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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That's your cue, Ada," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I've resigned, Miss Anderson, said Ada clearly." }, { "from": "human", "value": "It's a little too much to ask me to play maid to two charity students." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "How dar...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Easy, easy, Betty, counseled Miss Anderson, putting an arm about the shaking girl." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You're not mending matters, you know." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Ada, said Miss Anderson sharply," }, { "from": "gpt", "val...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, Ada?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ready, Betty, said Miss Anderson briskly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You enter at the left and begin 'I thought I heard voices--' Don't look toward the auditorium. Remember you are supposed to be in a small room." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Violet Patchwork." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why don't we go to the woods and get some leaves to trim the assembly hall? suggested Betty two days before the time for the play." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Mrs. Eustice's sister is coming to see...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "All day to-morrow off!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We may go after breakfast and needn't come back till four o'clock when Miss Anderson has called a dress rehearsal," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Elsie Taylor had already eaten six eclairs when I requisitioned her box for the picnic, said Constance Howard." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It's lucky we're going tomorrow, or there wouldn't be much left to eat." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I hope t...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What do you suppose? asked Norma." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Good old Aunt Nancy heard we were going after nuts for her cake and leaves for the hall, and she's made us dozens of sandwiches. She said she did it because Mrs. Eustice reserved one of the best seats f...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Did you see what I saw?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Poor Ada! said Betty." }, { "from": "human", "value": "She does have troubles of her own!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I don't believe we will have many more days like this, remarked Frances Martin, her nearsighted eyes peering into a hollow tree stump." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Girls, what have I found--a squirrel?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Plain owl, laughed...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Girls, girls, girls! shrieked Libbie, who was in the lead," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Who took it? demanded Bobby wrathfully." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You needn't tell me that lunch walked off!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That's...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hello, anything the matter? was Bob's greeting." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You look rather glum." }, { "from": "human", "value": "So would you, Betty informed him," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Gee, that is tough! exclaimed Bob sympatheti...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, we're going to get that lunch back, announced Bob Henderson confidently." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Look here!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Cadet shoes! cried Tommy Tucker." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Jimminy Crickets, I'll bet ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I figure they'll get a safe distance away and then stop to eat the lunch, said Bob." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It is hardly likely that they will take the stuff back to school with them." }, { "from": "human", "value": "But Ada went to Edentown, prote...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "They were laughing and saying how they'd put one over on you," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, they won't laugh long, retorted Bob grimly." }, { "from": "human", "value": "How many are there?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Marshall Morgan,...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You girls will have to tend to your friends, grinned Bob." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You can't expect us to discipline them. But we'll give the boys something to remember!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Rush 'em!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Let us out! wept Ada." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ow! You're stepping on me! Let us out!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I will get out! panted Ada." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Push, girls!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now the potatoes are done, Bob reported, after examining the oven hollowed out and lined with stones." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why not combine forces and eat?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Violet Patchwork" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You look lovely in that dress," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, oh! cried Madame hysterically, in the wings." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "See, that Bobby! Some one call her! She is walking with the tree!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "The Violet Patchwork" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "A Maid in a ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Coasting? Ada Nansen had sniffed when the subject was mentioned to her." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why, that's for children! Girls of our ages don't go coasting. Now at home, my brother has an ice-boat--that's real sport." }, { "from": "human", "value...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You're a great little actress, Betty, Bob told her when he came to claim the first dance." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'm almost willing to let you steer the new bobsled the first time it snows." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You may not have much money to spend, Norma, remarked Bobby one afternoon," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'd like to be able to give grandma the things she needs far more than a lace collar," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You can't coast through the woods, anyway, Betty, Libbie whispered in the French period." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You may be a wonder, but how can you go through the tree stumps?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Don't intend to, whispered back Betty...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We'll go up to the woods, announced Betty." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "There will be more room, and it's much more exciting to go down a steep hill." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I can't judge distances, she explained, touching her glasses," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We thought we'd find you here! was Bob's greeting." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Trust Betty to pick out a mystic maze for her coasting. It's a wonder some of ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Just the same I'm going, persisted Betty, pulling on her rubbers and struggling into a heavier sweater." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The snow hasn't all melted, and there will be enough for a good coast. I think you're a lazy bunch to want to stay cooped up in here...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I think this is a funny world, scolded Betty to herself, as she reached her favorite hill and put her sled in position." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Here are Norma and Alice, the kind of girls Mrs. Eustice is proud to have represent the school, and they can't affor...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Something told me you'd be out hunting a sore throat to-day, declared Bob, in mock-disapproval." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The fellows all said there wouldn't be enough snow to hold up a sparrow." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Silly things! dimpled ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Bully coast! exclaimed Bob with satisfaction, swinging the bodsled into position." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "All ready, Betsey?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Just a minute, begged Betty, with a delightful little shiver of excitement as she tucked i...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "All right?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It's fine! shrieked Betty." }, { "from": "human", "value": "It takes my breath away, but I love it!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Betty! are you hurt? cried Bob, scrambling to his feet." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Here, don't struggle! I'll have you out in a jiffy." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'm not hurt a bit, not even scratched, she assured him." }, { "from": "gpt...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I don't think much of this," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Bob? she called timidly at first, and then in terror." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Bob!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Look behind you," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What happened? she asked." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Where are we?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "The bobsled balked, explained Bob cheerfully." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Guess it knew where we were heading for better than I did. Any...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Know where you are?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I must have been away off the road, explained Bob." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Betsey, you and I are standing at the bottom of Indian Chasm." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Indian Chasm, repeated Bob firmly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Come on, Betty, we mustn't stand here. If you once get cold, there's no way to warm you up. We must walk, and try to find a way out." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Want to rest a moment? he suggested." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Sit on that rock till you begin to feel chilly." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What a funny rock," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What's the matter?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I--I thought I kicked against something, answered Betty." }, { "from": "human", "value": "There, did you hear that?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Something clinked, admitted Bob." }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The emeralds! breathed Betty." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, Bob, aren't they beautiful!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Look, Betty! That slab was forced outward not long ago. Before that this treasure was concealed in a narrow crack between the two...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How are we going to get it out of here?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That's the pressing question, confessed Bob." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Incidentally, we have to get ourselves out, too. I think we'd better walk on a bit, and look for some trai...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I don't know, of course, admitted Bob." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But I think we had better take a chance and follow it. It will be dark, but so will the chasm in another half hour. I'll go first and you come after me." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I see a light! cried Bob after what seemed to Betty hours of this." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Betty, I do believe we've come to an opening!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'll go get your sled and pack the stuff on that, proposed Bob," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I don't suppose it would hurt to leave it there all night, but somehow I can't. Will you go on ahead, Betty? You're so tired." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'll wrap the little things in my middy tie, she said when they came out in the chasm at last and found the heap of treasure where they had piled it," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sit on the sled, and I'll pull you, Betty," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It's the nicest thing that ever happened, Betty wrote her uncle." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Now Norma and Alice can graduate from Shadyside, and Grandma Macklin can spend the rest of the winter in Florida and dear Doctor and Mrs. Guerin can doctor and nurse half ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But you not only found it, you went through a lot to bring it to us, said Norma affectionately." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, Betty, you and Bob can't wriggle out of being thanked." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Every one here? demanded Bobby Littell." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I don't want to run the risk of arriving home short a guest or two." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'm willing to be kidnapped," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Have a good time, young 'uns, chirped the grizzled little man cheerily." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Only one thing's more fun than goin' to school, and that's goin' home from school for a spell of play." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "O my sister, cried Ali," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Tamerlane, and Other Poems, but realizing nothing financially,[1] he enlisted in the United States Army as Edgar A. Perry. After two years of faithful and efficient service, he procured through Mr. Allan (who was temporarily reconciled to him) an appointment to the West Point Mi...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Manuscript Found in a Bottle. Through John P. Kennedy[1], one of the judges whose friendship the poverty-stricken author gained, he procured a good deal of hack work, and finally an editorial position on the _Southern Literary Messenger_, of Richmond. The salary was fair, an...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Gold Bug." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "with a haunting sense of impending evil. His home was poor and simple, but impressed every visitor by its neatness and quiet refinement; Virginia, accomplished in music and languages, was as devoted to her husband as he wa...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Eureka," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Annabel Lee." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mr. Kennedy called them,--and though he was extravagantly sanguine at times, melancholy was his usual mood, often manifesting itself in a haunting fear of evil to come. The peculiar character of his wonderful imagination made actual life less real to him than his own land of dre...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "At home, he was simple and affectionate as a child, and during all the years he lived with me, I do not remember a single night that he failed to come and kiss his 'mother,' as he called me, before going to bed." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Six years ago a wife, whom I loved as no man ever loved before, ruptured a blood vessel in singing. Her life was despaired of. I took leave of her forever and underwent all the agonies of her death. She recovered partially and I again hoped. At the end of a year the vessel broke...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My life has been whim--impulse--passion--a longing for solitude--a scorn of all things present in an earnest desire for the future." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Poe atmosphere that no other writer has ever been able successfully to imitate. His verse is individual in theme, treatment, and structure, all of which harmonize with his conscious theory of poetic art. His theory is briefly this: It is not the function of poetry to teach eithe...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "To Helen, a poem of three brief stanzas, is Poe's first really notable production; it is an exquisite tribute of his reverent devotion to his boyhood friend, Mrs. Stannard, portraying her as a classic embodiment of beauty." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Israfel is a ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Bells, wonderful for the music of its verse, and the finest onomatopoetic poem in the language. Two days after Poe's death appeared" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Annabel Lee, a simple, sincere, and beautiful ballad, a tribute to his dead wife. Last of all was pr...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Fall of the House of Usher, which is as nearly perfect in its craftsmanship as human work may be. It is a romance of death with a setting of profound gloom, and is wrought out as a highly imaginative study in fear--a symphony in which every touch blends into a perfect unity ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "On the roll of our literature Poe's name is inscribed among the few foremost, and in the world at large his genius is established as valid among all men." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Works of Edgar Allan Poe," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Works of Edgar Allan Poe" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Booklover's Arnheim" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Tales of Mystery, Unit Book Publishing Company, New York (72 cents);" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The Best Tales of Edgar Allan Poe, edited with critical studies by Sherwin Cody, A.C. McClurg & Company, Chicago ($1.00);" }, { "from": "human", "value": "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A Study of Prose Fiction, and Professor Brander Matthews's" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Philosophy of the Short-Story (published separately, and in" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Pen and Ink" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "AL AARAAF" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Wretches, ye loved her for her wealth and hated her for her pride, And when she fell in feeble health, ye blessed her--that she died! How _shall_ the ritual, then, be read? the requiem how be sung 10 By you--by yours, the evil eye,--by yours, the slanderous tongue That did to de...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Avaunt! avaunt! from friends below, the indignant ghost is riven-- 20 From Hell unto a high estate far up within the Heaven-- From grief and groan, to a golden throne, beside the King of Heaven! Let no bell toll, then,--lest her soul, amid its hallowed mirth, Should catch the no...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Not all --the Echoes answer me--" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "On! on!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Isola d'oro! Fior di Levante!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, I am happy now!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No More." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Man," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I muttered," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sir, said I," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Lenore? This I whispered, and an echo murmured back the word," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Lenore:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Surely, said I," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou, I said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Quoth the Raven," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Nevermore." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Nevermore." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Other friend...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Wretch, I cried," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Quoth the Raven," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Nevermore." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Prophet! said I," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Quoth the Raven," }, { "from": "g...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Let there be light!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "She is warmer than Dian: She rolls through an ether of sighs, 40 She revels in a region of sighs: She has seen that the tears are not dry on These cheeks, where the worm never dies, And has come past the stars of the Lion To point us the path to the skies, 45 To the Lethean peac...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This is nothing but dreaming: Let us on by this tremulous light! Let us bathe in this crystalline light! Its sibyllic splendor is beaming With hope and in beauty to-night: 65 See, it flickers up the sky through the night! Ah, we safely may trust to its gleaming, And be sure it w...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Seldom we find, says Solomon Don Dunce," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Half an idea in the profoundest sonnet. Through all the flimsy things we see at once As easily as through a Naples bonnet-- Trash of all trash! how can a lady don it? 5 Yet heavier far than your P...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Living" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mother," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Shadow, said he," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Where can it be, This land of Eldorado?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Over the Mountains Of the Moon, 20 Down the Valley of the Shadow, Ride, boldly ride, The shade replied," }, { "from": "gpt", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "House of Usher" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I shall perish, said he," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I _must_ perish in this deplorable folly. Thus, thus, and not otherwise, shall I be lost. I dread the events of the future, not in themselves, but in their results. I shudder at the thought of any, even the most...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Her decease, he said, with a bitterness which I can never forget," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Haunted Palace," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Chemical Essays," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And you have not seen it? he said abruptly, after having stared about him for some moments in silence--" } ]