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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He would smilingly declare that he wouldn't" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Later, ever on the wing, his fortune reached dizzy heights. Folks whispered in superstitious awe the figures he made in net profits at the end of every sailing. He owned warehouses as large as...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He cherished a vivid memory of Rafael's father, the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "he had known in all his life. It seemed as though he could still see don Ramón stopping on his big horse in front of his humble farmhouse and, with the air of a grand lord, leaving ord...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I don't know; I imagine it's all talk. My Remedios is only a town girl, you see. The señor deputy is probably thinking of someone from the 'upper crust' in Madrid." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The old man, despite his boresome habit of suggesting" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Here, too! the actress exclaimed with a laugh that rippled charmingly under the white skin of her throat." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You are getting to be my shadow. In the market place, on the road, everywhere! I find you every time I look around!" }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, go right on, she said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We'll take our time, but we'll be there soon!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Did you see that? Didn't you notice their smiles and the winks they exchanged when they saw you on the road?... Oh, R...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But how glum and queer you look today! Are you ill?... What's the matter?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Poor Rafael! My poor dear boy!... And what are we going to do?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Perhaps it will be today," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Poor Rafael!... My poor dear boy!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Careful, Rafael.... That hurts! Let go, of me." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "in a petty environment such as they were in, a tiny world of gossip-mongers and evil tongues! Imagine having to hide like a criminal to express a noble emotion! No, when she loved, she loved in the open, with the sublime immodesty of the masterpiece that scandalizes bumpkins wit...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No. You shall not go; I refuse to let you go!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Go!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'm never taken by force, she said coldly." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I give myself ... if I feel like it." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Go! Go, or I'll beat you again!... And never come back!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I told you so. What had he always said, when doña Bernarda, in the confiding intimacies of that friendship which amounted almost to a senile, a tranquil, a distantly respectful passion, would complain of Rafael's contrariness? That it would all pass; that it was a young man's wh...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And how about ... that?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Nothing, she would answer, with a proud smile." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Three weeks have gone by and he hasn't shown the slightest inclination to go back. No, Rafael is a good boy. All that wa...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Rafael, don't be crazy, his mother would say, threatening him indulgently with her withered forefinger." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Let Remedios work; if you carry on so I won't let you come into the parlor." }, { "from": "human", "value": "and of" }...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "had turned pale and walked straight ahead pretending not to see him. What did that mean?... A break for good of course! The impudent hussy was livid with rage, you see, perhaps because she could not trap her Rafael again; for he, weary of such uncleanliness, had abandoned her fo...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, if they're fond of each other, said the rustic magnate," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That Rafael of ours, she would say to don Andrés, mimicking the long face he used to put on when bringing up her troubles with her husband," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Let 'em alone, let 'em alone, doña Bernarda! The deeper in he gets with this one, the less likel...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now be good, Rafaelito, Remedios would murmur in a sort of entreating bleat," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Let's see if he can catch you! the mother would call, with a laugh." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Run and let him try to catch you!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Huh, _señora_! I believe you. This is getting on--on, and then some. I'd say, marry them ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Go!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Everything I have will be for you two. Remedios is an angel, and the day I die, she will get more than my rascal of a son. All I ask of you is not to take her off to Madrid. Since she is leaving my roof, at least let me be able to see her every day." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Leonora! Leonora!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Leonora!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Rafael! You here?..." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You've given me a scare that I'll never forgive you for, she said at last." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What are you doing here?..." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Come, now, said Leonora gently," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Let's not discuss that unpleasant thing! It hurts me just to think of it. You're forgiven; and since you've fallen on this spot as though heaven had dropped you here, you may stay a moment. But ... no liberties. You know me now." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What a ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I was frightened when I saw you, she continued, in a slow, faint voice." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "A little fright, nothing more! A natural surprise, I suppose; and yet, I was thinking of you that very moment. I confess it. I was saying to myself: 'What can that ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hush! Your voice is very loud. They might hear you. My aunt's room is in the other wing of the house, but she's not a heavy sleeper.... Besides, I don't care to listen to talk about remorse, pardon, and such things. It makes me think of that morning. The mere fact that I am lett...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I don't know what's the matter with me tonight. I feel like crying, without knowing why. I am filled with a strange inexplicable happiness, and yet I could just weep and weep. Oh, I know--it's the Springtime; all this fragrance that whips my nerves like a lash. I really believe ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No one ever understood as well as He. He knew everything, felt as nobody ever felt the mysterious hidden workings of Nature; and He sang of Springtime as a god would sing. Hans used to remark that many a time; and it's so." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Rafael, you d...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Despair," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Your father was the Wolf, and I am of the race of Hunters. Until the break of day, my house protects you; you are my guest; but as soon as the sun rises in the heavens you become my enemy, and we will fight.... Woman, prepare the night's drink; and let us be off to bed." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Who has come in? No one--and yet, a Stranger has entered the hovel, opening the door with an invisible hand. And Sigmund, at the inspiration of Love, divines the identity of the visitant." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It is Springtime laughing in the air about your ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I don't know what's the matter with me to-night. I feel as though I were dying.... But such a sweet death! So sweet!... What madness, Rafael! How rash it was of us to have seen each other on such a night!..." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Leonora! Leonora!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No, no; it would hurt me.... I feel that I'm dying." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You belong to me, the youth continued with an exaltation ill-suppressed." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You belong to me forever; to gaze into your dear eyes, and to murm...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, Rafael, what is happening to me?... What's happening to me? It must be love; a new love that I did not think I should ever know.... Rafael ... Rafael, my own boy!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I belong to you, Rafael! Yours ... but forever. I have always loved you from the first, but now ... I adore you.... For the first time in my life I say that with all my soul." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes; you belong to me forever.... I will marry you." }, {...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Madcap! We'll never get there at this rate. With rests like this we make very little progress, and I've promised to take you to my island." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No, mama; I've been working nights; an important study I'm preparing." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Liar!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What a scandal! exclaimed doña Bernarda." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "At night, too! He'll wind up by bringing her into this house! Can it be that that simpleton of a doña Pepita is blind to all this?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What do I care for their gossip he once said to Leonora." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I love you so much that I'd like to see the whole city worship you in public. I'd like to snatch you up in my arms, and appear upon the bridge at high noon, before a concourse stu...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'm stifling in this house. I hate to caress you inside four walls, as if you were only a passing whim. This is unworthy of you. You are Love, who came to seek me out on the most beautiful of nights. I like you better in the open air. You look more handsome to me then, and I fee...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What night are you going to take me there? It's a whim of mine, a wild idea; but, what does love exist for, if not to make people do the foolish things that sweeten life?... Carry me off in your boat! The bark that bore you there will transport the two of us to your enchanted is...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If you could only know how grateful I am to you for this excursion, Rafael!... I'm happy, so happy. Never have I had such a night as this. But where is the island? Have we gone astray, as you did the night of the flood?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Here we are, murmured Rafael." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Hold on to something and get out. Careful, careful! Don't you want to hear the nightingale? Here we have him. Listen." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My love is an ancient thing, she murmured." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Do you suppose, I have been loving you only since the other night? No, I have loved you for a long, long time.... But don't you go and get conceited on that account, _su señoria_! I don't know ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Madcap! he muttered, smiling." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You're hurting me." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I could eat you up, she murmured." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I feel like devouring you, my heaven, my king, my god.... What ha...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Listen, my darling, said Leonora." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The poor little fellow is bidding us good-bye. Just hear how plaintively he says farewell." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hush, my darling. You had better stop singing; they'll recognize you. They'll guess who you are." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Good-bye, my love; one kiss. Until tomorrow ... no, later--today." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Another, my prince ... the last." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Good-bye, Rafael.... Now I must really go. They'll discover us." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You've given me a fine night, Rafael. I know where you've been. I saw you row off last night with that woman; and plenty of my friends were on hand to follow you and find out just where you went. You've been on the island all night; that woman was singing away like a lunatic.......
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Besides, your mother knows everything. She's discovered what you've been up to, these nights past. She knows you haven't been in your room. You're going to break that woman's heart!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, growled the old man." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What have you got to say to all this? What do you propose to do? Answer me! Haven't you got a tongue in your head?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I, replied the young man energetically--" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Rafael, is that the way you answer me,--a man who has known you since you were born? Is that the tone of voice you use toward one who loves you as your own father loved you?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'm of age, if you don't mind my saying so! Rafael replied." ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You're right, don Andrés. Rafael is not my son. He has changed. That wanton woman has made another man of him. Worse, a thousand times worse, than his father! Crazy over the huzzy! Capable of trampling on me if I should step between him and her. You complain of his lack of respe...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I saw it with my own eyes" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why what's the matter? What has happened ...?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I see ... mother! he said in a stifled voice." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "She has been up to something. Tell me what it is. Don't be afraid. To me you are dearer than anything else in the world." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well ... there is auntie...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "They've robbed me of all I had in the world, she murmured desperately," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I have made up my mind. It hurts me very much to say what I am going to say; but I can't help it. It will do you no good to say 'no'--I cannot stay under this roof another day. Everything is over between my aunt and me. Poor old woman! The dream I cherished was to care for her l...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, why are you going? the young man asked." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If you love me, why are you forsaking me?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Just because I love you, Rafael.... Because I want you to be happy." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No, you must be good, my heart. I must go away. We can't go on loving each other here. I'll write to you, I'll let you know all I'm doing.... You'll hear from me every day, if I have to write from the North Pole! But you must stay! Don't drive your mother to despair! Shut your e...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You shall not go, he answered at last decisively." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "A love like ours is not ended so easily. Your flight would be a disgrace to me--it would look as if I had affronted you in some way, as if you were tired of me." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You shall not go, he repeated, with sullen obstinacy." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I won't give up my happiness so easily. And if you insist on going, we will go together." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, no! How horrible! Rafael, my Rafael!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No, my mind is made up. I must go alone. I haven't the strength to face a mother's hatred." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why not say outright that you don't love me. You're tired of me, and of this environment. The hankering for your old life has come over you again...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And I refuse, Leonora, do you understand? I refuse! continued her lover with unaffected resolution." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I belong to you, you are the only woman I love. I shall follow you all over the world, even against your wishes, to be your servant, see...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, Rafael, my god, my king! How wonderful!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Roma" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Chinamen" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But are you really going out? asked Leonora with a certain anguish, as if her feminine instinct sensed a danger." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Are you going to leave me alone?..." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Only a moment. I won't keep you waiting lo...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Good-bye, Rafael.... Another hug; just one more." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Rafael! Rafael!..." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Rafael! Rafael!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "You?... Here?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I came by the Madrid express. For two hours I've been hunting for you in all the hotels of Valencia...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You approve of what you've done?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Now, see here, don't you go lying to me: either we're men or we're not men. If you think you've acted properly, you ought to stand up for it and say so. Don't imagine you're going to pull the wool over m...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Rafael is not in the house. He has gone ... perhaps never to return. I am sure of it--he took the money!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, is the Hon. don Rafael Brull, member from Alcira, satisfied with his morning's work? Don't you think the laugh your enemies have raised deserves an _encore_!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And then, what a woman! I have been young, like you, Rafael. It's true I didn't know a stylish woman like this one, but, bah! they're all alike. I have had my weaknesses; but I tell you I wouldn't have lifted a finger for this actress of yours! Any one of the girls we have down ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'm thirsty, don Andrés. Let's go in somewhere." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We have just an hour to catch our train! Come, Rafael, be a man! There's still time! Come, let's get out of this mess we're in!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I can't, don Andrés. I'm a gentleman. I've given my word; and I will not go back upon it, come what may!" ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Madame, madame, a letter for you!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My mother very ill.... I must go home for a day or two ... my duty as a son ... we'll soon meet again." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ah, the wretch! The infamous, cowardly, unspeakable wretch!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Beppa, she groaned finally," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The wretch! Leonora hissed, pacing back and forth in the chamber." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What a fool, what a complete, unconscionable fool I have been! Giving myself to that man, believing in that man, trusting that man, giving up my peace of mind, the last r...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Don Rafael, the gentlemen of the Committee on the Budget are waiting for you in the second section." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'll be there directly." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "in the capricious ups and downs of Spanish politics, which give to Parliaments only a fleeting existence. The ushers, the personnel of the Secretariat, the guards and janitors, treated him with deferential intimacy, as a comrade on a somewhat higher level, but as much of a fixtu...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "well-balanced young man, of few words, but good ones, and sure some day to be rewarded with a Portfolio. Content with the rôle of safety and sanity that had been assigned to him, he laughed very seldom, and dressed soberly, with not a dissonant color to brighten his black attire...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "See here, Brull, better bring your people in; we're going to have a close call." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "when he was serving his first term, there was" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "She had fallen into a senile decrepitude that bordered on dotage. Her sole evidence of being alive was her habit of staying in church until the doors were closed and she could stay no longer. At home she did nothing but recite the rosary, mumbling away in some corner of the hous...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A jewel for the home! And didn't I tell you so?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "don Matías with pride at sight of a nursery full of future" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "and unsuccessful aspirants, who were loyal to him in gratitude for passes to the floor--were encouraging him and prophesying victory. They no longer approached him to begin:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "When I was auditor ... to indulge in a veritable intoxication ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Order of the day. Resumption of debate on ecclesiastical appropriations!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ecclesiastical Appropriations" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now we'll see what this ninny has got to say!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "did things. And as he spoke, Rafael's eyes turned anxiously upon the clock. He wanted to be long, very long. If he did not talk for an hour and a half or two hours he would feel disgraced. T...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But --and with this _but_, alas, Rafael must begin to loosen up on a little of what he had prepared in advance. _Su señoria_ was an" } ]