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[ { "from": "human", "value": "They may have been detained, but I see that Mrs. Hill, the kind housekeeper from Gray Gables, is here. Perhaps she will explain." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Keep it for Pepita's sake, and think of her kindly sometimes, for I believe it was for you she lost her life," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He feels certain of his defeat," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Mrs. Courtney!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Dead!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Miss Azalea Courtney!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The new witness, announced Colonel Harlow," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That was last night, and when Mr. Kayne told me of the awful plight of my dear mistress, I knew that God had spared me to save her life, for I know--and God knows--that it was Jack Dineheart who murdered the miser that evening of the tenth of June, when he went ashore at twiligh...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I have a claim upon you, after all; my maiden name was Vaughan, and from what Meg told me I have discovered that your mother was a cousin of mine whose acquaintance I had never made. So, Nita, dear, you belong to me until Dorian claims you." }, { "from": "gpt", "valu...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I suppose you have come here to exult over my misery!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, Azalea, how can you think me so cruel? I am sorry for you; I came here to help you." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I suppose you think me poor and came to give me m...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Miss Nita, you have made me so happy!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "With that money I sent them both into the country, my mother and my brother, and it helped them, oh, so much! cried the maid." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "To-morrow I shall seek them out, and now that I am rich, I can live with them and take care of them so nicely,...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I love you too well to leave you, dear Miss Nita!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Wiles of a Siren," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "They Looked and Loved; or, The Mystery of Pirate Beach," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Alex" }, { "from": "human", "value": "vs." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Daugher to" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Daughter." }, { "fr...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "THE GIRL WITH THE RED HAIR" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "THE IRON PIRATE" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Boys of Boulogne," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Boys of Boulogne went into the country, and" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The Girls" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Taxi yourself, says I," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, come, come, says he," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Then call a furniture van, says I," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'm sure we should like some one to do the same for us if no taxis were about, says she very sweetly;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am under a thousand obligations, says he;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, get in and go off, says she, almost pushing him." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I shall lose my supper if you don't." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Is it Portman Square now?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I can see you're one of the right sort, he said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Would you mind running round to the King's Road, Chelsea, for ten minutes? Perhaps there'll be another sovereign bef...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Relations of mine, says he, as he pushes 'em into the landaulette, and closes the door himself." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Now you may drive to Portman Square just as fast as you please, for I'm an early bird myself, and don't approve of late hours." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "To Let" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Here's your sovereign, says he;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Half the Gaiety's there, to say nothing of the Merry Widow, says he, as I pushed past him," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'm d--d if they won't be cooking the ducks in the drawing-room." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "started to put 'em through their paces. I saw one of our leading musical ladies coming down the stairs from the rooms above, and presently a lot of guests arrived from the hall below, and went into the great drawing-room, where the audience was to sit." }, { "from": "gpt...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Boys of Boulogne" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Murder!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, my boy, says he, opening the door quite calmly and stepping inside with no more concern than if I had just driven him from the Carlton to Hyde Park Corner," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But what about the Captain, sir," }, { "from": "human", "value...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Keep to the right and turn to the right again, says he, staring hard at his lordship and at me." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That's Lord Crossborough's house, isn't it?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Why, yes, says I, naturally enough," }, { "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Britten, says he, for I had told him my name half a dozen times already," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Britten, this is very important to me. I'll make it fifteen pounds if you do the job well. Just drive up to the lodge, and when the man opens, you say 'His lordshi...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why, he's not left the house for a month! cries she." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Now don't tell me!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, but I'm going to tell you--that and a lot more, if you don't hurry up. Don't you see that I've brought his lordship...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, says I," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Good-morning, constable, says he," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I beg your pardon, sir, says the man, dismounting as he spoke," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Of course I do, constable--very good of you, though. Tell them it's all right, just a little p...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Stop your engine, he says in a low voice," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Good God! says I," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "In for a penny in for a pound," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Gate, I roared," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Stop!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Here, you, he cried, as I drew up," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why, says I," }, { "from": "human", "value": "His lordship--do you mean Lord Crossborough?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Now, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He asked me to drive him down from town to his house at Five Corners. My mistress told me to take him, and I did. I was to have fifteen of the best for the job--and here you see what I get. Oh, you bet I'm happy." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, says I," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "See him--I wish we could see him. There's half the county police looking for him this minute. Oh, we'd like to see him all right, and a few others as well. Now, you come down to the station and tell us all about it. There'...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why, says I," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Whatever are you saying, Britten? cried she." }, { "from": "human", "value": "That's Mr. Jermyn, of the Hicks Theatre." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Jermyn or French, says I, my temper getting up," ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Britten, says she," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I must know more or less, madame, says I." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Remember my interests are not this gentleman's interests." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, that's quite fair, Britte...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Benny, and I shall never forget his beautiful red hair. Gentlemen, I have driven for many ... and the other sort, but" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Benny was neither the one nor the other--not a man, but a tribe ... not a Jew nor yet a Christian, but just something ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Good-morning, says he, nodding affably enough; and then," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You are Lionel Britten, I suppose?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, says I--for no road mechanic who respects himself is going to" }, { "from": "gpt", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why would you like to drive for me?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Because, said I, quickly enough," }, { "from": "human", "value": "But you don't know anything at all about me." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That's just it, sir. The nicest pe...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You're one that knows how to hold his tongue?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Especially where the ladies are concerned?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'd sooner talk to them than about them, sir." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That's right,...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My master has gone across the street to see a friend. When I asked him if there was no message for me, he answered simply," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "None." }, { "from": "human", "value": "He didn't give no instructions about the car?" }, { "f...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You are the new driver my father has engaged?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, sir, I am the same." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I hope you understand powerful cars. Did my father tell you that ours is a steam car?" }, { "from": "gpt", "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Come in, come in, Britten, he cried pompously, when I appeared." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You like your place, I hope--you don't find the work too hard?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "That's so--sir--a very nice sort of place this for a delicate yo...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Is it a young lady?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You mustn't question me, my lad, he said, a bit proudly." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I like my servants to be in my confidence, but they must not beg it. We are going down to Watford--that is enough ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He's a wonder, is Colmacher, he remarked as he splashed and hissed about the wheels." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Takes his car out half a dozen times in as many hours, and then never rides in her for three months. You would be engaged in place of Mr. Walter, I sup...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mind, he cried," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'm staying at the King's Arms, and you can send my letters down there. Then he waved his hand to me, and we set off. The road to Watford via Edgware is traps from end to end, and, well as the White was going, I did not ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Benny" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Where have you been to? he asked in a voice unlike his own--the voice of a man who knows" }, { "from": "human", "value": "and will see that he gets it." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why weren't you with th...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This looks a likely inn, he said, pointing to a pretty little house on the right-hand side of the road;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I think we might stop the night here, lad. They'll give us a good bed and a good glass of whisky, anyway, and what does a man want m...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Get a good dinner into you, lad, and then come and talk to me, he said, putting a great paw on my shoulder, and leering apishly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We mayn't go to bed to-night, after all, for, to tell you the truth, I don't like the colour of their sheet...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Britten, he said quite plain," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I think so, sir." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Hope you'll find her well, sir." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ah, that's just it. I shan't find her well if her old father can help...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hallo, cried I," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, says I," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Do you know the road to Colchester?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "To Colchester?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "You take the first to the left when we leave here--then go right ahead until I tell you to stop. Understand, whatever happens you are to get...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Up you get, my boy, he cried, throwing all disguise to the winds," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Don't you hear that noise? They have discovered Miss Davenport is going and the job's off. We'll tell Benny in the morning--the thing to do to-night is to show them our h...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Get up, you fool, he cried." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Do you want me to treat you as I've treated him? Get up, or by the Lord I'll blow your brains out!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Benny, not for that job, at any rate. He turned out to be the head of a swindling crew, known in America and Paris as the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Red Poll" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Benny" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Be good to him, for he's an orphan." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We know most of 'em, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He being stony-broke likewise, said I." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well, she had a run for her money, and here's good luck to her. I hope that I haven't seen her for the last time." }, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But, says I," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, you stupid man! cried she." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Don't you see that I am Miss Phyllis More? I thought you were clever enough to understand that ladies change their names sometimes, Britten. Now, w...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I don't suppose I ought to do it, miss, I said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, she burst out, laughing as she said it," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "She'd been hard put to it to keep going in London, while John did the courting, said I to myself," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How far are we going, miss?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "To Lord Badington's house--near Sandwich in Kent." }, { "from": "human", "value": "It's a longish run, and we shan't get there before dark." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, says she,...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Britten, says she," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Not asked, said I, with a mouth wide enough open to swallow a pint of gear-box" }, { "from": "human", "value": "B." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Then what's the good of going there, if you're ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You're really sure that you mean this, miss? I asked her, knowing what women are." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You won't change your mind afterwards, and blame me because the car isn't going?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "How can you ask such a thing...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If this car is going on to-night, said I," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What do you want, my man? he asked, in a quick, sharp tone--he's a wonder for fifty-two, and there has been no smarter man in the Guards since he left them." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Where do you come from?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Begging yo...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, I am so sorry to trouble you, she cried in her sweetest voice," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This lady will stay here to-night, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Go and help her driver to get the car in, and see that he is looked after, and without another word he waited for Miss Dolly to enter the house. Believe me, I never thought Mr. John's stock st...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Never see such a thing in ten years' experience," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'm blowed if I don't think the devil has got inside the magneto," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Britten, I'm doing famously, and I haven't forgotten you." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, Britten, she said in a whisper," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "In that case, said I," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I should consider that we were really unfortunate, miss, but I'll do my best." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Are you comf...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Do you know who you've been trotting about the country?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Lord Badington be d----d, he said, speaking through his nose as he always did," }, { "from": "human", "value": "What! I cried, opening my eyes wide," }, { "from...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Whed did you say she started off?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "About two this afternoon, I think." }, { "from": "human", "value": "In whose car?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why, his lordship's, of course." }, { "from": "human", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He might do pusiness with us, Britten, he remarked." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I won't have his dabe in it--but I'll tell him about her directly I get the chadce, and she won't be long in his house, dow will she?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Perha...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Britten, he asked," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Quite ready, sir, said I--for I'd just that minute shoved my knife into another tyre." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Are you going back to Sandwich?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'm going t...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Another tyre gone--what do I pay you wages for? Adser me that! Who the ---- is going to pay the bill? Don't you see I must get to Sadwich to-night? A pretty sort of a dam fool you must be. Now you get that car going in twedy minutes, or I'll leave you in the street--so help me h...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Party of the dabe of Miss More--is she sdaying in this house?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Who the devil are you? he asked," }, { "from": "human", "value": "What's all this, Sergeant Joyce? he asked." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why do you...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Take a week's notice, and be d----d to you! cried I, turning upon my master all of a sudden." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Do you think I'll serve with a man who sent policemen after his best customers? You go to hell, Moss--where you ought to have been long ago," ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Halloa, and what's taken your fancy in these parts?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "This musical box don't like the thunder, said I;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Are you stopping here for the lady, or do you want to get back to Paris?" }, { "fr...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Who is the lady, and how did she interfere with you?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "She's done everything, he said:" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "All said and done, said I," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Because, he replied, and he was as grave as a judge at the moment," }, { "from": "human", "value": "And true it shall be, said I," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why, cried I," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That's the girl, right enough, he said;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, look here, I can't take that. Don't you know Maisa Hubbard, who drove the big Panhard last autumn?" }, { "from": "gpt", "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Olympia, and there we saw the famous show they called the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Man in the Moon. This didn't cheer him up at all, and once during the evening he told me that he thought he'd soon be in the moon himself, or any place where they have a job for ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Go. Upon my word, I do believe there was just a moment when I thought I could get to Vienna before the others; and, letting my clutch in gently, and telling Billy, my mechanician, to make himself fast, I soon had her upon third speed, and was racing as fast as the bad road would...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ferdy" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I hear that the devil himself might be frightened to drive across that pass at any speed, said I," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You're right, said he," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Not meaning any reference to the lady," }, { "from": "gpt", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You can't move your own char-à-banc--the crank-shaft's broken, Ferdinand said to me, as he asked me for the tenth time to get up beside him;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I've got no one, and I'm going to win this race. If you could conjure up a new crankshaft out o...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Go! Before that could be given, however, and while the car was still in the" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, my dear boy, I have been looking for you everywhere, cried she, offering him a little bunch of red roses, just as though she loved him dearly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Now, won't you take these for luck? I'm sure you'll want luck to-day, Ferdy. Do you know,...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Dreams go by contraries, said I;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "She didn't dream it at all, was his answer;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Why should she be spiteful----?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You ask the man and his master. She's o...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "went echoing in my head." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We were going over the mountain-side." } ]