaching the end of the place, he departed with his bag still light, and the court knew him no more that day, though there were rags enough in every house to have fi...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "the journey upwards was dangerous, for if the traveller avoided the snares and pitfalls formed by divers pails and brown pans, or even, maybe, a half-gallon can from the public at the corner if the pail was engaged; if he saved himself from slipping on the sloping, wet boards, a...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "hissed the woman, making feigned cuts with her little whip at the crouching dogs, which yelped miserably as they shrunk closer to the boards." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ah, what you deserve!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "And how are the birds, Jean...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "O yes, he sings, hissed the woman;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Pst, pst!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "He is _bete_ and obstinate. The doll down-stairs with the needle-machine loves the bird, and she would buy it, and it is worth four shillings; but...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "See, then! she exclaimed, in her harsh shrill voice." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "They would not do it, though I try thousand time; but now the task is ended they walk. Ah-h-h!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "So, then, you will not sell your lark, Jean?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No, no, no, he said softly;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Look! continued Jean softly, as he smiled and pointed rapidly from cage to cage," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Bah! ejaculated the mother softly;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "when...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But he should sell the lark, monsieur," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Hush, _ma mere_, said the cripple angrily;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "We all have our loves and likes, madame," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "O, yes, yes, you rich; bu...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You love reading, then, Jean?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, yes, cried the cripple." }, { "from": "human", "value": "What could I do without it? Always here; for I cannot walk much--only about the room. Ah, no! I could not live without reading--and ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But he is mean, I tell you, cried _ma mere_ angrily, as she once more stood beside her son." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What does he give us but words--words which are worth nothing? But what is that? My faith, a book he brought you? You shall not read; it makes y...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Then I will sell the lark when you are asleep," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Then I will kill the dogs! But the anger passed from his countenance in a few moments, and smiling softly, he said," }, { "from": "human", "value": "No, no, _ma mere_; you would...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Our beauty, some of us." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "came the sound of Lucy Grey's sewing-machine--" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My mother wished me to watch that you did not go down without seeing her to-day," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Be patient with her, my darling, Septimus would say to Lucy--a needless request." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Think of the troubles she has gone through, and then look at me." }, { "from": "human", "value": "What for? Lucy would cry, laughingly prisonin...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But it does not matter, sir; it's only for a little while, and then perhaps I shall be taken altogether. I'm of no use here, only to be a burden to that poor girl and my husband. But for me and the different fancies I have, that poor child need not be always working her fingers ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What have I to hope for? moaned Mrs Hardon, taking refuge in tears herself when she saw how Lucy was moved." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What have I to hope for?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Hope itself, Mrs Hardon, said the curate firmly." }, {...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hush!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mrs Hardon! Mrs Hardon!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Hush! exclaimed Mrs Hardon," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Our beauty, some of us," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "So young, so pure-looking! But who could wonder, living in this atmosphere of misery? But what is it to me?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "of the several establishments was out at work, or down in the country after the birds, or at the corner of some street where there was a public-house, at whose door he slouched, in the feeble anticipation that work would come there to find him, or that the landlord or a passing ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I knew you would come, sir, she whispered, letting her thin white fingers play amongst the golden curls of a little head, but half-concealed in her lap, where one bright round eye as peeping timidly out to watch the stranger; and then, as the curate took one of the broken chairs...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Don't you tell no lies, now, come, or I shall make it hot for yer! When in the involuntary shudder the woman gave, there was plainly enough written for the curate's reading the long and cruel records of how" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But what is it to me?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Our beauty, some of us!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Now, sir, said old Matt, as he appeared, brushed-up and smart for the occasion, punctual to his appointment;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Here, let's go this way, sir, he said, turning into Warwick-lane." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Pretty game this, sir, isn't it? Slaughtered sheep, and murdered novels, and books of all sorts close together. Authors' sheep's-heads, and butchers' sheep's-heads cheek ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Wouldn't do, though, to go about such a job as we have on hand carrying a sheep's-head, would it, sir?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No; pray come along, and let's get our task over," }, { "from": "human", "value": "To be sure, said Matt, coming to himse...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Just as I told you, sir, said Matt," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, replied Septimus;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "You know the church?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, not exactly," }, { "from": "human", "value": "There...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Try t'other," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Rayther rheumatic spot this, I should think," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, yes, it _is_ damp, said the sexton, who would have had no difficulty in passing himself off as Matt's brother;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Don't have many berrin's now,...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There's a great piece of the book out here, said Septimus suddenly--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Torn out, by Jove!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Dessay there is, sir, said the sexton coolly;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But, I say; lo...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It's of no use, said Septimus at last, mournfully;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Don't be in a hurry, sir, said Matt." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You know there are other ways of killing the cat, as the old saying says; wait a bit. Looks suspicious,...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No, said he," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What's to be done next, Matt?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Pint of porter and crust o' bread-and-cheese, said the old man decidedly." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'm faint, sir--got a fit of my chronics; but it's taking me the wrong way to-day; I'm ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What's up now?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Parson wants to see you in the westry," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I think, said he," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hardon, he said,--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Hardon, Octavius Hardon and Lavinia Addison. We'll lay those that are done with down here, if you please; for, though they do not appear so, the leaves are in a certain order. Hardon, Hardon, Octavius, and Lavinia Add...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Take a glass of wine, said the curate kindly, producing a decanter and glass from the little cupboard;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Here, here, Matt, he whispered," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "and the paper quivered in his hands--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Right it is, so far, said Matt, holding his glasses to his eyes wrong way foremost, with both hands," }, { "from"...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Really, said the clergyman at parting," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am extremely glad to have met you this morning, and you may depend upon finding us in better order at your next visit." }, { "from": "human", "value": "There has been no trickery ther...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There, said Matt, pointing to the window," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Moved there, perhaps," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Phillips, EJ, Terrace, Newington." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Stop a bit, sir, said Matt, rising and catching the ring hung from the ceiling, and pulling the bell.--" }, { "from": "gpt", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Young beginner, said Matt hollowly; for he had the pewter-vessel to his lips." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Anyone else same name?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Two more! cried Septimus in a husky voice:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Phil...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Let's see, sir; you walked down to Somesham, didn't you?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, replied Septimus somewhat surprised at the question." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Come along;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That's all very well,...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Arty" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why, aunt, the curate would say," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Nonsense, my dear boy, how can you know anything about it? I'm eighty-two." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Then, he would say loudly," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Nonsense, chi...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Dear, dear, dear! she exclaimed;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Poor Edwards! she would say, as she smoothed down her apron," }, { "from": "human", "value": "And then she would sigh, in profound ignorance that" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, aunty, and how is it?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now, don't shout, my dear; I'm not deaf. You know you do too much; and if you won't petition the bishop for a change, I shall. What do you say to a pleasant curacy in some pretty country place?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I love this woman," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Our beauty, some of us; and at such times all faith in the girl had gone." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Our beauty, some of us!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Our beauty, some of us!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Save her? My God! yes, as I hope to be saved!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "For she loves to hear him whistle," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Never better, he said;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Nothing," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Didn't expect you had, said Matt drily." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No offence, sir; but I thought perhaps you might want me; so if you'll get y...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Here is the house, said Septimus, after a reference to his pocket-book;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "H'm!--`Tollicks' Registry Office for Servants,' read Matt from the board over the door." }, { "from": "human", "value": "This isn't the doctor's. Sure o...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Let's go to the fountain-head at once, said Matt;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Stop a minute, said Septimus, to keep procrastination alive for a few moments longer." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Perhaps there is another door." }, { "from": "g...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The side-door, my good man, said the lady to the milkman, who grinned, winked to himself, and drew the door after him, when, quietly placing the customary" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Mrs Tollicks?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Miss Tollicks, said th...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Indeed, said Septimus, bowing;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am obliged, but--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Only _twelve_ pounds wages," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And very reasonable, said Septimus;" }, { "from": "human", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mary Donovan, said the lady of the house with dignity," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We merely called, said Septimus, after an awkward pause, during which he had been waiting for Matt to begin," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Dear me, how disappointing! said Miss Tollicks." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Now do you know I thought you had ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mr Flips, surgeon, said the lady of the place, after a little preliminary conversation," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "she continued musingly." }, { "from": "human", "value": "There was a whole year at the millinery, which didn't half-pay the rent; for pe...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You see, though, continued Miss Tollicks, who seemed to have made up her mind to thoroughly enjoy herself with a good talk;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "said Miss Tollicks, colouring;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "she said sharply the next moment," ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No, said the woman who served, as she allayed the irritation of her nasal organ by rubbing it with the back of the hand which held the snuff-scoop, and so provoked a loud fit of sneezing,--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "How long has that been?" }, { "from": ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'm dull and stupid and not right, you see, said Matt," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Very," }, { "from": "human", "value": "You may always buy your sausages here, and depend upon 'em, said Matt;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And now I'm off, sir, said Matt, stopping short in Carey-street." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I think I shall go and lie down." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Can I do anything for you?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, sir, said Matt;" ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Better the present doubt and obscurity, he muttered." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Octavius Hardon, Lavinia Addison, Ellen Morris--all witnesses to the truth, but dead, dead." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Stop, stop! cried a voice, as he turned into t...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Tsu weet, tsu weet, tsweet, tsweet, tsweet! sang in long and joyous trill the speckled-breasted lark, as, raising its crest and the plumage of its throat, it fluttered by the prison-bars, and poured forth that joyous song whose every note told of bright skies, pure air, and the ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Up and dressed, Lucy?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, mother dear," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He said he was ill, and then talked of medicine and attendance. He was wandering, said Septimus." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I remember I had great difficulty in getting him along. Perhaps he is dead. Well, well; so with all of us. Let it rest, for I'll take no fa...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No; no better, he whispered." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Let's see, I told you, didn't I? Mrs Hardon, medicine and attendance, wasn't it? To be sure it was. Yes, medicine and shocking bad attendance here. That's it; and I can't tell you any more. I'm falling out o...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There, that's better, sir; your coming has seemed to do me good, and brightened me up. I get like that sometimes, and it seems that I've no power over my tongue, and it says just what it likes. Tell Miss Lucy I'm getting better, and that I want to get out of this place. I know w...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, muttered Matt when the woman had gone." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes; toss it down, so as not to taste it. Why, that was half water--beautiful wines and spirits as they have here, sir. That's the very one herself, sir. She killed him." }, { "from": ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, sir; and who's got to carry out the doctor's orders? Why, the nurse, to be sure. Just push the pillow a little more under my head, sir; she's made it uncomfortable. That's it; thanky, sir. Well, you nor no one else won't believe that a nurse here would do anything wrong. B...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A BIT ODD." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "perhaps it was washing-day, which, from the small size of Bennett's-rents' wardrobes, happened irregularly, with Mrs Sims three times a week, when the big tin saucepan used for boiling divers articles of wearing-apparel, in company with a packet of washing-powder, would be place...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "at the corner--that is to say, two pints of porter with a quartern of gin in each; and upon hearing the noise of the bellows he uttered what he would have denominated" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Not if he kills me," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I have said as I won't have it, growled Mr Jarker;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "When I've done my dooty by her, as other people, whom I won't bemean myself to name, oughter have done, Mister Jarker, I shall go, and not before, said Mrs Sims." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It's not me as could sit down-stairs and know as that pore creetur there w...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, I'm sure, exclaimed Mrs Sims," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Not till I've seen you eat this, my pore dear soul, said Mrs Sims boldly, though, poor woman, she was all in a tremble, and kept glancing over her shoulder at Jarker, who, with his back to the fire and his hands in his pockets, glowered and scowled at the scene before him. Mrs S...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Good-night;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A bit odd!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You're allus ill, growled the ruffian, who had had just drink enough to make him savage;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Bill--Bill, dear, murmured a voice after a while--a strange harsh-sounding voice, as if it came from a parched and fevered throat;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Bill!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Bill--Bill, dear--water!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Kiss me, Bill!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Kiss me, Bill!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mammy, mammy!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mammy, mammy! again cried the child, who had climbed upon the bed, and was shaking her foster-mother;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yah-h-h-h!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Blame it, how cold!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ashes to ashes, dust to dust!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Keep her, at all events, till I come back," } ]