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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Rest here a while, he said, gently," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Steamer ahoy! What do you want?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Want all that bullion stowed in your strong room, answered Forsythe through a megaphone;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "You want the bullion stowed in our strong room, do you? Anything else ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The inhuman devil!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Do you agree? yelled Forsythe, through the megaphone." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Do you agree, or shall we unload every torpedo we've got into your hull?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We agree. We understand that your necks are in the halter, and that you have nothing to lose, even though you should fill every compartment and drown every soul on board this ship. So we will accede to your demands. We will fill one boat with the bullion and another with provisi...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There is your man Casey, yelled Denman, excitedly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Are you going to leave him?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Hold yer jaw back there, or ye'll get a passage, too." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Did any one see that fellow before?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Forget it! Open the boxes! Let's have a look at the stuff!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Forsythe, how about the big fellow's wireless? We didn't disable it. He has sent the news alread...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Lead! howled Riley, as he stood erect, heaving a few men back with his shoulders." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Lead it is, if I know wan metal from another." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Open them all, roared Forsythe." }, { "from": "gpt", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now, if you've had enough, shouted Forsythe," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I told you so. I told you so, rang out the crazed voice of Billings." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "A woman aboard ship--a woman aboard ship. Always makes trouble. There, take it!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You're caught, Forsythe, called out Denman, pointing to the south and east." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Will you surrender before we're sunk or killed?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Florrie, called Denman down the companion," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'll see you go first!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now, Forsythe, he said, as he covered the chagrined marksman," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Florrie! called Denman down the hatch." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Come up now. We're all right." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Off with your coa...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Is the boat sinking, Billie?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Jump! it said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Jump, or you'll be carried down with the wash." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Good! he exclaimed, as he glanced down the letter." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Listen, Florrie, here's something that pleases me as much as my exoneration by the Board of Inquiry." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "HERBERT JENKINS." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, I'm glad, Billie! she exclaimed." }, { "from": "human", "value": "They are honest men, after all." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Honest men? repeated Denman, quizzically." }, { "from"...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And where were you that night when it came?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "On the bridge with the captain and watch-officers. It was all hands that night. We had made out a curious light to the north'ard, and were trying to find out what it was." }, { "from":...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And it was curious about Brainard, the most useless and utterly incompetent man ever graduated. He was so near-sighted that he couldn't see the end of his nose without glasses; but it was he that took the ship in, with the rest of us eating with our fingers and asking our way to...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Was it a bright, sunshiny day?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Sure. Four days ago. He was heading about sou'west, and going slow." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Anything happen to your eyesight?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Say--yes. One o...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mr. Smith, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, sir, I think he did--a larger submarine, without any conning-tower and the old-fashioned periscope. They have seven thousand miles' cruising radius, enough to cross the Pacific." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Wait till I get his bearing by compass, said Metcalf to his chief officer," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He surrenders, Mr. Smith, he said, joyously," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I know him," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Do you surrender to the United States of America?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I surrender, answered the man." }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, Saiksi, you perfected it, didn't you?--my invisible searchlight, that I hadn't money to go on with." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Metcalf--this you, he said," }, { "from": "human", "value": "But I came back to the service, Saiksi. Thanks to you and...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Good enough! he said to Smith, when next they met." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Now if I'm any good I'll give the Japs a taste of their own medicine." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Take me along, captain, burst out Smith in sudden surrender." }, {...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Good work for the expenditure, he murmured, wearily." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Let's see--two carbons and about twenty amperes of current, against nine ships at ten millions apiece. Well, we'll soon know whether or not it worked." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The jig's up, chief, he called through a tube to the engineer." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We'll get forty feet down until the mosquitoes get by. I'd like to take a chance at them but there are too many. We'd get torpedoed, surely." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We knew they were on the coast, said the admiral, a little later, when Metcalf had made his report on the quarter-deck of the _Delaware_." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But about this light? Are you sure of all this? Why, if it's so, the President will rank you over ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I mean it, Foster was saying vehemently." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I hope this boat does go to the bottom." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Why, Mr. Foster! cried the girl." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What a sentiment!" }, { "f...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why, no, lieutenant, he said, with a sickly smile." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It is all strange and new to us. We were waiting for you. But I have become slightly interested in this-- He indicated a circular window, fixed in the steel side of the boat." }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now, here is the tube, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "See this rear door. It is water-tight. When a torpedo is in the tube, as it is now, we admit water, as well; and, to expel the torpedo, we only have to open the forward door, apply compressed air, and out...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Must you wait for promotion?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, Irene, no, exclaimed Ross, excitedly, squeezing the small hand in his own." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Not if you say so; but I have nothing but my pay." }, { "from": "gpt", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Say your prayers! yelled Foster, insanely." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You two are going to die, I say. Die, both of you." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Blast your wretched, black heart and soul, he growled, as he hove the wheel around." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Did you open this valve? Hey, answer me. You did, didn't you? And thought to escape yourself--you coward!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "O...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Get up, he commanded, as the prostrate man rolled heavily over on his hands and knees." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Get up, I may need you." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Battery gas!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And Lord only knows, groaned Ross," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "he commanded to the nerveless Foster, who had again found a seat." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Lend a hand on this pump. I'll deal with your case when we get up." }, { "from": "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Are we in danger, John? she asked." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Real danger, I mean?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, dear, we are, he answered, tenderly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And it is best that you should know. I have driven...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Stay there, he said, incisively," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What can I do? whimpered the photographer, a brave bully before the girl, when safe; a stricken poltroon now." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'll do anything you say, to get to the surface....
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You next." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I next? What do you mean?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "You want to get to the surface, don't you? said Ross, grimly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You expressed yourself as willing to do anything I...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Not much, said Ross, busy with the girl." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "When I get my wind, I'm going to jam you into that tube, like a dead man. I'll release you inside." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "All right. Take a good breath, and I'll flood you, called Ross." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "When you're outside, swim up." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Irene, he shouted, joyously," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sit still, he commanded, almost harshly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Sit still, and rest." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Anything to please the bold, bad man," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But these savages devour men! said they." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "How did you escape?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If that be true, we've gained a half-day's work in two minutes." } ]
7602
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Please, sir, be this note for you?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "For me,--yes; it is my name." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I have watched for you all the morning. I saw her go. Well! I did not throw myself under the hoofs of the horses. I write this in a public- house, not far. Will you follow the bearer, and see once again the outcast whom all the rest of the world will shun?" }, { "from": ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now, said Vivian, speaking half to himself, half to me," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I do see, said I;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Stop! said Vivian, laying my hand on his own, and with his old bitter smile on his lip,--" } ]
7602
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Come, said I," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "How came you to know we had stayed in the town?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Do you think I could remain where you left me? I wandered out, wandered hither. Passing at dawn through yon streets, I saw the ho...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Again I say" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Teach the understanding,--all else will follow;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Learn to read something, and it will all come right;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Follow the bias of the pupil's mind,--thus you develop genius, not thwart it." } ]
7602
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mais, cher enfant, ton pere est Anglais,--c'est tout dire." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ho, then, my father is a great man, with all these ancestors and big words! And he has lands and a castle; and yet how miserably we live, and how he stints me! But if he has cause for pride in all these dead men, why, so have I. And are these lodgings, these appurtenances, fit f...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I have no more a son. It was in this mood that he had first visited our house. But when, on that memorable night in which he had narrated to his thrilling listeners the dark tale of a fellow-sufferer's woe and crime,--betraying in the tale, to my father's quick sympathy, his own...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But, said Vivian, pursuing his tale," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "he added mournfully," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I remember the very words,--a new light broke upon me, struggling and dim, but light still. The ambition with which I had sought the ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Pray for me" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Spare me reproach, sir,--it is unavailing; I seek you only to propose that you shall save your name and resign your son." }, { "from": "human", "value": "All I ask of you, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There is only one gentleman in the world who calls himself De Caxton, unless it be his son. Ah! I see now why you wished to conceal yourself from my friend Pisistratus. But how is this? Can you have any difference with your father? Confide in me, or it is my duty to write to him...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "For, said he to my father," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I felt the blood surging to my temples; and if I had said to Pisistratus, 'Describe this man,' and by his description I had recognized my son, and dreaded lest I might be too late to arrest him from so treache...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "in look and in manner which belonged to him. Naturally garrulous and indiscreet, she was unreserved to a pupil whom she conceived the whim to make" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And I need not ask, said I, trying in vain to conceal my indignation," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And if we had not arrived, what would you have done? Oh, dare you look into the gulf of infamy you have escaped!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I cannot...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I think I understood from you that you had sent for Austin,--is it so?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, sir; but I named --, as the nearest point to the Tower, for the place of meeting." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Then let us go hence forthwith,--...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "At least there, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I will injure him no more!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I have again seen my cousin. I cannot make the way I wished. My dear father, you must see him." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I? Yes, assuredly, if I can be of any service. But will he listen to me?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I think so. A young man...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "With that promise he was forced to content himself; he told me to direct to him at his favorite country seat, whither he was going that day, and so left me. I looked round the humble parlor of the mean lodging-house, and Trevanion's words came again before me like a flash of gol...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We sat down on heaps of mouldering stone, and it was there that I explained to him what Roland was in youth, and what he had dreamed that a son would be to him. I showed him the graves of his ancestors, and explained to him why they were sacred in Roland's eyes. I had gained a g...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Pardon me, you know not what delight a father feels when, while sending a son away from him into the world, he can speak and think thus of him. But this, you see, is not your kind of ambition. Let us talk of making money, and driving a coach-and-four through this villanous world...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ask yourself if I ought? I cannot wish Pisistratus to be other than he is; and unless you agree with him in all his principles and objects, ought I to incur the risk that you should give him your knowledge of the world and inoculate him with your ambition?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "on the rough stones of which he is perpetually grinding his heart; turn him adrift amongst all the temptations to which he is most prone,--this is a trial which, I fear, will be too sharp for a conversion so incomplete. In the New World, no doubt, his energies would find a safer...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is from Austin, said he; then he paused a moment, and added, in a tone that seemed quite humble," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "May I see it,--and dare I?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, yes, uncle! I said, smiling;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have reflected, and I have no fear of the result. Before my father wrote, what he now suggests had become my secret wish. As for our other companions, their simple natures would defy all such sophistri...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Olaf" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That's it, sir. You're a ph'los'pher," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Dearest, dearest Olympia," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Frank Oldfield" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Miss Stansfield, I suppose?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am a stranger to you at present, my dear young lady; but I hope not to be so long. I daresay you will guess that I am the new occupier of Riverton Park. I suppose I ought properly to wait for a formal introduction before making your acquaintance; but I have lived abroad in the...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You must know, Miss Stansfield, proceeded the stranger," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "he added, with a smile, as he noticed her look of extreme surprise and her blush of bewilderment." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You are thinking, What can I have hea...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My sister Miss Dawson; my nephew Mr Horace Jackson." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "THE NEW SCHOOL." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "and indeed it had been" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "for so many years, that there seemed scarcely the remotest prospect of its being" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Pray excuse my calling so early," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I was thinking how selfish we naturally are; those beautiful flowers reminded me of it, and seemed to reproach me. God gives us such a profusion of colour, and harmonises it so marvellously to delight us; and yet how ready we are to pick out, as it were, the sombrest tints in hi...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He had not yet consciously arrived at a warmer stage of feeling in regard to any one of them, and his estimate was tolerably correct. Somebody had characterised the young ladies of Holly House as" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What a charming sight, isn't it? said Mrs Wilder to Colonel Dawson, as they strolled up to the tea-tables, which had been set out under the shade of some huge elms." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "How happy the dear children seem!" }, { "from": "human", "v...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What a relief!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, it was dull work, uncle, I allow, said the young man, laughing." }, { "from": "human", "value": "But these gatherings are, I suppose, useful and necessary, if people are to keep up friendly acquaintance ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How very kind of your aunt to spare you! said Grace to her friend;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I hardly expected it, knowing how much she depends upon you." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh yes! was the reply:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value"...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I have ascertained from my lord chancellor, whose secretary took down the names and addresses of you all when you applied for your tickets, that he has made careful inquiry into your several characters, and finds that you all belong to a class of persons who greatly trouble our ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "but he soon became painfully conscious that he could not do this without the help of" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "May I request, sir, to be informed what it is you have to complain of?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I complain of everything and everybody," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Is that _all_ you have to complain of? the commissioner then asked. Before the o...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'm sure it's very hard, sighed a knot of young ladies, who had listened from the outside to what had been going on, and were afraid to speak out more plainly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We shall be moped to death if we're kept here any longer," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ah, sir! replied the poor sufferer, who was a man some sixty years of age, with grey hair, and a countenance whose expression was one of mingled shrewdness, discontent, and ill-temper," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "How alone, my friend? asked the other;" }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, sir, said the other, somewhat impatiently," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Sir, said the young man, dropping, at the same time, his affected drawl," }, { "from": "human", "value": "On what grounds?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why, sir,...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Selfish Island" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I exceedingly regret, ladies, that I cannot promise you any shortening of your time of banishment. His majesty has received your complaint, and has caused due investigation to be made; and the result of that investigation has not led him to make any relaxation in your case. For ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I most heartily advise your majesty to do so, said the commissioner, somewhat bluntly;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Don't let us interrupt you, Miss Stansfield, said the former;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I was only looking round with my nephew, who has not been here before, to see how things are going on in Bridgepath. We will call again!" } ]