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50596 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Glad to take you round, Mr. Lark."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am told that you do not sell to dealers."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That’s as may be. I want to build up a business with private customers."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": ... |
50596 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Wonderful, isn’t it?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You mean to sell first-class copies as such?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes. I guarantee what I sell, Mr. Lark, as—as you do."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don’t sell fakes."
},
... |
50596 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I want you to look at this, Mr. Lark."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Bless me! Is that the commode which you bought in Melshire?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is. What do you think of it?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why isn’t it downs... |
50596 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Is that scale-blue for sale?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "At a price, Mr. Lark. I have had it for three years. I’m waiting for a customer who will give me two hundred pounds, not a penny less."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Two hundred pounds? And you... |
50596 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I never haggle with dealers, Mr. Quinney, and I don’t want that commode; but, to oblige you, I’ll give you five hundred for it, and chance making a hundred profit."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Make it six hundred, Mr. Lark."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value... |
50596 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Cries"
}
] |
50596 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Joe, dear, you are wonderful!"
}
] |
50596 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It’s a gamble if you go for big things. Buying that commode was a gamble. You can’t escape from it. That’s what makes it interesting. Win a tidy bit here, lose a tidy bit there, and it’s all the same a hundred years hence."
}
] |
50596 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Farming’s gambling—a mug’s game! Sooner put my money on to a horse than into the ground! Marriage! The biggest gamble of all! You struck a winner, my lad—I didn’t."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I suppose, said Quinney, staring hard at Tomlin,"
},
{
"from": "... |
50596 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This is my card, said the stranger."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I shall be happy to give you a banker’s reference."
}
] |
50596 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I must go to Inverness to-night, he said regretfully."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "My factor has wired for me about the letting of a forest of mine. Take this money on account of expenses, go to Dorchester, do yourself well—there is an excellent inn there, and a fe... |
50596 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nothing to interest you, Mr. Quinney."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Perhaps not. I’ll have a squint round as I am here."
}
] |
50596 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I had a gentleman staring at that picture this morning. You’re after the frame, I dare say."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Might look quite different if it was cleaned, said the auctioneer."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The other fellow did that with h... |
50596 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "One hundred and fifty,"
}
] |
50596 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You are the famous dealer, Joseph Quinney?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I expected to get that picture for a hundred pounds. You have fairly outbidden me, and I could not bid a farthing more to-day; but will you kindly tell me what you will take for your bargain?"
... |
50596 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "by scores of newspapers. And salt was rubbed into his wounds by the reporters whose sympathy seemed to lie with the two scoundrels who had devised so clever a scheme, and escaped with the swag! There was a cruel headline:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A Biter Bit."
... |
50596 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nice sort of fool you’ve married! A mug of mugs! You was right. Ought to have remained in Melchester! Ought to have remained in swaddling clothes! Ought never to have been born!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Nice sort of father you’ve got! Look at him! Why didn’t yo... |
50596 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Good stuff to lay down,"
}
] |
50596 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Can you tell me why one breed of dog noses out truffles?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What are you going to do with them?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You’ll see,"
}
] |
50596 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Bar none, it’s the best copy I ever saw,"
}
] |
50596 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Seems a lot,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He was earning twenty-five bob. I shall turn him loose on those spinets."
}
] |
50596 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Stock booming?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It is, said Quinney. He added reflectively:"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I sold a spinet to-day, for which I gave fifteen shillings, for just the same number o’ pounds. James put in just one week on it. Th... |
50596 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They tell others, he observed to Susan."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No ’ad.’ can beat that."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Bless ’em! It warms their hearts to think they’ve made a sound investment."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "How surpr... |
50596 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Look at that, madam, he would say. Perhaps the lady would murmur softly:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It is rather nice, isn’t it? And the flapper would exclaim enthusiastically:"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mumsie, it’s perfectly lovely!"
},
{
... |
50596 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The men had a good time, but the women’s lives must have been deadly. I’m jolly glad that I’m a twen-center! She continued fluently:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You have a rotten time, mummie."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My dear!"
},
{
"fr... |
50596 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I want all the fun I can get. What fun have you had? You sew a lot, you read aloud to me, you take me to school—although I’m quite able to go alone—you order the meals, you are father’s slave."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I won’t have you say that!"
},
{
"f... |
50596 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I hope you’re enjoying yourself, my dear!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I’m not,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why not?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Because you’ve been so wonnerful peevish."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "B... |
50596 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Spare no expense,"
}
] |
50596 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How’s my pet this morning?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Quite all right, daddy, thank you."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Gettin’ on nicely with your lessons?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh yes."
}
] |
50596 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Daddy pank a Posy too hard."
}
] |
50596 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Posy had a healthy appetite not to be satisfied with nut cutlets or vegetable pie badly cooked and served at odd hours. No servant stayed long with the Honeybuns, because the remains of cold"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "pie were expected to be consumed at"
},
{... |
50596 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It’s deadly dull at Melchester, mummie, and just think what a privilege it is, what an opportunity to spend a fortnight with Ethel’s mother."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Of course, you will go to your grandmother, and I shall expect you to be charming to the old la... |
50596 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "LET THERE BE LIGHT!"
}
] |
50596 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "had been accomplished—what Quinney called a"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "His mind naturally was concentrated upon filling the gaps in the sanctuary with other gems of even purer ray serene. Posy confided to Ethel that at such moments her daddy"
},
{
"from":... |
50596 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Daddy, dear, when are you going to retire from active business?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Retire from—business?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Haven’t you made enough?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ho! Now, what do you call enough, my ... |
50596 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am part of Society, and I am part of what we call, for want of a better word, God."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That will do, Posy."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, it won’t! shouted Quinney."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We’ll have t... |
50596 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Take off that rubbish!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ethel gave them to me."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Take ’em off quick! Mother, you see to it that she wears respectable collars!"
}
] |
50596 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Them beads, said Quinney, who reverted to the diction of his youth when excited,"
}
] |
50596 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What shall I do with her, my lord?"
}
] |
50596 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I prescribe a change of diet, my dear fellow. We must both face the disconcerting fact that girls to-day need special treatment. Mrs. Honeybun is one of the Shrieking Sisterhood. I have heard her shriek—she does it effectively. Noise appeals to the very young. I suggest removing... |
50596 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Does he worship these false gods? Would he miss that cabinet more than he would miss me?"
}
] |
50596 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You will earn a bigger salary, Mabel, and Mr. Quinney won’t make love to you."
}
] |
50596 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "James Miggott will show you round. If you want to know anything, go to him. Don’t ask me foolish questions, because that makes me lose my hair; and I ain’t got any to lose that way. See?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Certainly, sir."
},
{
"from": "human",
... |
50596 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "of high degree appealed to him quite as strongly as, let us say, a desperately injured sprig of nobility, battered to bits in a motor accident, may appeal to the skill and patience of a famous surgeon. When Quinney found a genuine Chippendale chair _in articulo mortis_, he could... |
50596 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Joe, he said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Do what trick?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Any trick, I take it, known to our trade. The very finest faker of old furniture I ever came across. Now, as between man and man, are you going to make a right an... |
50596 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My poppet, you’re a perfect lady; yes, you are."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Daddy, how funny you are!"
}
] |
50596 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Funny? Me? I don’t feel funny, my pretty, when I look at you. I feel proud. One way and t’other I suppose you’ve cost me nigh upon four thousand pounds!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Daddy, dear! Not as much as that, surely?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value... |
50596 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don’t bother about me, daddy; I’m all right."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "By Gum, you are! That’s why I bother. In my experience it’s the right bits that get smashed!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Lay not up treasures upon earth! At Bexhill-on-Sea Po... |
50596 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "James is a power in this house."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, dear; your father thinks the world of him. He is a very good young man."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Good? Now what do you mean by that?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Gra... |
50596 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My mother is dead."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Did you love her very much? and the other laughed, actually laughed, as she replied:"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Love her? She was all I had in the world!"
}
] |
50596 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Make the world a pleasanter place for others, and you will find it more pleasant for yourselves. The girls at Posy’s school indulged in mild chaff over this dictum. Sweet seventeen admonished blushing sixteen to"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Be a sunbeam! Another ca... |
50596 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Are you thinking of cutting me? she asked, holding out her hand."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What an extraordinary coincidence your being here?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Is it? asked James quietly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I ha... |
50596 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Jolly, isn’t it?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Very."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But you don’t look jolly, Mr. Miggott. You never do look very jolly. And I have wondered—why."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Shall I tell you? he asked, in ... |
50596 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don’t look jolly, Miss Quinney, because I don’t feel jolly. Perhaps you think that a man ought to disguise his feelings when he’s with a charming young lady. Well, I can’t. I’m too honest. It was a shock just now meeting you, because you stand for everything I want and can’t g... |
50596 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am your father’s foreman, and I earn three pounds a week. Lark and Bundy, Tomlin, any of the big dealers would pay me five pounds a week, but I can’t leave Soho Square."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I’m sure father couldn’t spare you."
},
{
"from": "human"... |
50596 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My father was an officer in the Army. (It was true that James’s father had once held a second lieutenant’s commission in the Militia.)"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "My mother was the daughter of a West Country parson. They died when I was a boy. There was practicall... |
50596 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You know best."
}
] |
50596 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But, mummie, daddy couldn’t object to our being decently civil to Mr. Miggott?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He might."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But why—why?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Father is so ambitious for you, child. Any gal... |
50596 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I’ve a job for you, my girl."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Certainly, daddy."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I’m going to turn over to you the dusting of my china, and the cleaning of the Waterford glass. You used to do it nicely before you went to boar... |
50596 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You must teach me values, daddy."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "By Gum, I will. You’ll learn, too, mighty quick. Did the girls at your school ever throw it up to you that you was a tradesman’s daughter?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, I told them tha... |
50596 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do you think, my lad, I’d ask you to waste your time and talents tinkering with those? Rip off the covers carefully, and put them aside. Save the nails and the backing. Don’t show ’em to anybody. They need cleaning, but I shan’t send ’em to a reg’lar cleaner’s. You can try your ... |
50596 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Got something to show you,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Got something to show _you_,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The finest set of old needlework chair-covers I’ve seen for many a long day."
},
{... |
50596 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Look at them chairs, Joe."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Nice lot—hey?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And a nice price Bundy paid for ’em. You wasn’t at Christopher’s the day before yesterday?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "By Gum! Tom, you ... |
50596 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Thunder and Mars!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Thought you’d be surprised,"
}
] |
50596 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Where are the other four?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Where? Oh, where?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Them four came out of Ireland. I paid fifty pound for ’em."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You do have the devil’s own luck, Tom."
},
... |
50596 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "With luck, continued Tomlin thoughtfully,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I might sell these chairs for fifty apiece. One is an armchair. Your covers would go nicely on ’em, eh?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "By Gum, the very thing."
},
{
"from":... |
50596 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Look ye here, young woman, I don’t want you nosin’ about downstairs. See?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I thought I could go where I liked in our own house."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It’s my house. See? You run along to mother like a good girl."
... |
50596 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Bit short with her, wasn’t you?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Do her good. I won’t have no _tête-à-têtin’_ between her and James Miggott."
}
] |
50596 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It’s all right, Tom: I only smoke the best in this room."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Must admit, Joe, that you know a bit about most things. Come on surprisingly, you have."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I’ve a proposition to lay before you, Joe."
... |
50596 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Old Tomlin, hoary-headed sinner, went to Blackpool for the last week-end, and he didn’t go alone, nor with Mrs. T., neither. He’s a moral idiot is Tom. What would you say, Susie, if I went larkin’ off to Brighton with Mabel Dredge—hey?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "... |
50596 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You don’t seem bustin’ with joy and gladness. Four quid a week ain’t to be sneezed at."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Don’t I earn it, sir?"
}
] |
50596 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You leave the rest to me,"
}
] |
50596 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Good-morning,"
}
] |
50596 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Good-morning, Mr. Miggott!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Good-morning, Miss—Posy!"
}
] |
50596 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What will father say?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Darling, you must let me deal with your father."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Can you?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I think so. I am sure of it. We must be patient and very, very carefu... |
50596 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Pop your letters into that. Then lock the cabinet and hide the key in the mirror-black bottle."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What a splendid idea!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Isn’t it? If he misses the key, you will be asked to find it, and you will... |
50596 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Thought I heard you talking just before I came in,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I was asking Jim through the tube where father was."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Your dear father would be very much displeased if he heard you speaking of James Miggott... |
50596 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dear heart, what things you do say, to be sure! You were sent to Bexhill because there was too much Honeybunning. But it did annoy the Tomlins. I remember when your grandmother bought a small piano for me. We lived in a semi-detached. How the neighbours did tear their hair with ... |
50596 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mr. Quinney is out, Miss Dredge."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I know. The chairs from Christopher’s have just come."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I’m dying to see them."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mr. Quinney left orders that they were... |
50596 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Fancy paying nine hundred pounds for those!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "They’re simply lovely, ’said Posy. She stroked the needlework and glanced at James’s impassive face."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It’s funny, but there’s something familiar abo... |
50596 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It’s the needlework I seem to recognize."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Bother the needlework!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, mumsie, what is it?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It worries me to see you kneeling and gloating over stupid ... |
50596 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Father is swanking,"
}
] |
50596 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They’re here,"
}
] |
50596 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Where did you think I thought they was?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Want us out of the way?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Certainly not. Isn’t this your drawing-room, old dear?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Fiddle!"
},
{
"from":... |
50596 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "was downstairs. From beginning to end the little comedy about to be played had been rehearsed between Tomlin and Quinney. Tomlin had found Hunsaker and introduced Quinney to him, as the proud owner of the chairs which he, Tomlin, had wanted to secure. Tomlin had said sorrowfully... |
50596 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Shall I tell you, Miss Quinney, how that great and growing town came to be called by my name?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Please."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, most of the towns and villages in New Mexico used to be called after the names of s... |
50596 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You have here, Mr. Quinney, an incomparable reservation."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, Quinney replied, with equal gravity,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He pointed to the lacquer cabinet, purposely distracting the young man’s attention from the ... |
50596 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I chose her —he pointed at Susan, who blushed."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And the result, he pointed at Posy, who did not blush,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You bet it does, said Hunsaker."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Miss Quinney i... |
50596 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I’m going to hang on tight to my little girl. She is the gem of my collection. Cost me more than money, too. He sank his voice confidentially."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Nearly cost me her pore dear mother. By Gum! I remember swearing that I’d give up selling imi... |
50596 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I’m much obliged; it’s an education to see such treasures."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The only education I’ve had, Mr. Hunsaker."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I only wish that I could tempt you to part with one of them—this cabinet, for instance."
... |
50596 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I’d like the chairs best of all. You bought them yesterday for nine hundred. Will you take eleven hundred?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, said Quinney,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I will."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You can have t... |
50596 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He’s taken a shine to our girl, Susie."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Fiddle!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Stoopid expression! You must break yourself of that. I tell you it’s true. Couldn’t ask for nothing better. Fine upstanding young chap."
},
... |
50596 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I’ve sold the chairs, James. Take ’em away. Pack ’em up at once! Nail down the cases. See?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, sir. I congratulate you, sir."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Pack up extra carefully that K’ang He bottle."
},
{
"from... |
50596 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The key of the cabinet was in that bottle. Did you put it there?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I may have done so, he replied. He went on fluently:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The key fits badly, tumbl... |
50596 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nice profit for you, sir,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not bad,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Splendid idea, sir, buying in your own stuff."
}
] |
50596 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Christopher’s receipt just clinched matters. You ought to have been here, my lad. An object lesson for you, by Gum!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Nobody like you, sir, to sell stuff."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Right you are, James, even if I do say... |
50596 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You’ll be thinking of gettin’ married one of these fine days?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have thought of it, sir."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Good! What you want is a helpmate, a worker like yourself, strong, healthy, and comely."
},
{
... |
50596 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "To my own Blue Bird."
}
] |
50596 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Susan!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Send your mother to me! he said stiffly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I want to see her at once on a small matter of business."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Right O!"
},
{
"from": "human",
... |
50596 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What are you going to do, Joe?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Watch on, and see."
}
] |
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