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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What did you want to do that for?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I wanted to please Jesus too, mother, and Mr. Holbrook said if I did things to help you, and that you would like, _He_ would be glad---Jesus would, you know. A little silence, and then:" }, { "f...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Good-night, mother," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Good-night;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And all thy children shall be taught of the Lord." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Father, said Tip, as, after having carefully measured out and given him some cough-drops, he sat down for a chat with him before school,--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Ye...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mr. Holbrook, can I ask you a question?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If a man should tell you he thought it would be mean in him to turn around and go to serving God, after he had found out he had but a little while to live, when he had cheated Him out of all the r...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Let him that thinketh he standeth, take heed lest he fall." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Here Tip! said Howard Minturn;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Very likely, answered Mr. Burrows, smiling;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I say we're re...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Thomas Jones and" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Edward Lewis." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Hallo, Tip! Howard Minturn had said to him at recess;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I presume you are tired of this, gentlemen, and, as our examinations are confined to the lessons, I think it will hardly pay to go further, for Edward has not missed since the second week in the term." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Edward, don't get excited. Look at your remainder closely; take the first figures of divisor and remainder--nine in thirty-one, how many times? That will help you." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Seven," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Seven times!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It was too bad, Tip, Howard Minturn said, in a tone of honest sympathy." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You'd have had it in a minute more." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'd have had it if it had not been for Ellis Holbrook, and he's a mean scamp!" },...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What does he mean, Ellis?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You'll have to ask him if you want to find out, said Ellis haughtily." }, { "from": "human", "value": "He knows better than anybody else what he means, I guess." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Poor little fellow, missed his lesson, so he did. Don't him cry; him shall have a penny to buy a multiplication-table with." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Hold your tongue!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "began Bob again;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Bob Turner, if you say another word, I'll knock you down and thrash you within an inch of your life. I will" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There's your wonderful boy, he said," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Unto Thee, O God, do we give thanks --No, not that, and he turned back a couple of leaves." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Make a joyful noise --No, no! he didn't want to hear anything about joy; his heart was as heavy as lead. So he turned over several leaves at once...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Our Father which art in heaven, slowly reverently, through the sweet petition, until he came to" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "--There he stopped. He understood that prayer; they had been taking it up in Sunday school, a sentence at a time, and talking about it, and ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Kitty, he said, putting his head in at the kitchen door," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'm going, after all; come on." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Edward, Mrs. Holbrook has some little business to transact' with Kitty to-night; shall I walk with you? And, as Tip saw there was no help for it, and walked by his side, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I didn't see you at school this afternoon: how was that?"...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hadn't you better wait until noon, and I can detain the scholars a few moments?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, said Tip, shaking his head, and speaking earnestly;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'm afraid, if I wait till noon, I shan't do it at all....
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Boys, what God has forgiven, I feel sure that no scholar of mine will be mean enough ever to mention again." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Tip, he said, speaking gravely, yet very coldly," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why didn't you say so yesterday?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Because you didn't give me a chance, Ellis answered coolly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'm no...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mr. Burrows, if there is time, I should like to say a few words to the scholars. Boys, you were all listeners to Edward Lewis's examination yesterday, and I presume you know better than I do how hard he has worked. Now, I think any one who watched him yesterday could not have fa...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well done, said Mr. Holbrook" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Now it only remains to get your teacher's consent to our plan." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You may come forward, Edward. I will dictate the example; which one is it?" }, { "from": "g...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My son, said Mr. Holbrook, not long after, laying his hand kindly on Ellis's shoulder, as he was hurrying from the room," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I think it is honest, sir, Ellis answered quickly." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Excuse me, father, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'm in a great hurry, Mr. Minturn, he said;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I've got a piece of meat for your folks in my basket, and I expect they want it." }, { "from": "human", "value": "They'll have to wait till they get it, answered Mr. Minturn;" },...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Such a boy as that ought to be helped; and I'm ready to help him." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, he said decidedly;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'm going to keep on at school, that's certain. Thank you all the same." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Tip, if you've a cent in the world, do take it, and go and get your father some of that cough-candy. I do believe he hasn't stopped coughing since supper." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "When is your brother going home?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Next Monday." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well, I'm going to talk to father, and I think likely I'll want to go along with him." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "All right." } ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Who shall roll away the stone?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That's true,--I don't believe any man but Mr. Holbrook would ever have thought of it: they worried at a great rate about that stone, how they would get it rolled away, and when they got there it was gone. I'll remember that. I'll do just as he said: when I see a stone ahead of m...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mother, said little Alice Minturn," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Because, Alice, your father wants to help him in every way; your uncle Minturn thinks he is an unusually good, smart boy." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I think so too," }, { "fro...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mr. Lewis," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I pity you, old fellow," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I don't know for what," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Why, Mr. Minturn's pink of a perfect and wonderful and altogether amazing son Ray has just got home from the University; saw him pass the store ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I know what kind of a fellow he is, he muttered to himself;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Edward, Ray has come! Come over here and see him." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Go ahead," }, { "from": "human", "value": "How do you do, Edward? Alice has been making me acquainted with you this afternoon, so you're not a stranger." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How am I to get in to-night? Here's my night-key in two pieces." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'll be night-key, sir," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well, you may; you can take your books to the library, and have a long evening to pore over them." },...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What are you studying?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Fractions," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Do you have any trouble?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, lots, speaking a little crossly, for he wanted to go on with his work;" }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Tip" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "DEER TIP,--Mother's dead, I feel bad, you kno that, so what's the use? I've got to go to work. I like you better than any of the other felows, always did. Can't I com out there to your store and work, I'll behave myself reel wel; I _will_, honour bright, if you'll git me a place...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Let me see, he said;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Come in." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well, sir, what is it?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Have you time for a little piece of business?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Alwa...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My dear boy, I have a most precious message for you. I was with him only an hour before he died, and at that time he said to me, 'I want you to tell Tip that God has heard his prayer, and saved his father; and that I shall watch for him to come to heaven, and bring all the rest....
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, Mr. Minturn said, when he was told," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Because, sir, my father died very suddenly, and my mother thought I could not afford to come so far for the funeral." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Afford! as if that would have made...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I shall always be sorry that I could not have gone to the funeral." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No you won't, my dear fellow; when you get up there, in the glory of the Redeemer's presence, and meet your father face to face, you will not remember to be sorry that y...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Tip; that name belonged to the miserable, ragged, friendless, hopeless boy who used to wander around the streets in search of mischief, not to the young man who was a faithful clerk in one of the finest stores in Albany, besides being a teacher in Sabbath school, and a very fair...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I wish that fellow knew anything," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What is the matter now?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well, I can't help feeling vexed; Bob screeches that hateful little name after me wherever I go. I despise that name, and I wish he c...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I wish, Bob said to Ray one evening when the weary head was full of pain,--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I _do_ wish I could do something for you." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You can, Ray answered quickly,--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value"...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Blessed Redeemer, here is a soul given up to Thee. Do Thou take it, and wash it in Thy precious blood, and make it fit for heaven. We ask boldly, because Thou hast promised, and we know that Thy promises are sure." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Edward, Ray said the n...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ray, said Edward anxiously," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, answered Ray, smiling, however, as he spoke;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I think I am not, because I want to talk instead. I am full of a scheme which needs your help; for once we'll let ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, Tip, --Bob had never learned not to say Tip, and probably never would, but Edward had long since forgotten to care,--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? By taking heed thereto, according to Thy word." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The eastern train is in, Kitty said finally" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Now, if he comes to-night, he'll be here in three minutes." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, Tip! and throw her arms right around his neck. Instead, she stood still. Some way, in spite of the long letters which had passed between them during these years, Kitty had fully expected to see a stout, tanned boy, in a strong, coarse suit of grey, with thick boots and a new...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hallo, Tip! but instead, he came around from behind the counter, and, holding out his hand, said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "How do you do, Lewis? Glad to see you. Something, either in the city-made clothes or the quiet air of dignity with which they were worn, m...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I remember that it has puzzled some forty or more of my boys in the course of time, said Mr. Burrows, laughing;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I do; it was the cause of my first promotion." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Was it, indeed! I'm afraid it wil...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Thank you heartily, he said afterwards." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You ought to fit yourself for teaching. But, Edward, you did not get through algebra alone?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "No, said Edward, flushing at the thought of Ray;" }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And so, he said, after the long talk was concluded," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Next Tuesday, sir." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well, God bless you, my friend, as He has, and will. Then, after a minute," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ed...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There goes one of the finest and most promising young men in this town." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, answered Mr. Dewey, laughing a little;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I used to notice that he improved every day after he brought back those cir...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "BOB TURNER." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Kitty, where is Howard?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "At home, coaxing a fit of sick headache." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well, here are letters that will interest you both,--came last evening; one contains an invitation. Tell Howard I think we mus...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is time now for your verse. If any of you can find out why what I have been telling you to-day made me think of this verse, you may tell me next Sabbath. Now repeat,--'Cast thy bread upon the waters, for thou shalt find it after many days.'" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "PISISTRATUS CAXTON" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Grand Melodramatic Performance of The Remorseless Baron and the Bandit's Child." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Found in the act, sentenced, punished, cried he, snatching a kiss, and receiving a gentle slap." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And now, good for evil, here's a ribbon for you; choose." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Dr. Franklin tells us that once in his...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Lasses, said the elder, turning sharply upon them his nose in the air," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oho, Lionel! quoth the elder friend;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Thespian and classical,--worth seeing, no doubt. Then turning to a grave cobbler in leathern apron, who was regarding with saturnine interest the motley figures ranged in front of the curtain as the ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You see, sir, quoth the Cobbler," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You are a keen observer, said he of the jean cap, admiringly;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Course it is; and the stars have summat to do with it; for if they order a man's calling, it sta...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Very dear, murmured Vance, as he carefully buttoned the pocket to which he restored a purse woven from links of steel, after the fashion of chain mail. Ah, Messieurs and Confreres the Dramatic Authors, do not flatter yourselves that we are about to give you a complacent triumph ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Miss Juliet Araminta Wife, and the incidents consisted in her various devices to foil the pursuit of the Baron and save her father. Some of these incidents were indebted to the Comic Muse, and kept the audience in a broad laugh. Her arch playfulness here was exquisite. With what...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sir, allow me to congratulate you; your bow was admirable. I have never seen John Kemble; before my time: but I shall fancy I have seen him now,--seen him on the night of his retirement from the stage. As to your grandchild, Miss Juliet Araminta, she is a perfect chrysolite." ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What on earth are you thinking of, Lionel? I have put to you three questions, and you have not answered one." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Vance, answered Lionel, slowly," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Precocious villain! how do you know that she is gr...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, master, did not she act fine?--how d'ye like her?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Not much in her natural character; but she sets a mighty high value on herself." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Anan, I don't take you." }, { "from": "gpt", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Poor little thing! he said at last, and still more pathetically than he had uttered the same words at her appearance in front of the stage;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, cried Lionel, joyfully," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I am so glad to think t...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Young master, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Cos of Saturn!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Satan?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Saturn,--dead agin his Second and Tenth House, I'll s...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Supper and lights in the arbour, cried Vance to the waiting-maid," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "After all, said he," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am glad I am a painter; and I hope I may live to be a great one." }, { "from": "human", "value": "No doubt, if you live, you will be a great one, cried Lionel, with cordial sincerity." }, { "fro...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And faith, said the Artist, gayly,--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "said he, lighting his third cigar," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Nay, I see nothing so wonderful in the story, though much that is sad. You must allow that Waife may have been a good a...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Astrology, Owen Feltham's" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Resolves, Glanville" }, { "from": "human", "value": "On Witches, the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Pilgrim's Progress, an early edition of" }, { "from": "human", "value": "P...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Come, Grandy, come, said the little girl, coaxingly;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, Grandy!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Don't talk so, or I shall think you are sorry to have taken care of me." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Care of the...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, said Sophy," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I will tell you, Grandy, what would make it nice: no one would vex and affront you,--we should be all by ourselves; and then, instead of those nasty lamps and those dreadful painted creatures, we could go out and play ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What, softer than woman?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "May I come in? asked the Cobbler, outside the door." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Certainly come in," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Will they not come? she whispered." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I hope so, pretty one; it be n't ten yet."...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "--only /ars est celare artem/, conceal the art. Gleesome in soul to behold his visitors, calculating already on the three pounds to be extracted from them, seeing in that hope the crisis in his own checkered existence, Mr. Waife rose from his seat in superb /upocrisia/ or stage-...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You must be aware why we come, sir; Mr. Merle will have explained. My friend, a distinguished artist, wished to make a sketch, if you do not object, of this young lady's very" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Pretty little face, quoth Vance, taking up the dis course." ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is I who am to take the portrait, and it is I who will pay for it, said Vance." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I understand that you have a pressing occasion for" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Three pounds! muttered Sophy, sturdily, through the tears ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Merle, Merle!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We don't go to-morrow. When Rugge sends for us (as he will do at daybreak), say so. You shall lodge us a few days longer, and then--and then--my little Sophy, kiss me, kiss me! You are saved at least from those horrid pain...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Heaven bless him!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ho, ho, said Mr. Rugge, in hissing accents which had often thrilled the threepenny gallery with anticipative horror." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Rebellious, eh?--won't come? Where's your grandfather, baggage?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Your vile ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Civil words to my lodgers, master, or out you go!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have something to say to you; shall I say it before your landlord?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Leave us, my friend; I shall not require you. Step this way, Mr. Rugge."...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Am I to understand, said Mr. Rugge, in a whisper, when Waife had drawn him to the farthest end of the inner room, with the bed-curtains between their position and the door, deadening the sound of their voices,--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Mr. Rugge, replied Waife...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Bravo! said he, involuntarily." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Come, come, Waife, look at her: she was born for the stage. My heart swells with pride. She is my property, morally speaking; make her so legally; and hark, in your ear, fifty pounds. Take me in the humour...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We are free! thanks to you, thanks to you both! He is gone! Mr. Rugge is gone!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "So I saw on passing the green; stage and all," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Pray, sir, asked Sophy, timidly, glancing to Vance," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I fancy so--all the shows were either gone or going." }, { "from": "human", "value": "The Calf with Two Heads?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Do you regret it?"...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The loose train of her amber-dropping hair," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Come, come, said Vance, impatiently," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am so sorry--I beg pardon. Will that do, sir?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Head a little more to the right,--so, Titania watching Bottom asleep. Will you lie on the floor, Lionel, a...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Just so, said Vance;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You May get up, Lionel; I have done with you for the present." }, { "from": "human", "value": "And me too--may I see?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, but you may talk now. So you had a dol...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Don't do her justice at all, quoth Lionel;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And you pretend to paint! returned Vance, in great scorn, and throwing a cloth over his canvas." }, { "from": "human", "value": "To-morrow, Mr. Waife, the same hour. Now, Lionel, ge...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He has been admitted there, not inhabited it." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You must have taken to the stage young?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The stage! said Waife;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Is it possible,--with your excellent education! But pardon me; I have hinted my surprise at your late vocation before, and it di...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Heaven bless you both! answered Waife;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'd rather stay with you, Grandy: you'll be so lone." }, { "from": "human", "value": "No, I wish to be out all to-morrow,-the investment! I shall not be alone; making friends with our f...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Am I like that! is it possible? Oh, how beautiful! Mr. Merle, Mr. Merle, Mr. Merle!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You must have Mercury and Venus very strongly aspected, quoth the Cobbler;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "After I am dead!--sinister omen! said Vance, discomposed." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I have no faith in artists who count on being talked of af...