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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Thar'd be nothin' in it if you do. That motto's only one of Colonel Sterett's bluffs, one of his witticisms that a-way. You don't reckon that, in a sparsely settled country, whar the pop'lation is few an' far between, the Colonel's goin' to go bumpin' off a subscriber over mebby...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That's the end. This yere ontoward finale to our cel'bration gets wide-flung notice in print, an' instead of bein' a boost, as we-all hopes, Wolfville an' Red Dog becomes a jest an' jeer. Also, while it don't sour the friendly relations of the two camps, the simple mention of Fo...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Shore, son, I savvys what you means." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Said difference, son, is as a spanless gulf. A vig'lance committee is the coolest kind of comin' together of the integrity an' the brains of a commoonity. A mob, on the other hand, is a chance-blown convention of deestructionists, as savagely brainless as a pack of timber wolves...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mebby you-all recalls about that Polish artist person? suggested the old cattleman, tentatively;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "My gray old _campa鎑ro_ was measuring out what he called his" }, { "from": "human", "value": "and, since this ceremony necessita...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "WHAT'S THE SUBJECT? PEETS ASKS." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "THAT, MY FRIEND, IS THE 'LINDEN IN OCTOBER,'" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Which they starts the yarn in Red Dog that the shootin' that time between Tutt an' Texas is born of sectional feelin', an' because Texas is a southern gent, while Tutt comes from the No'th. Sech explainations is absurd--as Doc Peets well says. Also, I'm yere to go one word furth...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Thar's one boast we-all is able to make, however. That clash between Tutt an' Texas is the only shore-enough trouble which ever breaks out among the boys. You onderstands, of course, that when I says 'boys' that a-way, I alloodes to Enright an' Peets an' them others who constito...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "HIM AN' ANNALINDA SHORE DO CONSTITOOTE A PICTURE. 'THAR'S A PA'R TO DRAW TO,' SAYS NELL TO TEXAS, HER EYES LIKE BROWN DIAMONDS." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What Peets calls 'the logic of the sityooation' p'ints to licker all around; an', as we-all drinks to the onclouded future of Annalinda an' little Enright Peets, Texas an' Tutt ag'in shakes mighty fervent for the second time." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "WHOOPS!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No one preetends to hold a watch. Thar's one thing, though, which looks like he was shore goin' some. Tutt on the way back picks up a dead jack-rabbit, that's been run over by the hearse." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "ONLESS GIRLS IS BARRED, DECLARES FARO NELL, FROM HER PERCH ON THE CHAIR" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'VE A NOTION TO TAKE A HAND." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Fellers, give 'em hell! I ain't got time to fight." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We plants Spellin' Book Ben on Boot Hill as per that sufferer's last request, an' Red Dog graces the obsequies to a man. Thar Spellin' Book lies to-day; an' the story of his ontoward takin' off, as told on that tombstone conj'intly erected as aforesaid by Wolfville an' Red Dog, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "MAVERICKS" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Wolf! Wolf!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "She's very like her Aunt Jane," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sir, I said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You astound me." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Do you remember that awful quarrel we had about annexing Canada to the United States?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "SWING LOW, SWEET CHARIOT" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Let there be light!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Hayward Exhibition will open Monday," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Pardon me, but can you tell me whose pictures these are?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "These are Hayward's," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Hayward," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Hayward is a young artist and of purely local reputation, he ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A man had given all other bliss And all his worldly worth for this, To waste his whole heart in one kiss Upon her perfect lips." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Heigho, fellows! Hayward's got a new mark for his clothes! Look here--'Constance Grey'!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "was auspicious. Wealth and art alike were well represented. One of his most important pictures was marked" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mr. Hayward, she said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I want you to know my niece." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Mr. Hayward, she said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am so ashamed! And when he tried to reassure her, she answered:" }, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I think you know the man now,--will you tell me what you think of his pictures?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I do not know the man well enough to say, but I will give you my art creed, and let you judge for yourself. I believe that a man's art is neither more nor l...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You'll help me, won't you?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Indeed I will, if I only can." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, you perfect thing, you perfect thing, you don't know what you are to me! Constance, let me come!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I cannot promise what you ask, but you may come and see me if you wish." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Listen, she said," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I must be true to myself and to you, she said," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Look here, old fellow, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why, Jennings, old boy, I haven't cut anybody." }, { "from": "human", "value": "No, but you've tired of us, and you can't hide it. Come down the river with us to-night. The fellows have got a ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "She was right," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Wait, he said to the messenger boy. Hurriedly he wrote the answer:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Sailing next steamer" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Come, Margaret, you're the chairman of this committee; please tell us what it is all for," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is to reach this class of people that this work has been undertaken, and for this purpose our committee has been appointed. Fifteen or twenty magazines and illustrated papers come to us every month--even to the few who are here to-day: perhaps some of you see even more than t...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Katherine dear, she said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Not at all," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Wonder where she keeps her note-book! Oh, here it is, and here is the list. She copied busily." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "One, two, three...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My dear, said the lady," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I've lost an address that troubles me, and I think it may have been on the card that I gave you the other day." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'll see, replied Margaret," }, { "from": "gpt",...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It's no queerer than the one I got from the Kansas woman, she decided." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "At any rate, they both seem glad to get them and they shall have some more." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, confound it, he groaned," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Desirability of Annexing Canada to the United States," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Go away, Rex, I want to think. The wretch! To ask for my photograph! He evidently doesn't know his place! I'll teach him where it is and then take the name of the impertinent creature off my list!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You're a dreadfully nice doggie, but I wish you'd go away and not bother me." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, Rex, it's got to be done. I'm sorry to sacrifice any of your beauty, but you've got to get your mistress out of a scrape. Come on!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I don't give my pictures to young men, nor old ones either, but I enclose a lock of hair which I have cut off on purpose for you, and I hope you will be pleased with it." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Hair like this and violet eyes, soliloquised Ross." }, { "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Emperor walked over, and seemed interested. His master did not notice him, being absorbed in the letter; at last the dog sniffed uneasily, and then growled, so Ross looked up and was surprised to find him pawing something vigorously. Still Ross did not see what the dog had." }...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I quite agree with you concerning the beauty of the hair, she wrote." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It came from my beautiful Irish setter, and I am very glad you are pleased with it, though to tell the truth, I should think you utterly heartless if you were not." ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Rex! Rex! Come here." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'm stronger than you, Ross said," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Do you know, Bob, she went on," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Margaret, she said unsteadily," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I must go home." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why, Katherine, you were going to stay all night!" }, { "from"...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'm afraid to be out alone--in the city." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, replied her escort cheerily," }, { "from": "human", "value": "You are tired and nervous, Miss Bryant, and I beg you to think no more about what has happened. You have no idea how...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Bob, why don't you go into business with your uncle and become a good American citizen? We'd love to have you with us, and there is surely a good opening here." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'll think about it," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Rex, said Katherine, one day," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Do you remember that awful quarrel we had about annexing Canada to the United States?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What do you think about it now?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I--I don't know," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I give in, he...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Dearest, this entire affair has been coloured, and suggested by, and mixed up with dogs. I think now there will be an interval of peace for at least ten minutes, and I am asking you to marry me." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes with a throb of joy which even the co...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And yet we cannot believe these Children of Silence to be unhappy. Mrs. Browning says that 'closed eyes see more truly than ever open do,' and may there not be another world of music for those to whom our own is soundless? In a certain sense they are utterly beyond the pain that...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Where are you, girlie?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Up stairs, dear. I'll be down in a minute," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Here's the evening paper." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Thank you." }, { "from": "human", "value": "How nice of you to come by the early train! I didn't expect you until later." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "There wasn't much going on in town...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Dinner ready? I'm as hungry as a bear." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, it's half past seven, and I've got to go over to Mrs. Brown's and practise a duet with her for to-morrow." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, yes, the duet. What is it this time?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, Mrs. Brown is very charming, don'...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "God's Acre" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Thank God, bless God, all ye who suffer not More grief than ye can weep for----" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, baby dear, she sobbed, pressing her lips to the cold turf above him," }, { "from": "gpt"...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mrs. Ward!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I just came around the corner here." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I may walk home with you, may I not?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Certainly." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mrs. Ward, you are in trouble. Tell me, perhaps I can help you. She was silent." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Dorothy, you will let me call you so, will you not? You know how much I cared for you in a boy's impulsive fashion, in the old days when we were at school; ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Good evening, Mrs. Brown. No, thank you, I won't come in. Just ask Jack if I may see him a minute on a matter of business." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'll be with you in a minute, Fred, he said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Good night, Mrs. Brown;...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I don't deserve her, he said to himself," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Going home, Mr. Ward? It's early, isn't it?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But, with scarcely perceptible emphasis," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Then as her eager eye caught a glimpse of the roses," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ah, but yo...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hello, Dorothy, as the pale face rose from the pillow in surprise." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I've brought you some roses!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Dear little girl, your head aches, doesn't it? He drew her up beside him and put his cool fingers on the throbbing temples. Her heart beat wildly and happy tears filled her eyes as Jack bent down and kissed her tenderly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "My sweetheart! ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Come," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, it's you, she cried." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I thought it was the janitor!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Sorry you're disappointed, returned Hilliard jovially." }, { "from": "human", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This is final?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, please believe me--it _must_ be final; there is no other way. I don't want lovers--I want friends." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You want me, then, to change my love to friendship?" }, { "from"...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Women like you don't know what you do, he said harshly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You hold a man captive with your charm, become so vitally necessary to him that you are nothing less than life, enmesh, ensnare him at every opportunity, then offer him the cold co...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I wish, she said to herself as she put the room in order," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "When you dedicate your whole life to a thing, you simply must have it." }, { "from": "human", "value": "We'll see, he said to himself grimly," }, { "from": "g...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "So this is Bohemia?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes,--why not?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I was thinking it must be a pretty poor place if this is a fair sample of the inhabitants," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I do not see why you s...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You cannot write until you have lived," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have failed, she said aloud," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I have failed--failed--failed." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I have failed, she said miserably," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have failed." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I've given up everything for my art, she said, with a little quiver of the lips," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You are trying to...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sweetheart," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, she said humbly," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I must say it all myself. You are right, and I am wrong. I must live before I am a woman and I must be a woman before I can be an artist. I have cared for you...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Have I not humbled myself enough? Is there anything more I can say? I should not blame you if you went away, I know I deserve it all." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You will forget," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Forget, he said to himself again and again." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You can't forget your heart, he had answered," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "God gives us hearts--and breaks them," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I will go to her, he whispered," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Once to every human being, God gives suffering--the anguish that cuts, burns and stings. The terrible 'one day' always comes and after it our hearts are sometimes cruel and selfish--or sometimes tender as He wishes them to be." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Was it you played the music? said the sweet child voice." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I heard it and I comed in!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Dear, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Home, she said wonderingly." }, { "from":...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sweetheart, he called," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have brought you a Christmas gift, dear." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Theodora--Gift of God, he said reverently. Then as the clouds parted, and the moonlight filled every nook and corner of the little room:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Dearest, we cannot forget, but we can be brave, and our Gift of God, shall keep us; shall it be so?...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Look at that girl over there." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I suppose, said Clayton, speaking tentatively, and gazing at the girl," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We have no right to say a word, returned Arnold," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "She hasn't suffered yet, he said grimly," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You're just a cog in the machine, he said to Clayton one day." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Some day the thing goes wrong, and they find out it's your particular cog, and they get a new one. That's all there is to it." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Great American Novel" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hush, she said, in a voice of mellow sweetness which soothed him inexpressibly," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Compound fracture," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I say, he said huskily, one morning," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I want you t...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Madonna." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It means 'my lady', he said to her one day," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A Denial." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Of what are you thinking, Madonna?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Of this--of what it must be for a man and woman who love each other to go away like this--because it isn't right for them to be together--never to...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "They told me it would blossom for Easter," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "After Easter, she said bravely," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I won't keep you." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It had to climb up through a pretty dark place to find the light, didn't it, Madonna? he asked." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I suppose that's the way people do, and God knows I've had my share of the dark." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You know, Mado...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I saw your sweet face at a curbstone meeting once, in the days when I wasn't an outcast, and it's haunted me ever since. I wanted to find the peace which made you so secure and happy--to get at your secret of life. I wanted to be more worthy of--" }, { "from": "gpt", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Can it be possible that you--that you--I never dreamed--Oh, Madonna! Forgive me--if you can." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You are not in the least to blame. I have had no thought of you she could not know." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I am not worth...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No, she said brokenly," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why? Dear God, why must it be?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "A Denial" }, { "from": "human", "value": "So farewell, thou whom I have met too late To let thee come so near; Be counted happy--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If only she can care...