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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How was it they had not understood her here? how instead of presiding in the chapel, did she grow chill at the end of a corridor?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I warn you, he said," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But we must leave these fancies," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ave Maria, the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ave Verum," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ah, thought Durtal," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "At St. Sulpice, Durtal went on," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Te lucis ante terminum," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "In manus tuus Domine, commendo spiritum meum," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Nunc dimittis," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "At La Trappe Compline was evidently less solemn, less interesting than at St. Sulpice, concluded Durtal," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "These monks are astonishing with their superb voices, said Durtal to himself, and he smiled as they finished the antiphon of Our Lady, for he remembered that in the primitive Church the chanter was called" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Fabarius cantor," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Parce Domine, then the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Tantum Ergo," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Laudate" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I would not go to bed without knowing how you have borne the day;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The reverend Father abbot and the Father prior will be glad when I give them this answer," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Father, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "When the postman brings the letters I can charge him with the commission, but let us see; are you in a great hurry to leave us?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "No, but I would not trespass...." }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Introduction to the Devout Life," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But look, he said," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Deus in adjutorium meum intende." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is astonishing, said Durtal," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "All is within, said the oblate." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Why should elect souls be enclosed in fleshly prisons different to others?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ah! the happiness to die thus, said the oblate, as he ended," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The rain is over, said Durtal;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I should like to visit to-day that little chapel at the end of the park of which you spoke to me th...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Only the Church, in decking the temporary altars of the liturgical year, in forcing the seasons to follow step by step the life of Christ, has known how to trace for us a plan of necessary occupations, of useful ends. She has given us the means of walking always side by side wit...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Rorate Coeli," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Jesu Redemptor of Vespers, the old Portuguese chant, the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Adeste Fideles," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Salvate Flores Martyrum of Prudentius; the crown moved again, and the hymn of the Epiphany, the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Crudelis Herodes" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Gloria in Excelsis is no more heard, when the" }, { "from": "gpt", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Vexilla Regis was again repeated the following Sunday at the Feast of Palms, which joined to that Sequence of Fortunatus the green hymn which it accompanied with a silky noise of palms, the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Gloria laus et honor" }, { "from": "hu...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Victimæ Paschali Laudes exulted before the gospel of the masses, and at the Benediction the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "O Filii et Filiæ," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Veni Creator and" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Veni Spiritus. The Feast of the Trinity passed, signalized by the stanzas of Gregory the Great; and for the Feast of the Blessed Sacrament, the liturgy could exhibit the most marvellous jewel case of its dower, the Offi...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Coelestis Urbs" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What an immense fund of poetry, what an incomparable estate of art the Church possesses!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Rorate." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Peccavimus et facti sumus tanquam immundus nos." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Ah! yes, we have sinned and become like the leprous, O Lord!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Rorate," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Lanquentilus in Purgatorio." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ah! the Church, he said to himself, as he descended the path which led to the great pond," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is the otter," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Impossible! cried the monk," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It is certainly the otter," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We must point out to M. Bruno the exact spot where you remarked it, for he will begin to hunt it again," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But how can it trouble you in eating your fish, since you do not angle for them?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I beg ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That stroke of the beak must have pinched him horribly, for the tears came into his eyes. How could he expose himself with joy to such a bite?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Considering, he said," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You will find there honest and intelligent ecclesiastics, excellent hearts. In Paris, where the clergy of the parishes are so mixed, they are at the top of the basket of the priesthood, and, as may be imagined, they form a community, live in cells, do not dine out; and as the Su...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And that, he went on," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "and he rose to go to Compline," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If convenient to me! I shall be delighted!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh! this chapter-house has nothing monastic, said Father Etienne, designating the profane pictures on the walls;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And what takes place in this hall?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well, we meet here after mass; the chapter ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This pulpit, said Father Etienne, pointing out a large wooden box fixed against the wall," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "How long does the meal last?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Just half an hour." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes; and t...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "On certain days in summer, when one sweats in big drops, this becomes almost impossible, the gorge rises. Yet one must begin upon this warm paste, and at least swallow a sufficient quantity not to give out before the next day; we look at each other discouraged, unable to get any...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "God! it is very hard," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Our habits soften the roughness of this straw mattress, he said;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "And it must be cold in this corridor swept by all the winds," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Truly, I assure you that even beyond the corporal fatigue which explains that state in the morning, there is then an aggression of the demon, an incessant temptation to make us recite the office badly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And you all undergo this strife?" ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I did not think, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "This house is a regular labyrinth--but M. Bruno will take you to the library where the Father prior is waiting for you; for I must go to my business. We shall meet presently," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We are not very rich, but at any rate we possess tools for work fairly complete on theology and the monography of the cloisters." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You have superb volumes," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Wait; here are the works of Saint Ber...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "On the whole, Suso expands himself in impetuous discourses on trifles; then what with his insipid allegories, his morose 'Colloquy on the Nine Rocks' knocks me down." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You will, however, admit that his study on the Union of the Soul is su...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And she, added the prior," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "and he showed Durtal the two volumes of Saint Gertrude." }, { "from": "human", "value": "She is again one of our great nuns, an abbess truly Benedictine, in the exact sense of the word, for she caus...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "As a continuation of her works, the Benedictine Fathers of Solesmes have edited also the 'Revelations' of Saint Mechtilde, her book on 'Special Grace,' and her 'Light of the Divinity'; they are there on that shelf...." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Let me show you, s...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "As far as the document is concerned, it is of a most extraordinary science, and it contains admirable quotations from Saint Hildegarde and Cassien: as far as Mysticism is concerned, Mother Saint Cecilia evidently only reproduces the works of her predecessors, and she tells us no...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What a difference between this monk who evidently adores his books, and the prior with his imperious profile and silent lips who heard his confession the second day;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now, said Father Maximin," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Not at all; I shall be glad to talk with Dom Anselm." }, { "from": "human", "value": "That is understood, then." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Salve Regina," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Nothing is left to chance in religion; every exercise which seems at first useless has a reason for its being, he said to himself, as he went out into the court." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And the fact is, that the rosary, which seems to be only a humming-top of ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I see by scraps of newspapers which come to me, that society just now is infected with socialism. Everyone wishes to solve the famous social question. How does that get on?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "How does that get on? Why, not at all! Unless you can change th...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I add that the equality in our cloisters is such that the prior and the abbot have no advantage over the other monks. At table the portions, and in the dormitory the paillasses, are identical. The sole profits of the abbot consist on the whole in the inevitable cares arising fro...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And your little chocolate factory gives you at least some income?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes; that saves us." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "In a year or two the building which shelters us, and for want of money we have been unable to repair, will tumble down, but if God then allows generous souls to come to our aid, perhaps we shall be in a condition to build a monastery, which is the wish of all of us; for indeed t...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Moreover, the rule will soon be softened, pursued the abbot;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, in that Protestant country mystic vegetation is flourishing. Catholicism is all the more fervent that it is, if not persecuted, at least despised, drowned in the mass of ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ah! they are happy!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Too happy." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, it is true we enter here to do penance, to mortify ourselves, and we have hardly begun to suffer when God consoles us. He is so good that He Himself wishes...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "In working thus at the side of the Revolution, in sounding its neighbourhood, its foundations will be exhumed. Its causes will be brought to the surface, and it will certainly be discovered that in proportion to the suppression of convents, monstrous excesses had birth. Who know...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Terror was only a consequence of their impiety. God, whom nothing longer withheld, let things take their course." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Certainly the towns have great need of being guaranteed against infernal invasions by a sanitary defence of Orders.... But come, sir, I must not deprive you of necessary rest, I will join you to-morrow, before you quit our solitude. I have now but to say that you have only frien...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I shall regret the open-air prison of this convent. It is curious I find myself attached to it by obscure bonds; when I am in my cell, there return to me all kinds of memories, like those of an ancient race. I find myself at once at home again, in a place I had never seen; I rec...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The power of such an environment! he said to himself, a little alarmed at feeling how he was transformed. And he thought in buckling his portmanteau," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I must however, go and find Father Etienne, for I must settle my account; I cannot be ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The rule of Saint Benedict is formal, he said;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If it does not suit you to have partaken of our meagre pittance without paying, do as you please; only the sum which you may give will be distributed in coins of ten or twenty sous, to the ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Certainly; moreover, Father prior would not have let you go without shaking hands with you. I will go and make certain if he be free. Wait for me in the refectory." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ah, well, said he," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh! with...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If, again, said the prior," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We have changed the hour of your dinner, because of the train," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Good appetite, adieu, and may the Lord bless you," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Will you not come some day to see me in Paris?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But if God lend me still a few years of existence I hope to see you here again, for it is not in vain that one has crossed the threshold of mystic asceticism, to verify by one's own experie...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We must get on fast, said the procurator," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, said he," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have had every chance; I came herewith my stomach out of order, my body ill, and the simple Trappist meals have cured me." }, { "from": "human", "value": "That is nothing in regard to demoniacal attacks; we ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is not with us that you ought to hear them; our choirs are too restricted, too weak to be able to raise the giant mass of those chants. You ought to go to the black monks of Solesmes or Ligugé if you wish to find the Gregorian melodies executed as they were in the Middle Ages...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The disciples of Saint Benedict are then absolutely right when they declare that their version alone is faithful, alone correct." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "How then comes it that so many churches get their music from Ratisbon?" }, { "from": "human", "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Instead of that ... but here we are at the station; do not trouble yourself about your portmanteau, but go and take your ticket, for I hear the whistle of the train." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ah! and outside it, all is the same to me, and nothing matters to me," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No, everything rather than mix myself again with society, he declared to himself, and then he was silent in despair, for he was not ignorant that he could not, apart from the monastic zone, live in isolation. After a short time would come weariness and a void, therefore why had ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No; it is all over," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ah! he thought," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have lived twenty years in ten days in that convent, and I leave it, my brain relaxed, my heart in rags; I am done for, for ever. Paris and Notre Dame de l'Atre have rejected me each in their turn like a waif, and here...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It's a treasure right enough!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Off with you, boys, she said at length;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Think of it! exclaimed young Frost, as he took a great whiff at his pipe;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Aye, Tom agreed," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'm thinking, resumed Dan musingly," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "By gad, exclaimed Tom...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hark! exclaimed Dan presently." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "How it blows! There must be a big sea outside to-night." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You will not be thinking of going home tonight, Tom?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Not I," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hello, Nance, Dan exclaimed, as she entered;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Mother is asleep," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Are you cold, Nance?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "A little, she replied." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I was afraid in the parlour with Mother asleep, and the wind and the waves roaring so horribly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Afraid? ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I was afraid--to-night," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Who's that?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Come in, travellers." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Here's a guest for you, Mr. Frost. I confess I did my best to keep him in town till morning, but nothing 'd do; he must get to the Inn at the Red Oak to-night. We had a hellish time getting here too, begging the lady's pardon; but here we are." }, { "from": "gpt", "v...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Who's that?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Come in, travellers." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Here's a guest for you, Mr. Frost. I confess I did my best to keep him in town till morning, but nothing'd do; he must get to the Inn at the Red Oak to-night. We had a hellish time getting here too, begging the lady's pardon; but here we are." }, { "from": "gpt", "va...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "he exclaimed at last; and then added in distinct, though somewhat strongly accented English," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I ask your pardon. I forget you may not know my language. But now that this good liquor has put new life in my poor old bones, I explain myself...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Nancy dear, go stir up Susan and Deborah. We must have a fire made in the south chamber and some hot supper got ready. Tell Susan to rout out Jesse to help her. Say nothing to Mother; no need to disturb her. And now, sir, he continued, turning again to the stranger," }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is a bad night, sir." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But yes, exclaimed the Marquis." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I think I perish. Oh! that dreary tavern at your Monday Port. I think when I arrive there I prefer to perish. But this, this is the old...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "France, he repeated;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "So? said the Marquis, raising his white eyebrows with interest." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You love _ma belle patrie_, eh? _Qui Sait_?--you will perhaps some day go there. You have interests, frien...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I famish! the old gentleman exclaimed." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have dined to-day on a biscuit and a glass of water." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It's queer, said Dan, as he pulled the comfort snugly about his shoulders, calling to Tom across the way;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I hope he does, said Tom sleepily." }, { "from": "human", "value": "He has a reason, I fancy, for he asked questions e...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ah, madame, he murmured, lifting his tiny hands," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But I fear, monsieur, replied his hostess," }, { "from": "human", "value": "As for interest, madame, the Marquis protested," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Indeed y...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What a fine harbour you have, Monsieur Frost," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, replied Dan, glancing out upon the well-known shoreline," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "There is, however, inquired the Marquis with interest," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, indeed, Tom interrupted," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "A...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Enchanted he exclaimed, as he pulled out a great gold watch." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Punctual. I find another virtue, monsieur, in a character to which I have already had so much reason to pay my compliments. I trust I do not trespass upon your more important ...