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[ { "from": "human", "value": "hardly excluding the halt, the maimed, and the blind. If her father had noticed this growing peculiarity, he had done so" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I don't think you have been here since we all grew up, she said, with a smile." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We _are_ rather _assommant_, I admit. We stun people with our trick of throwing ourselves at each other's heads. But you will soon get used to the clamour. M...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ask Rhoda Polly!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Did Rhoda Polly send you?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "She bade me come here, saying that perhaps I might learn something to my advantage." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Then I may take it that she does not mean to come herself?" }, { "from": ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That is the signal, he said;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Do you think she meant that?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Ah, you may go far and look long before you find out all that is in Rhoda Polly's mind, but at any rate I suppose she meant that you ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mon Plaisir," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Mont Dore, and" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Château des Roses." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "--as we would say" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "These were being filled as we entered the hall. Names were called out, and sturdy fathers of families rose from beside their spouses to tramp up to the" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "or skilled workman, who takes the parts of the gun as they are sent in from the various departments, and then with file, saw, and sandpaper, but especially by the wisdom of the eye," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And the comrades who died fighting, what of them?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But, he added, with slow emphasis," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Gaston" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "These are our potential Troppmanns, said Gaston Cremieux, as we passed through the grounds of the riding-school." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We must not blame them too much. It is partly our fault. We have taken their religion from them, and they have not yet enou...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But, he paused thoughtfully upon the phrase," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Let us go to see Madame Félix, I suggested." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Her husband spoke at the reunion to-day. He is a chief among the workmen, but his wife is worth a score of him when a fellow is hungry, and his daughter Jeanne Félix is the girl best worth loo...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Who is making such a noise with their Marianas? There is no Mariana here except to my husband, the Père Félix, who is now from home, doubtless at one of his foolish reunions----" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Dear Mariana, I answered, showing myself at the end of the...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Red of the Midi," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Supposing, I said," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Commune will lay aside so much of the factory profits each week or month for repairs, the renewal of machinery, the introduction of new types, and so on. This deduction shall be made before wages can be paid." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What, the Commune would...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Père Félix, if you continue as you are doing, I shall ask you to leave my house!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Pardon, Madame," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I have known Rhoda Polly, I said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And the others--were they present? Were you two allowed to run about the woods all by yourselves?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Tell me about the college to which Rhoda Polly went," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Good night, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I must go back to Aramon." }, { "from": "human", "value": "GOOD-BYE, RHODA POLLY" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My friend in whom I trusted," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Jaikes, Irvin, Allerdyce, Brown, Macallister! Here!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Young Cawdor has brought good news, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The men are coming back. It may not be for long, but they are coming. They have taken the terms, and now I shall have to fight the masters single-handed. However, I can manage that. Run, fell...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yonder goes our Hugh. He is a strong lad, but has no spring. He falls all over himself at present. If you are still set on soldiering, you can take him with you. He has little sense as yet, but I can see that he will do what you tell him." }, { "from": "gpt", "value"...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "With Hugh it is a case of thews and brawn, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "When it comes to the marching, see that you make him carry your musket as well as his own. He has no heavy load in his top story." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Amaryllis desires to be first seen," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If I don't get those Alan Richardson roses to do this year--why, the devil fly away with me!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Really you should not swear! said I." }, { "from": "human", "value": "What would Miss Balfour-Lansdowne say to that at Selborne Col...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You cannot find enough to do here? she said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You trust these men at the works? I tell you they are not to be trusted. I know them better than either you or my father, I have heard their women-folk talking, and I know what they mean to d...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I owe you a grudge, she said, as she stood up and rubbed the black crumbly mould briskly from her hands," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I would not hinder you, Angus Cawdor, she said steadily," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I shall be here, Rhoda Polly, if I get through all right!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "If you get through all right----?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "All we can do is to help the Republic to get out of the mess with some credit!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That Englishman!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Monsieur Garibaldi." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yonder, he said," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Halt! Who goes there?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And I dare say, after all, said a tall brigadier," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Two English come from Aramon to enlist, we heard them say, with a certain resentment as if they had been offered an affront." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Do all the foreigners in the world think that France has need of them to fight her battles?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That is the new Remington action!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No, said Hugh Deventer," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And who may your father be? Are you travelling for the firm?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "My father, said Hugh steadily," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We have seen something like this when the English lads came to us in Sicily eleven years ago, eh, brother? Tell us your names, little ones! Can you speak Italian?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "but the Italian speech is not like our English, which lends itself more easily to oaths and cursing than to the" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ah, Dennis Deventer, said Ricciotti, starting up and embracing Hugh on both cheeks." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I owe much to your father, more than I am likely to pay for some while. He took our word for it that the chassepots for the new troops would be paid for...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "THE CHILDREN" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The Children" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Evviva, Garibaldi!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Les Enfants Garibaldi had devised his own emblem. It was sufficiently striking and characteristic of the man, but in France at least it only excited astonishment among the masses, and hatred and contempt among the clerical and aristocratic party, which was at that time in a grea...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My children--oh, my children!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Children" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Etranger," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ladin" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, the happiness to see you! he cried." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And among the children of our father. I know you do not come to save the French who shot us down at Mentana. You are like us. You come because our father calls, and yet to think of those long days...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If I bored a hole or two where the joints are, groaned Hugh," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "From what I can guess, said Victor Dor," }, { "from": "human", "value": "A _franc-tireur_ always lies," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Still, it is poss...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "As much earth as you like, he said;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What would Jack Jaikes give to see these in action," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And still more my father," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Dig your toes into the embankment, you English, Marius Girr of our company called to us;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Bismarck was coming," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now, then, Hugh, I cried," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Evivva Garibaldi!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "At least the Jesuits will teach no more lies to poor children on those benches, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You are true Garibaldians, though you do speak French like Linn and myself!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Is it permitted to read?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sir, this house and all that it contains are at your service." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "From my prison-house, in the fortress-city called Amboise, and was signed" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Sheik Abd-el-Kader." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You are English, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You are Keller Bey?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I am Keller, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Keller grown old and staid. Linn keeps me at home. She had the devil's own job e...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You are welcome" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Linn" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This house is our own, said Linn;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "They are fine lads, eh, Linn? said Keller, turning to his wife." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Can we not do something better for them than the kitchen floor?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Breakfast is ready, she said, when we had somewhat got over our first blankness." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You have a good hour before you, and if you dress now you will have time to breakfast, and besides you shall see Alida." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "breakfast which we must eat--eat till we could eat no more, and--we must see Alida Keller, daughter of the Atlas" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, the perfect creature!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Petit Père" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "or" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You English fear nothing, I know, said Victor Dor," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Children" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Stand firm. Not just now. He will return. See how the Tanara regiment is standing--would you have them put us to shame before our father?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is like Sicily to see you here. I had once over eight hundred of you, and not a white feather or a faint heart among them all. I trusted them as I trusted my children. They were as my children. Well may I love England. They fought for me seeking no reward, and afterwards when...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why are you not asleep? she demanded sharply." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Keller, you are teaching this young man bad habits." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You drank too much of that black coffee last night, Monsieur Auguste (thus had Angus gone wrong)." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I must ration you in future, so that you can get your natural sleep as young folks should." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Aügoos Cawdori--Aügoos, I want you--I want to tell you!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "There---the secret is out. We can never stop it if once she speaks." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Let Monsieur Cawdori come hither at once. I must speak with him. His advice is good. You and Keller Bey are old and speak as the old. Aügoos Cawdori is young as I am young, but he has the wise heart. So much I have seen from the first." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I will speak, she cried." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "This young man is worthy of my confidence, and you know it, Linn. If my father had wished me to go with Said Ali Mohammed, the slave prince, he would not have committed me to you. No, he would have sent me to ni...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My father could read it, but not I," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Then you must learn--you must--I shall teach you to speak, and your father shall drill you in the verbs. Listen, Aügoos Cawdori, I am not, save in love and in the kindness which not even my life could...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am your true daughter always. Do not forget it. I owe everything to you, and I shall never quit you if you will let me stay." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "So it is written, and my father signs and seals, but whether it was written for him or by him, I cannot tell. At any rate he has made his signature with the flourish which none can mistake, and an order is an order. What say you, Aügoos Cawdori? Must I obey, and become the chief...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now, said Alida," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Princess Alida, I began, but she cried out instantly," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Alida--just Alida the music mistress--no princess at all!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But it seems to me that your father, by making you over to Keller Bey and Linn there--by ordering you to be brought up as their daughter, by allowing and encouraging you to acquire the tastes and arts of the Western people--has now no right to summon you back to a life which wou...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Though I agree that the thing itself is impossible--that I cannot marry Ali Mohammed the slave and slave's son--tell me what is to be done? I shall ruin these good people whom I love, who are paid to take care of me. Or if I do not ruin them, I shall be obliged to live on their ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What shall I do when you are gone?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I can _not_ stay on here, content with only the round of teaching visits, and the love of these two good souls! 'I have had playmates--I have had companions,' as your poet sings, and now there is you--and Hugh--who have come to me to show me how lonely I was." }, { "from...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Do you think it is a proper thing, said Linn," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I think you wrong her, I said," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Of course, he said, speaking slowly, and poising each word carefully," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There is an empty house at the corner of my father's property of Gobelet--not one so large as this, but quite large enough and pleasantly situated within the grounds. My father has never let it, but I know that he would be glad of a brave soldier and his wife to take care of it ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I have little acquaintance with book Arabic beyond the Koran, but it is a noble language in which to vent one's thoughts." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "All this must I come and see for myself, said Keller Bey;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What, she cried," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Alida, said I," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "As soon as these two dear people will let me!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Angus, said he gravely," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I should not like to have your responsibility. Are you sure that she will take to the family at Château Schneider? Or they to her? We are rather a handful, you know, and she--well, she is not exactly ordinary." ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "So _Salaam_, for to-night, dear lady! I kiss your golden feet." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "THREE'S COMPANY" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mademoiselle Deventer, mother, she cried," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I say, whispered Rhoda Polly," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Monsieur is too good, but a poor girl has her work to do. _She_ has no time to go off sightseeing of a forenoon even with so charming a cicerone as Monsieur!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What can I do for Monsieur? If Monsieur will only take the trouble to rest him...