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13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hello--what?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I said, Hello, grafter,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I guess you know that as well as I do."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't. What is it? O... |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Strange noticed that it made the clerks in the office, most of whom had been his superiors as Green had been, less inclined to bark at his heels. He got respect from them, even if he could not win popularity--and from popularity, in any case, he had been shut out from the first.... |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "By-the-way, he said, without looking up,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Jenkins is going to represent the house in New York. We think you had better take his place at Rosario."
}
] |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Very well, sir,"
}
] |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And Mrs. Jarrott--"
}
] |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mrs. Jarrott, he continued,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mrs. Jarrott is awfully kind, he began at last to stammer,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She will expect you on Sunday at half-past twelve."
}
] |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No one is ever old with a carriage like yours,"
}
] |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Up and down the ba-by goes, Turning out its lit-tle ..."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Wa-al, Polly, how are you to-day? Wa-al, pretty well for an old gal,"
}
] |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's really funny you should be Mr. Strange, because I've known a young lady of the same name. That is, I haven't known her exactly, but I've known about her."
}
] |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She is and she isn't, Miss Jarrot replied."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I know you'll think it funny to hear me speak so; but I can't explain I'm like that. I can't always explain. I say lots and lots of things that people just have to interpret for themselves It's... |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mr. Strange! I didn't know you were in town. My brother never mentioned it. He's like that. He never tells. If I didn't guess his thoughts, I shouldn't know anything. But I always guess people's thoughts. Why do you suppose it is? I don't know. Do you? When I see people, I can t... |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And isn't it funny, Evie, dear, Miss Jarrott began, just as he was about to take his leave,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, I've been thinking about that,"
}
] |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I only came, she lisped to Strange, as they sat one day, under the parrot's chaperonage, in the shady corner of the patio--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I only came because when dear mamma died there was nothing else for me to do. Everything happened so unfortunate... |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Couldn't they do it for you here? he asked, when he was sure of what he meant to say."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I know the Miss Martins--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Carrie and Ethel! Oh, well! That isn't quite the same thing. _I_ couldn't come ... |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That'll--depend,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It'll depend--on what?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, that bird! the girl cried, springing up."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I do wish some one would wring its neck."
}
] |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I love you!"
}
] |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Who is Miriam?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "She's a darling."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's high praise--from you."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "She deserves it--from any one!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why? What ... |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do I?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Do you? Now, let me think. Really, I never noticed. You'd have to begin all over again--if you ever did begin--before I could venture an opinion."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Evidently Miriam knows how to do it, an... |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It seems to have been very inconsiderate of Miriam, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But why do you suppose she acted so?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dear mamma thought she was in love with some one--some one we didn't know anything about--but... |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, what are you thinking about?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh--I--I don't know. I rather fancy I was thinking about--about this Miss--after all, you haven't given me any name but Miriam."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Strange, her name is. The sa... |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Were you fond of him?--your stepfather?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Of course--in a way. But everything was so unfortunate I know dear mamma thought she was acting for the best when she married him; and if he hadn't begun to go blind almost immediately--But he was... |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If you think that this business of Kent's can get along without me now, he said to Mr. Jarrott, in the private office, next morning,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Do you want to go?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I've been away longer than I expected--... |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Very well; I'd go,"
}
] |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Evie, what do you think made Mr. Strange rush away like that? Your uncle says he didn't have to--that he might just as well have stayed in town."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm sure I don't know,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Your uncle thinks you d... |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I haven't the least idea, Miss Colfax declared."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I was just as much surprised as you were, Aunt Helen."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Your uncle thinks you must have said something to him--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
... |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I hope you're not going to tell any one, Aunt Helen, Evie begged, as Mrs. Jarrott seemed about to leave the room."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I shouldn't want Uncle Jarrott to know, or Aunt Queenie, either."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I shall cert... |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You can bet your life he's thinking of her, Mr. Jarrott said, with the lapse from colloquial dignity he permitted himself when he got into his house-jacket."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He's praying to her image as if it was a wooden saint."
}
] |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Evie dear, it's time to go to bed. Billy, I don't believe they let you stay up as late as this at home."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "by it. There was a hint in the back of his mind that by the same token something might have been"
},
{
"from": "human",
... |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mr. Strange,"
}
] |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I didn't expect you so soon, Mr. Jarrott began, when they were both seated,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I hope it isn't going to make things harder for you, sir,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It won't if I can get the right men into the right places... |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And if Jenkins came back here, the old man pursued,"
}
] |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There's no harm in--a--telling you, Mr. Jarrott went on again, with that hesitancy Strange had begun to associate with important announcements,"
}
] |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I won't try to thank you for all your kindness, sir, he said, with a visible effort,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That's odd, he said,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But it was after I rang the door-bell, Strange stammered"
},
{
"from": "gpt",... |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "By the terms of her father's will, he explained some minutes later,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm her guardian and trustee. She can't marry without my consent till she comes of age. I don't say that in this instance I should--a--withhold my consent; but I should... |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, sir, of course,"
}
] |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You didn't see anything finer than that in Europe. Come now!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, I didn't--not in its own way. As long as I can look at this I'm almost reconciled to living in a town."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is this or that. It ... |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I couldn't live anywhere else but here--if it must be in New York, she said, turning from the window."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I couldn't do without the sense of woods, and space, and sky. I can stand at this window and imagine all sorts of things--that the par... |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I've had a letter from Mr. Jarrott, he said, making himself comfortable, while she moved the tea-table in front of her."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He wrote to me, partly as Stephens and Jarrott's legal adviser, and partly as a friend."
},
{
"from": "human... |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "So I'm not to have her?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's only for this winter--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, I know. But what's for this winter will be for every winter!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And she won't be far away. I've... |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It'll be all right, she said, with forced conviction."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I know it will. It's foolish in me to think I shall miss her, when she will be so near. It's only because she and Mr. Wayne are all I've got--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"val... |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "other men--to"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "life--compelling its favors from the world rather than asking them. The detailed exactness and unobtrusive costliness of everything about him, from the pearl in his tie to the polish on his boots, were indicative of a will... |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's all nonsense--your living as you do--like a professional trained nurse."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The life of a professional trained nurse isn't nonsense."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is for you."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": ... |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There's a reason why I couldn't do that, she said, meeting his sharp eyes with one of her fugitive glances."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I would have given it to you when--when you brought up this subject last spring, only you didn't ask me."
},
{
"from": "... |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, I suppose you couldn't,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "So that my answer has to be final."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't see that. Love is only one of the many motives for marriage--and not, as I understand it, the highest one. The divorce c... |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I know you think me foolish--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, not foolish; only romantic."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then, romantic. Romance is as bad as folly when one is twenty-seven. I confess it, she went on, trying to smile,"
},
{
"f... |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "as Conquest put it. The men who had asked her at various times to marry them had been like himself, men of middle age, or approaching it--men of assured position either by birth or by attainment. As the wife of any one of them her place would have been unquestioned. She had not ... |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We must kill off the family first of all. It was plain that she regarded the duty as a bore; but she was too worldly wise not to see that her bread cast upon the waters would return to her. Most of the Jarrotts were important; some were wealthy; and one--Mrs. Endsleigh Jarrott--... |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You see now why I simply _had_ to break with Billy. I couldn't possibly keep the two things going together--as some girls would. I'm one of those who do right, whatever happens. It's very hard for me--but if people would only be a little more sympathetic--"
},
{
"from": ... |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "of the family was the one Miriam dreaded most. It was when she came within the periphery of this powerful, meritorious, well-to-do circle, representing whatever was most honorable in New York, that she chiefly felt herself an alien. She could scarcely have explained herself in t... |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How do you do! How do you do! So glad you've come. I think you must know nearly every one here, so I needn't introduce any one. I hardly ever introduce. It's funny, isn't it? They say it's an English custom not to introduce, but I don't do it just by nature. I wonder why I shoul... |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Colfax Yorke is here, he observed at one time."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I hear his voice. He's sitting on our side of the table."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mrs. Endsleigh Jarrott is next but one to you, he said at another time."
},
{
"... |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Who is your neighbor?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don't know, she managed to whisper back."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He's so taken up with Mrs. Endsleigh Jarrott that he hasn't looked this way. I don't think he's any member of the family."
}... |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now do give me your frank opinion, Mr. Strange. You don't know how much I should like it. It's far from my idea that we should slavishly copy London. You know that, don't you? We've an entirely different stock of materials to work with. But I'm firmly convinced that by working o... |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm afraid my opinion wouldn't be of much value. Nevertheless, I know you must be right."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Now I'm disappointed in you, Mrs. Jarrott said, with pretty reproachfulness."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You're not taking me seri... |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "People say our society has no traditions. It _has_ traditions. It has the traditions of the country village, and it has never outgrown them. We're nothing but the country village writ large. New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Baltimore--we're the country village over again, with it... |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Miss Strange, I want you to know Mr. Strange. Now isn't that funny? You can't think how many times I've thought how interesting it would be to see you two meet. It's so unusual to have the same name, especially when it's such a strange name as yours. There's a pun. I simply can'... |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You dear thing! I haven't had time to say a word to you or Popsey Wayne the entire evening. But you'll excuse me, won't you? I've had to be civil to them all--do you see?--and do them up well. I knew you wouldn't mind. I wanted you to have a good time, but I'm afraid you haven't... |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I had a nice long chat with the Great Unknown, who was sitting beside you, when the ladies left the dining-room. Who do you think he is?"
}
] |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I heard them call him Mr. Strange--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Odd that was, wasn't it? But it isn't such a very uncommon name. I've met other Stranges--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh yes. So have I."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We... |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Queenie Jarrott tells me, Wayne meandered on,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "His voice is like a thousand other voices, she thought it well to say,"
}
] |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm very glad to find you at home, he began, feeling it to be a safe opening."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I was almost afraid--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I stayed in on purpose, she said, frankly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I tho... |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You see, he began again,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I had to consider a good many things--naturally. It wouldn't have done to give any one an idea that we had met before."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, of course not. But last night you might hav... |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I shouldn't have returned to New York if I hadn't become engaged to Miss Colfax. You know about that, don't you? I think she meant to tell you."
}
] |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I suppose, she said, gently,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I fell in love with her before knowing who she was. I'm afraid that when I actually asked her to marry me I had heard all there was to learn."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then why did you do ... |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'll tell you all about it, if you'd like to hear."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I should like it very much. Remember, I know nothing of what happened after--after--"
}
] |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "So you see, he ended,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Or withdraw,"
}
] |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, he returned, quietly,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I can see that it would strike you in that way. So it did me--at first. But I had to look at the subject all round--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't need to do that."
}
] |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You mean that you don't want to take my--necessities--into consideration."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I mean that when I see the one thing right to do, I don't have to look any further."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The one thing right to do--for yo... |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I had to do things out there --his nod was meant to indicate the direction of South America--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You must see that I'm obliged to put this thing through--on Evie's account as much as mine. After getting her to care for me, I can't desert h... |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He likes to find his way himself,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "They tell me there's tea in here,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There's more than tea, Miriam replied in as bright a tone as she could assume."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "T... |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm glad you came in, sir, while I was still here, because there's something I particularly want to tell you."
}
] |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I would have told you before, only that Miss Jarrott and Miss Colfax thought I had better wait till every one got settled. In any case, Mr. Jarrott made it a condition before I left Buenos Aires that it shouldn't go outside the fam... |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's a serious matter--of course, Wayne said, after becoming hesitation;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He ought to know, Ford broke in, confidently."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I've nothing to show in the way of passports, except myself and my work.... |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I heard he had been to see you and Popsey Wayne, and told you,"
}
] |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He did come, Miriam admitted."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mr. Wayne made no objections. I can't say he was glad. You wouldn't expect us to be that, dear, would you?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I expect you to like him. It isn't committing you to m... |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well--what?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I've been waiting for your move. You haven't made it."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I've no move to make."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh yes, y... |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do you mean that you wouldn't--wouldn't give me away?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I mean that you're either broaching a topic I don't understand or speaking a language I've never learned. If you don't mind, we won't discuss the subject, and we'll speak our mother-... |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "By Jove, you're a brick! You always were. I might have expected that this is exactly what you'd say."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I hope so. I didn't expect that you'd talk of my giving you away, as you call it--to any one."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value... |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do you know what this is?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's what I owe you. She made a gesture of deprecation."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's the money you lent me, he went on."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's a tremendous satisfac... |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But I don't want it, she insisted."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I never thought of your returning it. I scarcely thought of the incident at all. It had almost passed from my memory."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's natural enough; but it's equall... |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's done, he said, with satisfaction."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You can't imagine what a relief it is to have it off my mind."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm sorry you should have felt about it like that."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"val... |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dear me, dear me! she twittered, in her dry little fashion, before they had time to realize the fact that she was there."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I hope I'm not interrupting you."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Evie dear, come in. Miriam threw the ... |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What on earth can you two have to talk about?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If you're very good, dear, Miriam replied, trying to take an amused, offhand tone,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'll tell you. It was business."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
... |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You'd better not read that, dear. It might be private."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I won't look at anything else,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I want you to, Miriam said, authoritatively."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I beg you to."
... |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's nothing but a lot of little square things,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The little square things are called coupons, if you know what they are."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I know they're things people cut--when they have a lot of money. I don'... |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There's something! With her quick eyes and quicker intuitions, it was impossible for her not to see that Ford and Miriam possessed common memories of the kind that distinguish old acquaintances from new ones. When it did not transpire in chance words she caught it in their glanc... |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You see how it is already, Miriam said to him."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's making her unhappy from the start. You can't conceal the truth from her very long."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She isn't fretting about the truth; she's fretting about... |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I didn't expect you to be here as Herbert Strange, she said, as though in self-excuse."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I had to give you a name that was like my own, when I was writing letters about your ticket, and sending checks. I had to do everything to avoid susp... |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "As far as I see, he said, after long hesitation,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But I don't want to win independently of you. If I did, nothing could be easier."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then why not do it?"
}
] |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I thought you might come in, he explained,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You said you'd send the papers--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That sounds as if you weren't glad to see me, he laughed,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "he added, unfo... |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, he said suddenly,"
}
] |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I've given up expecting him,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ho! ho! So that's out of the way."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It isn't, for the reason that there's--no _way_,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh yes, there is, he laughed,"
},
... |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You know why I didn't send them? he said, as he took them."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I thought if I came myself, you might have something to tell me."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I haven't; not anything special, that is."
},
{
"from": "gp... |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Not to-day, she pleaded."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm not equal to it."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then I'll come another day."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, yes; if you like, only--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": ... |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You're coming to it, Miriam, which, while exasperating her nerves, had a kind of hypnotic effect upon her will. She felt as if she might be"
}
] |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There's something! and I sha'n't get to the bottom of it till we're married."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, I'm going to do it, do you see? was Evie's only reply."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I know it will be all right in the end."
},
{
... |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But you'll not let her do it?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I shall, if you will. You can stop it--or posptone it. If you don't, I have every right to forge ahead. It's no use going over the old arguments again--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You put ... |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What's all this about Evie? he shouted, almost before crossing the threshold."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I've been there, and no one is at home. What's it about? Who has invented the confounded lie?"
}
] |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sit down, Billy, and tell me about it."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I can't; I'm crazy."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "So I see; but tell me what you're crazy about."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Haven't you heard it? Of course you have. ... |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And now, Billy, I'm going to write a note. The first thing to be done is that you should find Mr. Strange and deliver it to him before nine o'clock this evening. You'll do it quietly, won't you? and not let him see that you are anything more than my messenger. No matter where he... |
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