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[ { "from": "human", "value": "THE CHATEAU OF ETTENHEIM." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ettenheim." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Guten Tag, with all the grave unconcern of a" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Badener. I asked if the Count de Marsanne lived there. He said yes, but the" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Graf" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Warum nicht," }, {...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He could travel from here to Kehl and back in a day, and has often done it," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Jacob." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Parbleu, D'Egville, said the first who entered," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Even so, said the other, as he shook his hat, and threw off a cloak perfectly soaked with rain;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Be active, Master Jacob; these nags have had a ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I have come to say adieu for a few hours, said he;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I don't want to convert you, would he say, laughingly," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I should not wonder if he was lost in the deep mud of those cross-roads," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Or perhaps he has fallen into the Republic, said Rouchefoucauld," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Monsieur forgets that I wear its cloth," }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Here comes D'Egville at last, said one, throwing open the window to listen; the night was starlit, but dark, and the air calm and motionless." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I certainly heard a horse's tread on the causeway." }, { "from": "human", "value":...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Impossible! cried the other;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It is as I say, replied D'Egville;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "What's to be done, gentlemen?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What do _you_ say, sir? cried Grammont, advancing to m...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This is brigandage," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Which of you, messieurs, is the Duc d'Enghien?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If you come to arrest him, replied De Marsanne," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Is the descendant of a Condé ashamed to own his name? asked the colonel, with a sneer." }, {...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Which is the Duc D'Enghien?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That is he with the scarlet vest," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Your age, monsieur?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Thirty-two--that is, I should have been so much in August, were it...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "ORDINARY" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "on the chimney-piece struck two. It was in one of those accidental pauses in the conversation when any sound is heard with unusual distinctness. Talleyrand started, as he heard it, and then turning to Caulaincourt, whispered," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes; 'tis ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Schwarzwald," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Get up and prepare yourself to receive a visitor, said he." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "There's an officer of the staff without, come to see you;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Don't get up, monsieur; you look ill and weak, so, pray, let me not disturb you," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am not ill, said I, with an effort, but my hollow utterance and my sunken cheeks contradicted my words," }, { "from": "human", "value": "The ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You hesitate; you have not yet made up your mind, apparently?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It is not that; I am trying to think of liberty, trying to fancy myself free--but I can not! said I, with a weary sigh;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "And yet y...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This is an order for your liberation, Monsieur de Tiernay, said he;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Am I reinstated in my grade?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Is there no mention of my restoration to the service?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value"...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "the cookery bearing a due relation to the elegance of these" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "As for the company, if not polite, it was certainly picturesque; consisting of laborers of the lowest class, the sweepers of crossings, hackney-cab men out of employ, that poor...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "France and her Mission," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "claimed exemption from this sentiment. It might be supposed that meagre diet and sour wine were but sorry provocatives to national enthusiasm, but even they could minister to the epidemic ardor, and the humble dishes of that frugal board masqueraded under titles that served to f...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sacre bleu, cried a rough-looking fellow with a red night-cap set on one side of the head," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Monsieur is heartily welcome, said another, making room for me;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Ay, parbleu, cried a third." }, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Good-day." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You are here, monsieur, from a feeling of curiosity, that, I see well enough; but I come for a very different reason. I am the pastor of a mountain village of the Ardêche, and have come to Paris in search of a young girl, the daughter of one of my flock, who, it is feared, has b...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And to me, said the père," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "La Marche, as the village was called, till I knew the ford where the blacksmith lived, and the miller with the cross wife, and the lame schoolmaster, and Pierre the postmaster, who read out the _Moniteur_ each ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "for" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Fortune." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "La Marche. If disappointed in my great object, I left the theatre with my mind full of all I had witnessed. The dreadful event of Ettenheim had terribly shaken Bonaparte, in my esteem; yet how resist the contagious devotion of a whole nation--how remain cold in the midst of the ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Courage, Maurice, said I, as I dashed the sparkling water over my head," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I feel, said he," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How do you mean?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Come along with me and you shall know it all," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You are surprised, perhaps, said he," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I could not remember having ever heard the name." }, { "from": "human", "value": "It is historical, however, said the curé," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It will be difficult, said he," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is not the first time that I hear that name, said the sick man, with a voice of singular sweetness." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It is chronicled in the annals of our monarchy. Ay, sir, I knew that faithful servant of his king, who followed his master to the sca...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But the prince rejected the proposal? said he, peering at me beneath the dark shadow of his heavy brow;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Of course not, cried I;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "And do you think that he would have gone thus far, sir?" }, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How did the fellow propose the act? had he any accomplices? or was he alone?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I believe quite alone." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Of course suborned by England? Of that there can be no doubt." }, { "from": "gpt", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The count expects you to stop here; there is a chamber prepared for you, said the curé, as we took our seats at table." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He has evidently taken a fancy to you. I thought, indeed I was quite certain, he would. Who can tell what good fortun...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "LACON." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "and his old enemies among the pious, few knew what to make of it. The Parson C---- of old time was no more; but, in his place, a new man with the same face was every where active in the cause of charity and Christian benevolence. Those who knew him best doubted most of his stabi...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What is gambling, said he," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What is his name?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "C----. He is a priest, too, I have heard, and of course, when at home, a preacher of morality." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, sa...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The parson had two faces, one for Sundays and one for working days." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You are ----, the son of Thomas ----. I know you from your likeness to your father. Do not know me here. Let me have your address; I should like to talk to you. M. V---- is dead--dead! And your father, is he yet living?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The gamester, if...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "of to-day have more of a" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "than our age will have; and even while we acknowledge with devout gratitude the blessing of peace, it is pleasant to listen to stories of" }, { "from": "human", "value": "One evening, while sitting w...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Go on board again, sir, was his reply," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "had followed the poor boy, and lightly tapping his shoulder, told him he would walk with him to the beach. Thus, even the last look at home, for which he longed, was denied him. A waterman's wherry...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "existence was held on such a precarious tenure that the idea of death in battle would scarcely have troubled his equanimity. Two hours waiting to be hanged, however, is a far different trial for courage, and we have never read or imagined any thing more painful than the descript...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Rogue's March, which was drummed before him. He was a tall, gaunt old man, with a singularly long neck. The day after his expulsion from his ship, the crew sent a man to his house with a message, ordering him to" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There is a magic in that little word: It is a mystic circle that surrounds Comforts and virtues never known beyond The hallowed limit." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The tabernacle of our earthly joys And sorrows, hopes and fears--this Home of ours Is it not pleasant...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And oh, if those who cluster round, The altar and the hearth, Have gentle words and loving smiles, How beautiful is earth." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Cheerfully to bear thy cross in patient strength is duty." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Not few nor light are the burdens of life: then load it not with heaviness of spirit; sickness, and penury, and travail--these be ills enow: the tide is strong against us: strugg...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Will it pay," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Woman's rights," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The last at the cross and earliest at the sepulchre," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, what is woman, what her smile, Her lip of love, her eyes of light. What is she, if her lips revile The lowly Jesus? Love may write His name upon her marble brow, And linger in her curls of jet: The light spring-flower may scarcely bow Beneath her step--and yet--and yet-- Wit...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There came A stranger bright and beautiful With steps of grace, and eye of flame, And tone and look most sweetly blent To make her presence eloquent; Oh, then I looked for tears. She stood Before the prisoner of Calvary. I saw the piercing spear--the blood-- The gall--the writhe...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Whale." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Freely depicted in his own vocation, gentlemen, the Canaler would make a fine dramatic hero, so abundantly and picturesquely wicked is he. Like Mark Antony, for days and days along his green-turfed, flowery Nile, he indolently floats, openly toying with his red-cheeked Cleopatra...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I left off, gentlemen, where the Lakeman shook the backstay. Hardly had he done so, when he was surrounded by the three junior mates and the four harpooners, who all crowded him to the deck. But sliding down the ropes like baleful comets, the two Canalers rushed into the uproar,...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "So help me Heaven, and on my honor, the story I have told ye, gentlemen, is, in substance and its great items, true. I know it to be true; it happened on this ball; I trod the ship; I knew the crew; I have seen and talked with Steelkilt since the death of Radney." }, { "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What is courage? he repeated more earnestly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Is it insensibility to fear? _That_ may be the mere accident of constitution; and, if so, there is no more merit in being courageous than in being this table." }, { "from": "human", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Impress, O Pisistratus! impress the value of patience as regards man and men. You touch there on the kernel of the social system--the secret that fortifies the individual and disciplines the million. I care not, for my part, if you are tedious so long as you are earnest. Be minu...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Young man, Mr. Prickett senior has gone to his long home, but Mr. Richard Prickett will see you." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Come in, sir; you are my late uncle's assistant, Mr. Fairfield, I suppose?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Your late uncle! He...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You were engaged but by the week I find, young man, on reference to my late uncle's papers. He gave you a £1 a week--a monstrous sum! I shall not require your services any further. I shall move these books to my own house. You will be good enough to send me a list of those you b...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Look, said one of the gentlemen to the other," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have discovered here what I have searched for in vain for the last ten years--the Horace of 1580, the Horace of the Forty Commentators--a perfect treasury of learning, and marked only four...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What is the book, my lord?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What is the man who reads the book?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Preston's translation of Boethius, _The Consolations of Philosophy_," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He looks as if h...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If, replied Mr. Burley," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That is a clever man, said Harley L'Estrange." }, { "from": "human", "value": "But I am sorry to see yon young student, with his bright, earnest eyes, and his lip that has the quiver of passion and en...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Only by sight. He has come here every day the last week, and spends hours at the stall. When once he fastens on a book, he reads it through." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And never buys?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Sir, said the shopman, with a good...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Write what you please, in prose, five sheets of letter paper, twenty-two lines to a page neither more nor less." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I can not write so." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Tut, 'tis for bread." }, { "from": "gpt", "valu...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You will do! said he, clapping Leonard on the back." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Perhaps some day you will catch my one-eyed perch." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Office of the _Beehive_," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A fig for immortality and laurels!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What more would you have? cried John Burley." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Did not stern old Sam Johnson say he could never write but from want?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "He might say it, answered Leonard;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value":...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I can't quite agree with you, said Randal, taking his leave;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mr. Burley, you have convinced me, it was not with the modesty of a sincere reasoner, but the triumph of one who has gained his end. But so struck, meanwhile, was our unheeded and silent listener, with Burley's power of generalization, and the wide surface over which his informa...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Can you doubt the author? cried Leonard, in deep disgust and ingenuous scorn." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The young man who came to steal your brains, and turn your knowledge--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Into power, interrupted Burley, with a lau...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ah, Helen, why did you ever leave me?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am sent away, brother, and I have come to you to take care of me. Do not let us part again. But you must be very cheerful and very happy, or I shall think that I am sadly in your way." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Impossible--do not ask it, and do not go near her....
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Shall I keep the purse again, Leonard?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Alas! replied Leonard," }, { "from": "human", "value": "That is very naughty in the purse, said Helen," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I?" }, { "from": "human", "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "So you are the Pentheus in petticoats who defies Bacchus," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "For shame, Burley!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "He's drunk, said Mr. Douce, the bankrupt trader--" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Helen, said he, very sadly," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Come hither, my dear. So you are the little girl whom I saw with Leonard on the banks of the Brent, and you have come back to live with him--and I have come to live with him too. You shall be our little housekeeper, and I will tell you the story of Prince Prettyman, and a great ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If I had had a sister--a child like you, little one, he muttered," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ah, now you may stay, sir; I don't fear you any more." }, { "from": "human", "value": "No, no; you would fear me again ere night-time, and I might not be alwa...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Please, sir, suit yourself with another lodging, said she." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I can have no such singings and shoutings going on at night in my house. And that poor little girl too!--you should be ashamed of yourself." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ah, Master John, said she, clasping his nerveless hand--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I will stay with you, my kind friend, said Burley, with unusual meekness--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I can have the old room, then?" }, { "from": "gpt",...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You have not breakfasted?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well, the eggs are fresh laid, and you would like a rasher of bacon, Master John? And if you _will_ have brandy in your tea, I have some that you left long ago i...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Have you no books, Mrs. Goodyer?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, yes; some that the dear lady left behind her; and perhaps you would like to look at some papers in her own writing?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "No, not the papers--all women scribble...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Nature, Nature! he exclaimed when he was out in the air, and hurrying by the dripping hedgerows," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hail to thee, O Freedom! muttered John Burley;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "In the king's name," }, { "from": "human", "value": "At whose suit?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Mr. Cox, the wine-merchant." }, { "from": "human", "va...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "O, knowledge, knowledge!--powerless indeed!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Wanted, a few smart young men for India." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You would make a fine soldier, my man. You have stout limbs of your own." }, { "from": "gpt", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Helen, put on your shawl and bonnet, and walk out--I have much to say." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Helen we must part." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Part?--Oh, brother!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Listen. All work that depends on mind...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Struggle no more against the tides on the surfaces--all is calm and rest within the deep." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And oh! cried Helen," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Alas! murmured the boy," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Give me my work! I am strong enough for that now--it would amuse me." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This which he thinks is degradation--this is heroism. Oh strange human heart!--no epic ever written achieves the Sublime and the Beautiful which are graven, unread by human eye, in thy secret leaves. Of whom else should he beg? His mother had nothing, Riccabocca was poor, and th...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How are you, Randal Leslie? coming to hear the debate?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes; Mr. Egerton promised to get me under the gallery. He is to speak himself to-night, and I have never heard him. As you are going into the House, will you remind him?" }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Harley will be here soon, he muttered" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Do you want me?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Mr. Egerton, said the young man, with a voice that slightly trembled, and yet was manly amidst emotion," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Are you a native of ----?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, sir." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well, young man, I am very sorry for you; but the good sense you must possess (for I judge of that by the education you have evidently received) must tell y...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Life is a dark riddle," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Joanna behaved very well, did not she?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Very well, indeed. And it was extremely fine, his preaching to-day. Extremely fine!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "His head should not be stuffed with nonsense, observed Mr. Carey to his wife," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You mean the Life Insurance, replied she." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Why do you not remind him of it?" }, { "from": "gpt", "valu...