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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You will never come back to us--I know it, I feel it! You will be murdered by some gang of cut-throats, and then what will I--I mean your mother, do?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Drive on!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If you press your eyes to the back of your head as far as you can, she whispered to me," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And again:" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I can say, 'We beseech Thee!' seven times over while the choir are singing it, if we have Ja...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Shall I get them to clear away now?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It's to be impromptu, mamma, entreated the Miss Jamiesons in agitated whispers. It had been decided between them that Gracie, as the youngest of the party, should exclaim suddenly, as if by some happy...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Don't you think, he began ponderously, as he seated himself beside me after the rather heavy fatigue of dancing on a lawn to the strains of a band that did not keep scrupulous time--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What I think, he went on," }, { "from": "huma...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I hope you are not very tired, she said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Your journey from London and then this little dance must be very fatiguing, I am afraid." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Men don't get tired," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "She's a very nice-looking girl, said Mr. Swinnerton approvingly," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "She do take on like that tur'ble queer, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, said Mrs. Pettifer;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I always say to myself, 'She's got him, and he ain't disappointed her after all.'" }, { "from": "gpt", "v...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "After death, said Mettie," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "she said," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My dear Mettie, I said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I should certainly write to him--write often, write affectionately, send him your photograph, work him a housewife for his cabin, carve him a frame for your photograph. I am delighted----" }, { "from": "h...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Your very affectionate niece," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "MECKLENBURGH SQUARE, _August_ 1845." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Cream or sugar, weak or strong?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Mettie, did you get your letters?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Eliza, which is your napkin-ring?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Please say what you will have; I have asked you ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What about the Church Council work? I am afraid we have forgotten it." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That's my business, said Gracie tragically;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Dear Gracie, said Margaret," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I woul...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "for the house. And the whole expense of it had been covered by exactly the sum of money that they had laid by for the purpose. Kate continued," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But I will not bore you with a description of the house, for I want you to see it for yoursel...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I have accepted for us both from Thursday to Tuesday, said Palestrina firmly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, by-the-bye, she said, rising and going indoors," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I just sent a line to Dr. Fergus at the same time to say that...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Of course, she said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "and we warmly protested against that being of the least consequence. But Kate said with her usual common sense:" }, { "from": "human", "value": "It does matter, really. No one thinks anything of you if y...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The excellent old papa of the firm of Finlayson and Merritt was really the most human and the least alarming of the whole party. He seemed quite pleased when Palestrina, in her soft gurgling way, admired his greenhouses and peaches, and he led her back to where his lady (" }, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "One feels so lost in a place like this, said Mrs. Next Door;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I wonder if I shall begin to sail about soon? Isn't it funny! They all do it, and now that the band has begun I feel that I must do it too." }, { "from": "human", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I think Kate must have overheard the remark, for she became a little nervous towards the end of the afternoon, and presently said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Perhaps we ought to be going? But young Finlayson was here suddenly introduced to her by one of his siste...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am glad we came, said Palestrina that night, when Mrs. Ward had quitted the room." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Dear old Kate!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Every one seems to have come over to hear about your London visit, said Mrs. Fielden lightly," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Another operation--yes, four or five weeks in bed at least." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I sent Maud and Mr. Ellicomb home tog...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "At present, said Mrs. Fielden," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I wish, said Palestrina," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, I forgot to tell you, said Mrs. Fielden," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I have three dear old sisters-in-law staying with me, said Mrs. Fielden," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Won't they be anxious about you?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Perhaps, said Mrs. Fielden, raising her pretty eyebrows in the old affected way;" }...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "To-morrow, I said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am going to have my last dissipation. I am going to the Traceys' tea-party." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I am certainly going too, said Mrs. Fielden." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I beli...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "and both tea and coffee are provided, suggesting the elegance and savour of London refreshments. This is distinctly pleasing, though it is felt that a single cup of tea drunk while standing has not got the comfort of former old-fashioned days. Miss Belinda lives on at the little...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "as Miss Ruby explained to me," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Do you mind coming round by the post-office? I am expecting a letter." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, Hugo, read it!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yours very truly," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, madam; this dear, delightful, pretty house is to let;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Of course, it is a very nice house, she said politely;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I ken it's mair than the hoose is worth, said the old dame;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I keep Thursdays for my creestal and my napery." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Monday, you know, is our early-closing night; and she fetches you a candle and dispatches you to bed. Mrs. Macdonald and her housemaid--there seem to be plenty of servants to do the work of the house--walk the whole of the drawing-room furniture into the hall, Mrs. Macdonald loo...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But then it is so much pleasanter when they are complacent." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He was a rale decent gentleman, said Mrs. Gemmil," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I do like the servants to have the entire day for the passages on Saturday," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is far away from everything, she said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It can't be far from the Melfords, said Thomas, pulling out a map." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, I thought so; they are just the other side of the loch." }, { "from":...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A gran' wumman, say the old villagers," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "came to call upon us. It was very difficult indeed, and for some time we could hardly believe that these were the Finlaysons whom we had met at Clarkham, and who, we now remembered, had told us tha...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Pure Early Scottish," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "So dangerous, said Mrs. Finlayson," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I always like a walled garden, she said;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Mr. Finlayson found a reflected glory even in the loch and the hills, and he waved his fat hand towards them, and said:" }, { "from": "human", "value": "We are able to do you a nice b...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ye'll no need tae say that Sandy Macnichol ever helpit ye tae the deil." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Do you know my wife?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, replied Thomas." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I have met her several times since we came to the cottage." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Hoo old should ye think she was?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Presairve us! said the Laird." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "This lad here says my wife is forty-five! He began to sob bitterly, and, putting his handkerchief to his eyes, cried," }, { "from": "human", "value": "My pretty wee Jeannie, my bonnie wee wife, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We are far behind the Finlaysons in all things Scottish. I shall buy a Harris tweed skirt, and you and Thomas must buy something too. So we drove down in the coach to the ferry on a very wet and windy day to cross over to the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Establishe...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I do hope, she said to Hughie," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Pit him inside the coach wi' Mrs. Macfadyen, and she'll sort him! She'll gie him the Gaelic!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Ay, she's the gran' wumman wi' her tongue! And during the rest of t...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Lift in my leg, Angus! Juist gie me a hand wi' ma last leg!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why don't you get off?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'm waiting for the Lord." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Don't urge him, dear; we shall get off in time. And the younger sailor said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We are waiting for the Lord." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "is a daily excitement, then called out in shrill, high voices," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "There's the Lord! She's aff!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How interesting!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, I don't know, said my sister;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Every one must have some relations, said Mr. Macorquodale;" }, { "from": "human", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I sent Kate a scent-bottle when she married, he remarked." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I won it at a bazaar for sixpence, so it was not expensive. I don't disapprove of raffles, he added, although he had not been asked for this piece of information--" }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'm amazed at ye! Do ye ever consider the system of planets, and that this world is one of the lesser points of light in space, and that even here there are countless millions of human beings, full of great resolves and high purposes. Get outside yourselves, ladies and gentlemen...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I never half thanked you for being so good to me when I was ill;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Was I kind to you? I don't believe I was, really. If I was, I'm sure I forget all about it. Let me see, how long were you ill? It can't have been a bit amusing for you," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But you can't have amused me properly, she says," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Do you know, she said, putting on a charming gravity and lifting her eyebrows in a provoking, childish way," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am afraid you had a horribly early start to join the yacht the other day, said Lord Melford," }, { "from": "human", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There is something rather horrible, don't you think so, she said," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Wee Sinkler, and sneers at" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "and Evan invariably addresses Macorquodale as" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Taurbarrels," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The minister, said Evan, when he had walked up the hill to see...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Evan Sinclair, said the minister," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And we'll settle it in the graveyard afterwards, said Evan dryly." }, { "from": "human", "value": "And ye're not in very good training, my man." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Dou...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I suppose, said Mrs. Fielden, who is never affected by bad weather," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I think I shall write a number of unnecessary letters to absent friends, said Palestrina." }, { "from": "human", "value": "And Mr. Ellicomb and Sir Anthony ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Don't call it a church!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh! don't be an ass, Ellicomb." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Can he be in love? said Palestrina;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, that will be delightful!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I rather wonder, said Palestrina," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Depend upon it, there is a great bit of news coming, said Thomas." }, { "from": "human", "value": "The Jamiesons always maintain a dramatic silence just before announcing some tremendous pie...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "At first I was afraid to say, or even to allow myself to think, he showed me any preference, but Maud thought from the first that he was struck, and I asked her not to appear at all until everything was settled, for you know how attractive she is. But I really don't think that e...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Welcome to the Glen." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Finlaysons did us uncommonly well, and shouted out," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Not at all bad people, not at all bad." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "and they shook hands with every one in an effusive way, and condescended to a queer sort of familiarity with the boatmen and keepers about the place. The daughters of the house, with flying tartan ribbons, swung the young gillies about in the intricate figures of the hoolichan, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Come back! come back!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hame, hame, hame! the pipes sob forth, crying for the homes that are sold to strangers, and for the hills and the glens which pass away from the old hands. It is" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Good-bye, good-bye," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Don't stay longer than you feel inclined, she said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I told them to come for you in the dog-cart, and to wait about for you between twelve and one." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I will take a turn down on the shore, I said...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Have you come to tell me that I am to go in and dance reels with old Mr. Finlayson? she said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It is really so much pleasanter out here. Do sit down and talk to Sir Anthony and me." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I am awfull...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We shan't eat everything before you come," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What a good sort she is!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Utterly spoilt!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Not a bit, he replied;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Allow me, Anthony, I said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, blow cripples! said Anthony." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What shall you be doing when you go back, Anthony? I said, harking back to my old question, and hoping for more information than I actually asked for." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Are you going straight home?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'll be at ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I have a thousand things to do," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I also have a thousand things to do," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Don't tire yourself, said Palestrina." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What are you going to do?" }, { "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I have been educating a pair of young boots by walking through all the bogs on the hillside. Listen, they are quite full of water." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You must change directly," }, { "from": "human", "value": "When I have done so I think I shal...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What have you been doing with yourself this afternoon?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The minister and Evan Sinclair came up to say good-bye," }, { "from": "human", "value": "And since then?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Since then, I said," ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I think I must see the diary," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That you certainly shall not," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I thought you promised," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If I did I have changed my mind," }, { "from": "human", "value": "You know you mean all the time to let me see it," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I know I do not mean to let you see it for...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I had now put" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "and for" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I put a" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "and she read till she came to the last correction of all. I had run a line through the words" }, { "from": "hu...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is a grim coincidence," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You get me those things done as quick as you can, please, Shade." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Compiler's Foreword" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Anyway, you will help me, Lester? You will come?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Folk-Lore" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Take down the Key." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Wells and" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Lawkamercy and archaic touches, which are known nowadays as vulgarisms. From former experience, I find that each of these principles has met with some dissent from critics who have written from the high and lofty standpoint of...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "English." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "--_i.e._, the archaic. Now there is just a touch of snobbery in objecting to these archaisms and calling them" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "These tales have been told, if not from time immemorial, at least for several generations, in a special form which includes di...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Science of Folk Tales and the Problem of Diffusion" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Please your Honour, says he," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Show him in," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'm called the Pied Piper, he began." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And pray what might you be willing to pay me, if I rid you of every single rat in Franchville?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Come, my good man, said he," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Fifty pounds was what I bargained for, said the piper shortly;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Would you threaten us, you strolling vagabond? shrieked the Mayor, and at the same time he winked to...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Will you marry me?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That I will, to be sure," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Wife can you milk-y?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, yes, Jan, I can milk-y. Mother used to milk-y, when I lived home." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, well, there, never mind, my dear, better luck next time." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Wife can you serve pigs?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, yes, Jan, I can serve pigs. Mother used to serve pigs when I lived home." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, well, there, never mind, my dear, better luck next time." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Wife can you bake-y?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, yes, Jan, I can bake-y. Mother used to bake-y when I lived home." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, well, there, never mind, my dear, better luck next time." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Wife can you brew-y?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, yes, Jan, I can brew-y. Mother used to brew-y when I lived home." }, { "from": "gpt", "value"...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh well, there, never mind, my dear, better luck next time." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "When she was taking down her big bed she found a bag of groats on the tester. So when Jan came home, she up and said to him," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Jan, w...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Jan, Hereafterthis has been for the bag of groats." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What do you mean, wife?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Then I'm a ruined man, for that money was to pay our rent with. The only thing we can do is to roam the world over t...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now's our time," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There comes half our master, give us the other half." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It's no use of thee, thou pair of legs, standing alone at the window, as thou hast no eye to see with, so go join thy brother;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Go, get the...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now, lass, thou must hang by the neck till thou be'st dead." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Stop, stop, I think I see my mother coming! O mother, hast brought my golden ball And come to set me free?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I've neither brought thy...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "in the glen below, and the" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The safest bed to bide in, such a night as this!" } ]