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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Journey to Brazil, or the sketch accompanying Bates's description of these hills in his" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Naturalist on the Amazons," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "; they are strewn," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "over the whole surface of the globe, and lie embosomed in the gulfs of the great, restless ocean. Who knows what untamed savage rests beneath us here? Don't start, my dear Madam. I have no doubt that, when Tommy plays...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It was a famous victory." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "race who inhabit" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oblitusque meorum obliviscendus et illis Neptunum procul e terra spectare furentem." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am waiting, replied the barber," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Specimens of writing were handed round, which were good; drawings, which, strange to say, were detestable. I praised the recitations and dialogues to the gentleman who sat next me." }, { "from":...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "which the brotherhood were giving to the studies of youth. There is no garrison at Avranches. But all the soldiers in the place seemed to have been collected to give a military character to the scene. Other incentives of military aspiration were not wanting; and the boy who deli...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Come to us, dear little Indians; you know we are your best friends! Suppose" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Arabs or" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Mexicans had been substituted for" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Indians. To a Frenchman, our ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ils prient le bon Dieu." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Cela mangera beaucoup d'argent," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A light and cruel people, Coleridge calls them. And how lightly they turned from regenerating to pillaging and oppressing the world! They have great intellectual gifts, and still greater social graces; but, in the political sphere, they have no real regard for freedom, and will ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "None." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Then you may begin." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ils ont tué la jeunesse," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Aunt Judy, --Judith was her company name,--as the oldest of my uncles and aunts, and other boys' grandfathers and grandmothers, and all the rest of us children, delighted to call her,--was pure negro; not grafted, scandalous mulatto, nor muddled, niggerish" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "which, in his theory, was patriarchal and protective, and in his practice eminently beneficent;--if he were living this day, I doubt not he would be found among its most earnest and confident champions;--but he did not believe in holding human beings in bondage" }, { "fr...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "as nurses say of vague babies, with pinafore comparison and judgment, Aunt Judy was an old woman; I knew that, because she had explained to me why I had not wrinkles like hers, and why she could not read her precious Bible without spectacles, as I could, and why my back was not ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "When she sat, her head was, prayer-like, bending; When she rose, it rose not any more. Faster seemed her true heart grave-ward tending Than her tired feet, weak and travel-sore." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And ever, at each period, She stopped and sang, 'Praise God!'" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well done! I doubt not thou art heard, my son: As well as if thy voice to-day Were praising God the Pope's great way," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Would God t...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Jesus, and shall it ever be, A mortal man ashamed of thee?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Was you lookin' for your gloves, sir? They's on de bureau,--and your umbrell's behind de door" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My Master, shall I speak? O that to Thee My Servant were a little so As flesh may be! That these two words might creep and grow To some degree of spiciness to Thee!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Now I lay me, lest" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I shoul...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I mean one thing, respectfully; and when I say" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I mean another, disgustedly. I am not responsible for the distinction: it is a true" }, { "from": "human", "value": "nomenclature, and very significant; our fellow-citizens of A...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I behold it everywhere, On the earth, and in the air, But it never comes again." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And must this body die, This mortal frame decay? And must these active limbs of mine Lie mouldering in the clay?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed ;--but for her, to believe and to see were one. So whatever imag...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Almighty God, thy piercing eye Strikes through the shades of night," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Antiquities of Greece ; and, having searched for it in vain, made up his mind that I had presented it as a keepsake, together with a lock of my hair and a cent's worth of pea-nut taffy, to the head girl of the infant class at my Sunday school. So Sophomore, being in morals a ped...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Never mind, honey; dey was an awful litter anyhow, and I spec' dey was only de or'nary caterpillar poor trash, after all, else dey 'd a-kep' goin' on dat tea; fur 't was de rale high-price Chany kind, sure 's ye 'r born." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Measured by this standard, if you had the misfortune to be a nobody, Aunt Judy, as a lady, might patronize you, as a Christian, would cheerfully advise and assist you; but to the exclusive privilege of what she superbly styled family-arities, you must in vain aspire. _Our_ famil...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "woman of color, where she might be cheered by the visits of the more respectable people of her own class,--darkies of substantial character and of the first families, among whom she was esteemed as a mother in Israel. Thither either my father or one or two of his children came e...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Won't you come ag'in to-morrow, son, and see de poor ole woman? And I replied," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "O yes, Auntie!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Very well, I thank you," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Nation" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If you won't let _me_ have a good time, neither shall you." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Harpers' Magazine" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "sermons on ventilation and fresh air go by them as an idle song." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I don't see but we are well enough, and we never took much pains about these things. There's air enough gets into houses, of course. What with doors opening and windows oc...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He shall change our _vile_ bodies, that they may be fashioned like his glorious body." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What, not even bid me good by?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The truth is, sir, she could not trust herself to see you go; but she bade me give you a message. Says she, 'Mother, tell him I pray God to bless him, go where he will.'" }, { "from": "human", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Woodman," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "So you are going, are ye? said he." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "A good job, too. Then, turning to the other," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Master Gutteridge, never you save a man's life, if you can anyways help it. I saved this one's; and what does h...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'll teach you to spit your wormwood in my cup of sorrow." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Packhorse," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ah, mother, sighed Mercy," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I could have made him happy. He does not know that; and he has turned his back on content. What will become of him?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Take your own way, Dame, said he, in great agitat...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'm too late, methinks." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That you be, Paul, said Mrs. Vint, cheerfully." }, { "from": "human", "value": "She is meat for your master." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Don't--you--never--come to me--to save your life...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Packhorse." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Shall I don my bravery for strangers, and not for my Thomas, that is the best of company?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What a comfort to have a Protestant wife!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Kate, my dear." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "W...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Had you told me in time, said he," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I had not paid forfeit for 'The Vine,' but settled there, and given you a home." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Poor father!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Thou hast married a gentleman; and he hath not the heart to lift a hand to save thy folk from ruin." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Say not so, pleaded Mercy:" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Jewels, quotha! will they stop such a gap as ours?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Wife, if our Mercy had wedded one of her own sort, mayhap he'd have helped us a bit." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ay, poor soul; and she so near her time: if the bailiffs come down on us next month, 'tis my belief we shall lose her, as well as house and home." },...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My feyther urged me sair; My mither didna speak; But she looked me in the face, Till my hairt was like to break." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Child! said he," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I know that, said she, softly;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "and so laid her cheek to his." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But, Thomas, for my sake, get it honestly,--or not at all," }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Landlord, you ought to have married her to me, I've got two hundred pounds laid by. I'd have pulled you out of the mire, and welcome." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Would you, though, Paul? said Harry Vint;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I take your inn...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There goes one good customer." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If your debts are to be mine, your trade shall be mine too, that you had not the head to conduct." }, { "from": "human", "value": "So be it, son-in-law, said the old man;" }, { "from": "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Thy good man, he said," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My mistress, said she," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How do I know he is alive?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Me go a-hunting the man, cried she, turning red;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, but madam, would you not like to learn where he is, and what he is doing?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Why, yes, my good, kind friend, I _should_ like to know that."...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The spirited woman's very flesh revolted at the sight of the place where she had been insulted and abandoned. But, as she went deeper in religion, she forced herself to go to the gate and look in, and say out loud," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I gave the first offe...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Forgive me, my good dame, but I desire to know--" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "In black!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The day is gone by for that, madam, he gasped. Then, sternly:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Think you I came here to play the credulous husband?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "What! come back here, and not sorry for what you have done? not the least so...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Come, come, said he, gently;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I shall not trouble you long. I'm cured of my jealousy. 'T is gone, along with my love. You and your saintly sinner are safe from me. I am come hither for my own, my two thousand pounds, and for nothing more...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ay, child, he has come home, said she, bitterly;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Send a swift horse for Father Francis; tell him life or death!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now, Dame, said Griffith, doggedly," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ay, I thank you." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Then listen to me. When you and I set up house together, I had two thousand pounds. I spent it on this house. The house is yours. You told...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Child, if I have been a good mistress to thee, show it now. Help me keep him in the house till Father Francis comes." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I undertake to do so much, said Ryder, firmly." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Leave it to me, mistress." ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mistress, said she," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ah! I have one true friend in the house," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Packhorse." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Mercy, my dear, said he to himself," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Ah!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Papa! papa! she cried." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "O my dear, dear, dear, darling papa!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "My pretty angel! he sighed:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "How your heart beats! Don't cry, dear papa. Nobody is dead: ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And don't you go away again, dear papa. It _tis_ so dull without you. Nobody comes here. Mamma won't let 'em." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Nobody except Father Leonard," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Father Leonard? Why, he never comes here. Leonard! ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "So, thought he," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Is she not grown? Is she not lovely? Sure you will never desert her again." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "This, before my girl? she cried." }, { "from": "human", "value": "GRIFFITH GAUNT, YOU LIE!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "O that I were a...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My good black horse, girl, to take me from this cursed place. Did I not tie him to yon gate?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The black horse? Why I sent him for Father Francis. Nay, listen to me, master; you know I was always your friend, and hard upon _her_. Well, si...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ay, said he," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'll dress, and so to supper; I'm main hungry. It seems a man must eat, let his heart be ever so sore." }, { "from": "human", "value": "That is too long a story to tell you now," }, { "from": "gpt", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My mistress desires you not to wait for her. She has no stomach." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, then, I have," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Welcome, thou one honest priest!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Welcome, thrice welcome, my lo...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "These, said he, very gravely," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Let me read them at once," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Not till she is also present," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Come, come, sir, said he," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The brazen jade! thought Griffith." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But how divinely beautiful!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My daughter, and you who are her husband and my friend, I am here to do justice between you both, with God's help; and to show you both your faults. Catharine Gaunt, you began the mischief, by encouraging another man to interfere between you and your husband in things secular." ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ay, father, that is how it all began. Would to heaven it had stopped there." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "This false step led to consequences you never dreamed of; for one of your romantic notions is, that a priest is an angel. I have known you, in former times, try...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "CATHARINE GAUNT." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Poor soul! said Griffith." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Said I not that women are not wicked, but weak? Who would think that after this he could get the better of her good resolves,--the villain!" }, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Either you must go, or I, said she:" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I can't understand it, said Griffith." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Are these letters all forged, or are there two Kate Gaunts? the one that wrote these prudent letters, and the one I caught upon this very priest's arm. Perdition!" }, { "from": "human", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ah! she sobbed," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ay, said Griffith, in a broken voice," }, { "from": "human", "value": "How do you account for that?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'll tell _you_, Father, said Kate," }, { "from": "human"...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "CATHARINE GAUNT." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, father, said Mrs. Gaunt," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Who asked you to forgive him? said the shrewd priest." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Your own heart. Come, look at him." }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I wonder whether that fat pullet tastes as well as it smells: can you tell me, Squire?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "O, inhospitable wretch that I am! said Mrs. Gaunt:" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I thought but of my own heart." }, { "from": ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Where is master to lie to-night?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why, is there not a bed in his room?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "O yes, madam." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Then see it be well aired. Put down all the things before the fire; and then tell me: I'll come and see. The feather-bed, mind, as well as t...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Tread softly on the landing, an if it please you, gentlemen. My mistress hath been unwell; but she is in a fine sleep now, by the blessing, and I would not have her disturbed." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Are you afraid of me?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, my dear, not exactly; and yet I am: afraid, or ashamed, or both." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You need not. I said I forgive you; and you know I am not one that does things by halves." }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The good people nursed me, and so did their daughter, and I came back from the grave. I took an inn; but I gave up that, and had to pay forfeit; and so my money all went; but they kept me on. To be sure I helped on the farm: they kept a hostelry as well. By and by came that murr...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "term denoting astonishment or awe. Consequently the Blackfeet, adding to the word" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Elk (_Pounika_) the adjective" }, { "from": "human", "value": "and according to the" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "in a loud voice commanded his opponent to die. The unfortunate conjurer succumbed, and in a few minutes" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "as my informant said," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I have seen, said he," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "continued he, crossing himself and looking upwards," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Mary protect us! the medicine-men have power from Sathanas." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "and that it would make snow to fall until it reached the end of a cord that dangled from the lever and reached within a yard of the ground. The fame of so potent a medicine spread rapidly through the Crow nation. The machine was visited by hundreds, and the fall of snow anxiousl...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Rising Head," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Many scalps will be taken for your death; The Crows will lose many horses; Their women will weep for their braves, They will curse the spirit of Isthumaka. O my son! I will come to you And make moccasins for the war-path, As I did when you struck the lodge Of the 'Horse-Guard' w...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Prophet" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Perhaps it was his" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "that made him so accurate a" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The cloud-capped towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The Expected Ship," }, { "from": "human", "value": "The Story of Life, and" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Pan Immortal. B...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Mourner a la Mode" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What tears of _vicarious_ woe. That else might have sullied her face, Were kindly permitted to flow In ripples of ebony lace While even her fan, in its play, Had quite a lugubrious scope, And seemed to be waving aw...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Thus saith the Lord God of Israel: They shall eat their bread with carefulness, and drink their water with astonishment, that her land may be desolate from all that is therein, because of the violence of all that dwell therein. And the cities that are inhabited shall be laid was...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The walls were perfect, nearly five feet thick, built of large blocks of hewn stones, without lime or cement of any kind. The roof was formed of large slabs of the same black basalt, lying as regularly, and jointed as closely as if the workmen had only just completed them. They ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Fifteen Days" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Rumford Way of Cookery and Household Economy" } ]