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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If you should come across my wife--" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hendry Watty! Hendry Watty! You can't land here--you're disturbing the pollack." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Bejimbers! I wouldn' do that for the world," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The hour is come, and the man is come." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "HENDRY WATTY! HENDRY WATTY!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "HENDRY WATTY! HENDRY WATTY! _send me a line_." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Hendry Watty! Where's the rocket apparatus? Can't you hear the poor fellow asking for a line?" }, { "from": "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hendry Watty! Hendry Watty! Look out below!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Hendry Watty! Hendry Watty! Look out below!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Hendry Watty! Hendry Watty! Warm them limbs!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hendry Watty! Hendry Watty! Look out below!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Hendry Watty! catch it quick! It's my own leg I've thrown down by mistake!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'm very glad to see you," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Thank you kindly, answers my grandfather;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Why, as for that, he says," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You was always one to over-do things," }, { "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Back! come back again!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Lord of all the Universe, We, thy finny pensioners, Sue thee for the little life Hurried hence by Hades' wife. Sooner than she call him her dog, Change, O change him to a mer-dog! Re-inspire the vital spark; Bid him wag his tail and bark, Bark for joy to wag a tail Bright with m...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Vivid" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Where did you say William Dendle lives? asked the big man, as the van swung round a sharp corner and came to a halt under the signboard of" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The Lugger." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Straight on for maybe quarter of a mile-...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That's Dendle's shop down the steps," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Thank you: I know." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Is William Dendle here?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He's down on the yacht there. Shall I say you want en?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hi, there--William Dendle!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Hullo!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Can you spare a word? Don't trouble to come up--I'll climb down to you." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You disremember me, I dessay," }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I reckon she saw how disapp'inted I was that day, he said. After a pause he added," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Women brood over such things, I b'lieve: for years, I'm told. 'Tis their unsearchable natur'." }, { "from": "human", "value": "William Dendle...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "An' I looked at her over your shoulders wi' a kind o' question i' my face, an' I _did_ fetch it up. The next moment, you had your chance and cast me flat. When I came round--for you were always an ugly player, Sam Badgery--an' the folks was consolin' me, I gave a look in her dir...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You don't know 'Juliana'--neither tune nor words? Nor did I when I set foot in Eucalyptus; but I lived on pretty close terms with it for the next two months, and it ended by clearing me out of the neighbourhood. It was a sort of nigger camp-meeting song, and a hybrid at that. It...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "His face lit up at once. 'Ah, if you would!' said he; and we shook hands." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "His hand trembled on his stick, and a fit of coughing shook him. While we stood still I heard a banjo in a saloon across the road tinkle its long descent into the chorus of 'Juliana'--" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He said this with his eyes fixed on the flashing mountain; and, as he finished, he sighed." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I had passed a hundred such, at least, on my way. The camps had lain pretty close to the track, and the rains descending upon their refuse heaps had washed the labels off these cans, that now, as sun and moon rose and passed over the mountain side, flashed moving signals down to...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It was a little bookmarker, worked in silk, with one pink rose, the initials M. P. (for Mercy Penno, no doubt), and under these the favourite lines that small West-country children in England embroider on their samplers:" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We walked a few paces together as far as the green knoll that I have described as overhanging Eucalyptus, and there I halted to wait for the funeral, while Captain Bill went on to the Necropolis to make sure that the grave was ready and all arrangements complete. The procession ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "So they climbed past and up to the Necropolis, and filed in between its two pillars. I could see among the pines a group or two standing, with bent heads, and Captain Bill towering beside the grave; at times I heard his voice lifted, but could not catch the words. Down in the to...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This was all she said; and we stood there side by side for minutes. Soon the tinkle of a banjo came up to us, and a pair of billiard balls clicked; then a second banjo joined in; and gradually, as the stream of citizens trickled back and spread, so like a stream the sound of cli...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why, says he," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I always thought you a liar--I did indeed. But now I believe you can conjure, sure enough." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Tommy Warne's a clever fellow, he said at last." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I must see if he can tell me anything." }, { "from": "human", "value": "So you'm after they pack-saddles," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why, how ever did you know?...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, now, said Joby's wife," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I will, then," }, { "from": "human", "value": "said Tommy Warne." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why, to be sure I can. Why didn't you ax me afore? I thought you _liked_ squintin'." ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Get up, Joby, and come along with me if you want that eye of yours mended." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Thank you, Sam, it's curin' very easy and nice, and I hope you won't disturb me." }, { "from": "human", "value": "If 'tis Tommy Warne's cure you're t...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yankee Doodle." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What's the latitude?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Decimal nothing to speak of," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Then we ought to be nearing the Line," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What's the longitude?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That doesn't concern us." }, { "from": "human", "value": "West o' Penryn, said Sam, very sharp and short." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Here we are!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That was the Equator, said Sam." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Now let's see if your eyes be any better." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I never thought well of this cure from the first, declared Sam." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "For my part, I'm sick and tired of the whole business!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "There's nice brotherly behaviour for you! said Joby to himself." }, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well! said Joby," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Is that you, Joby Teague? Then I'll thank you to do me a good turn. I came here in a witch-ship last night, and the crew put this spell upon me because I wouldn't pay my footing to cross the Line. A nice lot, to try and...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Thankin' you kindly, soce, and now I think I'll be goin'," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Not till I've cured your eyesight, Joby," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And now, the cock said, as they came to a standstill again," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I think you can see a hole in a ladder as well as any man." }, { "from": "human", "value": "What's that for, I wonder?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And to think I've lived fifteen years with that woman, and never lifted my hand to her!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The wedding is fixed for eleven o'clock, and 'tis on the stroke now. If I was you, Joby, I'd climb down and put back the church clock." }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now, cried his friend," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Joby did so--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Widdershins! screamed the bird:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Aie, ul--ul--oo! Lemme go! 'Tis my arm you're pullin' off!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I ax your pardon, my dear. I was thinkin' you was another man's bride." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Indeed, I must say you wasn't behavin' like it," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Was the life dreary?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It's all very well for me and Robert, my lad; for us two can take equal comfort in singin' '_Star o' Bethl'em_' ashore or afloat; but I reckon 'tis somebody's place to see that Bathsheba don't miss any of the season's joy an' dancin' on our account." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Suppose that Bathsheba is dead!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Don't be a fool." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I see your hand shaking," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That's with the cold. At my age the cold takes a while to leave a man's ex...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "They might have brought news, I cried out," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Maybe there was no news to bring." }, { "from": "human", "value": "And run into the current here, I suppose? With a chance of the wind falling light at any moment?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That's Old John's boat." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Come quickly!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That will be Old John steerin' her. I reckoned so: he've got her jib shakin'--that's it: sail her close till she strikes the tide-race, and that'll fetch her down, wind or no wind. Halloa!-- Lad, lad! 'tis all right! See there, that bit o' red ensign run up to the gaff!" }, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Such a whackin' boy I never see in my life! --These were Old John's first words, and he shouted them." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Born only yestiddy week, an' she ought to be abed: an' so I've been tellin' her ever since she dragged me out 'pon this wildy-go erran...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If he wants to try both, said I," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "So this is how you live, Tom; and you, father; and you, father-in-law! She moved about examining everything--the lantern, the fog-signals and life-buoys, the cooking-stove, bunks and store-cupboards." ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, Tom, what was that?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Look up, said I." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Is it always like this? she whispered." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I thought 'twas only at the cost of a silly woman's fears that you saved men's lives out here." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well, said I," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Halloa! said I," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The nineteenth of March." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Here's a wheatear, then, I said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "In a couple of weeks we shall have the swallows; and, a couple of weeks af...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This evening will leave its mark on the history of England." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "King of Prussia," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We had met to choose eleven good men and true to administer the parish business for the coming year, or to nominate as many good men and true as we pleased. If more than eleven were nominated --this was foolishness, for he could see there was hardly a man in the room that hadn't...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "and" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "and the _Cherry-tree Carol_, and" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "However, there turned out to be one lady only; and when the Chairman read out her name, her husband--a naval pensioner, William Carclew--stood up and explained that he had only meant it for a joke upon the old woman, just to give her a start, and he hoped it would go no farther....
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I should like, said Mr. Hansombody," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "In that case, said Mr. Hansombody," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I will confine myself to a test question. The Act provides that the Chairman of a Parish Meeting is to be elected by the...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, Mr. Rabling said to me, as we stood in the street;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "There's one thing, he added;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Ironmonger Loveday has laid in a whole stock of sixpenny fire-balloons for to-night: and there isn't a br...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And then, as he set the bowl of goat's milk on the board, that simple Tyrolean turned to me with a magnificent sweep of the hand, and exclaimed--" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "in the year were:-- rum, 4,268,438 gallons; brandy, 2,668,499 gallons;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Here anual consumption of beer over three milion barls. Greatly distresd, Rabling." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Mr. Rabling had intended" }, { "from": "human", "value": "(_scilicet_" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I hear, or" }, { "fr...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "King of Prussia," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Little Drops of Water League, and a juvenile branch of the Independent Order of Good Templars, entitled the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Deeds not Words Lodge of Tiny Knights of Abstinence." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The beauty of temperance, said Sir Felix," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And then, he pursued," }, { "from": "human", "value": "--gesture repeated--" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Tyrolean" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sir Felix--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Hey?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Did a' say (with sudden and piercing jodel)" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The Child: What will he become?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Look--there goes Sir Dinar!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "For, he said," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Which of you has slain my gerfalcon?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Silly knight! said she," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Silly knights all, that seek it before you be bearded! For three of you must faint and die on the quest, and you, sir, turning to Sir Dinar," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Let it be as God will, answered Sir Dinar." }, { "from": "human", "value": "But has...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Come, dance, said she," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "For a moment only, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "In God's name, who art thou?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am young Sir Dinar, that was made a knight of the Round Table but five days before Pentecost. And I know thee. Thou art Sir Galahad, who shouldst win the Sancgrael: therefore by Christ's power rid me of th...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "FLOWING SOURCE." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Flowing Source --" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Good Entertainment for Man and Beast --leant over the riverside by the ferry, a mile and a half above Ponteglos town. The fresh water of Cuckoo River met the...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Flowing Source sooner or later. Marketers crossed the ferry and paused for a morning drink. In the cool of the day quiet citizens rambled up from Ponteglos with rod and line, or brought their families by boat on the high evening tide to eat cream and junket, and sit afterwards o...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Flowing Source within twenty-four hours after dropping anchor by Ponteglos Quay. When or why or how the custom arose nobody was old enough to remember; but a master mariner would as soon have thought of sailing without log or leadline as of putting in and out of Ponteglos withou...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Pandora's Box" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There's my tumblers. If you like, I'll bring you down a pair. They're pretty to watch. Of course, a husband is different--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Of course," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He is an angel." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Of course," }, { "from": "human", "value": "But I think, she went on, quite inconsequently," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I would rather have a pair of carriers." }, { "from": "human", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, certainly," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Pandora's Box ) on business connected with her husband's will." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No hurry at all, said Master Simon. He slipped a handful of Indian corn under the lid, and left the hamper" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You'll catch a sunstroke, said Ann the cook." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I hope you're not beginning to forget how to take care of yourself." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well, I hope so too," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, this is hustling a man! he ingeminated, staring round the empty attic like a rabbit seeking a convenient hole." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Not three weeks buried!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Lor-a-mercy!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Pandora's Box" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What can you be thinking of me?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I've brought back the pigeons." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I can never bear the sight of them again!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You might begin different, you know, sugges...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, Ann; what is it?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You've been philanderin'." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Hey! Upon my word, Ann--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Are you goin' to marry the woman?" }, { "from": "human", "valu...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "To fortify you!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The night air," }, { "from": "human", "value": "You talk without giving it a trial." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "As you talk, in your parlour, of deep-sea voyages." }, { "from": "human",...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Married man or mariner!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I know my own mind, I believe, said Master Simon to himself." }, { "from": "human", "value": "There's as good fish in the sea as ever came out of it; and for salmon, 'Flowing Source' will beat Christc...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Selina!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What's that coming down the river?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I think 'tis a haystack, Selina whispered, and then," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Lord save us all, there's a man on it!" }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Pandora's Box Inn stands on Ponteglos Quay to this day. And all that is left of" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Flowing Source" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The dear child _do_ take such notice of the puff-puff!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Kytherea Victrix!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Show a light, Jenkins, and let us have a look at the gentleman." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Light _all_ the candles!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "If it please you, Sir Harry," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, upon my soul! cried Sir Harry, with something between a laugh and a sniff of disgust; and the footman on the other side of me echoed it with a silly cackle." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He certainly doesn't look as if he came from Bath!" }, { "from": ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "For your own delectation if you will, miss; but as your protector I must ask you not to give it back." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If that's a sample of your manner towards your daughter, even you, in your cooler moments, can hardly wonder that she chooses another protector." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Protector!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "If you can't behave with common pol...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Captain Fitzroy Pilkington could add no lustre to his name, father, by giving it to me. His family is as good as our own, and his name is one to be proud of." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "So it is, my dear, thought I," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I s...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well-diggers' Arms" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "H'm, said I to the man," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am sorry to appear inopportunely, but I have a message for your master." }, { "from": "human", "value": "And who the doose may you be?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I think, I answered,...