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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How old are you, my dear?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Sixteen, papa." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Indeed! I should have taken you to be six years younger. I should wonder at a child of ten talking so sillily as you are doing." }, { "from": ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Dear Charlotte! dear child!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Is it indeed so?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It is indeed so. Moreover, out of so much property, such and such an amount will perish by fire. Every householder being bound in with this state of things for his share of the risk, he owes it equally to others and to ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ha! Quakers?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Tell me, first, my dear, he replied," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well: exactly as much as you admire Tasker, I admire your Quakers. I honor their motive, but I am sorry for their mistake--sorry that they refuse one safeguard against worldliness." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Worldliness, papa!" }, { "from": "human", "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ha! he exclaimed," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes; there is your baby. How do you like her?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "But can she walk?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "My dear Ellison! at a day old!" }, { "from": "human", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I see how it is, madam, said he, in a cheerful voice." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Don't be alarmed; you are very safe. Come in here." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now, madam, said he," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I have to beg your pardon, Ellison, said Mr. Carey," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It was natural--it was not doing me wrong; for my mother used to say that I did awkward things sometimes; that I was not expert; and it appears to me that I really have erred." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Expedition, the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Highflyer, the" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Express," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I could not rest till I had made the effort, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "When dear Joanna was gone, and I believed that I should follow her, it occurred to me that our child would be left destitute. I saw that I had neglected my duty; and I resolved that,...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A thousand pounds! Ha! a thousand pounds!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Pa in the pulpit; nor how, when he was tired of the sermon, he was wont to scrape the sand from the floor, and powder with it the wigs of the old men who sat in the long pew before him; nor how,...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "History of the Restoration of Monarchy in France," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The History of the Restoration: Whatever may be said of the author of this volume as a politician, and however much his capabilities for legislation may be despised, he ranks as a first ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ordener set out on the same night, that of the 10th and 11th of March, and arrived on the 12th at Strassburg. He held a council on his arrival with General Leval, Charlot, the colonel of gendarmes, and the commissary of police, and they resolved to precede and facilitate the noc...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "As soon as the judgment was pronounced, and even before it was drawn up, Hullin sent to inform Savary and the Judge Advocate of the sentence of death, in order that they might take their measures for its execution. It seemed as if the time was equally pressing to the tribunal as...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I have something to say to you which it is best your good lady should hear, too. I have just come from the dock-yard, where I have been looking at the ship. It will be two months before she will be off the stocks. Then it will be too late to go to sea, even if you should have he...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Will you give me Marie?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Tell her, said he," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Young Couple." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Let him stand, replied the father, and the boy went back to the window to close the shutters, when he found that the man had gone. All was quiet in the room. The boy went back to his occupation; the mother laid her infant in the cradle, put the girl to bed, and had taken up her ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Countrymen, I most solemnly, in this last awful moment of my life, ask your pardon for any injury I have caused you. It was not my wish to injure any one, my object was your freedom and happiness; here he was interrupted by the commanding officer in front. He concluded, by sayin...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "--that they have undiminished confidence in the comprehensive statesmanship of Daniel Webster;--that they cordially approve the agreement entered into by the Whigs of New York;--that they disapprove very decidedly of the present administration of State affairs in Massachusetts, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Travels in Egypt, Arabia Petræa, and the Holy Land" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Science of Human Life," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "One of the witnesses, a collier, after giving his testimony, said," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Marian Withers," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "are gracefully noticed. M. Dupin, after remarking that" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Art, like Nature, loves to scatter her gifts among the children of great national families, and that they could thus honor, on different grounds, genius, taste, imagination, reason,...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "creating a disturbance barely visible on the surface of society. Of course there is no intention, by any such remark, to make any comparison between the intrinsic merits of the two systems. A true believer in Jesus, and of" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "will never su...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The wonder, then, is not that there have been in the world so many mythical accounts of Divine intercourse, but that there has been so little of the reality. Why does not God speak to us here? Why has" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why" }, { "from": "human", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "of Nature has come. The faded garniture of the fields; the many-colored, gorgeous woods; the fitful winds, sighing for the flowers" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "the peculiar yellow-green of the sky at the horizon, in the twilight gloaming; all these proclaim that" ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Alas, for Time, and Death, and Care, What gloom about our way they fling Like clouds in Autumn's gusty air, The burial-pageant of the Spring The dreams that each successive year Seemed bathed in hues of brighter pride, At last like withered leaves appear, And sleep in darkness, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "that Harriet Martineau, an old maid, a" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "as Lord Byron calls her class, who" }, { "from": "human", "value": "or if she did, yet who, if published accounts are true, shrunk from the nuptial bonds, and left her affianced lord in...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Every one of my writings, says Goethe, in the same candid spirit," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It is in the power of any writer, says a commentator upon this passage, to be original, by deserting nature, and seeking the quaint and the fantastical." }, { "fr...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "is a master of the military sonnet, a specimen of which is subjoined. Its" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "the" }, { "from": "human", "value": "its" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "and martial" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Conquerer of Napoleon" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Canadian Judiciary Courts have adjourned for the whole of the next week, in order to give an opportunity to our Canadian friends to be present at the great Railroad Jubilee, to be celebrated in our city. They are expected to arrive in great numbers on Tuesday of next week. T...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We understand that a suicide was committed under deplorable circumstances, not long since, in the Rue St. George. It appears that a French gentleman, owing to pecuniary embarrassments, had long been melancholy, and last evening killed himself with the fumes of charcoal. It is re...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It was ascertained afterward, however, that he employed these stolen hours in laboring upon the tomb--a pocket-knife, his only implement, and a single crazy hope--(which will appear in the sequel)--his only aim. Having, after four or five months of daily toil, finished his work,...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But, said he, controlling his emotion," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It was indeed a happy loss," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It was none at all," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Your antagonist, said he," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Rights." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Nile Notes," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Cenotaph," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The work of creation was necessarily a supernatural work; and hence all reasoning from the general laws of nature, which in their operation were subsequent to the work of creation, is as irrelevant in explanation of the Mosaic account, as the argument drawn from universal experi...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "lumberman. Hence he moves among the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "incidents of his story, like one who is perfectly at home, jotting down his exciting narrations without the slightest effort or pretension, and introducing his readers by the simplest transitions to t...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "where the position of the author gave him access to much" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "History of the Girondists." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sam Slick the Clock Maker" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "whose" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The _Athenæum_ is systematically cold to American writers; nor does it do justice to Mr. Tuckerman in its criticism; yet it is right in tracing the influence of Channing both in his style and turn of thought. No one who was conver...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "German's Tale of the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Canterbury Tales (a miscellany of little romances by herself and her sister), furnished Lord Byron with the plot of his play of" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Werner. More old-fashioned novel readers, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I went to stay at a Mr. S.'s country house, about six miles out town, and was there introduced to his father, who has one of the best collections of pictures in New York. They were kind enough to take me to a literary réunion given by one Miss ----, an American authoress of some...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "In conclusion, we are glad to have an opportunity of introducing so excellent a work to the notice of our classical and philological readers. It has all that true German _Grundlichkeit_ about it which is so highly appreciated by English scholars. Rarely, if ever, has so vast an ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The style of books sold depends more upon the salesman than on the locality; but there are exceptions to the rule. At Bangor, all books in the Welsh language must have a strong Dissenting and Radical savor. English books at the same station must be High Church and Conservative. ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mr. Barnum, the American monster-monger, has opened this theatre with an exhibition which it is disagreeable to witness and impossible to treat as a matter of art. Two American children, Ellen and Kate Bateman, stated to be six and eight years of age, are here produced in the re...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Physio-philosophy, a translation of which work, by Mr. Tulk, was published by the Ray Society. It abounds in admirable generalizations, unfortunately immersed in much that is false and fantastic, and clothed in the cloudiest phraseology of German transcendental metaphysics. Oken...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Universal Encyclopædia of Sciences and Arts --a work which was at first carried on by him conjointly with Herr Ersch. Herr Gruber was also a large contributor to the _Litteratur Zeitung_ and the _Conversations-Lexicon_. His separate works include:" }, { "from": "gpt", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Fernand Duplesis; or, the Memoirs of a Husband;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Lamartine's Journey to the East." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Ship of Death, which floated into our Editor's Drawer from an unknown source, was written by Thomas H. Chivers, M.D., author of a volume entitled" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Eonchs of Rubies," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How to make Home Unhealthy," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Lor! What a most abominable Glass--I declare it makes one look a perfect Fright." }, { "from": "human", "value": "There's a Bite! Pull him up, Charley, I've got the Landing Net." }, { "fro...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Good by which has been normalised to" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Good-by" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "changed to" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "(the best woman in France) pg 588:" }, { "from": "human", "value": "changed to" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "(a population of but about five hundred thousand) pg 602:" }, { "from": "human", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Money, insinuates itself into our thoughts and motives, our hearts and actions; affecting those who undervalue as those who overestimate its importance; ruining virtues in the spendthrift no less than engendering vices in the miser. But when I half implied my farewell to the cha...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This concerns thee not!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Reports on Lyons," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Child, said the man, first in French; and observing that the boy heeded him not,--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "he repeated in English, which he spoke well, though with a foreign accent," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Has the great spider devoured the...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Spiders, then, he said, after a short pause," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, yes!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well, you will see her once again." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "When?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Before t...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now, boy, come with me; I have promised to show you an execution: I am going to keep my promise. Come!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I must get you a good place for the show," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What is the batch to-day? quoth a butcher in the wagon." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Scarce worth the baking,--only two; but one, they say, is an aristocrat,--a ci-devant marquis, answered a carpenter." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Ah, a marquis! Bon...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "They are coming! There they are!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That's the way to bring up citizens," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Mother! Mother! The father's hand grasped the child's arm with an iron pressure; the crowd swam before the boy's eyes; th...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "to depict the slumberous insipidity of more modern affectation; it was not the ennui of a man to whom ennui is habitual, it was rather the indolent prostration that fills up the intervals of excitement. At that day the word blast was unknown; men had not enough sentiment for sat...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Gabriel, whispered the Frenchman, in his own tongue," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Do not, such were her words to her companion,--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "(here her cheeks blushed, and her voice sank into a lower and more tremulous whisper)" }, { "from": "human", "value": "But, answered Mainwaring, hesitatingly," }, { "fr...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "More than half an hour absent, said the scholar, in his own language, with a smile; and drawing out his watch, he placed it before their eyes." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Do you not think that all will miss you? Do you suppose, Miss Clavering, that your uncle has ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You must pardon me if I think more of your interests than you do; and pardon me no less if I encroach on your secrets and alarm your pride. This young man,--can you be guilty of the folly of more than a passing caprice for his society, of more than the amusement of playing with ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And so, Charley Vernon, it is not the fashion to smoke in Lunnon." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, sir. However, to console us, we have most other vices in full force." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I don't doubt it; they say the prince's set exhaust ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Do you mean to insinuate, Mr. Vernon, that my niece--my elder niece, Lucretia Clavering--condescends to notice the looks, good or bad, of Mr. Mainwaring? 'Sdeath, sir, he is the son of a land-agent! Sir, he is intended for trade! Sir, his highest ambition is to be partner in som...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If I must take that girl as the price of this fair heritage, shall I gain or lose? I grant that she has the finest neck and shoulders I ever saw out of marble; but far from being in love with her, she gives me a feeling like fear and aversion. Add to this that she has evidently ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My poor mother hoped better things from me. It is well, after all, that it is broken off with Mary. Why should there be any one to weep for me? I can the better die smiling, as I have lived." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What sport, Ardworth?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "A few large roach with the fly, and one pike with a gudgeon,--a noble fellow! Look at him! He was lying under the reeds yonder; I saw his green back, and teased him into biting. A heavenly evening! I wonder you did...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My good fellow, to be plain with you, I cannot say that your confession has improved you in my estimation; but that is perhaps because of the bluntness of my understanding. I could quite comprehend your forgetting Susan (and, after all, I am left in doubt as to the extent of her...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sir, he said tremulously, and he pressed the hand that grasped his own," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I thank you. I am not fit at this moment to decide what to do; to- morrow you shall know. And the man died poor,--not in want, not in want?" }, { "from": "h...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mr. Fielden, he said, with the air of a man who has chosen his course, and deprecates all attempt to make him swerve from it," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "the lip slightly curled as the name was said;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I shall provide sui...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Is your sister like your mother?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You forget, sir, I can have no recollection of my mother." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Your mother had a strong family likeness to myself." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "She i...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "and was pleased yet more at a certain dignified tranquillity with which she received their caresses or their toys, and which he regarded as the sign of a superior mind; nor was it long, indeed, before what we call" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Reverence the greatest is due to the children," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If you had but trumped that diamond, ma'am!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Bless me, sir, it was the best heart! And somehow or other, both the laughter and the exclamations affected him alike with what then was called" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mr. Vernon has been watching for you." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Hush! Where is your father?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Behind the screen, at chess with Sir Miles." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "With Sir Miles!" }, { "from": ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I wonder you do not make Sir Miles take you to London, my cousin, if you will allow me to call you so. You ought to have been presented." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have no wish to go to London yet." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yet! said Mr. Vern...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Seriously, my cousin, you must sometimes feel very much moped here." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Never!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yet I am sure you have a taste for the pomps and vanities. Aha! there is ambition under those careless curls," }, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am about to task your kindness most improperly, Monsieur Dalibard, said Sir Miles, with that politeness so displeasing to Ardworth," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Mainwaring." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Pshaw! your old play,--the bishop again, said Sir Miles, laughing, as he moved a knight to frustrate his adversary's supposed plan; and then, turning back, he once more contemplated the growing familiarity between Vernon and his niece. This time he could not contain his pleasure...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, said the baronet," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Your penetration rarely deceives you, sir. I own I think with you. Does Mr. Vernon know that you would permit the alliance?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes; but--" }, { "from": "gpt", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Zounds!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I think, Sir Miles, said the Provencal, rising, as if conscious that Sir Miles wished to play no more,--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I think that if you spoke soon to Miss Clavering as to your views with regard ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You have not danced, Mr. Mainwaring." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I dance so seldom, Sir Miles," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Ah! you employ your head more than your heels, young gentleman,--very right; I must speak to you to-morrow. Well, ladies, I ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How long! muttered the girl, impetuously,--" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Gabriel, wake!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Blood will out, young tiger, said he." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Hush, and hear me!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Is it you, Father? said Gabriel." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I thought, I dreamed--" }, { "from": "human", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Father, you have read my heart. I have been persuaded by Lucretia (for she bewitches me) to watch you,--at least, when you are with Sir Miles. I knew that this was mixed up with Mr. Mainwaring. Now that you have made me understand your own views, I will be true to you,--true wit...