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[ { "role": "user", "content": "And you mean to carry my little picture away over there?” and she" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Oh, I mean to buy a great many pictures—_beaucoup, beaucoup_,” said" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "The honor is not less for me,” the young lady answered, “for I am sure" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "But you must give me your card,” Newman said; “your card, you know.”" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "And precisely, here is my father, who has come to escort me home,”" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Are you the young lady’s father?” said Newman. “I think she said you" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "How can I thank you?” said M. Nioche. “My English does not suffice.”" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "I wish I spoke French as well,” said Newman, good-naturedly. “Your" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Oh, sir!” and M. Nioche looked over his spectacles with tearful eyes" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Do I understand you to say that you have had reverses?” asked Newman." } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Oh, I see. These,” said Mr. Tristram, nodding at the Titians and" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "I hope so,” cried Newman. “I don’t want a copy of a copy.”" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Better!” said Mr. Tristram, roundly. “It’s a splendid language. You" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "But I suppose,” said Christopher Newman, with an earnest desire for" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "You don’t want a ‘fine’ hotel; you want something small and quiet and elegant, where your bell is answered and you—your person is recognized." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "They keep running to see if I have rung before I have touched the bell, [USEP] and as for my person they are always bowing and scraping to it." } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Happy the man who can say that? Enough for what?”" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Enough to rest awhile, to forget the confounded thing, to look about me, to see the world, to have a good time, to improve my mind, and, if the fancy takes me, to marry a wife." } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Enough to rest awhile, to forget the confounded thing, to look about me, to see the world, to have a good time, to improve my mind, and, if the fancy takes me, to marry a wife." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Certainly, all that takes money, especially the wife; unless indeed she gives it, as mine did. And what’s the story? How have you done it?" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Oh, I’ll be your little child,” said Tristram, jovially; “I’ll take" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "I am a good worker,” Newman continued, “but I rather think I am a poor" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Yes, it’s a good deal. But my copy has remarkable qualities," }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Besides,” Newman continued, “I don’t want to work at pleasure, any" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "The Occidental. You will see all the Americans there; all the best of them, at least. Of course you play poker?" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Oh, I say,” cried Newman, with energy, “you are not going to lock me" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "I have come to see Europe, to get the best out of it I can. I want to see all the great things, and do what the clever people do." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "The clever people? Much obliged. You set me down as a blockhead, then?" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "I shall be happy to make their acquaintance; I want to cultivate society." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "What are you up to, anyway?” he demanded. “Are you going to" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "I have made over my hand to a friend; when I feel disposed, I can take up the cards again. I dare say that a twelvemonth hence the operation will be reversed. The pendulum will swing back again. I shall be sitting in a gondola or on a dromedary, and all of a sudden I shall want to clear out. But for the present I am perfectly free. I have even bargained that I am to receive no business letters." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Oh, it’s a real _caprice de prince_,” said Tristram. “I back out; a" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "About as near as Newport is to the Rocky Mountains.”" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Oh, I want to see Mont Blanc,” said Newman, “and Amsterdam, and the" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "It is very disagreeable to know how Americans have made their money. Now you have the world before you. You have only to enjoy." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Oh, I suppose I am very well off,” said Newman. “Only I am tired of" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "One doesn’t expect it of you,” Mrs. Tristram answered. Then in a" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Well, I mean to have a good time, whether or no,” said Newman. “I am" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Bravo!” said Mrs. Tristram, “that is very fine. You are the great" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Oh, come, come,” he said, laughing; “don’t say, now, you don’t know" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Forgive all my meddlesome chatter and forget my advice. It is very silly in me to undertake to tell you what to do. When you are embarrassed, do as you think best, and you will do very well. When you are in a difficulty, judge for yourself." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "I shall remember everything you have told me,” said Newman. “There are" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "That is not what I mean. I mean, observe them in your own way. Settle nice questions for yourself. Cut the knot or untie it, as you choose." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Oh, I am sure I shall never fumble over it!” said Newman." } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "You are superb! There’s a chance for the magnificent women.”" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "You are not fair.” Newman rejoined. “You draw a fellow out and put him" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Oh, come, come,” he said, laughing; “don’t say, now, you don’t know" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Present me to a woman who comes up to my notions,” said Newman, “and I" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Present me to a woman who comes up to my notions,” said Newman, “and I" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "You have a strange tone about it, and I don’t quite understand you. I didn’t suppose you would be so coldblooded and calculating." } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "It strikes me that your marriage is to be rather a matter of vanity.”" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Well, it is certain,” said Newman, “that if people notice my wife and" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "And this is the lady you propose to me to marry?” asked Newman. “A" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "But you said just now that you recognized no obstacles.”" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "No, not to-morrow; the next day. That will be Sunday; she leaves Paris on Monday. If you don’t see her; it will at least be a beginning." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "that my sister is visible. Come in, and if you will give me your card I will carry it to her myself." } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Ah, sir, it needs first to be converted into specie!” and M. Nioche" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Well, your young men are very shabby,” said Newman; “that’s all I can" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Ah, here it is, sir!” cried M. Nioche. “To express my gratitude, I" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "The lessons? I had quite forgotten them. Listening to your English,”" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Since you are here, then,” said Newman, “we will begin. This is a very" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "come, come,” he said, laughing; “don’t say, now, you don’t know" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "One is young, one is pretty, one needs new dresses and fresh gloves; one can’t wear shabby gowns among the splendors of the Louvre." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "But your daughter earns enough to pay for her own clothes,” said" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Something gay? There is nothing very gay in this solemn old Louvre. But we will see what we can find. You speak French to-day like a charm. My father has done wonders." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Oh, I am a bad subject,” said Newman. “I am too old to learn a" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "To Switzerland? That’s a fine country. I would give my new parasol to see it! Lakes and mountains, romantic valleys and icy peaks! Oh, I congratulate you. Meanwhile, I shall sit here through all the hot summer, daubing at your pictures." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Oh, take your time about it,” said Newman. “Do them at your" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Well then, for those five it is fixed,” she said. “Five copies as" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Oh, yes; I should like that,” said Newman. “Finish off with that.”" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "He is afraid of me. I go on painting badly, as you say, because I want to learn. I like it, at any rate. And I like being here; it is a place to come to, every day; it is better than sitting in a little dark, damp room, on a court, or selling buttons and whalebones over a counter." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Of course it is much more amusing,” said Newman. “But for a poor girl" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Oh, I am very wrong, there is no doubt about that,” said Mademoiselle" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "There is no need of that,” Newman answered; “your father told you my" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Grocers and butchers and little _maîtres de cafés!_ I will not marry at all if I can’t marry well." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "I would advise you not to be too fastidious,” said Newman. “That’s all" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Oh, I mean,” said Babcock, “was she possibly not to be considered in a" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "I am sure I don’t know,” said Newman. “Very likely she did; I have no" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "But it’s very distressing to me. It keeps me in a state of unrest. It irritates me; I can’t settle anything. I don’t think it’s good for me." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "You worry too much; that’s what’s the matter with you,” said Newman." } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "I don’t think you appreciate my position, [USEP] I try to arrive at the truth about everything. And then you go too fast. For me, you are too passionate, too extravagant. I feel as if I ought to go over all this ground we have traversed again, by myself, alone. I am afraid I have made a great many mistakes." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Oh, you needn’t give so many reasons,” said Newman. “You are simply" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "No, no, I am not tired!” cried the pestered young divine. “It is very" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "I give it up!” laughed Newman. “But of course it will never do to go" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "That is not very grateful to me,” said Mrs. Tristram, “who introduced" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "So you did; I had quite forgotten. But I thought you wanted me to forget, [USEP] you told me you disliked them all." } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Those eyes were red with weeping, if you please!” said Mrs. Tristram." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "It doesn’t tally with your account of her,” said Newman, “that she" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "I think it extremely probable. Those people are very capable of that sort of thing." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "It is like something in a play,” said Newman; “that dark old house" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "They have a still darker old house in the country Madame de Cintré tells me, and there, during the summer this scheme must have been hatched." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "After all, you are a man, you are young and at liberty. Let me" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "A great deal of that kind of thing goes on in New York,” said" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "I don’t believe it!” said Newman, very gravely. “I don’t believe that," } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "She is cold, calm, and hopeless,” Mrs. Tristram declared," }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "That’s a comfort,” said Newman, placidly. “I like people to know about" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "There you have it,” said the young man. “That" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Well, over here,” said Newman, “one’s point of view gets shifted round" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Would you not prefer my society, here, by my fire, to stumbling about dark passages after my brother?" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "A hundred times!” said Newman. “We will see the house some other day.”" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Very true!” said M. de Bellegarde. “Otherwise perhaps I should not be" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Is it true,” asked Newman in a moment, “that you are so proud? I had" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Oh, I want to see Mont Blanc,” said Newman, “and Amsterdam, and the" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "I shall not come to see you; I shall come to see Madame de Cintré,”" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "It is too large. It is like smoking in a ball-room, or a church.”" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "That is what you were laughing at just now?” Newman asked; “the size" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "That is what you were laughing at just now?” Newman asked; “the size" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "It is not size only,” replied M. de Bellegarde, “but splendor, and" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "For myself,” he" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Oh, I do enjoy it!” said Newman, good-naturedly. “I’m much obliged to" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "It’s a long story. Some day I will tell you. Meanwhile, I’m right, eh? You are a success? You have made a fortune? It’s none of my business, but, in short, you are rich?" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "That’s another thing that it sounds foolish to say,” said Newman." } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "your wide range, your freedom to come and go, your not having a lot of people, who take themselves awfully seriously, expecting something of you. I live, [USEP] beneath the eyes of my admirable mother." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "It is your own fault; what is to hinder your ranging?” said Newman." } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "I am a very good Catholic. I respect the Church. I adore the blessed Virgin. I fear the Devil." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Well, then, I suppose you do not mean to wait till you are fifty.”" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Well, then, I suppose you do not mean to wait till you are fifty.”" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "It is the proud consciousness of honest toil—of having manufactured a few wash-tubs," } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Oh no; I have seen men who had done even more, men who had made not only wash-tubs, but soap—strong-smelling yellow soap, in great bars; and they never made me the least uncomfortable." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Then it’s the privilege of being an American citizen,” said Newman." } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "No, I shall not. You have nothing to do with pride, or with humility—that is a part of this easy manner of yours. People are proud only when they have something to lose, and humble when they have something to gain." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "I don’t know what I have to lose,” said Newman, “but I certainly have" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "My sister can’t see that sort of person. Madame Dandelard is nothing at all; they would never meet." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "I should think,” said Newman, “that your sister might see whom she" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "If it is because you don’t trust me, you are very right,” said" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Talk of her as you can,” rejoined Newman. “Let yourself go.”" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "The marriage had been made in your horrible French way,” Newman" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Your brother,” said Newman, reflectively, “must be a very nice young" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Yes, I see—I see,” said Bellegarde, lightly stroking his chin. “You" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "That sort of news is always a surprise,” said Newman. “No matter what" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "come!” said M. Nioche, throwing out" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "If you are pleased, I shall be glad,” said Newman, “and I shall" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Oh, it shall be finished in perfection; in the perfection of" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "A title? What do you mean by a title?” asked Newman. “A count, a duke," } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "You cannot marry a woman like Madame de Cintré for the asking.”" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "I believe you mean,” said Newman slowly, “that I am not good enough.”" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "good!” And she laughed. She sat a moment, looking" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Do you think,” asked Newman presently, “that Madame de Cintré is" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "You never will understand—you never will know, [USEP] and if you succeed, and I turn out to have helped you, you will never be grateful, not as I shall deserve you should be. You will be an excellent fellow always, but you will not be grateful. But it doesn’t matter, for I shall get my own fun out of it. [USEP] You look puzzled, [USEP] you look almost frightened." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "It _is_ a pity,” said Newman, “that I don’t understand you. I shall" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "I told you, you remember, that we were very strange people,”" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "very good, sir; I am overcome!” said M. Nioche, throwing out" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Oh, in that case,” she" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "I hope not,” said Newman. “I have something particular to say to you." } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "The service was to sing your praises, was it not?” And she accompanied" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Yes, that is what it really amounts to,” said Newman. “Did he sing my" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "He spoke very well of you. But when I know that it was by your special request, of course I must take his eulogy with a grain of salt." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Oh, that makes no difference,” said Newman. “Your brother would not" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "more than I can explain to you. As for my happiness, I am very happy. Your offer seems strange to me, for more reasons also than I can say. Of course you have a perfect right to make it. But I cannot accept it—it is impossible. Please never speak of this matter again. If you cannot promise me this, I must ask you not to come back." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Why is it impossible?” Newman demanded. “You may think it is, at" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "From the moment I don’t very respectfully beg you to leave the house and never return, [USEP] I listen to you, I seem to give you hope. I _have_ listened to you—against my judgment. It is because you are eloquent. If I had been told this morning that I should consent to consider you as a possible husband, I should have thought my informant a little crazy. I _am_ listening to you, you see!" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Well, as far as saying goes, I have said everything,” said Newman. “I" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "You are already introduced,” he said," }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Do you suppose,” asked Newman, “that Madame de Cintré has related to" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "My mother is a great judge of these matters,” said Valentin to Newman." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "I hope I shall satisfy you, some day,” said Newman, looking at the old" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "I am at your orders, my dear friend,” said M. de Bellegarde. “Only," }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Oh, if you are going to a party, don’t let me keep you,” objected" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "In business, you mean? Oh no, I have thrown business overboard for the present. I am ‘loafing,’ as _we_ say. My time is quite my own." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Ah, you are taking a holiday,” rejoined M. de Bellegarde. “‘Loafing.’" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "You say you are not fond of books,” said M. de Bellegarde; “but you" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "That is very true; on my tenth birthday I stopped going to school. I thought it was a grand way to keep it. But I picked up some information afterwards," } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "You are very frank,” she" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "I am thankful for any terms,” said Newman. “But, for the present, you" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Oh, to-day,” answered Valentin, “I am not in a mood for pictures, and" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "If the Louvre has so little comfort for you, why in the world did you come here?" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "If the Louvre has so little comfort for you, why in the world did you come here?" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "I think in your place I would be furious,” said Newman, “because they" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "You give me excellent advice, and I already feel better. I will be furious; I will let them go to the deuce and I myself will go with you—unless by chance you too have a rendezvous." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "It is not exactly a rendezvous,” said Newman. “But I have in fact come" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Oh, it shall be finished in perfection; in the perfection of" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Have you painted anything for me?” said Newman. “Have you been" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "She is quite pretty enough for her purposes, and it is a face and figure on which everything tells. If she were prettier she would be less intelligent, and her intelligence is half of her charm." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "In what way,” asked Newman, who was much amused at his companion’s" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "We are all alone, you see, we have asked no one else," }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "I am very glad you didn’t; this is much more sociable,” said Newman." } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Yes, but when the six months were over, she had a plum-cake as big as that ottoman, [USEP] That quite set her up again." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "What a checkered career!” said Newman. “Are you very fond of" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "It was my own fault if I was not happy. The ball was very pretty, and everyone very amiable." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "It was on your conscience,” said Newman, “that you had annoyed your" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Oh no, not that. You may think it strange, but my sister-in-law and I are not so intimate as that. No; I spoke to my husband and my mother-in-law; I said I was sure we could do what we chose with you." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "I am much obliged to you,” said Newman, laughing; “but you can’t.”" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Well, to cast your nets you have to go into the water. Our positions are alike; we shall be able to compare notes. What do you think of my husband? It’s a strange question, isn’t it? But I shall ask you some stranger ones yet." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Perhaps a stranger one will be easier to answer,” said Newman. “You" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Our word is our word,” said Urbain. “We have given it.”" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Well, now,” said Newman, “I am very glad you are so proud. It makes me" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Do you remember what my brother Valentin said, the first time you came" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "It was not the first time I came, but the second,” said Newman." } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Well, you have got your permit, [USEP] I hope you liked the process." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "I like your sister, more than ever. But don’t worry your brother any more for my sake, [USEP] I don’t mind him. I am afraid he came down on you in the smoking-room, after I went out." } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "When my brother comes down on me,” said Valentin, “he falls hard. I" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Well, it’s the most precious one they have ever received,” said" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "She has just come in; she will soon have finished dressing." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Oh, I will wait as long as she wants,” said Newman. “Pray tell her not" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Thank God I am not ill, sir; I hope I know my duty too well to go panting and coughing about the house. But I am an old woman, sir, and it is as an old woman that I venture to speak to you." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Oh, speak out,” said Newman, curiously. “You needn’t be afraid of me.”" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Yes, sir. When you have been coming to see the countess. I have taken the liberty of noticing that you come often." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Oh yes; I come very often,” said Newman, laughing. “You need not have" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "The farther away the better, sir!” exclaimed the old woman, with" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Yes, it’s not very lively,” said Newman. “But Madame de Cintré is gay" } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "And you mean to carry my little picture away over there?” and she" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Oh, I mean to buy a great many pictures—_beaucoup, beaucoup_,” said" } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "The honor is not less for me,” the young lady answered, “for I am sure" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "But you must give me your card,” Newman said; “your card, you know.”" } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "And precisely, here is my father, who has come to escort me home,”" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Are you the young lady’s father?” said Newman. “I think she said you" } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "How can I thank you?” said M. Nioche. “My English does not suffice.”" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "I wish I spoke French as well,” said Newman, good-naturedly. “Your" } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "Oh, sir!” and M. Nioche looked over his spectacles with tearful eyes" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Do I understand you to say that you have had reverses?” asked Newman." } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "Oh, I see. These,” said Mr. Tristram, nodding at the Titians and" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "I hope so,” cried Newman. “I don’t want a copy of a copy.”" } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "Better!” said Mr. Tristram, roundly. “It’s a splendid language. You" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "But I suppose,” said Christopher Newman, with an earnest desire for" } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "You don’t want a ‘fine’ hotel; you want something small and quiet and elegant, where your bell is answered and you—your person is recognized." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "They keep running to see if I have rung before I have touched the bell, [USEP] and as for my person they are always bowing and scraping to it." } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "Happy the man who can say that? Enough for what?”" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Enough to rest awhile, to forget the confounded thing, to look about me, to see the world, to have a good time, to improve my mind, and, if the fancy takes me, to marry a wife." } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "Enough to rest awhile, to forget the confounded thing, to look about me, to see the world, to have a good time, to improve my mind, and, if the fancy takes me, to marry a wife." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Certainly, all that takes money, especially the wife; unless indeed she gives it, as mine did. And what’s the story? How have you done it?" } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "Oh, I’ll be your little child,” said Tristram, jovially; “I’ll take" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "I am a good worker,” Newman continued, “but I rather think I am a poor" } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "Yes, it’s a good deal. But my copy has remarkable qualities," }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Besides,” Newman continued, “I don’t want to work at pleasure, any" } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "The Occidental. You will see all the Americans there; all the best of them, at least. Of course you play poker?" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Oh, I say,” cried Newman, with energy, “you are not going to lock me" } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "I have come to see Europe, to get the best out of it I can. I want to see all the great things, and do what the clever people do." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "The clever people? Much obliged. You set me down as a blockhead, then?" } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "I shall be happy to make their acquaintance; I want to cultivate society." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "What are you up to, anyway?” he demanded. “Are you going to" } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "I have made over my hand to a friend; when I feel disposed, I can take up the cards again. I dare say that a twelvemonth hence the operation will be reversed. The pendulum will swing back again. I shall be sitting in a gondola or on a dromedary, and all of a sudden I shall want to clear out. But for the present I am perfectly free. I have even bargained that I am to receive no business letters." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Oh, it’s a real _caprice de prince_,” said Tristram. “I back out; a" } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "About as near as Newport is to the Rocky Mountains.”" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Oh, I want to see Mont Blanc,” said Newman, “and Amsterdam, and the" } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "It is very disagreeable to know how Americans have made their money. Now you have the world before you. You have only to enjoy." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Oh, I suppose I am very well off,” said Newman. “Only I am tired of" } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "One doesn’t expect it of you,” Mrs. Tristram answered. Then in a" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Well, I mean to have a good time, whether or no,” said Newman. “I am" } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "Bravo!” said Mrs. Tristram, “that is very fine. You are the great" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Oh, come, come,” he said, laughing; “don’t say, now, you don’t know" } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "Forgive all my meddlesome chatter and forget my advice. It is very silly in me to undertake to tell you what to do. When you are embarrassed, do as you think best, and you will do very well. When you are in a difficulty, judge for yourself." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "I shall remember everything you have told me,” said Newman. “There are" } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "That is not what I mean. I mean, observe them in your own way. Settle nice questions for yourself. Cut the knot or untie it, as you choose." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Oh, I am sure I shall never fumble over it!” said Newman." } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "You are superb! There’s a chance for the magnificent women.”" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "You are not fair.” Newman rejoined. “You draw a fellow out and put him" } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "Oh, come, come,” he said, laughing; “don’t say, now, you don’t know" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Present me to a woman who comes up to my notions,” said Newman, “and I" } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "Present me to a woman who comes up to my notions,” said Newman, “and I" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "You have a strange tone about it, and I don’t quite understand you. I didn’t suppose you would be so coldblooded and calculating." } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "It strikes me that your marriage is to be rather a matter of vanity.”" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Well, it is certain,” said Newman, “that if people notice my wife and" } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "And this is the lady you propose to me to marry?” asked Newman. “A" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "But you said just now that you recognized no obstacles.”" } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "No, not to-morrow; the next day. That will be Sunday; she leaves Paris on Monday. If you don’t see her; it will at least be a beginning." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "that my sister is visible. Come in, and if you will give me your card I will carry it to her myself." } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "Ah, sir, it needs first to be converted into specie!” and M. Nioche" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Well, your young men are very shabby,” said Newman; “that’s all I can" } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "Ah, here it is, sir!” cried M. Nioche. “To express my gratitude, I" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "The lessons? I had quite forgotten them. Listening to your English,”" } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "Since you are here, then,” said Newman, “we will begin. This is a very" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "come, come,” he said, laughing; “don’t say, now, you don’t know" } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "One is young, one is pretty, one needs new dresses and fresh gloves; one can’t wear shabby gowns among the splendors of the Louvre." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "But your daughter earns enough to pay for her own clothes,” said" } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "Something gay? There is nothing very gay in this solemn old Louvre. But we will see what we can find. You speak French to-day like a charm. My father has done wonders." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Oh, I am a bad subject,” said Newman. “I am too old to learn a" } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "To Switzerland? That’s a fine country. I would give my new parasol to see it! Lakes and mountains, romantic valleys and icy peaks! Oh, I congratulate you. Meanwhile, I shall sit here through all the hot summer, daubing at your pictures." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Oh, take your time about it,” said Newman. “Do them at your" } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "Well then, for those five it is fixed,” she said. “Five copies as" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Oh, yes; I should like that,” said Newman. “Finish off with that.”" } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "He is afraid of me. I go on painting badly, as you say, because I want to learn. I like it, at any rate. And I like being here; it is a place to come to, every day; it is better than sitting in a little dark, damp room, on a court, or selling buttons and whalebones over a counter." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Of course it is much more amusing,” said Newman. “But for a poor girl" } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "Oh, I am very wrong, there is no doubt about that,” said Mademoiselle" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "There is no need of that,” Newman answered; “your father told you my" } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "Grocers and butchers and little _maîtres de cafés!_ I will not marry at all if I can’t marry well." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "I would advise you not to be too fastidious,” said Newman. “That’s all" } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "Oh, I mean,” said Babcock, “was she possibly not to be considered in a" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "I am sure I don’t know,” said Newman. “Very likely she did; I have no" } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "But it’s very distressing to me. It keeps me in a state of unrest. It irritates me; I can’t settle anything. I don’t think it’s good for me." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "You worry too much; that’s what’s the matter with you,” said Newman." } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "I don’t think you appreciate my position, [USEP] I try to arrive at the truth about everything. And then you go too fast. For me, you are too passionate, too extravagant. I feel as if I ought to go over all this ground we have traversed again, by myself, alone. I am afraid I have made a great many mistakes." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Oh, you needn’t give so many reasons,” said Newman. “You are simply" } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "No, no, I am not tired!” cried the pestered young divine. “It is very" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "I give it up!” laughed Newman. “But of course it will never do to go" } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "That is not very grateful to me,” said Mrs. Tristram, “who introduced" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "So you did; I had quite forgotten. But I thought you wanted me to forget, [USEP] you told me you disliked them all." } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "Those eyes were red with weeping, if you please!” said Mrs. Tristram." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "It doesn’t tally with your account of her,” said Newman, “that she" } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "I think it extremely probable. Those people are very capable of that sort of thing." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "It is like something in a play,” said Newman; “that dark old house" } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "They have a still darker old house in the country Madame de Cintré tells me, and there, during the summer this scheme must have been hatched." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "After all, you are a man, you are young and at liberty. Let me" } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "A great deal of that kind of thing goes on in New York,” said" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "I don’t believe it!” said Newman, very gravely. “I don’t believe that," } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "She is cold, calm, and hopeless,” Mrs. Tristram declared," }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "That’s a comfort,” said Newman, placidly. “I like people to know about" } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "There you have it,” said the young man. “That" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Well, over here,” said Newman, “one’s point of view gets shifted round" } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "Would you not prefer my society, here, by my fire, to stumbling about dark passages after my brother?" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "A hundred times!” said Newman. “We will see the house some other day.”" } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "Very true!” said M. de Bellegarde. “Otherwise perhaps I should not be" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Is it true,” asked Newman in a moment, “that you are so proud? I had" } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "Oh, I want to see Mont Blanc,” said Newman, “and Amsterdam, and the" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "I shall not come to see you; I shall come to see Madame de Cintré,”" } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "It is too large. It is like smoking in a ball-room, or a church.”" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "That is what you were laughing at just now?” Newman asked; “the size" } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "That is what you were laughing at just now?” Newman asked; “the size" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "It is not size only,” replied M. de Bellegarde, “but splendor, and" } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "For myself,” he" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Oh, I do enjoy it!” said Newman, good-naturedly. “I’m much obliged to" } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "It’s a long story. Some day I will tell you. Meanwhile, I’m right, eh? You are a success? You have made a fortune? It’s none of my business, but, in short, you are rich?" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "That’s another thing that it sounds foolish to say,” said Newman." } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "your wide range, your freedom to come and go, your not having a lot of people, who take themselves awfully seriously, expecting something of you. I live, [USEP] beneath the eyes of my admirable mother." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "It is your own fault; what is to hinder your ranging?” said Newman." } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "I am a very good Catholic. I respect the Church. I adore the blessed Virgin. I fear the Devil." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Well, then, I suppose you do not mean to wait till you are fifty.”" } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "Well, then, I suppose you do not mean to wait till you are fifty.”" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "It is the proud consciousness of honest toil—of having manufactured a few wash-tubs," } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "Oh no; I have seen men who had done even more, men who had made not only wash-tubs, but soap—strong-smelling yellow soap, in great bars; and they never made me the least uncomfortable." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Then it’s the privilege of being an American citizen,” said Newman." } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "No, I shall not. You have nothing to do with pride, or with humility—that is a part of this easy manner of yours. People are proud only when they have something to lose, and humble when they have something to gain." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "I don’t know what I have to lose,” said Newman, “but I certainly have" } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "My sister can’t see that sort of person. Madame Dandelard is nothing at all; they would never meet." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "I should think,” said Newman, “that your sister might see whom she" } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "If it is because you don’t trust me, you are very right,” said" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Talk of her as you can,” rejoined Newman. “Let yourself go.”" } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "The marriage had been made in your horrible French way,” Newman" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Your brother,” said Newman, reflectively, “must be a very nice young" } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "Yes, I see—I see,” said Bellegarde, lightly stroking his chin. “You" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "That sort of news is always a surprise,” said Newman. “No matter what" } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "come!” said M. Nioche, throwing out" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "If you are pleased, I shall be glad,” said Newman, “and I shall" } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "Oh, it shall be finished in perfection; in the perfection of" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "A title? What do you mean by a title?” asked Newman. “A count, a duke," } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "You cannot marry a woman like Madame de Cintré for the asking.”" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "I believe you mean,” said Newman slowly, “that I am not good enough.”" } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "good!” And she laughed. She sat a moment, looking" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Do you think,” asked Newman presently, “that Madame de Cintré is" } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "You never will understand—you never will know, [USEP] and if you succeed, and I turn out to have helped you, you will never be grateful, not as I shall deserve you should be. You will be an excellent fellow always, but you will not be grateful. But it doesn’t matter, for I shall get my own fun out of it. [USEP] You look puzzled, [USEP] you look almost frightened." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "It _is_ a pity,” said Newman, “that I don’t understand you. I shall" } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "I told you, you remember, that we were very strange people,”" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "very good, sir; I am overcome!” said M. Nioche, throwing out" } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "Oh, in that case,” she" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "I hope not,” said Newman. “I have something particular to say to you." } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "The service was to sing your praises, was it not?” And she accompanied" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Yes, that is what it really amounts to,” said Newman. “Did he sing my" } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "He spoke very well of you. But when I know that it was by your special request, of course I must take his eulogy with a grain of salt." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Oh, that makes no difference,” said Newman. “Your brother would not" } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "more than I can explain to you. As for my happiness, I am very happy. Your offer seems strange to me, for more reasons also than I can say. Of course you have a perfect right to make it. But I cannot accept it—it is impossible. Please never speak of this matter again. If you cannot promise me this, I must ask you not to come back." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Why is it impossible?” Newman demanded. “You may think it is, at" } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "From the moment I don’t very respectfully beg you to leave the house and never return, [USEP] I listen to you, I seem to give you hope. I _have_ listened to you—against my judgment. It is because you are eloquent. If I had been told this morning that I should consent to consider you as a possible husband, I should have thought my informant a little crazy. I _am_ listening to you, you see!" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Well, as far as saying goes, I have said everything,” said Newman. “I" } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "You are already introduced,” he said," }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Do you suppose,” asked Newman, “that Madame de Cintré has related to" } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "My mother is a great judge of these matters,” said Valentin to Newman." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "I hope I shall satisfy you, some day,” said Newman, looking at the old" } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "I am at your orders, my dear friend,” said M. de Bellegarde. “Only," }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Oh, if you are going to a party, don’t let me keep you,” objected" } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "In business, you mean? Oh no, I have thrown business overboard for the present. I am ‘loafing,’ as _we_ say. My time is quite my own." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Ah, you are taking a holiday,” rejoined M. de Bellegarde. “‘Loafing.’" } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "You say you are not fond of books,” said M. de Bellegarde; “but you" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "That is very true; on my tenth birthday I stopped going to school. I thought it was a grand way to keep it. But I picked up some information afterwards," } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "You are very frank,” she" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "I am thankful for any terms,” said Newman. “But, for the present, you" } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "Oh, to-day,” answered Valentin, “I am not in a mood for pictures, and" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "If the Louvre has so little comfort for you, why in the world did you come here?" } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "If the Louvre has so little comfort for you, why in the world did you come here?" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "I think in your place I would be furious,” said Newman, “because they" } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "You give me excellent advice, and I already feel better. I will be furious; I will let them go to the deuce and I myself will go with you—unless by chance you too have a rendezvous." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "It is not exactly a rendezvous,” said Newman. “But I have in fact come" } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "Oh, it shall be finished in perfection; in the perfection of" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Have you painted anything for me?” said Newman. “Have you been" } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "She is quite pretty enough for her purposes, and it is a face and figure on which everything tells. If she were prettier she would be less intelligent, and her intelligence is half of her charm." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "In what way,” asked Newman, who was much amused at his companion’s" } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "We are all alone, you see, we have asked no one else," }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "I am very glad you didn’t; this is much more sociable,” said Newman." } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "Yes, but when the six months were over, she had a plum-cake as big as that ottoman, [USEP] That quite set her up again." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "What a checkered career!” said Newman. “Are you very fond of" } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "It was my own fault if I was not happy. The ball was very pretty, and everyone very amiable." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "It was on your conscience,” said Newman, “that you had annoyed your" } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "Oh no, not that. You may think it strange, but my sister-in-law and I are not so intimate as that. No; I spoke to my husband and my mother-in-law; I said I was sure we could do what we chose with you." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "I am much obliged to you,” said Newman, laughing; “but you can’t.”" } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "Well, to cast your nets you have to go into the water. Our positions are alike; we shall be able to compare notes. What do you think of my husband? It’s a strange question, isn’t it? But I shall ask you some stranger ones yet." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Perhaps a stranger one will be easier to answer,” said Newman. “You" } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "Our word is our word,” said Urbain. “We have given it.”" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Well, now,” said Newman, “I am very glad you are so proud. It makes me" } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "Do you remember what my brother Valentin said, the first time you came" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "It was not the first time I came, but the second,” said Newman." } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "Well, you have got your permit, [USEP] I hope you liked the process." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "I like your sister, more than ever. But don’t worry your brother any more for my sake, [USEP] I don’t mind him. I am afraid he came down on you in the smoking-room, after I went out." } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "When my brother comes down on me,” said Valentin, “he falls hard. I" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Well, it’s the most precious one they have ever received,” said" } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "She has just come in; she will soon have finished dressing." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Oh, I will wait as long as she wants,” said Newman. “Pray tell her not" } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "Thank God I am not ill, sir; I hope I know my duty too well to go panting and coughing about the house. But I am an old woman, sir, and it is as an old woman that I venture to speak to you." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Oh, speak out,” said Newman, curiously. “You needn’t be afraid of me.”" } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "Yes, sir. When you have been coming to see the countess. I have taken the liberty of noticing that you come often." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Oh yes; I come very often,” said Newman, laughing. “You need not have" } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "The farther away the better, sir!” exclaimed the old woman, with" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Yes, it’s not very lively,” said Newman. “But Madame de Cintré is gay" } ]