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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Out of the red earth The sword of sharpness; Blue as the moonlight, Bright as the lightning." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Arising, falling, The sword of sharpness, Weapon of Godhead, Baffles the Devil." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I wonder what sweet name he carries. I wonder who was his mother. She must have been a happy woman. I wonder who will be his happy wife." }, { "from...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, father! she cried." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am so glad you have come! I have been so lonely." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Lonely, little eagle?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I never knew what it was to be lonely before. You and I and the sword, and our songs, and the holy men, and the trees and the flowers and the furred and feathered woodlanders --she ran through the sum of her compan...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Strangers?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "There was one here but now, Perpetua answered," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Had I been by I would have twitched his tongue out," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, father, you could not have touched...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There will be others, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The new King--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Robert the Bad?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Where did you learn that?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "The withered fo...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ill news comes too soon, whenever it comes, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I had hoped against hope for so long. I never told you that our good King had a son, the pride and anguish of his life, the beautiful youth for whose restoration to health yonder chur...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Father, she said," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You talk as glibly as the Seven Sages, little eagle, but I will not argue with you. We must make the best of a bad world, and the best way is to shut it out." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Dear father," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hark! he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Do you hear that music?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is the King's company, Theron said, sadly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "In-doors with you, sword and singer." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The gods of Hellas Blessed it with beauty; The gods of Norland Filled it with fury." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Unhappy Syracuse! he sighed." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Evil hours are gathering about you as the vultures gather around the dead body that is cast into the Barathron. It was whispered within your walls this morning that one had died of the plague, but this proud...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I shall be brighter when the King has come and gone," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Surely this hill is as high as heaven, he complained." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Of a truth, we should wear the wings of angels for these adventures into cloud-land." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Your Majesty has all the other attributes of angelho...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Your lips drop honey, he said, lightly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But you must linger for your reward. I kiss out of court to-night." }, { "from": "human", "value": "One smile from the King's eyes is sufficing payment for his poor servants." }, {...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Who is the happiest she in all the world? she asked." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Whom does the King's pleasure consecrate to-night?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sweet creatures of prey, I will not tell you this secret, for if you knew you would make an end of her between you, and very surely I would have her live to see another sunrise. To-morrow, who knows, I may care no more, and then you may make common cause against her." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Is this the goal of our generosity?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "This is the church of St. Michael, sire. Your amiable father set it here in the tenth year of your life." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, yes, I have heard the story, Robert said, aga...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Still, he had the honor to beget me, he added." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "So you will do well not to speak lightly of him, my good Hildebrand." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Sire, you are always right, he stammered." }, { "from": "gpt", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sire, said the archbishop," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It is a pleasing piece of work, he said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Look at it, ladies fair; there be jewels here as bright as your eyes, as red as your lips. Truly, I shall be famous for my ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It would have made me a rare jewel-box," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I would have made it a casket for love-songs," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Some day, sire, she said," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How dare you speak to me of death? he screamed at her." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You she-devil, do you wish to die of scourging?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sire, she stammered, piteously," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You shall weep red tears for this, minion!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The fool! whispered Faustina to Messalinda, with a glance in the direction where Yolande sought to efface herself--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ay, retorted Messalinda," }, { "from": "human", "value": "My lord archbishop, escort this coffer into the ch...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Do you think, Hildebrand, he questioned," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I never question your Majesty's thoughts or deeds, Hildebrand answered, deferentially." }, { "from": "human", "value": "They are oracles and miracles to your slave." }, { "fro...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What do you see?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Some pagan pillars, he answered," }, { "from": "human", "value": "It is to my mind a lovelier shrine than the gaudy box we have just been gaping at, Robert said; and then went on, answering the surprise in h...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am called to Syracuse, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Bolt doors and bar windows. Make all fast and firm. Open to none till I return." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Why, who should come?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I do not know, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Open to none." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You speak as if you feared something," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Perhaps I do." }, { "from": "human", "value": "God's will ru...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Is that the headsman's weapon? 'Tis a pretty piece of steel. Can your withered sinews still wield it?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I doubt if you could do as much, younker," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Do you think because I am feathered like a bird...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hildebrand commented," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Do you accompany me?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Not I, old man. I say a prayer or two in the chapel by the side of my liege lord that I may return with a smooth soul to Syracuse. Farewell." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Was there ever a greater king than I, Hildebrand?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Never since sun-birth, Hildebrand responded, with glib emphasis." }, { "from": "human", "value": "The glory of Solomon, the sword of Cæsar, the beauty of Adonis, the lyre of ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You are a wise man. But if I have immortal merits, I have very mortal desires. This is not the first time that I have climbed to these summits." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Indeed, sire?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "My honest father, worthy man, for...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I had forgotten, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Did you do as I bade you, and bring a hunter's cloak with you?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I hid it behind yonder fallen pillar," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I woo as the hunter, not as the King," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Who is there?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Perpetua! Perpetua!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Who calls?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "A certain hunter," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You have come back?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "How could I keep away?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I dreamed that you would come back. With my eyes open and with my eyes shut, I dreamed that you would come back." }, { "from": "gpt", "v...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Would you have grieved if I had not come again?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Much, for my own sake and for yours." }, { "from": "human", "value": "For mine, too, maiden?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "ROBERT CAUGHT HER OUTSTRETCHED HANDS" ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Shall I tell you the best truth in the world? I love you." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Love is the greatest truth or the greatest lie in the world. We have met but twice. Can you love so quickly?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "When I drank the white w...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You speak with the speech of angels, Perpetua said, speaking low;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "She paused for a moment as if thoughts troubled her; then went on:" }, { "from": "human", "value": "And yet I think you say too much. All I should ask of my l...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You have never loved or you would not reason so, he argued." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Let me look into your eyes. I think you love me a little." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I have never loved, and yet I know what love might be. The spring wind sighs in these forests, and the nightingales are my friends. Though I know only of the world by hearsay, I know that men and women have done great things for love's sake, and are remembered with songs and tea...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I believe you love me a little." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I think I might love you a great deal. I will love you with all my heart if you know how to win me. I will surrender my soul to my true lord and lover when he comes." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He has come. Kiss me, Perpetua!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Wait! I am not to be won in a whirlwind. Great love is gentle love, hunter." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "When I clasp you in my arms you will forget to be so wise." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Then you shall not clasp me in your arms till I am sure of myself and you." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Child, he cried," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Stand back! she said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am not afraid of love. I am not afraid of you. But your voice is not the voice of the woods, and your eyes shine with another light. You cannot snare me so." }, { "from": "human", "value": "If you lov...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hunter, if you love me, you shall tell my father your tale and he will be your friend as he is mine, and we will marry and live and die in the woodland." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I cannot marry you, he protested." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You are the executioner's daughter." }, { "from": "human", "value": "My father is a good and honest man, but were I the child of a robber, were I a fosterling of a wolf of the woods, I am a ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Good-bye, then. I am not sorry you came, for I cherish sweet thoughts of you, but I shall be glad to see you go." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I will not lose you! he cried." }, { "from": "human", "value": "If I cannot win you as the simple hunter, I wil...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You are the King?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I AM ROBERT OF SICILY" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I am, indeed, the King." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If you are the King, what have you to do with me?" }, { "from": "human", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Go, fool, go! he shouted." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If you are crazy enough to repel greatness!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Am I mad? Shall I, Sicily, be defied by this cold Amazon? She shall burn as a witch for this; she shall burn! She has put some spell upon me, and she shall burn for my burning. I would not have her now, but she shall die in pain." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My lord!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Lycabetta! he cried;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Lycabetta, by the gods! Why is the priestess of love on these summits?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Sire, she sighed." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If I disturb your Majesty's quiet, sig...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Lycabetta, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If I know you well, you are a creature of little scruple, to whom what fools call virtue is a soundless word, and virginity but an unpierced pearl of price in the market. He paused for a moment, weighing his revenge,...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How I shall triumph over this Diana, he said, aloud, hugging his foul thought," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You called me, sire?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Speed to the city, he whispered." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "When it dusks, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I did not think the woman lived who could so wound me, he cried, aloud." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If she fawned at my feet now, I would spurn her. To deny me--me, the greatest prince in the world! There is not another woman in the world who would say me nay." ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Magnificat anima mea Dominum: et exultavit spiritus meus in Deo salutari meo." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My soul doth magnify the Lord, and my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why do these monks plague me with their croakings? he cried." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I need no help from Heaven to strengthen me against ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Fecit potentiam in brachio suo: dispersit superbos mente cordis sui." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What are the fools crooning? cried the exasperated King." }, { "from": "human", "value": "He hath showed strength with his arm; he hath scattered the proud...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Deposuit potentes de sede et exaltavit humiles." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He hath put down the mighty from their seats and exalted them of low degree." }, { "from": "human", "value": "These fools shall bray no more folly. Who shall uplift or cast dow...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Shall I, who am the glory of the world, the very flower of knighthood, believe that any power beyond those skies can cast me from my seat or save this woman from my will?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Robert of Sicily!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Heaven has been patient with your pride. But now the cup of your offence is overfull, your silver has become dross, and Heaven is weary of you. You shall be as an oak whose leaf fadeth and as a garden that hath no wate...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What a horrible dream! he muttered to himself, drawing his hand across his damp forehead." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I must have dozed in the warm air; yet I did not think I slept. The storm seemed so real, and the spirit with the flaming sword--" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That image seemed to quicken, but now it is no more than motionless bronze. I slept; I dreamed, and the lying vision has shaken me. I am wet with sweat and my knees tremble. I will go into the chapel and pray." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How is this, my lord archbishop? he cried out in a great voice--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I bade you wait within the church till I came." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Peace, fool!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Are you mad, priest?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Stand aside, fellow!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Where did the buffoon spring from?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You shall hang for this were you ten times archbishop!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Do you dare to speak thus to your King?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This is how he played the King yesterday, she said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It is ever the worst of these mountebanks, that they will harp on a dull jest." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You presume too much upon our patience, he said, sharply." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You will vex the King again." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am the King, he asserted, hotly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What ribaldry is this? I am the King!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This is dangerous sport, to tease the lion! he yelled." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Now, by my royal word--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "His Majesty is at his prayers within. You were wise to slip away ere he comes out, for the sight of you may ange...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Who says he is the King? his own voice asked. The archbishop turned to him who spoke and answered," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Sire, your fool in a most unseemly humor plagues us." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Who is this impostor? he cried, and, turning to Sigurd, he commanded," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Seize him, soldiers!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Silence, dog!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Traitors! villains! he cried, and clapped h...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Do him no hurt, said the kingly presence, gently." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He is mad, and madness needs compassion. Let him be in peace, and those of you who are pitiful may well pray for him. Let us go hence, friends." }, { "from": "human", "value"...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Remember," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "O Holy Moon, I beg a boon: Keep me healthy, Make me wealthy Very soon." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Tell us, Mistress Moon, who ask it, What you carry in your basket." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What is the matter with you?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You! you! he cried, hopefully." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Do you not know me?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Indeed I do." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ah, Heaven be praised! he sighed." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You know I am the King." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You remember, he insisted," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, yes, I remember, she murmured, touched to the heart by the trouble in his wild eyes." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But you seem sick and faint. Shall I bring you some water?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "There is a strange conspiracy against me -...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This is the place, said one; and," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Knock at the door," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What do you seek?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Are you the daughter of Theron the executioner?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I am she," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You must come with us. Your father has sent for you. He lies sick at Syr...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No, no; do not go with them. It is a trick, a lie. Advancing fiercely upon the slaves, who stared at the sudden appearance of the discredited jester, he cried out:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have changed my mind. Begone!" }, { "from": "human", "valu...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Come, maiden, come, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "There is no time to lose. Then as Robert interposed himself between the girl and the slave, the slave roared at him," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Out of the way, fool!" }, { "from": "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am the King! I am the King! I am the King!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Venus murmured with a sigh: 'Dumb Adonis, numb Adonis! Fast the golden moments fly, Love and let the world go by, Be a god before you die, Child Adonis, wild Adonis!'" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "There, you have sung enough, Lycabetta said." }, { "from": "h...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What is it, Lysidice?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Zal and Rustum, the King's Moors, wait without, Lysidice answered." }, { "from": "human", "value": "They come with a charge from the King." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What charge?" }, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What is this place? she cried aloud to emptiness." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Is there no one here?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I am here," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Where is my father?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "This is a strange place to come and cry for a father," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Is not my father here? she said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "They told me he was sick and had called f...