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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Paul! said Juliet, in a voice from whose tone it seemed as if her soul had sunk away, and was crying out of a hollow place of the earth," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Paul! she said again," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Whip me and let me die then," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You pressed me to marry you, she said:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "--here her voice rose to an agony of entreaty--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I was but a girl--hardly more than a child in knowledge--I did not know what I was doing. He was much ol...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How will you be able to sleep at night? I should be always fancying myself sliding down into it through the darkness." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, now I thank you, Paul! she said, as she hastened along." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You taught me the darkness, and made me brave to seek its refuge. Think of me sometimes, Paul. I will come back to you if I can--but no, there is no coming back, no greeting mo...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Neither do I condemn thee: go and sin no more." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Juliet, my darling! said Dorothy, her voice trembling with the love which only souls that know trouble can feel for the troubled," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I was going to drown myself. When I came in sight of the water, I fell down in a half kind of faint. All the time I lay, I felt as if some one was dragging me nearer and nearer to the pool. Then something came and drew me back--and it was you, Dorothy. But you ought to have left...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Where are you going, Dorothy?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am going to fetch your husband, dear," }, { "from": "human", "value": "No, no, no! she screamed." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You shall not. If you do, I swear I will run straigh...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You see, she said at last, for the weeping went on and on," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, no; he has cast me from him forever!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "The wretch!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, returned Juliet, suddenly calmed...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, those men! those men! said Dorothy, in a low voice of bitterness, as if she knew them and their ways well, though never had kiss of man save her father lighted on her cheek." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "she said after another pause," }, { "from": "human...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Look here, Juliet, said Dorothy:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I thought you were never ill, Dorothy," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Is it possible you do not know what I mean? returned Dorothy." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Do you never f...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I can not help thinking, if we could only get up there, Dorothy went on,--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I mean into a life of which I can at least dream--if I could but get my head and heart into the kingdom of Heaven, I should find that every thing else would come...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Juliet, she said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That is the only hope left me. You see yourself I have no choice." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You have no pity, it seems; for what then would become of him? What if he should come to himself in bitter ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There! said Dorothy." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If you should hear any sound before I come back, run in here. See what a bolt there is to the door. Mind you shut both. You can close that shutter over the window too if you like--only nobody can look in at it witho...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We'll let the fire out now, said Dorothy;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "God help me!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Would you mind, father, she said as they sat," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I mind nothing you please to do, Dorothy, he answered." }, { "from": "human", "value": "But you must not become a recluse. In your search for God, you must not forsake your neigh...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I can't find mis'ess nowhere, sir," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "They will say I murdered her, he said to himself as he rode--so little did he expect ever to see her again." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I don't care. They may prove it if they can, and hang me. I shall make no defense. It will be but a fit end to the farce of life...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "he said, and said truly," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But he won't find her alive, poor lady! I don't think," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Let God hear me, and give me my desire, and I will trust in Him. That would be to tempt the Lord his God. If a father gives his children their will instead of his, they may well turn on him again and say:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Was it then the part of a fathe...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I never saw Polwarth look _distrait_ before," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, what is it?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "There is loveliness yet left, and within thy reach: take the good, etc.; forget the nothing that has been, in the something that may yet for awhile avoid being nothing too; comfort thy heart with a fresh love: the time...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is all your lying religion!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Your behavior, Juliet, answered Dorothy, putting on the matron, and speaking with authority," }, { "from": "human", "value": "He may have begun to think more kindly of me by that time," }, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You must not expect him to get over such a shock all at once, said Dorothy." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "she continued," }, { "from": "human", "value": "And who helped me?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Helped you to run from him, Juliet!--R...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What is the matter with this bud, do you think, Miss Drake?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That you have plucked it," }, { "from": "human", "value": "No; that can not be it, he answered with a quiet smile of intelligence." }, { "from": "gpt", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I have no doubt you are right, Mr. Polwarth, she said;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Quite true, he answered." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I did not think it wise to say any thing sooner, but now I venture to ask how the poor lady does?" }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I can trust you, Miss Drake, he resumed." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If I did not, I should have at once acquainted the authorities with my suspicions; for, you will observe, you are hiding from a community a fact which it has a right to know. But I have faith eno...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Can you guess what I am doing, Mrs. Faber?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mr. Drake and I were talking, some weeks ago, about a certain curious little old-fashioned flower in my garden at the back of the lodge. He asked me if I could spare him a root of it. I told him I could spare him any thing he would like to have, but that I would gladly give him ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I don't fancy, he said, with a low, asthmatic laugh," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What a peculiar goblin it is!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I have sometimes wondered, Polwarth yet again resumed," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It would indeed," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How did you know I was here?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "How do you know that I knew, ma'am?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "You were not in the least surprised to see me," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "A man, returned the dwarf," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Miss Drake told you I was here!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, indeed, Mrs. Faber. No one told me, answered Polwarth." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I learned it for myself. I could hardly help finding it out." }, { "from": "gpt", "value...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Would you be kind enough to explain yourself?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I would at once, replied Polwarth," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I do not know that I am particularly stupid," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have heard to the co...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I trust you are satisfied, ma'am, the kobold added, after a moment's vain expectation of a word from Juliet," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am, answered Juliet, with a condescending motion of her stately neck, saying to herself in feeling if not in conscious though...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But I do not see, she went on," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Excuse me, ma'am: I can not even, by silence, seem to admit that you know any thing whatever of my principles." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh! she returned, with a smile of generous confes...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You might have asked Mr. Polwarth, Juliet, whether I had betrayed you," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Now I think of it, he did say you had not told him. But how was I to take the word of a creature like that?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Juliet, said...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What a good time of it the angels of wind and flame must have! said the curate to himself as he went to wake her." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What a delight to be embodied as a wind, or a flame, or a rushing sea!--Come, Helen, my help! Glaston wants you," }, {...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is a great comfort, said the curate, as he drank his coffee," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But is there not a great change on him since he had his money? said Helen." }, { "from": "human", "value": "He seems to me so much humbler in his carriage and s...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "To-day, said the curate," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This _is_ fun!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Very quiet fun as yet, answered the curate." }, { "from": "human", "value": "But it will get faster by and by." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Good morning, Martha! said the curate cheerily." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Rather damp--ain't it? Where's your husband?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Away looking for work, sir," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Then he won't miss you. Com...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We must take her home at once," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You said we should have fun!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Give them a warm bath together, said Helen," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Would, he said to himself," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am afraid your asthma was bad last night, uncle dear, said Ruth." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I heard your breathing every time I woke." }, { "from": "human", "value": "It was, rather, answered the little man," }, { "from": "gpt", "value":...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is not much of poetry, Ruth! he said, raising his eyes from the paper;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I think I like the older reading better--that is, without the _My_, said Polwarth:" }, { "from": "human", "value": "O Father of life, we praise Thee t...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ruth, my child, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You are heartily welcome, ma'am. I sent Ruth away that I might first assure you that you are as safe with her as with me. Sit here a moment, ma'am. You are so wet, I dare not place you nearer to the fire.--Ruth!...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I _thought_ she wasn't dead!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I saw you did not seem greatly astonished at the sight of her; but what made you think such an unlikely thing?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I saw you did not believe she was dead. That was en...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The poor lady, she heard the man-goblin say," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But how shall we make her comfortable in such a poor little house? returned Ruth." }, { "from": "human", "value": "It is the dearest place in the world to me--but how will she fee...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Your room is ready now, said Ruth, approaching her timidly, and looking up at her with her woman's childlike face on the body of a child." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Will you come?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Will you please get into bed as fast a...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "To Doctor Faber's! For the child's life!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "God bless me! cried the doctor," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He plunged into the horrible hole after her, said Dorothy." }, { "from": "human", "value": "How wicked of me to forget him for any child under the sun! He got her out all by himself, Mr. Faber...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Does he really believe me dead, Dorothy?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I do not believe there is one person in Glaston who knows what he thinks, answered Dorothy." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I have not heard of his once opening his mouth on the subj...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Look at my jacket!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Did Paul see you with my clothes on?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Will you let me see the words," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "May I ask what is your object in making this statement to me, Mr. Faber?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am conscious of none but to confess the truth, and perform any duty that may be mine in consequence of the discovery," }, { "from": "human", "value":...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No, no: what would become of my money?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh! he remarked reassuringly," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You do not quite understand me: I have a great deal of money to spend, and it ought to be spent here in England where it was made--God knows how." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You may get hel...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "When he wrote that letter, Paul Faber was already becoming not merely a man to love, but a man to revere. After a pause he added," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But what a world it would be, filled with contented men, all capable of doing the things for which they wo...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am sorry to see you so uncomfortable," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "On the contrary, I feel uncommonly well, replied the pastor." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I always measure my health by my power of thinking; and to-night my thoughts are like bird...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It was, or seemed, only a voice. But therewith, horrible to tell, the glow of another fire arose in me--an orange and red fire, and it went out from me, and withered all the faces, and the next moment there was darkness--all was black as night. But my being was still awake--only...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Your vision, he said," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Dorothy, child of my heart! things may be very different from what we have been taught, or what we may of ourselves desire; but every difference will be the step of an ascending stair--each nearer and nearer to the divine perfection which alone can satisfy the children of a God,...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Things without all remedy should be without regard: what's done is done." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No, Dorothy! she resumed, after a rather prolonged silence;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Certainly, Juliet--please God, I will." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Then promise me, if I can't get through--if I am going to die, that you will bring him to me...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But there will be a doctor, said Dorothy," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You do not imagine, Juliet, she said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have thought it all over, answered Juliet." }, { "from": "human", "value": "There are women properly qualified, and you must find one. When she says I am dying,--when she gets frighten...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Father, who through Thy Son knowest pain, and Who dost even now in Thyself feel the pain of this Thy child, help her to endure until Thou shall say it is enough, and send it from her. Let it not overmaster her patience; let it not be too much for her. What good it shall work in ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Strange! she would say to herself;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I never thought of that!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I do not know, ma'am," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Miss Drake told you nothing?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Nothing more than I knew already: that she could not deny when I put it to her." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But how did you k...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I should not have imagined you a person to trouble himself to that extent with other people's affairs," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "So far as my service can reach, the things of others are also mine," }, { "from": "human", "value": "But you could not ha...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I suppose then you have your own theory as to my reasons for seeking shelter with Miss Drake for a while?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If I have, ma'am, answered Polwarth," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Lisbeth, said her mistress," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I wish, said the curate one morning, as they sat at breakfast," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I have been feeling all the way, ma'am, as if Another was walking beside us--the same who said, 'I am with you always even to the end of the world.' He could not have meant that only for the few that were so soon to follow Him home; He must have meant it for those also who shoul...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I will take you to your room, dear." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have prepared your old quarters for you," }, { "from": "human", "value": "You know it will be safest," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I thought I was going into a dungeon, she said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I sometimes almost believe, Juliet, returned Dorothy," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How your good father will delight to watch you here sometimes, Miss Drake, said Polwarth," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Do you then think, said Dorothy," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I know so little, he answered," }, { "from": "gpt", "val...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Lord is awake all night, said Polwarth, rising," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The night is fine enough," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, said Ruth, replying to her uncle, not to Juliet;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I do; but in the...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Will you come and see me, if you die first, uncle? said Ruth, as they walked home together in the moonlight." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You will think how lonely I am without you." }, { "from": "human", "value": "If it be within the law of things, if ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You know, Miss Drake, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It is, answered Dorothy." }, { "from": "human", "value": "But I should be sorry to empty the lake altogether." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "My scheme, returned Polwarth," }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mr. Faber, he cried," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Tell my man to saddle _my_ horse, and be at the back door immediately," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I must send my man home to fetch me something; then to the nurse, and said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Go on as you are doing; then once more to Dorothy, saying," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Come with me, Miss Drake: I want writing things." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Perhaps that is what you want, sir," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Thank you, he said," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I have got some more medicines here, Miss Drake," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You had better come down stairs with me," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "How is the poor lady?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "The immediate danger is over, the doctor says, but he seems in great doubt. He has sent me away. Come with me: I want you to hav...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "She is gone! he thought with himself;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Have you no brandy?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "On that table," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Lay his head down, and fetch it." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I must open another vein," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Tut! give me a wine-glass of the stuff," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "She is asleep, sir, and breathing quietly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Thank God!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Who is to take the command now?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I shall be outside, nurse: call me if I can be useful to you,"...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Would you call Miss Drake?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "She is sleeping beautifully, but I dare not leave her. I must sit up with her to-night. Send my man to tell my assistant that I shall not be home. Could you let me have something to eat, and you take my place?...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What if this _should_ be my own Juliet! Do not time and place agree with the possibility?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "O Jesus, said the voice, as of one struggling with weariness, or one who speaks her thoughts in a dream, imagining she reads from a book, a gentle, tired voice--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "O Jesus! after all, Thou art there! They told me Thou wast dead, and gone ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "God, if Thou be anywhere, I thank Thee." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "but a Mightier than he, the Life that lighteth every man that cometh into the world, had said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "O thou enemy, destruction shall have a perpetual end; and he could not stand against the life by which he stood. When it comes to this, what ...