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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I propose within the next few moments to lay the matter before Mr. Garner, and to gain his sanction to compel her to throw off this disguise before she leaves this room, to confront her with the evidence of her crime, and to force her to make a full confession at the bedside of her would-be victim."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I quite agree with your plan, assented the other."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But there is one precaution which we must not forget: the key must be turned in the lock and removed, if you would have your bird securely caged. Delays are dangerous. Let Mr. Garner be told the terrible truth without a moment's delay, and we will rest the case wholly with him."
}
] |
29776
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Jessie suffering from the effects of poison? he gasped, incredulously."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Great Heaven! how can I believe such an uncanny tale? Miss Staples has not an enemy in the whole world, I am sure. No one could have a motive in attempting to put her out of the way."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Will you answer one question?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Anything which you may ask,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Did you ever have any other sweetheart than Miss Staples? Did any other woman ever love you in the past?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have no hesitancy in acknowledging that I did have a romance in my life before my betrothal to poor Jessie. But she knew about it from beginning to end."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Did you give this girl up for Miss Staples? Pardon me for asking such a direct question, but your answer is vitally important."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "My little sweetheart disappeared one day with a handsomer man than I, he said, huskily,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Did she love you in those days?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I wonder that you can ask the question, said Jack, with a touch of haughty bitterness."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Does it look very much as though she loved me when she ran away with another man? On the contrary, any one could see that, in pursuing the course she did toward me, she must have detested me. I never saw this Mrs. Brown before we engaged her as a companion to my mother, nor has Jessie, I am sure. I am completely at sea, Jack added,"
}
] |
29776
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "I will tell you, he said, slowly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The poor girl on the couch beside which you have often knelt is dying of slow poison, administered to her by some person beneath this roof."
}
] |
29776
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Some one under this roof has been guilty of this most atrocious act, continued the doctor, in a stern voice."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We suspect--we know the guilty party, and that party is in this very room!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You do not answer me, Mrs. Brown, said the doctor, frowning."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What have you to say?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What could I say?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The one who is guilty of this diabolical deed must be held accountable for it, said the doctor, facing her sternly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A just punishment must and shall be meted out to the wicked party. If you say that you will not admit the truth, then I will turn the affair over to Mr. Garner, here and now!"
}
] |
29776
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I will take it upon myself, and Jack shall go free, she said to herself--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What have you to say in this matter, Mr. Garner?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Let me answer instead of him, Dorothy panted, hoarsely."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He knows nothing about it. Oh, hear me!--listen to me, I pray you! It is I--I whom you must hold guilty. Do with me as you will!"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Who are you, and what was your motive for this horrible crime? asked the doctor, sternly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You must make a clean breast of why you attempted to poison Miss Staples, here and now."
}
] |
29776
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "You must reveal your identity here and now, Doctor Crandall was repeating, vehemently,"
}
] |
29776
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You--you!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Save me--save me!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Let me go!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You must be held answerable for your crime, he said, sternly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You showed no pity to the girl lying here so helpless, and why should it be shown you? She lies here in a deep sleep, and when she awakens we shall know whether it is life or death she has to face. We hope it is life, but we can not be too sure. In the interim, while we decide your fate, you should thank Heaven that your plans are frustrated. We can not decide, until the crisis is past, as to what is best to be done."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Jack, she whispered again,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You have both assured me that Miss Staples will not die from this poisoning, he said, hoarsely;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "God only knows her object in coming here in disguise and committing this awful crime,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Go, and may Heaven forgive you! Go to the father of your child."
}
] |
29776
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "You were too generous toward her, cried one of the doctors."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "See! she has abandoned her little child, Mr. Garner."
}
] |
29776
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hush! On your life, don't dare to make an outcry!"
}
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29776
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dorothy--my darling Dorothy! he cried, clasping her hands and showering kisses upon her upturned face."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, Dorothy, my little bride that is to be, why did you fly from me so cruelly the morning after the great ball at our home in Yonkers?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do not speak to me! Stop this coach immediately, and let me get out! she cried."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "How dare you attempt to thrust your unwelcome face in my way again? Go back to Iris Vincent, for whom you left me; or to Nadine Holt, whose heart and whose life you have wrecked. I know you for what you are, and I abhor you a thousand times more than I ever imagined I fancied you."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do you mean that you do not wish to go back to the Yonkers home and marry me?"
}
] |
29776
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Few men would care for you so much upon making the terrible discovery that you had fled from home and directly to the arms of an old lover, remaining under his roof until you were cast out from it by that lover himself. I do not know even what your quarrel with him was about. I do not ask to know. The object which took me there, I do not mind telling you. I had a quarrel with your lover, Jack Garner. We were to meet early this morning to settle the affair of honor; but as he did not show up to make the arrangements, I forced my way into his house, in order that I might not miss him. I heard him turning you from his door. Then amazement held me spell-bound. I shall take this into account when--when I have my settlement with him, later on. Any indignity offered to you shall be my affair, as your husband, to settle."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The duel must be averted at any cost, she told herself; yet she could not--oh, she could not!--marry him."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I must think of some way out of this, thought Dorothy, in the wildest agony."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I must save myself, and save him, too."
}
] |
29776
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Here we are!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have not said that I would marry you, she cried."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How dared you bring me here?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That fact was settled between you and me so long ago that you surprise me by your words,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There is such a thing as a person changing her mind,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Surely you do not mean that you have changed yours?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have, indeed, declared the girl;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Do you think I would leave you here, Dorothy, he said, in his most winning voice--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Take your hand off my arm, or I shall scream!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Drive on--drive on! Kendal yelled to the driver--"
}
] |
29776
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is a pity to waste so much breath on the desert air, he sneered."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I would advise you to stop before you become exhausted, as there is no one to hear you and to come to your aid."
}
] |
29776
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dead! she whispered in a voice of horror, as she knelt beside the figure lying there, and placed her hand over her heart. But no; the heart beneath her light touch beat ever so faintly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Thank God! this poor creature is not dead,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Poor child!"
}
] |
29776
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "You ask why I am here! she sobbed."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Let me tell you: I came here to die. Death would have come to me, I feel sure, if you had not crossed my path. I should have crept to the brink of the bank yonder, and thrown myself down into the river, and ended a life that is not worth the living."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You must have seen a great deal of trouble to cause you to talk like that."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have seen more trouble than any other person on earth,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Have you lost friends, or those nearer and dearer to you?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I never had a relative that I can remember, she answered, with a little sob."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But I have lost my lover--my lover! He is to wed another, and that other a girl who was once my dearest friend."
}
] |
29776
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "I do not ask you your story, my poor girl, but listen, and I will tell you mine, and you can then judge how much mightier is my grief than yours."
}
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29776
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "I was wild with grief for days and weeks. And when I became somewhat rational, and could understand what was passing about me, I learned the terrible truth--the sad, pitiful story: my babe had indeed found a watery grave. They found a little shoe, its cape, and portions of its dress floating on the waves the next morning. But the body was never recovered; it had drifted out to sea. Now you will not wonder why I wander up and down this lonely path at midnight--why I listen on my bended knees for hours to the whispering voice of the waves. It seems to me like the voice of my little child; and some day I shall follow her into the dark, cold waves, and be at rest with my darling whose tiny hands beckon me down to death in the cold, watery depths whose waves are glinted by the golden light of the flickering stars."
}
] |
29776
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, take me to my child! she cried."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Now--now! Let not an instant's time elapse. Every moment is precious. I can not wait--I can not!"
}
] |
29776
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come and talk it over with my husband. We will do whatever he decides."
}
] |
29776
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, for the love of Heaven, bring quickly to me the baby whom you call Pearl!"
}
] |
29776
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes; it is my child--my own little, lost child!"
}
] |
29776
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then the child she had here was not her own?"
}
] |
29776
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "The accusation was not true, cried Jack."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Dorothy was not guilty. A girl whom Jessie had known for years, and who was at her bedside, did the deed. She wrote a full confession. I found it under my plate at the dinner-table. Nadine Holt has fled to escape just punishment. Oh, how I wish I could find poor, abused Dorothy, to tell her the truth!"
}
] |
29776
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "I absolve you from your promise, my dear girl, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You must wed him whom you love best. Never mind me."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But you? sobbed Jessie."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I--I will accept my freedom only on one condition, Jack; and that is, that you ask Dorothy to fill my place--aye, to take her own old place again in your heart and life!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Not now, he said;"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "was changed to"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "was changed to"
}
] |
690057
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Angy!"
}
] |
10511
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "A CURTAIN AT THE END OF THE ROOM WAS DRAWN SLOWLY ASIDE, AND THERE, STANDING IN THE GAP, I SAW THE SLIM FIGURE OF A GIRL."
}
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10511
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "CATCH"
}
] |
10511
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "What are you stopping for? Get on there in front."
}
] |
10511
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Murder!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Stop that!"
}
] |
10511
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Tally-ho!"
}
] |
10511
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Down you go!"
}
] |
10511
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Got yer! he roared. Then at the top of his voice--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Here he is! Help! Help!"
}
] |
10511
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "There he goes!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Look out there!"
}
] |
10511
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Stop thief!"
}
] |
10511
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Put up your hands."
}
] |
10511
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "If you attempt to move, he remarked pleasantly,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I shall blow your brains out."
}
] |
10511
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "A stranger! he observed."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Dear me--what a disappointment! I hope Mr. Latimer is not ill?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If you keep me standing like this much longer, I managed to jerk out,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I shall most certainly faint."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Indeed, he said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I thought--"
}
] |
10511
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, Mr. Lyndon, he said slowly,"
}
] |
10511
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Are you feeling any better?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don't know, I said weakly;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm feeling devilish hungry."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Don't sit up. Lie quite still where you are, and I will get you something to eat. Have you had any food today?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Only rain-water,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You had better start with some bread and milk, then. You have been starving too long to eat a big meal straight away."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You needn't try to escape, he added, turning back to me."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am not going to send for the police."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't care what you do, I whispered,"
}
] |
10511
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Here you are, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Do you think you can manage to feed yourself?"
}
] |
10511
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "I shouldn't eat it quite so fast, he observed."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It will do you more good if you take it slowly."
}
] |
10511
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "There you are, he said in that curious dry voice of his."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Eat that up, and then we'll have a little conversation. Meanwhile-- he paused and looked round--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's better, he observed, gently rubbing his hands together;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am charmed to meet you,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The pleasure is a mutual one, Mr. Lyndon--quite a mutual one."
}
] |
10511
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "And now, he said,"
}
] |
10511
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come, Mr. Lyndon, it doesn't pay to be too suspicious. If it will relieve your mind, I can assure you I have no immediate intention of turning policeman, even for the magnificent sum of--how much is it--five pounds, I believe? On mere business grounds I think it would be underrating your market value."
}
] |
10511
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "I will tell you anything you want to know with pleasure, I said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Where did the _Daily Mail_ leave off?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If I remember rightly, he said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But try one of these before you start, he added."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They are a special brand from St. Petersburg, and I think you will enjoy them. There is nothing like a little abstinence to make one appreciate a good tobacco."
}
] |
10511
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't hurry yourself, Mr. Lyndon, he observed,"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "It must be pleasant to be as strong as you are, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I should have been dead long ago."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, I don't exactly feel like going to a dance,"
}
] |
10511
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "You had better go to bed, he said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, I'm not, I admitted frankly;"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "By God! I cried fiercely,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Sit down, you fool, he said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's not the police."
}
] |
10511
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sit down, man, sit down. No one means you any harm here."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Who is it in the car?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They are friends of mine. They have nothing to do with the police. You will see in a minute."
}
] |
10511
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Savaroff!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Come in here, went on McMurtrie."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't bother about the car. He turned back to me."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Drink this,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I know you are feeling bad, he said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That will be very convenient,"
}
] |
10511
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Who's this?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Allow me, he said,"
}
] |
10511
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "You will excuse my getting up, I said weakly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It doesn't seem to agree with me."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mr. Lyndon, explained the doctor,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "How in the name of Satan did he get here?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He came in through the window with the intention of borrowing a little food. I had happened to see him in the garden, and being under the natural impression that he was--er--well, another friend of ours, I ventured to detain him."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But it's incredible,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Poor man, she exclaimed,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "My dear Sonia, said McMurtrie,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But he looks so wet and ill."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He is wet and ill, rejoined the doctor agreeably."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That is just the reason why I am going to ask you to heat some water and light a fire in the spare bedroom. We don't want to disturb Mrs. Weston at this time of night. I suppose the bed is made up?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I think so. I'll go up and see anyhow."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "You don't look much like your pictures, my friend,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Under the circumstances, I replied,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, yes. But the clothes and the short hair--eh? They would take a lot of explaining away. It was fortunate for you you chose this house--very fortunate. You find yourself amongst friends here."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Come, Savaroff, you take Mr. Lyndon's other arm and we'll help him upstairs. It is quite time he got out of those wet things."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "I thought Mr. Lyndon might like a hot bath, she said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It won't take very long to warm up the water."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Like it!"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't wake him up. Let him sleep as long as he likes--it's the best thing for him."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, said the doctor smoothly,"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't think there's any serious damage, I said hoarsely."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "How long have I been asleep?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "As far as I remember, you went to sleep in your bath soon after midnight. It's now four o'clock in the afternoon."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Four o'clock! I exclaimed."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Good Lord! I must get up--I--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Don't be foolish, my friend, he said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You will get up when you are fit to get up. At the present moment you are going to have something to eat. He turned to the girl."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What are you thinking of giving him?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There are plenty of eggs, she said,"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Either will do excellently, he said in his usual suave way,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I shall be vastly grateful for anything, I said, addressing the girl."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Whatever is the least trouble to cook."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have brought you yesterday's _Daily Mail_, he said;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I thought it would amuse you to read the description of your escape. It is quite entertaining; and besides that there is a masterly little summary of your distinguished career prior to its unfortunate interruption. He laid the paper on the bed."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "First of all, though, he added,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I will just look you over. I couldn't find much the matter with you last night, but we may as well make certain."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, he said finally,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dr. McMurtrie, I said bluntly,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A natural and healthy curiosity, Mr. Lyndon, he said drily."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I hope to satisfy it after you have had something to eat. Till then-- he shrugged his shoulders--"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come in,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don't know the least how to thank you for all this,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "For all what?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "This, I repeated, waving my hand towards the tray,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do you know why we are helping you?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I haven't the faintest notion, I answered frankly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It certainly can't be on account of the charm of my appearance. I've just been looking at myself in the glass."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What does a man's appearance matter? You can't expect to break out of Dartmoor in a frock-coat."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, I replied gravely;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh! she said;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I shouldn't build too much upon our hospitality if I were you."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I would build upon yours to any extent, I said;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They mean you no harm, she said at last,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Then she paused."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Did you murder that man Marks?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, I said;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I only knocked him about a bit. He wasn't worth murdering."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Is that true?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, I replied,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Then why did your partner--Mr. Marwood--why did he say that you had done it?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That, I said softly,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If a man I had trusted and worked with behaved like that to me, she said slowly,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I should kill him."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I daresay it will come to that, I said;"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "May we come in? he inquired."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We are not interrupting your tea, I hope."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, I have done tea, thank you,"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You have read the _Mail_, I see, he said, picking up the paper."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I hope you admired the size of the headlines."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's the type of compliment, I replied,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Our friend, he said,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ah, yes, said Dr. McMurtrie amiably;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He took off his glasses and began to polish them thoughtfully."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "One might almost say that he held them in trust--in trust for Providence."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And is it on account of my talents that you have been kind enough to shelter me?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The instinct to assist a hunted fellow-creature, he observed,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Then he paused."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I take it, Mr. Lyndon, that you are not particularly anxious to rejoin your friends in Princetown?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not if there is a more pleasant alternative."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No alternative is likely to be more unpleasant for you,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Indeed! I said:"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I can imagine several."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But ours, Mr. Lyndon, is one which I think will make a very special appeal to you. How would you like to keep your freedom and at the same time take up your scientific work again?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I should like it very much indeed, if it was possible,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It is possible,"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Explain to him,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "For some time before Mr. Marks's unfortunate death, he said slowly,"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And I believe you were just on the point of success when you were arrested?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Theoretically I was, I said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "These matters don't always work out quite so well when you put them to a practical test."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Still, you yourself were quite satisfied with the prospects?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And unless I am wrong, this new explosive will be immensely more powerful than anything now in use?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Immensely, I repeated;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Can you give me any idea as to its strength?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "According to my calculations, I said slowly,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Are you speaking the truth?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Leave the matter to me, Savaroff, he said sharply."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I understand Mr. Lyndon better than you do. Then addressing me:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Supposing you had all the things that you required, how long would it take you to manufacture some of this powder--or whatever it is?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's difficult to say, I answered."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Perhaps a week; perhaps a couple of months. I could make the actual stuff at once provided I had the materials, but it's a question of doing it in such a way that one can handle it safely for practical purposes. I was experimenting on that very point at the time of my arrest."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You have been candid with us, he said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You certainly would, I said;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "So you see when some exceedingly convenient chance brought you in through our kitchen window it naturally occurred to me to invite you to stay and discuss the matter. You happen to be in a position in which you could be useful to us, and I think that we, on the other hand, might be of some assistance to you."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What do you say, Mr. Lyndon?"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How did you know about my experiments?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There are such things as trade secrets. It is necessary for a business man to keep in touch with anything that may threaten his interests."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What is it that you propose--exactly?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I propose that you should finish your experiments as soon as possible, make some of this explosive, and hand the actual stuff and the full secret of its manufacture over to us. In return I will guarantee you your freedom, and let you have a quarter interest in all profits we make out of your invention."
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have no objection to the bargain, I said slowly, helping myself to a match off the table;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You shall work under any conditions you please, said McMurtrie amiably."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If it suits you we will fix you up a hut and some sheds down on the Thames marshes, and you can live there till the experiments are finished."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But I should be recognized, I objected."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am bound to be recognized. I am fairly well known as it is, and with my picture and description placarded all over England, I shouldn't stand a dog's chance. However lonely a place it was, some one would be bound to see me and give me away sooner or later."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You may be seen, he said,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What do you mean?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "My dear Mr. Lyndon, said McMurtrie, courteously,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But in what way? I objected."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A disguise? Any one can see through a disguise except in novels."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am not suggesting a wig and a pair of spectacles, he observed."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It is rather too late in the world's history for that sort of thing. Then he stopped and studied me for an instant attentively."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In a fortnight, and practically without hurting you, he added,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I can make you as safe from the police as if you were dead and buried."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Under the circumstances, I said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, there is no secret about it. Any surgeon could do it. I have only to alter the shape of your nose a trifle, and make your forehead rather higher and wider. A stain of some sort will do the rest."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, I said;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Child's play, he answered."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Merely a question of paraffin injections and the X-rays."
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How am I to know that you will keep your promise?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You forget what an embarrassing position we shall be putting ourselves in, Mr. Lyndon, he said with perfect good temper."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Shielding a runaway convict is an indictable offence--to say nothing of altering his appearance. As for the money --he made a little gesture of contempt--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Very well, I said quietly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I will accept the offer on one condition--that I can have a week in London before beginning work."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Gott in Himmel! and who are you to make terms? he exclaimed roughly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, we have only to send you back to the prison and you will be flogged like a dog!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "In which distressing event, I observed,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My dear Savaroff, interrupted McMurtrie, soothingly,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Then he turned to me."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I suppose you have some reason for making this condition?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If you had been in Dartmoor three years, I said, with a rather well-forced laugh,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I see. A little holiday--a brief taste of the pleasures of liberty! Well, that seems to me a very natural and reasonable request. What do you think, Savaroff?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don't think there would be much risk about it, I said boldly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If you can change my appearance as completely as you say you can, no one would be the least likely to recognize me. After three years of that dog's life up there I can't settle down in a hut on the Thames marshes without having a few days' fun first. I should be very careful what I did naturally. I have had quite enough of the prison to appreciate being outside."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Very well, he said slowly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I see no objection to your having your 'few days' fun' in London if you want them. It would be safer perhaps to get you away from this house as soon as possible. I should think three weeks would be quite enough for our purposes here--and I daresay it will take us a month to fix up a satisfactory place for you to work in. Then he paused."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Of course if you go to town, he added,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Naturally, I said;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I only want--"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hoffman!"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, we will leave you at peace now, Mr. Lyndon. I should try to go to sleep again for a little while if I were you. I will come up later and see whether you would like some supper. He stopped and looked round the room."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Is there anything else you want that you haven't got?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If you could advance me a box of cigarettes, I said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I will send Sonia up with it,"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "in London to look forward to, and the thought of that alone would have been quite enough to make me go through with anything. I had lied to McMurtrie about my object, but the falsehood, such as it was, did not sit very heavily on my conscience. The precise meaning of"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, I suppose I had better get up too, I said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I can't stop in bed and be waited on by you."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You've got to, she replied curtly,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Who's Mrs. Weston?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She's our housekeeper. She's deaf and dumb."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There are worse things, I observed,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then I sat up and pulled my breakfast towards me."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Of course I would much rather you looked after me. I was only thinking of the trouble I'm giving you."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, it's not much trouble, she said; then after a little pause she added, in a rather curious voice:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Anyway I shouldn't mind if it was."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But I am feeling perfectly fit this morning, I persisted."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I might just as well get up if your father would lend me some kit. I don't think I could squeeze into McMurtrie's."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The doctor says you are to stop where you are. He is coming up to see you. Then she hesitated."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "One of the prison warders called here last night to warn us that you were probably hiding in the neighbourhood."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That was kind, I said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, she answered,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Tell me, she said,"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, Joyce is only a child, I said;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But she is not a child now, remarked Sonia calmly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "According to the paper she must be nineteen."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, I said,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I suppose people grow older even when I'm in prison."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And she loves you--she must love you. Do you think any woman could help loving a man who had done what you did for her?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, I expect she has forgotten all about me long ago, I said with a sudden bitterness."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "People who go to prison can't expect to be remembered--except by the police."
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I thought, she said slowly,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I thought that perhaps you wanted to go to London in order to meet her."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am not quite so selfish as that. I have brought her enough trouble and unhappiness already."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Then it is your cousin that you mean to see, she said softly--"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, you needn't think I shall repeat what you tell me, she broke out almost scornfully."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The doctor and my father are quite capable of taking care of themselves. They don't want me to act as their spy."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, I said frankly,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I was thinking of looking up George just to see how he has been getting on in my absence. But apart from that I have every intention of playing straight with McMurtrie. It seems to me to be my only chance."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It _is_ your only chance, she said quietly,"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have brought you another _Daily Mail_--yesterday's, he said, throwing the paper down on the bed."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It contains the second instalment of your adventures. Then he paused and looked at me with that curious smile that seemed to begin and end with his lips."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, he added,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Gone, I said,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I daresay we can find a way out of that difficulty. My friend Savaroff would, I am sure, be delighted to lend you some garments to go on with. You seem to be much of a size."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, I should be delighted to accept them, I said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Even the joy of being in a real bed again begins to wear off after two days."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am afraid you can't expect very much liberty while you are our guest, he said, leaning back against the window."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It would be too dangerous for you to go outside the house, even at night time. I expect Sonia told you about our visitor yesterday."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, I said;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I should like to have heard the interview."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It was quite interesting. From what he told me I should say that few prisoners have been more missed than you are. It appears that there are over seventy warders hunting about the neighbourhood, to say nothing of volunteers."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I seem to be giving a lot of trouble,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not to us. I am only sorry that we can't offer you a more entertaining visit. He opened his case and helped himself to a cigarette."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "On the whole, however, I daresay you won't find the time drag so very much. There will be the business of altering your appearance--I hope to start on that the day after tomorrow--and then I want you to make me out a full list of everything you will need in connection with your experiments. It would be best perhaps to have a drawing of the actual shed--just as you would like it fitted up. You might start on this right away."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Certainly, I said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I shall be glad to have something to do."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And I don't suppose you will mind much if we can't arrange anything very luxurious for you in the way of living accommodation. We shall have to choose as lonely a place as possible, and it will probably involve your feeding chiefly on tinned food, and roughing it a bit generally. It won't be for very long."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I shan't mind in the least, I said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Anything will be comfortable after Princetown. As long as you can fix me up with what I want for my work I shan't grumble about the rest."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "By the way, he said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I suppose you never wore a beard or a moustache before you went to prison?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Only once in some amateur theatricals, I answered"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "They will make a great difference in your appearance by themselves, he went on, looking at me critically."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I wonder how long they will take to grow."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "At the present rate of progress, I said,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I should think about a week."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Another fortnight on top of that will be nearer the mark, I expect, he said, getting up from the bed."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That will just fit in with our arrangements. In three weeks we ought to be able to fix you up with what you want, and by that time there won't be quite so much excitement about your escape. The _Daily Mail_ will have become tired of you, even if the police haven't. He stopped to flick the ash off his cigarette."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Of course you will have to be extremely careful when you are in London. I shall change your appearance so that it will be quite impossible for any one to recognize you, but there will always be the danger of somebody remembering your voice."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I can disguise that to a certain extent, I said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Besides, it's not likely that I shall run across any one I know well. I only want to amuse myself for two or three evenings, and the West End's a large place as far as amusement goes. Then I paused."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If you really thought it was too risky, I added carelessly,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I would give up the idea."
}
] |
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|
[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I think you will work all the better for a short holiday, he said;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I will send you up the clothes and some paper and ink, he added."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then you can get up or write in bed--just as you like."
}
] |
10511
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|
[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Neil Lyndon, it began,"
}
] |
10511
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|
[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Lyndon, said the _Mail_,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mr. Marwood and the Escape,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Interviewed by our Special Correspondent at his residence on the Chelsea Embankment, Mr. George Marwood was reluctant to express any opinion on the escape. 'The whole thing,' he said, 'is naturally extremely distasteful to me. I can only hope that the unhappy man may be recaptured before he succumbs to exposure, and before he has the chance to commit any further acts of robbery and violence.'"
}
] |
10511
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|
[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm afraid I am interrupting your work,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not a bit, I returned cheerfully."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I've just finished"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Do you mean you have made out the full list of what you want?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have done it all in the rough, I replied,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Excellent, he exclaimed."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I can see there won't be much time wasted when we once get to work. Then he laid down the paper."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Tomorrow morning I propose trying the first of our little operations. Savaroff has brought me the things I needed, and I think we can finish the whole business in a couple of days."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What part of me are you going to start on?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I think I shall alter the shape of your nose first, he said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's practically a painless operation--just one injection of hot paraffin wax under the skin. After that you have only to keep quiet for a couple of hours so that the wax can set in the right shape."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What about the X-ray treatment?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's perfectly simple too. Merely a matter of covering up everything except the part that we want exposed. One uses a specially prepared sort of lead sheeting. There is absolutely no danger or difficulty about it."
}
] |
10511
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|
[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I feel rather like a gladiator, I said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Morituri te salutant!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It will be all over in a minute, he said, reassuringly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The only trouble is keeping the wax liquid while one is actually injecting it. One has to stand it in boiling water until the last second."
}
] |
10511
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Unknown Author
|
[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now, he said;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Go ahead,"
}
] |
10511
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|
[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I think we can call it a complete success, he said. Then he stepped back and looked at me critically from a couple of paces away."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What do you think, Sonia?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I suppose it's what you wanted,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If you won't think me vain, I observed,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I should like to have a look at myself in the glass."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I would rather you waited for a couple of days if you don't mind, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You know what you used to look like better than any one else, and it will be a good test if you see yourself quite suddenly when the whole thing is finished. I will borrow this--and keep you out of temptation."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Just as you like, I returned."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It will at least give me time to train myself for the shock."
}
] |
10511
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Unknown Title
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Unknown Author
|
[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I think we might introduce you to yourself today, he said, smiling."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Of course another fortnight will make a considerable difference still, but even now you will be able to get a good idea of what you will look like. I am curious to hear your opinion."
}
] |
10511
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|
[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, Mr. Neil Lyndon, he said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Don't call me that, I replied quietly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Neil Lyndon is dead."
}
] |
10511
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Unknown Title
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Unknown Author
|
[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Never mind, she said;"
}
] |
10511
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|
[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Good-morning, I said, knocking out my pipe and stuffing it away in my pocket--or rather Savaroff's pocket."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A grand day, isn't it!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Beautiful, he answered genially--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Then he walked across and sat down on the end of the bed."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "As a matter of fact, I came up to see whether you felt like taking advantage of it."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Do you mean that it's safe for me to go out?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's as safe as it ever will be; but I meant rather more than that."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I meant that our preparations are going on so well, that as far as I can see there is nothing to be gained by keeping you here any longer. I have just had a wire to say that the cottage and shed we have been arranging for near Tilbury are practically finished. If you want your week in London I think you had better go up this afternoon."
}
] |
10511
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Unknown Author
|
[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Right you are, I said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's rather short notice, but I'm game to start any time. The only thing is, what am I to do about clothes?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You can keep those you're wearing to go up in, he answered."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "When you get to London you must buy yourself an outfit. Get what you want at different shops and pay for them in cash. I will advance you fifty pounds, which ought to be enough to last you the week."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "One can do quite a lot of dressing and dissipation on fifty pounds, I replied cheerfully."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Where am I going to stay?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Here's the address, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's a lodging-house near Victoria Station, kept by a sister of Mrs. Weston. You will find it comfortable and quiet, and you needn't worry about the landlady having any suspicions. I have told her that you have just come back from abroad and that you want to be in London for several days on business. You will pass under the name of Nicholson--James Nicholson."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Very well, I said, getting up from my seat;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I understand I am to stop with Mrs. Oldbury and amuse myself spending the fifty pounds until I hear from you."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Directly things are ready we shall let you know. Till then you are free to do as you like. He opened a small leather case and handed me a bundle of bank-notes."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Here is the money, he added with a smile."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You see, we trust you absolutely. If you choose to make a bolt to America, there will be nothing to stop you."
}
] |
10511
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|
[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You had better be ready to start from here about half-past one, said McMurtrie."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Savaroff will take you into Plymouth in the car, and there is a fast train up at two-five. It gets you into London just before seven."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Good! I said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That will give me time to buy what I want when I arrive. It would spoil my dinner if I had to shop afterwards."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You are a curious fellow, Lyndon, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "At times you might be a boy of twenty."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, I am only twenty-nine, I protested;"
}
] |
10511
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Unknown Title
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Unknown Author
|
[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, she said, in her curious, half-sullen way,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why, yes, I said;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm pleased enough."
}
] |
10511
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Unknown Author
|
[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What did the doctor tell you?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He told me I could go up to London by the two-five,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Is that all?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Dr. McMurtrie, I reminded her,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then I paused."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Still I should like to know the reason for the change of programme,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We are going to give up this house tomorrow--that's the reason, she said, speaking low and rather quickly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Our work here is finished, and it will be best for us to leave as soon as possible."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I wish, I said regretfully,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Come here, she said slowly;"
}
] |
10511
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|
[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Kiss me, she said, almost in a whisper;"
}
] |
10511
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Unknown Author
|
[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sonia! he shouted--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Sonia! Where are you? I want you."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now you understand, she said, looking straight into my eyes."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "They are nothing to me, my father and the doctor--I hate them both. It is you I am thinking of--you only. She leaned forward and swiftly, almost fiercely again kissed my mouth."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "When the time comes,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Sonia! Sonia!"
}
] |
10511
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|
[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, said the doctor, as with a grinding of brakes the car pulled up outside,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Let's hope, I said,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I fancy, he said,"
}
] |
10511
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Unknown Title
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|
[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Put it on the floor at the back under the rug, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You will sit in front with me."
}
] |
10511
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Unknown Title
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Unknown Author
|
[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Good-bye, I said;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "At Tilbury certainly. Au revoir, Mr. Nicholson."
}
] |
10511
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Unknown Title
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Unknown Author
|
[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You had better wait there, he muttered, pointing to the corner."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I will get the ticket."
}
] |
10511
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Unknown Author
|
[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have taken you a first-class, he said rather grudgingly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You will probably have the carriage to yourself. It is better so."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I shouldn't like to infect any of these good people with homicidal mania,"
}
] |
10511
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|
[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This will do,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Good-bye, Savaroff, I said cheerfully."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I shall have the pleasure of seeing you too at Tilbury, I suppose?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You will, he said in his guttural voice;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My dear Savaroff, I said coldly,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It is well. So long as you remember we are not people to be played with, no harm will come to you."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I shan't forget it, I said gravely."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I've got a very good memory."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Stand back there, please; stand back, sir!"
}
] |
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