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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That reminds me that the newspaper boys are waiting outside in the corridor, Senator Corson. I asked them to be patient for a few minutes. Please allow me to say that I have added no statement to what I said to the crowd in the square. I shall not add any." }, { "from": ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I beg your pardon, and I hope you'll excuse curiosity in a chap who makes cloth, Governor. But this is as fine a piece of worsted as I've seen in many a day." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Governor, petty politics haven't been allowed to make a bad mess of what has b...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The car is waiting near the west portico, father," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "For the present--for now--for to-night, he said, quietly, elaborating his mention of the moment with significance," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I do not presume to offer you the convenience of my car, Mayor Morrison," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I t...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Not much like honest, real business--this, eh, Andy?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Naething like, sir!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Doesn't seem to be a polite job, either--politics--if you go in and fight the other fellow on his own ground." }, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Andy, usually I like to have morning come, for there's always business waiting for me in the mornings and honest daylight helps any matter of clean business. But I'm not looking ahead to this next sunrise with a great deal of relish. Those telegrams were clinchers in the case of...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I have sent word to Morrison to come here," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And you got word back, I suppose, that after he has come out of his mill at ten o'clock and has washed his hands and--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "He's at City Hall, snapped Co...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Corson, what's going to be done with that blue-blazed understudy of Ananias?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Depend on the wrath of Heaven, perhaps, said the Senator, sarcastically." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I haven't had time to look in Holy Writ t...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Governor North, you're perfectly right, and I agree with you without resenting your remark. I did make quite a fool of myself last night. Perhaps you are not ready to concede that the ends justify the means." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I do not, sir!" }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "As to power that is still undeveloped, I consider it the heritage of the people, and I refuse to be a party to putting a mortgage on it. My ideas may be a little crude just now--I say again that everything can't be settled and made right in a moment, but I have stated the princi...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What's it all about? He blinked with bewilderment." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why, I have been telling you, Governor!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Do you think for one minute that I believe all that Righteous Rollo rant?" }, { "from": "gpt...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, by the way, Governor, said Stewart, quietly," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I just came from City Hall. I really did not intend to drift so far from strictly official business when I came up here. I want to assure you that there will be no expense to the state co...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I was trying to make up my mind to call to you. But you seemed to be in so much of a hurry! I suppose you have a great deal to attend to this morning." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The principal rush seems to be over. Was it anything--Did you want to speak to me?" ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hush, dear! I don't want to hear any state talk to me! I want to hear only Lana Corson talk. I didn't understand her last night! Now, bless her honest, true heart, I do understand her." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The bit poem, lassie! You remember it. The poem you...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But I must go to your father, sweetheart, Stewart insisted." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'd best do it this morning and have it all over with." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why, Stewart Morrison, for twenty-four hours you have been taking away my breath by doing the unexpected! You have been grand. Now are you going to spoil everything by dropping right back into the conventional, every-day way of doing things? You shall not! You shall not spoil my...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Good morning!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "They're beginning to arrive from Washington, sir. Better read 'em. They'll afford you a great deal of joy, I'm sure." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I wish I were younger and more of an opportunist, Corson avowed." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "In these guessing times among the booms, here is gas enough to inflate a pretty good-sized presidential balloon." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I--I suppose you're going to the State House," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We are! We are waiting for my daughter," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'm so sorry you have waited!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It's so comforting, Doris, to kn...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It was more than stupid of me to blunder into the story," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Right Party." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "G'o WASHINGTON." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "They had" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "where lands were in process of rapid occupation, the arrivals numbering" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "(and too disagreeable)" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "but it is inadequate. The sharp demarcation of the western frontier by the grasshopper and the hygrometer is another, which will continue to operate until, by irrigation, tree-planting or some other device, a new ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "the motive proclaimed by Condorcet, writing in sweet obliviousness of the guillotine, as explaining" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "? That was a short winter-passage, too--more speedy than the land-trip of a letter in the same journal" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "of the country, is notably gaining in scope and efficiency, be the English and Prussians right or not in their claim of greater thoroughness and a higher curriculum. The different States have engaged in a series of competitive experiments for the common good, and cities and coun...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "of the Erie has lately stood interested inspection from abroad with great credit, and that of the Great Western is unexceptionable. The vote of travelers may be safely allotted to the broad gauge. They have more elbow room. The carriages attain the requisite width without unplea...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The rugged elm," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "and" }, { "from": "human", "value": "the most specific among the simple" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "of his little spectacle, are common to so many places that there are several competitors for ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The time will come when you shall listen to me," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Cliefden's proud alcove, the bower of wanton Shrewsbury and love," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "has commenced his" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The prayers of these invalids were sorely needed by the unhappy scion of Lancaster, but did him little good in a temporal sense. The provost is always rector of the parish. Laymen are non-eligible. Thus it happens that...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "bridge, which has but three or four arches, we pass to the town of Windsor, which crouches, on the river-side, close up to the embattled walls of the castle--so closely that the very irregular pile of buildings included in the latter cannot at first glance be well distinguished ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "God preserve the City of London, 1280, we strike west into the Great Park, we soon come plump on George III, a great deal larger than life. The" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Windsor bell struck twelve, over the head of fat Jack. He has the satisfaction, however, of looking up at the identical bell-tower of the sixteenth century, and may make tryst with his imagination to await its midnight chime. Then he may cross the graceful iron bridge--modern en...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The complexion of the face was dark and discolored. The forehead and temples had lost little or nothing of their muscular substance. The cartilage of the nose was gone; but the left eye, in the moment of first exposure, was open and full, though it vanished almost immediately, a...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "of private intercourse, by the eye of a great painter and a lifelong student of physiognomy. We glance from the rugged Blucher to the wily Metternich, and from the philosophic Humboldt to the semi-savage Platoff. The dandies George IV. and Alexander are here, but Brummel is left...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The route by which I intend to show you India will immediately take us quite away from this part of it; first, however, let us go and see Poona, the old Mahratta capital, which lies but a little more than thirty miles farther to the south-eastward by rail," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, said Bhima Gandharva when I mentioned it to him," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I understand exactly what you mean. On reaching an unbroken expanse of level country, after leaving the tops of mountains, I always feel as if my soul had come bump against a solid w...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "and often to be met with in the designations of this land, where so many things really _are_ great, and _Rachtra_," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The _puttee-dar_ (_pugri_, or turban), continued my companion," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Thank you, I said:" }, { "from": "human", "value": "It is a more 'ghastly' question as to India than as to any other country in the world, said the Hindu." }, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Fall of Smoke," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Only look, said Bhima Gandharva," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Stop! wait a moment, and at the same time halted the chapaya. The mate of the bird I had shot, seeing him fall, alighted on the same spot, then flew up, then returned, flew up again, returned again, with an exhibition of sad and lingering affection of which I had not dreamed, an...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "One day is with the Lord a thousand years, A thousand years with Him are as a day." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What cloister's this?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He hath been dead three hundred years and more!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Brethren, a miracle! This man I know: 'Tis Aloysius, who, as I have read, Beset with doubts, forth from this convent fled, And vanished, some three hundred years ago, And all the world hat...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Come along if you want to go to Bohemia," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "A cab?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Who ever heard of entering Bohemia in a cab? laughed Afra dryly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "People have been known to drive _ou...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is a style I should call the lantern, said she." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The redness of the flesh can only be accounted for on the supposition that a light is shining through it." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I should call it raw beef," }, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You are American? said this wide man to me as I was introduced, and without waiting for a reply went on:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I like your country-people: they admire frankly. Show them a picture, they exclaim, 'Beautiful! magnificent! lovely! exquisite! nam...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ah but, monsieur, said Afra," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And they are true, replied the artist with evident enjoyment." }, { "from": "human", "value": "In those days I was pointed out to people when I walked the street; which, by the way, gave rise to ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Come, and he rose and walked with them. As he moved on with eyes abashed, thinking of the rents in his garments and regretting their poverty, he noticed that they too were changed, and were as bright as those of his companions." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Who has ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And what do you think of Bohemia?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It is different from what I expected. They are refined, and, though frank, never rude. I think--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "You had unconsciously thought them a set of sharpers; but th...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He, and he only, is professor who" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The excellence of our universities is to be found in the fact that they are not mere institutions where instruction is given, but are workshops of science[2]--that their vital principle is unceasing scientific productivity. Hence it is that the state assembles the best men of al...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "as Von Sybel uses the term--and whose discoveries and works give strength and increase of dignity to the university with which he is connected. He is appointed upon his merits as a discoverer or an author. The further consideration--namely, whether he is what we Americans style ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What are our colleges about? Are they incompetent, or asleep?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We go, they can be imagined as saying," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We know that popular opinion in our country is irresistible. It makes everything bend to it. It broke up the Tweed Ring, seemingly impregnable, in a single campaign. But this popular opinion is not a natural product: it is the work of a few men who devote themselves to awakening...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "With us the change from school to college is not an abrupt transition, like that from gymnasium to university. The college course, certainly during the two lower years at least, is a continuation of the school course: the same or similar subjects are taught, and taught in the sa...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He cannot finish what he began." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "PATRICIA KEMBALL." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I broke it by accident, father, and forgot to tell you." }, { "from": "human", "value": "That was a bad job, my boy," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Poor papa!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Poor papa!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You are changed," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Miss Dundas" }, { "from": "human", "value": "It is four years since you saw me, she said with a grave smile." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It was time to change." }, { "from": "human", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You seem much changed too, she said after a short pause--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Partly," }, { "from": "human", "value": "And the other part?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And the other part? He looked at her, and his wan face grew pa...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Pardon her, O Lord! Turn her heart, enlighten her understanding, convince her of her sin; but pardon her, pardon her, dear Lord! And with her, pardon me." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Very well, papa," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And what do you think of Adelaide? asked Mrs. Harrowby one day when her son said that he had been to the rectory." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You have seen her twice now: what is your impression of her?'" }, { "from": "human", "value": "She is prettier...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You are such a dear, good punctual girl!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It is so vulgar to be unpunctual, said Adelaide with her calm good-breeding." }, { "from": "human", "value": "It seems to me only another form of uncleanliness and disorder." }, {...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Who is it that you are sure will agree with Miss Adelaide, if any one indeed could be found to disagree with her?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "She was praising me for punctuality; and then she said that you were punctual too," }, { "from": "human", "val...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Are you here?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, I think so," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ah! there you are; and what a capital likeness! cried Edgar, with the joyous look and accent of one meeting an old friend, giving that gauge of interest which we all unconsciously give when we first see the photograph of a well-known face. He looked at the portrait long and crit...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There is no negroid taint here, Edgar answered gravely." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It is the face of a sibyl, of a tragedian." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Do you think so? It is fine in outline certainly, but too monotonous to please me, and too l...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Poor, dear Adelaide! he said when he returned to the drawing-room," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Not all of us," }, { "from": "human", "value": "And I do not think that Adelaide is, said Josephine." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "She has no ca...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Who are you? but he looked formidable, and Leam started back and cried," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Down, dog! go away!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I hope my dog has not alarmed you?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, I was not alarmed...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You are brave to walk so far alone: you ought to have a dog like Rover to protect you," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am not brave, and I do not care for dogs. Besides, I do not often walk so far as this; but I felt the valley stifling to-day," }, { "from":...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is absurd to pretend that we do not know each other, then said Edgar after a short pause, smiling; and his smile was very sweet and pleasant." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You are Miss Dundas--I am Edgar Harrowby." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes,...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And I knew you from yours," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "An honor beyond my deserts," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why an honor?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If you will allow me, now that I have had the pleasure of meeting you, I will see you safe for at least part of your way home, he said, passing by her naïve query" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why an honor?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That is my own country! she cried." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Mamma came from Andalusia, beautiful Andalusia! Ah! how I should like to go there!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Perhaps you will some day," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Not now, she said mournfully." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Poor mamma has gone, and there is no one now to take me." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I will make up a party some day, and you shall be one of us," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "They are very beautiful, are they not?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What? who?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "The Andalusian women, and the men," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The men are fine-looking fellows enough, answered Edgar careles...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Just so, he answered." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Exactly like you." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I hope we shall soon see you at the Hill, Miss Dundas," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I very seldom go to the Hill," }, { "from": "human", "value": "But you will come, and soon?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Perhaps: I do not know," }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yes? and what do you think of her?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I scarcely know: I have hardly seen her as yet," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Did she say or do anything very extraordinary to-day?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, nothing...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What a pretty little girl! he said after a time. True to his type, he was fond of children and animals, and children and animals liked him." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Come and speak to me, he continued, holding out his hand to Fina.--" }, { "from": "human...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ah! he said sympathetically." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Come to me, little one," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What a dear little puss! cried Edgar, caressing her." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Very like you, Joseph, I should think, when you were her age, judging by your picture. Is she not, mother?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "They say so, but I do not see i...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Poor madame used to say so: she saw it from the first, when Fina was quite a little baby," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Is she like her mother?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "A little, answered Josephine--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Why, Edgar, I never saw you take so to a child before, cried Mrs. Harrowby, not quite pleasantly; and on Sebastian adding with his nervo...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I hope your elder daughter is well," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Leam? Quite well, thanks. But how do you know anything about her?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I met her yesterday on the moor, and Rover introduced us," }, { "from": "gpt", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Thanks, said Sebastian." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Willingly, if--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I have no engagement, and Edgar is master now," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And mind that Leam comes too," }, { "from": "human", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Only ourselves, Edgar said, wanting the excuse of her" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How rude! Maria adding," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "How like Leam! the chain of condemnation receiving no break till it came to Josephine, whose patient soul refrained from wrath, and gave as her link," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Poor Leam! perhap...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now play with me, Leam! You never play with me." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What can I do, Fina?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "El señor papa." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Shall I tell you a story?" }, { "from": "human", "va...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I have nothing to tell you about her," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, you have--everything, insisted Fina." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Was mamma pretty?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "People said so," }, { "from": "human", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, cried Fina, in a tone of disappointment," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I dare say she was, but I do not know," }, { "from": "human", "value": "And she died?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, she died." }, { "from": "human", ...