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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What! civil words after what has now happened?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Nay, nay, say what you mean, shrieked the old woman." }, { "from": "human", "value": "If such a thing had occurred to your father he would have fallen on the strange builder wit...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This, Pontius, is really a first-rate man, said Hadrian, pointing to a tapestry hanging across the narrow end of the room." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "This hanging was copied from a fruit-piece that I painted some time since, and had executed here in mosaic. Yeste...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Great--We may well envy the young Macedonian; not the mere name of Great, for many of small worth have had it bestowed on them, but because he really earned it!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How perfectly well you know this place--and yet you never were here before." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It is one of the greatest pleasures of travelling, replied Hadrian," }, { "from": "human", "value": "To be sure I do. We hear of a thing, and when w...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well! what do you want, fellow?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, repeated Hadrian, in a tone which was anything rather than encouraging, as he relaxed his hold on the hound's collar in a somewhat suspicious manner. The slave's bent knees began to quake, and holding out his broad palm to the grey-bearded gentleman, who seemed to him hard...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Tell your master he may come in." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "This is a delicious joke! What will the Jupiter be like, when the eagle is such a bird as this!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "He may come in." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Am I standing before the new visitor to Lochias, the architect Claudius Venator of Rome?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You are--standing--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "You have met with a friendly reception to this palace. Like my fathers, who have e...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Is that dangerous dog, gnashing its teeth there, your property?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I heard of that misadventure, said Hadrian," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I beg you not to add insult to the ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Folly!--the dog shall be watched, but nothing farther." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You will chain him up, replied Keraunus, with an angry, glare," }, { "from": "human", "value": "That will be an evil attempt for the cowardly murderer! cried Hadrian." ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And am I--I too, to be hunted down by a dog, in this house? he cried defiantly, setting his left fist on his hip." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Every thing has its limits, and so has my patience with a guest who, in spite of his ripe age forgets due consideration. I...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Then the last descendant of the Ptolemies is blind! laughed the Emperor." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Rome may ignore his claims. But I will inform the Emperor how dangerous a pretender this roof yet harbors." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Denounce me...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Rely upon this, I shall complain to the Council and write to Caesar how you presume to behave to a Macedonian citizen." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A perfect monster of a man! to the last degree ridiculous, and at the same time repulsive. How his rage seethed in him, and yet could not break out fairly and thoroughly. I am always on my guard with such obstinate fools. Pay attention to my Argus, and remember, we are in Egypt,...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You touched me last night, and, when I turned my head, you would not speak. Why do you follow me like a silent ghost?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It was not, returned the lady, in a low voice," }, { "from": "human", "value": "What do you want of me? I ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You will listen to my prayer? the lady urges." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You will not be deaf to the agonised entreaty of such a broken suppliant as I am?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "O dear, dear, dear! cries Sally." }, { "from": "gpt", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Don't! Don't! You make me feel as if I was setting myself up to be good. Let me look in your pretty face again. Put your two hands in mine. Now, promise. You will never ask me anything more than the two words?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Never! Never!" }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Which is Walter Wilding?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You know which is Walter Wilding?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I know which is Walter Wilding, but it is not my place, ma'am, to tell names to visitors." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But you can show me without telling me." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I am going to pass round the tables, says the lady's interloc...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am twelve, ma'am," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Are you well and happy?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, ma'am." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "May you take these sweetmeats from my hand?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "If ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "When a man at five-and-twenty can put his hat on, and can say 'this hat covers the owner of this property and of the business which is transacted on this property,' I consider, Mr. Bintrey, that, without being boastful, he may be allowed to be deeply thankful. I don't know how i...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, said Mr. Bintrey." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes. Ha, ha!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "You like this forty-five year old port-wine?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Like it? repeated Mr. Bintrey." }, { "from": "human", "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Don't let your good feelings excite you," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, no. I won't, he returned, looking out of the towel." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I won't. I have not been confused, have I?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Not at a...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Respecting this same boarding and lodging, Young Master Wilding," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, Joey?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Speaking for myself, Young Master Wilding--and I never did speak and I never do speak for no one else--_I_ don't wa...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My mother at five-and-twenty, said Mr. Wilding to himself, as his eyes enthusiastically followed the light to the portrait's face," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I hang up here, in order that visitors may admire my mother in the bloom of her youth and beauty. My moth...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What name shall I have the pleasure of noting down? with the words," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "My name is Sarah Goldstraw. Mrs. Goldstraw. My husband has been dead many years, and we had no family." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You will excuse my asking you a few questions?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "O, surely, sir. Or I should have no business here." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Have you filled the station of housekeeper before?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "About the meals, sir? said Mrs. Goldstraw." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Have I a large, or a small, number to provide for?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "If I can carry out a certain old-fashioned plan of mine, replied Mr. Wilding," }, { "from...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Eight o'clock is my breakfast-hour, he resumed." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It is one of my virtues to be never tired of broiled bacon, and it is one of my vices to be habitually suspicious of the freshness of eggs. Mrs. Goldstraw looked back at him, still a littl...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If your tea stands too long, sir--?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If my tea stands too long, repeated the wine-merchant mechanically, his mind getting farther and farther away from his breakfast, and his eyes fixing themselves more and more inquiringly on his housek...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My late dear mother, when she was five-and-twenty." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Excuse my asking you a question which has nothing to do with me or my breakfast, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "May I inquire if you have ever occupied any other situation than the situation of housekeeper?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "O yes,...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What does this mean? asked the wine-merchant." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Stop! he cried." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Is there something else in the past time which I ought to associate with you? I remember my mother telling me of another person a...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mrs. Goldstraw, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Please to favour me, sir, by saying whether you lunch, or dine, in the middle of the day?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I don't know what I do in the middle of the day. I can't enter into my house...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mistake? he said, wildly repeating her last word." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "How do I know you are not mistaken yourself?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "There is no hope that I am mistaken, sir. I will tell you why, when you are better fit to hear i...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I have told you, she said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I was that child! he said to himself, trying helplessly to fix the idea in his mind." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I was that child!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Not very long afte...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Do you mean to say that you would have concealed this from me if you could?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I hope I should always tell the truth, sir, if I was asked, said Mrs. Goldstraw." }, { "from": "human", "value": "And I know it is better for _me_ t...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Wilding, he asked hurriedly, and yet stopping short and glancing around as if for some visible cause of his state of mind:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "My good George Vendale, returned the wine-merchant, giving his hand with an appealing look, rather as if he wante...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It was on this matter, no doubt, that you were sending for Bintrey when I came in?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It was." }, { "from": "human", "value": "He has experience and a shrewd head; I shall be anxious to know his opinion. It is bold and hazardou...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How do you do? So glad!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I beg your pardon. I didn't hear you come in." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Not at all! Sit, please." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You are well? So glad!" }, { "from": "human",...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The object of my present visit, said Vendale," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You must come together soon. He will be glad to have made your acquaintance, and I think I may predict that you will be glad to have made his. You have not been long established in London, I...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Miss Marguerite, said Obenreizer to the young lady," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I think, she answered, rising from her seat, surprised and a little confused:" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I think it is, said Obenreizer, dryly." }, { "from": ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Madame Dor, said Obenreizer, smiling," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He was saying down-stairs, Miss Obenreizer, observed Vendale," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Have you travelled so far, then?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Not so far, for I have only gone back to Switzerland each year; but I could have wished--and ind...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is that I happen to have become a partner in a House of business in London, to which Mr. Obenreizer happens this very day to be expressly recommended: and that, too, by another house of business in Switzerland, in which (as it turns out) we both have a commercial interest. He...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Miss," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Countrymen, he explained, as he attended Vendale to the door." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Poor compatriots. Grateful and attached, like dogs! Good-bye. To meet again. So glad!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "O! You are here, are you, Joey?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oughtn't it rather to go, 'O! _You're_ here, are you, Master George?' For it's my business to be here. But it ain't yourn." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Don't grumble, Joey." }, { "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "They'll be at it, he resumed, laying the wooden rod that he measured with across two casks, entering his last calculation, and straightening his back," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Regularly. I hope you don't object, Joey?" }, { "from": "human", "value":...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If Mr. Vendale should ask for me, he said," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We are obliged to be cautious, he said, when it came to his turn to speak," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You can hardly consider me a stranger, answered Wilding, simply." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I was one of your poor lost children here, in the b...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That's where Lime-Tree Lodge stood, sir, said the man," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The martyrdom of the Reverend John Harker in New Zealand. Related by a former member of his flock." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I beg your pardon," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It may lead to something yet, he thought." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "While I live, I won't part with it. When I die, my executors shall find it sealed up with my will." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No Thoroughfare, Sir, No Thoroughfare. My belief is that there is no way out of this at this time of day, and my advice is, make yourself comfortable where you are." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Mr. Wilding, No Thoroughfare. Rest and be thankful." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Being all three assembled with closed doors, said Mr. Bintrey, addressing the new partner on the occasion," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I wish to observe, before our friend (and my client) entrusts us with his further views, that I have endorsed what I understand f...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Nothing, observed Wilding," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If you feel that singing in it coming on, hinted the lawyer, with an alarmed glance," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Not at all, I thank you, said Wilding." }, { "from": "gpt", "value"...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What do you think, George, Wilding asked him next day," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I don't know, said Vendale," }, { "from": "human", "value": "He is well informed and clever," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Certainly clever." }, { "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Rise above the grovelling level country; come far away from the crowd; pursue me as I mount higher; higher, higher, melting into the azure distance; rise to my supremest height of all, and love me here!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ann Koar! repeatedly pronouncing them as if calling in a familiar manner for some lady who had distinguished herself in the orchestra. But this was his final testimony to the merits of his mates, for, the instrumental duet being performed at the first Wednesday concert, and bein...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You'll change the luck time about, Miss, said Joey, ducking again." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It's such as you in the place that can bring round the luck of the place." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Can I? Round the luck? she answered, in her pretty...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Where is my Mr. Joey, please?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Wapours, and perhaps it might have been; but whatever the cause of the effect, there the effect was, upon him. On this first occasion he had been seen to sidle along the wall, with his left hand to his left...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You have not been quite well; that's all. He looked for explanation into the faces of his people. But they would put it off with" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Glad to see you looking so much better, sir; or" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Hope you're do...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Lying here, perhaps you will not mind my calling you Sally, Mrs. Goldstraw?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It sounds more natural to me, sir, than any other name, and I like it better." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Thank you, Sally. I think, Sally, I m...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "God bless you!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "God bless you!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Don't move me, Sally, because of what I am going to say; I lie quite easily. I think my time is come, I don't know how it may appear to you, Sally, but--" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If we find a chance of tracing the lost man, we will take it. If we don't, let us meet for another consultation on the first anniversary of Wilding's death." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We shall be only four, the note said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We shall be only two, Vendale determined," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This is your first New Year's Day in England, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Will you let me help to make it like a New Year's Day at home?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I own you have pleased and flattered me. Never had she been so charming, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Vendale wondered whether the good Dor had, on this occasion, varied her domestic employment from cleaning Obenreizer's gloves to cooking Obenreizer's dinner. This at least was certain--the dishes served were, one and all, as achievements in cookery, high above the reach of the r...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am afraid there is no help for it? said Obenreizer, addressing his fellow-countryman." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am afraid we must go." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I think, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I should have like...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am so shocked, so confused, so distressed, he began." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "A misfortune has happened to one of my compatriots. He is alone, he is ignorant of your language--I and my good friend, here, have no choice but to go and help him. What can I say i...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Pray don't distress yourself, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'll wait here with the greatest pleasure till you come back." }, { "from": "human", "value": "So frank, so friendly, so English!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Don't disturb her, he whispered." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have been waiting to tell you a secret. Let me tell it now." }, { "from": "human", "value": "We have been talking, said Vendale," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Can you guess what the one Swiss impression is which I have not told you yet?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "An impression of the mountains, perhaps?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "No; a much more precious impression than that." }, { "from": "gp...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "O, Mr. Vendale, she said sadly," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "There can be but one distance between us, Marguerite--a distance of your making. My love, my darling, there is no higher rank in goodness, there is no higher rank in beauty, than yours! Come! whisper the ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Let me go! she said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He has come back!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Mon Dieu! said Madame Dor, addressing herself to the stove, and trembling violently. Vendale picked up the stockings and the ball, and huddled them all ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What! he exclaimed," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I beg you will not disturb Miss Obenreizer, he said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You have returned, I see, without your friend?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "My friend remains, and conso...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You are Miss Obenreizer's guardian, pursued Vendale." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I ask you to confer upon me the greatest of all favours--I ask you to give me her hand in marriage." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Mr. Vendale, he said," }, { "f...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Before I answer that last question, he said, after a little close consideration with himself," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I beg leave to revert for a moment to Miss Marguerite. You said something just now which seemed to imply that she returns the sentiment with w...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I have spoken to my niece, he began." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I find, Mr. Vendale, that even your influence has not entirely blinded her to the social objections to your proposal." }, { "from": "human", "value": "May I ask, returned Vendale," }, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I protest against the conditions you impose on me," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Naturally, said Obenreizer;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I dare say I should protest, myself, in your place." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Say, however, pur...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Are you satisfied with your guarantee?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am satisfied." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Charmed to hear it, I am sure. We have had our little skirmish--we have really been wonderfully clever on both sides. For the present ou...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What's the matter? asked Vendale." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Anything wrong?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I should wish to mention one thing, answered Joey." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Young Mr. Vendale, I have never set myself up f...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "WILDING AND CO." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "DEFRESNIER & CIE." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A thousand pardons, said the voice;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am afraid I disturb you." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I have called, pursued Obenreizer," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Excuse me for one moment, said Vendale;" }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "All my awkwardness, said Obenreizer." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "This dreadful news of yours startled me; I stepped back--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Don't trouble yourself, said Vendale." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The clerk will ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Come to the fire, said Vendale." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You look perished with the cold out there. I will ring for some more coals." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Marguerite will be as sorry to hear of this as I am, he said, kindly." }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Imbecile!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Will you come into the clerks' room? asked Vendale." }, { "from": "human", "value": "They have a stove there." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, no. No matter." }, { "from": "human", "value"...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Who knows? he thought." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I may have read that man's face wrongly, after all." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Go!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "They told me at Soho Square you were expected back last night, said Vendale, greeting him." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Have you done well in the country? Are you better?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "A very strange letter, answered Vendale." }, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is most annoying, he said to Obenreizer--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Say no more! returned Obenreizer." }, { "from": "human", "value": "In your place I should have done the same. My good friend, I take no offence. I thank you for your compliment. W...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We have only a few minutes, George, she said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But Madame Dor has been good to me--and we can have those few minutes alone. She threw her arms round his neck, and whispered eagerly," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Have you d...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Adieu, my charming niece! he said, turning to Marguerite next." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "En route, my friend, for Neuchatel!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Don't go!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He is Marguerite's guardian. We are on perfectly friendly terms; he is my companion of his own proposal, and can have no interested motive in sharing this undesirable journey." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If I could fling him into it!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Where shall I rob him, if I can? Where shall I murder him, if I must?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Rhine sounds to-night, he said with a smile," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If she was? said Vendale, gradually changing his attitude to a sitting one." }, { "from": "human", "value": "If she was? Why do you say 'if'?" }, { "from": "gpt", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Where shall I rob him, if I can? Where shall I murder him, if I must?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Do you lock your door at night when travelling?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Not I. I sleep too soundly." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You are so sound a sleeper? he retorted, with an admiring look." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What a b...