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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I killed him! sobbed Billy." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He spoke of me the last of all. He said to Berry Stokes that he--he loved me. And he had a little old picture of me--you remember the one in the daisy frame?--over his heart. Oh, Daddy, Daddy!--always so good...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Just how much money is left, Billy?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, well --Billy had always hated statistics--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Billy scowled, but as Rachael did not speak, she presently came back to the topic." }, { "from": "gp...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I don't believe that Warren ever did one-tenth the silly things we suspected him of! Alice exclaimed one day." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I believe he was just an utter fool, and Magsie took advantage of it!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I see him always as he was that last horrible morning, she said to Alice." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And I pray that I will never look upon his face again!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Don't quote it to me, Alice, she said gently;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But she can't do that! She wrote me herself--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "She's acting for the boys, Magsie. And she's right." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Right! The little actress turned pale as the full significance of his words and tone dawned u...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Magsie, I'm sorry. You can't despise me as I despise myself, dear. I'm ashamed. Some day, perhaps, there'll be something I can do for you, and then you'll see by the way I do it that I want with all my heart to make it up to you. But I'm going away now, Magsie, and we mustn't se...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hello, dearie! But I'm interrupting---" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, hello, darling! No, indeed you're not, Magsie said, tearing up an envelope lazily." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I was trying to write a letter, but I have to think it over befor...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Good morning, Mrs. Gardiner, said Magsie;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He doesn't seem to get better, Miss Clay, said she, almost snorting in her violent effort to breathe quietly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Doctor doesn't say he gets worse, but of course he don't fool me--I know my boy's pretty sick." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What a SHAME!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It's a shame to anyone that knew Rich as I did a few years ago, his mother said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "There wasn't a brighter nor a hardier child. It wasn't until we came to this city that he begun ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Could you get him away, now? she said almost timidly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Is he strong enough to go?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "That's what Doctor says; he ought to go away TO-DAY, but--but he won't lissen to me, his mother answered with ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Little Dick Mine." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And you would want me to marry you, feeling this way?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, Magsie!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And you really want me to go out, Magsie began, smiling through tears," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "God above bless and reward you, Margaret!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This is a nice way to act! Billy began." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Your janitor's wife said you had come here. I've got two men--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "This is Mr. Gardiner's mother, Billy, Magsie said solemnly." }, { "from": "gpt",...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My dearest Greg--" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I feel as if I was breaking into your own affairs. I hope you won't care, and that I'm not all in the dark about this--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Affectionately, BILLY." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Read this, George, said she, resting against the door of his car, and opening the letter before him." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "This came from Billy--Mrs. Pickering, you know--several days ago." }, { "from": "human", "value": "What do you think?" },...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, Rachael said, straightening up suddenly, and with resolute courage returning to her manner and voice," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You may depend upon it-immediately, George said huskily." }, { "from": "human", "value": "It--of course it will make...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Rachael's well, George said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "She looks--well, she shows what she's been through; but she's very handsome. And the boys are fine. We had the whole crowd down as far as Shark Light for a picnic last Sunday. Rachael has little Breck Picker...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I don't suppose you feel like taking Hudson's work? said George now." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He's crazy to get away, and he was telling me yesterday that he didn't see himself breaking out of it. Mrs. Hudson wants to go to her own people, in Montreal, and I su...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Will she ever forgive me, George?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It's a time like this I miss her, Warren said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I took it all for granted, then. But after such a night as this, when I would go home in those first years, and creep into bed, she was never too sleepy to rouse and ask me how the case wen...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I can say this, said George at last:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I believe that she needs you as much as you do her. But Rachael's proud--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Ah, yes, she's that!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And Warren, she ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Divorce has actually no place in our laws, it isn't either wrong or right," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "In some states it is absolutely illegal, Rachael continued," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But thousands do it, Rachael." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I wonder why divorce laws are so little understood?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Because divorce is an abnormal thing. You can't make it right, and of course we are a long way from making it wrong. But that is what it is coming to, I believe. Divorce will be agains...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You two have no quarrel, the older woman added mildly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You and Warren were rarely companionable. I used to say to George that you were almost TOO congenial, too sensitive to each other's moods. Warren knew that you idolized him, Rachael...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The pack, Rachael said to Alice," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He is simply broken, she said to George, in something like fright." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I didn't know human beings could change that way. Warren--who used to be so positive! Why, he's almost timid!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I shall have to bring my own car over this road to-morrow, Kane, she explained." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have never been at the wheel myself before in all the times I have done it." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Mar-r-tin does be knowin' every s...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am afraid I am a little out of my way, she stammered." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am going to the station." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Had your lunch?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, what are we thinking about, to act in this crazy manner! Rachael asked herself desperately." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He loves me, and I--I've always loved him. Other people may misjudge him, but I know! He's horrified and shamed and sorry. He's suffering as...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Your stop Quaker Bridge?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Clark's Hills," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Don't know as we can get over the Bar," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Looks as if we were going to try it! Rachael answered with equal aplomb as the train ran through Quaker Bridge without stopping, and went...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Where's my Derry? Rachael's voice rang strong and happy through the house." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Mary--Mary! she added, stopping, rather puzzled, in the hall." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Where is he?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I wish the Lord had called me before the day came, said Mary," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I know that, Mary, Rachael said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "It would have happened as easily with me. We all know what you have been to the boys, Mary. But ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There's just this, Mrs. Gregory, said Ruddy Simms nervously, when the engine was humming, and, Rachael's gloved hand racing the accelerator," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Thank you, Rachael said, not hearing him." }, { "from": "human", "value": "God bles...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "At the worst, we can back out of this, Millie," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Of course we can," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, Ruddy, how grateful I am to you! Rachael said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Perhaps you can go back and get us a tow? What can we do?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Stuck?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, I don't think so, not yet. B...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No use!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Dun't know as I'd stand there, s'deep in my tracks!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What I's thinking, suggested Ruddy then, coming to put his face in close to hers, and shouting over the noise of wind and water," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, Ruddy,...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now ye've got straight road, Mrs. Gregory, and I hope to the good Lord you'll have a good run. Thank ye, Millie--much obliged!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ruddy! said Rachael passionately, her wet gloves holding his big, hairy hands tight." }, { "from": "h...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No change?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Just the same." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How is he, Mary?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The same, Mrs. Gregory. Except that he gives a little groan now and then--when it shakes him!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "My boy! But not sleeping?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, no, Mrs...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Detour to New York." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh--Mother!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My darling!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Will you not--bump me so, Mother?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I will try not to, my heart!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh Moth--it hurts so!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Does i...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Warren! she said in a voice that those who heard it remembered all their lives." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It's Derry! He's hurt--he's dying, I think! Can you--can you save him?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "My God--what is it!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We've just brought him up from Clark's Hills!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "From Clark's Hills--YOU!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "There was nothing else to do!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But--you drove up to-night?" }, { "from...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hello" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I thought you'd rather have him here," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We don't dare anesthetize him until we know just the lie of those broken ribs, said Warren gravely to his wife," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He paused." }, { "from": "human", "value": "But otherwise, I believe--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value":...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Where's my boy?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, no--Daddy! Oh, no, Daddy! Oh, Mother--Mother--!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, my God! this is not right, Rachael said half aloud." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, take him, take him, but don't let him suffer so!" }, { "from": "gpt", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Dearest, why do you sit here!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, Alice, could I get Warren, do you think? They mustn't--it's too cruel! He's only a baby, he doesn't understand! Better a thousand times to let him go--tell them so! Get George--tell him I say so!" }, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What is it?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We are nearly done. Nearly done, Warren said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I can't tell yet--nobody can. But I must finish it. Do you think you could--he keeps asking for you. I am sorry to ask you--" }, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mother--PLEASE--will you make them stop?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Just a little more, dearest," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Doctor--" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I believe he will make it, George, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I think we have saved him for you, Rachael! No--no--leave him where he is, Miss Moore. Get a flat pillow under his head if you can. Cover him up. I'm going to stay here." }, { "from": ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I thought you would like to know that he is sleeping, and we have moved him, Warren said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "In three days you will have him roaring to get up." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You saved him," }, { "from": "gpt", "v...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am changed, said Warren after long moments;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am not younger, Rachael said, smiling." }, { "from": "human", "value": "And I think I am changed, too. All the pressure, all the nervous worry of the last few years, seem to be...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I had hot milk, Mother," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But just the same, we wanted our Daddy the moment we woke up this morning, Miss Moore smiled," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "She calls me Gerald because she doesn't know me very well," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It seems to me that there never was such a bright sunshine, and never such a nice little third person, and never such coffee, and such happiness! said Rachael, her eyes reflecting something of the placid winter day; soul and body wrapped in peace." }, { "from": "gpt", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "As long as we love each other!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And was everything all right the morning of the 18th?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I was, he proceeded" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ready!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He up hill now all way to Continental Divide," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No. I have kept an eye on him all day." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, Lucilla, yes; I tell you, you are avenged. I have not forgotten you! I have not forgotten that I betrayed, deserted you! but was it my fault? No, no! Yet I have not the less sought to forget it. These poor excesses,--these chilling gaieties,--were they not incurred for you?...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My dear Percy, said she, the next day, when he carelessly sauntered into her boudoir before he rode out," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have a favour to ask of you." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Who ever denied a favour to Lady Erpingham?" }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My father, interrupted Constance, passionately," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "So, then, my Constance will go over to the Whigs in earnest?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, because I shall meet there truth and the people!" }, { "from": "gpt",...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, said she, at last breaking silence, and soliloquising in the English tongue, but with somewhat of a foreign accent;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Thou mistakest me and my lore, said the diviner;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I meddle not with the tricks and schemes of the worldly; I show the truth, not garble it." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Pshaw! said Radclyffe, impatiently;" }, { "f...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And how, said he, after a pause," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ask not until the time comes for the trial," }, { "from": "human", "value": "But can you awaken it in all?--the dull, the unideal, as in the musing and exalted?" }, { "from": "gpt", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The stars, and the clime, and the changing moon have power over us--why not? Do they not have influence over the rest of nature? But we can only unravel their more august and hidden secrets, by giving full wing to the creative spirit which first taught us their elementary nature...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Percy--Percy, you are ill!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Listen to me, Constance. My health, I fear, is breaking; I am tormented by fearful visions; I am possessed by some magic influence. For several nights successively, before falling asleep, a cold tremor has gradually pervaded my frame; the roots of my hair stand on end; my teeth ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I have a presentiment, said he," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And what, lady, said the soothsayer, in the foreign music of her low voice," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I seek not that which you allude to, said Constance;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Alas! answered Constance," }, { "from": "human", "value": "The brow, and the lip, and the eye, and the expression of each and all, answered Liehbur," }, { "from": ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "So, then, said Lucilla, after a pause," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "sinking her voice into a tone of ineffable and plaintive sweetness--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Dear Lucilla! said Constance, kindly, and striving once more to take her hand," }...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Come, give me the deep, the grateful joy of thinking I can minister to your future comforts. I was the cause of all your wretchedness; but for me, Godolphin would have been yours for ever--would probably, by marriage, have redressed your wrongs; but for me you would not have wan...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Your kindness comes too late. I am dying, fast--fast. All that is left to me in the world are these very visions, this very power--call it delusion if you will--from which you would tear me. Nay, look not so reproachfully, and in such wonder. Do you not know that men have in pov...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My art, then, is not so idle as thou wouldst hold it. But--hush!--last night I beheld him, not in spirit, but visibly, face to face: for I wander at times before his home (his home was once mine!) and he saw me, and was smitten with fear; in these worn features he could recognis...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And now, continued the maniac (though maniac is too harsh and decided a word for the dreaming wildness of Lucilla's insanity), as, dropping the curtain, she took her guest's hand and conducted her back into the outer room--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "growing pale...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why, said he, one clay, musingly, to Radclyffe, whom he met in the old Green Park,--(for since the conversation recorded between Radclyffe and Constance the former came little to Erpingham House)," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Alas! answered Radclyffe," }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You wish me to enter Parliament, my dear Constance, said he, with his quiet smile;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You! exclaimed Constance, with warmth;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "My dear Constance, returned Godolphin," }, { "from": "gpt", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Forgive me, Percy, she said, unable to suppress her tears--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "My sweet Constance, said Godolphin, drawing her to his heart, and affected in proportion as he appreciated all that in that speech his wife gave up for his sake--the all, far m...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, my friend, said Saville, feebly, but pressing with weak fingers Godolphin's hand--" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now tell me, my good sir, how many hours more can you keep in this--this breath?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Not many, I fear, sir: perhaps until daybreak." }, { "from": "human", "value": "My day breaks about twelve o'clock, p.m., said Saville, as dril...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Poor Saville! said she, falteringly;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Fanny, said he, bitterly, after a pause," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Life differs from the play only in this, said Godolphin, some time afterwards;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My Constance, whispered he," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Surely, said he," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I remember this view. Yonder valley! This is not the road to Wendover Castle; this--my father's home!--the same, and not the same!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It should have been more consistent with its ancient dimensions, said she;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But this must have been the work of years." }, { "from": "human", "value": "It was." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And your work, Constan...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why, where, said he, struck with the accurate antiquity of some of the details," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I was forced to leave these things to others, answered Constance;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Striking the electric chain wherewith we're bound" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "AND IN TO-DAY ALREADY WALKS TOMORROW." } ]