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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, I do, really," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'll get through his damned high-and-mighty attitude yet," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I say, he remarked," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Rather dangerous, wasn't it? he continued." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Suppose your wife got to kn...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, I don't know about impudence, he answered pertly and with a red face." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Anyhow, Rita dined with _me_ last week!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, and you took her to that disgusting little café Maréchale in Soho. You...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I _beg_ your pardon?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, she has! the young fellow hissed." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You're trying on a game with the girl. She's a lady, and a good girl, and you're a married man. She's been telling you about me, th...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You dirty little hanger-on, he said in a low voice," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now, then, he said," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It's all right, Helzephron, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It's a mistake, a damned silly mistake. As a matter of fact I lost my temper. Please let Mr. Ingworth go." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Very sorry, I'm sure," }, { "from": "gpt...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I was abominably rude, Gilbert, he said frankly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Don't let's talk rot. I'm sorry." }, { "from": "human", "value": "It's good of you to take it in that way, Dicker. I'm awfully sorry, too." }, { "from": "gpt", "va...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I say, Mr. Lothian, she remarked," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I know, Gilbert answered," }, { "from": "human", "value": "He's got such nice curly hair!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Barmaid wanted, must be attractive." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Young lady wanted for select wine-room in the West End, gentlemen only, must be well educated and of good appearance, age not over twenty-five." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Required at...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He was sober when 'e come, she thought in the vernacular," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Something amusing you?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, just my thoughts, he replied." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Give me another whiskey and soda-...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, that I had the wings of a dove!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Juggins! she thought," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Wish you meant it!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now, Dicker, you just watch. They'll all be here soon for their afternoon drink--the local bloods, I mean. It's their substitute for afternoon tea, don't you know. They sit here talking about nothing to friends who have devoted their lives to the subject. Watch it for your work....
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'll run round to the post office, Ingworth said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Very well, Gilbert answered," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, Mr. Lothian, said the landlord." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I don't often have the pleasure of a talk with you. Just one more with me before you go?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Please, sir, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There, there, said the landlord irritably, when he saw that consciousness was returning." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What in heaven's name did you go off like that for? You don't belong to do that sort of thing often I hope. If so I may as well tell you at once th...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'm very sorry, she said again," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "This gentleman! Helzephron replied." }, { "from": "human", "value": "This is Mr. Gilbert Lothian, a famous gentleman and one of our country gentleman in Norfolk. What can you have to do with h...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I never saw a woman so frightened! said Mr. Helzephron." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You might have been old Bogy himself, Mr. Lothian. I didn't know what to think for a moment! I hope she doesn't drink." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well, I suppose ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Wenn Menschen auseinandergehn So sagen sie--auf Wiedersehn! Ja Wiederseh'n." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Good news by this post, Dicker?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, rather. I've just heard from Herbert Toftrees. When I saw him last, just before I came down here, he hinted that he might be able to influence things for me in a certain quarter." }, { "from...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, I _am_ so glad, Dicker! she said over and over again." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "My dear boy, I _am_ so glad! Now you've got your chance at last. Your real chance. Never come down here again if you don't make the most of it!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Think I shall be able to do it, Mrs. Gilbert?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Of course you will, Dicker! Put your very heart into it, won't you! It's your chance at last, isn't it?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I shall do it," }, { "from": "gpt...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'm glad, dear, Mary said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "He doesn't seem to have been treating you quite in the way he used to. He's been talking a good deal to me of some people who seem to have taken him up in Lond...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What is it, dear?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, darling, she answered, with a sob in her voice," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I've had bad news from Nice." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "About Dorothy?" }, { "from": "human", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Darling, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It's dear of you to say so, Mary said at length," }, { "from": "human", "value": "No, dear, of course not," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "She must have some one of her own people with her. Harol...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You must go to her at once, sweetheart," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, I _must_! You don't mind my leaving you?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "How can you ask it? But I will come with you. We will both go. You will want a man." }, { "from": ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It will be dreadful without you, darling, but you are quite right to go. Send for me if you want me. I'll catch the next boat. But I have my work to do, and I can see a good deal of Morton Sims --he knew well, and felt with shame, the cunning of this last statement--" }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I say, Dicker, let's have some champagne, shall we?--just to wish your mission success." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, do let's. I'm just in the mood for buzz-water to-night." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Here's to you, Dicker! May you become a G....
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "So that is his game, damned hypocrite! Ingworth thought." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I shall be away, his wife will be out of the way and he will make the running with Rita Wallace just as he likes." }, { "from": "human", "value": "He's fat and bloated...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Have a cigar, Dicker. No?--well, here's the very best of luck." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Thanks, the same to you!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth." }, { "from": "gpt", "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Lulu Bird" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "She was" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": ";" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Sister Ethel" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Everyman and" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "World's Classics series. She generally managed a book and a half each fortnight, and her horizon was bounded by the two-hundredth volume. Dickens she had very much neglected of late, the new Ruskin had kept the set at" },...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Dicker or" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Curly." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I hardly think that it's quite a _good_ face," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "For Miss Rita Wallace." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A Duke might be glad to marry her," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How do I look, Wog dear?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Splendid, darling, Ethel answered eagerly--a pretty junior typist in Ethel's office, who had been snubbed, had once sent her homely senior a golliwog doll, and since then the good-humoured Ethel was" }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Wog! You're dying to know where I'm going!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Of course I am, Cupid," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'm going to dine with Gilbert." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Gilbert?" }, { "from": "human", "value...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I don't understand you, Ethel, she said in a voice which was so cold and unusual that the other girl was dumb.--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What on earth do you mean?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Mean, dear, Ethel faltered." }, { "from": "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You have nothing to say! Of course! There _is_ nothing that any wide-minded person could say. Ethel, you're a dear old stupe!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "At last!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sesame and Lilies." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Inside the Horsel here the air is hot; Right little peace one hath for it, God wot; The scented dusty daylight burns the air, And my heart chokes me till I hear it not." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I must write to Rita," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No one at all," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It's marvellous, she said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The whole atmosphere is new. I did not think such a place as this existed." }, { "from": "human", "value": "And the Metropole at Brighton?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It was like a b...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Gilbert" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, Gilbert dear! what is it now!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How _perfectly_ sweet! Like the little roast pigling was to Elia! Gilbert, I'm so happy." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Cupid dear, he said with his open and boyish smile," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, I see, she replied thoughtfully, and then, with a radiant smile and the provocative, challenging look--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Gilbert dear, you seem just lik...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Cupid! he said suddenly, in a voice that was quite changed," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Rita dear, I'm going to show you something!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What, Gilbert?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You shall hear," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, Gilbert dear, what is the surprise?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Music, sweetheart. I've sent up to the band to play something. Something special, Cupid, just for you and me alone on the first of our Arabian Nights!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The lasting hunger of the obscure artist for recognition by another and greater one was satisfied. Poor Toché went to his bed that night in Soho feeling as if he had been decorated with the Order of Merit. And though, during the supper hours from eleven to half past twelve he ha...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This is the moment of realisation, he thought," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "How well they play," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Don't let's talk for a minute," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "She was for me! his heart cried out." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ah, if only I had met her first!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I cannot love her, he said in his mind." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have never loved her. I have been blind until this moment. A tear of sentiment welled into his eye at the thought of poor Mary, bereft of his love." }, { "from": "human", "value": "H...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I cannot love her," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What are we going to do now?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "When we went to Brighton together, Gilbert answered," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, how perfectly sweet! Take me to the Empire." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We ought to get th...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, my love! he said with a sob in his voice." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "My dear little Love; at last, at last!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Turn your face to me, darling." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Gilbert, you mustn't." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Kiss met Kiss me again! he said savagely." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You must, you must! Rita, my darling, _my darling_!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Are you unhappy, dearest?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Unhappy, Gilbert? With you? How could I be?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Surgit amari aliquid?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Gilbert, let's pretend we're married, just for this evening," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What do you mean, Rita?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "It's so nice to be together, she whispered." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am so happy with ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "To-morrow! he said, trying to put something that he knew was not there into his dull voice." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "To-morrow night." }, { "from": "human", "value": "To-morrow! she replied." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "At the same tim...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I couldn't possibly, Gilbert dear," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Gilbert, we simply must have the stage box. I'm not in the mood to sit _anywhere_ else to-night," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But surely one could get it _here_?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It's not on the card, dear." }, { "from": "human", "value": "There _was_ some of the wine in the cellars, a half bin, just as there _was_ some of the famous White Hermitage--but, but --he ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Damn you! he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What are you afraid of?--of compromising yourself? If there were half a dozen people in London who knew or cared what you did, you've done that long ago. And for heaven's sake don't play Tartuffe with me. Haven't I be...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Of course I'll come, Gilbert dear, she said softly--" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Bees' Wedding" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A mad scarlet thing by Dvôrak," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sweetheart, he said," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am very sorry, Gilbert dear, you can never know how sorry I am. But you know I care for you. That must be all." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Merrily false and frankly furtive in many of the actions of life. A dear egoist! yet capable of self-abandoning enthusiasm, a brilliant embryo really wanting the guiding hand and master brain but reluctant to accept them until the last moment." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A white and graceful yacht seriously setting out into dangerous waters with no more certainty than hangs upon the result of a toss up or the tinkle of a tambourine. Deeply desiring a pilot, but unwilling that he should come aboard too soon and spoil the fun of beating up into th...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Arabian Nights. Every day he gave her a tablet upon which" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Sesame" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My dearsh --like the amusing pictures in" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Punch." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'm a wicked little devil, she said to herself once or twice with a naughty inward chuckle," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Let us have a quiet hour, Let us hob-and-nob with Death." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Je me nourris de flammes" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And yet, darling, --so the letter had run--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Like bitter wine upon a sponge was the savour of remorse." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It's a good thing for him, Lothian thought." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I don't suppose he's back from Italy yet. The old man must have died quite suddenly. I hope he'll settle down and won't be quite so uppish in the future." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What a cock-sparrow Beelzebub the lad really is, he said in his mind." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And yet I liked him well enough. Even now he's not important enough to dislike. Rita likes him. She often talks of him. He took her out to dinner--yes, so he did--to ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Where shall we go, Gilbert?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I don't know, Rita, and I don't care. Ce que vous voulez, Mademoiselle des livres sans reproche!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Go to Madame Tussaud's," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why did you say that?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "What difference _does_ it make? she replied." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You didn't seem to care where we went for this last hour ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Colloque Sentimental" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Dost thou remember our old ecstasy?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Wherefore should I possess that memory?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Doth thy heart beat at my sole name alway? Still dost thou see my soul in visions?" }, { "from": "gpt", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Room No. 1. Commencing Right-hand side" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There's Charles the First," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He was fervently pious, a faithful husband, a fond parent, a kind master, and an enthusiastic lover and patron of the fine arts." }, { "from": "human", "value": "How familiar that sort of stuff sou...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Wog and I find his tea really the best and cheapest," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Poor little man, Rita said, looking at the sad face of the comedian." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why should they put him here with the King and the Queen? Do they just plant their figures anywhere in this show?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What a little stupid you are, Rita! he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The man who arranges these groups is one of the greatest philosophers and students of humanity who ever lived. In this particular case the ghost of Heine must have animated him. The court jes...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I couldn't have conceived it was so, so unnerving, Gilbert," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It is pretty beastly, Lothian answered." }, { "from": "human", "value": "It's simply a dictionary of crime though, that's all--rather too well illustrated." }, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I will not," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Poor little Rita, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It was your choice you know. It _is_ horrible. But I expect that the weather, and the inexorable fact that we have to part this afternoon for a time, has something to do with it. Oh, and then we haven't lunche...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Gilbert, how silly to try and frighten me! It's not cricket in this horrid place, get down at once--oh!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Dear! he said in wild agitation." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What is it? I'm here, don't be frightened. What is it, Rita?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Thank goodness, she said, gasping." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, Gilbert, I'm a ...