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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Cupid! he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I think I know why they used to call you Cupid at your school!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What would Mrs. Lothian think of your bringing me here to dinner?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "She would be delighted that I was having such a jolly evening," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You little devil! he thought with an embarrassed mental grin." }, { "from": "human", "value": "How dare you." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Would you...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Look, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "There's Gilbert Lothian, the Christian Poet!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "So that's the man! said Lord Morston," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, that's not his wife, Toftrees answered with co...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Dear little Rita, he said, as he held her hand outside the door of the block of flats in Kensington." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Dear child, I'm so glad." }, { "from": "human", "value": "And I'm glad, too, she answered,--" }, { "from": "gpt", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Dear little Rita," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Not with fine gold for a payment, But with coin of sighs, But with rending of raiment And with weeping of eyes, But with shame of stricken faces And with strewing of dust, For the sin of stately places And lordship of lust." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "GILBERT IS C...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Old House" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Nine miles to windward of Hell," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Morning, my girl!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There are them knives, she said shortly, pointing to a basket upon the table," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You needn't be so short with a man, Phoebe." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You needn't have been so beastly drunk last night. Then them knives w...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Goodorg," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There! she said with a grin," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "A good thing you've come early, and Mistress ain't up yet, she said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I went into the cellar as quiet as a cat, and I held a dish-cloth over the spigot when I knoc...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sweet lips, whereon perpetually did reign The Summer calm of golden charity." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "So just A type of womankind, that God sees fit to trust Her with the holy task of giving life in turn." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Crown'd Isabel, thro' all her placid life, The queen of marriage, a most perfect wife." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I wish to goodness you would go to bed, Mary, he had said with a sullen look in his eyes." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I do hate being fussed over as if I were a child. I hate my comings and goings spied upon in this ridiculous way. I must have freedom! Kindly try ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It's for the sake of my Art, he would say often enough, though she never reproached him with neglect." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I _must_ be a great deal alone now. Things come to me when I am alone. I love being with you, sweetheart, but we must both make a sacr...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Darling, don't be an old goose! You don't understand a bit. What?--Oh, yes, I suppose I did have rather a lot of whiskey last night. But I did splendid work. And it is only once in a way. I'm as fit this morning as I ever was in my life. But I'm working double tides now. You kno...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Keys Of Heaven," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The Rain Is on the River," }, { "from": "human", "value": "My Dear Soul and the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Be My Dear and Dearest!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "You don't perhap...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No, dear, not now. I am going strictly on business. I couldn't give you the time I should want to, and I should hate that. It wouldn't be fair to you. We'll go up in the Autumn, just you and I together and have a really good time. That will be far jollier. For heaven's sake, don...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "the voice of the tolling bell became muffled and funereal, and mildew lay upon the air." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Non sum qualis eram, the lorn interior seemed to echo to her steps," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Trouble and heaviness have laid hold upon me: Yet is my delight in thy commandments." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The righteousness of thy testimonies is everlasting: O grant me understanding and I shall live." }, { "from": "human", "value": "God bless ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No. There ain't no letter for you, said the Postman--a sly old crab-apple of a man who always knew far too much--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "he dangled it before her as a sweetmeat before a child," }, { "from": "human", "value": "That you were talking...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Master is coming home this evening, Tumpany!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Can I see you then, Mum?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "After breakfast. I've not had breakfast yet. Then we'll go into everything." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Th...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Seest thou a man diligent in his business: He shall stand before Kings. He shall not stand before mean men." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am run down, said Morton Sims, during the meal." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have been too much in London lately. I've got a lot of important research work to do. I'm going to take a house in the country for a few months, only I don't know where." }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Haven" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Here is a rare bird," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Two or three times a year I go up, Medley said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I know, the doctor said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I was at Balliol you know--a little different, even in our day. But when I go up I'm always dreadfully busy, at the Mu...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And now, said the clergyman," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Not yet. For the three days that I have been here I have been arranging my books and instruments, and turning that big room over the barn into a laboratory." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, y...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Really, this is a delightful house, the Doctor said as he stood in the library." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I wonder O'Donnell doesn't spend more time in Mortland Royal. Few parsons are housed like this." }, { "from": "human", "value": "It's not his _m...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I know, he said, with a courtly hint of deference in his voice, that became him very well," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Of course, he said," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Possibly. I am not concerned to affirm or deny the power of an Act of the Supreme Being. Nor am I able to say anything about its operation. Science tells me...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "God Moves in a Mysterious Way," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But that seems to me quite horrible, he said, at length." }, { "from": "human", "value": "It is opposed to the best instincts of human nature--as horrible as Malthusianism, as horrible and as i...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The alternative is more horrible and more immoral still. There is absolutely no choice between Temperance Reform, by the abolition of drink, and Temperance Reform by the abolition of the drunkard. An ill thing is not rendered worse by being bravely confronted. An unavoidable evi...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Awake from your slumber--your long slumber! Hear the words of Truth!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, that is my theory, at any rate, since you asked for it, Morton Sims said, the urgency and excitement quite gone from his voice." }, { "from": "human", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We'll go through the wicket-gate in the south wall, he said, with alacrity." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It's our nearest way, and there is a good view of the Manor House to be got from there. It's a fine old place, empty for most of the year, but always full for t...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Cross." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That's a nice little place, the doctor said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Whose is that?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "It's the house of our village celebrity," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Our local celebrity, Medley continued," }, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I don't mean to say that he gets drunk, Medley continued hastily," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Most interesting to the scientific man--please go on." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well, I don't know that there is much to say--I do hope I am not doing ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "At any rate, I went into old Sarah's cottage about half an hour after Lothian had been there. The old lady in question lived a jolly, wicked life until senile paralysis intervened. She is now quite a connoisseur in religion. I found her, on the occasion of which I speak, lying b...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now you see why I am a little bitter about Gilbert Lothian! I don't think that he is worthy of such a perfect wife as he has got! I'll take you to tea with her this afternoon and you will see!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I should like to meet her very much. Lothia...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Liver! he thought to himself." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That is why I am melancholy and depressed to-night. And then the storm that is hanging about has its effect too. But hardly any one realises that the liver is the seat of the emotions! It should be said--mo...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I will take a ten mile walk to-morrow," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Six weeks ago a tippler was put into an alms-house in this State. Within a few days he had devised various expedients to procure rum, but had failed. At length he hit on one that was successful. He went into the wood yard of the establishment, placed one hand upon the block, and...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "One thing I _will_ do, he said to the dark--and that he spoke aloud was sufficient indication of his state of mind--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'll get hold of Gilbert Lothian while I am here. I'll save him at any rate, if I can. And it is quite obvious that he ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Are you there, sir?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, here I am, Condon, what is it?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Please, sir, there's been an accident. A gentleman has been thrown out of a dog-cart. It's a Mr. Lothian. His man's here, and the gentl...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Beg your pardon, sir, Tumpany began at once," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Certainly, I will, Sims answered, looking at the man with a keen, experienced eye which made him shift uneasily upon his feet." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Wait here for a mom...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Haven." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He's made a direct statement so far, the doctor thought." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He's only on the border-land of intoxication. For as long as he thinks I have noticed nothing he will be coherent. Directly he realises that I have spotted his state he'll become ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, you drove, and the horse stumbled. Did the horse come right down?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'm not much of a whip, sir, as you may say, though I know about ordinary driving. They say that a sailor-man is no good with a horse. But that isn't true." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But I expect you drove very well, indeed! Then the horse did _not_ come right down!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No, sir. The cob only stumbled. But master was sitting loose like. He fell out like a log, sir. He made a noise like a piece of luggage falling." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh! Did he fall on his head?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yessir. But he ha...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, you've come, sir! she said--" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Not the least reason to be alarmed, said the doctor." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Some nasty cuts in the scalp, that is all." }, { "from": "human", "value": "It is so kind of you to come, Doctor, she said.--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Th...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, suppose we get him to bed, Doctor, she said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We can carry him up between us. There are two maids, and Tumpany is quite sober enough to help." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Quite! the doctor answered." }, { "f...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Verbosa ac grandis epistola venit a Capreis." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "John Inglesant." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There is something so comic about your hands, darling! she said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "They are so nice and fat and jolly. They make me want to laugh!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How are you feeling, darling? You're looking so much better!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "My head hurts a little, but not much. But my nerves are ever so much better. Look how steady my hand is." }, { "from": "human", "value": "And you'll see, Molly dea...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But dear, she's _delighted_," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You've committed a crime! It's disgraceful. Oblige me by never doing anything of the sort again. Why didn't you give her a ham?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Molly, may I have a cigarette?" ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I see, he said," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Jesus!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Inglesant found that repeating the name of Jesus simply in the lonely nights kept his brain quiet when it was on the point of distraction, being of the same mind as Sir Charles Lucas when 'Many times calling upon the sacred name of Jesus,' he was shot dead at Colchester." }, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Of course you may, if you want one. It was only a general sort of remark that the doctor made. A few cigarettes can't harm any one. Don't I have two every day myself--since you got me into the habit? But you've been smoking fifty a day, for _weeks_ before you went to town." },...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Come in," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Good God! he cried," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "First of August, sir. Wildfowling begins!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Heavens! so it is. I ought to have been out! I never thought about the date. Damn you for pitching me out of the dog-cart, Willia...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Good heavens! the doctor was thinking." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What a brilliant brain's hidden behind those lint bandages! This is the man who can make the throat swell with sorrow and the heart leap high with hope! With all my learning and success, I can only...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now really, Mr. Lothian! he said," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Look here, Doctor, he said after a moment," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I spoke like a fool, which I'm not. I have been rather overdoing it lately. My work has been worrying me and I've been trying to whip myself up with alcohol." }, { "from": "human", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Of course, he said, talking in a quiet man-of-the-world voice," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'll tell you something, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Not a _bit_, he said excitedly," }, { "from": "human", "value": "There _is_ no craving, the Doctor answered quietly--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, it's very hard to answe...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He seems a very good sort, that fellow of yours, the doctor continued indifferently, and then, with a more eager and confidential manner," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But let me explain where the ordinary temperance people are wrong. First, tell me, haven't you at ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "May I have a cigarette?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, --puff-puff--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I see that and it's very true. Perhaps truer than you can know! Lothian said with a rather bitter smile." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Thank you, he said simply." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I feel certain that what you say is true." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Perhaps nothing is quite true, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And that is?" }, { "from": "hum...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'll make notes, he replied," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Thanks, he answered." }, { "from": "human", "value": "It will be a help. But what we really require is an alcoholic De Quincey to detail in his graphic manner the memories of his past experiences...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "She has no changes, no surprises, he thought," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He was possessed of a Devil" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Where is Tumpany, Blanche?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "In the garden, sir." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well, tell him to come up, please. I want to speak to him." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Thought you'd like to see him, sir, said Tumpany." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He know'd you'd come back right enough, and he's been terrible restless." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I am very glad to see the old chap again. Look here, William, just y...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Shall I leave the dog, sir?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, you may as well. He's quite happy." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Beastly!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Milton bestowed the music of her voice, but it came from the second volume in which Comus lies hid. Her smile was half Herrick and half Heine, and her hair was spun in a 'Wood near Athens' by the fairies--Tom III, _Opera Glmi Shakespeare, Editio e Libris Podley!_--upon a night i...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "For a brief instant of recollection, he will have for you '_L'effet d'un clair-de-lune par une nuit d'été'_. And you will say to yourself, '_Ami du temps passés, vos paroles me reviennent comme un écho lointain, comme le son d'un cloche apporté par le vent; et il me semble que v...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "GILBERT LOTHIAN." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'm drunk," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "On n'est jamais trahi que par ses siens." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I can't understand Tumpany letting this beast down, Ingworth said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He's as sure footed as possible. Was Tumpany fluffed?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I suppose he was, a little." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Of course I wasn't tight," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "My dear old chap, the lad replied hastily--too hastily--" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "One can see he's a big man, he thought with a slight feeling of discomfort." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I wonder if Toftrees is right and his reputation is going down and people are beginning to find out about him?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "sets, which are the despair of tutors and simply serve as an excuse for general slackness. The boy had announced his intention of embracing a literary career when he had managed to scrape through his pass schools. He had a hundred a year of his own--always spent before he receiv...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I've been seeing a good deal of Toftrees lately, Gilbert," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What? Oh, yes!--the Toftrees. Nice chap, Toftrees, I thought, when I met him the other night. Awfully clever, don't you think, to get hold of such an enormous public? Mind you, D...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I say, he said maliciously, though there was fear in his voice, too," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Herbert Toftrees has got his knife into you, Gilbert." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Got his _knife into me_?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Thanks awfully, old chap, Lothian said cheerfully as they turned under the archway into the stable yard." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You're a topping whip, you know, Dicker. I can't drive a bit myself. But I like to see you." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Come along, Jehu! he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I want a drink badly, and I'm sure you do, after the drive. I don't care what you say, that cob is _not_ so easy to handle." }, { "from": "human", "value": "MOST SELECT LOUNGE IN THE COUNTY" }, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There was a flaunting gin palace at the corner of the street, --that is the sort of phrase you may read in half a hundred books. The holes and dens where working people get drunk, and issuing therefrom make night hideous at closing time, stink in the nostrils of every one. They ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Lodge Night, or the evening of Petty Sessions, a little shrivelled, trembling spinster would creep out of the house before breakfast and kneel in piteous supplication at the Altar rails for the big, blond and jovial brother who was" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The most select lounge in the county" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now tell me, Dicker, Lothian said, lighting a cigarette," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, he's jealous of you because you really can write, Gilbert! That must be it. But he really has got his knife into you!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, but I assure you he has not," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well, you know what I mean, old chap...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, I said you meant well," } ]