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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I don't," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, and how do you like it? How does it strike you?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It makes me feel so _useless_," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Helena dear, she said, to meet her daughter's startled look," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I've come along, although we've had our talk downstairs, because I feel I can't sleep till I have asked you a question." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why, what?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "A very important question, answered Mrs. Hallam, dropping frailly on the sofa." }, { "from": "human", "value": "And I'm afraid you may think it an extraordinary one. Do you really love Hubert? Do you really want t...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I _am_ sure, she answered, with a passion that surprised herself." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Quite sure." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How utterly devoted they seem! It is so nice to see them look at one another!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Only shows, whispered Mrs. Boyd, who did not love him or any author over-much," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Come along, he said instead." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We're getting a bit late. I rather dread this part!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, I don't know," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Here they are! or when he felt specially inspired, even" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Here they aren't!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Got your camera, my dear?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I _wish_ I'd thought of taking them as we went off, said Helena." }, { "from": "human", "value": "They looked so funny." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ah!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "May as well see what they put," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Solemnised--Langham Place--écru lace, he read from the first; and then more hurriedly," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Reception--residence--numerous and costly--happy couple--Riviera." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why, what is it? she asked." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Don't you like them? She still felt oddly shy about using his name." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Are you disappointed?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "One doesn't expect much from j...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You're my little housekeeper, he told her playfully the first evening, always loving to treat her as a child." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You'll get new cooks about every other day and try new dishes out of shilling books with them, and I shall say: 'My dear, this...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, I like to think you will, he answered." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I shall be hurt if you don't mind in the least when I'm cross.... But what I was going to say is: whatever domestic tragedies there are--and kitchens are the last home in England of poor Trag...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "They sleep in the city, and more is the pity, but you on the hills, awake!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Blow the evening work!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why don't we ever go to a theatre, dear?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh Hugh, she said (she never could quite manage" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Hubert )," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I _am_ so sorry, but what do you think?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I can't imagine, he said in a cold voice so unlike...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Isn't it awful?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Really, Helena, he said," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, Hugh dear, she said, longing to touch him yet not daring quite; he looked so cross and tall." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I _am_ sorry. It was stupid of me. But I thought you'd be sorry and could--could do something." }, { "from": "human", "value": ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Tally-ho! he shouted gaily, holding it aloft and waving it; then as she ran delightedly across from her own line of search," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What time about? he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Before lunch?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Why, Hugh, she laughed." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You must have heard! It sounded like a motor having its teeth drilled." }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It's far better, he added," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But, Hubert, she said finally," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh no, he answered, as one would speak to a child." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Of course they never happen really." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Then why do people write or re...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You know, she said reflectively one night, during those long hearthside chats that neither really would have changed for any other social form," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I like all the people here and so on, but they're terribly busy, aren't they, and I always f...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, what about men then? she added simply." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I don't mind." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You shall have the pick of all my man-friends," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What is it?" }, { "from": "human",...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I know," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I felt sure you would, she said. It was just these remarks that made her such an excellent companion." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Who is it then?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Old Boyd--old Kenneth ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Geoffrey Alison, exclaimed Hubert with far more conviction than about Kenneth Boyd." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He really _is_ the man! Amusing, clever, full of energy, and too young to be really busy." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Why, how old is h...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, I'm so sorry, dear Mrs. Brett! she exclaimed, when Helena laughingly told her the mistake;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Won't Hugh be convulsed?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I don't think I should tell him," }, { "from": "human", "value": "But why on earth not?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Odd of her, this thirst for culture, isn't it? said Hubert smilingly to Kenneth Boyd, on one of their rare meetings away from the hostile wives;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Not always, he said. Perhaps he knew more of Woman, even though he never wrote about her." ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why, he elaborated," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My dear girl, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I don't know why not," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well you see, my dear, he started, slowly," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I dare say other husbands have got their work finished by six o'clock. In fact --and he brightened visibly--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "laughed Helena, and looked at him. Then...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Don't you worry your dear head about things like that. We shall be all right. You won't find the man in possession by our fireside yet, when you come home from market!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, but tell me, she said." }, { "from": "human", "value...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I wish _I_ could do something, she said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I feel so useless!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "It makes me feel so useless!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Dear little girlie, he said kindly," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I love you to be useless." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hullo! she said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why what's brought you back?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Look here, Helena, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I've been feeling I was a bit of a brute about those causeries of yours. I...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hullo, he said in unflattering surprise." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "They've got some quite good men." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'm so glad you're pleased," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That's the one we'll do together, he said, and read out--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, but how splendid! she cried, duly grateful." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Just the very ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ah, that's encouraging. That bucks one up!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What, good news, Hugh dear?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, the Kit Kat Club has asked me as its guest of honour." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "How excellent! she...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hugh dear, she said, also getting up," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am so sorry; I feel such a beast. It's only I was disappointed. Of course my meeting's simply nothing. I ought to have been glad about the Kit Kats, and I am." }, { "from": "human", "v...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why Klub with a K?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Just a literary conceit, I suppose," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You can get Alison to take you, he threw out." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He's sure to be going." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh no, answered Helena." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I told him you were coming. He'll be booked. No, I shan...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It _is_ an early start," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, he replied;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Please'm, said the maid," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Hullo, she said, hoping he had not expected dinner." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Have you been to the Institute? What was it like?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Been, he laughed." ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Capital, capital," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That's old Kenyon," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now there'll be some fun," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I consider, said Mr. G. K. Shaw quite gravely, holding his beard steady," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Mongrel" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Come along in, she said simply." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Hubert'll be here in half a moment. Then he'll give you a drink, and we will all exchange experiences!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No, I don't think I will, thanks very much," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Don't say _you_'re busy, now! she cried." }, { "from": "human", "value": "It's a regular disease." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh no, I never work at night, he answer...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Her brother is a book-reviewer," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "How often do you have these dinners?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'm not a Kit Kat, you know, Mr. Hubert Brett, she answered coyly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "They meet every Tuesday, but we ladies are only asked when there is some special attraction, so you see you should feel very honoured! I find it most interesting (she la...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "For several books," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He has told me, slyly concluded the orator," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "(Loud laughter and a high-voiced" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Shame, then female tittering.)" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I only pull aside the veil in this way s...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Gentlemen--_and_ Ladies! said the President amid appreciative laughter," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I liked that Mr. Alison, so clever! they would reply:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "M'yes? Rather an affected ass, my dear: I can't stand those artistic johnnies. Still, he came out a bit over the wine and showed he _had_ got something in him. Not a bad fellow I dar...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How dull you are to-night! she said peevishly, for they were old friends and she never troubled to sort out her words." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I believe you _did_ want to work or else had something else to do." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Of co...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Have you seen my snap-shot album?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, he said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "May I?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No, don't worry with it, he said, finding it quite hard to speak." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I think I'd better go. It's too late for snap-shots! He must have missed his train." }, { "from": "human", "value": "He'll be here any moment now," }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I say, Brett, cried a strangled voice," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Who is it? asked Hubert." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Alison?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, said the other, making sure that all his throat was there. Brett, he ru...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Helena, he said, storming in," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What _do_ you mean, Hugh? she asked, utterly surprised." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I wasn't." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You must think me a fool, he said." }, { "fr...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Excited! he mocked." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, who wouldn't be? A dirty-minded little cad like that!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Hubert, she said roused at last," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "A devil tempted her, urging her on ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'm sorry, he said presently." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It was your fault: you were so maddening. You don't see what it means to me." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And how did the dinner go off?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Things --she had put stray thoughts down into a shilling diary. At first they had been merely sentences that touched her or inspired, things heard and read. Then as her mind began to feel its way, she wrote these extracts down, and half ashamed at first, though nobody would ever...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, _I_ must do my work! she no longer felt lonely or out in the cold or inferior or anything. She just said to herself:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And so must I." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If this book fails-- or" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I've found a title at last," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Hooray! she cried, genuinely pleased because he had been worried as to that and this would mean a cheery walk." }, { "from": "human", "value": "What is it? Is it good?" }, { "from": "gpt",...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No, she began slowly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It's so--I don't know, but--well, so cheap. All your others were so dignified and simple; I think _Wandering Stars_ was simply excellent; but this--it sort of reminds me of those plays with names like _Did She Do I...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Of course not, he would say." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "They won't tell any one till it's been out a week! They mean to keep it dark, trust them!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I dare say they're saving up for later on, dear," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Only I expect, she said," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Curious? Well, amusing.... It'll certainly be something new to be slated by the critics and rushed after by the libraries. It's usually been the other way about!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It's a boycott, he cried petulantly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I've always had at least two notices, for years, upon the day. We sent them out early on purpose. It's nothing but a boycott." }, { "from": "human", "value": "How too bad, dearest," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ha! and then read out with a naïve joy" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Good," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I like that, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That is rich." }, { "from": "human", "value": "What is it, dear?" }...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But this is where Mr. Brett has done us, we repeat, a service. _Was It Worth While?_ (the name alone is symptomatic) has all the qualities of its successful predecessors: the well-worn types, that call for no brain-effort after work; the utterly untrammelled sentiment; the shape...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Found one?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, she said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "There don't seem any more, unless I've managed to miss one. Now I'm seeing what has happened!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You don't often do that, he s...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It's merely spite, was all he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "How dare they call me insincere? They know it's a good seller and that's just what they can't stand. I've written to the editor and I hope I get that swine the boot." }, { "from": "human", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I fear, wrote his publisher as an old friend," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Who wants his damned opinion?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "An able novel: _Tooting Sentinel_. Weak and formless: _Times_. An arresting piece of work, whoever by: _Stafford News_. An amateur affair: _Standard_;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I don't suppose any one will even publish it," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, Hugh! she cried, believing him," }, { "from": "human", "value": "What, married you? he asked, suddenly laughing." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Bother shop! Come ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hullo! was in fact his very first remark." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Are you too among the authors?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, she said, hoping that she was not blushing." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But not too loud as it's a...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No, she was bound to answer, and when he asked," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Fiction? in surprise, it must be" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'm going to read it please," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Certainly not," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, but yes," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Give it to me," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Listen, he began, as staidly ar...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Very well, he said, getting up." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If you think it's so funny, that's all right. I suppose, now, you've done with me: you've got all out of me you needed: so now you don't even tell me that you're trying to create." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, no, she said," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, will you let me read it?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, if you really want to, she replied." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'll fetch the other half. Secretly she longed for an opinion, and she would never dare to ask for Hubert's." }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I got bored with writing in this, she said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It was so uncomfortable, the edges cut my hand. Then, as though half repenting;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "You must promise not to look at it till you get home and never to t...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, he asked," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, isn't it awful? Helena replied." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I don't know if I ought to tell you, but it's not sold at all: not, I mean, except those sold before publication and I never understand qui...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But _Wandering Stars_, she said presently," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I've often heard, sold quite five thousand." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh yes, I dare say," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, wasn't that artistic?" }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Whew!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, she said, leaping up and forcing herself, like a trained wife, to be cheery," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Rotten, he said;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, I'm so sorry, dear, she answered humbly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I w...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But I hope, she merely said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I don't believe, he said," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'm meant for an author--not in these days anyhow, when it's a trade. You know, my dear, it's too absurd but I can _not_ forget those be...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Is Hubert safely out of hearing?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, she laughed. He always amused her when he was funny like this." }, { "from": "human", "value": "He always works, you know quite well, from five till seven. I suppose all this 'sshing is ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "After all, he said, using that most persuasive of openings to a temptation or a fallacy," }, { "from": "human", "value": "(He saw her eyes light up and knew that he had won.)" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Be...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What should I call myself?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Not Helena, he said with firmness." }, { "from": "human", "value": "They'd guess. Besides no authoress could ever be called Helena: it sounds like Eleanor after a careless housemaid's accident." ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Of course, he was saying now, criticising a review," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, I don't know. What about Rossetti? Or even Whistler?" } ]