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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Slip off the shelf, slowly, slowly." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hold on, hold on, sir," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Bluff Castle," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Where are the hands to guide the waiting plow, To sway the lumbering oxen with a stroke, Now waiting at the bars for band and yoke?-- An exile curst as with a branded brow. The kindly walls that cannot shield him now Are black in embers that have ceased to smoke, Wrapt tenderly ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Bluff Castle," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This stone house of the Gotros is known among the Acadians as 'Pierre Logis,' and has been the home of the Pierres, as the Gotros of the direct line are known, ever since your ancestor removed our people from Grand-Pré," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Tell me, good fr...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You know how all the people were called to their church, deceived by the order which declared that it was the command of the king, and that they were to hear the wishes of the English king in regard to themselves. Expecting a settlement of all their difficulties, they were thus ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, continued Pierre," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Along my father's dykes I roam again, Among the willows by the river side, These miles of green I know from hill to tide, And every creek and river's ruddy stain. Neglected long and shunned, our dead have lain, Here where a people's dearest hope had died." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Père!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "To this girl have the generations of the Pierres come. What remains of their proud ambitions and lifelong desires dies with me. In her may begin the better life, free from those stern traditions, that may make the blood of the Got...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Many of your people who visit here, and come to the island, continued Pierre," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, said Winslow," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I have just read a book by one, a well-known Canadian writer, who most unfairly and slightingl...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Salmon! Salmon!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Silver salmon, mystery of the seas." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Salmon! Salmon!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Salmon! Salmon!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Come on, Mr. Winslow, he cried out," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Another salmon, cried Len, as he threw it." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "May you enjoy it when it is served." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I am very sorry, sir; I did not mean to make you wet." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It's all right,...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Man of hate! Man of Satan! you shall thirst. And your sons from their manhood shall thirst till your name shall die. Your breed shall be cursed with what you deny my child." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Unfortunately for Len, he has grown into a violent attachment for Marie. No Acadian would marry a victim of the water curse." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have observed evidence of his love for Marie," }, { "from": "human", "value": "They have known ea...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Evangeline," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sat by some nameless grave And thought that perhaps in its bosom he was already at rest, And she longed to slumber beside him." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It is a beautiful poem, continued Winslow," }, { "from": "human", "value": "The story of a young ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why will you not sail with me, Marie?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You are in the employ of Mr. Winslow now," }, { "from": "human", "value": "If you think I should do so, I will tell him you want to go sailing. He will not refuse it." }, { "from...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Dark was thy coming and with fire and dearth; Internal shudderings and voiceless throes; When from the burning depths thy form arose To lie all black and shapeless on the earth." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Tempe, vale of the gods, deep-couched amid woodland and woodland, All day drowsed with the sun, charm-drunken with moonlight at midnight, Walled from the world forever under a vapor of dreams,-- Hid by the shadows of dreams not found by the curious footstep, Sacred and secret fo...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I understand your meaning, Len," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Big Eddy," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, sir, are you acquainted with these tides? If so, do pray tell us how long it may be before we can pass that point which the tide reaches yonder?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "High tide will not be for an hour, said Winslow, looking at his watch as he approached ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, Grace, what shall we do? Mother will be so frightened at our absence, and you know she is not yet strong after her illness. Oh, sir, can you help us to return to our friends? We should have left here an hour ago. If we cannot get back before two hours I do not know how much ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Are you sure you can hold out, ladies?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We must! We must! cried Miss Forest, clinging to her friend as she looked down the steep way they had come." }, { "from": "human", "value": "It can be no worse than going up. Indeed, I ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now, ladies, I have helped you up so far, said Winslow, after he had examined the wall before and above them;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He spoke cheerfully." }, { "from": "human", "value": "This place is too high for me to go up without a little help...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now, ladies you must hold me against the rock when I step up on the lowest notch." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Less than three minutes will find us all above. Now, ladies, your assistance again." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now, ladies, if your skirts will not permit you to be sure in taking the steps, you had better shorten them. You will not be able to use your hands." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Miss Gaston, if you will help your friend up one step, I will be able to use this stick...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Place your foot in the first step and rest your two hands in the second. When I say 'ready,' leap up from the ground as far as you can. Try it a few times easily till you are sure of your footing." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Now, ready!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Grim warders of the everlasting crags, To whose bleak avenues the eagle steers; Holding an endless conclave of the peers, Where often Time lays down his blade and lags; Ye are of other days when roaming stags Leaped from no human voice with trembling fears; Ere came the red men ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My boatman has arrived, ladies. Shall we return and take the boat, or continue up the mountain?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We could never get down again, said Miss Forest, going as near the edge as she dared, and looking down with a shudder." }, { "from":...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Let us go, Grace," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Your assistance, Mr. Winslow," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Admirably done, Mr. Winslow, said Miss Gaston, laughing." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You surely have repented of this undertaking many times since we left the beach." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I have regretted what it has caused you, rather. You ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Are you sufficiently rested, Mr. Winslow?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Quite so, thank you," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "At last, at last!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Our meeting was a fortunate one for us, Mr. Winslow. But for you we would still be prisoners in that dreadful place, and perhaps would not have been able to get away from it till after dark. You certainly saved my peace of mind, and my mother will thank you for thus restoring he...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My poor, dear old mother!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My dear child, how anxious I have been for you, and for you, too, Grace." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You must thank our escort, Mr. Winslow, mother, for he was a friend indeed, and came along at the right moment." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I hope...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Beneath a cliff wrenched from the inner earth, All seamed and blackened in an ancient war, I saw rich crystals marking many a scar, Healed when the world was recent from its birth." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If you are still interested in mineral specimens I can recommend the part of the Basin where I have been stopping for a few weeks." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Is the variety good?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Excellent, replied Winslow," }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We have heard a great deal here about Kidd's diamond from the Blomidon folk, Mr. Winslow. How do you account for the light sometimes seen on the face of the cliff by persons on vessels? It is always at the same point above Amethyst Cove." }, { "from": "gpt", "value":...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If by any chance we should not see you at the other side, I shall expect to see you in New York when you return there." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Thank you, but do not fail to come to Pierre Island. It is well worth the effort and will repay you." }, { "f...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And then I found that Art was but a song, A pulse of life that beats away the years; For while I touched the strings that trembling died A voice came into mine and made it strong; And through the curtain of emotion-tears I saw that Love was ruling at my side." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We have been enjoying the view, and we saw your boat come in," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I observe you have found our Evangeline," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, yes, we are fast friends, replied Miss Gaston." }, { "from": "gpt", "val...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How do you do, Suzanne? My mail, I suppose. Ah! a telegram. How is my friend Pierre?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am in time to cross by the ford. My friends are expecting you as soon as you are able to come over to our hotel." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "May I ask, how long has this intimacy existed between you and Marie?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "We have...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I hope I may share with you in interest and responsibility in Marie, who has apparently bound us both to her, she said, at last." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I would not intrude myself into their lives or affect your connection with them by it, but I have found in ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If my judgment is not at fault, and I am sure Marie's friendship confirms my opinion, there could not have been a better choice made by her." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Thank you," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Pardon me, Miss Gaston, but I do not fe...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Our friends are on the beach, I observe, waiting for me at the ford. I do not think they know that you have returned," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We have been expecting you, Mr. Winslow," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I was longer on Blomidon than I ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I have received a telegram which will compel me to leave here sooner than I expected to. As the rest of my work will be done without a boat, I will pay you for the whole time I engaged you for. Is that satisfactory?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, sir," }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I have paid him off to-day, as I shall have to leave for New York in a week or so. My uncle desires my return about that time. I am sorry I shall not be able to stay with you as long as I had purposed." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I would like you to examine a vein...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Somebody has been here since the last high tide, exclaimed Pierre, examining some faint marks left in the sand," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The person went past the entrance, but I do not know whether he went in or not, as the rock shows no track there." }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Your fortune is made, sir. This is the most beautiful opal I have ever seen in the rough. I think it will prove as fine as anything that can be found in the world." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What is this? said Pierre." }, { "from": "human", "value": "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Dear Love, I am grown mad with gazing long Into thy eyes, moveless, and ever sweet; Upon thy lips that never smile and greet; That rule my soul and make my passion strong." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why should Marie, because those Americans are here, never speak to me now?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Never mind the girl, Len; you are a rich man now, and that will give you a better chance to look about for someone who will please you as much as Marie. You know...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Good day, Mr. Lawson. I have not had a chance to congratulate you upon your good luck in finding an opal mine. Have you quite given over the _Marie_?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I suppose you would want it for its name," }, { "from": "human", "value": ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If you got my boat you would change its name. That's why I would not sell her." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Grace would not take the place of Marie." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Our protégé has been the means of making us better acquainted, Mr. Winslow, said Miss Gaston, during one of their walks, after they had been arranging some plans, as usual, for Marie and Pierre." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Mrs. Forest and her daughter are pleased ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now that it is all arranged for Marie to make her home with us, I am sure that you will do your duty by her and come to see her often. It will be a guarantee that you shall not neglect your other friends, for the Forests are often with us." }, { "from": "gpt", "value...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, Mr. Winslow, she cried, in a voice full of pain," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I fear I have been terribly mistaken. And I fear I have unwittingly deceived you." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Then do not let us misunderstand each other any longer, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Pardon me if I return," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, Marie, she said, at last," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have been injuring you, and I have injured Mr. Winslow. But not for a moment did I think of all this that has occurred." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You could not injure me or him, Grace,"...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is all arranged, Grace. We go in the morning." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "To Grand-Pré?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Marie, she continued," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Along my father's dykes I roam again, Among the willows by the river-side. These miles of green I know from hill to tide And every creek and river's ruddy stain. Neglected long and shunned, our dead here lain. Here where a people's dearest hope has died, Alone of all their child...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Evangeline has returned to Grand-Pré, said Miss Forest, taking Marie's hand as she spoke," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Only to look upon her fathers' home, said Pierre, who stood near;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mr. Winslow, will you permit me to say it, I think we have united our interest in Marie. I feel that this makes a bond between us which I am sure cannot be without value to either of us. I dare to believe that I may rightfully hold this opinion. Am I right?" }, { "from":...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sweet, sorrowing, mute, unplaining maidenhood." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Marie, I am finishing my letter to Mr. Winslow. What is there from your father he would like to hear?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Père wrote to me that Len Lawson had lost a good deal of his money trying to improve the Blue Vein mine. It is not so good now, as the...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Friend Pierre, it is good to feel the air here. It will mean life and strength to me soon. But for you I would never have climbed Island Road. It seems impossible that I have lost so much." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What, Marie! Then we have both changed." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Marie, put Mr. Winslow's room to rights. We have been waiting for you." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What has become of Len's boat?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The poor fellow got into a rage one day, during a talk with me. It was in the height of summer, and the dread of the curse was breaking him down. He suddenly left me and hurried away to his boat, which was...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Strange to say, he calmed down, and burying his face in his hands, he wept, a broken-spirited man." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You think it changed him?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "He was from that moment another man. A more hopeless and afflicted...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You are late, nurse, said Winslow, as he came near her." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Your father has been able to tell me all about Len while I have been waiting for you." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Suzanne needed my help, and could not wait. I kne...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Does Marriage Hinder a Woman's Self-development?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is no use trying to dance a reel without Hadria," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Old Maggie said the other day, that Hadria's dancing of the reel was no 'right canny,'" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ah! cried Fred," }, { "from": "human", "value": "It frightened the poor old thing out of her wits, of course," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Tell us the story of the garret, Hadria," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Hadria has told it hundreds of times, and you know it as well as she does." }, { "from": "human", "value": "But I want to hear it again--about the attack upon the keep, and the shouti...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I think I had better have the candle; my notes are very illegible." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ladies and gentlemen, she began;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "(the speaker bowed to Ernest, and the audience applauded)." }, { "from": "human", "value": "My address to-night on 'Fate' is designed to contribute further ideas to this fascinating subject, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hear, hear, cried Ernest," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Wait a minute, said the lecturer." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I am going to annihilate you with your particular thunder." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Roughly, we may say that peop...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Thus, the speaker went on," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Hear, hear!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "But when the good things are gained for which the upholders have striven and perhaps given their lives, then there are no more greedy absorbers of the b...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Finally, said Hadria, smiling defiantly at her brother," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No," }, { "from": "human", "value": "There seem to me to be a thousand chances against it, Hadria continued." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Artistic power, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We shall be heard, if you don't take care," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "My dear Algitha, there are a dozen empty rooms between us and the inhabited part of the house, not to mention the fact that we are a storey above everyone except the ghosts, so I think you may ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You have the easier cause to champion, she said, when there was a momentary lull," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You will never make people believe in what _might_ have been," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I don't expect to. Hadria was standing by the w...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, it is only the moonlight that has got into my head," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But I think it matters very much whether one's task is done well or ill, she said," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I tell you, the moonlight." }, { "from": "gp...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I thought I recognised your footsteps," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Let's make a bonfire," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Come and see what visions you have conjured up, O witch!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If life is like that, she said at length, drawing a long breath," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No one, said Hadria;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Let them try," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I admit, said Ernest in response to some remark of one of his sisters," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I admit that I should not like to stay here during all the best years of my life, without prospect of widening my experience; only as a matter of fact, the world is ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You have broken in upon a most interesting discourse, said Ernest." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Hadria was really coming out." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What always bewilders me, Hadria said, bending over the balustrade among the ivy," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But all lives are not like that," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I speak only from my own narrow experience," }, { "from": "gpt", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is more than tragic; it is disgusting!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Look here, Ernest; you said just now that girls were shielded from the realities of life. Yet Mrs. Gordon was handed over by her protectors, when she was little more than a school-girl, without ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mrs. Gordon's people meant it for the best, I suppose, Ernest observed," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That is just the ghastly part of it! cried Hadria;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I don't suppose Mrs. Gordon is aware that she is so ill-used!" }, ...