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[ { "from": "human", "value": "and that it would be a hardship if he got worse treatment in Waterford than he'd get in Dublin for a little spree. She added," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The owld gentleman, your father, long life to him, never put the poor fellow up for more than a week at a time...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The She Barracks." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "May it please your honor, I'm only a private soldier, and where would I get five pounds in a day or two, when they begin again. Besides, if I was a fit bail, I would sooner be bound for his wife's behaviour than for my own wife's. 'Tis best to let them go. Then turning to his co...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mary Anne." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This colonel is a most extraordinary man; when he is gone I shall tell you why I say so." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Brook afforded its immoral attractions, causing our prisons to be immediately crowded with loose, disorderly, or dishonest characters, so as to resemble hospitals in a locality suddenly visited by an epidemic or contagious distemper. I do not believe that, for many years pre...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Here Paddy comes to have a swig, A better one he never took; And now he'll dance an Irish jig With Dolly Dunne of Donnybrook." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "In this hive we're all alive, Good whisky makes us funny; So don't pass by, but stop and try The sweetness of our honey." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Whoe'er had the luck to see Donnybrook Fair, An Irishman, all in his glory, was there, With his sprig of shillelagh and shamrock so green. His clothes spic and span new, without e'er a speck, A neat Barcelona[17] entwined on his neck; He goes into a tent and he spends half-a-cro...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am sure Mr. M'Donogh will not be displeased with me if I say that I thought the police, whom I consider a fine body of young men, had been ill-treated for an hour or two by a number of young gentlemen. They were on unpleasant duty, not of their own will; and I was more annoyed...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "College Row imputes the" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Bluebottle, inasmuch as his tendency was to taint whatever he touched, and to evince a preference for garbage. He happened to be present on one occasion, when a man and woman were charged before me" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That every person who shall be brought before any of the divisional justices, charged with having in his possession, or on his premises, with his knowledge, or conveying in any manner anything which may be reasonably suspected to be stolen or unlawfully obtained, and who shall n...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "In reference to the case of Richard Walsh, committed by you for two months, with hard labour, I beg leave to report that the medical officers of the prison think it would be dangerous to work a person of his age and full habit of body on the treadmill. I believe, however, that I...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Delta," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Loud roar'd the dreadful thunder, The rain a deluge show'rs, The clouds were rent asunder By lightning's vivid powers. The night all drear and dark, Closed round our wretched bark, As she lay, on that day, In the Bay of Biscay, O!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The mighty steam-ship cleaving The tide, displays her pow'r, The wondrous feat achieving Of fifteen knots an hour; We speedily shall gain A sight of sunny Spain. No delay checks our way Through the Bay of Biscay, O!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh! Fitzpatrick, there's ould Porter from Dublin." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Siesta." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Devil's Tongue. Close to it, and forming part of the city, are two districts, of which one is named Portuguese town and the other, Irish town. I endeavoured to ascertain the origin of the Hibernian term for the latter locality, but my inquiries failed to elicit any informati...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Don Pedro, and the English have named it" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Four o'clock." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ragged Staff. I could not ascertain how that name originated, but the cemetery is remarkable for a considerable number of tombstones placed over the remains of persons who died at Gibraltar from the effects of wounds received at Trafalgar. Each inscription commences with" }, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Viva la Viuda." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Fuego!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hush'd is the din of tongues--_on gallant steeds_, With milk-white crest, gold spurs, and light-poised lance, Four cavaliers prepare for venturous deeds, And lowly bending, to the lists advance; Rich are their scarfs, _their chargers featly prance_; If in the dangerous game they...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Victoria and Albert," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Braganza, that anchored for a few days at the New Mole. He was one of the Royal family of Portugal, and bore the title of Duke of Oporto. His Royal Highness spoke English tolerably well; and having heard me mention Dublin as my native place, asked me numerous questions respe...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Let the Governor be immediately informed that _Captain Jones has brought The Scourge for him_. On hearing this announcement, I exclaimed," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Good heavens! What has he done to deserve that? This occasioned some laughter, in which, I believe...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I would rather endure to be bombarded or famished--I would rather see the whole town burned to ashes, than have that flag changed for any other. Let me tell you, sir, that if you talk to the people here about England giving them up to Spain, some of them will lose temper and ins...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "BARBERO, SANGUEDOR Y SACAMUELAS, SE REPAREN ABANICOS PARAGUAS Y PARASOLES." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "BARBER, BLEEDER, AND TOOTH-DRAWER, FANS, UMBRELLAS, AND PARASOLS REPAIRED." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "St. Jean d'Acre, the flag-ship of Admiral Elliot, was to sail for Plymouth on the 8th or 9th, and that if I chose to go in her he would ask the Admiral to give me a passage. To this most friendly proposal I thankfully acceded, and received, through Captain Warden, an invitation ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And ocean slumber'd like an unwean'd child;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My next-door neighbour was a Rev. Dr. Browne; and a gentleman who had some business with him, but did not exactly know his residence, pointed out my door to a cabman, and desired him to" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Cabby replied," }, { "from": "human", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Irish Review." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Great Western. He required no invitations to Brophy's table, for whenever he visited Dublin, he became a daily dinner guest during his stay; and certainly his host did not hesitate to make him the subject of tricks or bantering. At one time, Brophy had just returned from a P...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Pat, you are considered a very competent judge of diamonds; what would you value that ring at?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I think it is worth about thirty pounds." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well, said the other," }, { "from": "gpt", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This pin, said Brophy, taking it out of his scarf, and holding it up to the view of his interrogator," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Great Western" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I was for several years on terms of the closest intimacy with the late Dr. Auchmuty, who had a dispensary at Rathfarnham. In his latter years his teeth had completely decayed, and I made him a set, with which he was highly pleased, and for which I declined to accept of any remun...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How can you know anything about it? said the sheriff;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh! replied Pat," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Lord High Chancellor." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "At length the fatal wound, Which spread dismay around, The hero's breast received." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "D----n it, that won't do: I must die again." }, { "from": "human", "value": "where he had" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "and he acceded to our wishes, and played several pieces of exquisitely sweet music, interspersed with most extraordinary imitations. In one, which was named" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The Hare in the Corn, he produced sounds very much resembling the cry of harrie...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'll get you a little cash, said Brophy." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Slip into his bedchamber, and bring me his teeth; he puts them in a water-basin before he goes to bed." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is all right, Pat. There could not be a better dentist found in the world; and only that they did not fit when you tried them at first, I would most swear that _my own teeth were back again in my head_." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You have been smoking." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, sir." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I saw you, you lying scoundrel." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, sir." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This man has been smoking tobacco; the pipe was in his mouth when I came into the ward." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, sir." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You have the pipe in the bed with you." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, sir." ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I promise to forgive you fully, and leave you quite unpunished, if you now tell me where you put the pipe." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Try your own pocket, sir." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Bully's Acre," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He departed, having paid thirty pounds for a forgery of his own name, and had no consolation beyond discovering, which he did very soon, that the fellow who had been thrown over the wall was not dead, nor even materially injured, and had taken his beating without making much noi...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There is a flow'r I dearly love, and which with pride I bear Upon my head, or next my heart, none with it can compare; It is the Orange Lily, to which glorious memories cling, Of Derry, Boyne, or Aughrim, 'twill the recollection bring. Some roots I have procured to plant, and wh...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "La Martyre Chretienne." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Children have their toys and confections. Hats, lamps, shoes, boots, jewels, hosiery, glass, birds, mountebanks, newspapers, portable baths, guns, groceries, gloves, cutlery, false teeth, false beards, false eyes, false legs, tempt the adults. There are, however, no horses, catt...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "is frequently used in reference to hunting and racing, but I never heard it applied to shooting or coursing; and it is remarkable that the word, with the addition of an" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "also signifies the basket of a mendicant friar. Le _Turf_ is, as a ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "When you were about five rungs of the ladder from the top, I thought you were getting a little weak, and that _I had a fine chance of winning the gallon_." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mrs. Rafferty had just run out to get a grain of tay and a quarther of shuggar. Mrs. M'Mullen, the shoemaker's wife, had a few half-pence left after paying for a pair of soles and some binding; and was it not quare that they should meet Jenny Riordan just round the corner at Cas...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "which usually occupies one-third of the room. Covers, stewpans, saucepans, salad baskets, ladles, &c., appear on the shelves or hang thickly upon the walls. They are very cleanly in appearance. The French own Cayenne, but I never met a French cook who was acquainted with such a ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "for it appears to have fallen greatly into disuse, and to have been supplanted by houses, temples, halls, emporiums, magazines, bazaars, institutions, and repositories. I like the old respectable, bread-winning word; and I cannot forget the expression attributed to the first Nap...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Monsieur, it is in the catalogue." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Then, Mademoiselle, it must be 'Rose;' you are indeed worthy of the same designation as the pride of our parterres." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Monsieur is right in his conjectures as t...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "ROSE." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I thank you, sir; I hope that whenever misfortune (_malheur_) meets you, he'll lose his whip." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Liberté. Egalité. Fraternité. I remarked to a shopkeeper in the Rue de Bac, that it was very strange the Imperial government left the coin of ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "O's ; and I am inclined to believe that in several instances that prefix was laid aside purposely. Scotch names occur, but not at all in such frequency as Irish. Of the occupiers of this splendid military asylum, I can safely affirm that I found them extremely civil, and by no m...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A Te, essere il piu maraviglioso della creazione, il cielo conceda quella pace che ti negò la malvagita degli uomini." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "To you, the most wonderful being of the creation, heaven grants that peace which the waywardness of mankind denied you...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Accursed Englishman, you are a liar, at the same time throwing a heavy canister at me, knocking off my hat, and following up that hostile proceeding by flinging a flask of oil in the same direction. The latter did not strike me, but broke a large square of glass in a side window...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It blesseth him that gives and him that takes." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "When you are in trouble you should apply to the Good God; the sister at the school tells us so. Well, I shall address the Good God. I shall write a nice letter, such as my mother made me write to my godmother last Sunday. I have a bit of paper and a pen." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What are you doing, you unfortunate child?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Leave me your letter; I take upon myself to forward it to its destination." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But have you put your address, to receive the answer?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "No, Madam; but the sister at my school tells us that the Good ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The answer of the Good God." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Father Prout is suggestive of a complete union of learning, wit, and poetic power, without the slightest alloy of pedantry, acerbity, or vanity. I was a very frequent visitor at his apartments in the Rue de Moulin, and was never denied admission. If he was writing, I did not acc...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Elegy written in a country churchyard, ventured to term it the finest composition of the elegiac class in the English language. Father Mahony praised it highly, but disagreed as to its merits being superior to every other production of the kind. He then stated that about the mid...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "An Elegy on a Pile of Ruins," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My friend, pay her trifling demand; here is what will enable you to procure the same accommodation for a considerable time. Slipping a five-franc piece into the soldier's hand, he passed on and discharged the duty which he had undertaken. On the next Sunday, (Trinity,) the Curè ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Bird Charming in the gardens of the Tuileries. There was a silly notion amongst some people there that by the agency of animal magnetism, or by some peculiar power, the feathered tenants of the woods and shrubberies of the palace became familiar with particular persons, and the ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A young man of genteel demeanor, his head uncovered and slightly thrown back, called the birds, which came fluttering around him, and took, even from between his lips, the morsels of bread which he offered them. We wished to discover the secret of this curious proceeding, and re...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Here lies a Christian." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Yacht." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Protestants." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My wife is afther making a pitcher of whay fur the poor docthur; you'll find it on the windystool, or" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I brought you two jugs of milk, to make whay fur yer son; they're on the windystool. When the crisis had passed, and nutriments or sti...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mr. Scott, the prisoner is not yet discharged, and you can get a conviction immediately if you only indict him for _sheep-stealing_. When we proceeded to Wexford, the Chief Baron, as Record Judge, had but two short cases to try, and when they were disposed of, he engaged in the ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Porter! Porter! I said that" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He replied," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I don't want to make a _butt_ of you, I only wish to get a _stave_ out of you." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The Wedding of Ballyporeen. H...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A local habitation and a name." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Recollections," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Tabitha at Ivy Hall," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Tabitha's Glory," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Tabitha's Vacation," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I should say it sounded like a plain robber story," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Good morning," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Keep still, you old Towzer! It isn't time to wake Gail yet. We've got to get those flowers and she wouldn't let us if she knew." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, Peace, whispered the oldest of the trio, in an awestruck voice," }, { "from": "human", "valu...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No, goosie, it's just dew, but it must have been awful heavy. Get your clothes on, Allee, or Gail will wake before we are started. Aren't you ready, Cherry?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Then come on; we will have to fly. I'll button your dress when we get outside, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, Peace, gasped Allee at last, stumbling blindly over sticks and stones as her older sisters dragged her along between them," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, Peace Greenfield, I must say--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Don't stop to say it now, i...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What a glorious scene this is, he murmured aloud, gazing in rapt admiration at the wooded hills, the singing stream, the bright flowers." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why can't we be content to live in such places instead of building great, smoky, sooty cities? You ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why, Peace Greenfield, what ever put such a crazy idea into your head?--supposing the sun was a frying pan?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I bet it would make a good one, and I'll bet the cakes would be dandy, too! Um--m--m! I can smell 'em now. I am starving hungry,...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Pancakes! Makes me hungry, too. Guess I better wash and be moving on in search of a breakfast. I wonder if those youngsters live near here." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, of all things! That announcement quite took my breath away! he ejaculated, hurrying forward once more." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The voice sounds like 'S'posing Peace.' I wonder if it can be she." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "As true as you live, I don't believe these shoes will ever be dry by school time. S'posing we have to go barefooted, and this the last day of the term! Cherry, you've got too many columbines in that horn. They look pinched. Put some in Allee's boat." }, { "from": "gpt", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You see, we were all through breakfast when you got here, or you might have had more. I don't know, though,--Faith says if she had her way about it, she'd send every single tramp who comes here marching down the street with the enemy in pursuit. That means Towzer, but he wouldn'...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Did Faith say you could go, and where in creation did you find that ridiculous old dress?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Faith doesn't have anything to say about it, was the emphatic retort, as the brown eyes snapped indignantly at her sister's criticism." }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Where did you say you put the cake, Faith? Gail can't find it." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why, it's on the wash-bench under the pantry window, covered up with the big dishpan." }, { "from": "human", "value": "There is nothing under the dishpan but an ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Peace! Where have you been?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We've been hunting all over the farm for you," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Thought you might be searching for some more money," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What's in that big bag...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sit down over there, and remember not to talk except when you are spoken to. Above everything else, don't get to romping. Hope and Cherry are to help Miss Dunbar pass the cake, so they are needed in the kitchen. Remember, now!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, I wi...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, dear, sighed Peace at length," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I might as well have stayed at home like Faith said, for not a single soul has said a word to me since I came in, and I don't s'pose I will even get a chance to speak to the new minister. My, but he's g...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What do you find so funny to laugh at, hid away here in this dark corner?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I was just thinking s'posing we were all grasshoppers, how funny we'd look hopping around here instead of walking. We'd have to shake feet instead of hands, and i...