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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Good God! he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It _is_ like me! Poor little girl--but you know I wouldn't frighten you for anything. But it _is_ like! What an extraordinary thing. We looked for the infamous Toftrees! the egregious Herbert who has split so many inf...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You must have a whiskey and soda, Rita. I dare not let you attempt any of the wines from the public house at the corner." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I've never tried it in my life. But I will now, out of curiosity. I'll taste what you are so far too fond of." },...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mr. Gilbert Lothian" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Have you been happy, sweetheart, with me?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Perfectly happy." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You really do care for me?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Do you care ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Less than a minute more, sir," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Once more, say it once more! You _would_ be my wife if I were free?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'd be your wife, Gilbert, and I'd love you--oh, what shall I do without you? How dull and dr...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Into a dark tremendous sea of cloud, It is but for a time; I press God's lamp Close to my breast: its splendour, soon or late Shall pierce the gloom. I shall emerge one day." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There, my dear, she said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I know what you are experiencing now, she said in her low rich voice," }, { "from": "human", "value": "You comfort me, she said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I thank God that you came ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Dear Morton Sims, the American lady said at length." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The utter sane goodness of that man! My dear, he is an angel of light, as near a perfect character as any one alive in the world to-day. And yet he doesn't believe in Jesus and thinks ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "--even the ones backed up by people of name, bishops, magistrates, and so on, were really worthless. They administered other drugs in order to sober up the patient from alcohol. That was easy and possible--though only with the thorough co-operation of the patient. After a few we...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'll talk to Mrs. Daly about it, the sad wife said to herself." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "She is a noble, Christian woman. She understands more than even the doctor. She _must_ do so. She loves our Lord. Moreover she has given her life to the cause of temperance....
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You said, she began, after a period of sympathetic silence," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I guess it's pretty well known, she said with a sigh." }, { "from": "human", "value": "That's the worst of a campaign like mine. It's partly because every one knows...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Then even the doctors are coming round? Mary said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And it means exactly, you would say--?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "They will tell you of daily miracles of conversion and transformations as marvellous and mystical as ever Jesus wrought when He was visible on earth. Mary! It goes on to-day, it _does_ go on. There is the only cure, the only salvation. Jesus." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I would give my life to save Gilbert," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have no dear one to save, now, the other answered." }, { "from": "human", "value": "But I would give a thousand lives if I had them to save America from Alcohol. I love my land! There ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It comes very glibly off the tongue to say, 'Put yourself in his position,'--'What would you have done under the circumstances?' but if self-analysis is difficult, how much more so is it to appreciate the 'Ego' of another, to penetrate within the veil of the maimed and debased i...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I shall be better soon, she kept repeating to herself." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The doctor says so. Then, when I am well, I shall be able to take poor Gillie really in hand. It won't be long now. Then I will save him with God's help." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Surgit Amari" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "were concluded by a single stroke, the letter" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "was the same size as the letter" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It and all the smaller" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Its" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Lavengro, Borrow has words to say about this impulse--I think it is in Lavengro or it may be in the Spanish book. Borrow used to" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "In hoc vinces graved upon it. But I don't like using this much. It is too concrete. It reminds me of the use I am making of the symbol of salvation." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "In hoc vinces" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Lit. Hum." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It. I have promised myself to define exactly what I mean by" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "IT." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He was arrested in the middle of his conversation, --" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "She placed an arresting hand upon his arm. . . . These phrases which constantly occur in every book I read fill me with horror. A wild phantasmagoria of pictures passes through my mi...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "the tyranny of" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Thirteen and" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Seven, the nervous misery of the Sign of the Cross, I try to sum up all the ritual and to escape the whole welter of false obligation by spasmodic prayer. I suppos...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Spectator a month ago. Yet O'Donnell must know that I drink badly. Neither he nor Medley know, of course, how absolutely submerged I really am. No one ever realises that about a" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Telegraph until the lines became clear and I was appreciating what I read. Now I am fairly" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You'll be all right, it says." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "When you want to stop you will be able to all right!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Rita." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Rita, Rita, Rita!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Rita" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Les absents ont toujours tort." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Confound it, I _must_ work," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Claire" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Biblical chapter caption" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Cruden's Concordance." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Love! hm, hm, hm,--why not 'Love one another'--? Yes, that would do. It was simple, direct, and expressed the sentiment of chapter VII. If there...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mr. Dickson Ingworth has called, sir," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ask him to come in," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Daily Wire" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ask Mr. Dickson Ingworth in here," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And the end?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Quite peaceful, I am glad to say, quite peaceful." }, { "from": "human", "value": "That must be a great consolation!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Then I suppose you'll give up literature?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, no, he said," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'm glad of that, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "To the artist, life without expression is impossible." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And what of our friend the Poet?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, he's no friend of mine," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Really? I know, of course, that you have disapproved of much that Mr. Lothian seems to be doing just now, but I thought you were still friends. It is a pity. Whatever he may do, there are elements of greatnes...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Look here, Toftrees, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Very well. I don't want to say anything about a man whom I have liked, and who _has_ been kind to me. But there are times when one really must speak, whatever the past may have been--aren't there?" }, {...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yes?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Lothian doesn't care a bit for his wife--he can't. I know all about it, and I've seen it. He's doing a most blackguardly thing. He's running after a girl. Not any sort of girl, but a _lady_." }, { "from": "human", "valu...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Suppose any harm were to come to her, Ingworth continued with something very like a break in his voice." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "She's quite alone and unprotected. She is the daughter of a man who was in the Navy, and now she has to earn her own living as an as...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Look here, he said suddenly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You needn't go on, Ingworth. I know who it is. It's Miss Wallace, of the Podley Library. She was at the Amberleys' that night when Lothian made such a beast of himself. She writes a little, too. Very pretty ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mine!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I think I shall cook master Lothian's goose very well to-night," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "All's fair" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "In the drunkenness of the chronic alcoholic the higher brain centres are affected more readily and more profoundly than the rest of the nervous system, with the result that the drinker, despite the derangement of his consciousness, is capable of apparently deliberate and purpose...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Imitatio Christi" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Gilbert, have you come to say goodnight?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, dear, --it _was_ an odd purring sort of voice--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "How do you feel?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Not very well, dear. I am going to tr...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, I'll go now, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Good-night, dear." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But I am frightened, she said to herself." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am really frightened. This is FEAR!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "cases of brass, loaded with" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "and" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Tell Tumpany to come up," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now be here by seven sharp to-morrow, Tumpany, Lothian said, still in his quiet level voice." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We must catch the nine o'clock from Wordingham without fail. I'm going out for an hour or two on the marshes. The widgeon are working over the ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Nemesis" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Haven" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Look here, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Thank you, sir, he said, sobered now by the keen night wind," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Night Tumpany." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "G'night, sir." }, { "from": "human", "va...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Amnesic dream-phase." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Haven," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Haven" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Haven" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "there is only the" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Perhaps when the men are out of the way for a day or two, Mistress will have a chance to get right. . . . Master said good-bye to Mistress last night, didn't he?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, but he may want to go in again and disturb her." }, { "from":...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Old House, Mortland Royal" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What is it, Tumpany?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I was thinking, sir, that we haven't got a cleaning rod packed for the ten-bores. I quite forgot it. The twelve-bore rods won't reach through thirty-two-and-a-half barrels. And all the cases are strapped and locked ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mistress is fast asleep, sir, the pleasant-faced girl said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Thank you, Blanche. I shall be down in a minute." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The blessed bond of board and bed" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You're looking much better this morning, sir," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'm feeling very well, Phoebe. This little trip will do me a lot of good, and I shall bring home lots of birds for you to cook. Now mind both you girls look after your Mistress well. I shall...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What a thoroughly delightful morning!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "WOG" }, { "from": "human", "value": "The die rang sideways as it fell, Rang cracked and thin, Like a man's laughter heard in hell. . . ." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Lulu b...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You do it, darling, Rita had said to her." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I can't do it myself. And take this box. It's locked and sealed. It has the letters in it. I cannot burn them, but I don't want to read them again. I must not, now. But keep it carefully, always...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My bridesmaid dress, she said aloud with a choke of melancholy laughter." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We mustn't spoil it, must we, Lulu bird?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What a kind good man Mr. Podley is, she thought." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "How anxious he has been to forward everything. And to give dear Rita away also!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now you, my dear, Mrs. Podley had said to her," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But I know so little about literature, Wog had answered." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Of course I read, and I have my own little collection of books. But to take charge of a...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Miss Wallace." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How dreadful, she thought, in her virgin mind, untroubled always by the lusts of the flesh and the desire of the eyes," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I must be as kind as I can to him when he comes, she said to herself." }, { "from": "human", "value": "He...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Click," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Surgit Amari." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I know, he said;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "She got my wire?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, Mr. Lothian, Ethel Harrison said gravely." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Rita never got your wire. It came too late." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Too late? he questioned." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Too late for _what_?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I see, Mr. Lothian, she said," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And will you tell me then, Miss Harrison?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, Mr. Lothian! the girl cried," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am so sorry. I am so very sorry for you. You couldn't help loving her perhaps, I am only a girl, I don't pretend to know. But you must be brave. Rita is married!" }, { "from": "human", "val...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But _I_ have come to marry Rita!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Mr. Lothian, she said," }, { "from": "human", "value": "How stupid you are, Wog, he said, as if he had known her for years; in much the same sort of voice that Rita would have said it." }, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, yes, but _whom_ has my little Rita married?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mr. Ingworth Dickson, of course," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, Dicker, he said in a perfectly uninterested voice--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, Dicker--just her man, of course. . . ." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I shall always ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, I thank you, I thank you a thousand times, he said," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Tumpany! he said with a giggle." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "My wild-fowling man! Mary used to like him, so I suppose he's all right. But, damn him, looking out of the wall like that with his ugly red face!--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Tiddle-iddl...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "All right, Mary darling. But why have you got on a sheet instead of a nightdress? Mary! Why have they tied your face up under the chin with that handkerchief? And what's that you're holding out to me on your pale hand? Is that the _membrane_? Is that really the diphtheria _membr...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Christian Poet, oh, my eye!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Surgit amari aliquid," }, { "from": "human", "value": "A broken and a contrite heart, O Lord, Thou wilt not despise." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ah! happy they whose hearts can ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Procreation Fetish" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is difficult to avoid doing too much--for a man in my position, he thought." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Life is so short and there is such an infinity of work. Oh, that I could see England in a fair way to become sober before I die! Still I must go on hard. 'Il...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This is good, he said fervently." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have waited for this hour. I cannot say how glad I am to see you, Julia. You have heard from Edith?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "The dear girl! Yes. There was a letter waiting for me at...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ah! he thought," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Tell me, she was saying," }, { "from": "human", "value": "It remains an impenetrable mystery, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No one knows anything." }, { "from": "human", "val...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If Gilbert Lothian still lived he must look like that awful figure in the condemned cell had looked--like his insane half-brother, the cunning murderer--" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My dear William, he said, shaking him warmly by the hand." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "So here you are. Let me introduce you to Mrs. Daly. Julia, let me introduce the Bishop to you. You both know of each other very well. You have both wanted to meet for a long time...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Please excuse me, the Bishop said to Julia Daly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have indeed looked forward to the moment of meeting you. But something has occurred, Mrs. Daly, which occupies my thoughts, something very unusual. . . ." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This is Father Joseph Edward, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Abbot of the Monastery upon the Lizard Promontory in Cornwall. He has come with me this afternoon upon a special mission." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The House." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But now, John, the Bishop said to Morton Sims," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I want to tell you something. I want to explain a very important alteration in the agenda. . . ." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What boys nice men are after all, she thought with a slight sympathetic contraction of her throat." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mrs. Daly, William, Morton Sims said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What is this? she said in her gentle, but almost regal way." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Why, my lord, the doctor and I were only talking of Gilbert Lothian and his saintly wife a mo...