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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I should hope very soon," }, { "from": "human", "value": "How soon can one get married? There have to be banns and so on, don't there? The third time of asking--that brings it to the eighteenth of December. Wh...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The insufferable vulgarity of this class of person on this subject is really the limit," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "They're awfully kind, aren't they," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I suppose you know your own business, Peter. But I must confess I am...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He won't come back, said Rhoda in Peter's ear when he had gone." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He's gone for good." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now I'm going to forget all about him and be happy, she whispered." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He's not going to be part of my life any more at all. How queer that seems!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Some of the beautiful things are true after all, I do believe; and he smiled at her and said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Of course they are." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Snuggery, that's what we call it at fifty-one," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Whatever is to become of us, dear only knows! What with Larry drinking pints of cough-syrup, and Micky rolling in the gutter in his best suit, and Norah, the creature, letting the crock...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But I like them," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You like to see me put to shame, I suppose, said Rhoda, with tears in her eyes." }, { "from": "human", "value": "As if it was _my_ fault that my parents came of common people. I've cried myself sick over it ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I suppose he's very clever," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You don't see anything of your friends the Urquharts now, do you?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, said Peter, who was stroking the kitten's fur the wrong way, to bring sparks out of it before the gas was lit." }, { "from": "human", "value": "They've be...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It's all very well, Peter, but you do care for her a lot, you know you do." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But of course I do, said Peter, laying his cheek against her knee." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You don't _mind_, Rhoda, do you?" }, { "f...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How is Denis? and Lucy answered" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Very well, of course. And very busy playing at being a real member. Isn't it fun? Oh, he sent you his love. And you're to come and see us soon." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You must come a...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Don't be _silly_, Peter, she told him; then," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "; but he only smiled at her and said," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Some day, perhaps." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Honey sandwiches, if you come at tea-time, she...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I feel so stranded now, Peter; cut off from what was my life; from what really is my life, you know. Father and Felicity and I were so disreputable always, and as long as I had father I could be disreputable too, whenever I felt I couldn't bear being prosperous. I had only to go...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Don't you like large houses?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why, no. No, I don't believe I do," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We shall miss you," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And me you," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Peter'll miss you dreadfully," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Only, said Lucy," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Peter, said Rhoda," }, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Please, little Rhoda, not to cry. Please, little Rhoda, tell me." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'm a silly. I suppose I'm crying because I can't feel to care about anything in the world, and I wish I could. What's the use of a baby if you can't love it? What's the u...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Like me? Peter wondered dubiously." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, I know I'm not handsome, but..." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You'd think, from the way of her, that it was her thirteenth instead of her first, she complained to Hilary." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I've no patience with the silly, mooning child. She's nothing like good enough for Peter, and that's a fact, and she'd have a r...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Divine Reflections on the Native Objects of an Infant-Eye," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "New burnisht Joys! Which finest Gold and Pearl excell!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oo," }, { "from": "human", "value": "A Stranger here, [Peter told him further, Strange things doth meet, strange Glory see; Strange Treasures lodg'd in this fair World a...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Rather, he has. I do hope he'll never drop out. I'm getting very handy about holding him, though. Oh, let's take him upstairs and tub him now; do you mind?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I've had tea out.... Oh, have you bathed baby? How good of you. I meant to be in earlier, but I was late.... The fog's awful; it's getting thicker and thicker." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Baby ought to have been yours, not mine," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh hush, hush!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Will you love him? Will you be good to him, always?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why, of course. No one could help it, co...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Just what I always feel myself, commented Peter in his own mind, as Thomas was hastily removed." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'm glad someone has shown him at last what the best people feel about him." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Rhoda." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Gently, Thomas: you'll choke. You'll choke and die, I know you will. Then you'll be gone too. Everything goes, Thomas. Everything I touch breaks; everything I try to do fails. That's because I'm such an ass, I suppose. I did think I could perhaps make one little unlucky girl dec...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It _has_ been rather a ghastly fiasco, hasn't it, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Absurd, you know, too, in a way. I thought it was all working out so nicely, Thomas coming and everything. But no. It wasn't working out nicely at all. Things don't as a rule, d...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Never you mind, Peterkin. There's a good time coming, I do believe. She'll come back, perhaps; who knows? Vyvian wouldn't do for long, not even for Rhoda. Besides, you may be sure he'll throw her off soon, and then she'll want to come back to you and Tommy. I wouldn't say that t...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And we'll have him baptized, went on Peggy, thinking of further diversions for Thomas and Peter." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You'll let him be a Catholic, Peter, won't you?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Thomas, said Peter," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Humph. You're thinner." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Am I? I suppose I'm growing old." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You're worrying. What's it about?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I've had a letter from Peggy Margerison this morning." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well? Well?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "She says, said Lucy," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I somehow thought that would be what she said, Denis murmured, still half preoccupied." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'm sure she's right." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "A woman who writes...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Margerison family wants money, I understand," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Very badly, Denis." }, { "from": "human", "value": "They always do, of course.... Well, is it our business to fill the bottomless Margerison purse?" }, { "from": "gpt"...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Peter never comes here, Lucy, does he. If he wanted to see me, I suppose he would." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, it's not the bother, of course. But ... but I really don't see anything to be gained by it, that's the fact.... Our meetings, on the last few occasio...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You're right, Denis; you're utterly right, not to have anything to do with those swindlers," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "False through and through, he muttered." }, { "from": "human", "value": "False through and through." }, { "from": "gpt", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I fancy it is going to be influenza, he observed at intervals, shivering." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I feel extraordinarily weak, and ache all up my back. I fancy I have a high temperature, only Peter has broken the thermometer. You were a hundred and four, I thi...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There's a taxi coming up the street, and Peggy placed Thomas on Peter's knees and came to the window to look. When she had looked she said to Peter," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It must be nearly six o'clock (the clock gained seventeen minutes a day, so that the ti...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Is Mr. Peter Margerison in?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He is not, Lord Evelyn, said Peggy, hastily." }, { "from": "human", "value": "That is, he is busy with the baby upstairs. Will I take him a message?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I sh...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Lord Evelyn Urquhart come to see Peter, called Peggy into the room." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Come along out of that, children, and keep yourselves quiet somewhere." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This is good of you, said Hilary," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I came to see your half-brother. I had not the least intention, nor the least desire, to see anyone else whatever; nor have I now." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Quite so, said Hilary, his...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I wish to talk to you," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I see that my room is preferred to my company," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Do sit down," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You're ill," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, I've only had flu, said Peter;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'm all right now." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You're ill, Lord Evelyn repeated." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Don...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "So you've come too." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Didn't expect her, of course, did you. So unlikely she'd come, after getting a letter like that.... I suppose you're wondering, Lucy, what I'm doing _dans cette galère_." }, { "from": "human", "value": "N...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What's the matter, Peter? Don't ... don't look like that.... Oh, you're ill; do sit down; it's so stupid to stand about." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Do you mind going away, both of you. I don't think I want to talk to either of you to-day.... I suppose you've brou...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Come home, Lucy. He's told us he'll have none of us." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Please go, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Please go." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Peter...." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, Peter? Well?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "My dear boy, what on earth is the matter?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, my dears! What a mood they're in! Lord Evelyn looked at me to destroy me--and Lucy crying as if she'd never stop; I tried to m...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What did they talk about, Peter? A funny thing their coming within half an hour of each other like that, wasn't it. And I never thought to see Lord Evelyn here, I must say. Now I wonder why was Lucy crying and he so cross?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Once for all,...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, Peter darling, you haven't been refusing money, when you know you and Tommy and all of us need it so much?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Peter has no regard whatever for what we all need. He simply doesn't care. I suppose now we shall never be able to afford eve...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Peter, said Hilary," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "he looked bitterly round the unkempt room--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh don't be an ass, Hilary," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "This is the last time; the very last time. Never again d...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, he commented," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I suppose one must do something else, eventually. But I shall put off reflecting on that till I can move about more easily." }, { "from": "human", "value": "We are being hounded out of London as we were h...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I can probably find a job of some sort to keep us. I might with luck get a place as shop-walker. That always looks a glorious life. You merely walk about and say, 'Yes, madam? This way for hose, madam.' Something to live on and nothing to do, as the poet says. But I expect they ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Are they too modest for you, Thomas? Peter asked dubiously." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And do you too much hate the Girl?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Boo" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'm sorry, Peter apologised," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ugh, said Thomas, making a face, and Peter answered," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, I know; sometimes they come upon an onion-flower and eat that, and that's not nice, of course. But mostly it's grass and buttercups and clover. Then he told him of hot July roads...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And then, when you've lost everything, and perhaps been involved in some of my disgraces, you'll think that at least you and I can stick together and go under together and help each other a little. And I daresay you'll find that I shall say, 'No, I'm going off to Ireland, or Ita...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Anyhow, here's something for us to go on with." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Grace Sufficient worked in crewels. So he went into a shop in Holborn and chose some paintings, and ordered them to be sent up, and said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Please enter them to me," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I have been getting some new pictures, you see," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Hurrah! The first time I've been really comfortable since I left Cambridge." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That's more the style, isn't it, old man?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What next? Peter wondered." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We must have more things still, mustn't we? Nice things of all sorts; not only the ones we can buy. But we must begin with the ones we can buy.... Mrs. Baker will have to wait for her rent for a time; I can't ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But I don't want to excite you so late at night, said Peter," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Do you like it, old man? Do you?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, Lucy, Thomas and I have come." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We've come to see you and Denis. You won't come to see us, so we had to take it into our own hands. We decided, Thomas and I, two days ago, that we weren't going on any longer in this absurd way. We're going to have a good time. So we went out and got things--lots of lovely thin...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No, Lucy whispered." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I didn't come ... I kept away." }, { "from": "human", "value": "But now you will. Now I may come to you. Oh, I know why you kept away. You thought it would be less hard for me if I didn't see you. But don...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, Lucy, let's. Why not? I told Thomas the day before yesterday that we were going to have a good time now. Well, then, let's have it. Who's to prevent it? It's our turn; it's our turn. We'll begin from now and take things and keep them.... Oh, d'you mean it, Lucy? D'you mean y...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Denis will never see us again." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "In future, she said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I shall take over that job." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I wonder, murmured Peter," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, anything that's nice. But I've got a little, you know. Father hadn't ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Is he yours? and was told," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Mine! No, 'e ain't. 'E's been follerin' us for miles, and the more I kick 'im the more 'e follers. Wish someone'd pison 'im. I'm sick of 'im. His wife, who had the weary, hopeless, utterly resigned face of som...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Will you be our dog? said Peter to him." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Will you come walking with us in future, and have a little bit of whatever we get? And shall we call you San Francesco, because you like disreputable people and love your brother, the sun, and kee...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It isn't that I'm not satisfied, you know, he added, fearing to hurt her," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "About the rent, she began," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, I'll pay you the rent and the bills before I go. I promise I will. But I can't pay much else, you know, Mrs. Baker. So when people come to dun me, tell them I've gone no one knows where. I'm awfully sorry ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What on earth, said Rodney, lighting his pipe and sitting down," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The stupid things aren't paid for. So I'm packing them up to be sent back directly the shops open again. I can't afford them, you see. Already most of my belongings are in ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A sudden attack of honesty, Rodney commented." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, I'm glad, because I don't see what you want to cumber yourself with all those cushions and rugs for. You're quite comfortable enough without them." }, { "from": "human", "v...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That's where we're going to-morrow, to seek our fortunes. Won't it be rather good in Italy now? We don't know what we shall do when we get there, or where we shall go; but something nice, for sure." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'm glad, said Rodney." }, { "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Good, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Good--splendid!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, it isn't really what _you_ call good. It is good, you know: _I_ think it's good; but you won't. You'll call it abominable." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I know all you'll say about it, so I'm not going to give you...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I believe I can," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We care for each other. Isn't that to count, then? We always have cared for each other. Are we to do without each other for always? We want each other, we need each other. Denis doesn't need Lucy. He never did; not as I...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "So, you see, that is an excellent reason--to you it is, I believe, the incontrovertible reason--why you should once more give up and lose, and not take. But, deeper than that, to me more insurmountable than that, is the true reason, which is simply that that very thing--to lose,...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Through this week, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You have said enough. You need not go on." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You've done your work, the flat voice said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You've taken it away--the new life we so wanted. You've shown that it can't be. You're quite right. And you're right too that nothing helps at all.... Because of Denis, I can't do this. But I ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Go away now. Peter flung out the words like another oath." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Go away to your poverty which you like, and leave us to ours which we hate. There's no more left for you to take away from us; it's all gone. Unless you'd like me to throw Thomas...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'm horribly stiff. Why did neither of us go to bed?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I suppose, said Peter dully, as he opened it," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Peter, we can't do it. I am horribly, horribly sorry, but I know it now for certain. Perhaps you know it too, by now. Because the reason is in you, not in me. It is that you love Denis too m...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The young man with the embroidery was sorry about him; he had an expression as if he were losing more halfpence than he could well afford. The young man himself lost all the stakes he made; but he didn't gamble much, knowing himself not lucky. Instead, he watched the fluctuating...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My name is Livio Ceresole. Bin in America; the States. All over the place. Chicago, 'Frisco, Pullman cars, dollars--_you_ know. Learnt Engliss there. Very fine country; I _should_ smile." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "In Engliss, he translated," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You too are travelling, without a home, for gain? he inferred." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You are one of us other unfortunates, you and the little child. Poor little one!" }, { "from"...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Castoleto will be gay for the _festa_, Livio said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Things doing, he interpreted; adding," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Christopher Columbus born there; found America. Very big man; yes, _sir_." }, { "from": "gpt",...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There we will go this evening, I with my music, you with your embroideries." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "After tea we'll go paddling, Peter told Thomas." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And then perhaps we'll get a fisherman to take us out while he drops his net. Santa Caterina should give good fishing." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Difendi, O Caterina Da peste, fame e guerra, Il popol di Cartoleto In mare e in terra..." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A sad business, Thomas. But here we are, you and I, and let us be thankful. Thankful for this lovely country set with pleasant towns and religious manners and nice people, and for the colour and smoothness of the sea we're going paddling in, and for our nice tea. _Are_ you thank...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What _are_ you doing, Margerison?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Have you had yours? I've got another mug somewhere--a china one." }, { "from": "human", "value": "He's dying. Oh, poor chap, how ghastly for him, and his immense pity made him even gentler t...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It's lungs, you know. They don't give me much chance--the doctors, I mean. It's warm and sheltered on this coast, so I have to be here. I'd rather be here, I suppose, than doing a beef-and-snow cure in one of those ghastly places. But it's a bore hanging round and doing nothing....
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What do you _do_?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, nothing very much. A little needlework, which I sell as I go along. And various sorts of peddling, sometimes. I'm going up to the hotel this evening, to try and make the people there buy things from me. And we just...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Considering these vile roads, she's running extraordinarily well. Really, something ought to be done about the roads, though; it's absolutely disgraceful. Blake says ..." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ah, Signor!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Scusi, Signora?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "È forae il mio marito, Da molti anni smarrito?..." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Livio, I go. I have had enough." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ah, Signor!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Scusi, Signora?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "È forse il mio marrito..." } ]