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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Come again? That's right. I wanted to ask you something, sir," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Indeed!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Why, said the old man, hesitating," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hush, said Matt in a whisper," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "and he drew his visitor nearer to him, so that his lips nearly touched his ear." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Medicine and attendance, sir, eh? That was it, wasn't it?" }, { "from": "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You'll come again, sir, won't you? he said, speaking quite calmly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That always seems to make me clearer--shutting my eyes and having five minutes' doze. I'm weak, sir--very weak now; but I'm getting right, and I'll turn that over in my ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A quiet, patient old creature; you may rest quite happy about that, sir, said the nurse." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'll treat him just as I would my own brother." }, { "from": "human", "value": "He will get better?" }, { "from": "gpt", "v...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I knew you again, Mr--Mr--Mr--you did tell me your name, but I've forgotten it; and I asked him, and he said--but dear, dear, she sobbed," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, replied Septimus;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "O dear, O dear! sobbed the wom...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Stark mad! Yes, I must have been, he muttered;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, don't do it again, that's all." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "and vended at the corner, pervaded these little assemblies. The sports of the children were interrupted, and slapping was greatly in vogue in consequence of mothers never having known their offspring to have been so tiresome before. Hopscotch was banished from the court, tops an...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It's a dooty we owe to the departed, he would observe, while never once could he recall a dissentient, though assistance was often called in to defray the cost, and the well-known avuncular relative of the poor appealed to. Not that Mr Pawley had very hard work to induce the poo...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now they're a-coming!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There was a considerable amount of thirst engendered though, and the public-houses at the top and bottom of the court must have done quite a powerful stroke, of trade that day in cream-gin and pine-apple rum; for the dull soft bang of the strapped-back doors was heard incessantl...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "which necessitated the sending of Marry Hann, a neighbour's child, for half-a-quartern of rum, which relieved the pain so much that she repeated the dose more than once, and, carrying the little girl with her, went down again for a social chat, being now insensible to pain. Half...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What! another operation?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "To be sure, said the house-surgeon cheerily;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "But I'm so much better, said Matt;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I daresay, my man, said the surgeon sadly,"...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I shall let well alone, growled the old man;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Here, you Number 19, into bed with you directly!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Why, I'm only just up," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Never mind, old fellow, said th...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I won't turn coward now, he muttered, letting his eyes rest upon some flowers in a window near his bed, and gazing at them in a strange earnest way,--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, I won't turn coward, not even if they kill me. But that's hard to think of, that ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Cause of science, sir, cause of science; and besides, it won't matter then." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I hope he won't turn nervous over it, thought Matt." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Be serious to a man in his position, with so many looking on.--Can't I have the chloroform?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, of course: here he is with it," }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Very little loss, Mr Grant," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Extremely little, with a bow and a smile;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well, well, I think so," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How sick and faint--what a nasty dream! he muttered;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What would?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Why, I dreamed, sir, that--why, so it was--so it was, then, muttered the old man fervently;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "When mammy come back?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "In that ruffian's room--there of all places in the world!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Unstable as water," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I insist--I hold it as a right! he had exclaimed;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Do your parents know of your meetings?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, no, no!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Then I must--nay, he added with almost a cowardly look of triumph, for the weakness of the man was triumphant that afternoon, and he yielded...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If he had only been so jolly anxious about the Somesham affair, first start off, what a difference it would have made!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, yes, sir, Matt would say," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have some faint recollection of saying something about medicine and attendance; but do you know, sir, I begin to think that one's memory is in one's blood? and they took so much out of me that last time...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That's it, go on, growled Matt in an undertone." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "They're all getting better, sir; and, consequently, they're as cross as two sticks. What a thing it is! There seems to be no gratitude amongst them; and really, sir, if it wasn't for the n...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You don't know how much longer you will be here?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Not for certain, sir; but I think only for a few more days. But it's wonderful what a difference they have made in me. I mean to go in for a fortune, sir, as soon as I'm out; and then I s...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But, said Septimus," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What can you do? said the old man.--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "There, I 've just done, sir, and we'll go into that directly.--Who can you get to go through what these women do, unless it's these Si...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No, he muttered," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Wish I had a pinch of snuff once more. There now; I'm blest. Only to think of that! me having my box in my pocket, and to forget all about it--shows what my head's worth now. Bravo! though; that seems to clear one's hea...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ah! and so she comes and plays with the kid when I'm out, does she? said Mr Jarker, in a ruminating tone." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ah! we knows what that means, my chicking, don't we?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ah! we knows what that means, don't we, my chicking? repeated Mr Jarker, turning once more from the window." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Come here to yer daddy, d'yer hear!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now, then! cried Mr Jarker," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Now, then! cried Jarker sharply," }, { "from": "human", "value": "She's gallus deep for such a little un." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Here, come here," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Now mind this here: nex' time she comes and plays with you, my chickin', perhaps she'll say, `Would you like me to be your new mammy?' she'll say; and then, `Yes,' says you; d'yer hear? `yes,' says you. Now say it." }...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Jean, Jean! but you are _bete--fou_!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I hate him, I hate him!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Whatcher going to stand, Bill? said a gentleman of his acquaintance, a gentleman with a voice singularly like one that had been heard in the old Grange at Somesham upon a memorable night. This gentleman had a piece of straw in his mouth, and his hands in his pockets, his coiffur...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Our beauty, some of us. Once admitting doubt to his breast, the strange thoughts teemed in, bringing up the woman he had seen and tracked in vain, and above all the low ruffian whom he had seen dogging the fair girl's footsteps but that very day, when love had whispered," }, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "For the neglected child! What a gloomy starting-point for another train of thought, embracing its mother, tall, dark, and rouge-cheeked; Jarker, the ruffian, tracking Lucy's steps; and lastly, _ma mere_, who seemed even then whispering in his ear," }, { "from": "gpt", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "God bless you! Don't stay talking to me; go now. I'll get it away directly he will let me. I have been five times already; but he was either there, or some one of his companions waiting about." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "O, this weary, weary deceit!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hold hard here!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'll get out here," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Here I am, he said;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "King Space come back to my dominions. I wasn't going to ride and lose the pleasure of seeing it all. Thank God there's no whitewash here, and everything's just as I left it; things looking as if they hadn't stirred a...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Slow work, sir, said Matt, stopping again," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "he continued, taking a pinch of snuff," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "God bless you, mate! said Matt aloud," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What, Matt!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What's left of me, sir--what's left, said the old man cheerily;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But where? when?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "And there was the name--`Mrs Hardon, medicine and attendance, so much;' but of course I thought nothing of it ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Might have waited for me to dance at the wedding," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now, Ike, we want to go over the waste-paper." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Stop!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now, said Mrs Gross, with a very fat smile and a knowing twinkle of her eye as she sank her voice to a whisper," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Is it deeds?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Who married the kitchen-stuff? shouted a small voice at the door, and Mrs Gross angrily waddled out in pursuit, to the great delight of half a score of the small inhabitants of Serle's-place, one of whom danced a defiant _pas seul_ in a tray of rusty keys as he fled, laughing th...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Gross, then, growled Matt." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Now look here, he continued;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Put it down on paper, then, said Isaac," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ikey, growled Matt," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I didn't think you had been such a Jew. If you haven't let my rooms, you can get yourself a fresh tenant." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'll take my Bible oath it was in a book I saw laid upon that heap. Now then, where's some more?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No more anywheres," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Sure?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Where is it, then?" }, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, my little chickin', you do for a bait." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "She must be ill, Lucy would think," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I will sell the bird myself; it is waste, it is pity, when we are so poor, _ma mere_ would exclaim; and then Jean would turn upon her a peculiar soft, sweet smile, and whisper," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, _ma mere_, you will not sell my bird, because I love it...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Lucy, my poor dove, he whispered," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Our beauty, some of us," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "A lie, a base lie!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I must prosecute the villain!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But the pain--the exposure--your child?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "What! would you have him go unpunished?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I would say `No!' directly, replied th...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Come with me," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why, why? she exclaimed passionately, struggling with him the while." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Why do you stop me? Why do you pursue me--you, too, a clergyman?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You are not afraid of the world and it's opinions, she said bitterly;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am miserable, wretched, she sobbed," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Lost, lost, lost for ever!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What shall I do, sir? she cried at length, wearily looking up in the face that bent over her." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I would take my little one away and go near the place no more, for I have been seldom lately, not liking that he should see me with her, for h...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, yes, sir, said Matt, standing hat in hand," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And now we'll go, then, Matt," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Go, sir?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, said Septimus," }, { "from": "human", "valu...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hallo! said Matt," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Fine thick paper, too, she was using, such as would weigh well and add to the rather fine profit she obtained upon her fragrant weed. For there was no mistake: Miss Tollicks had executed her threat, turned the register...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I do suffer so from spasms, said Miss Tollicks as she placed the suspicious-looking spirit-bottle upon the table; but all these preparations were not made at once, for, from her many pops in and out of the shop, and the rattling of the scales, it was evident that Miss Tollicks h...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why didn't she make it snuff?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The other end first, sir," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What is the matter? Have you burnt yourself?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Is it, sir?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why didn't I give you a splint! exclaimed Miss Tollicks, whose mind was full of goose-grease, starch-powder, and cotton-wool." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Is it very bad?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The date's burnt off. Where did you get this?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "O, what have I done? exclaimed Miss Tollicks." }, { "from": "human", "value": "What is the matter?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Nothing, nothing, said Septimus, loo...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Have you any more of these sheets--these book-leaves?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Those are not the same, said Septimus despondently;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, said Miss Tollicks dolefully, as she examined the few remaining squares upon the counter;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "But, stammered Septimus," }, { "from...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Makes worse of it, muttered old Matt to himself;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "he said aloud," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I suppose, said Septimus to one red-faced gentleman," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, no, sir, I don't think as it would." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Have a little more sugar, said Miss Tollicks to the man of the bitter cup." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What a tiresome world this is! And only to think of me buying that very paper, and the great dirty ruffian of a man bringing it home, and wanting to buy half-a-p...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ah, sir, said Matt, as he hugged a lamp-post," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Cold, cold, cold, sir! shivered the poor old fellow after a pause, as he looked down the long deserted City streets, that teemed so with busy life in the daytime." }, { "from": "huma...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now look here, sir, said Matt, as though he had not been interrupted for an instant," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "said Matt pitifully, as the cold night wind swept down the street, and he shivered miserably," }, { "from": "human", "value": "shivered the...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now, policemen are all very well, sir, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "said Matt," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ugh-h-h, how cold these seats are! Rich corporation like the City, too, and not have the decency to put a few cushions for a poor fellow! Just like to put stone seats round the table on Lord Mayor's Day. Wonder how the aldermen, sheriffs, and common council would like it! Spoil ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ah! muttered Matt softly," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You weren't thinking of that, were you?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Thinking of what, my lass?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Going over?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No, no, my lass, no, said Matt wearily, as he sank in a sitting posture upon the stone seat." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have thought of such a thing--time back; but not lately. I have thought that it would be putting an end to a weary way when one gets very foo...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I saw one of our girls once; she went off Waterloo, and they got her out, and she looked so quiet and happy like. But there, she added in a reckless, offhand way," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I sha'n't do it, I haven't the heart. There, you needn't hold me, old man...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Lend me threepence, old man!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What for?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Glass of brandy," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I haven't a halfpenny left, said Matt drearily," }, { "from": "human", "value": ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There! she exclaimed passionately, as Matt spoke soothingly to her;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I know, and I deserve it all. I wish I was dead--I wish I was dead!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I didn't mean to hurt you, said Matt kindly." }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Bridge of Sighs." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Come on, matey; heaps o' room to-night. Give's a pipe o' baccy." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "All right," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Can't stand that now, muttered Matt;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "O, that it were day once more!" } ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It's that poor girl!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Eleanor what? said the coroner, frowning very severely, and oozing all over his very high, bald forehead with the quintessence of morality; for the poor girl shivered before him, and looked appealingly from face to face of the jurymen." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Found dead." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Strange as we should meet again after talking as we did." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, yes, said the girl sadly;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Didn't know her by that name, said Matt;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well!" }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Poor, poor Marian! sobbed the girl, stopping by a doorway." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Told me to read the words she had marked in the Bible, and then to go and do that!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well, well, well, said the old man," }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There, my lass, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What for?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "It's a whim of mine, that's all, said Matt." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But you'll--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "What paper ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Gets over the ground well, muttered the old man, wiping his forehead;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My lass, you'll let me have that book, won't you?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I wonder what it's for?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now for it!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Meant for me! muttered Bill; and again, as he turned hotter," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I wonder what it's for?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Stop thief! stop thief!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "They're gallus clever! growled the ruffian when, after pressing on a little further, he once more stopped short--" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If I only had one of their gallus lights!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Curse 'em! I shall be gnawed to death!" } ]