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3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, ov co'se you can't see nuffln, honey, said Uncle Ned, taking a peep,"
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, I see! said the artist;"
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm right glad to see you, sir. And my wife and daughter will be. I was saying to my wife yesterday that I couldn't stand this sort of thing much longer."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You don't find it lively?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, the l... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Look at the town, exclaimed the artist,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You needn't get excited about it, said Mr. King."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nobody said it wasn't commonplace, and glaringly vulgar if you like, and if you like to consider it re... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm 'most tired to death, said Mrs. Benson, when they were all seated."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But this air does me good. Don't you like Atlantic City?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I like it better than I did at first."
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's a place that grows on you. I guess it's grown the wrong way on Irene and father; but I like the air--after the South. They say we ought to see it in August, when all Philadelphia is here."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I should think it might be very lively."
... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, we enjoyed the exhibition, but I am not sure but I should have enjoyed New Orleans more without the exhibition. That took so much time. There is nothing so wearisome as an exhibition. But New Orleans was charming. I don't know why, for it's the flattest, dirtiest, dampest c... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, said the artist,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But the representative things here, interrupted Irene,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, responded Mr. King,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I think art cannot go much further in this dir... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "S., our eye is on you."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The Slopers have come to their cottage on Q Street, and come to stay."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mr. E. P. Borum has painted his front steps."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mr. Diffen... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Of course, he added,"
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There were not as yet many guests, and those who were there seemed to have conned this placard to their improvement, for there was not much exercise of any sort of taste. Of course there were two or three brides, and there was the inevitable English nice middle-class tourist wit... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There's a painter."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I wonder what he's painting."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Maybe he'll paint us."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Let's see what he's doing."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I shou... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, said Mr. King,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, it's all sad, respectable, confoundedly uninteresting. What does the doctor say?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I know what the doctor will say, put in Miss Summer,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Have the falls been taken in today?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm real sorry, miss, said the proprietor,"
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Isn't this a nervous sort of a place?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Perhaps it is. I have a fancy that some people are born to enjoy the valley, and some the mountains."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I think it makes a person nervous to live on a high ... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, no, shouted a chorus of voices;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "For Heaven's sake don't try it, Miss Lamont,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But I want to. I think I must. You can sketch me in the act. It will be something new."
},
{
"from": "... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is so English,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It is so colonial, said Mr. King,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If they were not restrained, Marion suggested,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And such lawns! We cannot make this turf in Virgi... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Life as Seen from Hotel Piazzas."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The women-folks, he explained to Mr. King, who took a chair beside him,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Are there many people here?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I guess the hou... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm right glad you've come, Mr. King. It's like seeing somebody from home. I told Irene that when you came I guess we should know somebody. It's an awful fashionable place."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And you have no acquaintances here?"
},
{
"from": "huma... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They have a curious, mingled air of primness and gayety, as if gayety were not quite proper, the artist began."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Some of them look downright interesting, and I've no doubt they are all excellent women."
},
{
"from": "human",
"... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "By George, that's a fine woman!"
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Life of Carlyle, and she took up the cudgels for the old curmudgeon, as King called him, and declared that, when all was said, Mrs. Carlyle was happier with him than she would have been with any other man in England."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What woman of spiri... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You are a bad boy, Stanhope, was the greeting of Mrs. Bartlett Glow,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, I thought I'd see life; I had an unaccountable feeling of independence. Besides, I've a friend with me, a very clever artist, who is re-seeing his country after an... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It looks just like it,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's very comprehensive,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What I like, Marion, said Mr. De Long, holding it out at arm's-length,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Of course, explained Irene,"
... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There's nothing like it, said King--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's just a dream at this moment, murmured Irene. They were standing on a promontory of rock."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "See those figures of people there through the mist--silhouet... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's a little off color to walk much on the cliffs; you lose caste if you bathe in the surf. What can you do?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, explained Miss Lamont,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A nice lady, was Mrs. Benson's comment when Mrs. Glow ... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I was afraid we should be too late, was Mrs. Benson's response to the smiling greeting of the hostess, with a most friendly look towards the rest of the company."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mr. Benson is always behindhand in getting dressed for a party, and he sai... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ah, monsieur, speaking in a very pretty Paris accent, and perhaps with unnecessary distinctness,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What is it?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nothing, said the girl, recovering her usual serenity."
},
{
"from": "gpt"... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Discomforts of the Rich, taking a view of life which he says has been wholly overlooked. He declares that their annoyances, sufferings, mortifications, envies, jealousies, disappointments, dissatisfactions (and so on through the dictionary of disagreeable emotions), are a gr... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "None but Millionaires allowed here."
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "All the lines are so simple, the artist explained."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The shore, the sea, the gray rocks, with here and there the roof of a quaint cottage to enliven the effect, and few trees, only just enough for contrast with the long, sweeping lines."
... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ah, said the girl, with an inspiration,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And I'm sure I'd rather be here with you than at the Blims' reception, from which we ran away."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I thought, said Irene, not looking at him, and jabbing t... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Druid's Dream carved over the entrance door; and farther inland, in a sandy and shrubby landscape, is Kendall Green, a private cemetery, with its granite monument, surrounded by heavy granite posts, every other one of which is hollowed in the top as a receptacle for food for bir... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It seems like a world by itself, she began, as in continuation of her thought."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "They say you can see Gay Head Light from here."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes. And Newport to the left there, with its towers and trees ris... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You can catch them if you run,"
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "MY DEAR MR. KING,--No explanation whatever was needed. We never shall forget your kindness. Good-by. IRENE BENSON"
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, she says,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I won't ask her for it; the lady wouldn't give it to me, and I wouldn't waste my breath; but she draws near to the dog, and regards it with rapt attention. The owner of the dog is a very pretty black-eyed girl with banged ... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We shall me--um um--we shall me-eet, me-eet--um um --we shall meet, In the sweet by-am-by, by-am-by-um um-by-am-by. On the bu-u-u-u--on the bu-u-u-u--on the bu-te-ful shore."
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I ain't goin' to cook no victuals, the woman explained, not ungraciously,"
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I like folks to be up and down and square, she began saying, as she vigilantly watched the effect of her culinary skill upon the awed little party."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, I've got a regular hotel license; you bet I have. There's been folks lawed in this ... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Queen Anne"
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Rock."
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is such an unsympathetic, tasteless-looking thing!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Do you think it is the worst in the country?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I wouldn't like to say that, replied the artist,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "to be developed hereafter--what a vast correspondence must be lying in the next world, in the Dead-letter Office there, waiting for the persons to whom it is addressed, who will all receive it and read it some day! How unpleasant and absurd it will be to read, much of it! I inte... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't you think the whole social atmosphere has changed, Miss Lamont suddenly asked, as they were running along in the train towards Manchester-by-the-Sea,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You must have been reading the Boston newspapers; you have hit the idea prevalen... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What do they do there, uncle?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, they make 'repairs,' principally just before an election. It is very busy then."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What sort of repairs?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why, politic... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "but withal so homelike. These people were"
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They didn't stay long, she said, as Mr. King seemed to expect some information out of the letter,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ye-e-s, trying to recall the mood he was in before he looked at the register;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "(thinking of th... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No lot for me but Smith's Isles, which are an array of barren rocks, the most overgrown with shrubs and sharpe whins you can hardly pass them; without either grasse or wood, but three or foure short shrubby old cedars."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Chair, a niche wh... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, said the woman in charge of one of the cottages,"
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The first bottle I took did, me no good, after the second I was worse, after the third I improved, after the twelfth I walked fifty miles in one day; and now I never do without it, I take never less than fifty bottles a year. So it would be:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"val... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "American girl is there, as she is at divers other sea-and-land resorts; but the present peculiarity of this watering-place is that the American young man is there also. Some philosophers have tried to account for this coincidence by assuming that the American girl is the attract... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "by the young ladies who daily angle there. Of the unconventional ways of the establishment Mr. King had an illustration when he attempted to get some washing done. Having read a notice that the hotel had no laundry, he was told, on applying at the office, that if he would bring ... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "for new arrivals--the young ladies angling while their mothers and chaperons--how shall we say it to complete the figure?--held the bait. It is true that they did talk in fisherman's lingo about this, asked each other if they had a nibble or a bite, or boasted that they had haul... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Everybody was at Bar Harbor, or would be there in course of the season. Mrs. Cortlandt was there, and Mrs. Pendragon of New Orleans, one of the most brilliant, amiable, and charming of women. I remember her as far back as the seventies. A young man like Mr. King, if he could be ... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes. We are still at it, he said, with his humorous air of resignation."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I tell my wife that I'm beginning to understand how old Christian felt going through Vanity Fair. We ought to be pretty near the Heavenly Gates by this time. I reck... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "; she must go by the direct road, and of course she couldn't go alone. There was no help for it, and Mr. Meigs, looking as cheerful as an undertaker in a healthy season, got down from his seat and trudged back. Thus two chaperons were disposed of at a stroke, and the young men a... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The American youth seem to have invented a novel way of disposing of chaperons, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "To send them in one direction and the party chaperoned in another is certainly original."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm not sure ... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You like Bar Harbor so well, he said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hardly. Mr. Meigs (King thought there was too much Meigs in the conversation)"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And you like it better than Newport?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"valu... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Are you much tired, Miss Benson? shouted Mr. Meigs. King didn't like this assumption of protection."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I've brought you a shawl."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hang his paternal impudence!"
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "For he is going to marry Yum-Yum-- Yum-Yum! For he is going to marry Yum-Yum-- Yum-Yum!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mikado,"
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, we are old friends,"
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We are going away tomorrow."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We? And who are we?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, the Simpkinses and our whole family, and Mr. Meigs."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And where?"
},
{
"from": "human",
... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Old fellow, what do you say to going to Virginia?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What do you want to go to Virginia for?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why White Sulphur, of course; the most characteristic watering-place in America. See the whole Southe... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I thought you might do it for me, old boy."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why didn't you say so? I don't care a rap where I go. But it's Richfield afterwards."
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I tuk you for a Richmond gemman, never shod have know'd you was from de Norf, or whether it is best to say,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We depen's on de gemmen frum de Norf; folks down hyer never gives noflin; is too pore. But to a Richmond man it is always,"
},... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What do you think of a place, he wrote Miss Lamont--the girl read me a portion of his lively letter that summer at Saratoga--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The friends were lodged in"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Paradise Row --a whimsical name given ... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "So Miss Benson was expecting you!"
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Was she? I'm sure I never told her I was coming here."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, simple man. You were with her at Bar Harbor, and I suppose she never mentioned to you that she was coming here?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But why did you think... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And they say she is from Ohio. It is right odd, isn't it? but two or three of the prettiest women here are from that State. There is Mrs. Martin, sweet as a jacqueminot. I'd introduce you if her husband were here. Ohio! Well, we get used to it. I should have known the father and... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The people are all so friendly, she said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, said King,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But the sole object appears to me to be agreeable, and make a real social life. At other like places nobody seems to care what become... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "such as might formerly be seen at Saratoga or at Ballston Spa in Irving's young days. Everybody is in the drawing-room in the evening, and although, in the freedom of the place, full dress is not exacted, the habit of parade in full toilet prevails. When King entered the room th... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Did you ever see so many pretty girls together before? If you did, don't you dare say so."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But at the North the pretty women are scattered in a thousand places. You have here the whole South to draw on. Are they elected as representative... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, I don't expect you to say that these are prettier than Northern women; but just between friends, Mr. King, don't you think the North might make a little more of their beautiful women? Yes, you are right; she is handsome (King was bowing to Irene, who was on the arm of Mr. Me... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You ain't got no cotton, is you?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why, of course we have cotton."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well (the girl only wanted an excuse to say something),"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I only ast, is you?"
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And he is not so very old either, she added;"
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dixie,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Marching through Georgia, and"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Home, Sweet Home,"
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Home, Sweet Home, and if he had been aware of the scene at the Benson cottage after he bade Irene good-night. Mrs. Benson had a light burning, and the noise of the carriage awakened her. Irene entered the room, saw that her mother was awake, shut the door carefully, sat down on ... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And I think, said the artist, who had been watching, from the little distance at which they sat, the table of the revelers,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, you never will understand us! said Mrs. Farquhar;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We do not beg... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I hear, she said, later, as they sat alone,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm afraid I did not."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, it is none of my business; but I hope you understand the responsibility of the situation. If you do not, I want to warn... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And, he added, as if with an effort,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm glad of that,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, I have arranged to go on with practice in my uncle's office. I remember what you said about a dilettante life."
},
{
"from"... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Irene!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, no,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You must listen, Irene. I love you--I love you."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Is it all true?"
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Bless you, my children! I see my warning was in vain, Mr. King. It is a fatal walk. It always was in our family. Oh, youth! youth!"
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am not come to give you good-by, but au revoir, said Mrs. Farquhar to Stanhope and Irene, who were standing apart."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I hate to go North in the summer, it is so hot and crowded and snobbish, but I dare say I shall meet you somewhere, for... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "So you are engaged! she said, when Irene went to her with the story of the little affair in Lovers' Walk."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I suppose he'll like it. He always took a fancy to Mr. King. No, I haven't any objections, Irene, and I hope you'll be happy. Mr. ... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "After the White Sulphur, it did not seem to King alive with gayety, nor has it any society. In the hotel parlors there is music in the evenings, but little dancing except by children. Large women, offensively dressed, sit about the veranda, and give a heavy and"
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You here?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes--why not? And then she added, as if from the Newport point of view some explanation were necessary:"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My husband thinks he must come here for a week every year to take the waters;... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "So you have been at the White Sulphur? said Mrs. Glow."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "How did you like it?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Immensely. It's the only place left where there is a congregate social life."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"valu... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She is a charming girl, said Mrs. Glow to King, later."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "She needs a little forming, but that will be easy when she is separated from her family. Don't interrupt me. I like her. I don't say I like it. But if you will go out of your set, y... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "to another"
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It would be lonesome enough but for you, Irene,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I love it all,"
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Your cousin has been telling me of your relatives in New York, and she told me more of yourself than you ever did."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Very likely. Trust your friends for that. I hope she gave me a good character."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value"... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My respects --all rather solemn and stiff, impressed perhaps by the decorousness of the place, and conscious of their good clothes. Enter together three stout men, a yard across the shoulders, each with an enormous development in front, waddle up to the bar, attempt to form a tr... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and the ward"
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Captain Jinks songs, and shocking free manners. At the great hop fields they lodge all together in big barracks, and they make lively for the time whatever farmhouse they occupy. They are a"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "and need very much the attention of the poet a... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But something has come between us, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I think I have the right to be treated with perfect frankness."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "So you have, she replied."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There is nothin... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sinners' Rest ), and a hotel or two famous for dinners; but the traveler would be repaid if there were nothing except the lovely village of Cooperstown embowered in maples at the foot. The town rises gently from the lake, and is very picturesque with its church spires and trees ... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "as Mr. Benson expressed it, the White Mountains. The others were going to Niagara and the Thousand Islands; and when King told Irene that he would much rather change his route and accompany her, he saw by the girl's manner that it was best not to press the subject. He dreaded to... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It will not be for long, said King, with an attempt at gayety."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Nothing is for long, she said with the same manner. And then added in a low tone, as she slipped a note into his hand,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do not th... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Your great English poet is very much read here,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "So we have heard, replied Mrs. Stubbs."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mr. Stubbs reads Tennyson beautifully. He has thought of giving some readings while we are here. We have... |
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