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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I can't bear it, she said aloud." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It be too much for me." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If you want to talk, why not talk to me instead of to yourself?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "during the day of the fifteenth surely indicated fore-knowledge of Alfred's danger. But the attack had taken place at night. And the dog had exhibited no" }, { "fro...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How be you feeling, my dog?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Shush-h-h! Don't 'ee bark, till I gives leave. What do 'ee think about Fancy? Be she so bad as Doctor makes out?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "That bain't an answer, Solly." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "She be in a be-utiful sleep. Let's see the baby." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Pore dear soul! She thinks it a He. Maybe 'twill be best not to undeceive her." }, { "from": "human", "value": "She'll find out, Mrs. Yellam." }, { "from": "gpt", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We'll pull her through, Mrs. Yellam. Nothing needed but constant care for the first few days. Doctors always scare the gizzards out of us because they think that we won't be careful unless they do." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "All in good time," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But I may drop off to sleep again." }, { "from": "human", "value": "And a very good thing, too. The baby is asleep." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Has he blue eyes?" }, { "from": "human"...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Let's see her, Mother." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "She be low, Habakkuk, but I be fighting for her. Oh, me! there's so little of her. And no milk for the baby." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Lard preserve her dear life!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "You be right. Bottle-babies suffer crool wi' colic." ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Pa'son preached about the Babe of Bethlehem, as was right and proper, but I makes bold to say as he was thinking of 'ee, Susan, and of Lizzie Alfreda, bless 'un." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Me and Pa'son sees eye to eye about babes. And times, when he do drop out o' sky and walks the green earth with mortial men, I feel sure that fool-wisdom be his as 'tis mine. We sucked 'un in wi' mother's milk." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I've a notion, Habakkuk, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Meanin', Susan,----?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You step up so brisk as may be to Home Farm. You see Mr. Fishpingle. You tell 'un that my gran'child needs pure milk, and, if you don't get it, your powers o' speech bain't what you crack 'em up to be." }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yellam not a prisoner." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What does it mean, Mary? If he isn't a prisoner, where the dooce is he? I have his Colonel's word for it that all the dead and wounded were brought in. This telegram is equally reliable. I ask you, where is Alfred...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Just between ourselves, Geoffrey, is it possible that poor Alfred, slightly wounded in the head, perhaps, is wandering somewhere in France?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "My dear Mary, are you hinting at--desertion?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "If he ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I must see Hamlin." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You must rise above this gossip. It is not unnatural and not ill-natured." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I begs your pardon, sir?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Sir Geoffrey says that Alfred must be somewhere. For my part, I prefer to think of him in th...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If Squire thinks that, 'tis so. Parson be a wonnerful man, but, as you says, Habakkuk, sky-high above we. Squire be clay, a gert human bein' wise wi' the wisdom that I understands. If he holds that my Alferd be wanderin', pore dear, in France, 'tis so. I feels a different 'ooman...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Alfred'll come back." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yours faithfully," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "P. S.--The official communication will reach Sergeant Yellam's widow in due course. This letter will precede it, and I leave it to your discretion what to do." }, { "from": "human", "value": "What shall we ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I wish that you could be spared this, Hamlin." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "So do I." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You might let Jane Mucklow do it, or Uncle." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Susan Yellam is my parishioner. God's hand lies h...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He saved others; Himself He cannot save." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You has news of Alferd, sir?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have a letter from his Commanding Officer. Sit down, and read it." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "May I keep it, sir?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes. Colonel Tring tells us, Mrs. Yellam, what we all know here. Alfred was a son to be proud of." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What does Mr. Hamlin say, Mother?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You be much too curious, my girl. Mr. Hamlin dropped in, very friendly-like, to ask me about the baby's christening. He be a oner for gettin' the lambs into the fold so quick as may be." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I told 'un, continued Mrs. Yellam placidly, embroi...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Habakkuk, I'd break bad news to 'ee gently, if I could. But 'tisn't in me to do it. Alferd be dead." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But, Susan, Alferd be lost." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Fancy be dead, too." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No. She be more like herself to-day, although tarr'ble weak. They stools be for me, Habakkuk. The sooner I goes the better." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You has the baby," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "She belongs to Fancy. I bain't afeard for they two." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Be you afeard for yourself, Susan?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I bain't afeard o' Hell, and I bain't going...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I thought I heard Uncle," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes; he looked in and made some stupid jokes, he did, about gettin' the miller's boat." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Whatever for?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Like as not we may be ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Alferd, your room bain't a boy's room, nor a dog's kennel, nor a pig's stye. 'Tis the habitation of a lunatic." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How good you are to me, Mother! How good and kind you always are to sick folk. Such a wondersome woman! I hope my lil' maid will grow up just like you." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If you talk such outrageous nonsense, I'll--I'll spank Lizzie. That'll larn 'ee." ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I be real vexed wi' 'ee, Fancy." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You'll jump off the bed and bark." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "My! Won't he get wet if he comes to-night, Solly? Are you expecting him to-night, you wise little dog?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We be an island at this minute." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, dear!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Alfred'll get so wet." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ay. I never thought o' that. I think, Fancy, that you did ought to put this strange notion of Alferd's coming out of your dear lil' head. 'Tis most onlikely. I dunno' how such a queer idea got into it." }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Put on fresh ribands to-night, mother." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What an idea! You be so vain as any twoad." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Are toads vain? I'd like blue ribands." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "My! But you look pretty to-...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Cornelia." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What is it, Solly?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I hear him, she exclaimed." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Don't you, Mother?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Lie down, child; lie down." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It's Alfred. Let him in!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He's coming upstairs." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Alfie!--I knew you'd come." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I did want you, as never was. It was awful going through it without you. And it's a She--what you wanted. How lovely you look! Kiss me again! Hold me tight! If you don't, I--I may slip off...." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "However did you manage to come back?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I hear you, plain as plain. What? A--_shell_--! Did it hurt, Alfie? It didn't. But because of that you were able to come. You had to come for both our sakes--Mother's and mine. And such a night! You ain't a bit wet, neither.... Afraid, Alfie...? With you holding me tight as tigh...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And she had spoken of his appearance as" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Died, December 28th, 1916," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "K." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Man in Lower Ten." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sunnyside" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Penrod and" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Seventeen," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Flirt," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "White Fang" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Buffalo Bill, as told by his sister and Zane Grey. It begins with his boyhood in Iowa and his first encounter with an Indian. We see" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Bill as a pony express rider, then near Fort Sumter as Chief of the Scouts, and later engaged in the mo...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Harvester, is a man of the woods and fields, and if the book had nothing in it but the splendid figure of this man it would be notable. But when the Girl comes to his" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Medicine Woods," }, { "from": "human", "value": "The ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I don't know--what?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "of" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "had the apostrophe consistently in the wrong place, for example" }, { "from": "human", "value": "instead of" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It will be a cold drive for you, boys, said she;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I've told Tom to put up at Markridge, so you will have a mile walk to warm you up before you get to Templeton." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Ah, there's the trap; I'll tell...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Whose son was he?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I forget." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Whose son was he?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Richard the Third's," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Doesn't sound right, said he." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Are you sure, Dick?" }...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "being ordered to" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It's a precious rum thing, said Richardson," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I know I shan't remember anything when the time comes, said Heathcote." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I said my Latin ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I say, said Coote, in a whisper, as if Dr Winter, at Templeton, a mile away, were within hearing," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I've told you one father, said Dick, sternly," }, { "from": "human", "value": "That sounds more--, Oh, but, I say, how can Edw...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Just go and see if it's up that passage," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Hadn't we better all try?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "What's the good? Beckon if it's right, and we'll come." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well? is it right?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No; it's a dust-bin." }, { "from": "human", "value": "We must find out somehow, said Richardson." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We'd better ask at this door." }, { "from": "human", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh! I say, Dick, gasped Coote, holding out a shaking ringer, with a legend on its nail," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Richardson, Heathcote, Coote, said the Doctor." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Answer to your names--which is Richardson?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I am, please, sir." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Heathcote?" }, { "from": "human...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Amnis was not even hinted at, and" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Cease writing, said the Doctor, as the clock struck two," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That will do after each victim had performed; and even when Coote, after a mighty effort, rendered" }, { "from": "human", "value": "O tempora! O mores! as" }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Precious glad it's over, said Richardson." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Beast, that arithmetic paper was." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I liked it better than the English, said Coote." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I say, is 'for' a prepos...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I say, said he, after his pursuers had taken breath and granted an amnesty," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "All serene, said the others," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Perhaps we shall, said Dick, with a grin," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "said he, philosophically." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If you tells me to do it, I does it." }, { "from": "human", "value": "And if we tells you to open your mouth and shut your eyes, and you'll find sixpence in your hand,--you'll find it there," }, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Rum, the way she pitches, said Dick presently;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Looks to me as if the horse wasn't quite sober," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Perhaps, if you pulled both reins at the same time, instead of one at a time, put in Heathcote,"...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I left word for Tom, said Richardson," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Wonder if he'll get us in a row with Ashford?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Not he. What's the harm? Just a little horse-play, that's all." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "L...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It's a bolt! said Richardson, the only one of the three who retained wits enough to think or speak." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Hang on, you fellows; I'll try and get the reins. Help me up!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hang on now! said he;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If she goes on like this, we shall get to Mountjoy in half an hour. What a pace! We're bound to smash up before we get there! Perhaps these fellows had better try and jump for it. Hallo! lucky we didn't go over that stone! Wonder if I could pull her up if I got on her back? She ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What would happen if we went over? Jolly awkward to get pitched over on to my head or down among the mare's feet! She'd kick, I guess! Those fellows inside could jump and-- By Jove! there comes something on the road! We're in for it now! Either a smash, or over the bank, or-- Ha...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Look out, you fellows! cried he;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now for it! said he to himself, pulling the left rein;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Wal, young squire, said a voice at Dick's side, as that young gentleman found eyesight enough to look about him," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It was a close squeak through the gate, said the latter," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Shaft broken, said the driver," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That's all! said Dick, dolefully," }, { "from": "human", "value": "You can't expect to play games of that sort without scratching the varnish off, said he." }, { "from": "gpt", "val...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "She's all sound," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "She's a cad, said Dick," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Do you know Tom, our man--Ashford's man?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Who? Tom Tranter? Yes, I knows him." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well, you'll meet him on the road between here and Markridge, walking, or perhaps running. Tell him we've had a sp...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What shall we say to Ashford?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Say? What do you mean?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "He's sure to ask us what has happened." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, we shall tell him, I suppose." }, { "from"...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why, what's all this?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Where's the waggonette, and Tom?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Please, sir, said Dick," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Come on, you fellows, said Richardson, as soon as the meal was finished." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'm going to bed; I'm fagged." }, { "from": "human", "value": "So am I," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "So am I," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am less concerned, said he," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We'd rather be caned, sir," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Richardson, kindly remember I am the best judge of what punishment you deserve." }, { "from": "human", "value": "It's not fair to keep us in all the term," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You said just now, Richardson, that the punishment I proposed to inflict on you was not fair?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, sir, we think so," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I think so, too, said Mr Ashford, equally simply," }, { "from": "g...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We're gone coons," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Don't speak to me," }, { "from": "human", "value": "This paper contains the result of the entrance examination at Templeton, said Mr Ashford." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Out of thirty-six can...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Never mind, old man, Dick had said, cheerily, as the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Firm talked their prospects over on the day before the holidays," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, yes, I know, all serene," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Don't be in too great a hurry to choose your friends, my boy, said his father, as the two walked up and down the London platform." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You'll find plenty ready enough, but give them a week or two before you swear eternal friendship with any ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hallo, old man, said Dick with a nod," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Excuse me a second, said Heathcote, putting down his traps and turning to the window," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Good-bye, grandma," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Good-...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Father says, remarked Dick," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Rather a good job," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Think there'll be any one to meet us? said Dick." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Don't know. I wish Coote was to be there too." }, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Here you are, sir--this way for the school--this cab, sir!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Don't you go along with them, said one confidentially." }, { "from": "human", "value": "They'll charge you half-a-crown. Come along, young gentlemen, I'll take you f...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hop out, young gentlemen, said the cabman, helping his passengers and their luggage out." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It's a busy time, and I'm in a hurry. A shilling each, and sixpence a piece for the traps; that's two and three makes five, and leave the driver to...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The idea! said the matron, partly to herself and partly to the boys," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now, said she, when presently she had recovered her equanimity," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Joe Bolt" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I don't think much of the place after all." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Are you a new boy?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Where do you live--in London?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No--I live in Devonshire." }, { "from": "human", "value": "What school were you at...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Heathcote here and I were at Mountjoy; so we're pretty well used to kicking about, said he, patronisingly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I suppose you didn't go in for the entrance exam, then?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, I did," }, { "f...