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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, he began, brusquely," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It is such a delicate matter, began Kendal," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well, said the old gentleman, rather enjoying the young man's evident discomfiture," }, { "from": "gpt", "va...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How could he possibly have divined that I was thinking of asking him for money?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Of course he heard me playing on the piano, for I thumped as loud as ever I could; but he did not come in. It seems to me he is trying 'to cool off,' as we girls in the bindery used to say." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I was just about to go for you, said the friend." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The doctor has something to say to you. Surely it was the work of Providence that you happened along just now." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I--I am dying, Harry! gasped th...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Tell--tell--them at home--that--everything--must go--on--the same--until--after--my will--has--been read--and that--must not be--until--six--months--after--my--decease." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Guess who it is, Dorothy." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Is it--can it be you, Harry--Mr. Kendal?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Do you wish it were some one else, Dorothy?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How dare you frighten me so, Harry Kendal?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Are you so very displeased? he inquired, reproachfully, adding quietly:" }, { "from": "human", "value": "If that is the case, I beg your pardon. I shall never so trespass again;" ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I wasn't so very angry, she began, hesitatingly, picking nervously at the blue ribbons which tied her long, curling hair." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I said I wasn't so very angry! repeated Dorothy, nervously. He heard her, but never turned his head, and Dorothy w...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I wouldn't show you the book now, to save your life! she cried, her breath coming and going in panting gasps, and her cheeks flaming as scarlet as the deep-red rose she had brought him as a peace-offering;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Won't you let me comfort you?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I have something to say to you, Dorothy, he whispered." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It is this: I love you! Will you be my wife?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You frighten me!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It is alarming--being kissed--and especially when you're not used to it. But that does not answer my question. Will you marry me, or will you not?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I don't know! cried Dorothy...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I--don't know what to say! gasped Dorothy." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I couldn't marry anybody, I think." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Am I to understand, then, he asked, in a constrained voice," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, I don'...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You dislike me?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, no, no! I like you. Won't you believe me?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Believe you? Why do you insist upon making me uncivil? he replied." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I do _not_ believe you! I dare say you fancy that you are telling the truth; but if another man were to come on the scene with a few thousands a year more, and a higher ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You must answer me, here and now!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, at last--at last, my hero, my ideal has turned from a block of marble to human clay, and tells me that he loves me and wants me to be his wife--me--a silly little thing like me!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What in the world is the matter here, child? she cried, in alarm." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I was afraid there were burglars, or Heaven knows what, up here in this room." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, something so funny has just happened! she g...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, do come in! cried Dorothy, excitedly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have something that I want to tell you--I want you to decide for me what is best to do." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I will give you the best advice I can," }, { "from"...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "She is mine!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The first thing I shall have to do will be to teach the girl how to write a legible letter," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It's all very well _now_, with rosy love in their sky; but delays are dangerous," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This year there is no one to cheer the boys on in their good work," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'll do it, cried Dorothy, and before the echo of her words had died away rousing cheers broke from her lips, that were answered back heartily by the crowd assembled wit...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "For Heaven's sake, stop, you tom-boy! he cried." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Stop disgracing me!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You shall not coerce me as if I were your very slave! she said, smiting her little hands together and pushing him from her, forgetting in her great anger whether or not her action accorded well with her dignity." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "They cheered me, and I s...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Pile on the barrels! cried one enthusiastic fellow." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Whether the election is going Democratic or Republican, let's all give three cheers for the incoming governor!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, my God! my eyes--my eyes! the sparks--the sparks have flown into them! They are burning! Oh, God!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You will not throw me off now because I am blind, Harry?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, Katy, do I look very horrible? she would whisper, in a breath of intense agony, over and over again a hundred times during the day." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Are there not cruel scars on my face? Oh, God! the terrible fire burned my eyes to their sockets--dr...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How grand a plan it would be to bring the girl to Gray Gables to be a companion to Dorothy until she marries!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, thank you--thank you for the happy thought, Mrs. Kemp! she cried;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "When does your niece come, Mrs. Kemp?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I expect Iris to come to-morrow," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Has she come?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, miss," }, { "from": "human", "value": "What is she like?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why don't you answer me?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "She--she is about your height, stammered Katy," }, { "from": "human", "value": "and Katy lifted up her face to heaven, clasping her hands, whispering to herself:" }, { "from": "gpt", "val...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "She must be a very happy girl, and light of heart," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "They have forgotten me," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I will tell them you are waiting," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Miss Dorothy sent me in search of you, sir," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What does she want?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "She says she is so lonesome, sir, and sent me to tell you so." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Is there a minute of m...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Are they coming?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Very soon now, miss," }, { "from": "human", "value": "What delayed them?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I--I think they were getting a cup of tea for the strange young lady, miss. You know she ca...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Shall Miss Vincent see me soon, Harry?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Very soon now," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Do you like her?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Like her? he cried." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Why, she is ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "They say you went down to the train to meet her," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And all during the drive home we had the greatest kind of a laugh over my ludicrous mishap. It was forming each other's acquaintance under difficulties, as she phrased it. I can truthfully say that I never was so much embarrassed before a young girl in all my life. But do you kn...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You will be sure to like her, cried Harry, enthusiastically." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I will go and fetch her to you now." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Dorothy, said Mrs. Kemp," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Welcome to Gray Gables, Miss Vincent--Iris, she said in her sweet, tremulous, girlish voice." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I--I would cross the room to where you are standing, if I could, but I can not. I can not look upon your face to welcome you, for--I am--blind!...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If I should judge by the tone of her voice and the words she utters, my fancy would lead me to believe that she was very beautiful, thought Dorothy." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But then Katy said that she was plain, very plain of face, although Harry has said that...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Do you think you will like Gray Gables?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It seems pleasant enough, returned Iris, with a yawn;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Quite a number." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Are they very jolly, or are they terri...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Does he make love to you very much? whispered Iris, laying her soft cheek close against the blind girl's." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Forgive the question, but, do you know, I have always had a longing to know just what engaged people said to each other and how th...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You do not answer me, murmured Miss Vincent." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Now, please don't be unkind, Dorothy, when I'm just dying to know." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well, said Dorothy, waxing very confidential, after the fashion of girls," },...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Poor little simpletons! Before they engage themselves they ought to have been sure that they held their lovers' hearts completely. It were better for them to realize before than after marriage that the men they meant to stake their all upon could prove fickle at the first opport...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "When do you have breakfast?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "At eight o'clock, said Dorothy;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, dear! then I shall have to get up at once, cried Iris;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Two hours! cried Dorothy, ama...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What is that? she cried, in alarm." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, Miss Vincent, the house must be on fire!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "You delightful, innocent little goose! she cried." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am only curling ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And can I never again ride Black Beauty?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am sorry it is raining, Miss Vincent, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, yes! declared Iris;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "That would be a very slight ambition to gratify, returned Harry Kendal." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I have always been thinking of buying a pony for my niece, and if she is a very good girl, she may get one for Christmas." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Would to God that I had died ere I had lived to see this horrible change take place in my idolized son!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, Heaven have mercy! It is Jack--Jack Garner!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I feel such a great pity for him, she would say;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It matters little to me now, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Wealth has no charms for me." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Of course this will make a great change in Jack's prospects. He says that we shall soon leave the little cottage and go out West somewhere--Barbara and I and himself--and that we will leave New York City far behind us, as there is no tie that binds him here now." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why, what in the world can be the matter with Jessie? he cried, raising her in his strong arms." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Is she ill? Let us send for a physician--quick!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Stay! said his mother, as he deposited Jessie o...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What am I to say--what am I to do, mother, if--if--your surmises be actually true?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "They are not surmises, my boy, returned his mother;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "You know that I like Jessie, he went on, huskily;" }, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mother! he cried, hoarsely," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Some one ought to give her a hint of what is going on," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I wonder if they think we are fools!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why not give a grand ball, she suggested," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Even so, she declared," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Gray Gables ought not to be shut up and barricaded. You need to have a little life to keep your spirits up. You are just dying for some kind of liveliness. And poor Harry! every one is feeling sorry for him. They ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Of all the girls I ever met, I dislike her the most," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh! of course we must invite her, said Dorothy, when her friend's name was brought under discussion." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Mustn't we, Harry?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You must settle the matter, Harry," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Let me suggest a better way, he replied, gallantly, as he took his seat at the table again." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You two girls arrange it between yourselves." }, { "from...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You must answer 'Yes' or 'No,' pouted Iris, impatiently." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Come, we are wasting time." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You must choose," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Alice Lee had better not be invited to the ball, he said, huskily." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That is my decision." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, Mr. Kendal--Harry--I--I have sprained my ankle! I can not walk!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am so sorry--so sorry that I let you undertake this trip with me. Let me carry you back to the house." }, { "from": "human", "value": "My--my ankle is not...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Would you?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Does not your own heart teach you that, Iris?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh! if I could only believe what my heart would fain tell me, she murmured," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I--I would be s...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, aunt! she cried," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am so glad that you happened along just now. I--I hurt my foot, and it was so painful that I had to sit down and rest; and Mr. Kendal was kind enough to remain here with me a few moments, although--although--besid...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We may as well be going," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I will go with you both as far as the postoffice," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You do not seem to be in any hurry to-day," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No; for it is not often that I indulge myself in going out for a stroll, answered Mrs. Kemp," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You are the very person I am looking for, ma'am, he cried, breathlessly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "There is something the matter with the range, and they are all in a stew over it, not knowing what to do until you come." }, { "from": "human", "value"...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, aren't they lovely! cried Iris, delightedly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I fairly adore autumn leaves." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I did not know that you had such an eye for the beautiful in nature," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now you look indeed a queen! cried Harry, raising one gracefully, and laying it on the girl's dark curls." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You remind me just now of pictures I have seen of Undine and the woodland nymphs." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Ah!...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What pretty poetry! sighed Iris." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why, it seems to me that you have some beautiful sentiment, set to rhyme, to express almost every thought! You must love poetry. Does--does Dorothy care for it?" }, { "from": "human", "value"...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Have you been eavesdropping?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I have but just turned the bend in the road, she replied, with sweet girlish dignity." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Your question, Miss Vincent, surprises me, she said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I have no need to answer it, I think." }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What about the autumn-leaf mystery? she exclaimed." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You know you were to tell me all about it?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Do you promise not to be angry with me, Iris? he answered, in his deep, musical voice." }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What were you thinking of, Harry?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Of what or whom should I be thinking but yourself, Dorothy?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "It could not have been a very pleasant thought, I fear, for you sighed deeply," }, { "fro...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I try to picture what our future life will be together, Harry," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Don't let us talk about it!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "But I like to, she insisted." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It is my constant thought by...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I propose that we finish this interesting subject at some future time, he said, carelessly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have some important letters to write, and if you will excuse me for a little while, I should be very glad." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, Miss Dorothy, she cried," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am not ill, Katy, she said, wearily," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You will ring when you want me, Miss Dorothy," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, said Dorothy, wearily." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Now go and leave me, that's a good girl;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Poor soul! poor soul! she cried;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The grand rascal! muttered the girl;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, how long have I slept, Katy?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "An hour or such a matter, responded the girl." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "They have all been to dinner, bu...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Do let me persuade you to sing for me, Iris, he was saying." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "In what have I so far offended you that you are so ungracious to me this evening, Iris?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I do not know that I am any different to-ni...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Tell me, how long have you been standing there, girl?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The wisest girls are those who never see or hear anything," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I may as well come to the point and say that you are not to mention to any one...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The grand rascal! she muttered;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, said Dorothy, quite as soon as she had opened the door," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Only Mr. Kendal, miss." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I thought I heard voices," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Miss Vincent was there when I entered the room, but left a moment or so after," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Were they talking to...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Were they speaking so low that you could not hear them?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, no, miss! quite loud; but I was not listening." }, { "from": "human", "value": "If it were not so late, I would go down stairs, she said, reflectively." }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You are the young lady of the house, said Mrs. Kemp, turning to Dorothy with a puzzled air," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, no, no! cut in Dorothy." }, { "from": "human", "value": "My--my affliction makes that an impossibility. _You_ must do it, Mrs. K...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'm sure I do not mind doing so, if the arrangement suits Mr. Kendal and--Dorothy." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why, yes, Iris can help me receive the guests, he declared." }, { "from": "human", "value": "What a happy thought! I supposed I alone was to ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I--I can not bear it! she sobbed, flinging herself face downward on the carpet with a wretched little sob." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "In everything she seems to come between me and my lover! Oh, I wish to Heaven that Iris Vincent would go away! Harry has not been...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now, Katy, said her young mistress," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, dear Miss Dorothy, _please_ don't talk so! cried Katy, aghast." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'm sure it isn't right, if I may make so bold as to say so to you. I have always heard ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Tell me, she whispered, nervously clutching the girl's hand," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What a magnificent-looking girl that Iris Vincent is! cried one of the young girls." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The fame of her great beauty is spreading everywhere; but I never dreamed she was as beautiful as the description I have heard of her, and I find she fa...