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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Journal of a Tour into the Territory Northwest of the Allegheny Mountains in 1803, Boston, 1805. That a man should write an octavo volume about a journey to Marietta now strikes us as rather absurd; but in those days the overland journey to Ohio was as difficult as that to Calif...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "J.B. BOOTH." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "an [s] follows in brackets. In the original the word was followed by a small mark which might or might not give it the plural form. It could be read either" }, { "from": "human", "value": "or" }, { "from"...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Very," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Was he a relative?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Distant," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, said he," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I certainly should," }, { "from": "human", "value": "What shall I read?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Whatever you like best. What you like to read I shall like to hear." }, { "from": "hum...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Did you ever read, said he," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Shelley's argument against the use of animal food, at the end of 'Queen Mab'?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, I have read it." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And what do you think...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Would you like to look at the remains?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You see, said he," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Hardly, I replied." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I expected something very different from this, when I received your note. I did not come to see you expecting to be called to assist at the funeral solemn...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He prayeth best, who loveth best All things, both great and small; For the dear God, who loveth us, He made and loveth all." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "J.B. BOOTH." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Put your hand upon the oar, says Charon in the old play to Bacchus," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Who could be before me, though the palace of Caesar cracked and split with emperors, while I, sitting in silence on a cliff of Rhodes, watched the sun as he swung his golden censer athwart the heavens?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The natural day is very calm, and will hardly reprove our indolence." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Art thou alone wise?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "which De Quincey says Wordsworth derived from the simplest natural object with the serious protest of Wilkie Collins against the affectation of caring about Nature at all." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Is it not strange , says this most unhappy man," }, { "f...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He may not write sonnets to the lake, but he will walk miles to bathe in it; he may not notice the sunsets, but he knows where to search for the black-bird's nest. How surprised the school-children looked, to be sure, when the Doctor of Divinity from the city tried to sentimenta...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Subde caput, corpusque simul, simul elue crinem," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The man whose old mould underneath us is hid Meant a great deal more good and less harm than he did. He knelt in yon church 'mid the worshipping throng, And vowed to do right, but went out to do wrong; For, going up of a Sunday to look at the gate Of Saints' Alley, he stuck ther...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Was this stranger, then, indeed, not even mortal, not even a king's brother, but an angel?--How strange, she said to herself," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Nearer and nearer the vision drew, and touched her forehead with the lily, which seemed dewy and icy cool; and...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Laetus dies hic transeat, Pudor sit ut diluculum, Fides velut meridies, Crepusculum mens nesciat!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He is happy, like the birds, said Agnes," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Like enough: he was always a pious boy; his prayers and his pencil were ever uppermost: but he was a poor hand at work: he could draw you an olive-tree on paper; but set him to dress it, and any ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Agnes, said her grandmother," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I shall not need you at the stand to-day. There is that new flax to be spun, and you may keep company with your uncle. I'll warrant me, you'll be glad enough of that!" }, { "from": "human", "valu...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ah! vanish every earthly love, All earthly dreams forgotten be! My heart is gone beyond the stars, To live with Him who died for me." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Hear you now, sister, said the monk," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, you talk, brother...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Dear child, said the monk," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, uncle; and I had a strange dream last night." }, { "from": "human", "value": "A dream, my little heart? Come, then, and tell it to its uncle. Dreams are the hushing of the bodily senses, that ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Dear daughter, I must hasten and carry Christ to this poor sinner, said the monk, hastily putting all his sketches and pencils into her lap." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Have a care of these till I return,--that is my good little one!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You are surprised to see me, dear Agnes, he said, with a calm, slow utterance, like a man who has assumed a position he means fully to justify;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "My Lord, said Agnes," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I humbly wait your pleasur...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, my Lord, she said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But, dear Agnes, began the cavalier, approaching her," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I have many things to say to you,--I have much to tell you." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But I know...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Fear nothing, sweet lamb, said the cavalier;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am gone." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How strange, she thought," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, my little heart, said Elsie, interrupting her reveries," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Delightful, grandmamma," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, said Elsie, with satisfaction,...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Truly, sometimes she might pass for the rose of Sharon as well as the lily of the valley!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Enough is as good as a feast," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Confess your faults one to another," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, my father! she faltered," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Nothing, my poor child, said the father, suddenly turning toward her with recovered calmness and dignity;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Can it be possible? she gasped." }, { "from": "g...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My Lord will keep me, she said;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, Agnes! Agnes! blessed child, pray for me also," }, { "from": "human", "value": "My blessed father! said Agnes," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Child! child! you know nothing of ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My father, said Agnes," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Pardon a sinful child this liberty," }, { "from": "human", "value": "You know not what you do, said the father, hastily." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Go, my daughter,--go, at once; I will...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Nec seta largo quaerit in mari praedam, Sed e cubiclo lectuloque jactatam Spectatus alte lineam trahit piscis. Si quando Nereus sentit Aeoli regnum, Ridet procellas tula de suo mensa. Piscina rhombum pascit et lupos vernas, Nomenculator mugilem citat notum Et adesse jussi prodeu...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Be fruitful, multiply, and in the seas And lakes and running streams the waters fill, ... Forthwith the sounds and seas, each creek and bay, With fry innumerable swarm, and shoals Of fish, that with their fins and shining scales Glide under the green wave in sculls that oft Bank...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now, if a fish-globe be not overcrowded with fishes, we have only to throw in a goodly handful of some water-weed,--such as the _Callitriche_, for instance,--and a new set of chemical operations commences at once, and it becomes unnecessary to change the water. The reason of thi...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "When closed, says Mr. Hibbert," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It remains expanded for many days together, if the water be kept pure; and, having little desire for locomotion, stays, generally, about where it is placed. It is a carnivorous creature, and seeks its food...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is interesting, says Mr. Gosse," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Millions on millions thus, from age to age, With simplest skill, and toil unweariable, No moment and no movement unimproved, Laid line on line, on terrace terrace spread, To swell the heightening, brightening, gradual mound, By marvellous structure climbing towards the day. Each...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And life in rare and beautiful forms Is sporting amid those bowers of stone, And is safe, when the wrathful spirit of storms Has made the top of the waves his own." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sabrina fair, Under the glassy, cool, translucent wave, In twisted braids of lilies knitting The loose train of her amber-dropping hair." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Nation" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Repale would make every man the owner of the land he lived on, or of that which he wished to live on; and the great Dan did not disabuse them. Those were the days when poor men believed that" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Repale would release every one from the debts...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Nation" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Nation," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Saxon one hour and the next crept into some warm place in the Custom-House on his knees. Here ended poor Patrick's short political life, after, I think, two letters to the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Nation," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Athenaeum, --a weekly periodical of higher reputation at that time than now. Patrick was commissioned to review a book of some weight and consequence,--Sir Robert Kane's" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Industrial Resources of Ireland," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "As the wild tempest wakes the slumbering sea, Thou only teachest all that man can be!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Brahmins, --whom a critic in ground-glass spectacles (the same who grasps his statistics by the blade and strikes at his supposed antagonist with the handle) oddly confounds with the" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Baptist Lieutenant believe in his heart that God takes better care of him than of his" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Congregationalist" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "UNDER THE CLOUD AND THROUGH THE SEA." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "says Mr. Hildreth, (_Hist, of the United States, ii. 391_,)" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The fort at Saint Augustine," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Your men are not vindictive enough, Mr. Russell is reported to have said, as he watched the battle. It was the saying of a shrewd observer, but it expresses only an imperfect apprehension of the truth. Vindictiveness is not the spirit our men should have, but a resoluteness of d...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Our profession, said Washington," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Our soldiers in Virginia, and in the other Slave States, have not only their own reputation to support, but also that of the communities from which they come. There must be a rivalry in generous efforts ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "is not only honor, but reward." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Suffering is a gift not given to every one, said one of the Scotch martyrs in 1684," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Then the king wept, and dried his eyes, and said, 'Your courage had neere hand destroyed you, for I call it folly knights to abide when they be overmatched.' 'Nay,' said Sir Lancelot and the other, 'for once shamed may never be recovered.' The examples of Bayard,--_sans peur et ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But no, she answers," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am she Whom the gods love, Tranquillity; That other whom you seek forlorn. Half-earthly was; but I am born Of the immortals, and our race Have still some sadness in our face: He wins me late, but keeps me long, Wh...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "; and on that couch, where she lay almost speechless at times, and seeing none but those friends dearest and nearest, the soul-woman struck deep into the roots of Latin and Greek, and drank of their vital juices. We hold in kindly affection her learned and blind teacher, Hugh St...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Beloved friend, who, living many years With sightless eyes raised vainly to the sun, Didst learn to keep thy patient soul in tune To visible Nature's elemental cheers!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "forget his poet-pupil ere he went to" }, { "from": "human", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I yield the grave for thy sake, and exchange My near sweet view of heaven for earth with thee!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Men and Women," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Aurora Leigh," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "could utter them with equal force. But it was Mrs. Browning's face upon which one loved to gaze,--that face and head which almost lost themselves in the thick curls of her dark brown hair. That jealous hair could not hide the broad, fair forehead," }, { "from": "gpt", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And her smile it seemed half holy, As if drawn from thoughts more far Than our common jestings are." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Eureka which she sang with so much fervor in Part First of" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Casa Guidi Windows." }, { "from": "human", "value": "But never say 'No more' To Italy's life! Her memories undismayed Still argue 'Evermore'; her graves implore Her ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Larger so much by the heart" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Larger so much by the head," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Napoleon III. in Italy" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "A Court Lady, and there are few satires more biting than" }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "For poets, (bear the word!) Half-poets even, are still whole democrats: Oh, not that we're disloyal to the high, But loyal to the low, and cognizant Of the less scrutable majesties." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "A Curse for a Nation," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "For I am hound by gratitude, By love and blood, To brothers of mine across the sea, Who stretch out kindly hands to me." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Never say that I have 'cursed' your country. I only _declared the consequence of the evil_ in her, and which has sin...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Pet Name" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My brother gave that name to me, When we were children twain,-- When names acquired baptismally Were hard to utter, as to see That life had any pain." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Though I write books, it will be read Upon the leaves of none; And afterward, when I am dead, Will ne'er be graved, for sight or tread, Across my funeral stone." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Poems before Congress." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Woman C...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "God was merciful to the end, sparing her and hers the agony of a frenzied parting, giving proof to those who were left of the glory and happiness in store for her, by those few words," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Cry of the Human." }, { "from": "human", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And friends, dear friends, when it shall be That this low breath is gone from me, And round my bier ye come to weep, Let one most loving of you all Say, 'Not a tear must o'er her fall,-- He giveth His beloved sleep.'" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "His beloved" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, the little birds sang east, and the little birds sang west, _Toll slowly!_ And I 'paused' to think God's greatness flowed around our incompleteness,-- Round our restlessness, His rest." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "God keeps a niche In heaven to hold our idols; and albeit He brake them to our faces, and denied That our close kisses should impair their white, I know we shall behold them raised, complete, The dust swept from their beauty, glorified, New Memnons singing in the great God-light...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "When I attain to utter forth in verse Some inward thought, my soul throbs audibly Along my pulses, yearning to be free, And something farther, fuller, higher rehearse, To the individual true, and the universe, In consummation of right harmony! But, like a wind-exposed, distorted...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "AURORA LEIGH." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "So, while the town hummed on as was its wont, With mill, and wheel, and scythe, and lowing steer In the green field,--while, round a hundred hearths, Brown Labor boasted of the mighty deeds Done in the meadow swaths, and Envy hissed Its poison, that corroded all it touched,-- Ru...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Electric Telegraph Apparatus" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Atlantic" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Early Discoveries in Electro-Dynamics," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Great Expectations is also noticeable as indicating, better than any of his previous stories, the individuality of Dickens's genius. Everybody must have discerned in the action of his mind two diverging tendencies, which, in this novel, are harmonized. He possesses a singularly ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Great Expectations, on the contrary, Dickens seems to have attained the mastery of powers which formerly more or less mastered him. He has fairly discovered that he cannot, like Thackeray, narrate a story as if he were a mere looker-on, a mere" }, { "from": "gpt", "v...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Great Expectations, his individuality is, as it were, diffused through the whole narrative. Joe is a noble character, with a heart too great for his powers of expression to utter in words, but whose patience, fortitude, tenderness, and beneficence shine lucidly through his confu...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Great Expectations is a masterpiece. We have never sympathized in the mean delight which some critics seem to experience in detecting the signs which subtly indicate the decay of power in creative intellects. We sympathize still less in the stupid and ungenerous judgments of tho...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "School-Days at Rugby," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Scouring of the White Horse," }, { "from": "human", "value": "he is remarkably deficient. Yet everybody reads him with interest, and experiences for him a feeling of personal affection and esteem. An un...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Afloat and Ashore." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Thirty Years' View." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "King's Cope," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Are--are you a prospector?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But, please--_please_, let me explain about the references." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "SAM," }, { "from": "human", "value": "MISTER 44," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "THE MANTLE OF SILENCE," }, { "from": "human", "value": "THE ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Registry," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Name, please," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Mary Wayne." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Address?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Married?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, no," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Age?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Twenty-two." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Occupation?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Stenographer."...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now, your references, please." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have no references." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "All registrants must furnish references. Perhaps you did not observe the sign on the wall." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I didn't know, she said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'm sorry. But I can explain very easily." }, { "from": "gpt", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "D-o-o-m." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But, please--_please_, let me explain about the references." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Sorry. It would be quite useless." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I can assure you I'm absolutely--all right, p...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Good morning, Miss Norcross. Thank you for being prompt." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Miss Norcross." }, { "from": "human", "value": "We have an excellent opportunity for you, the woman at the desk was saying." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It's nothing at all, if you have references," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'm going to cry, she said, half aloud." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And I _won't_!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh--I'm sorry," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I saw you inside, continued the person named Norcross." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You've had bad luck, of course." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "N-no luck," }, { "from": "human", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'm Mary Wayne--but--oh, what's the use? Thank you, just the same." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Come along, said Miss Norcross." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I know a dandy little place. It's cheap, too. You see, I'm not very strong financially, even...