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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Where have you been dawdling, lazy-bones?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Sun hot! he retorted." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Jeanne is lazy, I think! _Mon Dieu_, that I should have married a wife who is tired by noon! I had better have left you to that...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, my Jeanne, he said, in his gibing tone," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If you please, Michel." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well, the Girondins have been beaten, my girl, and are flying all over the country. That is the news. Master Pierre is amo...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Five crowns! Ah, it is money, that is! _Mon Dieu!_ Then, with a sudden exclamation, he sprang up." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What is that?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "What is that?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What is it?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "A rat!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Where? he asked, fretfully." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Where is it? He snatched his stool, too, and at that moment a rat darted out of the straw, ran nimbly...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What is this? she said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why do you want that?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "For the rat," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why not use your stool?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Not for this rat, he...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Stand back! he said, sullenly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You may awaken him, if you please, my girl. It will not avail him. Do you not understand, fool, that he is worth five crowns? And listen! It is too late now. They are here!" }, { "from": "human", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Patience! patience! I am opening! he cried. Still keeping his face to her, he unlocked the door and called on the men to enter." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He is in the straw, M. le Mayor! he cried in a tone of triumph, his eyes still on his wife." }, { "f...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And this Girondin--is he in hiding here?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That is so, Michel answered." }, { "from": "human", "value": "But I had nothing to do with hiding him, citizen. It was my wife hid him in the straw there." }, { "from": "gpt",...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He was her lover, he muttered." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I swear it, citizens." }, { "from": "human", "value": "He lies! cried the man at the barrier, his face transfigured with rage." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I loved her, it is true...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "In the name of the law! panted the mayor." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why did you not-- Then he stopped abruptly, his mouth remaining open. He found himself surrounded by a group of grim, silent mutes, with arms in their hands, and in a twinkling it flashed into h...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Five crowns! Five crowns gone and wasted!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "HUMAN DOCUMENTS." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Book of Pity and of Death." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Old and New, afterward merged in" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Scribner's (now" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The Century ). Two of his short stories," }, { "from": "human", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is tremendously anxious work, said he," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But do the animals never attempt to escape?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We had had the greatest possible difficulty just before, too, for at Suakim the railway people had told us that we had too many wagons, and that they would not transport us any farther. However, I soon settled that by going up to the directors of the railway and demanding from t...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But one of the most alarming adventures that ever overtook me whilst I was transporting animals was that which occurred once when twelve elephants broke away from me and rushed through the streets of Vienna. The whole twelve had been deposited in a _dépôt_, where they had to res...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I was once bringing home a full-grown alligator, continued Mr. Hagenbeck, smiling at the thought of the adventure of which he was about to tell me," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What is your rule of training, Mr. Mellermann?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Kindness and coolness and firmness, he replied," }, { "from": "human", "value": "he continued," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Now you shall have some sugar, you have...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And now, said Mr. Hagenbeck," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And will the animals be arranged round the Chicago circus like this, Mr. Hagenbeck?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Everything will be exactly as you see it to-day, he replied." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Perhaps, if anything, on a bigger scale." } ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My animals love music, said Mr. Hagenbeck," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The ponies and dogs were at first dreadfully afraid of the lions and tigers, explained Mr. Hagenbeck," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Has your brother-in-law never been hurt by any of these animals?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Only once, said he," }...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ah! said Mr. Hagenbeck, as he turned to me," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Primrose with a cargo of" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "to quote from the town records of the date. During his absence of two summers and a winter, which made up the term of a Newfoundland" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And my sister Edith?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "She's married again--as they do say, and hath been so these twelve months. I don't vouch for the truth o't, though if she isn't she ought to be." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The stranger? asked Roger." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Did you see him? What manner of man was he?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I liked him not, said the other." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He seemed of that kind that hath something t...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, this is merry! I didn't expect 'ee! she said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ah, Roger--I thought it was John." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You mean the father of this?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, my husband," }, { "fro...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Of the south-west side of the greene court is a large bowling greene, with fower mounted walks about it, all walled about with a batteled wall, and sett with all sorts of fruit; and out of it into the feildes there are large walks under many tall elmes orderly planted." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And all the country north of the house, open champaign, sandy feildes, very dry and pleasant for all kindes of recreation, huntinge, and hawkinge, and profitable for tillage.... The house hath a large prospect east, south, and west, over a very large and pleasant vale ... is sea...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Od zounds! if ye modden be a stranger here in very truth, goodman. That war Sir John and his dame, and his children Elizabeth, Mary, and John." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I be from foreign parts. Sir John what d'ye call'n?" }, { "from": "human", "value...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why, you are sick, Roger! You are tired! Where have you been these many days? Why not keep me company a bit? My husband is much away. And we have hardly spoke at all of dear father and of your voyage to the New Land. Why did you go away so suddenly? There is a spare chamber at m...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Something's gone awry wi' my dear, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What is it? What's the matter?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, Jack! she cried." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have heard such a fearsome rumor--what doth it mea...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "THE EDGE OF THE FUTURE" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The Realm of Nature." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Dark Tower of the North as dauntlessly as ever their forbears wound slug-horn at gate of enchanted castle. The" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "invests the quest with elements which redeem failure from disgrace; but whoever succeeds in overcoming the difficulties that ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Vega" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "is a week longer than the one" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But how are you to come back? his reply in word and deed has always been," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I will never come back. I shall go through to the other side." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Vega" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Jeannette. The" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Jeannette (once a British gunboat, and afterward employed as the" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Pandora in attempting to repeat the north-west passage) was sent out by the proprietor of the" }, { "fr...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Fram, or" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Forward," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Fram may be nipped in the ice-floe which will carry her along, or stranded on some unknown northern land. This contingency is provided for by two large decked boats, twenty-...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Greet the Unseen with a cheer, Bid him forward, breast and back as either should be, 'Strive and thrive!' cry 'Speed--fight on, fare ever There as here!'" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Tegetthof," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Falcon," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Schwatka's Search," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ice Pack and Tundra," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The importance of a redetermination of the geographical position of the North Magnetic Pole, said Professor Mendenhall, in a letter to the Secretary of the Treasury written at that time," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We are living in an epoch in the world's history when man is struggling for a higher and more perfect life, not only against the degrading tendencies of his inherited nature, but to make the forces of nature subservient to his advancement and well being. Among these forces there...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The magnetic observations proper will comprise the measure of the three elements, the declination, the dip, and the intensity, which fully define the magnetic force at a place. The measures will be partly absolute and partly differential, and will be considered under two heads; ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Essay on La Fontaine, is, I may insert the observation, as conclusive as the last in this respect. But in order to obtain the conviction that what the critic can get to know of the environing conditions of any product, human or other, does not explain that product, one needs not...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "M. de Blowitz, correspondent of the English newspaper the 'Times,' has a villa here." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This is your first summer here?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, came last night. I am tired of Pau, and thought I could bury myself here. But there's too much world." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, but what a world it is!" }, { "from": "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Times would ever have thought of placing the author in these surroundings. The _raconteur_ of the reminiscences in" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Harper's Magazine must appeal to the American reader as a sort of bustling incarnation of the ubiquitous telegraph, unwea...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Times, and rendered himself so indispensable to Oliphant that the latter, with the quixotic temper peculiar to him, felt it, I believe, a moral duty to abdicate. This young man had already so distinguished himself at Marseilles, during Communal riots there, as to attract the att...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Times, he has been loyal above all to his own ideal. This ideal has always been to get at the most political truth possible as a condition of exerting an individual influence on European states in the interest of European peace. To me, individually, this ideal seems rather too g...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Times." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "M. de Blowitz, said he," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, I replied," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Quite so, he continued;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I agree with you, interrupted our host;" }, { "from": "human", "value": ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No, even the most ubiquitous of American reporters would admit that he may be practical enough when need be. But after all, and above all, he is an idealist, marked by a distinguished imagination and an amiable and generous sympathy. No journalistic tag is on him. He is simply a...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "JANE EYRE." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Jane Eyre" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I well remember Mr. McKee reading one of Charlotte's novels, and, in his own inimitable way, making the remark: 'She is just her Uncle Jamie over the world. Just Jamie's strong, powerful, direct way of putting a thing.'" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "My husband had e...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "C. BELL." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Jane Eyre." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Balm of Gilead, or like Bunyan's" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Pilgrim's Progress. It was neither history like Goldsmith, nor biography like Johnson, nor philosophy like Locke, nor theology like Edwards; but" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Jane Eyre" ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Jane Eyre," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hughey, he said, breaking the silence," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "and then he added:" }, { "from": "human", "value": "The child 'Jane Eyre' is your father in petticoats, and Mrs. Reed is the wicked uncle by the Boyne." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Times declared:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Freshness and originality, truth and passion, singular felicity in the description of natural scenery, and in the analyzation of human thought, enable this tale to stand boldly out from the mass." }, { "from"...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Quarterly [3] onslaught on" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Jane Eyre appeared, and all the good things that had been said were forgotten. The news travelled fast, and reached Ballynaskeagh. The neighbors, who cared little for what" }, { "from": "human", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Review" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Whoever it be, it is a person who, with great mental power, combines a total ignorance of the habits of society, a great coarseness of taste, a heathenish doctrine of religion. For if we ascribe the work to a woman at all, we hav...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Quarterly." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sea Nymph," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It had the contrary effect. Hugh thought that the combatants were too fat and lazy to fight, and he always asserted that he could have" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Quarterly," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Jane Eyre, and told them plainly he was the author's uncle, and that he had come to London to chastise the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Quarterly Review" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Quarterly Review, and casually ask the book-seller who wrote the attack on" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Jane Eyre." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Jane Eyre was a well-known mistress of Thackeray's. None of them seemed able to bear the thought of a...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Quarterly" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The article is therefore of a composite character. It was written by Miss Rigby the year before her marriage with Sir Charles Lock Eastlake, and heavily edited during the reign of Lockhart. I know it will be said that the genial Lockhart would not have added the objectionable fu...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Quarterly" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hugh Brontë, the father of Patrick, and grandfather of the famous novelists, first makes his appearance as if he had stepped out of a Brontë novel. His early experiences qualified him to take a permanent place beside the child 'Jane Eyre' at Mrs. Reed's. The treatment that embit...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I was afraid you might be startled, he exclaimed." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I was at first, and I am neither sick nor a lady. Mother, there is a young man here who will seem like one risen from the dead to you at first sight. He looks enough like Chester Mansfie...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I have thought of the same thing myself, mother, he replied." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That fellow is of Eastern origin, and he is well brought up, in spite of his efforts to conceal it. And you can't get a word out of him about his past. I've tried a dozen time...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now, that means a little, and when you put it with the company he keeps, especially Crouch, his chum, that black-looking fellow who was shooting at the target out there this morning, don't you see it grows quite interesting?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I should th...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "beyond which I had been told no white woman ever ventured. I turned to beat a hasty retreat, when I heard my name, and looking up saw Charlie Reynolds, apparently very drunk, issuing from the door of a dance saloon. One or two of his friends were smoking in the doorway." }, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, he's dead a year ago! He had one of the finest saloons in Las Vegas; he was a smart man, poor fellow! My attempts to interest my table companions in a description of the Chautauqua and its purpose, and the mission of the W. C. T. U., and their painful efforts to be politely ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Chili Colorade, and a crowd of rancheros from another direction swarmed into the plaza. The town was full of excitement and whiskey; the tinkle of the dance saloons came up from all quarters; the rancheros, with their red shirts and broad hats, galloped their tough mustangs madl...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why, it's Charlie Reynolds, poor fellow! I guess he's about killed--some row, I suppose; didn't wait to find out. The doctor is attending to him now." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He is pretty badly hurt, but I think he will pull through. I don't suppose it makes any particular difference to him or anybody else, whether he does or not!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why not?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Why, because he will onl...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mrs. Spencer, I cannot think how you come to be here. Was I much hurt?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, you were pretty badly hurt, but you will soon be all right now if you keep quiet. Don't move your head. I will wash your hands now." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mrs. Spencer, has anything happened at home that you have come to me, and not mother? I had a letter from mother yesterday, and all were well. Was the accident very fatal?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I think you had better not talk any more. The doctor says you must be kept quiet." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I will be quiet; but you must tell me one or two things. Are they all well at home--Lucia, and mother and the girls? and how many were hurt in the acciden...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How can she leave her baby? She would have been with me but for that three months old baby." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My love, my love!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The French?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Dear Sir: Yours of the 15th instant received and contents--" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sorry to be late," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Doubtless the roads," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Roads! said the other." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Mud-holes. No, we left Washington later than I intended. Well, have you got the house for me?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, thank ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Never before, exclaimed the real estate agent, in a magnificent peroration," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ah, said Crane with a smile," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I believe you there." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Never been offered for...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Won't you give me the benefit of your advice, Mrs. Falkener, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The agent has some servants for me. The wages and everything like that have all been arranged, but would you mind just looking them over for me and telling me what yo...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And you are the cook?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, ma'am." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What is your name?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Jane, and Reed, with equal conviction, said" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ellen." }, { "from": "human", "value": "My name is Jane-Ellen...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I should like to see your references, Jane-Ellen." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, I'm sure that will be all right, Mrs. Falkener," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And who, she asked, turning to Reed," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why, no, answered Reed." }, { "from": "human", "value": "No, as I told you, Mrs. Revelly is in Madeira with her husband. This is one of the Miss Revellys." }, { "from": "gpt", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'm sure it will be all right. It must be a trifle annoying to be looked over like this." }, { "from": "human", "value": "The best way to settle this sort of thing is at the start," }, { "from": "gpt", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, Lily, continued the elder lady, as if she made a distinct concession in making use of such a name at all in addressing a servant," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Madame." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well, then, said Mrs. Falkener, becoming more c...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I, ma'am, he said, with a strong cockney accent," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He's very good at doing boots," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Boots, cried the boy, and kissing his hand he waved it in the air with a gesture we have been accustomed to thi...