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[ { "from": "human", "value": "See, he said," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I wanted to help, said Sorrow," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Go your ways and leave him to me; I will manage him. I know all. You are once more weary of the world and want to die, and have no talent, and men are all bad, very wicked indeed, and faithless, and have d...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How transfigured you are, you lazy one!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Who tells you that I am lazy?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "You always remain here on the surface while I go into the depths." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Perhaps the ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You are mistaken in me, she said, sadly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I wanted to flee from you because I love you, for I bring you no happiness. I am Sorrow, and must leave you a heavy heart and serious thoughts. Farewell! You have found your treasure; now you nee...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Come with me, I will lead you to Truth, but you must not faint or fear by the way." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I! I fear nothing; and I am so strong I could carry mountains." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "See, said Sorrow," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Music tempts me, I said;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I will sing and play like a god, and it cost me my life and my happiness." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You still play badly, you still sing feebly; let us go further: you are no artist." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Hush! said Sorrow;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Here is food for your spirit, said Sorrow;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Wisdom, too, is not for me. She seems to me dead and dusty, and I--I desire to live." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Do you want that? said Sorrow." }, { "from": "human", "value": "But then you must not fear." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I do...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Where is Truth? Is this to live?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Is this to live?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What, said Sorrow," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Here stands a good man, and waits for you. Will you love him your life long? Here is your path, it is rough and stony, and leads past precipices to steep heights. Will you walk on it? And there lies work for you, mountains high. Will you carry it?" }, { "from": "gpt", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Where is Truth? Now that all earthly joy, all earthly hopes have been borne to the grave, there remains for me nothing but Truth; I have a right to find her." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Seek." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, Truth, Truth, I cried," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "There she stands," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Is that child Truth?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "She is not to be feared, is she?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Do y...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Thou shalt by no means come out thence till thou hast paid the uttermost farthing." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ah! Laurence, she exclaimed with a sigh," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If you do that, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You've bought it? That strange, beautiful place near Orange where you used to stay when you were studying in Paris? Oh, Laurence, I'd no idea that you really meant to buy it!" }, { "from": "human", "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There is one person, and one alone, she had said with some decision," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "--she had flushed, and then gone on steadily--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Tom will believe that I am going to stay with Adèle at Marly-le-Roi, and my...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Messieurs, mesdames, en voiture, s'il vous plaît! En voiture, s'il vous plaît!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Dear, he said, in a voice that sounded strange and muffled even to himself," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'm tired, she said, rather plaintively," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Peggy, he whispered," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Listen, she said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I want to tell you something, Laurence. I want you to know that I understand how--how angelic you have been to me all these years. Ever since we first knew one another, you have given me everything--everything in excha...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If I had never known you? he repeated," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "As you know, I did not take Adèle's advice, but I have never forgotten, Laurence, some of the things she said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "She's not given to speaking of you--of us...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You don't know, she whispered brokenly," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Did you really think that, Peggy? was all he said; then, more slowly, as the arms about her relaxed their hold," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why, my dear, you've always been--you are--my life." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I love you, she whispered,"...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why did you subject us, he said, huskily," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Because, Laurence, the last time I was in England, something happened which altered my outlook on life." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "As you know, I stayed, when in England, with Sophy Pargeter----" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Sophy Pargeter?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, Laurence, the day that I arrived there, I mean at Sophy's house, I felt very ill. I suppose the journey had tired me, for I fainted----" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Sophy was horribly frightened. She would send for her doctor, and though he said there was not...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sophy went with me to London--she was really very kind about it all, and you would have liked her better, Laurence, if you had seen her that day. The specialist did all the usual things, then he told me to go on much as I had been doing, and to avoid any sudden shock or exciteme...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Turn round and try to go to sleep, he whispered." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It's a long, long journey by this train. I'll wake you in good time before we get to Dorgival." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Good night, he said," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Dorgival! Cinq minutes d'arrêt!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "En voiture! En voiture, s'il vous plaît!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mr. Pargeter has been asking for you, sir; he's in the card-room." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hullo! Grid, he cried," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Nothing much, went on Pargeter quickly," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It was just too late to get a wire through to her, went on Pargeter, fretfully," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I mean to that God-forsaken place where she's staying with Madame de Léra; but I've arranged for her to be wired to early in the morning. If I'd been half s...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "By the way, Grid, I've forgotten to tell you why I wanted to see you to-night. I'd be so much obliged if you would go down to Chantilly at the end of the week and see how that new josser's getting on. You might drop me a line if everything doesn't seem all right." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Let's go on to 'The Wash,'" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Monaco Junior." }, { "from": "human", "value": "The Wash" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Let's turn in here for a minute, he said, eagerly," }, { "from": "human", "value": "F...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Monaco Junior" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Do look at Florac! he murmured to Vanderlyn." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "When I left here a couple of hours ago, he was winning a bit, but I expect he's losing now. I always like to watch him play--he's such a bad loser!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Monaco Junior." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He's losing now, whispered Pargeter." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I should think he's near the end of his tether, eh? Funny how money goes from hand to hand! I don't suppose Florac knows that it's _my_ mon...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'm not quite a fool! exclaimed Pargeter, piqued at the suggestion." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "All the same, Grid, it _is_ my money, or a little bit of it at any rate!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "The French are a wonderful people, he said rather ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yes? he said. Then again," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, Poulain. I wished to start at nine o'clock. Say that I shall be down in a quarter of an hour." }, { "from": "human", "value": "And then, while Monsieur is dressing, my wife will be preparing hi...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Would you like to slow down a bit, sir? Mrs. Pargeter generally stops the car here to have a look at the view." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, said Vanderlyn hoarsely," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This is the house, sir," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You have come to the wrong house, she said curtly," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Then, as she caught sight of the Pargeters' chauffeur, a more amiable look stole over her wizened face,--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Pardon, perhaps Monsieur has broug...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, I have come to see Madame de Léra, he said in a low voice." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Kindly give her my card, and ask her if she will be good enough to receive me?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I will light the fire, said the servant, apologetically;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Madame does not use this room when we are here alone." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I am quite warm, said Vanderlyn quickly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mr. Vanderlyn?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You must forgive my intrusion, he said, coldly;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have come with a message from Mr. Pargeter. He believes his wife to be here, and he wishes her to be informed that her son, little Jasper, has had an accident. When the news arrived last...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I regret to inform you, she said, quietly," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Since yesterday evening, he answered," }, { "from": "human", "value": "he added, after a pause," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Then, Monsieur, it is surely clear, she exclaimed at last," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, he said," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I am afraid nothing of the kind has been done--yet. You see, Pargeter believes her to be here." }, { "from": "g...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I regret, she said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "--she looked at him with indignant severity,--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I will ask you to allow me to return with you to Paris, she said, quickly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I cann...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mr. Vanderlyn, you look very tired; have you had any breakfast?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, said Vanderlyn,--" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My good Catherine, she said," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Then if we find that Mr. Pargeter is still without any knowledge of his wife, I am to say that I know nothing--that I was expecting her yesterday evening, and that she never arrived?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, he answered," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mr. Pargeter has been awaiting you, sir, for the last half hour, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, said Vanderlyn, shortly," }, { "from": "human", "value": "He's not down yet, sir; he is breakfasting in his dressing-room. All the arrangements w...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I say, Peggy, look sharp,--there's no time to be lost! I told Plimmer to pack some of your things--not that there's any reason why you should come if you don't want to--for there's nothing much the matter with the boy, and he'll probably get well all the quicker if you----" },...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well? he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Peggy never arrived at Marly-le-Roi," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Never arrived? he echoed." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Where is she then? You don't mean to say she's lost?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Madame de Léra, said Vanderlyn, still in the same quiet, emotionless voice," }, { "from": "gpt", "va...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That is why I have come back to Paris, she went on, addressing Peggy's husband," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Surely _you_ don't think anything has happened to her, Grid? he asked, nervously." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Now I come to think of it, she was a fool not to take one of the cars. Then we should have had none of this worry. I've always said the Paris cabs weren't...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Tom, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'm afraid something ought to be done, and done quickly. Madame de Léra suggests that we go to the Prefecture of Police; every serious accident is, of course, always reported there at once." }, { "from": "human", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We shall soon have news of her, Grid," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Then Monsieur did not see this lady yesterday at all?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, said Vanderlyn, shortly;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Monsieur is not related to the lady," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, said Vanderlyn again." ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Of course, Grid, you will come home with me!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Then, Messieurs, I will send any news I get straight to the Avenue du Bois de Boulogne." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I shouldn't be surprised if I can get off to-night after a...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Has Mr. Pargeter left Paris?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, said Vanderlyn shortly." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Mr. Pargeter is still in Paris." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Is it a friend of Mr. Pargeter who is speaking?" }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I can't face dinner here, said Pargeter suddenly," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I say, this is no good! exclaimed Pargeter angrily," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "For God's sake, Tom, exclaimed Vanderlyn harshly," }, { "from": "human", "value": "All right. But I can tell you that at this rate we sha'n't get anything till midnight!" ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'm afraid, Grid, all this must be an infernal bore for you! he said;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Let's take a fiacre, said Pargeter suddenly," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Quarter." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Have you still a provincial paper room?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, said the dame du comptoir, suavely," }, { "from": "human", "value": "It used to be fifty centimes," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ah! Monsieur, that was long ago! Ther...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, Madame, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I will go through into your second reading-room and glance over the papers; he forced himself to add," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I am anxious to find news of a person who has disappeared--who has...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There are three poor people there, she said, in a low voice," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If she were a Catholic, added Madame de Léra pitifully," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I should be inclined to think--to hope--that she had gone to a convent; bu...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A gentleman has come and insists on seeing Monsieur." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I have already told you, he said sternly," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'm afraid Monsieur will have to receive this gentleman." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Poulain! exclaimed Vanderlyn sharply." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "This won't ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I have the honour, have I not, of speaking to Mr. Laurence Vanderlyn?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, Monsieur le Préfet, Laurence Vanderlyn at your service. I think we have already met, at the Elysée----" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You probably divine, Monsieur, said the Prefect, after a short pause," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes? said Vanderlyn interrogatively," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I am, of course, quite at your disposal. I have been with Mr. Pargeter all to-day, b...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The fact that I have taken the very unusual course of coming myself to see you, Mr. Vanderlyn, will prove to you the importance I attach to this interview. Indeed, I wish to be quite frank with you----" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "This is not, I am convinced, an or...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You are in error, he said at last," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ah! said the other mildly," }, { "from": "human", "value": "May I, on my side, put to you a question to which I should be glad of an honest answer? said Vanderlyn abruptly." }, { "f...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am convinced that Mrs. Pargeter never intended to go to Madame de Léra, and that the proposed visit was a blind! The facts speak for themselves. Madame de Léra had taken only one servant to the country, and this servant, an old woman whom she has had with her many years, and w...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Some years ago, went on the great official," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "he continued, after a short silence," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Mr. Thomas Pargeter, he went on, smiling," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He added, with a rather t...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Then I am to understand, Mr. Vanderlyn, that you are not in a position to give me any help? That is your last word?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I can only repeat, he said, harshly," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I have no wish to subject you to any i...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This, Monsieur, is your _dossier_. If you can prove to me that it is incorrect in any particular, I will see that the error is rectified. We naturally take special care in compiling the _dossiers_ of foreign diplomatists, for experience has shown that these often become of great...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "General Remarks, were written a few phrases in a handwriting very different from the rest--that is, in the small clear caligraphy of an educated Frenchman. Staring down at these, Vanderlyn felt shaken with anger and disgust, for these" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "G...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Your staff, he said, very quietly," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Vanderlyn put his finger down firmly on the word" }, { "from": "human", "value": "" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "My relations with Mrs. Pargeter were, it is true, those of clos...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Paris Day by Day," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No trace of Mrs. Pargeter, the wife of the well-known sportsman and owner of Absinthe, has yet been found; but the lady's relations think it possible that she went unexpectedly to stay with some friends, and that the letter informing her household of her whereabouts has miscarri...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yet another railway mystery! The dead body of a woman has been found in a first-class compartment in a train which left Paris at 7 P. M. last Wednesday. As the discovery was not made till the train reached Orange, it is, of course, impossible to know where the unfortunate woman,...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Will you please come upstairs, sir? Mr. Pargeter told me to say that he would be glad if you would go to his dressing-room as soon as you arrived." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "There's no news, Grid,--no news at all! It's getting awful, isn't it?--quite beyond a jok...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Madame de Léra? Why should I ask her to interfere? I don't want to mix her up in this business more than I can help! If it hadn't been for her--and that ridiculous invitation of hers, Peggy would be here now! Peggy wouldn't mind your looking over her things, Grid. She's really f...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Tom, said Vanderlyn, hoarsely," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I don't think I ought to come in here----" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Don't be a fool! I tell you she wouldn't mind a bit. Surely you're not going to cut--now?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I don't believe she kept any letters," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Mrs. Pargeter kept some letters in that writing-desk over there, sir,--at least I think she did." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The desk is locked, sir." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Locked? Then did Mrs. Pargeter take her keys with her?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I suppose she did, sir." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Then it's no use, said Pargeter, with a cert...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He's a fine little chap, isn't he, Grid? Pargeter was fingering absently a yellowing packet of Vanderlyn's letters:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Fancy keeping your old letters! What a queer thing to do!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I suppose this is...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Grid, he said, lowering his voice," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I've been wondering--don't you think it would be a good plan if I were to go and see that fortune-teller of mine, Madame d'Elphis? I don't mind telling you that I'd a shot at her yesterday evening, but...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Have you nothing new to tell?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have nothing new to tell," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I have just come from Tom Pargeter, he observed quietly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I can't help being sorry for him. The police have been worrying him, and--and at their suggestion we have been seeking among her things--among her correspondence--for some clue. B...