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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I saw you from the barn up there, she jerked her hand backward to a barn on the summit," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "She landed against the fence with a violent jolt." }, { "from": "human", "value": "This morning a man who'd come up from below told me t...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I guess you know _me_, a good many people do. But my make-up's new--dirt. Water's too valuable to use for washing." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ain't you ever been to the Albion, young man?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh! he breathed." }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We're up here in the barn, our castle on the hill. It mayn't look much from the outside, but it's roomy and the view's fine. Better than being crowded into the houses with the people sleeping on the floors. They'd have taken us in, any of 'em, but we chose the barn--quieter and ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now if you'll further oblige me with a pencil and paper, said the girl," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'll tackle it, though writing's not my strong suit." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I don't know as I can, she said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I don't know how to put it. I guess you'd do it better. I'll tell you and you write." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Very well. She handed the things back, and going to the wall he placed th...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Marquis de Lafayette." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Miss Lolly" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I stay on boat all time, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "My business mind your stuff. I watch out, no leave dagoes, no go sleep. All locked up now. Chinamen hide him, keep him safe. I bring back when you get good house." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Old Chinaman take care of my boss's house like my boss want me. Bad time, good time, ally samey. You no make earthquake--he come--my job help like evly day. I no good Chinaman if I don't. I no get paid extla for do my job." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We'll have to go about in ball dresses for the rest of the summer, said Chrystie, giggling hysterically." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "How nice you'll look weeding the garden in an ermine stole and white satin slippers." }, { "from": "human", "value": "W...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, Lorry, I never thought I'd see _you_ come to this," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Go away, Miss Lolly. I get clazy if you wolly me now." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I guess Mark's the smart one of _our_ family." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But did you love him _really_?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, I thought I did at first; it was so exciting and all the girls said he was such a star. But I was always afraid of him. He sort of magnetized me--made me feel I'd be a poor-spirited chump if I didn't r...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Wasn't it wonderful that the person who found me was Pancha Lopez? I keep thinking of it all the time. You know I was always crazy about her, but I never thought I'd meet her. And then to finally do it the way I did!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, she's a pricele...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Miss Lolly and" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Miss Clist" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Good-by, good-by; oh, good-by!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "All right, but I have to sleep somewhere," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Forsooth we meditate and pray--" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But I'm planning to take you along, this time. Major," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If--if I thought you meant that----!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "HOW DO? I'M OFF." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Don't care if I do" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "NELLY'S SILVER MINE." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Tell Helen I did not hold Pussy's paw to write that letter." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Don't you see how sore my eyes are? Why don't you do something for me?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Pussy was spoiled by her experience in the cradle. She would like to be rocked the rest of her days, I do believe; and it is too funny to see her turn up her nose at...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Helen, your Pussy has grown so old and so fat, she is no comfort to herself, and a great torment to everybody else. I think it would be a mercy to kill her." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Kill my Pussy!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Never mind, dear; i...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Helen, she said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have something to tell you which will make you feel very badly; but I hope you will be a good little girl, and not make mamma unhappy about it. You know your papa and mamma always do what they think is the very best t...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I said I'd never speak to you as long as I lived, I cried;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Helen Maria! said my father's voice behind me, sternly." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Helen Maria! leave the room this moment!" }, { "from": "gpt", "v...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Poor pussy, no more good plays for you till Helen comes home! and I thought I should certainly cry. But I think it is very foolish to cry over what cannot be helped, so I pretended to have got something into my left eye, and rubbed it with my paw. It is very seldom that I cry ov...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I felt very unhappy after you drove off yesterday." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I hope you found the horse-chestnuts which I put in the carriage for you. I had a dreadful time climbing up over the dasher with them." }, { "from": "human", "value": "There...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Be as quick as you can, for I want to get through with this business before the folks come back." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I climbed up the old apple-tree, and crawled out on a branch from which I could look directly into the parlor windows." }, { "from"...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "They have brought with them a splendid black cat whose name is Cæsar, and everybody is talking about him. He has the handsomest whiskers I ever saw." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I do believe that everlasting cat has taken herself off: it's a good riddance anyhow, but I should like to know what has become of the plaguy thing!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Poor pussy, why, poor pussy, where are you?" }, { "from": "human", "value":...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Poor pussy, I know you are almost starved, aren't you? and I said" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, as plainly as I could mew it. Then she brought me a big soup-plate full of thick cream, and some of the most delicious cold hash I ever tasted; and after I had eaten...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Only think, how fortunate I am; Mary did all the house-cleaning while I was away. Every room is in perfect order; all the woollen clothes are put away for the summer. Poor pussy, here, was frightened out of the house, and I suppose we should all have been if we had been at home....
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Can you imagine how ashamed I felt? I ran under the table and did not come out again until after Mrs. Hitchcock had gone." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I knew that there was no time to be lost if I meant to catch that robin, so I ran with all my might and tried to j...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I do believe the cat is in some trouble down here. Then I made a great effort and mewed still more piteously. How I wished I could call out and say," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, indeed, I am; drowning to death, in I'm sure I don't know what, but something a gr...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Judge Dickinson's cat, who is a good hospitable old soul, in spite of her stupidity, invited me to tea, and asked Cæsar too." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "When there suddenly came down on us a whole pailful of water." }, { "from": "human", "value": "He l...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Then your grandfather made up a nice bed in the cradle, and laid me down in it." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "One day he slipped in between the legs of the butcher boy, but before I had time to say a word to him, Mary flew at him with the broom." }, { "from"...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How many tricks have you?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Laden with Golden Grain" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Golden Griffin" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Adonais, Q.C. May" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Proctorised" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I advanced slowly up the room, stopped, and curtsied." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I saw and recognised the mysterious midnight visitor." }, { "from": "human", "value": "He came back in a few minutes, but so transformed in outward appearance that Ducie ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "THE GOLDEN GRIFFIN." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Once more a narrow squeak for life, he said, half aloud." }, { "from": "human", "value": "If I had been worth ten thousand a-year, I should infallibly have been smashed. Not being worth ten brass farthing...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Golden Griffin," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Golden Griffin." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You must make up your mind to be a guest of 'The Golden Griffin' for at least a week to come, he said, as he took up his hat preparatory to going." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "With quiet, and care, and a strict adherence to my instructions, I daresay that by the en...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "They are all there as far as I can judge, he murmured," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Pray don't trouble yourself with any explanations just now, said Ducie." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You want the paper: that is enough. I will go and have a thoroug...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "PAUL PLATZOFF." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The Golden Griffin." }, { "from": "human", "value": "What success?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am sorry to say that I have not been able to find the paper, said Captain Ducie in slow, delibera...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Forgive me, my friend--if you will allow me to call you so, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I must seem horribly ungrateful after all the trouble I have put you to, but I do not feel so. The loss of my MS. affected me so deeply for a little while that I could...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "was so uniformly bad, despite a brief fickle gleam of fortune now and again, which seemed sent only to lure him on to deeper destruction; it was so well known that he had spent two fortunes and alienated all his friends through his passion for the green cloth, that it would have...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "that his brains were not of that pettifogging order which would allow of his sitting down with the patience requisite to master the secret of the figures. To-night, for the twentieth time, he brought out the MS. He again read the prefatory note carefully over, although he could ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "E. DUCIE." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "GEO. BEXELL." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Captain Ducie, sir, if I am not misinformed?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am Captain Ducie." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Sir, you are expected. Your rooms are ready. Dinner will be served in half-an-hour from now. My master will meet you when you ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "At Stapleton I had a loft that was hardly fit for a groom to sleep in; here I have two rooms that a cardinal might feel proud to occupy. Vive la Russie!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Have you heard any news of your lost manuscript?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "None whatever, answered Platzoff." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Neither do I expect, after this lapse of time, to hear anything further concerning it. It has probably never...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Monsieur Cleon and I are born enemies, and he knows it as well as I do, murmured Ducie to himself, after the first secret signal of defiance had passed between the two." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, I never was afraid of any man in my life, and I'm not going t...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am going to smoke one of these hookahs; let me recommend you to try another," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Select a hookah for Monsieur Ducie, and prepare it." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This is one of my little smoke-nights, said Platzoff as soon as they were alone." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Last night was one of my big smoke-nights." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You speak a language I do not understand." }, { "from": "gp...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "They are too good for me, too orthodox, too strait-laced, exclaimed the Russian one day in his quiet, jeering way." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Or it may be that I am not good enough for them. Any way, we do not coalesce. Rather are we like flint and steel, and eli...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Whenever Bon Repos becomes Mal Repos, answered Platzoff--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Is it possible that these bearded gentlemen are also conspirators? asked the Captain of himself." }, { "from": "human", "value": "If so, their mode of life must be a ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Buy the book, and send it down to me here by confidential messenger." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It must and shall be mine!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It only remains for me now to point out where and by what means the Diamond may be found. It is hidden away in--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Return! In vain to fires," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Waste not, yet burn! In vain to all life's happy thi...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I say that there will be remembrance of us hereafter," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But thou shalt lie dead, nor shall there ever be remembrance of thee then or in the time to come, for thou hast no share in the roses of Pieria; but thou shalt wander unseen even in ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Clouds of Aristophanes for a faithful representation of the philosopher as it would be to take the Sappho of the comic stage for the true Sappho. Indeed, it would be fairer; for the Sokrates of the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Clouds" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No man can come close to her." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The golden sandalled dawn but now has (waked) me," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But thou forgettest me!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Or else thou lovest another than me," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am full weary of Gorgo." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have a daughter like golden flowers, Kleis my beloved, for whom (I would take) not all Sydia...." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Like a child after its mother, I--" }, { "from": "gpt", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Their hearts grew cold and they dropped their wings," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Spring's angel," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "As the sweet apple blushes on the end of the bough, the very end of the bough which the gatherers overlooked--nay, overlooked not, but could not reach." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Had thy desire been for what was good or noble and had not thy tongue framed some evil speech, shame had not filled thine eyes--" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Father and daughter, I'll vow, commented the stranger, noting that both had the same well-carved features, the same defiant, haughty expression, the same proud bearing." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What a grandly-handsome girl! And he, I suppose, is the man we are ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hearing there was to be a meet to-day, I could not resist the temptation of joining it; it is many years since I had the opportunity," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Shall I ride back to the Hall and get the pony-carriage for you, Miss Eliza?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, dear, no, she replied," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Are you equal to the walk?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Quite. The walk w...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Has any accident taken place? he asked hurriedly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I hope not." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And, as I was telling you, continued Mr. Hamlyn," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "They are going to winter there for Mrs. Peveril's health, observed Eliza." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Peacock's Range, the place they live at, belongs to my cousin, Harry...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Harry will make a better master to succeed you than I should have made, father," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What d'ye mean?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Harry will look after things better than I ever should. I was always given to laziness. Don't you remember, father, when a little boy in the West Indies, you used to tell me I was good for nothing but to bask in the heat...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Who's that coming out?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It is Mr. Hamlyn," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh--Hamlyn! He seems to be always coming in. I don't like that man somehow, Hubert. Wonder what he's lagging in the neighbourhood for?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why, you are a stranger! stormed the Captain;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That you never will, said Captain Monk." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I should not like you for my son-in-law, he continued candidly, calming down from his burst of passion to the bounds of reason." }, { "from": "human", "value": "But there can be no que...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hark to me, Eliza. Give up Hamlyn--I have said I don't like the man; give up Tom Rivers also, an' you will. Remain at home with me until a better suitor shall present himself, and Leet Hall and its broad lands shall be yours." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Leet Hall?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Leet Hall and its broad lands, repeated the Captain impatiently." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Give up Mr. Hamlyn and it shall all be yours." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I cannot give him up," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What moonshine, Eliza! You are not a love-sick girl now." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I cannot give up Mr. Hamlyn," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Then you will never inherit Leet Hall. No, nor aught else of mine." }, { "from": "human", "value": "As you please, sir, about that." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You set me at defian...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Few hearts have never loved, but fewer still Have felt a second passion. _None_ a third. The first was living fire; the next a thrill; The weary heart can never more be stirred: Rely on it the song has left the bird." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I shall wish them good-luck with all my heart--but I don't feel altogether sure they'll have it! bewailed poor Mrs. Carradyne in private." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Eliza should have agreed to the delay proposed by her father." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why, what in the world?-- he began--and then sat still listening to the sweet strains of" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The Bay of Biscay." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Have they mistaken midday for midnight? he continued, as the chimes played out their tune and died away on the air." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What's the meaning of it?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It must be a wedding!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Dear me! he exclaimed, mentally." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I wonder who she has married?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why, my heart alive! he exclaimed." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Is it Captain Carradyne?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "That's near enough, said Harry, who knew the title was accorded him by the rustic natives of Church Leet, as he bent down with his ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Bertie!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Harry! Why, Harry!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You are very thin, Bertie; thinner even than I expected to see, you," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "was Hubert's answer." }, { "from": "human", "value": "And I am so glad you are come: I thought you might have been here a month ago." }, { "from": ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Pardon me, dear Mrs. Carradyne, he said, as he shook hands, and she had never seen him look so handsome," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I could not pass the house without making one more effort to disarm Captain Monk's prejudices, and asking for his blessing on us. D...