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24876 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I feel like a new creature, made over from the heart and soul out. I look back with shame and contrition on the old Constance. I want you to forget her and only remember your grateful friend, the _new_ Constance."
}
] |
24876 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This will be the first New Year's I have ever spent away from home, sighed Sara, nibbling chocolate fudge."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It does make me so blue to think of it. And not even a holiday--I'll have to go to work just the same. Now Ida here, she doesn't ... |
24876 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There goes that funny little namesake of yours, Ida, said Josie, who was sitting by the window."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "She seems to be staying in town over the holidays too. Wonder why. Perhaps she doesn't belong anywhere. She really is a most forlorn-appeari... |
24876 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She must be very poor, said Ida carelessly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "She dresses so shabbily, and she always looks so pinched and subdued. She boards in a little house out on Marlboro Road, and I pity her if she has to spend her holidays there, for a more disma... |
24876 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "One of our clerks said he knew you personally--boarded next door to you--and he'd take it round himself,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There must be some mistake, said Ida in perplexity."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't know any of the clerks her... |
24876 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, how do you do, Miss Mitchell! exclaimed the other Ida with shy pleasure."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Come in. I didn't know you were in town. It's real good of you to come and see me. And just see what I've had sent to me! Isn't it a beauty? I was so surprise... |
24876 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Who--who sent it to you?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It must have been Mrs. Henderson, because there is nobody else who would, answered the other Ida."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Two years ago I was going to school in Trenton and I boarded with he... |
24876 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's delicious, said Ida heartily, swallowing her own disappointment with the cake."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm--I'm glad I happened to drop in as I was passing."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "So am I, said the other Ida brightly."
},
{
"... |
24876 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Good evening, Miss Mitchell, cried Mary Craig gaily."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Walk right in and make yourself at home in your own room, do! We all met in the hall, and knocked and knocked. Finally Miss Monroe came, so we made bold to walk right in. Where is the... |
24876 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I want to tell you how good and sweet I think it was of you to give up your cake to the other Ida. That little bit of unselfishness was a good guerdon for your new year."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm afraid I'm anything but unselfish, Miss Monroe. But I mean to ... |
24876 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What is over the hills?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Many things, laddie. Wonderful things, beautiful things, heart-breaking things."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Some day I shall go over the hills and find them all, Mother,"
}
] |
24876 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Joyce!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am glad to see you, Cuthbert, she said simply."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Stephen's Mary told me you had come. And I thought you would be over to see us this evening."
}
] |
24876 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Is it possible you are here still, Joyce? he said slowly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And you have not changed at all."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, indeed I have. I have grown old. The twilight is so kind it hides that, but it is true. Come int... |
24876 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Joyce, is it too late? Can you forgive my mistake, my long blindness? Can you care for me again--a little?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have never ceased to care, she said in a low tone."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I never really wanted to cease.... |
24876 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Next thing you'll be wanting to wear your best muslin to go for the cows, said Aunt Rebecca sarcastically."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You go right back upstairs and take off that chiffon hat. If I was fool enough to be coaxed into buying it for you, I ain't going... |
24876 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You'll do something yet, she said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mr. Stephens said you would. Oh, I like you, Jane Lavinia, you dear thing! Sometimes I haven't liked you because you're nothing to look at, and I didn't suppose you could really do anything worthwhile.... |
24876 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But I'm going, anyway, said Jane Lavinia decidedly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If Aunt Rebecca won't give me the money, I'll find some other way. I'm not afraid of any amount of work. After what Mr. Stephens said, I believe I could work twenty hours out of the tw... |
24876 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Jane Lavinia! Jane Lavinia! Ain't you going for the cows tonight?"
}
] |
24876 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It'll be dark before we get the cows milked. I s'pose you've been day-dreaming again up there. I do wish, Jane Lavinia, that you had more sense."
}
] |
24876 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "After milking I'll ask her about it,"
}
] |
24876 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, what did Mr. Stephens think of your pictures?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh! Everything that Jane Lavinia wanted to say came rushing at once and together to her tongue's end."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, Aunt Rebecca, he was delighted wi... |
24876 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You'd better go down to the store and get ten yards of white cotton, Jane Lavinia, she said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If you're going to New York, you'll have to get a supply of underclothing made."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, Aunt Rebecca, ... |
24876 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Write when you get to New York. You needn't let Mrs. Stephens work you to death either."
}
] |
24876 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, she's gone and left me all alone--my girl has gone! Oh, what shall I do? And she didn't care--she was glad to go--glad to get away. Well, it ain't any wonder. I've always been too cranky with her. But I loved her so much all the time, and I was so proud of her! I liked her p... |
24876 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hurry up, Jane Lavinia, said Mr. Whittaker."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Blest if we hadn't begun to think you weren't coming at all. Lively now."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am not going,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not going?"
}... |
24876 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm sorry, very sorry, Miss Slade, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You have exceptional talent, and I think you ought to cultivate it."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am going to cultivate Aunt Rebecca,"
}
] |
24876 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Goodness me! she cried, when Jane Lavinia walked in."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What's the matter? You ain't gone and been too late!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, I've just changed my mind, Aunt Rebecca. They've gone without me. I am not going ... |
24876 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yankee"
}
] |
24876 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yanks"
}
] |
24876 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, Mary Stella! I didn't expect you'd be down this hot day. You haven't been much at the shore lately,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I really haven't had time, Benjamin, she answered carelessly, as she took the glass from his hand and tried to focus it on the fish... |
24876 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Who is that young fellow? he asked again."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Where does he belong?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He is the son of Father's sister--his favourite sister, although he has never seen her since she married an American years ago ... |
24876 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Have you had pretty good luck this week, Benjamin? Father couldn't go out much--he has been so busy with his hay, and Leon is such a poor fisherman."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We've had some of the best hauls of the summer this week. Some of the Rustler boats cau... |
24876 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Who is that young fellow? asked the latter."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What a splendid physique he has! It's a pleasure to watch him rowing."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That, said the older man, with a certain proprietary pride in his tone,"
},... |
24876 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You weren't out this morning, Mr. Murray?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, that hay had to be took in. Reckon I missed it--pretty good catch, they tell me. Are they getting any now?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No. It's not likely the fish will begi... |
24876 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am glad to meet you, Mr. Selby, he said heartily,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm sorry there's no mackerel going this afternoon, continued the American."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I wanted to have a chance at them. I never saw mackerel caught ... |
24876 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I think I'll go out, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's freshening up. I shouldn't wonder if the mackerel schooled soon."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'll go, too, then, said Mr. Murray."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hi, up ther... |
24876 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Think you'll try it, Frank?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, not this afternoon, was the answer."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's rather hot. I'll see what it is like tomorrow."
}
] |
24876 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Good luck to you and the best catch of the season,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You'll wish you'd come, he shouted to him."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's going to be a great evening for fish."
}
] |
24876 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "mackerel as if he enjoyed it. He never put on any"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "and he stoutly took Leon's part against the aggressive Mosey Louis. Even the French Canadians, those merciless critics, admitted that the"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yan... |
24876 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I saw you today, he said in a low, intense tone."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What do you think of yourself, coming down here to steal the girl I loved from me? Weren't there enough girls where you came from to choose among? I hate you. I'd kill you--"
},
{
... |
24876 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's best that nothing be said,"
}
] |
24876 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't know about it, said Benjamin doubtfully."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don't half like the look of things. I believe we're in for a squall before long. It was just such a day three years ago when that terrible squall came up that Joe Otway got drowned in."... |
24876 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I reckon I'll try it, said Benjamin after a final scrutiny."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If a squall does come up, we'll have to run for the shore mighty quick, that's all."
}
] |
24876 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If dem two gits caught in a squall dey'll hav a tam, grinned Mosey Louis."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Dat Leon, he don't know de fust ting 'bout a boat, no more dan a cat!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Reckon dey's after cod,"
}
] |
24876 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Boys, the squall's coming! Up with the anchor--quick!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Dere's plenty tam, grumbled Mosey Louis, who hated to leave the fish."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "None of de oder boats is goin' in yit."
}
] |
24876 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don' know what dey're tinkin' of, growled Mosey Louis."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Dey'll be drown fust ting!"
}
] |
24876 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But it isn't my lookout,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Frank? he gasped."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Him and Leon went out, the foolish boys! They neither of them know anything about a time like this."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I gue... |
24876 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It'll be all right, sir, said one of the men."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If they can't land here, they can beach her on the sandshore."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If they only knew enough to do that, wailed the old man."
},
{
"from": "gpt... |
24876 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You can't do it, sir. I don't know that anybody can."
}
] |
24876 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm going out. I want one man with me. No one with child or wife. Who'll go?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I will, shouted Mosey Louis."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I haf some spat wid dat Leon, but I not lak to see him drown for all dat!"
},
{
... |
24876 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dat Leon, he not tink he know so much now!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Thank you,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You needn't thank me, he said gruffly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I wanted to let you drown. But I went out for Mary Stel... |
24876 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "For her sake,"
}
] |
24876 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We ought to know each other right away, she said frankly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "My name is Millicent Moore, and yours is--?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Worth Gordon, responded Worth, taking the proffered hand with dancing eyes."
},
{
... |
24876 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "See, here's a note from Mrs. Kirby inviting me to tea at Beechwood. She called on me soon after the term opened and invited me to tea the next week. But I had another engagement for that afternoon, so couldn't go. Mr. Kirby is a business friend of Dad's, and they are very nice p... |
24876 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You darling!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Suppose I am found out and expelled from Beechwood in disgrace,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nonsense, said Millicent, pointing to their reflected faces."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The Kirbys... |
24876 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Upon my word, Miss Moore, he said genially,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Of course,"
}
] |
24876 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You must come up often, Miss Moore, said Mrs. Kirby kindly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Look upon Beechwood as a second home while you are in Kinglake. We have no daughter of our own, so we make a hobby of cultivating other people's."
},
{
"from": "human",... |
24876 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Worthie, it's no use. You were right. There's nothing to do but go and 'fess up to Mrs. Kirby. I can't respect Millicent Moore again until I do. I'm going right up now."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'll go with you, said Worth quietly."
},
{
"from": "human"... |
24876 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Everything is wrong, said poor Sara dolefully."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Willard has to work like a slave, and yet with all his efforts he can barely pay the interest on the mortgage. And Ray ought to go to college. But I don't see how we can ever manage. To be ... |
24876 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Things go all right today, Sally?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There was a letter from Aunt Josephina, answered Sara, anxious to get the worst over,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, we've got a pretty good houseful already, said Willard thoughtful... |
24876 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do you know, said Sara, when they stood in the middle of the room and surveyed the result,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I expected to have a good laugh over this, but it doesn't look funny after all. The things all seem to suit each other, some way, and they look g... |
24876 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sally, where did you discover all that long-lost treasure?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mrs. Stanton of Boston was here today, said Sara, enjoying the moment of revelation hugely."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She makes a hobby of collecting old furn... |
24876 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have an idea that we ought to strike civilization somewhere up the Enderly Road pretty soon,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Do you call _that_ civilization?"
}
] |
24876 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If we go by the road it's three miles, said Frank."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Isn't there a short cut?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There ought to be one by the wood-lane that comes out by Jacob Hart's, I answered,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
... |
24876 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hello, missy,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What is the matter? asked Frank, who was much more at ease with children than I was, and had always a warm spot in his heart for their small troubles."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Has your teacher kept you ... |
24876 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And now they won't, sobbed Maggie."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Matt Dickey is mad at Miss Davis 'cause she stood him on the floor today for not learning his lesson, and he says he won't do a thing nor let any of the other boys help us. Matt just makes all the boys... |
24876 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It looks nice, said Frank in a tone of satisfaction."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hope Maggie will like it."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'd like to see Matt Dickey's face when he comes Monday morning,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'd ... |
24876 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ohs"
}
] |
24876 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "cried Maggie excitedly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I know you did. I told Minnie it was you the minute I saw it."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You're dreaming, child,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, no, I'm not, retorted Maggie shrew... |
24876 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and Miss Ponsonby actually looked over and said"
}
] |
24876 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Alicia"
}
] |
24876 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Lovely night, Miss Ponsonby,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A very beautiful night, dear Elizabeth,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm mopy, I said frankly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Jerry has concentrated herself on Stephen Shaw for th... |
24876 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Did I understand you to say that Geraldine was--entertaining Stephen Shaw?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes. He's home from the west and he's delightful, I replied."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "All the Glenboro girls are quite crazy over him. Jerry ... |
24876 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What is the matter?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, nothing, sobbed Miss Ponsonby,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then why don't you?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "My father won't let me,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's... |
24876 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, what is to be done?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Take Miss Ponsonby to the party with us, of course,"
}
] |
24876 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Miss Ponsonby, you are going to the dance, she said in a cautious undertone,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It is impossible,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nothing is impossible when I make up my mind, said Jerry firmly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
... |
24876 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's impossible, she said again, after her first flash hope."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I haven't a fit dress to wear--I've nothing at all but my black cashmere and it is three years old."
}
] |
24876 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have a dress I'll lend you, she said resolutely."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And I'll go over and fix you up as soon as it's a little darker. Go now and bathe your eyes and just trust to me."
}
] |
24876 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Jerry Elliott, how are you going to carry this thing through?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Easily enough, responded Jerry."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You know that black lace dress of mine--the one with the apricot slip. I've never worn it since I... |
24876 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, Alicia, you look just lovely!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "My dear Elizabeth, she said,"
}
] |
24876 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Alicia!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "How do you do, Stephen?"
}
] |
24876 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There's a mystery here, said Jerry,"
}
] |
24876 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Miss Ponsonby, said Jerry,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Stephen Shaw and I were engaged to be married long ago, she said simply."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But Father disapproved. Stephen was poor then. And so--and so--I sent him away. What else c... |
24876 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Just as soon as we can sell the furniture and move away, said Stephen moodily."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Heigh-ho! So this is what all our fine ambitions have come to, Lexy, your music and my M.D. A place in a department store for you, and one in a lumber mill f... |
24876 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Were there any letters?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, rather! One from Uncle James!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Uncle James,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, beloved sis. Oh, you needn't try to look as surprised as I did. And I ... |
24876 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, Stephen, if he likes you, and if he offers to educate you! breathed Alexina."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Perhaps he will if he is favourably impressed. But we'll have to be so careful, he is so whimsical and odd, at least everybody has always said so. A little... |
24876 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "H'm! Smells nice in here, was his salutation to Alexina."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I hope it will taste as good as it smells. I'm hungry."
}
] |
24876 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Lexy, do you know where that letter of Governor Howland's to Father is? Uncle James wants to see it."
}
] |
24876 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Is the turkey burned, Lexy?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Burned! No, it's ten times worse, gasped Alexina."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's gone--gone, Stephen. And the pudding and the mince pies, too. Oh, what shall we do? Who can have taken them?... |
24876 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What is the trouble?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Our dinner is gone, she sobbed."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And there is nothing to give Uncle James to eat except vegetables--and I do so want to make a favourable impression!"
},
{
"from":... |
24876 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This is the best mince pie I have ever sampled, he told Alexina."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am glad to know that I have a niece who can make such a mince pie."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I felt so guilty to sit there and take the credit--_your_... |
24876 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Good for you, Campbell! You've won the Fraser. See your little name tacked up there at the top of the list, bracketed off all by itself for the winner? 'Elliott H. Campbell, ninety-two per cent.' A class yell for Campbell, boys!"
}
] |
24876 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That has lifted a great weight off my mind, he said frankly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A good deal depended on my winning the Fraser. I couldn't have come back next year if I hadn't got it. That four hundred will put me through the rest of my course."
},
{
... |
24876 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm poor--woefully poor, went on Elliott gaily. His success seemed to have thawed his reserve for the time being."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I had just enough money to bring me through the Fresh and Soph years by dint of careful management. Now I'm stone broke, a... |
24876 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I've cared for you and loved you since the time you were born, lad, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You seem like my own son, and I've a fancy to leave you my name. It's all I can leave you, for I'm a poor man, but it's an honest name, lad, and I've kept it f... |
24876 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No condolences, please, he said to Roger Brooks with a smile."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm sorry I lost the Fraser, of course, but I've my hands and brains left. I'm going straight to my boarding-house to dig with double vim, for I've got to take an examination... |
24876 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mrs. Fraser, this is Elliott Hanselpakker, or Campbell, as I understand he prefers to be called. Elliott, I told your story to Mrs. Fraser last evening, and she was greatly interested when she heard your rather peculiar name. She will tell you why herself."
},
{
"from": ... |
24876 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She was very beautiful, he said dreamily,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "She promised she would come and she will keep her word, he went on."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I was with her when she died. I held her in my arms. She said to me, 'Herbert, I ... |
24876 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Better ... better, he said briskly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He will be all right tomorrow. The attack was very slight. Yes, of course you may go in. Don't stay longer than half an hour."
}
] |
24876 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do not be frightened, she said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There is no reason you should be frightened. I have only come to keep a tryst."
}
] |
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