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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The young fellow showed up in a very sober state of mind. He is really as sound as a dollar, but for the present I am keeping him anxious without being too explicit. He appears to be quite as attractive a youth as your friend said. I am very much interested, but am not yet prepa...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, what do you think of him?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am charmed, I said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "There are no two words about it." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "So was I, he said," }, { "from": "human", "value"...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I tell Boardman, said the doctor," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Has your father got half a dozen like you?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I have no brothers, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "My father is dead." }, { "from": "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That certainly was decent of Dr. ----, he said diffidently." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I don't know why he's so good to me." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, you're not a bad sort of boy," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You, too, he said...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How did you first get into this mess?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'd have to tell you my whole life to explain that." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Fire away." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "My mother died when I was a baby, he said." }...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is three years now since the crash came. I was fourteen then. One day my father was arrested and taken to the Tombs. Mrs. Mansfield took me to her house, not the same one she has now. She treated me all right, but I hated her. Young as I was I held her responsible. I didn't s...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "One day last winter in school I received a letter signed Well-Wisher," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I found a queer customer waiting for me. A man about fifty with close-cropped hair. He told me right off that he was just out of Sing Sing. Why hadn't I ever come to ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He died in April. Mrs. Mansfield immediately took me out of school. She told me my father was dead, and that it was time I went to work. I think she must have learned by her spies that I had been to see my father, for she no longer took the trouble to put on a good face. Now it ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "English" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Suppose some one gets hurt," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Not likely, I said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "They play too safe a game. We will be on our guard." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We are not going to fall down on it," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If any of you want to have anything explained, speak up. I've got to catch the four o'clock back to town." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Look here, said he," }, { "from": "human", "value": "How?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I used to be know...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This is the place," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "How cosy!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Shall we sit down?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Let's! said she." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'll have a cigarette." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My necklace! she gasped, jumping up, hand to throat." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Gone!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "There he is!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I have been robbed! I heard Mrs. Levering gasp." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "My diamond necklace! He came from there. He went that way." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "WELL-KNOWN JEWELLER STEALS THE DIAMONDS HE SOLD" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What are you doing here?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I just wanted to have a look at the swells," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Hold this guy," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Get the H---- out of here!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'll do anything you tell me. But I want to see you. I must see you sometimes, dearie. What is the use of all this working and worrying, what am I doing it for if you never even let me see you? I can't stand it. I can't go on. I _won't_ stand it!" }, { "from": "gpt", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Drink to Foxy, fellows! he cried." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "There's the lad that brings home the bacon! The slickest, smoothest article of them all!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Say, Foxy, asked another admirer," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, six months ago, when I lifted an actress' pearls," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Tell us about it," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Elegant pearls, he said reminiscently," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "How did you do that?" }, { "f...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And they never got on to you!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Nah! That was where Enderby came in. He fixed the crime on the young leading man and broke up the show. Lord! I laughed. It let me out, too. I was sick of the fool business of acting every night. It wasn't ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Cut it out!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "English, she said," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Jumbo told me that you would be glad to get a little extra work as a diamond expert." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "There's a friend of mine a jewel...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My friend needs an assistant, a diamond expert, Lorina continued." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "For a couple of months now, he's been at his wit's end to find a man he could trust. Jumbo said you were just the man for the job so I recommended you, and my friend told...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I do not like to work late at night, said Freer nervously." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It attracts attention." }, { "from": "human", "value": "My work is with the pearls, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He died," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "These are consignments of diamonds lately received, which I have not had the time to inventory. You see each article is tagged with a number. You are to take them in numerical order, enter a careful description and valuation in a journal, then demount the stones, weigh them, gra...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The other part of your work, Freer went on," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Am I to send these orders out?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Enter the orders in the order book, fill them from stock, and turn them over to me." }, { "from": "gpt", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Where is Mr. Mount?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I sent him away for an hour," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Are we quite alone?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Bella and Marie are in my bedroom. That is two rooms away." }, { "from"...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You knew this long ago! she cried accusingly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why didn't you tell me before?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Roland forbade it. I am breaking my word to him in telling you now." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, I beg your pardon, she said, cringing." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I didn't know you were still engaged." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Leave the room! she commanded." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I told you I was not to be disturbed...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Elegantly-dressed man of fifty. Silvery toupee, waxed moustache, pale face. Brown suit, waistcoat edged with white. White spats, white gloves. Expensive Panama hat, fancy band green and red. Room 1104." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "This is your description, and this...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Miss Sadie Farrell is calling," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "One moment," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Please have Miss Farrell come up-stairs," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Come in!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Hello, Sadie! I cried." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Make yourself at home. I'll be dressed in a jiffy!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'll be back in a minute," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Is there a drugstore in the hotel?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "No, sir. There is one opposite the Thirty-fourth street entrance." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Is it a reliable plac...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Of course nobody believes she's sick. What can be the matter?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "They've had a row I suppose," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, my _dears_!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What do you _think_? cried Miss Maddox." }, { "from": "human", "value": "There's no use your going any farther! There isn't going to be any wedding!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why?" }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Roland!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I love you," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He's slipped through my fingers for the moment! she went on," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "She's at a sanatorium at Amityville, Lorina went on." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I got a servant into the house, and I know her habits. I won't take any chanc...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Don't be simple-minded, English, she said contemptuously." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "This is no child's game, that you can refuse to play if you don't like the rules. You're in it for bad or for worse like the rest of us. And I have the means of enforcing my orde...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What are my instructions?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The girl is at Dr. ----'s sanatorium, said Lorina." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You should not get out there before dark, so the seven-thirty train will be the best. There is a train back from A...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Use this, she said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It makes no sound." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Freer will go with you," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "As soon as you get back you will both come direct to my house," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Will you send a telegram for me?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What do you mean?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Don't look so surprised, I said, smiling still." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "There's a man watching me. He mustn't know. It's ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We can just make the train. It's the only train to-night." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Come on, I said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "It isn't our fault if she didn't come." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Thank God she didn't!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No good, I said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "The girl never came." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Hm!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Boys, said Lorina," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Boys, she said bluntly," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What's the matter with you? I cried." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I didn't ask you to take me in. You came after me. You gave me your work to do. Haven't I done it? Didn't I deliver the goods at N...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My God! it's Mr. Dunsany!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Eh?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Walter Dunsany," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Is this true?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Quite true," }, { "from": "gpt", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You fool! she cried." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ten millions wouldn't save him! He gets a perpetual lodging in my cellar!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Hands up!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Foxy, Jim, frisk him!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Down on the floor with him!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Wait! said Lorina." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We'll see what we can find out first." }, { "from": "human", "value...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Shut the door, she said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Wait outside. Do not come in unless I call you." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What have you got to tell me?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What do you want to know?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Stand still! she commanded." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Where is Enderby to-night?" }, { "from": "human", "v...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How do you communicate with him?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "By letter or telephone." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Where?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "At the Rotterdam." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I've had enough of th...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Guy just called up, said Blondy." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Said: 'Have you got the keys?' I came back: 'Who are you?' 'Thomas Wilkinson.' 'O.K.,' said I. Then he started in quick to give me my instructions." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I must tak...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Thomas Wilkinson" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Look here, I said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Shoot!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "First, send me quick a high-powered automobile with a nervy chauffeur and two operatives. Have them pick me up at the Southwest corner of Second avenue and 59th stre...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am here at Mitchell's with three of the cars, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The other two were sent by a slightly longer route. They will be here directly." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Take three cars and proceed by the shortest route to G...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Get ready," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Start your engines," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Go ahead," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What's the matter with you?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Your master has had a stroke, I said to him." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Take us to his home as soon as possible." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why not?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It's a outrage, this thing," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Kin ye do it, Skim?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Look here, Sonnie-Boy. Here's a man says your papa is the greatest man ever was in his line." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "LIGONIER" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "HATTIE RENNISH" }, { "from": "human", "value": "SVEND FOYN" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Look here, Sonnie-Boy. Here's a man says your papa is the greatest man ever was in his line" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And of course your brother is laying great plans to assure his future?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That two-faced chairman of yours--he never tipped me off you could fight any way except with your hands." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Just then one came right under her forefoot and another under her counter. And I looks back to the gunboat." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Halloo, little boy! I'll bet I know who your papa is." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Mr. Welkie's little boy, aren't you?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, sir. But I'm 'most six." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh-h, I see--a big boy now. ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Good evening--Miss Welkie? That Southern" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Miss Welkie, yes." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'm Mr. Necker. From a gold-mounted case he drew out a card." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'm looking for your brother...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We're all very happy here," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "A great deal of your brother in him, isn't there?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Very much. Our older friends back home say that it is like Greg--that is, my brother--being born all over." }, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "O say! can you see-- came the swelling notes over the gently heaving bay. Marie could feel that young Greg was ready to burst; but she could not detect a move, not a quiver, out of him until the last note of the last bugle had ceased to re-echo. Then he saluted reverently, execu...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How far this time, Andie?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "From half the world around, Marie." }, { "from": "human", "value": "And are you glad?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And I would come it twice again to see your dear eyes smile." }, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mess call, papa?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Getting so you know them all, aren't you, Sonnie-Boy? One minute from now ten thousand husky lads out there will be doing awful things to the commissary grub. But look there! Andie, did any of your kings or presidents e...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But it don't, papa, 'n' the wheels do track." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But it's a king in England, papa." }, { "from": "human", "value": "It's true, 'bout th' accidents, isn't it, papa?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "How's that?" }, {...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A great joy for you, also--young Greg, Marie?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If you could hold him and feel his little heart against yours when he's saying 'Good night, auntie,' after he's said his prayers! His prayers and the 'Star-Spangled Banner' are his great set...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And when was it you began to think of me, Andie?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Since those first days, Marie, when your brother and I bunked together in the old S.$1.$2.construction camp. He used to read me letters of yours from home. You were only a little girl the...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He's asleep at last. Welkie was standing in the door." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And I don't know but we'd all better be getting to sleep, too. For to-morrow morning, you know, we--Wha-at!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Shunt care for the morrow, Gr...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And --the chairman reinserted the letter in the neat pile--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "--he shot a glance round the table--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "And I guess you don't have to see too much of a man to be able to size him up either!" }, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I take it, Mr. Riley, that you are not the kind of man who would stand up on a platform and dodge an argument with the most excitable of opponents?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Dodge? What from?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Not from the hoots and th...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And now for one last little touch before we send the poor boob to his political extinction," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, sir--I believe in frankness, Mr. Riley. And I will tell you now that we didn't poll many votes in New Ireland last year. I don't just remem...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He's come here from the other end of the State, with a reputation for burning things up. Let him try to burn up New Ireland--and then go back to where he came from. Why, let his kind come butting in on us and soon we would all be out of jobs." }, { "from": "gpt", "va...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "New Ireland? the senator repeated." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, Mr. Riley. I can give you something better than that. That would be a waste of time. I'll change that right now. Here----" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Excuse me, sir; but I'm going ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A good fighter, I should say. The tall boss scratched his beard with his finger-nails." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "An encouraging thing to meet a good fighter in these fat days; but let us see. He stepped over to where a blue-and-red-spotted map of the State was h...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And what kind have you here in New Ireland? Easy to get along with?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "To get along with? The finest, easiest ever--of course if a man don't cross them." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I wonder do you think I'll cross them?" ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And now you --Malone turned leisurely to a stocky-looking young fellow in seedy clothes standing wistfully off to one side--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "All right," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Will you let me have, said Tim to him," }, { "f...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Would you let me have a light?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "H-ff! h-ff! The boss swallowed quite a little smoke, but recovered and passed over his cigar. Tim took his light from it, said" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Thanks!" }, { "from": "gp...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You may be the boss, thought Tim," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And turning squarely on Malone he observed genially:" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Fine day." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "H-p-p--" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is a fine day, responded Malone slowly;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why, it's not going to rain, is it?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The poor creature! murmured Tim; and while pitying her the plan came to him." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Gentlemen, he said over his shoulder," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I have to be off; but before going I cordially invite you and all your frien...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There, ma'am." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We'll have the little kittle b'ilin' in a minute now, sir." }, { "from": "human", "value": "And what will you do against the cold winter comin', ma'am?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, yeh! I'll d...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Out o' that, you with your mud on you from the quarry pools sp'ilin' the gentleman's fine clothes!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Small harm he'll do, ma'am." }, { "from": "human", "value": "It's better manners he ought to be havin', though 'tis fine to s...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "They'll be hurrying home from the quarries now. And 'tis not a lonesome home they will be finding." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "True, ma'am." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, yeh; if it was but a stone I had to put on their two graves in the cemetery below!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And why shouldn't you have the stone to put over them? Tim jumped up and patted her white, straggling hair." }, { "from": "human", "value...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But if they are not here, gentlemen, to accredit me, I am here to speak for myself. And, as you see, there is the table, the chair, the ice-water pitcher, the empty glass, all as --he smiled down at the boss in the front row--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, an' ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And --Tim straightened up--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I took his hand, and 'Sir, I will!' I said. He was joking, maybe; but I wasn't. And I did vote the Republican ticket; and I'm still voting the Republican ticket. And I'm saying to you all to-night--the one Re...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There was an old lady in the old country, who received a letter from her oldest son, John, with passage-money for her second son, Pat, to come over and join him. She gave her consent. Why wouldn't she--when the living was so hard? Pat went, leaving his mother of nigh seventy and...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, the two sons in America, strong and willing, worked side by side, earning their dollar and a quarter and their dollar and a half a day, with now and again a day's or a week's layoff to set them back, but managing always between them to save four dollars in the week and sen...