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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Thou hast given me no reason, girl, he whispered to her," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If thou wilt stand by thy pledge, father, answered Anne," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Of a surety I will stand by my pledge, girl; but I cannot rest satisfied till...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Let Peter of Ghent and his fair daughter Anne be called to our presence," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What does that inhabitant of old Scotland deserve, he said, as he fixed his eyes on Peter," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Speak, sirrah!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "What it meriteth in the mind of Scotland's lawful king, replied Peter, at length;" ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Is this the reward, my liege, she said, in a clear, tuneful voice," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is the privilege of beauty, said the king, still smiling," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And he undid her own riband from his arm, and put it around the neck of the supplicant." }, { "from": "human", "value": "The colour of this streamer shall afterwar...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "By the patron saint of the house of Leon, cried the Frenchman," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If thou art Rolande de Leon, said Anne, as she rose, by the hand of the king," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Ha, well timed! cried Bruce." }, { "from":...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Rise not yet, said Bruce, when he saw the operation concluded; and, taking his sword, he touched the back of the squire, and pronounced the words," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Rise, Sir Rolande de Leon, one of the bravest knights that it has been our good fortune t...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "On Fastening's E'en we had a rocking" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "for more than fifty years. Yet my early boyhood was familiar with these social senile and juvenile festivities. _There_ still sits Janet Smith, in her toy-mutch and check-apron, projecting at interva...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The labour much of man and dog" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Weer up that ewe, Jenny, lass. Wha kens but her woo may yet be a blanket for you and ye ken wha to sleep in!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Haud yer tongue, Tammie, and gang hame to yer books and yer schoolin. Troth, it will be twa days ere the craws dirty your kirk ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sycorax, toads, beetles, bats, light on him who shall first invent a reaping-machine! The best of all reaping-machines is" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "whether brawny or muscular, or soft and rounded. The old woman of sixty sits all year long at her domestic occupat...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, to feel as I have felt, Or be what I have been!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ah, little did thy mother think, That day she cradled thee, What lands thou hadst to travel in, What death thou hadst to dee!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There's no a star in a' the cary," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The bleezing ingle, and the clean hearth-stane" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "or some such amusement. At school, Nanny had ever a faithful defender and avenger in me; and I have even purloined apples and gooseberries from the castle garden--and all for the love I bore" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Is there a man whose blood is warm within him...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Will Mather, and such was" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Nancy Morrison" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "John Scott! said the son, in a firm and terrible tone, grasping his parent meantime convulsively round the neck--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "John Scott of Auchincleuch, _I am thy son_!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But who are you that makes this averment?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am thy son, father--oh, I am thy son!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, replied the parent, after a convulsive solemn sob--(O Heaven! thou art just!)--" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Peat-casting Time," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My frolicsome days will sune be owre, she cried, laughing;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Weel dune, Nancy! cried I;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "There's the Laird o' Auchincleuch coming, cried Peggy Chalmers, one of the peat-casters, who was standing...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Here is a better moss-brow," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There is a silent sorrow here, A grief I'll ne'er impart; It breathes no sigh, it sheds no tear, But it consumes my heart." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Dear happy scenes of innocence and ease-- Scenes of my youth, when every sport could please!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "King o' Cantilon," }, { "from": "human", "value": "and" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Was fresher than the morning rose When the dew wets its leaves--unstain'd and pure As is the lily or the mountain snow." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "and scarcely thought of either the past or the future, being so completely engrossed with the present. Time flew by ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And better thence again, and better still, In infinite progression." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "of booths--the gay and well-dressed parties of gentlefolks--the cheerful, joyous faces of the lower orders--the handsome equipages--the green at a distance, swarming with cattle of various kinds--with a bright and genial sun shining over all--formed altogether a pleasing and ani...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Old Ship." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Sandford!--in the name of all that's strange, is that you?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "My name is Sandford Grant, said he," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Look up at that board--perhaps it will ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "For three years we were class-fellows and friends; for we were just of the same age, and a Scottish feeling of clannish regard made us cling to each other more perhaps than we otherwise would have done. He was a handsome, spirited boy, or rather child, and was always ready, at a...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sandford's luck." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You would not say so, my dear fellow, said he," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Nonsense, said I;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My old luck," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Thank goodness! there is a breeze at last! said Captain Driver; and in half-an-hour's time the Dolphin was once more dancing along, like a living creature, over the waves. During the night, the wind drew gradually round to the northward; and before morning we had a fine steady n...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Here's a pretty business! said Captain Driver." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We will give them a run for it, however." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Talk away, my boys, said the gallant little captain." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have no time to return the compliment. If I can only keep clear of you till dark, I will weather you yet." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now, my lad, said Driver to the man at the helm," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Put the helm hard a-starboard!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hurrah, my little beauty! said Captain Driver, apostrophising his ship;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sandford's luck, again, said I." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Poor fellow, how strange it is that such a fatality always seems to attend him!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "You forget, said Captain Driver," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And now, my dear Sandford, said I," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "After a few hours spent in repairing damages, and in vigorous exercise at the pumps of the privateer, the Hawk, with her prize in tow, stood to the northward and eastward; and in a few days the Hercule, with the red ensign proudly floating above the flag of France, followed her ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mr Douglas, said she," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am delighted to see you; often and often has Sandford talked over your mutual adventures, and regretted the evil destiny that separated him from his earliest and dearest friend. Your character is so familiar to m...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This is an unexpected pleasure, Miss Sandford, said I." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Your brother wished to give me an agreeable surprise, I suppose; for he never told me that you formed one of his family party." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Sandford ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What strange beings sailors must be! said Alice to me one evening;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Do you remember that strange old fellow, Rodney, the quartermaster, said Grant," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Come, Mr Douglas, said Alice," }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Fisherman's walk" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There was no answering such a truism; so I thanked the old man for his yarn, and giving him a stiff'ner,[4] when the watch was over, turned into my snug cot, little dreaming that I would ever repeat the story on the banks of the Tay." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Th...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Lay her i' the earth; And from her pure and unpolluted flesh May violets spring!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But its beauty is of a quiet, unimposing description; the characteristic feature of the landscape which would strike the eye of a spectator who surveyed it...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "in the rear constitutes no inappropriate appendage. There is one of those dwellings conspicuous from the rest by its standing apart from them, and by an additional air of comfort and neatness which it wears, and which seems to hallow it like a radiant atmosphere. It is literally...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Weep not for her whose mortal race is o'er; She is not lost, but only gone before." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, call it _fair_, not pale!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The countenance, in general, affords an index of the mental character--it takes its" }, { "from": "human", "value": "as it were, from the predominant workings of that inward principle which is t...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Amongst the other accomplishments of our heroine, skill in music was not the least prominent. Not that she excelled in those intricate graces which are often had recourse to by vocalists to conceal a bad voice, and atone for want of feeling and expression; but her" }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "So pass'd their life--a clear united stream, By care unruffled; till, in evil hour----" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "but in lighthearted" }, { "from": "human", "value": "--full of eagerness and expectation, like the Jews to the Pool of Bethesda, when the...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "--her love--the love of Desdemona, pure, exalted, all-enduring, such as death alone could quench--her wo and her fate, so replete with all that can agonise the human soul, and awaken its profoundest sympathies;--of Ophelia--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "the young, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "These things to hear Would Desdemona seriously incline; But still the house affairs would draw her thence; Which ever as she could with haste despatch She'd come again, and with a greedy ear Devour up his discourse." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sweet hour that wakes the wish and melts the heart!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And fades at last into a spirit from heaven!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This touches your feelings, Henry, said May;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Nay, dearest love, said Wilkinson;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "They say he's gaun to learn folk ellykeashun," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And what's that, Janet?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Ne'er a bit o' me kens very weel, rejoined Janet;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ay! ay! that's an idle kind ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Five miles guid, said Janet Baird, and continued--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But ye'll no think o' gaun there the nicht; it's gettin dark, and ye've mair need o' a while's rest; and maybe ye wadna be the waur o' something to support nature; for, wae's me! ye do ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It'll be the guidman that ye're gaun to meet at H----? said Janet." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He'll be in the manufacturing line, nae doot; for there's little else dune there; and, indeed, that itsel has faun sair aff sin' that dirt o' machinery was brocht in to ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He never saw thee, my little Henry, my sweet boy! Methinks, that cherub smile of innocence which lies upon that countenance would be powerful enough to melt the icy feelings of his soul, and recall ----. Pardon me, kind friends, she continued;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Rambler, never to return. The sun arose and set, and arose again and again, and week after week, but still he came not; nor was she ever able to obtain the faintest trace of him. Her health began to droop, and, in the depth of her humiliation and misery, like the prodigal of...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Can it be? she at last exclaimed, with wild emotion--" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is to you, then, she said, after recovering from her surprise--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It is, he replied;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Base, inhuman miscreant!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Henry, she said, holding up their child, and stretching forth her arms--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Henry, look on this dear pledge of our affection, the child of love, though born in bitterness and tears, the offspring of your choice--look on him, Henry, and let...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am coming--I am coming! I knew we would be in time!--I knew we would be in time! He is there!--he--he!----Who?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "May Darling, hear me--do not curse me--I am miserable enough without the malison of her whom---- But his feelings, for a moment, choked his utterance." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Through a thousand dangers and difficulties have I sought this interview, only that I...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Here's a bonny day, sir, said old Willie Grant," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, I canna be fashed," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Willie, tie yer whings,[5] and dinna let yer shoon be shaughlin aff yer feet in that gate, or ye maun gang barefoot. Folk shouldna hae shoon that dinna ken hoo to wear them." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I canna be fashed, faither," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ay, man! says he," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Willie, laddie, gie me aff your stockings instantly. Preserve us! the callant has holes in their heels ye micht put yer nieve through!--There's what ye've dune wi' your running about without yer whings tied." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Hoot, mother, cried I," },...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now, bairns, haud awa to your beds, and before school-time the morn, gang and howe the potatoes, or weed the corn." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What!--what!--hoots!--I canna be fashed!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What's that he's saying?--I'll _be fashed_ him!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Where's my stockings? and to another," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Where's my jacket?" ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Get up, Willie--ye haena your task yet." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "in guid braid Scotch. The words literally seemed born wi' me. And, as I was telling ye about getting up to learn my tasks in the morning, many, many is the time, in the cauldest day o' winter, tha...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What did the joiner say last nicht, Willie?--will he be sure no to disappoint us wi' the furniture?--for I would like everything richt at the very first." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Eh! weel-minded, my dear, says I;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I r...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Willie, I thought you was to have been cried to-day." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I beg your pardon, sir, said I;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "You were very considerate, said he, wi' a smile;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'll be oblige...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Will ye speak at the door, Isabella dear?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, ye foolish lassie, ye! said her mother, who was sorry for me," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Get up!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I canna be fashed!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mercy me! Isabella! says I," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ready! returned she--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Isabella, said I," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ay! said she," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, confound it! crie...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I canna be fashed" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "and" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, you're one of his ghosts, are you? well, I wish you may get it--he's _got the bag_.[8]" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "So, so, I would say;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I couldna be fashed wi' the like o' that; but they said they gave me the names ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Grant, you have acted like a fool." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I dinna doubt, says I, for I was perfectly aware that I often had;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Why, says he," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "So-and-so has taken you in. He i...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Grant, if you don't look after your money, and that very sharply, you will find your friend's property is no go, and you are in for paying the three thousand." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ye dinna mean to say the like o' that?" }, { "from": "human", "va...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Come home, Grant, said my friend," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, dinna speak to me, says I--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I canna be fashed; my three thousand pounds!--my poor three thousand pounds!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What to do wi' a surgeon? says I;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I canna be fashed wi' them. The arm will get better itsel." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ev'n kings hae taen a queen out o' the plain, And what has been before may be again." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Boar-hills." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Heritable Keeper of the Kingsmuir." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That once he could have entertained him better, but now he had little more to offer than a hearty welcome." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I was formerly Earl of Northumberland, and husband of Juditha, grand-daughter of William the Conqueror. Our family were nearly connected with royalty, and my possessions in lands, flocks, and herds, exceedingly extensive and valuable. I lived in becoming splendour. I was beloved...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "From my own poor stock. She was my sole companion. I thought it my interest as well as my duty to teach her every science I knew. She had an apt and comprehensive intellect, and easily received instruction." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sweet Matilda, began David," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, my dear earl, I am the happiest man that ever breathed." }, { "from": "human", "value": "What is all this?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Is it possible, said the king," }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Filius Willielmi de Candela, domini de Anstruther:" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The King! the King!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "His staff his sceptre, his grey hairs his crown," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "History of Tithes," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Thy will be done! A thousand voices as by one impulse, blending into chaos, made response," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Amen, amen!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Battle of the May." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Flower, and the other" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The Yellow Carvel, were observed to come in sight, on which the English commander made preparations for engaging them, and distributed wine amongst his men to raise their courage. With regard to the Scottish ad...