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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Old Stories re-told," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Wilful murder by some person or persons unknown, and a large reward was advertised for the discovery and conviction of the perpetrator. No arrest was made on suspicion until the 21st of December, when a person was brought before the Northern Police Court, but was very speedily d...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "One of the garrulous sympathizers declared that" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Which of you backed the horse, and overturned the gig into the ditch at the road-side? to which the reply was," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I did. He then asked," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Which of you cut the traces? The response was," }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Anything that I could do for you, Mr. Porter, if it was even to put my hands under your feet, should be a duty and a pleasure, for I can never be too grateful to such a worthy magistrate as you. This was said by a station-master of the Great Southern and Western Railway named Du...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "and when we parted at Harcourt Street Station we shook hands, and one said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Good night, your worship, I hope you'll not be hard on us to-morrow. Next morning I was on duty at Exchange Court, and when the charge sheets from Chancery Lane...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I would give puss a start, I sent a bullet in her direction, without the slightest expectation that the shot would be fatal. The cat fell dead on the garden walk; we closed the window, locked up the gun and bullets, and departed. Next morning, I was about to commence the charge-...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I told the complainant that I should certainly prohibit Baxter from continuing his vocal pastime, as it was calculated to annoy an active and meritorious member of the police force. Barnes expressed his gratitude, and added," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I knew that...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Strokestown, sir." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh! I replied," }, { "from": "human", "value": "" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Troth it is, said he," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Such a jest, although prompt and witty, was not...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And though, perhaps--but breathe it to no one-- Like liquor the witch brews at midnight so awful, In secret this philter was first taught to flow on, Yet 'tisn't less potent for being unlawful. And ev'n though it taste of the smoke of that flame, Which in silence extracted its v...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You're safe, all is right, thanks to God." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "To let Surgeon Crampton know that a very distinguished personage had fallen from his horse in College Green, and sustained serious injuries." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Intendente." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ladies and gentlemen, I feel deeply mortified at having to submit for public competition these properties, of which I have not the slightest personal knowledge. I regret having accepted the engagement, which I am decidedly unable to discharge to my own satisfaction. It was my in...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I was one day strolling through the currant grounds, and provided with an excellent fowling-piece, in the hope of meeting with quail. I was near to a small stream, when I observed two rats approaching the water. They were so close together that their sides appeared to be touchin...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Bridge of Sighs, and designate them" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I had been a magistrate for three or four years, when I was one day informed by the attendant of the police-court that a deputation of females from Cole Alley earnestly besought me to give them an...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yer worship, this poor little girl was born in the alley. She was not quite a year old when the collar (cholera) made a great sweep up there, and took off her mother, who was one of us. The child had no one to care her, so we agreed to do the best we could for her, and we gave h...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Alphabet Smith, from the multiplicity of his names, and when the judgment of the Queen's Bench was reversed, a ballad appeared to the tune of" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The Shan van vocht." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "but he was disposed to" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The profligate Lord Wharton, the writer of which stated that the history of the Wharton viceroyalty had never been fully published, because a true description of such a character would be considered as an incredible exaggeration, but that it might now be produced without any app...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ford, I hope that I did not make a wrong cast in my closing sentence; _is the fellow married_?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The Morning Star" }, { "from": "human", "value": "and he proceeded to narrate that about the beginning of the present century an ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "When my popularity depends on the surrender or compromise of my conscientious convictions, I shall not seek to retain it." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Justum, et tenacem propositi virum _Non civium ardor prava jubentium_; Non vultus instantis tyranni Mente quatit solida." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sir, exclaimed Spankey," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Mr. Speaker, said O'Connell," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Spankey's price" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Young Ireland or" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Confederate movem...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "which was found in his house when the police seized the premises. On the day of his condemnation, I was passing along Capel Street on an outside hackney jaunting-car. At Mary's Abbey corner I was recognized by a crowd of roughs, and saluted with a volley of stones. Not one of th...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "They had made him drink a great lot of bad toasts, and he wouldn't have done so for them, if the whiskey had not been very good." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Life of Sister Rosalie, the Superioress of the Order of Charity." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Whatever may be the issue of the movements for which their aid is bespoken, the people are always the dupes and victims of these sanguinary comedies. Whilst many of those who speak in their name, who push them on to the conflict, who breathe into their ears the sentiments of rev...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Some instances of opprobrious and menacing expressions were brought by summons under my cognizance, and for such I prescribed a month's sojourn in the Richmond Bridewell, unless the delinquent found two good and substantial sureties for his good behaviour. One of these summonses...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hic vir, hic est, tibi quem promitti sæpius audis, Augustus." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Here he is; it is all right; he has come, as he promised, in August." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Please your Majesty, I don't know anyone who spakes Jarman, b...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Your thieves! he exclaimed," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'll be d----d if we haven't thieves in Edinburgh or Glasgow that your Dublin fellows couldn't hold a candle to." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Massacre of the Innocents." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "On remarking to him that he had not specified the duration of the indulgence, the worthy gentleman was pleased to compliment me by saying," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have left a blank for the time. Go, and stay until your health and strength are completely reno...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The river nobly foams and flows, The charm of this enchanted ground, And all its thousand turns disclose Some fresher beauties varying round." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "High. The German word is" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Hoch, and they give it a...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mattiacæ aquæ." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "ÆSCULAPIO SANATORI, MILITES QUATUORDECIMÆ LEGIONIS, OB VALETUDINEM RESTAURTAM, HANC TABULAM VOTIVAM. D.D.D." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Four Seasons," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Mr. Porter, they say that is Latin." }, { "from": "gpt", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "SISTE PAULULUM, AMBULA PAULULUM, SEDERE VETITUM EST, ET DORMIRE EST MORI." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am delighted to hear that they are going, for _her other husband_ is to be here next week, and their meeting would be rather unpleasant, especially as he is bri...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "On the last evening that I was at the Kursahl, I went in a party of nine persons, of whom six were ladies. One of my fair companions proposed that each of us should contribute four florins, and stake the amount on red. This was acceded to, and I stepped forward and placed the mo...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Come to the place where you threw off your overcoat, and you will most probably find it. Accordingly, when we reached the rockery, I saw the coat lying where I placed it, and having possessed myself of it, observed to my conductor that I was extremely lucky, for unquestionably m...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Stand awhile, walk awhile, to sit down is forbidden, and to sleep is to die." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Corcoran, Irlandais, so that the Emerald Isle was not totally unrepresented on the occasion. Brussels was very full at the time of the fête, and in its crowded...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The hopes that but allure to fly, The joys that vanish while we sip; Like Dead-Sea fruits that tempt the eye, But turn to ashes on the lip!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "All's well." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Michel Perrin," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I must go; I must depart as soon as possible. I plainly perceive that she has sold her watch without informing me. She has to work hard from morning to night; the needle of a woman cannot provide for the requirements of t...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Michel, your dinner is ready," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He is still very clever, the poor woman would say, when she tried one of her vain efforts;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I wish you would come and see us. He never reads anything but Latin or Greek, except when he is at his breviary. If that does not convince you of...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What a misfortune that Paris is so far off," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why so, my dear sister? said he;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Ah! wherefore? It would take too much of your time to listen to me, my dear brother, and you are reading your brev...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Michel Perrin implores his former class-fellow, Joseph Fouché, to receive him as soon as possible. He is lodging at the hotel _du Soleil_, rue Mouffetard." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Health and respect." }, { "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The minister of the general police will receive the citizen, Michael Perrin, on Thursday the 24th inst., at one o'clock." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There was no necessity, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And you, too, citizen minister, he answered, cordially grasping the hand which Fouché extended to him," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sit down there, he said in a gay tone," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have lived for many years as happily as possible, replied Michel with a sigh;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "A poor position at present that of a pastor must be!" }, { "from...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "As to me, as to me?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Hold, said the minister, writing hastily two lines on a scrap of paper," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The same, citizen." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You have just left the minister?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Only this moment; for we had chatted together a full half-hour, as two good friends would do who had not met for a considerable time." },...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "For to-day, I have no particular directions to give you; but you will come to me in two or three days. Meanwhile, go through the city, traverse the promenades and other public places, dine in the restaurateurs, especially in the good restaurateurs." }, { "from": "gpt", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I have four good days before me up to Monday, he said," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ah! 'tis you, said Desmarest, who appeared busily searching for a paper which he could not find on his desk." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well! where the devil have I thrust it? What have you done these four days past?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, what news?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "News!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes; when you come here undoubtedly you must have something to tell me." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "In fact, citizen, as this is Thursday, I have come to...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Follow the man in the brown great-coat who has just left me, said he;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now, thought the chief of division," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "and desiring him to be seated--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Come, said he," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My business of yesterday! I passed my time, since our last interview, in nearly the same manner as I passed all the other days since our first meeting. In the morning I walked to the Tuileries; in the evening I strolled on the Boulevards." }, { "from": "gpt", "value"...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I beg of you to hear me for a minute, citizen minister," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well! what now? asked he, when they were alone." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Have you discovered some conspiracy, to be thus almost beside yourself?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I have discovered that you have made a jest of the friend of your youth...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There has been a misunderstanding, Michel, said he, taking his hand;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "he added," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Another hoax," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No; on my faith. Public worship is re-established. You ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, yes, the pastor answered in a low voice, and with a smile," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "THE WORTHY FELLOWS ARE NOT AT ALL AWARE THAT FOR FIFTEEN DAYS I WAS A POLICE SPY." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You must remember me; I am Darios, your former comrade of the chain. I bear you no ill-will, and do not wish to take any advantage of you, but you are rich and I am miserably destitute. Give me your succour, relieve my necessities, and you may depend on my prudence and gratitude...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Fawn's Escape," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That between two united hearts there should be a community of interests." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Dear friend, he added," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am to entertain to-morrow the Comte Ecouy and the Duc de Rohan, and owing to this fatality I find myself unable to make an appearance even respectable. Will you lend me whatever you can spare, and thus save my c...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh! it is the Marchioness d'Allinvilliers." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh! the much-esteemed Chevalier d'Arc!--what a pleasure!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I am enchanted, madame, at this instance of good fortune in meeting you. I presume to prese...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You darling, to quit me! Ah! you wicked one! what ingratitude! Moreover, how could I expose you, lonely and unprotected? I would not entrust you to anyone; my responsibility is pledged. You will remain until the next visit of your father, the Comte." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Argus" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I write to you in the affliction of a broken heart. Your poor father has been scandalously led astray by a knave, a swindler, a man without an honourable idea, and destitute of faith and morals. Dear niece, are you aware that you are now in the Parc-aux-Cerfs? Who detains you th...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Indeed, Mademoiselle, said this debased woman," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "In fact, murmured the mistress of the mansion," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I know not what I might do on another occasion, was the reply," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It will be upon me then, promptly observed Helene," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Dead! the Vicomte de Benavent-Rhodés! You are pleased to think so, remarked t...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Monsieur l'Abbé, said the Duc de Richelieu," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Sire, exclaimed the priest," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Sire!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sire, in the name of God, and appealing to the pious traditions of your race, I implore an audience. Reflect that a moment's delay may endanger your hopes of Paradise." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Be it so, Monsieur; after Mass you may come to my closet, I shall hear you there." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ah! Monsieur l'Abbé, he exclaimed," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Me, sire!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, you; I want not ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh! my niece, said the priest, in a voice almost choked with grief," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I preferred death to infamy." }, { "from": "human", "value": "My niece, your honor is respected, and the King concedes your requests. The Vicomte de Benaven...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "She is dead!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "She is saved," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Monsieur, on this occasion I am endowing virtue. Then he added, with a laugh," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "One swallow does not make a summer." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Une fois n'est pas coutume." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Back, fellow! Begone, clown! I am here to speak only to gentle-folk, and not to tell the future destiny of a peasant's son." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That a woman! exclaimed the groom;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I would wager that it is a man." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Let him come in," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "MAURICE LESOURD." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He it was, added the youth," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Say your father's patronage, replied the Marquis;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If I had not found the paper, Fidele would have relieved us of the difficulty; he is so intelligent a dog, he finds anything that is lost." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "To arrest this villain, cries the Marquis, pointing to his agent;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ah, beloved wife, he says to her," }, { "from": "human", "value": "God has had pity on our misery; the imposture is unveiled. Listen, it is Heaven itself that...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "MADELEINE LADAILLE _femme_ LESOURD." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Three Musketeers" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I shall first state to his Eminence, that chance having enabled me again to meet an Irishman whom I had known in Paris, when he was pursuing his studies; I then rendered him some service, and he, from that moment, manifested to me the most ardent gratitude. On leaving Paris, he ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Die in peace, my father, I will live." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Dargan is inscribed, now stands upon the scene of his patriotic liberality. No other inscription is requisite to have his generosity acknowledged and his memory revered by his countrymen. Previous to the opening in 1853, it was suggested in the public press and at the sittings o...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Bell," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The bells of Shandon did sound so grand on The pleasant waters of the River Lee. We may search in vain, we'll ne'er meet again With a sweeter strain than Moore's" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Evening Bell;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mr. Porter is so expert in the fabrication of a Bell, that he may confine himself to ringing without knocking." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Bell," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There's the horrid villain that is just after swearing against the priest." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I thought, your worship, that he was after swearing against the priest, or I wouldn't have laid a finger on him. It was all a mistake, and we never intended to break the shop window. Indeed he broke that himself trying to get away. Moreover, if what was done was wrong, I have be...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Your worship, he replied," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am a carpenter, and I was going to buy some timber for repairs to a house at Sandycove. I had two sovereigns and a half in a little leather purse in my waistcoat pocket. As soon as I was brought into the poli...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "but another expressed his opinion," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The meal was served on deck, and consisted of soup, bread, and meat, and the recipients availed themselves of every position in which they could speedily enjoy their repast. The circular seat around the window on the quarter-deck was fully occupied. The soup was brought up in la...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I subsequently expressed an intention to submit to my readers" } ]