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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Celina," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A moral plague must be treated just like a physical plague, with heroic remedies," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We must be charitable, said my mother." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Our God is a God of charity." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why, of course not; I never thought of such a thing, said my mother, in that sweet voice of hers that reached one's soul." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We must make this an example, a warning for our girls. I will see to that, never fear. I am just as anxious about ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "for hat, and called a bean a" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am going right out to get those things." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This is no time to think of figures for a Bethlehem manger," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Look, my darling, here are the little mule and the little ox." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Don't you know who is doing all this? Why, the dead children who are in heaven and whom Father God permits to come down on Christmas Eve and play with the Bethlehem mangers." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why, the table has been broken down and all the figures have been upset?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hurry, hurry, my dears! said a voice among them;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Come over here, one of them cried to her;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Listen, my dear, throw those away. It is very evident that you are just from the earth. Let me tell ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My sings,--'em's my sings." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Listen, goosy, continued the other;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There is a picture that would be popular at the Salon. How splendidly built and well-lighted that woman is! And what a pretty bright spot that red skirt forms in the blue landscape!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The girl you see there, young men, is Solange, the wol...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It was about seven o'clock in the morning when we reached Ursay. The day was breaking over a landscape of spun glass and white velvet. M. Roger Duflos' farmers and at least one half of the inhabitants of the borough, having heard of Solange's disappearance, came out to meet us; ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Good-night, Solange!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Bunch of Blue Grapes." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Aff you zumting to zell?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ah, my poor Salvette, what a dreary Christmas this will be! If we only had a few cents left, we could buy a little loaf of white bread and a bottle of light wine. It would be nice to sprinkle the Yule log with you once more before--" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Are you asleep, Bernadou?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Come, wake up, countryman; let it not be said that two Provençals let Christmas go by without sprinkling it with a draught of wine--" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What shall it be,--'The Host' or 'The Three Kings' or 'Saint Joseph told me'?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No; I prefer 'The Shepherds.' That is the one we used to sing at home." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Very well, then. Here goes, 'The Shepherds...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Shepherds, Take your leave," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Shepherds, Take your leave." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But what is the use of telling you about what you will hear for yourself in a few moments? Just notice the people who are here to-night, and you will form some idea of what he is. Here is all the elegance of Seville, and the archbishop himself,--all come to this humble convent t...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Maese Pérez has been taken ill, very ill; and it will be impossible for him to attend Mass to-night." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Maese Pérez is ill, said he;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Maese Pérez is here! Maese Pérez is here!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No, he had said;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What has happened? What is it?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What has happened?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What has happened?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Maese Pérez is dead!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There is nothing so bold as ignorance. To be sure, the fault is not his, but theirs, who permit such a profanation. But that is the way of the world--but, I say, it is no small crowd that has flocked here to-night. One might think that nothing had changed from last year to this,...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He is an impostor who cannot do anything straight, not even look straight," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He is an ignorant lout, who has turned the organ of his own parish into a rattle, and comes here now to profane Maese Pérez's," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You see, said the prelate, when the musician was introduced into his presence," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I came all the way from my palace to hear you. Will you be as cruel as Maese Pérez, who would never once spare me the journey by consenting to play on Christ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You may say what you choose, my dear Doña Baltasara, said one of them," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Do you see, the abbess was saying," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am afraid!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Afraid? Why, what do you mean? Afraid of what?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The blood in my veins was frozen with horror. I felt a chill run through my body; my head was hot; I tried to scream, but I could not, for the man sitting there had turned his face and was looking at me. No; I do not mean that; he was not looking, for he was blind. It was my fat...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Look at him! look at him!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Did I not tell you so, one and a thousand times, my good Doña Baltasara,--did I not tell you so? There is some mystery in all this. Listen. What! Did you not attend Mass last night? Anyway, I presume you know what occurred. Why, it is the talk of Seville to-day. The archbishop i...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Is it not time we were asleep? It is almost midnight, and twice have we been shaken, twice have we been forced to cry out through the gloom just as though it were day, and we were singing the call for Sunday Mass. There are people moving about in the church; are we going to be t...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Is that you, little one?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, mother." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I prayed while you were praying. You must be half asleep; go to bed, child. I do not need anything. If I am thirsty, I have the water-jug here where I ca...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "and would say laughingly," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I carted heaps of glory in the Crimea and in Italy. His return to the village was a source of rejoicing. He had known Marguerite as a child; he now found her a woman, and married her. They were poor, Marguerite...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "As soon as a man paints his house in pink, fate hastens to daub it black." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Where is Grand-Pierre?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Hello there, Grand-Pierre!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "O God, have pity! have pity!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Did you sleep, mother? Do you feel well?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes; but I am very cold. Make a little fire, will you?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "There is no wood left; and there are no roots either." }, { "from": "gpt", "value":...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am going out to the mountain to get some dead wood." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why, you forget that to-day is Christmas, my child!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I know; but Monsieur le Curé will forgive me." }, { "from": "gpt", "value...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What a storm!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Holy angels! cried Marguerite;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Jacques, if you pass the Trèves do not forget to say a prayer." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Law" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Where are you going, Jacques, in this devil of a storm?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am going to the mountain, Father Monhache, to get some dead wood. We have none at home, and my mother is ill." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ah, so you are going to the mountain for dead wood, are you? Well, if I meet you in the village this evening with your fagot...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He is born, the Heavenly Child,--" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Joan, the good maid of Lorraine," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, my poor God, said he," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now, at least, you will not be so cold!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I must not go to sleep, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, no, I will not go to sleep;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Where am I?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "In my Father's House, which is the home of the Just." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Rise, little one; you were moved to pity by the sufferings of your God,--you stripped yourself of your cloak to shield him from the cold, and this is why he has given you his cloak in exchange for yours; for of all the virtues the highest and rarest is charity, which surpasses w...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The people in this village are mad. Why can they never be quiet? Were not yesterday's duties sufficiently tiresome?--midnight Mass, Matins, the Mass of the Aurora, the third Mass, High Mass, Vespers, the Angelus, to say nothing of supplementary chimes. There was no end to it! An...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "So ring gently, gently, without sadness or fear. Let your voices sound like the cooing of doves. A torn cloak in this world may be a mantle of eternal blessedness in the next." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Becquer replaced by" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Bécquer Page 16:" }, { "from": "human", "value": "replaced by" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Page 23:" }, { "from": "human", "value": "San Jeronimo replaced by" }, { "from"...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That means you, Noel," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "THE EXPRESSMAN AND THE DETECTIVE," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "CLAUDE MELNOTTE AS A DETECTIVE," }, { "from": "human", "value": "THE SOMNAMBULIST AND THE DETECTIVE," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "THE MODEL TOWN AND THE DETECTIVES," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Kal'm'zoo!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Circuit-Rider. -- Mr. Pinkerton and these Gospel Knights-Errant in the early Days.-- The Rev. Mr. Bland appears.--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "And Satan came also! -- A" }, { "from": "gpt", "value...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Cursed Church Interests. -- Bland's" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "becomes a busy Bird.-- Merges into a great Raven of the Night.-- Gathers together Valuables.-- And while a folded Handkerchief lies across the Clergyman's Face, steals away into the Storm and the Nigh...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Our blessed Faith and the Woman's strange Power.-- A Tender Subject.-- Deep Games.-- A One Hundred Thousand Dollar Suit for Breach of Promise of Marriage.-- A good deal of Money.-- All liable to err.-- A most magnificent Woman.-- The" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ca...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Our Case. -- Harcout's Egotism and Interference.-- The strange Chain of Evidence.-- A Trail of Spiritualism, Lust, and Licentiousness.-- Superintendent Bangs locates the Detectives.-- A pernicious System.-- Three Old Maids named Grim.-- Mr. Bangs baffled by Mr. Lyon, who won't b...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Positive, Prophetic, Healing and Trance Medium. -- Harcout the Adviser reappears, and is anxious lest Mr. Lyon be drawn into some terrible Confession.-- Mr. Pinkerton decides to know more about Le Compte.-- And with the harassed Mr. Lyon interviews him.-- Treachery and Blackmail...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Shyster." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Affinities." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Furnished Rooms to Rent." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Things going slow." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Retired Banker," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Spirits" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My God! what's that? -- The deadly Phial.-- This Time a Mysterious Box.-- Its suggestive Contents.--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The Thing she was." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Trifles." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Manifestations." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Rope-trick," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Accommodation Husband." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Breach of Promise Trial." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Detective Stories" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "people, the assumption is simply absurd; for the few illustrations given in the following pages will show how utterly preposterous the claim of supernatural power is, as applied to the _cause_ of these" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Kal'm'zoo!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Kal'm'zoo! at them as the train rushed into one of the prettiest little cities in the country. There is nothing particularly picturesque about Kalamazoo, unless the wondering face of some harmless lunatic, on parole from the ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Circuit-Rider. -- Mr. Pinkerton and these Gospel Knights-Errant in the early Days.-- The Rev. Mr. Bland appears.--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And Satan came also! -- A" }, { "from": "human", "value": "is established.-- A Compact" }, { "from": ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "By the way, Mr. Nettleton, your beautiful daughter here--ah, what may I call her? thank you, Lilly; and a very appropriate name, too--is the perfect image of a very dear friend of ours--my mother's and my own--in Detroit." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "In fact, said the minister," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But she won't go to school here," }, { "from": "human", "value": "But, Brother Nettleton, you must remember that we are not all similarly created. The world must have its hewers of wood and drawer...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No, I think not, replied Mr. Bland soothingly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am a pretty good judge of human nature, though a young man, and am sure that Lilly has a kind heart and will prove a blessing to your later years. Our dear Detroit friend was also a littl...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My dear Lilly, I have a deep interest in you; your people cannot understand it, and, should they know it, would only suspect me, and watch and restrain you. _Make_ an opportunity for us to be together alone. I will remain until you accomplish it; and-- Mr. Nettleton's step was n...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Be sure, now--next Sunday night. Row down to Kalamazoo in this boat, and take the late night train for Detroit. Go to the Michigan Exchange Hotel, where I will meet you Monday evening!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Bland, am I to go to your Mother's, as you promised? -- The Clergyman(?)" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Of all sad words of tongue or pen The saddest are these: It might have been" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, I see my dearest Lilly has kept her word." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "After what passed by the river, I could not do otherwise than keep my word. Yes, your 'dearest Lilly' has kept her word. And what now, Mr. Bland?" }, { "from": "human", "value"...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Bland, am I to go to your mother's, as you promised?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Bland, am I to go to your mother's as you promised?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No, Lilly, you will not go to my mother's." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Then I will go home." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You will not go home. You will remain here." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Bland, no person on God's earth shall sa...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Lilly, you have crazed me--ruined me! he said, excitedly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You know what I profess to be--a Christian minister! God forgive me for my cursed weakness, but you have me in your power!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "he continued passionately, and drawing her closer to him," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am rich, or will be, Lilly." }, { "from": "human", "value": "If ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Forty-Niner," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "James, drive to the house and inform mother that while down town this evening I received an unexpected call to Ann Arbor, to preach a funeral sermon over the remains of an old student-friend at the University, and that I may not be home until late to-morrow evening; then, after ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mother Blake, said Bland," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And a very nice girl she is, too, Mr. Bland." }, { "from": "human", "value": "That'll do, mother. You may get us a small bottle of wine, and then go to bed. It's getting late, and you know you need ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Forty-niners to California, where by hard work and no luck whatever, being an honest, simple soul, he had got together a few thousand dollars; with no announcement of his proposed return, had come back as far as Terre Haute, Indiana, where he had purchased a snug farm, and immed...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "while Dick Hosford should go to Chicago, and then back east as far as Detroit, making diligent search for something even more tangible than the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Bob Nettleton, and mother--for you've always been a half-dozen mothers to me--don't ye never...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Cursed Church Interests. -- Bland's" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "becomes a busy Bird.-- Merges into a great Raven of the Night.-- Gathers together Valuables.-- And while a folded Handkerchief lies across the Clergyman's Face, steals away into the Storm and the Nigh...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "MERCER." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Lilly! oh, Lilly!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Say, Bland, are ye all dead in there? Lord! it's broad noon!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, to Buffalo, if you please; and he jumped as though he had been lifted by an explosion. He peered through the window and saw her face at the other window, and without waiting to step around to her, yelled to the agent like a madman:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Say, Lil, old gal! Lil Nettleton!--Dick--Dick Hosford, ye know! Ain't I tellin' the truth? ain't it all a mistake, and ain't you goin' the other way--with _me_, ye know--yes, 'long with Dick?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Say, you?--mister?--don't give the gal that ...