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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is all this incense that comes to the boy along of his singing that is spoiling him, he said to me one day." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And you, Mr. Calthorpe, are partly to blame for encouraging it. What good can all that howling and caterwauling do the lad? N...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I disown him, sir." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Tell father, sir, that I am unjustly condemned. Tell him it was a plot of my brothers, and that I would scorn to do such an action. But tell him, moreover, that after this disgrace I could never bear to show my face in the village again, and when I come out of this place I shall...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I suppose, said one of them," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I suppose he's gone to the bad." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Gone to the bad!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No, Thomas, I said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I cannot lend you that money; for, in the first place, it is your father, not you, who ought to have asked for it, if the object is to make repairs on your farm; and, in the second place, I think I am considerably po...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You remember that young choir boy of yours, Arthur Brownlow? Harrowby was remarking." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, I saw him some years ago--about ten years, I think--and he had developed then into a man of means. He had plenty of money, I was told, and was in...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The very man that is wanted!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We must apply to him at all costs for the money, I remarked." }, { "from": "human", "value": "He will never refuse to help his father, even if his brothers were traitors. One of them must go to L...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is just this, sir, said Hugh, rubbing his mouth with his sleeve preparatory to making a speech," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "These speeches are all idle, responded Mr. Saumarez testily." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I made up my mind long ago. I k...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Can it be true, they said," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No, he said;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "As the conversation continued, he mentioned two changes which had occurred in the House of Commons--one a mere matter of costume; the other of much greater significance. An American guest at the dinner-table had observed th...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, yes, he answered." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I see him now before my mind's eye, as, with a broad gleam of amusement over his face, he kept looking up at Colonel Sibthorpe, the somewhat eccentric member for Lincoln, and then jotting down something in his note...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The first in direst bigotry surpassed, The next in impudence--in both the last." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I shall not notice any of the concluding observations of the right honourable gentleman, because I am sure that the House will agree with me in thinking that they were due to --and then he added with marked emphasis--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The characteristic...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Really the right honourable gentleman sprang up with such vehemence, and spoke with such energy, that he was often glad that there was between them --and here he laid his hands on the large table at which the clerks sit and at which members take the oath, which occupies the grea...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I have, he said," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Great men have been among us; hands that penned And tongues that uttered wisdom:--better none." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Our Home Rulers," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Domestic economy consists in spending a penny to save a pound. Political econom...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Cheap and nasty" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "She looketh well to the ways of her household was said of the virtuous woman of old. In the House Economical we must most closely follow her example in its ingle-nooks. Our average cook thinks it good to use only lumps of orrell in the range, ignoring the possibilities of saving...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But insertion of a clause in our hiring lease would show them what is required in this line. To keep woollies soft and unshrunken, they must be soaked in a bath containing two parts cold to one of hot water. In this, a handful of boiled soap jelly is stirred (to a lather) and to...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A stitch in time saves nine" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "but we must remember that limbs imply mouths, and that mouths must be filled. Hence, in the House Economical, each child will have its own vineyard to keep. Helpful, willing little fingers will be trained to usefulness. Our young folk find as much pleasure in _resultful_ effort ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Common tasks require all the force of a trained intellect to bear upon them." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "One of the Greatest," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Closely Veiled," }, { "from": "human", "value": "BIP? BIP?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, I am glad to see you up, and looking well," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How dreadfully busy Mr. Bethune looks! Is it another book?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I had better go and look after the boys," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What a big girl Marjorie grows! She is quite startling sometimes. One forgets she isn't a child." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "She has grown up early--to fill my place," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, I hope not, was the cheery response." }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Duchess is the Duchess, sharply." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "She does and tolerates many things that seem to me a great pity." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Mother will know ; Charity had said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ask Mrs. ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Bring Miss Barbara, nurse," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What a remarkable apartment! Mrs. Lytchett said in her deep voice, looking round." }, { "from": "human", "value": "What alterations you have made!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I hope ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Noo f'ock," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Bip? Bip?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Bip? Bip?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What is it, Barbie?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "She means the Bishop, explained the Bishop's wife in...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Boy," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I think it is the Bethune boys on their way home from school," }, { "from": "human", "value": "It certainly sounds like them--no one else could make such a dreadful noise, Mrs. Lytchett answered." }, { "from": "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That dress will be ruined," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I daresay she is right, he thought." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But what unpleasant 'right.' I will ask Mrs. Bethune." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I thought you had come for your little girl. She came down half an hour ago with my boys, in a dress fit for a princess. I feared they had stolen her away. We have ventured to take it off, and put her into one of the boy's blouses. I really couldn't let her go and dig in such cl...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Bardedie go dig," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Settlers have spades; we shan't want any, as ours isn't diggin' ground," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It's ridic'lus to go settling wivout spades," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Less to carry, and there'll be enough, and it isn't like straight, even gr...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Me, she demanded," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How shall we get her? inquired David, pausing and looking at the baby, working so ardently." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Must she come too?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "said Sandy." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We ain't got no other gir...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Your baby likes our house, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "May she come to-morrow, and stop to tea?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We'll bring her back some time--honour bright. Don't want that nas...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is my own life I have to live. Why should I marry Mr. Warde if I don't love him?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Life isn't a fairy tale, she settled with a sigh, at the remembrance of an arresting look she could not banish." }, { "from": "human", "valu...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "When is that engagement to be announced? Is it settled yet?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What engagement?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Pelham and your friend, Charity. I never drop in of an evening but I find him there." }, { "from": "gpt", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, Marjorie, you have something to say to me? and she heard him catch his breath, and pause to recover, before he added:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Say it quickly, dear. Have you changed? Have you reconsidered?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Moth...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mother said--it is love." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And you--and you?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No, do not, she implored." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I do not know--I do not feel like that." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Nay, Marjorie, he said, and he grew rigid again in self-control;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I do not think--I do not know whether it is love, she said at last. The man winced unconsciously at the icy aloofness of the girlish voice." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But--if--you--care----" }, { "from": "human", "value": "If I care? he repeated slowl...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What's he been doin', Margie?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Seems you're struck all of a heap, Margie!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Seems you're all struck of a heap, Margie, said David now." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Has he been scolding?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Not exactly," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ain't we goin' to have any tea?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Is it tea-time?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Bell went ever so long ago." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Didn't you hear it, Margie?" }, { "from": "human", "value": ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sandy had exhorted beforehand," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ain't had a good tea--me hungry as hungry." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Me, too," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I can't think," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, dear! sighed Marjorie, her mind travelling back to all her misdemeanours." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What can it be? I hope not the cycling." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I hope it isn't true, Marjorie, what I hear?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What is that?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Three of those horrid bicycles passed me this afternoon close, whirling by at a furious pace. I had been to the Deanery, to tell Cha...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "So I asked; I could scarcely believe my eyes. That young footman was lounging near; I suppose he was waiting for the bicycles, wasting his time. And he said you have all been riding a long time." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Not so very long, Marjorie answered in ex...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I thought you knew how much the Bishop and I hated the horrid things." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I thought--he--had changed," }, { "from": "human", "value": "No; he will never change, neither shall I --in accents of certainty." }, { "from": "g...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "One for me! she had exclaimed, reading the label in delight." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "How kind of the Dean!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Who sent for it for me? Can it really be for me? Not Mr. Pelham, surely?" }, { "from": "gpt", "v...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I like to see you enjoying yourself, my dear, he answered in his kind tones." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I thought how bright and happy you both looked the other day. Only don't have any accidents." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I don't think it was ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The boys have got some scheme on, I believe, mother, she said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Dave and Sandy have been full of mystery all day, and Ross is pompous. I wish we weren't going to leave you alone to-night," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I li...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Is all girl's hair done like that? What a bover it must be, he remarked after a little time." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I _should_ like that tiny, squinchy, soft brush, Margie." }, { "from": "human", "value": "What for?" }, { "from": "gpt", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You look very nice, Margie, her mother said softly, looking at the tall, slim form, crowned by its cold pure face." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That dress is a success. Look, father." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, he said;" }, { "from": "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I saw nothing of the children. I quite forgot them. Did you see them?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Mother said --it was work-a-day" }, { "from": "human", "value": "now, not the tenderly breathed" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Alysson --" }...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Tell Mr. Pelham, please, immediate! Mr. Bethune is gone to the police--but he is to go, and Miss Bethune, at once to Mrs. Bethune. Poor lady, she is----" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What is it, nurse? she asked breathlessly." }, { "from": "human", "valu...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We shall soon find her, never fear, he said kindly--he had only heard the end of nurse's message." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I will call my servants, and be with you directly." }, { "from": "human", "value": "But many of the priests and Levites and ch...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What will my friend think when he hears of it?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Not to-morrow, nor to-morrow, nor to-morrow, but the next day. And so our Father has always begun by showing us the next day. He came to Abraham and said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Get thee out of thy country, and I will make of thee a great nation. He did not t...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Surely the Lord was in this place, and we knew it not; this was none other than the house of God." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am all right _now_. Have I not wasted time? Are there not years which the locusts have eaten? Might not this emancipation have come sooner? Why should I not always have been free? Is it any vindication of God's dealings with Job that at the end he gets back houses and brethren...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "NOT TOO LATE." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Give up the strife; Too late thou seek'st to change thy life. Another spake--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Make God thy Friend, And then 't is not too late to mend." }, { "from": "gpt", "value":...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The commercial instincts of the American nation show themselves in its very infants! they reflected amusedly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "A few years hence that twelve-year-old, grown to be a man, is likely to make Wall Street hum." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am twelve years old, ran the leading article," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "THE SUNNY HOUR." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "saying," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Here, this little thing isn't a bad idea at all! Be sure you notice it in your reviews." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "THE SUNNY HOUR." }, { "from"...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Barefoots, a library for the older ones, a reception-room for" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Barefoots, a storeroom for boots and shoes, and the editorial and publishing offices of _The Sunny Hour_. Though the help of grown-up people was always gladly received, only ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Barefoots. He also was of very tender years--or rather I should say months, for Prince Roland Bonaparte, the St. Bernard puppy, though very much larger than many of the children who took the shoes he carried to them in his mouth, was only a few months old when the mission was st...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "DEAR MR. TELLO,--Me and my little sister and the baby can't have no crismus this year 'cause our father is dying and granma is sick with perelisis and our little bruther died two weeks ago and the city had to bury him. Mother is not working 'cause the baby is too little--there's...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Jolly Jack, the assistant editor. The boy carried copies of his little paper along with him, his object being to interest everyone he met in his work, and this object was attained to such an extent that on his return he numbered among his subscribers nearly every Oriental potent...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "THE SUNNY HOUR." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Chevalier d'Apery," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I promise to give one hour each week to some good action. I will be kind to my parents, to my brothers and sisters, to the poor and the unfortunate, and to animals." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Europe Seen through a Boy's Eyes, all the profits of which went to buy shoes for the barefooted children of New York. He also, in order to get more money for his work, started a little book and stationery shop, spending a part of his time there behind the counter and a part of i...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "THE SUNNY HOUR" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The Oiled Feather," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Green Dragon," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Green Dragon," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I tell you, said old Joe Crupper, the saddler," }, { "from": "human", "value": "But I'm told, chimed in a meek little man, who frequented the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Green Dragon more for gos...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Dragon," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "(for the saddler's word had got all over the village)" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "said Dolly, exhibiting a long rent in her frock;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "said Dolly, with a leer in her eye," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I don't k...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, yes, said Dolly Strap;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, they all said," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Lady, said Dolly Strap, who was rather rude," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "They call me 'the Countess,' said the child," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "and the little man cock-a-doodle-doo'd over him tremendously at the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Green Dragon." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "through which Ireland has passed during this eventful period, the fact that this ancient society still survives is a tribute to the enthusiastic labours of its executive officers of which they may well be proud. The old-fashioned method of" }, { "from": "gpt", "value...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "DICTIONARY" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "in the new dictionary, Dr. Murray quoted from the" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Clerical Testimony to Total Abstinence, published in 1867, in which the present Bishop of Carlisle stated that a certain" }, {...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What is that to Me and thee?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You have made a mistake, my good woman. My father is a king; he does not sell, but gives." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Finding of the Saviour in the Temple." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Truth to Nature being the principle of his art, he desired to get as near as possible to the probable aspect of the scene he was attempting to depict. The Temple he had to construct for himself,...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Inventor of the Numeral Type for China." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Studies in Texts (Horace Marshall and Son) is as full of pregnant and forceful thoughts as its predecessor; whilst in" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Love to the Uttermost (Morgan and Scott) our old friend, the Rev. F. B. Meyer, has tenderly and reverently expounded t...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "on St. Paul's disastrous voyage towards Rome," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "There is many a reef of rocks which threatens a young man or woman's barque, as it is pushed off across the waters of life's ocean; and, at the close of this century, one such reef is certai...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, indeed, said Lincoln;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Quiver" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My Father worketh hitherto, and I work," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Behold, I will send My messenger, and he sha...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "God answered Job out _out of_ whirlwind. The transcriber has change this line to:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "God answered Job _out of_ the whirlwind." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I don't know, answered Diggory;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Andromeda and Perseus ; his poetic precocity; origin of" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The Flight of the Duchess" } ]