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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Here is a mistake, sir; the bond as entered does not become due until to-morrow. Ryland begged permission to look at the book, and after leisurely and coolly inspecting it, said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "There must be an error in your entry of one day," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "So you are the very man I am seeking. The artist said so calmly," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I think you are mistaken, I don't remember you, that the" }, { "from": "human", "value": "apologised and wished him" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Black Bear, and having previously failed as landlord of" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The White Lion, at Bath. Bernard in his 'Retrospections,' speaks of" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Young Lawrence the painter, then about seventeen, as" }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Rainy-day Smith. It is a tale of Alderman Boydell, who at twenty-one years of age walked to London, because he had no money to come by the waggon, and apprenticed himself to Mr. Thorns, an engraver and artist, attending whenever possible, an academy opened in St. Martin's Lane f...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Better than my bread and meat. He was soon afterwards in London, where Sir Joshua Reynolds befriended him, and he became known and popular as" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am determined to no longer encourage your idleness; there is a guinea, take it and go about ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sur, there are sacreets in the art, whuch whun a mon hae foound oot, he mun keep to himsel." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I shall be very happy to tell you anything I know. You need not fear to ask me; the art of a painter is unlike that of a juggler, it does not depend upon a trick. In art we have no secrets, and all painters are always glad to tell what they know to young fellow-students." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We don't purchase modern pictures. Happily this is altered now to some extent, though the reception awarded a novice in the present day is not very encouraging if all aspirants are treated in a like manner to an extremely clever young friend of mine, who, I doubt not, will be he...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "When it was finished, he pawned his only decent coat to raise $7.50 for a frame in which it was sent to an art mart." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Then he spent the day walking around, and calculating what he would do with the thousand the great work would bring him...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Never min, ye can mak a shift, wash the ane I hae on, and I'll gang to my bed till it's dry. My puir mither hae often to do that." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "When I die, be that event when it may, there will not be two penny pieces left to close my eyes." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Curiously enough, said Rogers," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Chantrey asked," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Did you see it made? and Rogers, supposing the query to be one of incredulity, replied positively," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ce...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The English Claude. It belonged to a tavern called" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The Three Loggerheads;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hey! what! Do _you_ call this painting, Dalton? Take it away! I call it daubing, hey! What! It's a mere daub." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What does he ask for this daub? And when Dalton replied" }, { "from": "human", "value": "One hundred guineas," }...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Come, come, my old Trojan--come, old boy--I wish I could set you purring like old puss there." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I wish I knew how to send him ten pounds in some delicate way which could not give him offence. Do you think he has some very trifling sketch ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "One of the most delightful parts of my life was one fine summer, when I used to walk out of an evening to catch the last light of the sun, gemming the green slopes of the russet lawns, and gilding tower or tree, while the blue sky, gradually turning to purple and gold, or skirte...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Here began debt and obligation, out of which I have never been, and never shall be, extricated as long as I live. Haydon, as I said, was a strange mixture, and though possessed of a nature truly poetical, he was in some things wondrously practical; for the bailiffs put into his ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How could you do so? he exclaimed." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am not fit for anything of the kind. How can I ever hope to pay you the money back?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What are these for?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "How can you put so preposterous a question? For my dinner to be sure, man." }, { "from": "human", "value": "But two shillings is not fair compensation, Barry. Surely it was worth a crown." }, { "f...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What claim had one of these of whom I have been speaking but genius? What return of gratitude, fame, affection, did it not bring to all? What punishment befell those who were unfortunate among them but that which follows reckless habits and careless lives? For these faults a wit...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "After all my boasted independence, cursed necessity compels me to implore you for five pounds. A cruel scoundrel of a haberdasher, to whom I owe an account, taking it into his head that I am dying, has commenced a process and will infallibly put me in jail. Do for God's sake sen...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It would hardly be grateful to alter my old opinion that we (men of letters) do meet with good will and kindness, with generous and helping hands, in the time of our necessity; with cordial and friendly recognition. Having failed in his medical practice at Aldborough, in Suffolk...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am, sir, with the greatest respect, Your obedient and most humble servant," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "GEORGE CRABBE." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "as he said in _Fraser's Magazine_ (1846)," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "said he," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Impecuniosity of Artists," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Few men had experienced more to sour them, or had gone through the author's hardening ordeal of narrow circumstances, of daily labour, and of that disappointment in the higher aims of ambition, which must almost inevitably befall those who retain ideal standards of excellence _t...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "came in the beginning of 1844, when Mrs. Blanchard, the most tenderly-loving of wives, and a devoted mother, was attacked by paralysis, which affected the brain, and terminated in madness, speedily followed by death. Partial paralysis seized her husband, and in a burst of deliri...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Until within a short time back I have not had, since I left Ireland, a single moment's peace of mind; constantly running backwards and forwards, and trying a thousand expedients, only to meet disappointments everywhere I turned.... I never will think or talk upon the subject aga...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "which Thackeray considered" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He merely built some grand literary castles in the air (for which he was ridiculed in the 'Noctes Ambrosianæ,' under the name of" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Kempferhausen ); but he says:" }, { "from": "human", "value": "There were some awkward conditio...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "to the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Our calling is only sneered at because it is not well paid. The world has no other criterion for respectability. In Heaven's name, what made the people talk of setting up a statue to Sir William Follet? What had he done? He had m...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Poor T. S. called again yesterday. Through his incoherent miserable tale I could see that he had exhausted each access to credit, and yet fondly imagines that, bereft of all his accustomed indulgences, he can work with a literary zeal unknown to his happier days. I hope he may l...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It was not, he wrote," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Bread is the main incentive. Do not let us try to blink this fact or imagine that the men of the press are working for their honour and glory or go onward impelled by the inevitable afflatus of genius." }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Who in London hath not heard of his (Greene's) dissolute and licentious living, his fond disguisinge of a Master of Arts with ruffianly hair, unseemly apparel, and more unseemly company, of his vaine glorious and Thrasonicall brassinge; his piperly extemporising and Tarletonizin...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "In prime of youth a rose, in age a weed, That for a minute's joy payes endless meed." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "ROBERT GREENE." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The remembrance of many wrongs offered thee and thy unreproved virtues add greater sorrow to my miserable state than I can utter or thou conceive, neither is it lessened by consideration of thy absence (though shame would...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A King to me mine habit gave At Oxford the University, Advanced I was to that degree: By whole consent of their Senate, I was made Poet Laureate." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Bishop Wykke suspended him from his benefice. In 1501 he was in prison for marrying and ke...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "His Majesty has sent me ten guineas because I am poor and live in an alley. Go and tell him his soul lives in an alley." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "when, in the phraseology of the profession," }, { "from": "human", "value": "that is to say when there w...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "On another occasion Michael Kelly, the musical celebrity, was complaining to him of a wine merchant at Hochheim who instead of six dozen of wine had sent him sixteen. Sheridan said he would take some off his hands if he were not quite able to pay for it, but, said he," }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "She would if he could canter well," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Beautifully," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Perhaps I should not mind stretching a point for such a one. Will you have the kindness to let me see his paces?" }, { "from": "gpt", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Thank you, my generous fellow, said Sheridan." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, let all go--affection and sentiment in my situation are quite out of the question. But, said he, recollecting himself," }, { "from": "human", "value": "What is it?" }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I sent him a guinea, says Johnson," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Happy night, to him worth all the dreary days! Hidden by some dusky wall, or creeping within darkling shadows of the ill-lighted streets, this poor neglected sizar watched, waited, lingered, listened there, for the only effort of his life which had not wholly failed. Few and dul...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "On the 1st of June, 1839, we got on the stage-coach with our boxes of books at Stamford, and away I went to make my first venture in London. We lodged in Elliott's Row, Southwark; I earned five pounds by contributing reviews and prose sketches to some papers having but an epheme...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "England knew not a happier circle than that which for years assembled by the humble hearthstone at Greta Hall. It is refreshing to turn aside from the world and contemplate that peaceful home, nestling amid the Cumberland Mountains." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "On ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Robert Southey, of Balliol College, Oxford, proposes to read a course of Historical Lectures in the following order:--1st. Introductory on the Origin and Progress of Society; 2nd. Legislation of Solon and Lycurgus; 3rd. State of Greece from the Persian War to the Dissolution of ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now I began to think that the course of all desire and the sum of all existence was to read and get knowledge. Read, read, read. I used to read at all possible times and all possible places; up in bed till two or three in the morning, nothing daunted by once setting the bed on f...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, I may see him again." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Keep the sixpence, my boy," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "In my young days they lent me cash that way, Which I found very troublesome to pay." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The Order of Poverty--how many sub-orders might it embrace! As the spirit of Gothic chivalry has its fraternities, so might the Order of Poverty have it...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Around him, too, were the stores of plenty. Food, raiment, and money mocked the man half-mad--mad with destitution. Yet, with a valorous heart, a proud conquest of the shuddering spirit, he walked with honesty and starved. His long journey of life has been through stormy places,...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He was proud of me in his way, and had a great admiration of the comic singing. But in the ease of his temper and the straitness of his means he appeared to have utterly lost at this time the idea of educating me at all, and to have put from him the notion that I had any claim u...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The blacking warehouse was the last house on the left hand side of the way, at old Hungerford Stairs. It was a crazy tumble-down old house abutting, of course, on the river, and literally overrun with rats. The wainscotted rooms and its rotten floors and staircase and the old gr...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I was so young and childish and so little qualified--how could I be otherwise?--to undertake the whole charge of my own existence, that in going to Hungerford Stairs of a morning I could not resist the stale pastry put out at half price on trays at the confectioner's doors in To...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Brussels Sprouts. Desirous of executing the commission, and longing for a dip in the sea, he started off to Ostend, and on arriving there, was not long in going through the preliminaries of taking" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He took it, but to his horror on coming...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My heart is weary, my peace is gone, How shall I e'er my woes reveal? I have no money, I lie in pawn, A stranger in the town of Lille." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Truth is always strange, Stranger than fiction: if it could be told, How much would novels gain by the exchange." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Truth is stranger than fiction," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Duke Combe. In a comparatively short period, by his prodigality and reckless expenditure he was reduced to penury, and finding no means of subsistence, enlisted as a private in the army. While in the ranks he was reading one day, when an officer passing him managed to see the bo...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Duke Combe. At last he became an inmate of the King's Bench Prison, and he remained there several years. When a friend offered to make an arrangement with his creditors, he replied:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If I compounded with those to whom I owe money I shoul...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But now, ladies and gentlemen, I shall tell you who and what I am. There was an eager and expectant expression on the countenances before him. Combe paused--all present leaning forward to hear him--gathered himself up, as if for a great effort, and then said," }, { "from...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Are we all here? a voice answered," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, all but John Lally, the piper." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "As the prospect of my marriage has much increased lately, I am determined to take the best means to discover the lady most liberal in her esteem by giving her fourteen days more to make her quickest steps towards matrimony: from the date of this paper until eleven o'clock the ne...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Wise judges are we of each other, said Claude Melnotte contemptuously to Colonel Damar when that officer remarked that he" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "the pretended Prince of Como, and it would be well for many of us were we to remember the rebuke in forming our ju...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He was observed, after dinner, carefully to gather up the remnants left at the table (not many nor very choice fragments, you may credit me), and in an especial manner these disreputable morsels he would convey, and secretly stow, in the settle that stood at his bedside. None sa...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Having seen it before, the old general said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The strictest search about the room was then made, but only with fruitless results. The owner of the box assumed much gravity of manner, and having referred to the seriousness of the loss, sa...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But may I ask you why you so resolutely refused to be searched?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Alas! said the soldier," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I refused to be searched because, though I had not stolen your snuff-box, I had stolen your food. I blu...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Pitiful, wondrous pitiful, is my next illustration, which is related by Sir Walter Scott, who when attending Dugald Stewart's lectures on Moral Philosophy used to sit by the side of an amiable youth, in whose society he afterwards took great interest. They became companions, and...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "God bless you, sir! exclaimed the soldier, astonished at the amount." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "How can I repay you? I have nothing in the world but this, pulling out a dirty piece of paper from his pocket;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Flying Pieman. Every day at the beginning of the present century (excepting when it rained) the familiar figure of that now historic personage might have been seen in the steep thoroughfare between Staple's Inn and Field Lane. Peter obtained the _sobriquet_ of" }, { "fro...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Flying Pieman, as he perambulated or as he stopped, never being known to utter any other word than" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Buy, buy, buy." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Flying Pieman was attentive to everybody, but he never turned back for anybody. Making his way deftly through crowds of pedestrians, hackney coaches or waggons, the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Flying Pieman went straight on, calling out" }, { "from": "huma...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "that an artist of Peter Stokes's ability should have to turn itinerant vendor of pennyworths of pudding, the old adage" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Be sure your sin will find you out" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Test Act, and whose upright discharge of the important duties of Lord Chief Justice gained him the highest honour and esteem, was as a youth wilful and dissipated. In some respects his deeds at that period bore likeness to those of the madcap Prince Hal, when that personage was ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Indeed, said Holt," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Has anybody seen it? inquires the judge." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, please you, my lord, and it is now here ready to be produced." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Gentlemen, I must now relate an incident of my life which ill-suits my position. To conceal that incident would be to increase the awful folly which I must atone. Did I conceal that folly of which I was guilty, I should endanger innocence and countenance superstition. This so-ca...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Is that all you want? The grocer entering added," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Mademoiselle ought to have a husband in the bargain." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Excellent, said Piron," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Monsieur, said she with...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mr. Thomson, said Quin," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Thomson was alarmed, and stammered out that he was unaware of any obligations." }, { "from": "human", "value": "They are mine, replied Quin." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have received ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Summoning up their best graces and most insinuating powers of expression in the way of eloquence, they sought an interview with their hostess, and acquainted her with their foolish but unfortunate position; to which account she listened with attention and deep interest. She was ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "that one of them must marry her--which one she didn't care a curse--but by all that was holy if she didn't marry one of them, all three should be packed off to gaol, and the ship must go without them. Remonstrance, promises to pay in a few months, the unreasonableness of the req...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That's your answer." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Wellington." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Fellow-citizens: There is To be, as you know, A wonderful show, A Universal Fair, at Paris; Where every country its product carries, Whatever most beautiful, useful, or rare is, To please and surprise, And perhaps win a prize. Now here is the question Which craves your counsel a...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "PEASANT GIRLS BRINGING THE MILK." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "SO THEY MADE A GRAND PARADE." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Will it go up in the sky to-night? Asks little ma'm'selle, in the arms of her mother,--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Rise over the houses and give us light? Is this where it sets when it goes out of sight?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "ENCIRCLED ALL DAY BY A WONDERING THRONG." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Beware! 'T is a prize indeed, but I say, forbear! For cats may catch us and men may scare, And a well-set trap is a rat's despair; But if we are wise, and would have our share With perfect safety to hide and hair, Now listen, and we will our plans prepare." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Messieurs! Of all fine cheeses at market or fair,-- Holland or Rochefort, Stilton or Cheshire, Neufchâtel, Milanese,-- There never was cheese, I am free to declare, That at all could compare With this great Gruyère!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "FIRST, ONE RAT." }...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "DOWN TUMBLES, DOWN CRUMBLES, THE KING OF THE CHEESES." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You're so afraid that somebody'll think that you are vain of your hair. Puss's ears were over large for perfect beauty, and her eyes a trifle too deeply set; but I've half a mind to say that she was a beauty, in spite of these, for, after all, the ears had a generous look, in ha...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I keep thinking about the 'snack,'" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What do you think about it?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I keep thinking how good it'll taste. Aunt Calline makes mighty good pound-cake. I do love pound-cake!" }, { "from": "gp...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I believe I'm getting 'ha'nted,' too," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Good for you! John said, cordially." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Come along! Help yourself to a chicken-wing." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why, Luke, you aint going to ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Aint no use totin' this yere basekit 'long no mawr, Jacob Isaac suggested." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'll leave it hang in this yere sass'fras saplin'. When it was intimated that it would be needed for the remainder of the lunch, he said there wasn't any" }, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The poor creatures!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "So helpless! added Elsie, peeping through her fingers at the boys." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Aren't the hooks ready yet?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yours is," }, { "from": "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Keep quiet! she called." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I've got a bite." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You would have, if I could get at your arm," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have, truly, she said, excitedly." }, { "from": "huma...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I mos' found it twice't; but it was a frog an' a lizar', 'stead uv the fish," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Don't pull at the line that way, Puss said to the thrasher in the tree-top;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Lim' hangs over the watto," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "HE KNELT ON THE BANK TO FIX HIS BAIT." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'll hold on to you; and you must hold on to the stirrup and to the horse's mane," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Thankee, Miss Puss," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Puss, you're a hero, is what Elsie said, adding immediately:" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Those hateful boys! Great protectors they are!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It just empties the ...