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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, Captain!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Captain! he cried." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It was all wrong--all false! I threw you away an hour ago, and now--you're _life_ to me! Oh, boy, will you forgive? Can you?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "You can't do anything else but go on, boy! You'...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "They haven't gained on you, boy! he cried as he made out the distinct outlines of the point." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "They're right where they were at the start! No other horse in the world could have done it; not even you should be asked to do it--but--but--" ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He can't make it! Rhues swore." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Th' black's quittin' now! If he gits away, what chance we got? We got to git him! It'll give us th' last chance!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "We're killin' our horses," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Make it to the point, Captain! he begged." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Just there! It'll be dark! Only a little faster, boy!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We got to close in! Rhues cried." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We'll have him 'n a mile!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, Captain! You were the price!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "They're closer, Captain! he muttered grimly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The game's going against us--against you. I'm too much of a burden--too much weight." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Fifty pounds gone!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Can I do more, boy? he asked in a strained voice." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Can I do more?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, I can do more! he cried a moment later in answer to his own question." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You've g...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Gail, he murmured." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It was you--I didn't want to put--that mark--on you!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Dick Worth! Dick Worth!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Dick--it's Kelly's money belt--Rhues--he killed him-- He shot me--he's got the money--on him--he's swinging off west--two of 'em-- Their horses are--all in-- He--he shot Kelly because--I wouldn't take--a drink--he--and I need--a--drink--" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Captain! he moaned." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, boy--it was our last ride--I can never--ask you to carry me--again." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Here, VB, take this--it'll brace you up!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "To hell with that stuff! the boy screamed." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "To hell with it! To hell--_to hell!_ It belongs there! It--it killed the Captain!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Light!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You old fool! he whispered." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You old fool! Now, if he's gone--" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Come, boy," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Shall I light th' candle, Young VB?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "VB, when you left last night th' candle dropped down into th' bottle an' went out. I didn't dare light a new one to-night-- His voice broke, and he paused a moment." }, { "from": "human", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, Jed--light it, he said huskily. Then he raised his head and looked at the old man with a half smile." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Light it, Jed. Let it burn on and on, just for the sake of being bright. But we--we don't need it any more. Not for the old reason...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It's only a flesh wound; it don't matter--much. Mrs. Worth dressed it, and I'm all right. It's the Captain I want to tell about--the Captain, Jed!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But I've got to make it up to the Captain now, he said with a wild little laugh." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I've got to go on. He gave me the chance. He took me into blackness, into the test I needed, and brought me back to light. I've got to be a man, Jed--a man...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He didn't bleed, did he, VB?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No." }, { "from": "human", "value": "It ain't what you thought, sonny. It ain't bad. Give him a rest an' he'll be better'n ever. Why, he's out there now, head up, whisperin' for you! You can't br...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And you wouldn't let me help?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It was the one place you couldn't help, he muttered." }, { "from": "human", "value": "It was that sort--my love, I mean. I had to know; had to know that I wouldn't put a hateful mark on you by l...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The light!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hope--you will want to see her," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He wouldn't even ask me--wouldn't dream I wanted to--be there!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The twentieth! he muttered." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And this is--" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You know the way to the Thorpe Ranch?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Like a book!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Can you drive all night?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I can." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Good! We must be the...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Dad!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Am I on time?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I didn't--dare hope you'd want--Dad, it makes me so--" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Did you think I'd stay back there in New York and let you do all this alone? Did you think I wouldn't come on, in time if I could, and tell you how ashamed I am to have ever doubted you, my own blood, how mean a thing was that which I thought was faith?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Bless you! he finally muttered." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Bless you both. You're a man--Danny. And you--" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Come over here, you three," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He's here, VB, Jed muttered." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "To be sure, an' he's got his rope down, too. Th' iron's hot; th' corral gate's open and he's goin' to head you in. 'T ain't often you see such a pair of high-strung critters goin' in so plumb docile, Mister ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I haven't counted up yet, answered the surgeon." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Poor old thing! said the rector, as if excusing himself," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I plead guilty to the former, answered Faber," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Not altogether," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If all clergymen were as liberal as you, Mr. Bevis, there would be more danger of some of us giving in." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You don't seem to feed that horse of yours upon beans, Faber," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I don't seem, I grant, returned the doctor;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well, I must allow the less fat he has to carry the better, if you're in the way of h...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Take care, my dear sir, he said solemnly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "There may be something to believe, though you don't believe it." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I must take the chance, replied Faber." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I w...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The young fool!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Jolly old fellow! said the surgeon at his second jump." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I wonder how much he believes now of all the rot! Enough to humbug himself with--not a hair more. He has no passion for ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I wish you would look in upon Mr. Drake, sir, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am quite uneasy about him. Indeed I am sure he must be in a bad way, though he won't allow it. He's not an easy man to do any thing for, but just you let me know what _can_ be don...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why, goodness gracious! cried the draper," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Where from?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "From somewhere they say you don't believe in, doctor, answered the draper." }, { "from": "human", "value": "It's little Amanda, the minister's own darling--Naughty little dear! he continued, his round good-humore...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Here, doctor! the draper went on," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Aunty! aunty! cried the child," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ducky 'iding!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Amanda! come, dear, said Miss Drake." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "How kind of Dr. Faber to bring you home! I'm afraid you've been a naughty child again--running out into the street." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Such a g'eat 'ide! cried Amanda, heedl...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mo' 'yide!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I hope your father is pretty well, Miss Drake," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ducky, said the girl, setting down the child," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Then turning to Faber," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am sorry to say he does not se...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am much obliged to you, Mr. Faber, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Under my horse's head, like the temple between the paws of the Sphinx," }, { "from": "human", "value": "She is a fearless little damsel, said the minister, in a husky voice that ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Come now, Mr. Drake, be frank with me, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You are out of health; let me know what is the matter. Though I'm not religious, I'm not a humbug, and only speak the truth when I say I should be glad to serve you. A man must be neighbor...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You Christians, the doctor went on," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I have a passion for therapeutics, persisted the doctor;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "My yoke is easy, and my burden is light." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Doctor, you have the great gift of a kind heart," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "M...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mr. Faber, said the minister, now turning toward him, and looking him full in the face," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The cases are not parallel. Say the man merely did not believe your friend was alive, and there could be no insult to either." }, { "from": ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The fact is, at length said the memorial shadow of the dean deceased," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Mr. Wingfold is not a gentleman. It grieves me to say so of the husband of my niece, who has been to me as my own child, but the truth must be spoken. It may be diffi...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Nobody knows, continued Mrs. Ramshorn," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We old ones --Mrs. Ramshorn bridled a little: she was only fifty-seven!--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "And a pretty mess they are like to make of it!--what with infidelity and blasp...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Thank you, Mr. Drew. I perfectly understand your kindness, said Mrs. Wingfold," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Excuse the liberty, ma'am, but--but--do you think it well for a wife to hide things from her husband?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Assuredly ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I wish the doctor would come!--Them doctors!--I hope to goodness Dr. Faber wasn't out when the boy got to Glaston. Every body in this mortal universe always is out when he's wanted: that's _my_ experience. You ain't so old as me, miss. And Dr. Faber, you see, miss, he be such a ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am sorry to see you so ill, he said, as he took her wrist." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You are in pain: where?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Thank God!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Let those possessed with demons haunt the tombs, he said, as he sat down in the pulpit;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But if thou art poor, then look not on thy purse when it is empty. He who desires more than God wills him to have, is also a servant of mammon, for he trusts in what God has made, and not in God Himself. He who laments what God has taken from him, he is a servant of mammon. He w...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There! what do you say to your curate now?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He _is_ enough to set the whole parish by the ears," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I told you so, Mr. Bevis!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Only it does not follow tha...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Such buffoonery! such coarseness! such vulgarity! such indelicacy! cried Mrs. Ramshorn, while the parson was still occupied with the sherry." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Not content with talking about himself in the pulpit, he must even talk about his wife! What's ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I was in church this morning," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "So my wife tells me," }, { "from": "human", "value": "You didn't know it then? rejoined the rector, with now an almost quizzical glance, in which hovered a little doubt." }, { "from": "g...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I don't want to give up my curacy, he concluded." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Still less do I want to leave Glaston, for there are here some whom I teach and some who teach me. In all that has given ground for complaint, I have seemed to myself to be but following ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Will you not stop and take tea with us? said the curate." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "My wife will be disappointed if you do not. You have been good to her for twenty years, she says." }, { "from": "human", "value": "She makes an old man of me, returned...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He caught a slip or two" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Run, he cried," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Have you got the syringe?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am very grateful," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "How the old stamps and colors come out in the brain when one least expects it! he said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "What I meant was, _How glad I am!_" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Father!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It is a hard thing, my child, he responded, still without moving," }, { "from": "human", "value": "As you see me now, my Dorothy, my God's-gift, you would hardly believe your father was once a young and popular preac...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There's Ducky come to call us to dinner," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Dinner!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Your ponies go splendidly to-day, Helen," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why _will_ you call them _my_ ponies, Thomas? returned his wife, just sufficiently vexed to find it easy to pretend to be cross." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I don't see what good I have got by marrying you, if every thing is to be mine all the same!" }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I beg your pardon, husband," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Helen, he cried, laughing rather oddly," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Forgive me," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I can't forgive you. How can I forgive where there is positively not...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Had I not known them, I could not have imagined them lovers of God or man, though they were of both. True courtesy, that is, courtesy born of a true heart, is a most lovely, and absolutely indispensable grace--one that nobody but a Christian can thoroughly develop. God grant us ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It's rather late in the day for a fellow to wake up, ain't it, Wingfold? You see I was brought up to hate fanaticism, and that may have blinded me to something you have seen and got a hold of. I wish I could just see what it is, but I never was much of a theologian. Indeed I sus...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But, he concluded therefore," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I will take my chance of that. If you do, I will tell you of it. And if I do what you don't like, you must tell me of it. I trust neither of us will find the other incapable of understanding his neighbor's p...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Please, sir, and tell me, she said, turning and closing the door," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You are quite right, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The ring is far too valuable for you to dispose of. Bring it to my house at four o'clock, and I will get rid of it for you." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You see I am quite well now," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "When you come again, she said," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I will, he replied, without the smallest response of confusion, for he had recovered himself." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You will be careful! he added." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Indeed you must, or you will never be strong." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And of all things, he went on," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Is this a healthy place, Doctor Faber?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Decidedly, he answered." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And when you are able to walk on the heath you will fi...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am glad you have told me, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I may be of service to you, if you will permit me. I know a great many families about here." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, thank you!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You must come in at once," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You are quite unfit for any exertion yet, he said, and seated himself near her." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You must consent to be an invalid for a while. Do not be anxious. There is no fear of your finding what you want by the time you are able for it. I pledge m...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I can never repay you, Dr. Faber. No one can do the impossible." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You can repay me," }, { "from": "human", "value": "How?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "By never again thinking of obligation to me." }, { "f...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I only pay six shillings a week for my lodgings!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Do you like Tennyson?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That is a hard question to answer straight off, he replied.--He had once liked Tennyson, else he would not have answered so.--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Had you asked me if I liked _In Memoriam_ ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Be near us when we climb or fall: Ye watch, like God, the rolling hours With larger other eyes than ours, To make allowance for us all." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ah! you think of your father!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He was my friend, she said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I shall never have such love again." }, { "from": "human", "value": "All is not lost when much is lost, said the doctor, with sad comfort." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "There are spri...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What a pity such a woman should be wasted in believing lies! thought the doctor." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "How much better it would be if she would look things in the face, and resolve to live as she can, doing her best and enduring her worst, and waiting for th...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am glad to hear of your good fortune, he answered." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I can not say I see how it bears on the argument. You had in your possession more than you knew." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Does the length of its roots alter the ki...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Miss Meredith, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You have not offended me," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Hurt you then, which is worse." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "How should I have got through, she said, as if to herself, and drop...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ah! thought the doctor, as he rode slowly home," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We do not prefer. We mourn the change which yet we can not resist. We would gladly have the God of our former faith, were it possible any longer to believe in Him." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Are you sure of what you say? Do you in reality mourn over your lost fai...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Where are you going in such a hurry, father dear? she said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Wait a moment and I'll go with you." }, { "from": "human", "value": "My child, there is not a moment to lose!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I did not r...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "At your service, sir." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You don't want a chicken to-day--do you, Mr. Drake?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, thank you, Mrs. Thomson. How is your husband?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Better, I thank you sir. Good morning, sir." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Mr...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Dorothy, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We will begin this very day, said Dorothy, delighted to see her father restored to equanimity." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I will go and see after a dinner of herbs.--We shall have love with it anyhow,...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am sorry to say we must shut the window, Miss Meredith, said the doctor, rising." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You must always be jealous of the night air. It will never be friendly to you." }, { "from": "human", "value": "What enemies we have all abou...