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[ { "from": "human", "value": "More reason for Nelly to stay at home to look after the house. Wait a bit till my limbs grow stiffer than they are as yet, and till she has got a little damsel of her own to trot alongside her as she used to trot alongside me," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But, granny, I have been thinking of getting little Mary Lanaherne, Uncle Reuben's granddaughter, to go to market with me while you stay at home; she is quite ready to agree to my plan," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Ah, I see you want to become a fine lady now you are going to marry, and have an attendant of your own, said the dame, laughing." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Bide a bit till you have need of help, and let my old limbs wag on while they have life in them." }, { "from": "human", "value": "That will be for many years to come, I hope, granny, said Michael;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That was a good bit ago, Michael, to be sure, and I should not like to have to lift you up now, lad, strong as my arms still are," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is time for me to be off, said Michael;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Uncle Reuben stays on shore this evening, so I am to act captain. We shall be back, I hope, soon after ten, as he always wishes us to be home early on Saturday night, and as the weather looks pretty thick, and there is a nice lop of a sea on, we may expect to get a good haul." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If it were not for these aches in my back and sides, and that I promised my dame to stay on shore this evening, I would go with you, lads. But keep your weather eyes open. I cannot say I quite like the look of the weather. It may turn out fine, but it is very thick away to the southward." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It will be fine enough for what we want, Uncle Reuben, and the `Sea-Gull' does not mind a bit of a swell and a stiffish breeze, and we shall be back again almost before there is time to send a second hand to the bellows," }, { "from": "human", "value": "God go with you, lads, said the old fisherman as the lads sprang on board." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If the weather gets worse, haul your nets and make the best of your way back. We will keep the light burning on the point, so that you will not miss your road into harbour at all events." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Sea-Gull" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I wish that I had gone, the trip would not have hurt me; but Michael is a careful lad, and, even if the weather does come on bad, he will not risk staying out longer than is prudent." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mother says you will be making yourself worse, father, standing out in the cold and damp." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No, I will go, said Dame Lanreath;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Good evening, Eban; what brings you here at this hour?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Nelly, I have come to ask you a question, and as you answer it you will make me more happy than I have been for many a long day, or you will send me away a miserable wretch, and you will never, it may be, see me again." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I shall be sorry not to see you again, Eban, for we have been friends from our earliest days, and I hoped that we should always remain so," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That is what drives me to desperation, he exclaimed." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Nelly, is it true that you are going to marry Michael Penguyne?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I hope so, if it is God's will, as you ask me to tell you, said Nelly, firmly." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I fancied that you were his friend, as you always were mine. And, Eban, I pray that you may not feel any ill-will towards either of us, because we love each other, and are sure we shall be happy together." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Is that the only answer you have to give me?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I can say nothing more nor less, said Nelly, gently." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am very sorry that my answer should make you unhappy, but you insisted on having it, and I can say nothing more." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sea-Gull," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "She will be back early to-night, he muttered," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "One of those is the `Sea-Gull'; I must not be seen in the neighbourhood, or I may be suspected," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But suppose she hates me, I shall have done a deed and gained nothing. She may suspect that I did it. Why did I madly go and see her this evening? I had not intended to enter the cottage. Had the dame not gone away I should not have thought of it. Still, neither she nor any one else can swear that I am guilty. No eye will see me. The path is slippery: it will be supposed that he fell into the water. Then at that moment a voice seemed to whisper to him the words Michael had uttered long before," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "God sees and hears and knows everything we do or say or think. It seemed to be that of Michael," }, { "from": "human", "value": "The darkness is no darkness to Him; the day and night to Him are both alike." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, He sees me now; He knows what I am thinking of." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I cannot do it; miserable I may be, but I should be more miserable still if I had it ever present to my mind that I had killed in cold blood another man who never wished to offend me." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am ready to go off, if you want another hand," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You will do, and welcome. Our number is now made up," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Whereabouts is the vessel in danger? he asked." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I could not make her out." }, { "from": "human", "value": "She is my craft, the `Sea-Gull,' said Uncle Reuben." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The `Favourite,' which has just come in, saw her driving, with her mast gone, towards the Gull Rock, and if she strikes it there is no chance for her or the poor fellows on board. Lord be merciful to them! we must do our best to try and save them, for no craft under sail will dare to stand near them, for fear of sharing their fate." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Sea-Gull." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sea-Gull" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, what is going to happen? she exclaimed, feeling more anxiety and alarm than she had ever before experienced." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "O my dear, dear Michael, why don't you come back to me? O merciful God, protect him!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I must go and learn why he does not come, she exclaimed." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, how I wish granny would come back! she may suffer harm coming along the rough path this bleak night in the dark." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Is that you, dear granny?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ay, Nelly, though I have had a hard battle with the wind, answered Dame Lanreath, in her usually cheery voice." }, { "from": "human", "value": "But my journey is ended, and it was well I went to poor Polly Penduck when I did, for she was in a bad way; the doctor, however, has been with her, and she is all right now." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why, my child, what is the matter with you?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh! can it be Michael coming? exclaimed Nelly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Michael, Michael, are you there?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "No, we be Paul and Joseph Penduck, answered two young voices." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We are on our way home to mother." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Your mother is well and sleeping, but do not make a noise, lads, when you go in, exclaimed Dame Lanreath, who had followed Nelly to the door." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why are you in such a hurry?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "We needs be to get out of the storm, dame, answered one of the boys." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Father told us to make haste home; but he has gone off in the `Rescue' with Uncle Reuben Lanaherne to look after the `Sea-Gull,' which they say has lost her mast, and was seen driving on the Gull Rock; there is little hope of any of the poor lads escaping aboard her." }, { "from": "human", "value": "What is that you say, shrieked poor Nelly;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I forgot, Mistress Nelly, that Michael Penguyne was aboard her, answered the thoughtless boy." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I would not have said it to frighten you so, but it may be father and the others will find them if they are not all drowned before they get there." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "O granny, I was afraid something dreadful was happening, exclaimed Nelly, gasping for breath." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I must go down to the harbour's mouth. I do not mind the wind and rain; don't stop me, granny, for Dame Lanreath had taken Nelly's arm, thinking she was about to fall, she trembled so violently." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Let me go, granny, that I may hold him in my arms, and warm him, and breathe into his mouth when he is brought on shore. Oh, I shall die if I stay at home, and he out struggling maybe for life in the cold foaming seas." }, { "from": "human", "value": "But the lads may be mistaken, dear Nelly, urged Dame Lanreath;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, Nelly, she said at length," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sea-Gull" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Rescue" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Sea-Gull," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sea-Gull." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sea-Gull" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Where is Michael, where are the rest?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Gone, gone, father, I fear!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "No, no! I see two more clinging to a spar! shouted one of the men." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The sea is carrying it away, but the next will hurl it back on the rocks, and Heaven protect them, for the life will be knocked out of their bodies." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Here, hand the bight of the rope to me, shouted Eban, starting up;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am the best swimmer among you--if any one can save them I can." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Here, here, take him, he is almost gone, said one of the men in the water, as Eban approached them." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I can hold on longer." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Who is it? who is it?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Help, mate! help!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He is coming to, I believe." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Which of the poor lads is he, Simon?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I cannot quite make out; but I am nearly sure it is Michael Penguyne," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am main glad if it be he, for poor Nelly's sake, said Reuben." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Pull up your starboard oars, lads, here comes a sea," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Michael Penguyne! have I saved him? muttered Eban Cowan, with a deep groan." }, { "from": "human", "value": "He was destined to live through all dangers, then, and Nelly is lost to me. Fool that I was to risk my life when I might have lot him drown. No one could have said that I was guilty of his death." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You would have been guilty of his death if you could have saved him and would not." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Rescue," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Rescue" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We must take into account the heavy seas she will have to meet; they will keep her busy for a goodish time with her bows towards them, observed an old fisherman." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Uncle Reuben knows what he is about, and if there is a man can steer the `Rescue' on a night like this he can. A worse sea, in which a boat might live, I never saw. There is little likelihood of its getting better either, by the look of the sky." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I see her! I see her!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You cannot bring them in sooner, Nelly, she said," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I am trying, groaned Nelly;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It is better to be prepared for bad tidings before they come, answered the dame;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The boat! the boat! It is her, no doubt about it," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Rescue" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Are they all saved?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Some, but not all; but our boys are here: tell my dame," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He is here, Nelly; Michael is safe," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I shall soon be strong again, Nelly, he whispered." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "God be praised for His mercies to us. My sorest thought was, as I felt myself in the breakers, that you and granny would be left without me to help you." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Eban seems in a strange mood, observed Simon." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He might have stopped till Michael and all of us had thanked him for his brave act; he seems as if he was sorry he had done it, or was wishing that he was with the other poor fellows who are lying out there among the rocks." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Where is David Treloar? he asked." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If it had not been for him I should have been washed off the spar, but he held me on till I was hauled on board." }, { "from": "human", "value": "David! poor fellow! he is among those who are gone, was the answer." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If it was he who was on the spar with you, he would not, it seems, quit it till he thought you were safe; and meantime his strength must have gone before help could reach him." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Then he lost his life to save mine, said Michael, deeply grieved." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And how was I saved?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "By that brave fellow, Eban Cowan, who jumped overboard, and brought you on board," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Where is he, that I may shake him by the hand, and thank him?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But he is a brave fellow, Nelly; and though I cannot say what I should have been ready to do to him had I known it before, yet he saved my life, and risked his to do so, and I must not forget that. I must forget all else, and go and thank him heartily." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Go, Michael, said Nelly," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Where is he? That's more than I can tell you, lad, he answered." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He went away the other evening and has not since come back. I do not inquire after his movements, and so I suppose it is all right." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Glad he saved thy life, lad; he is a brave fellow, no doubt of that; but it is strange that he should not have come in to have his clothes dried and get some rest." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Aw!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Me come white camp, Nicholas volunteered." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Me get more fi' dollah." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Our little princess." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "O-o-o-oh!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "So! she whispered." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "They will know from whom that rose comes." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "So! she whispered." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "They will know from whom that rose comes" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Don't be a fool, I answered." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "There's a submerged rock right across here" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Seems to me we're in rather a tightish corner, Leonard," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "First turn to the left off Queer Street," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'd sell my soul for a whisky and soda," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And I mine, I echoed, thinking of Rose," }, { "from": "human", "value": "And I mine, Rose faltered, looking up and dabbing at her eyes with a morsel of handkerchief," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mephistopheles himself could scarcely have made a more opportune entrance, he remarked, as the crash of thunder subsided into a distant mutter." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Permit me." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I will take the liberty, he continued," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "A very excellent name," }, { "from": "human", "value": "A more than excellent cigarette," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You are the gentleman who sat in the three-shilling seats," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I was there last night and the night before, he acknowledged." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "On each occasion I found with regret that I was alone." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You have established your position, sir, as a patron of our ill-omened enterprise. May I ask to what we are indebted for the honour of this visit?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "In the first place, to invite you all to supper, was the brisk reply." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Secondly, to ask if I can be of any service in helping you to get rid of that bearded rascal Drummond, whom I see hanging about at the entrance. And in the third place--but I think, he added, after a queer and oddly prolonged pause," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Come, come, the latter continued," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You can have mine," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Mine also is at your service, I told him." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The only trouble seems to be to reduce it to a negotiable medium." }, { "from": "human", "value": "We will make that a subject of discussion later on, our new friend declared." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Mr. Lister, he added, turning to me," }, { "from": "human", "value": "We are in the worst plight three human beings could possibly find themselves in. We've played here for six nights, and we haven't taken enough money to pay for the lighting. We owe the bill at our lodgings, we haven't a scrap of food, a scrap of drink, a scrap of tobacco, a scrap of credit. We've nothing to pawn, and Drummond outside wants four pounds." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That settles it, our visitor declared curtly." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Follow me." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You needn't wait, our host ordered, taking off his mackintosh and straightening his black evening bow in the glass." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Miss Mindel, allow me to take your jacket. Sit on this side of the table, near the fire; you there, Cotton, and you opposite me, Lister. We will just start the proceedings so, he went on, cutting the wires of a bottle of champagne and pouring out its contents." }, { "from": "human", "value": "A little soup first, eh, and then I'll carve. Miss Mindel--gentlemen--your very good health. I drink to our better acquaintance." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If this is hell, the former declared, eyeing the chickens hungrily," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'm through with earth." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Drink your wine, Rose, I advised, raising my own glass," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Nothing in the world, she declared fervently," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Let me try your wits, our host proposed, a little abruptly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Tell me your life history in as few words as possible. Mr. Lister? Tabloid form, if you please?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Clergyman's son, without a shilling in the family, I replied;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "--touching my empty left coat sleeve." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Tried six months for a job, without success. Heard of a chap who had made a concert party pay, realised that my only gifts were a decent voice and some idea of dancing, so had a shot at it myself." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Mr. Cotton?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Idle and dissolute son of a wine merchant at Barnstaple who failed during the war, Leonard expounded;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Miss Mindel?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I am quite alone in the world, she said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "My mother taught music at Torquay and she died quite suddenly. I put my name down for a concert party, and in a way I was very fortunate, she added, glancing sweetly at Leonard and at me." }, { "from": "human", "value": "These two men have been so dear to me and I don't think it's any one's fault that we're such a failure. The weather's been bad, and people stay in their hotels and dance all the time now." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And now, he said," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Here we are, he pointed out," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I don't think you need worry, I told him." }, { "from": "human", "value": "It doesn't seem reasonable to imagine that we've been sent to the slums of Liverpool for nothing." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Then there are those posters, Rose put in," }, { "from": "human", "value": "You'll think this silly, but for the last three nights I've had a queer sort of feeling that Mr. Thomson was somewhere in the audience. I can't explain it. I looked everywhere for him. I even tried looking at the people one by one, all down the rows. I never saw any one in the least like him. All the same, I expected to hear his voice at any moment." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Granted the old boy's Satanic connections, Leonard observed," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ladies and gentlemen, I said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have much pleasure in announcing, according to our posters outside, that if there are any amateurs here willing to try their luck upon the stage, either with a song or a dance, we shall be very happy to provide them with music and any slight change of costume. A prize of one pound will be given to the performer whose song meets with the greatest approval, and a second prize of five shillings for the next most successful item." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'll try 'The Old Folks down Wapping Way', dear, she announced," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Come along, sir, he called out." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You look as though you had a good tenor voice, and nothing fetches 'em like it. You let him come, my dear, and he'll buy you a new hat with the money." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Here, Mister, was his greeting, as he stepped on to the platform," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'll have a go at 'em. Sheeny patter and a clog dance, eh?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "You must find me some sort of a change," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And I'll tidy up a bit myself, his rival observed." }, { "from": "human", "value": "We'll let the gal have first go." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You'll find an old dress suit of mine there, I pointed out." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Change as quickly as you can. I don't fancy the young lady will hold them for long." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Shall I be able to lock my things up? he asked, in an undertone." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No offence, he went on hastily," }, { "from": "human", "value": "How long will that screeching woman be?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You can go on directly she's finished murdering this one, I promised him." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I don't think they'll stand any more." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Now what can I do for you, sir? I asked." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I don't think you need to change, do you?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I shall pretend to make some slight change behind that screen, he said in a low tone." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Come back here when you've taken him on the stage. I may want you." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I was a fool to take this on, he confided nervously." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You are sure my things will be all right in there?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "You have every assurance of it," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ever been in the profession?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Never," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What's your line to-night?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Tenor. Your pianist will be able to do what I want. I've heard her." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If you win the prize, do you want a job?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I've other work on." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Down at the docks?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "That's of no consequence, is it? was the somewhat curt reply.--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "There, she's finished, thank heavens! Let me get this over." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He's got the key," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You've a telephone somewhere. Where is it?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "In the passage," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You'll have to sing again," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I don't want to, he declared passionately." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I was a fool to come." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Nonsense! I protested, for the uproar outside was becoming unbearable." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Listen! They'll have the place down if you don't." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I sha'n't go on, his rival competitor grumbled sombrely, thrusting a cigar into his mouth and feeling in his pockets for a match." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You've queered my pitch all right. They're all Irish down in this quarter. You've fairly got 'em by the throat." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What you break off for like that, young man? he demanded." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Have you forgotten the words? You've won the quid all right, anyway." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I've been robbed! the singer called out." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Something has been stolen from the pocket of this coat!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "You locked it up yourself," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I don't care! was the wild reply." }, { "from": "human", "value": "It was there and it is gone!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The game's up, Mountjoy, he said curtly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We don't want any shooting here, he added, as he saw the flash of a revolver in the other's hand." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I've half a dozen men outside besides these two." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Some one has been at my clothes, he muttered, his great black eyes glaring at me." }, { "from": "human", "value": "If I thought that it was you----" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Or you," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You put that up, Mister, he enjoined earnestly." }, { "from": "human", "value": "If you're in a bit of trouble with the cops, you go through with it. Don't you get brandishing those things about. I've known 'em go off sometimes." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Better take me out the back away, he advised." }, { "from": "human", "value": "There'll be trouble if the crowd in front gets to know who I am." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You cowards! she shouted." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You have let him be taken before your eyes! That was Mountjoy who sang to you--our liberator! Rescue him! Is there any one here from Donegal?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What does it mean, Maurice? she asked breathlessly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Who is he?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I have no idea, I answered," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Talk plain English, Leonard begged." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Remember we had to be on the stage all the time." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It means, I explained," }, { "from": "human", "value": "What about him?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He was Mr. Richard Thomson, I told her." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You and I, Leonard, are simply mugs at making up. It was the most wonderful disguise I ever saw in my life." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That accounts for it, she declared, with a little shiver." }, { "from": "human", "value": "He has been here before, watching. I told you that I felt him around, without ever recognising him." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Where is he now?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This is a very pleasant meeting, Mr. Thomson declared, as he placed us at the table and gave orders that the wine should be opened." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We met last on the east coast, I remember. I trust that you are finding business better?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Business is wonderfully good," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We turned away money last week," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I trust, he said slowly," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We are more than satisfied, I assured him, trying to infuse as much gratitude as I could into my tone." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I am thankful to say that we are able to put by a little every week, too, towards the capital which you advanced. The new costumes, songs and posters are bringing something of their own back." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That is a matter of no concern, he pronounced." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Have you anything further to say?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I should like to know, I asked bluntly," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I do not wish to encourage curiosity, he remarked coldly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Our bargain renders any explanation on my part unnecessary. You had better read aloud that item in the stop press news, however. It may allay your qualms, if you are foolish enough to have any." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There was five hundred pounds reward for the arrest of Mountjoy. Are you claiming it?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Blood money, Mr. Thomson confessed, with a queer smile," }, { "from": "human", "value": "It was you who put the police on to Mountjoy?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I knew, he continued presently," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I believe even the police knew, that Mountjoy was lying hidden somewhere within a quarter of a mile of Watergate Street. How to draw him out of his hiding place was the problem. I remembered his two failings,--vanity, and love of hearing that beautiful voice of his. I pandered to them." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You laid a trap on behalf of the police, then?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "That might be considered the truth," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And the minute book?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Concerning the minute book, he replied," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have nothing to say." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mr. Thomson, she said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am a woman, and I am desperately, insatiably curious. I must know--please tell me--what are we--you and we three? Your confederates, I suppose we are? Are we on the side of the police or the criminal, the informer, or do we come somewhere between? I must adapt my conscience to our position." }, { "from": "human", "value": "That, he said," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I suppose you have heard that we have finished at the Crown for the present?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Please don't tell a soul, she begged," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Nonsense!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "It is perfectly true, she repeated." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "A lawyer in the city brought the notes and an agreement, absolutely refusing a single word of explanation. We didn't worry very much, I can tell you. Twenty-five pounds isn't picked up every day, but I don't mind confessing that when I think about it, I get so curious it makes me positively ill. Miss Brown's theory is that it's one of these old cranks in the hotel, with more money than he knows what to do with, who hates music. On the other hand, the management has received no complaints, and there's nothing to prevent another orchestra taking our place next Monday." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It must have been Mr. Grant," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I put my money on the old lady," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We needn't speculate any more about that hundred pounds," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A conquest," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "All the same, she said," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'd love some of his cigarettes." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Leonard, I said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Can you get into touch with Thomson?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Only through the banker's address in London, I replied." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Where these typewritten notes drop from not a soul seems to know." }, { "from": "human", "value": "What fun! she exclaimed." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Perhaps I shall get some cigarettes." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You don't suppose we are going to allow this?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Not for one moment!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "You idiots! she exclaimed." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Do you think I can't take care of myself? Or don't you trust me?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "You know that it isn't that, I rejoined," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Russians don't know how to treat women," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Anyhow, she said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I know how to treat Russians, so please leave me alone. Remember that I, too, am under contract to Mr. Mephistopheles Thomson, and although I love you both, you're not my guardians." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I have ventured, he said, in a very low and extraordinarily pleasant voice," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Miss Mindel does not accept presents from strangers, sir," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "May I be allowed, he said," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I thank you very much indeed, she replied, smiling up at him," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Will you believe me, he persisted," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mr. Kinlosti, she said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What was his excuse for leaving his master?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Tsar entrusted him with the knowledge of where a portion of the Crown jewels were secreted. He was to find them, raise money, and try and bribe the Siberian Guards. He found the jewels all right, but not until Nicholas and the whole of his family had been assassinated." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What did he do with the jewels?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "He has not told me so in so many words, but I believe that he has them here, she replied." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He told me they were still in his possession and he held them in trust for the Romanoffs. The terrible part of the business for him is that he has been tracked all over Europe by Bolshevist agents, who claim that the jewels belong to the Russian State." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Why did he tell you all this?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Perhaps to account for the fact that he seemed so nervous all the time, she suggested." }, { "from": "human", "value": "He started whenever another motor car passed us, and as long as we were in Bath itself he watched the faces on the pavements, as though all the time he were looking for some one. He told me that when first he arrived here he suspected even the masseurs at the baths." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I still don't see why he was so confidential with you," }, { "from": "human", "value": "He likes me, she acknowledged, with a demure smile." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "In fact, if he tells the truth, he likes me very much. Don't look so black, please, she went on, with a glance at our faces." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Remember I am only obeying orders." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No one has ever seen them, he told Rose," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mr. Kinlosti is going to show me something in his sitting room. Please come with us." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Do not be frightened of John, he enjoined, as he opened the door." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "John is the guardian of my treasure, and he is obsessed with the idea that there are thieves in this hotel." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Even for you, my dear young friend, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I may not raise the lid, but I show you this much of your desire. This is one of the coffers which for eleven hundred years has held the ceremonial jewels of the Russian Royal Family. There were at one time five of them. This is the one that remains." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Mayn't I have just one little peep inside?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It is impossible, he pronounced." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I do not bear this trust alone. In the spirit I fear that I break it already. You will rest here for a little while, mademoiselle?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You will not let me make you some of our own Russian tea?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Bring me some downstairs, she suggested." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I should love the tea, if it isn't too much trouble, and I will come over and sit in your corner." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I believe that you have a penchant for Mrs. Cotesham," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "She is the most horrible old lady I have ever seen anywhere, he said fervently." }, { "from": "human", "value": "They tell me that she is over ninety, and that she has but one joy in life--to make where she can mischief and trouble and unhappiness. She comes here every year, and every servant hates her. Even the managers would keep her away if they could, but she has bought shares in the hotel and has interest with the directors." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The old man Mr. Grant is nearly as bad," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Him I know nothing of, Kinlosti replied," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This man has taken my chair! she exclaimed in a loud voice, for the benefit of every one." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I left a book in it." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I want my chair," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What does the woman want? he snarled." }, { "from": "human", "value": "This isn't her chair. It's an hotel chair. I found it empty and I sat down. I am going to stay." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Where's my book?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I threw it on the lounge, he shouted." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "There it is. Now don't bother me any more." }, { "from": "human", "value": "He calls himself a gentleman!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Never called myself anything of the sort in my life," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Will you sit here, madam? I ventured." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It is as near your favourite position as possible." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Say that again, young man," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I don't like having to sit near such people, she said," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I wish the pestilential old woman would stay up in her room, he growled." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I hate her next me." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Say that again, will you? she invited." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I don't like people talking about me when I can't hear what they say." }, { "from": "human", "value": "That old woman ought to be locked up, he declared at the top of his voice." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "She's a damned nuisance to everybody!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I've been to a good many hotels in my life, she confided to every one within hearing," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is time to go, I am sure," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We speak together to-night, then?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I am not sure, she replied." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The management will complain if I talk so much with one of the guests, but I will play 'Valse Triste' for you. Au revoir!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Look here, I said, with my hand in my trousers pocket," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I would tell you in a minute if I knew, sir, he declared," }, { "from": "human", "value": "You haven't any idea who leaves them there, then?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Not the slightest, sir," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Keep a good lookout, I begged him," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Chu-Chin-Chow." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, I'm damned!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Be careful, I advised." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Thomson's probably underneath these paving stones." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Do you think he wants to steal the jewels, Maurice?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, no! I answered." }, { "from": "human", "value": "He probably wants to borrow them to wear at the Lord Mayor's show!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That's all very well, Mr. Lister, she said, with a great attempt at hauteur," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I bet you a four-pound box of chocolates he does lose them," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Anyhow, she murmured," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Chu-Chin-Chow that evening as well as they could with an extemporised rendering. Rose played the piano, Leonard the violin, and I pretended to be turning over the pages of the music, although all the time I was engaged in a furtive search of the crowded lounge for some sign of our patron or a possible emissary. There were the usual little groups about, and a more harmless or obvious set of people I don't think I ever came across. Mrs. Cotesham was seated with her back to us, with a shawl arranged around her head so as to still further deaden sound, and ostentatiously reading a novel. Mr. Grant had stumped past us on his way to the billiard room, muttering to himself, before the first few bars of our little effort had been played. The others were nearly all known to us by name or reputation. There seemed something uncanny in the thought that somewhere or other were ears waiting for the message our selection conveyed. We were half-way through the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Cobbler's Song" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That man is a thief in disguise, he shouted." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You will find burglar's tools in his pocket and a revolver. He came into the room where I was guarding my master's property, pretended to have mistaken the room, and tried to slip in behind me. I was too quick for him. He has followed us from Russia, that man. My master will tell you." }, { "from": "human", "value": "The man's story may be true, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Two of the maids saw him hanging about. They heard the altercation, and there is a chloroformed handkerchief in the sitting room." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I have a valuable box there, Kinlosti explained," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "All the same, one of the bystanders observed," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I beg, he said to the manager," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Here is the doctor," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I think, the doctor pronounced," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I do not think, he said drily," }, { "from": "human", "value": "You have a suspicion, perhaps?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I know the people who have been following me, he replied," }, { "from": "human", "value": "At the same time, the manager said a little stiffly," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I shall give information. It appears that he wrote for a room a week ago, from a vicarage near London, and signed himself 'The Reverend Edward Cummings.'" }, { "from": "human", "value": "You will find that vicarage a myth, Kinlosti observed," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is very distressing, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Because of this unfortunate happening, the manager has asked me to leave the hotel. Every place in Bath is full, and my cure is not complete." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You may not be able to go, I pointed out." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It seems that there is every possibility of a railway strike being declared to-night." }, { "from": "human", "value": "It would not affect me, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I travel everywhere by car. I think after what has happened I shall go. In London I can acquit myself of my trust. I see that the person who is empowered to take over my responsibility is back in London a few days sooner than he was expected." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "To-morrow, Kinlosti continued quietly," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I shall order my car and depart. It will perhaps be better. If things get worse, they may commandeer the petrol. I will rid myself of this responsibility and either return or try Harrogate. You three will come up and have a bottle of wine with me and some sandwiches?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What a pity for a man to make such ugly noises when he's asleep! she remarked to her neighbour." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I wish some one would wake him up. He's disturbing the whole room." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Madam, he shouted, as she raised her trumpet to her ear," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I don't care whether you are or not, she replied." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'm glad I woke you up. Bed's the place for you." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "A coffin's the place for you, Mr. Grant muttered under his breath." }, { "from": "human", "value": "How are you going to get away from here, ma'am? he continued, raising his tone." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I hear your rooms are let from to-morrow." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I sha'n't ask you for a place in your car, she answered." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Very likely I sha'n't go. They can't turn me out." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I don't think they'll miss the opportunity," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I sha'n't listen to you any more, she declared." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You're a rude old man. If it interests any one else to know what will become of me, I have relatives in Bristol who will be only too glad for me to pay them a visit." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "They'll be gladder to get rid of her," } ]