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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Any one can do what we do" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There is absolutely no reason, he would say, in tones which carried absolute conviction to his hearer at the moment," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That's very true. What Toftrees says is absolutely true," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Here you are at my house. For the first time you have been admitted to the Dining Room. I have taken you up, I am going to publish a book of yours and see what you are made of. Ga...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, sir," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "R.S.V.P. expression" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I mean it, Toftrees said in his resonant, and yet quiet voice." }, { "from": "human", "value": "There really is no reason, Mr. Ingworth, why you should not be making an income of at least eight or nine hu...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, really, she said, in genuine surprise." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Rather unusual for you, isn't it? Is the boy a genius then?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Not at all. Not at all, he murmured into a pretty ear." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We are not paying the lad any advance upon royalties! He laughed a well-fed laugh." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Ince and Amberley's list, he continued," }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I certainly do, Mrs. Toftrees," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Won't you have another cigarette, Miss Wallace? he said, pushing a silver box towards her." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "They are supposed to be rather wonderful. My cousin Eustace Amberley is in the Egyptian Army and an aide-de-camp to the Khedive. The Khedive rece...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "At any rate, he said, while these thoughts were flashing through his mind" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, no, she answered." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Men know so little about girls! You think we're so different from you in lots of things, but we...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Muriel! Mr. Amberley said to his daughter," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Miss Wallace has been telling me dreadful things about your schooldays. I am grieved and pained!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Don't be a wretch, Cupid!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Cupid? Why Cupid?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, it's a name we gave her at school," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You have done some literary work, have you not?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You can't call it _that_, Mr. Amberley, she replied in a voice pitched to his own key." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I've written a few stories which have been published and I've had three articles in the Saturday edition of the _Westminster_--that's nearly everythi...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Don't say that, my dear. Never depreciate yourself or belittle what you have done. I suppose you are about Muriel's age, twenty-one or two--yes?--then let me tell you that you have done excellently well." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That is kind of you." }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Keep such an ideal, my dear. Whether you do small or great things, it will bring you peace of mind and dignity of conscience. But don't despise or condemn merely popular writers. In the Kingdom of Art there are many mansions you know." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But I _am_ mad, crazy, she said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, he answered, following the direction of her glance," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I did so want to see him, she said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I've hardly ever met a...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Thank you, no, he said, after a second's consideration, and in a voice that was slightly high-pitched but instinct with personality--it could never have been mistaken for any one else's voice, for instance--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I think I will have a whiske...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Surgit Amari" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "One should not always take after-dinner amenities au pied de la lettre." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That's not the voice of a man who's done himself too well," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "than these were able to suggest. Certainly no one looked less like a poet, though this did not surprise the popular novelist, in an age when literary men looked exactly like every one else. But there was not the slightest trace of idealism, of the" }, { "from": "gpt", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "D'you know, I'm told that so and so--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Are you in town for long, Mr. Lothian? he asked." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You don't come to town often, do you?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, I don't, Lothian an...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I knew too much of London when I was a young man, he went on with an unnecessarily confidential and intimate manner." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "When I came down from Oxford first, I was caught up into the 'new' movement. It all seemed very wonderful to me then. I...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I like you, Lothian was trying to say to him--the acquaintance of ten minutes!--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I can open my heart to you. You've had a peep at the Poet's Holy of Holies. But we're men of the world--you and I!--enough of this. We're in society. We're...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If it hadn't been for my dear wife!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Lothian was saying with precision, and a certain high air which sat well upon him--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I don't think that you quite see it in all its bearings. There must be a rough and ready standard for ordinary work-a-day life--that I grant. But when y...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I say, Mr. Toftrees, isn't Gilbert splendid? I could listen to him all night. He talks like that to me sometimes, when he's in the mood. It's like Walter Pater and Dr. Johnson rolled into one. And then he sort of punctuates it with something dry and brown and freakish--like Hein...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You know Mr. Lothian very well, I suppose?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, yes. I go and stay with Gilbert in the country a lot. I'm nearly always there! I am like a brother to him--he was an only child, you know. But isn't he wonderful?" }, { "from": "hum...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, and I know him so well! Hardly any one knows him so well as I do. Every one in town is crying out to find out all about him, and I'm really the only one who knows . . ." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'm going to have a liqueur brandy, Toftrees said hastily--he ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, it doesn't seem to trouble you much," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Gilbert's quite different from any one else, he said lightly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He is a genius. Keats taking pepper before claret, don't you know! One must not measure him by ordinary standards." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I suppose not,...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Surgit Amari" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, thank you! _Thank you!_ he said in a high, fervent voice." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "How wonderful that is! And you played it as Crouchmann plays it--the _only_ interpretation! I know him quite well. We had supper together the other night after his concert, a...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I don't think my daughter will play any more, Mr. Lothian," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I do hope that I shall have the pleasure of hearing you play some more Chopin before long, Miss Amberley! Thank you so much Mrs. Amberley--I'm going to write a poem about your beautiful Dining Room. I suppose we shall meet at the Authors' Club dinner on Saturday, Mr. Toftrees?--...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "So Mr. Gilbert Lothian has gone," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, dear," }, { "from": "human", "value": "We can never have him here again," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Very unfortunate, extremely unfortunate," }, { "from": "human"...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Don't you think so, Toftrees?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But let us put his talent aside, he said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Think of him as an ordinary person in our own rank of life--Mrs. Amberley's guest. Certainly he could not have taken an...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It seems rather dreadful, Mrs. Amberley, he said, quite thinking that he was committing literary suicide as he did so." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It is dreadful of course. But Gilbert _is_ such a fine chap when he's--when he's, all right! You can't think! And the...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Let's forget all about it, she said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Mrs. Toftrees, help me to make my husband sing. He can only sing one song but he sings it excellently--'In cellar cool'--just the thing for a hot night. Joseph! do as I tell you!" }, { "from"...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Was I very far gone?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yes! damn the fellow! He _lived_ on poets and men of letters--privileged people, the salt of the earth, the real forces of life!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Like the fellow's cheek," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "At this moment, as I stand here, he said to himself," }, { "from": "human", "value": "not in the least understanding that when he spoke of his own" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "or" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What shall I do now?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Where shall I go now?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Central-one" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Where shall I go? he asked himself again, and immediately his eye fell upon another, the brilliant illumination upon the façade of a well-known" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Theatre of Varieties." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes! he said." }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Good heavens! said a huge man with a blood red face, startling in its menace, like a bully looking into an empty room," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why, here's old Lothian! Where in the world have _you_ sprung from, my dear boy?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ah, Lothian, he said, as one or two other people came up and some one gave a copious order for drinks," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You've kept the colour, Edgar, he said, looking into the little creature's face, but the words stabbed through him, nevertheless. How...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If I can only help you in any way, old chap--" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It will be perfectly all right, said Prince." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I haven't done for Mr. Lothian for all these years without understanding his ways. Drunk or sober, sir, Mr. Gilbert is always a gentleman. He's the most pleasant country member in the club, s...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You take off his boots, Prince, and I'll manage his collar." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, sir." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Managed it?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "A little difficulty with the left boot, sir. The instep is a trifl...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Thank you, Prince, he said, in his clear and sweet voice," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Will you require me any more, sir?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, thank you, Prince." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Very good, sir. I have made the morning arrangements." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Good-night, Prince." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, Dicker? he said--and suddenly his whole face was transformed. Ten years fell away. The smile was sweet and simple, there was a freakish humour in the eyes,--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, Dicker?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "How are you, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Surgit Amari" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mary! Mary! he said aloud," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I want you, I want you!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Darling! there is no one else in the world but you." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Father help me! Jesus help me!--forgive me!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Father, help me! Help me _now_. Let me go to bed without phantoms and torturing ghosts round me! Do not look into the Temple to-night. I will cleanse it to-morrow. I swear it! Father! Help me!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It's there! he said at last to himself." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, it is there! I'm sure of it, quite apart from what I've heard in the village since I came." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Surgit Amari" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Jesus!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I only knew one poet in my life: And this, or something like it, was his way." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Pleasant Sunday Afternoons." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The Sabbath" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sabbath observance and total abstinence were his watchwords, and he also took a great interest in" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Literature" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Very unsettling" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Pilgrim's Progress was written down immediately in his flowing clerkly hand. Then came the novels of Mrs. Henry Wood." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Get all of this line was the pencilled note in the margin. Memories of his youth reasserted themselves, so" }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I see that Bunyan wrote another book, the 'Holy War,' said Mr. Podley to his wife." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I never heard of it and I'm a bit doubtful. I don't like the name, shall I enter it up or not?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Not knowing, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now look here, Lewis, the director said, to one of his assistants, an Oxford man who translated Flaubert and wrote introductions to English editions of Gautier in his spare time," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Funny thing they should come to us, he said;" }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Miss Rita." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If that there Hands could be got rid of, she would say," }, { "from": "human", "value": "In the first place he never comes here. In the second place he's not a gentleman himself, so that don't mean nothing to him,...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, you darling! Rita said, thinking of summer and the outside world. She would go to Kensington Palace Gardens where there were trees, green grass and flowers." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, you darling! You're a little jewel with a voice, a bit of the real coun...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How do you do, he said, with the half-shy deference that came into his voice when he spoke to women." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It was such a lovely afternoon that I thought I might venture to bring back your copy of 'Surgit Amari' myself." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I wanted to see you again," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is very kind of you to take so much trouble, she said in a voice as sweet as singing." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I was so disappointed when you had to go away so early from the Amberleys' last night." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, here's the book, he said, putting it down upon Rita's table." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And I've written in it as you asked. Do you collect autographs then?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, dear me no, she answered." }, { "from": "gp...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I _did_ so dislike Mr. Toftrees and his wife," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Did you? he asked in surprise." }, { "from": "human", "value": "They seemed very pleasant people I thought." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I expect that was because y...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But why did you dislike poor Mr. Toftrees?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He is pompous and insincere, she replied." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He tries to draw attention to his great success, or rather his notoriety, by pretending to despise it. Surely, it would be far more manly to accept the fact frankly, and not to hint that he coul...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "their heroines" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "and that compared to even" }, { "from": "human", "value": "and" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I wonder why? he said again." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I don't know the man. I've ne...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Thank you very much, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "How kind of you! My bruised vanity is now at rest. I am healed of my grievous wound! But this seems quite a good library. Are you here all alone, does nobody ever come here? I always heard that the Podley L...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Do smoke, she said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No one minds--there never is any one to mind, and I smoke here myself. Mr. Hands, the head librarian, didn't like it at first but he does what I tell him now. I'm the assistant librarian." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Delicious! she exclaimed with pretty greediness." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "How perfectly sweet to be a man and able to afford Ben Ezra's Number 5." }, { "from": "human", "value": "How perfectly sweet!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And now what are you going to do?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I must go home, Mr. Lothian, she said with a little sigh." }, { "from": "human", "value": "It has been so kind of you to come and see me. I was going to sit in Kensington Palace Gardens for ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I wonder," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What are you wondering, Mr. Lothian?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "If you realise how easy it is to be by the sea. I know it's cheek to ask you--or at least I suppose it is, but let's go!" }, { "from": "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "All going splendidly, too busy to write," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My darling!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Inshallah Bukra! --" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Please God, to-morrow!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Milk that one cannot get in London," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Men have died, trying to find this place which we have found," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Magician! half an hour ago we were in London!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You are happy?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I can't find anything to say--yet. It is perfect." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now are the flowers confest Of slumber; sleep as they! Come hither, Child! and rest." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Come! she said gaily," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes! on into the sunset. You are right. We must go before we are satisfied. That's the whole art of living--Miranda!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "How old you have grown all of a sudden," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Next stop Brighton, sir," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Good heavens! he said," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Didn't you know?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "How could I possibly?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "No, you couldn't of course, but I never thought it of _you_." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Nor I of you, he answered." }, { "from":...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It's your turn to suppose now, Mr. Lothian." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well--wait a minute--oh, let's suppose that Mr. Podley once wrote a moral poem--you to play!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am only a whelk, Sir, Though if you but knew, Although I'm a whelk, Sir, The Lord made me too!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Magnificent!--your turn." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well, what will the title of the Toftrees' next novel be?" }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We're here, Mr. Lothian! Look at the lights! Brighton at last!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I can soon pull myself together, he thought." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "She won't know. I'll tell the fellow to bring it in a decanter." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is difficult to realise, she said, as much to herself as to her host," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, he said a trifle bitterly, as his eye fell upon a party of Jews who had motored down from London,--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Those people ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How I wanted that! he said with a frank smile." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I was talking nonsense, Miranda, but I was tired. And I'm afraid that when I get tired I'm cross. I've been working very hard lately and am a little run down," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, I _am_ enjoying myself! she said with a sigh of pleasure," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, didn't you know? It's iced consommé, awfully good in hot weather." }, { "from": "human", "value": "No, I didn't, she said." }, { "from": "gpt", "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, what a pig I am! she said, after her second helping, with her flashing, radiant smile," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Nothing else I have ever read produces the same impression," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "There are very few writers in prose that can." }, { "from": "human", "value": "It is magic." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But to be understood. You see...