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[ { "from": "human", "value": "EXCHANGE? GET ME DOUBLE-SIX DOUBLE-FIVE NINE CENTRAL--AND GET IT QUICK, LIKE THEY DO IT ON THE PICTURES." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The bandage which impartial Justice wears Leaves you, I said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "(I remarked)" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "FIRST AID TO LITERATURE." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A WEEK IN LOVELY LUCERNE." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Even with a round of 73 in the morning Ray fell behind Vardon, who accomplished a remarkable round of 17 to lead the field." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "THE LION OF LUCERNE." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "NOT A SINGLE DISSENTIENT ECHO! THIS IS THE SORT OF PEACE CONFERENCE I LIKE." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Good-night )._" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "OH, MUMMY, I WOULD LIKE TO TELL YOU ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is the very last time, my boy; when I was at Oxford I used to consider my Father, and I would have worked in the fields and earned money sooner than have given him bills to pay." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Rabbits, and I wasn't quite sure that we should get our present even if we did say it, so I told Angela, and she had a brilliant idea." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We will make Father say 'Rabbits' and give him a present ourselves, and he is sure to give us somethi...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Rabbits," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Boo" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Rabbits," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Rabbits," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Rabbits" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "LOOK 'ERE--THIS ARF-CROWN WON'T DO. IT AIN'T GOT NO MILLING ON ITS HEDGE." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "BLIMY! NOR IT 'AS! I _KNEW_ I'D FORGOTTEN SOMEFINK." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "and features with which" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, Bertram, breathed Eunice as she glided into his arms," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ernest can never appreciate you as I do, dearest, Bertram whispered hoarsely;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How to be Happy though a Heroine," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What's all this I hear about the Abbey?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It's in a bad way, I told him." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "All kinds of defects in the fabric, and there's a public fund to make it sound again. You ought to subscribe." }, { "from": "human", "value": "It may be in disrepair, he replied," }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, Truscott continued," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Explain," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well, he continued," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Etiquette for Gentlemen_. --" }, { "from": "human", "value": "A GENTLEMAN CANNOT ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Not since the fateful week-end of August, 1914, when the destinies of Europe were decided in a few hours, have issues of such gravity engaged the attention of the British race.... Dreadful. I shall get some tennis tomorrow. I shan't be called. I shall get up when the sun is on m...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "In diplomatic circles no one is attempting to conceal that the situation is extremely grave." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "CONGRATULATIONS, OLD CHAP, ON FINDING YOUR GAME AGAIN." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "FINDING MY GAME! WHY, I'VE JUST OFFERED TO SELL EVERY DAMNED CLUB IN MY BAG." }, { "from": "human", "value": "YES, I KNOW. BUT YESTERDAY YOU WERE _GIVING_ THEM AWAY." ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How and What to Read" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Other great American short story writers include Bret Harte, Edward Everett Hale, Frank Stockton, and Mary E. Wilkins. With these may be included Thomas Hardy's 'Life's Little Ironies,' which are full of fun." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A river-horse! O-ho, of course!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Daily Mirror." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "LOOK AT THAT, MARTHA; I CAN WRITE MY NAME ON THE PIANO." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "FANCY, NOW, YOU SPELLING IT WITH A 'Y.'" }, { "from": "human", "value": "The Pill Trade has fallen on evil days; no ex-service men seem to require pills." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "In the high jump final, Landen (U.S.A.) was first with a jump of 6ft. 4-1/2in.; Muller (U.S.A.) and E. Keleend (Sweeden) died for second place." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I heard Lord Rosebery say: 'Your little girl has got beautiful eyes.' I repeated this upstai...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The people of England, like the people of Russia, runs the first," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And the second, so far as I remember, says," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Our rations will no doubt be reduced to half a herring and some boiled bird-seed,...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "PLEASE, SIRR, WHAT TIME WULL IT BE?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "WHEN?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "? After a great deal of thought I decided to try you with a short and simple" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Lucerne," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Lucerne or how many of you there are. It is no good saying that English people and French people call it" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Lucerne" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You mean Bâle? or," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You mean Basle? say," }, { "from": "human", "value": "No, I don't. I mean Basel. You have me and my friend, _Amtliches Schweizerisches Kursbuch_, behind you. Stick firmly to your point, and by approaching ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Come along to a place close by, I shall say to him, for I see myself with the whole business well in my hands now;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A telegram from Paris says: It is announced here that an agreement has been concluded between France, Great Britain and Italy regarding the delimitation of the open golf championship." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "TO HIM THAT HATH ..." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Whenever, he went on," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I require information on any subject I apply to my bank. Why don't you do the same?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sir, with reference to my overdraft" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, said he," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am never without one, I replied with dignity," }, { "from": "human", "value": "There you differ from your namesake, whose balance is clearly always on the right side. Hence that first kindly letter, addresse...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Our Constantinople correspondent, in a message reviewing the situation in Armenia, states that the Armenians have captured the ancient town of Nakhitchevan, where a Tartan Government had been set up." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "One day after this conversation he [the late Lord Salisbury] came to see me in Cavendish Square, bringing with him a signed photograph of himself. This was in the year 1904, at the height of the controversy over Protection." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "GOOD HEAVENS, SMITH, I HAVEN'T SEEN YOU SINCE YOU DROPPED THAT CATCH AT THE CIRCLE." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "YES, I ONCE SAW HIM PLAY WHEN I WAS QUITE A LAD. ON THAT OCCASION HE HAD THE MISFORTUNE TO DROP A CATCH." }, { "from": "human", "value": "HI...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I want to spread a little sunshine." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Council of Action have kindly stated that they are" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We must repeat the Scots proverb that--'Delays are dangerous.'" }, { "from": "human", "value": "De'il tak' the hindmost." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The propo...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "His own manipulation of the Ems telegram was venial compared to the manner in which the German diplomatists, egged on by their ruler--whose _marginalia_ on the despatches furnish the most amusing reading in the volume--used all the arts of chicanery to deceive Europe as to their...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "AND WHAT DO YOU THINK OF LLOYD GEORGE?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "THINK OF 'IM, SIR? WITH A MOP OF 'AIR LIKE 'E'S GOT--A NICE EXAMPLE TO THE NATION!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "A photograph of the Olympic games at Antwerp was transmitted yesterda...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But they do not make the church any more sociable," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I hope that you will not grow into a flirt, she said, slipping her arm about Dorothy's waist and looking into the young girl's flushed face with serious eyes, adding:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "This brings me to the question that I intended asking you this noon. ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Can't you tell me? pleaded Jessie, earnestly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Remember, you have no one to warn you. You are an orphan in this great, cold world, and--and you are so young that you don't know life, and can not realize that every young man who smiles in...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Won't you breathe it, Jess, if I tell you the greatest secret in the whole wide world? Promise on your word and honor that you won't and I'll tell you, and it will fairly make you hold your breath. It's just like those grand love stories all of us girls like to crowd around toge...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "His time will be up to-morrow, Jessie, and then he is going back to his home, and--and I shall never see him again. He is like a prince in disguise--such as we read about. I always thought him too grand and polite to be only a street-car conductor." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Life will never be the same to me after Harry Langdon goes, for, Jessie, I--I have learned to care for him. I couldn't help myself though I tried hard not to, and to be gay and jolly before all the girls. But, oh, Jessie, pity me! My heart is breaking! I wish I could die!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Great God in heaven! this explains Harry Langdon's sudden coolness, she muttered, with a great, choking sob;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He was pleased enough with me before Dorothy Glenn's pink-and-white baby face came between us," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "She is longing for the hours to pass, so that she may join _him_," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Girls! she exclaimed, shrilly and eagerly," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I can't go on the excursion with you, girls, returned Dorothy," }, { "from...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I hope to goodness that I shall escape Jack to-night! she muttered." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He can not get out as soon as I do, and I will be almost home while he is waiting for me at the bottom of the stairs;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, I shall escape Jack, sure, to-night!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Dorothy! he panted," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why didn't you wait for me, little girl?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Why, gracious! is it you, Jack? she cried." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I certainly thought you had gone home long a...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But you will be so disappointed, little one," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I was thinking, he continued," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Go with your cousin Barbara? she cut in." }, { "from": "human", "value": "No, I guess not. It's just like you not to want me to have a good time. If _you_ can't be there, Jack Garner, pray excus...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "She would be very glad to take you to the matinée, Dorothy, he persisted." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I need not stay in the house if I do not like, she retorted." }, { "from": "human", "value": "There's a number of girls from the bindery going on an e...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am so glad, Dorothy! he exclaimed, joyfully." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I know if you are with a crowd of the girls the day will pass pleasantly for you. But you will not forget in the midst of all your happiness to give a thought to me, will you?" }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I have a little shopping to do, and I shall have to leave you here," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "She is so dear to me, he murmured." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I--I often think I would go mad if I were to lose her." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why, hello, Jack! she cried." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What are you doing here?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Where's Dorothy? he interrupted, quickly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Is she in the house yet? I want the truth. You must ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No, Dorothy is not here, Jack, she said, presently;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Which one of the girls is it?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I don't really know that," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, it does not matter so much, Jess, that I did not see her. I did not want anything in particular. I am glad she will have a pleasant time this evening and to-morrow. And about your holiday. I suppose you will be going on the excursion with the rest of the girls on Monday?" ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The ride is too short, he said, as they reached the cottage where Dorothy lived, and where Jessie Staples was awaiting her on the porch." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Let us go around a few blocks; I want to talk to you about the arrangements for the outing." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I have been wondering if you really cared to go to the matinée on Labor Day, said Langdon, in his low, sweet, smooth voice, which had never yet failed to capture the hearts of susceptible young girls." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I was wondering if you would not pr...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why, I would just as soon go to the excursion as to the matinée, declared Dorothy;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Then we will abandon the West Point trip. he said, laughingly." }, { "from": "human", "value": "But we can go to Staten Island, besides, I th...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is a good thing to have him stand treat once in his life-time, I declare!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You will rue it if you go with that stranger. Trouble will come of it as sure as you live." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Have you had a pleasant time, Dorothy?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have had the most pleasant hours of my life! declared Dorothy." }, { "from": "human", "value": "It has been like heaven here; I am sorry to go. And oh! how dark and drear to-morrow wi...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Perhaps he means to wait until he gets on the boat," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You need never go back to the book-bindery, Dorothy," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My tender-hearted little darling! he thought." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "She would not join them for a day's pleasure because she thought I could not go, and she is having a lonely time of it at home." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Tell me about him again! he cried, hoarsely." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What was he like--this man who took Dorothy away?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Unhand that young girl! he cried, sternly, facing Langdon." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You have no right to be here with her." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Leave him, little one, and come with me." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "How _dare_ you, Jack Garner! she cried, stamping her tiny foot, her blue eyes flashing." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I shall never speak to you again for this--_never_!" }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There's a man overboard!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A rope! A rope! I am sinking!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Great Heavens! It's Jack Garner! And the girl whom he has saved is little Dorothy Glenn!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Stand back! he cried, forcing his way through the crowd of women." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "How do you suppose you can bring her to while you stand round her and exclude the air? And by all that's wonderful, although you poured brandy down her throat, no one see...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My God, it is she!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I searched for her night and day, repeated the old man, with a sob in his voice." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Alice died at sea, and the fate of the little one could not be learned, nor that of the father. I never ceased searching until the last year. Then I said t...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I--I fainted and fell backward," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, you fell backward and down into the water, my child, and came near drowning. Where is the young man who saved her? he cried." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Will some one fetch him here ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But will you tell me, cried Dorothy, with a piteous sob," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Another young man periled his life for you," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You have no need of their protection. From this time henceforth you shall be under my watchful care, little Dorothy; and very briefly, and to her intense amazement, Mr. Bryan told her the story that he had already related to those about her." }, { "from": "gpt", "val...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Great Heaven! cried Mrs. Kemp, as they drew nearer," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mrs. Kemp, he said, huskily," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have here with me one who will surprise you greatly when you hear her name--nay, astound you." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I can see for myself that she bears a striking resemblance to--to-...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I have just received word from Harry that he will be here to-morrow, he said, with a pleased expression on his face." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I hope that you will see that a room is put in readiness for him." }, { "from": "human", "value": "To be su...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Dorothy Glenn, by all that is wonderful!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Harry Langdon!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "What in the name of Heaven brings you to this house?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You have no right to know, after the wa...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am studying medicine with Doctor Bryan, instead of law, as I once led you to believe. And as to the great expectations I told you about, I confess that they exist only in my mad hopes that Doctor Bryan, who is alone in the world, without kith or kin, might take a fancy to leav...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A devil of a fix this, he muttered, setting his white teeth hard together." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Great Heaven! this is a romance in real life more strangely weird than any fiction. Who would have thought of finding this girl here, of all persons in the world...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, how my cheeks burn! she cried, excitedly," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "and for the next ten minutes Dorothy capered around the room, dancing in such hoidenish, girlish glee that she would fairly have shocked the old housekeeper could she have seen her." }, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Where can Dorothy be, I wonder?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Here I am, please." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Come in, Dorothy," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Dorothy, said Mr. Bryan, pompously," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am right glad to see him, sir," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Remove the soup plates!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Madcap Dorothy," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Come in," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, it's _you_, is it, Harry?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "It is not often I trouble you in your study, sir, began Harry," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I wouldn't advise you to begin it if it will t...