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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mark my words, exclaimed the former, in a tone of anguish," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Troublesome is not the word, Monsieur, replied the waiter." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But a thing has happened. That gentleman whom you saw, arrived a few days ago, giving the name of Karl. He took the cheapest room in the house; he drank one of the cheapest wine...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You _are_ getting rather white about the gills, I said to him when the driving party had once more left us behind." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why didn't you take up your flirtation where you left it off, like a serial story to be 'continued in your next'? Your we...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Thou art past the tyrant's stroke." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I shall want to know how Mont Blanc looks from my window, so I won't waste my time in bed, said he." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Besides, I'm rather keen to see the chamois, aren't you? The only one I've ever met was stuffed, and rather moth-eaten. He was in a dime...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Alpine Maid." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I've been out in the park, said he, when we had exchanged by way of greeting a" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Hello, Boy and" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Hello, Man." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Meet any chamois?" }, { "from": "h...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Come on, I said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Shall we stop and see that piteous dark packet lying lonely on the snow? I asked, pausing. But the Boy hurried on." }, { "from": "human", "value": "No, no, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You will be throwing your chamois away in a day or two, I prophesied," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You will see that I shan't throw it away, the Boy returned, and insisted upon carrying the parcel in his hand, instead of having it sent from the shop to the hotel. W...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You have a short memory it seems, said he." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You told me not so long ago that you'd been in love with a girl who jilted you. Have you forgotten her already?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "If I could only prove to you that yo...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hearts are caught in the rebound sometimes, if for once a proverb can be right," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Nothing can be as it has been; Better, so call it, only not the same," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I believe that youth to be a fortune-hunter!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You're wrong there, said I," }, { "from": "human", "value": "At all events, it is ridiculous, this flirtation, exclaimed the plump Baronessa." }, { "from": "gpt", "val...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "They may turn up before long now, I said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have run away from my own friends, and--gone rather far to do it, said the Boy." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yet I seem destined to meet other people's. It was with very differ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There are actually three hotels, all said to be good, I remarked, quoting from my guide-book." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "To which shall we go?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Choose which you like, for yourself, he replied with a slight appearance of...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Good morning, Joseph!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Good morning, Monsieur!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Ah, Monsieur, there is but one thing for which I ask at present," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Anything I can manage, Joseph?" }, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Condescension is an excellent thing; but it is strange how one-sided the pleasure of it is." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Pretty, isn't it?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, very pretty, said the Boy." }, { "from": "human", "value": "But what is there that one misses? There's something--I'm not sure what. Is it that the place looks huddled together? You can't see its face,...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'm tired, aren't you? asked the Boy." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I shall be glad to rest." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I shan't be able to rest quite yet, said I, with a careless air." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I shall see you in, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Something _shall_ happen, my dear." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Signor Boy did not wish to come, said the Contessa to me," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I was horribly worried at dinner, whispered Gaetà to me, the light of the fireworks playing rosily over her face." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Those two--you know of whom I speak--weren't a bit nice to each other. It was Paolo who began it, of course, saying little...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I do hope they're not quarrelling," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Of course not, I replied, annoyed at her frivolity." }, { "from": "human", "value": "They are too sensible." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Let us make some excuse, and go over t...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Nice night, isn't it?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Did the Contessa give you a good dinner?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No--yes--that is, I didn't notice." }, { "from": "human", "value": "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What's the matter?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, Man, I'm in _the most awful scrape_." }, { "from": "human", "value": "What's up?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I should be thankful to tell you about it, and get your advice, if--you were ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'll be your friend, and get you out of the scrape, I said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But it will mean that you must give up the Contessa." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Give up the Contessa! echoed the Boy." }, { "from": "gpt", "value"...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I want a word with you on a matter of importance. I'll walk up and down the road for twenty minutes." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, have it your own way; I am too old a hand to argue with young gentlemen, . . . I have too much experience, thank you." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I do not understand the nature of this appointment, Monsieur, began the Italian." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I intended to send my friend Captain de Sales to you to----" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Ah, yes, that is the Continental way in these litt...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Nevertheless, said I," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But what about my memory? demanded Paolo, with open palms." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Monsieur does not appear to think of that." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It was not on my mind. I...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It's all right." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That goes without saying." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Why?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Because you promised." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Thanks for the compliment. Have yo...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You'll have to be tied to the lady's apron strings, if she wants you knotted there, for the afternoon, said I." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But I'm going to have a telegram from my friends to meet them on the top of Mont Revard to-morrow, so if you want an excuse--...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But that _isn't_ an American duel, he objected, still rippling with mirth." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You commit suicide, you know. The man who draws the short bit of paper agrees to go quietly off and kill himself decently somewhere, before the end of a stipulat...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What a heavenly place Aix is! exclaimed the Boy fervently." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'm so glad I came." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I thought yesterday that you were disappointed in the place." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, yest...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "asked the Boy." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "They were Princesses, like your sister, said I." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I've been fancying them with her eyes." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What do you know about her eyes?" }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Congratulate me, said he." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The Contessa has just consented to be my wife." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Whirlwind ), she would have screamed a silvery little scream and implored him for _her_ sake to accept the inevitable ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Shall you take your wedding trip in a balloon?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Rigoletto," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It's a good thing you're not a girl, said I to the Little Pal, across my shoulder, holding back a particularly obstinate branch which would have liked to push us over the precipice, with its lean black arm." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You would be screaming, and I...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What's the matter?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I thought you were going to be killed, that's all, said he," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Why, you little duffer, you're as white as a ghost! I exclaimed." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If t...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Daughter of a thrice-accursed mother, and of a despicable race! she cried in her odd patois, which it was often better not to understand too well." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Blighted and bloodthirsty beast! But look at her now, eating with an enormous appetite a ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Can it be that a few hours ago the mere exertion of walking made us so hot that we had to mop our foreheads, and fan ourselves with our hats?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Let's talk about it, said the Boy." }, { "from": "human", "value": "It may warm us...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Poor Man! exclaimed the Boy." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why didn't you confide to me before, that you were physically and mentally incapable of packing? I've often noticed that your hold-alls looked like overfed boa constrictors, but I didn't dream things were as...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Is _that_ what you wanted? cried the Boy." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I won't have it. I won't! I'd rather freeze than be a guy. Put it on yourself." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I don't need it. It was for you. Don't be ungrateful, after all my tro...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If you don't let me go, I'll--I'll box your ears!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Try it," }, { "from": "human", "value": "You'll be sorry for this some day," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Will you keep on the dressing-gown, if I let you go?" ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'll wear anything you like," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What's up?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I was only thinking that if Innocentina wants to convert Joseph from heresy she'd better not lecture him to-day about eternal fire. The idea is too inviting. I never envied anyone so much as my namesake, St. Laurence, on his ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Are we far from the hotel? I asked in French, but no gleam of understanding lightened their faces; and it was not until Joseph had addressed them in the most extraordinary patois I had ever heard, that they showed signs of intelligence." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No, I can't stand it, he gasped." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I shall faint. Better freeze than suffocate." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "he repeated, shivering," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Is the gentleman anonymous? Is he a great unknown?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Gibson type" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, said one to the other, turning away from his brief but steady inspection of the newcomers," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I thought we were the only two fools stranded here for the night in this weather, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Anything wrong?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Nothing. I was only--a little surprised to hear people talking, that's all. I thought we had the room to ourselves." }, { "from": "human", "value": "So did I at first, but it seems two countrymen of yours are...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That will not do for Innocentina, exclaimed the boy quickly. In his eagerness he raised his voice slightly, and the two young men at the other end of the salon seemed waked suddenly to renewed interest in us and our affairs. But the Boy's tone fell again instantly." }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "By Jove, but it can't be possible!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You told Joseph that he needn't come up very early to-morrow, didn't you?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, as we're pretty well fagged, and Chambéry isn't an all-day's journey, I thought we might take our time in the morning. That suits you, doesn't it?" }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You came up by the mule path, didn't you?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Must have been a stiff journey in this weather." }, { "from": "human", "value": "We came into the mist and snow just below the Col." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Your fr...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That would be very pleasant, no doubt, I replied;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, very well, returned the handsomer of the two, looking slightly offended." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We shall meet on the way down, perhaps. By-the-by, if I'm not mistaken, your young friend is a compatriot of ours. He's American, isn't he?" }, { "from...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What is it, Boy? Do you want me?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mont Blanc!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Only six o'clock, I yawned." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Three good hours more of sleep. I wonder if the Boy----" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hallo, Joseph! I exclaimed in surprise." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Where are Fanny and Souris?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Innocentina has taken them, Monsieur," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What--they have started?" }, { "fr...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I had not been mistaken, Monsieur. It was Innocentina. She said her master had sent her down to fetch the _ânes_, as he was obliged by certain circumstances to start on in advance of my master. I did not ask her any questions, but I helped her get ready the donkeys, and I would ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now to my word: It is, _Adieu, adieu! remember me_." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We shall have fine weather to-morrow, said Joseph, as we left the snow and came to what he called the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "which was greasy and slippery under foot." }, { "from": "human", "value": "See, Monsieur, a worm; he comes up out of his h...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You might wait here before putting up Finois, I said," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I gaily cried." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "How are you? How is your young Monsieur?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "He was well when I saw him last, returned Innocentina." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He must be very far away by this time...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Forgive me, dear Man," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Good-bye, dear Man, and all good things be with you, wherever you may go, is the prayer of--Boy." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Did Monsieur leave here by rail?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That I cannot tell." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Do you mean you can't, or won't?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I know nothing, Monsieur, except that I have been paid well, a...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Look here, Innocentina, I said beguilingly," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Not if you would quadruple it, Monsieur. I promised my master to say nothing." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Couldn't you get absolution for breaking a promise?" }, { "fr...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Any news?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, Monsieur, except that in an hour Innocentina starts to walk on to Les Echelles with her _ânes_." }, { "from": "human", "value": "She is energetic." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The girl knows not w...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Joseph, I said at last," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Monsieur, I have no home. There was despair in Joseph's tone, and suddenly the keen point of truth pierced the armour of my selfishness. Poor Joseph, facing exile--from Innocentina--and keeping his countenance po...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If you aren't in a hurry to get back to Martigny, Joseph, said I, changing my tone," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'll tell you what you can do for me. You may take some of my luggage down to the Riviera. I'm expecting a portmanteau to arrive here by rail to-night o...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Monty!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What luck for me! I exclaimed, shaking both Molly's hands so hard that it was fortunate (as she remarked afterwards) that she had on" }, { "from": "human", "value": "" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I did h...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Look here, Jack; I wouldn't put you out for the world, I said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "As for tearing myself from the mule, that surgical operation has already been performed, and I was going on to Monte Carlo----" }, { "from": "human", "value": "T...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "the motor" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Think of my being in the same town with you for more than twelve hours, and not knowing it! I exclaimed." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "To borrow an expression of Mrs. Winston's, I was jolly 'low in my mind' last night, and the very thought that you two were close by...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Did you say you were miserable last night?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes. Awfully miserable." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Poor Lord Lane! I haven't understood yet exactly why you suddenly gave up your walking tour, and got the idea of going on by...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, yes, that wonderful American boy. Did he keep right on being wonderful all the time, or did he turn out disappointing in the end?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Disappointing! I echoed." }, { "from": "human", "value": "No; rather the other way round. ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A . . . somewhat headlong carriage." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Fanny-anny, Fanny-anny! Souris-ouris!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Not here, said he with a smile, which was instantly explained by an abrupt plunge from the top of a long hill down into a cutting between lichen-scaled rocks, tracing with our" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I couldn't have done that as well as you did it, I confess," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It's easy enough when you've got the knack, replied the" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Lightning Conductor." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "So, no doub...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "; but swallows, southward bound, do not stop in their flight for grottos. We darted by, thundered through the humming darkness of Napoleon's tunnel, and flashed out into a startling landscape, as sensational as the country of the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Delect...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How would you like to get out and walk here, like pilgrims of old? he asked." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It will be too much for the girls, but Gotteland will drive them up slowly, not to be too far in advance. American girls, you'll find, if you ever make a study...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Let there be a monastery," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We were so hungry, that we lunched while we waited, she explained," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I beg your pardon," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Rub the ring, and the Genius will appear." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How the Boy would have loved this! I found myself exclaiming over my shoulder to Molly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He used often to talk of the great charm of descending from heights upon places, especially new-old places, which one has never seen before." }, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If the Boy could see this with me!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "THE ROCK OF MONACO" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Will you make me believe that I am not sent for . . . ? Go to, go to, thou art a foolish fellow!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Magic casements Opening on the foam of perilous seas In faëry lands forlorn." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I suppose we shall meet for dinner about eight, won't we, no matter what we may all choose to do meanwhile?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well--er--no, I mumbled, feeling a little foolish." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I have--er--a sort of engagement...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "La Paloma." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Monte" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": ";--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Rien ne va plus ;--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Zèro!_" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "in their thousands, not so much for the mere" } ]