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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And I come to marry ye, Lil," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "To marry me, Dick?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, and bought ye a purty farm at Terre Haute." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "A farm, Dick?" }, { "from": "human", "va...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ah! my very dear sir, while I belong to a gentleman of the vastest importance imaginable, be assured that we are both inexpressibly honored by this interview!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ah! Mr. Pinkerton, I am very glad to see you--very glad to see you; in fact, I take it as a peculiar honor, though my business with you is of an unpleasant nature," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Thank you, thank you, he replied in his rich, after-dinner voice, that seemed to come with his winning smile to his lips through a vast measure of good-fellowship and great-heartedness." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I feel that I am occupying a peculiar position, bo...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mr. Harcout, I still insisted," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I should then require to be unqualifiedly assured that the woman in question was not a young woman who had really been led to believe the promise of some man old enough to be her father, and who should acc...
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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": "Why, my dear Mr. Pinkerton, it's a terrible matter--an infamous affair! My friend here, Mr. Lyon, is quite nettled about it--I might say, quite cut up. You can see for yourself, sir, that it's wearing on him." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But you see, Mr. Pinkerton, this is a peculiarly cruel case--a peculiarly cruel case. Hem! _I_ know what is cruel in this respect, as I was once victimized by very much the same sort of a female, though she was _much younger_. Why, do you know, sir, and here the sympathetic Harc...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "She came to Rochester as a shining light among the exponents of our blessed faith----" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And what may your religion be?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "We believe in the constant communication between mortals and the occupants...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, my friend here was irresistibly drawn to her, and he has told me that for a time it seemed that he had found his real affinity. You felt that way, didn't you, Lyon?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But for a long time the more my friend endeavored to secure her f...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "In this way, continued Harcout," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "A good deal of money," }, { "from": "human", "value": "But finally, pursued Harcout," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "She _is_ talented," }, { "from": "human", "value": "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Don't be too hard upon the woman, Mr. Pinkerton. You know we are _all_ liable to err; and--and, by Jupiter! Mrs. Winslow is certainly a most magnificent woman--a _most_ magnificent woman," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "who had in some unexplainable way fastened himself upon Lyon and was living like a prince off the" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That's her--that's her!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "There's Mrs. Winslow! and" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, that's Mrs. Lyon!" } ]
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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": "Mr. Lyon, I am directed by Mr. Pinkerton to ascertain if possible from you whether Mrs. Winslow has ever informed you of having at any previous time resided in the West?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Mr. Clement, I think she has done so, but I can't recollect what t...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, who are you, anyhow?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Who am I? returned Bangs smilingly," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Bangs never blushed at the libel on the kind old man bearing that name and title, and continued," }, { "from": "gpt", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Who is she?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "She's a bouncer; don't you know her?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "No." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why, that's Mrs. Winslow, old Lyons' soothing syrup; and old Lyon's one of the children--'teeth...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Come, Le Compte, get me a glass of brandy." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My dear, you were a little late, eh?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ah, a French divinity," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Le Compte, replied Mrs. Winslow, handing him a bill with which to pay for the refreshment, and paying no attention to the little fe...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Come, Le Compte, get in here!" } ]
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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": "Good morning to you!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Good mornings mit yourself, answered the lively proprietor, getting behind the bar nimbly;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Beer?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, thank you, replied Fox," ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You have a beautiful place here," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, so, so!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I was never here before." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No?--So? I guess mebby I don't ever have seen you. Don't you leef py Rochester...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No, not again until Saturday; I'll try to be a little earlier." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Pinkerton, Pinkerton, he exclaimed excitedly," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why, Harcout, you're excited. Tell me what's the matter, my man," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Matter? matter? everything's the matter. Here's something which should be acted ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I understand you have some business with me. My name is Lyon." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, yes, he replied," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I have great business with you. But I can only make you my _one_ confidant, Mr. Lyon." }, { "from":...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You are much intractable--a much intractable man, he responded." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I could tell about you greatly to convince you of my power; but it is impossible in double presence." }, { "from": "human", "value": "All right, said I." }, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "See here, my friend, you and I must talk business!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, sir, what _could_ you want?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I want this nonsense stopped," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, he said," }, { "fro...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Open that door, you villain! I demanded;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Won't you give me opportunity to show you I do not swindle. Just let me make some few little passes over your head. I will sure put you to sleep quickly!" }, { "from": "human", "value...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Jones of Rochester. -- Le Compte and Mrs. Winslow resolve to fly to Paris," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "My God, are they all that way?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "MRS. W." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "LE COMPTE." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mr. and Mrs. Jones, of Rochester," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why, I can't be mistaken; the register surely said Room 30!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Say you?--Jones? Why in thunder don't you open the door?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Who's there?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Why, me, of course; Barker, Jones's partner. I want to see Jones!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What Jones d...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We mustn't come here any more, Le Compte," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And for why, my angel precious?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Why, do you know, replied Mrs. Winslow with earnestness," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I sometimes reall...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My God! exclaimed Lyon, as I concluded," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Your experience and mine, I smilingly replied," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Little by Little, Patience by Patience. -- A Toronto Merchant in Mrs. Winslow's Toils.-- Detective Brist...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, my young friend, said I," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I suppose you have decided to give me some information this morning." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Do I get good pay?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You will get good pay if you ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How great will be my pay?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What do you think the information is worth?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Certain, a thousand dollars." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, no, oh, no, I replied as quickly;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well, the evidence is certain, but I must offer it to you by clairvoyance," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You little villain! I shouted, advancing upon him threateningly," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I will wring your neck if you don't stop this contemptible nonsense!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Le Compte, this is the last time I shall come here, and it is the last time you will have an opportunity of making a dollar out of any information you may possess. Now, sir, I said, savagely, starting towards the door," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You little villai...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Or, said I encouragingly," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No, no, he said slowly and cautiously." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have no such valuable evidence. That would be much more worth than a thousand dollars--much more worth. But I can do what you first say, and rest me on the honor of your word." }, { "from...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "it galloped over the harmonies with:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Then you'll remember me," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Don't be angry with me, Darling," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Who will care for Mother Now?" }, { "from": "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Old Deck, as the boys called him, who believed in another kind of spirits still, and, when opportunity offered, became so full of them that he held a grand and extended" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "met Lilly Nettleton at the depot and had taken her to the Michigan Exchange to meet the reverend circuit-rider; but after he had got at the dusty records he found on the register, evidently in the handwriting of a clerk:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Lilly Mercer, B...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "on Bland, who had picked her up for a fool, and had himself been terribly sold. Then she launched into vituperations towards the young minister, who had accused her of" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "with Bland by" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "continued the old woman, with a withering look at the girls," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Let her alone to get along, concluded the old lady;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Shyster." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It all come over me then what she was doing; but I only thought to get her back for the old folks' sake. Well, sir, I went to Chicago, and hung around that doggoned city fur a week 'r two; but no Lil. Then I come back, lookin' everywhere, askin' everybody, an' peerin' into every...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "One time she came here and left a trunk full of nice silk dresses and things. After a time, wife and I looked into it and found over two hundred keys of all kinds, besides pistols and knives. She came and took it away soon after, accusin' us of stealin' some of her things, and t...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I got mad at this, and told her that if she had come to that agin, _I'd_ have a hand in too; and as soon as I turned into the house as if to get a pistol--I only had an old rusty one with a broken lock, but had an idea that I could some way use it--she blazed away at me, the bal...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Affinities." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mr. Bristol, aren't you a little curious why I wanted to see you?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Any man who is a man, replied Bristol earnestly," }, { "from": "human", "value": "There, there, said she laughing, and extending her hands across the table as...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There is no reason why we shouldn't," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Only one, answered Mrs. Winslow archly." }, { "from": "human", "value": "The three Graces don't like me, and they are bound we sha'n't meet. Now, she continued, again tapping the table ne...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Quite the contrary, said Bristol, gallantly," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I have become so interested in you, Mr. Bristol, that I have found myself asking the question: Why is it that this gentleman is continually in my mind? until, do you know, I have such a curiosity about you that I shall be perfectly delighted to get better acquainted with you." ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ever since I saw you I have felt that we should become intimate," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And I may myself confess that ever since I saw you, Mrs. Winslow, I really _knew_ that I should be obliged to search you out and remain near you." }, { "from": "hu...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "he concluded it would be better to humor Mrs. Winslow in the belief that he was smitten by her, as she showed great anxiety that it should be so. Accordingly, when she proposed that he should call at her apartments that evening, he acceded to the request with such a show of plea...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Furnished Rooms to Rent." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Stop! he said excitedly to the boy." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Here, give me that tray, and he pulled it from the boy's shoulder and rested it upon the stair-rail." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'll take care of this. Run down to the street, now, q...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Tut, tut, said Bristol angrily, picking up the letter and carelessly putting it in his pocket without looking at the address," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'll take care of everything until you get back; get along with you now!" }, { "from": "human", "v...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Things going slow." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why, Mr. Pinkerton, said he one day, his eyebrows elevated and the corners of his mouth drawn down, his whole face expressive of lofty condescension and gentle, though firm reproof," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And have you any cause to complain?" }, { "fro...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Harcout, said I," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, nothing save what I've seen in the newspapers. Merely by reputation," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well, sir, whatever that reputation may be, Harcout, I said," }, { "from": "gpt", "valu...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Retired Banker," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Only set her tongue wagging, and she spouts away as irresistibly as an artesian well." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Gentlemen of the jury:--There are many who believe that I merely seek for money. This is not true. I ask for a verdict that I may gain a husband. For all of the injury that I have received--lost time, lost money, lost reputation, years of suspense and hope deferred--I only ask f...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Who's that?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Say!--you! shouted Bristol," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Woman! if you ever do that thing again, I'll--I'll--aren't you ashamed of yourself, Mrs. Winslow?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh! where am I? what _have_ you been trying to do with me, Mr. Bristol?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What have _I_ been trying to do with _you_? shouted the now enraged Bristol;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why, didn't I ever tell you that I often walk in my sleep? she asked with apparent innocence; and then, as if noticing for the first time how meagrely both her...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ah, how d'ye do, ma'am? said Harcout blandly, but never looking up from his desk, at which he pretended to be very busily engaged." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Bless my soul, you seem to be very much excited!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Sir! said M...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, my dear good woman, continued Harcout soothingly, but edging as far from the railing and his caller as possible," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Police!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Spirits" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Little Dorrit," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, yes, I hear your angel voices calling; I see your beautiful forms; I feel your tender fingers touching my aching head; I am listening to your sweet, soft whispers. Ah! what is it you say?--yes, yes, yes! You _are_ with me. You will watch over and guard me. You will ward off...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, gentlemen, where--where am I?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "On the boundaries of the spirit-land," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Thank you, Mr. Bristol," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, yes, she continued languidly," }, { "fr...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am weary, weary waiting While the shadows deeper fall; I am weary, weary waiting For some holy voice's call!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now, said Bristol, becoming suddenly interested," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'm something of a poet myself. When the seat of government was moved from Quebec to Ottawa, I constructed a lampoon on the government that set all Canada awhirl. Really, Mrs. Winslow, I'...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What subject? Bristol replied," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Lyon," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, Lyon, Lyon! don't you run; The suit's begun; we'll have our fun Before we're done. I'll tell your son That I have won, although you shun Your darling one!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, Lyon, pray, why speed away? To fight a woman is but play. Although you're...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "His Breach of Promise." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "His Breach of Promise" } ]
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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." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Good deal of railroad rivalry nowadays, isn't there?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, considerable, replied Bristol pleasantly, and then asking," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Are you going to introduce some rival railroads in your new play, Mrs. Win...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My God! what's that?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What does this mean?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That's what I'd like to know! returned Bristol, hunting for his quizzers, which he had lost in his jump from his chair." }, { "from": "human", "value": "This is all very fine, but it's pretty plain someb...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Something with a glitter, and it rolled under there," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Let's get it, whatever it is!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What can it be?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "A vial sealed with red wax, with a string attached, and containing some clear liquid," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Don't--don't, Fox! shouted Bristol, pushing him back impetuously;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Or might contain some deadly poison," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And the fiend who threw it in here expected the bottle to break and the poison to murder us!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Things have come to a pretty pass when attempts like this are...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "with the author of these outrages, in which laudable resolve the detectives promised to assist her; but the peach brandy seemed the only relief possible to Mrs. Winslow for the remainder of the evening, which was chiefly passed in wild speculations and theories concerning the ne...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "For Mrs. Winslow, from the Misses Grim, spryly sprang back, shut the door, and clattered away down the stairs and into the street before Mrs. Winslow could get a second look at him, though she sprang after him, shouting," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Here! here! com...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I do wonder what it can be!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I can't find anything but bran," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Bran! she exclaimed incredulously;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I've got something!" }, { "from": "human", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, what is it?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Vegetable," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, pshaw! is _that_ all?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, that's all," } ]