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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Where is the sofa? The sofa had been for sale for fifteen years, and had at last been purchased. There are other things in the shop which I think must have been there much longer, and I believe their owner would part with them with regret, even were a very fair profit to be obta...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How do you do? she said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I suppose you have heard about Belinda and the champagne?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sir John" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I used to know him." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ah! I replied." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I suppose he has often been down to stay with the Taylors?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He has not been once in twenty years," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Which way are you going? and to accompany their friend a little way along the sunny, uneven pavement, while offers to come in and rest are generally given and accepted at the end of the promenade. Of course it is quite unusual for gentlemen to be detained in this way, and I am s...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Fancy goods in great variety" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "she explains," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I see Hearne has scored sixty-eight at cricket, not out. That's not bad, you know. Kent ought to be looking up. The Australians are doing well. Yorkshire might do better. Extraordinary! Here's this chap who promised so well bowled for a duck! This from the eldest son of the Hous...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Here's our Kate going to be married!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Never mind, Maud; it will be your turn next." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I hope to bring him down to stay when I return; please let him have the south bedroom, as that is the warmest, and I do not think James is very strong. I should like him to have a fire at night--I can arrange that with mother, as I feel quite well off now. We are to be married i...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There is one thing, said Mrs. Jamieson when, at the request of The Family, Palestrina went to sit with her one afternoon a few weeks later, to support her through the trying ordeal of waiting for Kate and" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "James, as he is now familiarly ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "They look very handsome," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is the first break in the family, said Mrs. Jamieson tearfully," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "They should be here soon," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Kate says he is quite a gentleman," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I hope he is not one of your grandees, she said apprehensively;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I would not like to think of Kate not being up to him. But their father was a gentleman--the most perfect gentleman I ever knew, and I have always that to think of. Still, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This is Mr. Ward, mamma." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Surely they will spare him any more introductions before supper, I thought; but the door had again opened, and Mettie and the Pirate Boy entered, and some unhappy chance was causing these last comers to comment ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I only once, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "--Kennie's voice deepened, and he spoke with the air of a man who will spare a weak fellow-mortal all he can in the telling of his tale, and he enunciated all his words with a measured calm which was very impressiv...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "which up to the present we believed in all simplicity to mean to" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Was Coleridge a genius or a crank?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "How would you define a genius? The Socratic habit of asking for a definition is one that is always adopted during our discussions, and it is generally demanded in the tone of voice in which one says" ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hypothesis of Purpose" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, that will be very nice!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mamma thought she had enough children already, but I suppose God thought otherwise." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Please don't go." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am sure, said Eliza," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We should all be thankful, piped forth Mettie, who is always ready to talk," }, { "from": "human", "value": "O Mettie, dear! while Mrs. Fielden made an excuse for walking over to the piano. There was a...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ethically considered, my dear Palestrina, said Eliza," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Don't let us consider it ethically," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Ethically considered, repeated Eliza," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "They are really not ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A woman could have done it in five minutes." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If I had only chosen the other I might have been a happy widow now!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What has Mullens been doing to the silver, my dear? it looks unusually bright; while his greeting to his friends as they arrive at his house, though distinctly cordial, often takes the form of a hearty" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I had no idea that we were going t...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There are the Jamiesons," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I must say, said Major Jacobs," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "William!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If Confession, now, became more general in the English Church, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I hope so, indeed," }, { "from": "human", "value": "The Anglican Church, said Mr. Ellicomb," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have been in re...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He is a man that I shall feel the utmost confidence in taking about with me everywhere." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If I didn't like them, I shouldn't wear them, says Anthony. He is a short, spare man, with a voice somewhat out of proportion to his size, and the b...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Do you care for Scotch songs?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Have you ever been in Ireland?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Do you know Wales at all? And to these important questions Palestrina made suitable replies." }, { "from": "gpt", "val...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am going to teach you to play Bridge," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That is most kind of you." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I am going to carry you off to Stanby next week to give you lessons," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is very kind of you to want us," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I want Bridge," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Any one will do to make up a rubber, I suppose?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh yes, any one," }, { "from": "human", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We will play Bridge and chaperon you with pleasure," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I thought of drowning myself yesterday, said Mrs. Fielden," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I should advise you to marry, I said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The last man, said Mrs. Fielden gravely," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We are going to study philosophy in the library." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "May I really smoke, I asked," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I look upon smoking as a purely feminine habit, like drinking tea, or having headaches, or anything of that sort, said Mrs. Fielden." }, { "from": "human", "value": "It was simply because it was ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You spend nearly all your days here?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Until the afternoon, I said;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I am glad you like books," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But really, I said," }, { "from": "human", "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I hate yearners, I said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why can't she sing something cheerful?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Poor boy! is it very hard sometimes?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Of course, said Palestrina, as we went upstairs...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How can you be so greedy?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh dear, what shall we do? Down-Jock! down, sir! Oh, he has spoilt my dress! Good doggie, mustn't go to church! Go home! go home! Oh, Jock, do get down!--Look, he is following us still, and the church door is always open; he is sure to come in in the middle of the service, and t...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I must take him back, says Palestrina." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It will make me late of course, but I must go and shut him up." }, { "from": "human", "value": "He won't follow you, I say." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He is quite determ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "and then Down-Jock meets a boy friend strolling off to the fields, and running up to him, says:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "One must conform to conventionalities, but between you and me I never had the remotest intention of going to church." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I wish, she said to me," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Shadrach Pettifer tells me, I said," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Poor thing! or" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am so sorry, so eagerly accepted by more fortunate folk, is received by...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "At home, Thursday the 17th, four to seven, upon it." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "A little abrupt, ladies of Stowel were inclined to think, but of course the Taylors are people of some importance in the place. No one quite knew how to answer the invitation, and a go...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am sorry Miss Lydia cannot come, said Mr. Taylor, when the notes of acceptance were being opened at breakfast-time;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Miss Lydia was never intrusive," }, { "from": "human", "value": "No need to write, I suppose, said Mrs. Lo...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And if, said Mrs. Taylor," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I find that she is appropriating The Uncle too much, I shall not hesitate to remove him, on the plea of introducing him to some other and more important guests." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Laird" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mrs. Taylor said afterwards," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What annoyed every one a little in the days that followed was that Mrs. Lovekin constantly referred to the General as if he had been an old friend; whereas of course it was well known in what an intrusive wa...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am no good at this sort of thing, Mary, The Uncle said before the party began," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Mrs. Taylor turned pale at the suggestion." }, { "from": "human", "value": "It will ruin it! she said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value"...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "to see" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "(playfully)," }, { "from": "human", "value": "she had hardly departed to fulfil her mother's request when Mrs. Lovekin bore down upon the teapot, poured out several of the most distinguished cups of tea, and handed ro...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I dare say, she said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "How is one to know, said Maud," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Little things, said Maud," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Our friend Mrs. Fielden says, I remarked," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Mr. Evans doesn't sniff, said Maud." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I was only citing that as an example of what...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If you care for Mr. Evans--" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am afraid I care for some one else," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Let me see you home," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Have you persuaded her?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I hope you have put a little common sense into her," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Though, of course, said Mettie," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Did she tell you, asked Gracie," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If it had not happened so often! sighed Eliza." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "However, as we do not know Mr. Evans, he can't ask to come down and stay with us, as Mr. Reddy did, so as to have an opportunity of pressing his suit." }, { "from": "human", "va...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The worst of a motor car is, said Mrs. Fielden," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have always been ravenous since I was in South Africa, said one of Mrs. Fielden's colonels, who had driven over in the motor car to take care of her and to bring us back." }, { "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It's so cosy, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Isn't it cosy?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I do think it's a cosy little place." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I always think, she said," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I think we ought to go now, she said, coming out of this wistful reverie like a child awaking from sleep." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Is every one ready?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Hurrah!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I sent you the story of Hylda more than a week ago, I said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I did read it, said Mrs. Fielden gently," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And you pretend, I said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am quite a domestic person sometimes," }, { "from": "human", "value": "It is rather bewildering, I said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I hope I look after you all properly, she said at...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I want to go for a turn in the garden and talk about books," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I call this my Grove of Academe," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Because I think it has a nice classical sound; and it is here I come with my friends and discuss metaphysics." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How is the diary getting on?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The diary, I answered," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, said Mrs. Fielden quickly," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It is an interesting suggestion, I remarked," }, { "from"...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Don't you think, she began," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am afraid I do not quite follow you." }, { "from": "human", "value": "What I mean is, what is the good of filling up years of curates and Taylors and flannel petticoats, unless you are going to ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Remember, Palestrina, I said to my sister when we settled down," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We might give a supper-party, said Palestrina brilliantly," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I think I shall sit on the sofa with my arms spread out on the cushi...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Or you might continue playing the piano, Mrs. Fielden went on," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I shall do my best, Palestrina answered;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Nicknames would be better, said Mrs. Fielden." }, { "from": "gpt", "value":...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Egad! I hope _you_ haven't!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How is South Africa? and to this I could think of no more suitable reply than," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It's all right." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I wish, she said to me when we returned to the drawing-room," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I suppose, I said to my sister when the last guest had departed, and we sat together in the pink light of the drawing-room before going to bed--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I suppose we carry about with us an atmosphere of slowness which it is impossible to penetr...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We hope, said Kate," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "At first, she began," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I thought it must be Maud, although she has but just broken off her engagement to Mr. Evans; still, one knows she is the pretty one, and if any one calls often, it is generally her." }, { "from": "human", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Please do not say anything about it to the others. I always have hoped that if ever I had a love affair it would be when I was away from home. Do you know at all what they think about it?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You see he has called three times in one week, b...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Immediate" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yours affectionately," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Hugo, said Palestrina," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I am sorry I am engaged this afternoon," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It is I who am engaged this afternoon, said my sister smiling,"...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Shall I sit next you, Mrs. Jamieson? I said, for I believed that this was what I was intended to say; but Mr. Swinnerton remarked to Margaret," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'll go next; I like to divide myself amongst the ladies." }, { "from": "human", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I always like these places, said Mr. Swinnerton again;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It is ridiculous, said Mr. Swinnerton," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Don't you agree with me, eh?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I think, said Mrs. Jamies...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hasn't it been lovely? Do tell me what you think--I mean about him." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I haven't had much chance of judging, I replied stupidly;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Still, you mean that one could always alter that, said Margaret q...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why are men always allowed to blunder?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Happy is the woman, said Mrs. Darcey-Jacobs," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I should like to have been born a widow," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Marriage is just an experience, said a shrill-voiced American widow who sat opposite." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Every one should try it, but that is no reason why one should not be thankful when it is over." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I am much ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Some one once said, ventured Major Darcey-Jacobs," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I hope so, indeed," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Marriage is the worst form of gambling, broke in an elderly gentleman;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Of course, said Major Darcey-Jacobs," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And Mrs. Darcey-Jacobs said quickly," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I hope you do not intend to become personal, William." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Of course it is give...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Waal, said the American widow to Mrs. Fielden," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I think you are just lovely, and I would like to play with you always. I believe most people would like to kill me at Bridge. Caan't think why. Colonel Jardine, did you play the lost chord?...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Come to lunch with me some day, she said to me in the off-hand way in which she generally gives an invitation." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am always at home at two o'clock. Why not come to-morrow? You are leaving town almost immediately, are you not?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am so sorry! Do you all know each other?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I want you to drive with me this afternoon," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I think we are going to drive down to Richmond and see some trees and grass, and behave in a rural sort of way this afternoon," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And what about all your engagements for this afternoon? I asked." }, { "from": "human", "value": ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Am I to read it?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "so the letter ran," }, { "from": "human", "value": "And, again, in a postscript:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "When I was younger I was very impatient, and I think I could not well have borne it...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A whim, said Mrs. Fielden." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am full of whims." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I don't really require an arm, I said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It is a very strong arm, said Mrs. Fielden; and she exclaimed quickly," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I believe I am getting fat! My maid tells me all my dresses want altering. I wish...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It was so hard upon him dying before he had had a good time." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Do you think your cook could manage this, Mary? Select a fine pineapple----" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, uncle, said Mrs. Taylor with a good deal of feeling," }, { "from": "human", "value": "What Lydia Blind?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value"...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Let me go alone," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I cannot see the sister, said the General irritably, when he had rejoined me in the darkened room." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Is she still dumb, poor thing? If ever there was a case, he went on," }, { "from": "human", "value": "He sat down on the litt...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "(I believe the General was talking more to himself than to me.)" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It was one night sitting in the veranda that I heard him begin to make love to her for all he was worth, and I had to cut it.... Poor chap! he came into the smoking-room th...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "They are the same sort, but they do not smell so sweet." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "and that he had the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "and that" } ]