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13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I got your note. Young Merrow caught me at dinner. I was dining alone, so that I could come at once."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You're very kind. I'm glad you were able to do it. Won't you sit down?"
}
] |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I hear Miss Jarrott has begun to announce your engagement to Evie."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I understood she was going to, to a few intimate friends."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And you allowed it?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "As ... |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You'll keep your promise to me?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'll tell you in a minute."
}
] |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I suppose you think me a cad?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No; why should I?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Because I am one."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don't know why you should say that, or what it has to do with--anything."
},
... |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You may say anything you like. There's nothing you could possibly tell me that I shouldn't understand."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, then, when I made that promise, I meant to keep it, and to keep it in a special way. I thought--of course we were both very you... |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "So that it doesn't matter what I thought about--that promise?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not in the least. She had saved herself."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The one thing important to me is that you should have made it."
},
{
"from": "gp... |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I told you a few days ago, he pursued,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He tapped his forehead."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I've struggled, and fought, and pushed, and swaggered, and bluffed, and had ups and downs, and taken heart, and swaggered and bl... |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But what _can_ you do? she asked, after considering his words."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You're so involved. All this business--and the people in South America--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, there are ways and means. I haven't made plans, but... |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't do anything rash, she pleaded."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Wait till to-morrow There will always be time. For God's sake!"
}
] |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Good-evening, he said, speaking into the air as blind men do."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I thought I heard your voice."
}
] |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I asked you to come in, sir, he began, haltingly,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I know it isn't."
}
] |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You _knew_?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes; I knew. You're Norrie Ford. I ought to say I've only known it latterly--about a fortnight now."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, it just came to me--by degr... |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There's one thing I should like to ask, he pursued,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I happened to see it in a--a sort of--paper. I had no idea it was that of a real person. I fancied it had come out of a novel--- or something like that. I didn't mean to keep it, but i... |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You see! she cried, triumphantly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You see the difference between him and me--between his spirit and mine! Now which of us was right?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You were."
}
] |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Isn't this awful? she cried, before Miriam could take her into her loving arms."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Isn't it appalling? But it's not a surprise to me--not in the least. I knew there was something. Haven't I said so? I almost knew that his name wasn't Stran... |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I came--about Evie."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Quite so. I knew there was a hitch. I've just had a mysterious note from Queenie Jarrott which I haven't been able to make out. Can't they hit it off?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's a good deal mor... |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "So we couldn't desert him now, after she's been so brave, could we? she pleaded, with some amount of confidence;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I suppose we can't desert him, if he's sane."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, he's sane."
},
{
"fro... |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In any way you like."
}
] |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We've never gone in for any criminal business here, he said, after long reflection, while he continued to scribble aimlessly,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I thought you might be."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But it's only fair to tell you that if yo... |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You can't realize what all this means to me. If we succeed--that is, if you succeed--I hardly dare to tell you of the extent to which I shall be grateful."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You needn't think about that, he smiled."
},
{
"from": "human",
"valu... |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "One of his neighbors erected a Flemish château, another a Florentine palazzo, and a third a François Premier _hôtel_; but his plot of ground remained an unkempt tangle of mullein and blue succory. In the end he put up a sober, handsome development on a style which the humbler pa... |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "As for Evie, he wouldn't let me mention her name. I didn't insist, because it was too painful--I mean, too painful to see how he took it. He said, in about ten words, that Evie had not been any more engaged than if she had given her word to a man of air, and that there was no re... |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I've had the queerest letter from Uncle Jarrott, she began, breathlessly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The poor old dear--well, something must be the matter with him. I can't for the life of me imagine what Herbert can have told him, but he doesn't understand a bit... |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The cat seems to be quite out of the bag in the office, though I haven't said a word to any one, and I know Mr. Jarrott wouldn't. Pride and sore feeling will keep him from ever speaking of me again, except when he can't help it. I don't mean to say that the men know exactly what... |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I doubt if I shall get away from here till the beginning of October; but when I do, everything will be in trim for what I sometimes think of as my resurrection."
}
] |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What I really came to tell you, he said to her, on one occasion, as they strolled side by side in the Park,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Isn't that rather sudden?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Rather. I've thought for the last few days I might do it.... |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They've found her living with some nieces out there, he went on to explain."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "She appears to have been half over the world since old Gramm died--home to Germany--back to America--to Denver--to Chicago--to Milwaukee--to the Lord knows wher... |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't think they can be,"
}
] |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The fact is, I'm worried to death, she wrote, confidentially"
}
] |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She's going to give him the sack; that's what _she's_ going to give him, Conquest said, conclusively, while Miriam folded the dashingly scribbled sheets."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You needn't be worried about her in the least. Miss Evie knows her way about as cl... |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You might as well tell a swallow that it must migrate--now, he laughed."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Poor Ford will feel it, I've no doubt; but we shall make up to him for a good deal of it. We're going to pull him through."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value... |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You're unnerved, he said, with tender kindliness."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That's why you're upset. You've had too much on your mind. You're too willing to take all the care on your own shoulders, and not let other people hustle for themselves."
}
] |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You need me, he ventured to say, with that quiet assurance which in a lover means much."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I understand you as no one else does in the world."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I've always told you I could help you, he went on, w... |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You must come and look at my house. You've never really seen it, and I think you'd like it. I think you'd like--everything I've got everything to make you happy; and if you'll only let me do it, you'll make me happy, too."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I want you to ... |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Miriam, I can't do it, she whispered, in a kind of terror."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "They say he's going to be put in--_jail_!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hush, darling, Miriam whispered back."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You'll te... |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I've had the strangest letter from Herbert, she declared excitedly, as soon as Miriam entered the room."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I couldn't have believed he wrote it in his senses if Aunt Queenie hadn't heard the Same thing from Uncle Jarrott. He says he's got ... |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Of course he has to, she said, trying to make her tone as matter of fact as might be."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Didn't you know it?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Know it! Did _you_?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I knew it in a general... |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Did you hear what I said?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I heard it, dear; but it didn't seem to me to mean anything."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That would depend on whether you heard it only with the ear or in the heart."
},
{
"from": "gpt"... |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Darling, she began,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I want to tell you something--"
}
] |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There, there, my pet, she said, soothingly, drawing her to the couch."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Come to Miriam, who loves you. There, there."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, I'm so lonely! she sobbed."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'... |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, darling, she said, at last, as Evie's sobs subdued into convulsive tremblings,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "she comforted, as Evie's tears broke out afresh."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Have your cry out, dear. It will do you good. There, there.... |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No; it isn't dangerous, he assured her,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "She's not here--to-day."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why not? he asked, sharply."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "She said she would be. She said she'd come to town--"
... |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I suppose she had engagements--or something."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "She did have engagements--but she could have put them off."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Only she didn't care to. I see."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Her return t... |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Poor little thing! So she funked telling me."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "She wasn't equal to it."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But you are. You're equal to anything. Aren't you?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "One is generally equal to wh... |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You're blaming me, I think, because I don't take Evie's defection more to heart. Isn't that so?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm not blaming you. I may be a little surprised at it."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You wouldn't be surprised at it, if you... |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I suppose, she said, vaguely, for the sake of saying something,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And there are things in life, he returned, quickly,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't need excuses for you, she hastened to say,"
},
{
"from": "g... |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It was because I didn't know any better, he burst out, in naïve self-reproach."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It was because I couldn't recognize the high, the fine thing when I saw it. I've had that experience in other ways, and with just the same result. It was lik... |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You're to be congratulated, then, she said, with an air of distant friendliness."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It isn't every one who's so fortunate."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's true. There's only one man in the world who's more fortunate tha... |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Conquest saw what I didn't--till it was too late."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I wish you wouldn't say any more,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't see why I shouldn't. I'm not going to say anything to shock you. I know you're going to marry Conqu... |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then I do know,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The old lady was willing enough to talk, Conquest assured Ford, in his narrative of the taking of Amalia Gramm's testimony."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There's nothing more loquacious than remorse. I fig... |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I admit, Conquest continued to explain, as he fidgeted about the room, moving a chair here, or an ash-tray there, with the fussiness of an old bachelor of housekeeping tastes--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I admit that I thought the old woman was trying it on at fi... |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I would, Ford assured him."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'd go through it all again, like a shot. It's been a lark from--I won't say from start to finish--but certainly from the minute--let me see just when!--certainly from the minute when Miss Strange beckoned to ... |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Since Miss Strange did--_what_?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I mean, since she pulled me through."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Are you dreaming, old chap? Or have you 'got 'em again'?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm going back in the ... |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do you mean to say, he asked, incredulously,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Perhaps you'll be good enough to tell me yourself. I'll be hanged if I know what you're talking about."
}
] |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "So she never told you! By George, that's like her! It's just what I might have expected."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Look here, Conquest said, sharply,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He stood with his cigar unlighted, for he had let the match burn do... |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I kept it dark for obvious reasons. If Miss Strange didn't tell you about it, it's because she isn't the kind of person to talk of an incident in which her own part was so noble. I'll give you the whole story now."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I should be obliged to... |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "By George! Conquest, I didn't know there were such women in the world. She's been a revelation to me--as art and religion are revelations to other people. She came to me as the angel came to Peter in the prison; but, like Peter, I didn't know it was an angel. There's a sort of g... |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's the most amazing story I ever heard,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I hoped it might strike you as something more than--amazing,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Perhaps it will when I get my breath. You must give me time for that. Do you actually te... |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She didn't expect you at that day and date, perhaps: but she probably looked for you some time."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Possibly; but if so, I know little or nothing about it."
}
] |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's very satisfactory to me, old man, he said, between quiet puffs at his cigar,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes; I knew that. I've meant to congratulate you when the time came. I should say it had come now."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Thanks, ol... |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It isn't often that a woman's heroism works in a straight line, like a soldier's or a fireman's."
}
] |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The beauty of renunciation, he had often said,"
}
] |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What about Evie's happiness?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, what about it?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, nothing--except that we don't seem to be securing it."
}
] |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't you remember? he went on."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Evie's happiness was the motive of our little--agreement."
}
] |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I suppose, she said, as if after meditation,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Evie's happiness isn't in our hands."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "True; but there's a good deal that _is_ in our hands. There's, for example--our own."
},
{
"from": "g... |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's for you to decide, of course. Only if we go on, it must be understood that we've somewhat shifted our ground."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I haven't shifted mine."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Not as you understand it yourself--as, possibly, y... |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I hope it won't be necessary to bring this subject up again. I know what I undertook, and I'm anxious to fulfil it. I should be very much hurt if I wasn't allowed to, just because you had scruples about taking me at my word. You've been so--so splendid--in doing your part that I... |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "By-the-way, he said, when they had got on neutral ground again, and were speaking of Wayne,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I wish you would come and see what I think of doing for him. There are two rooms back of my library--too dark for my use--but that wouldn't matt... |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And perhaps, he pursued, in an even voice, showing no sign of the tempest within,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don't think there will be."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "All the same, I should like you to see. A man's house, however well arranged, is... |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come and look down on the stars, she said, in the tone she might have used to another member of her household who had appeared accidentally."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The view here, in the evening, makes one feel as if one had been wafted above the sky."
}
] |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "So you're going to marry Conquest!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What makes you ask that question--now?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Because it never occurred to me before that there might be a special ... |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I said there was a reason, she answered, after some hesitation."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I didn't say I would tell you what it was."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, but you will, won't you?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don't see ... |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, what then?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Then you'd be committing a sacrilege against yourself--if you married any one else but me."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You say that, because it seems so to you. I take another view of it. Love to me doe... |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I entered into your life twice, and each time I did you harm. On the first occasion I turned you into Herbert Strange, and sent you out on a career of deception; on the second, I came between you and Evie, and brought you to the present pass, where you're facing death again, as ... |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You ... dared...? Without ... my ... permission...?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'd done so many things without your permission that it seemed I could venture that far."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You were wrong. It was--too far."
},
{
"fr... |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But I could have done it so much better--! so much more easily--! without----"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I could have done that too. Mr. Conquest pointed it out to me. He took no advantage of my ignorance. As a matter of fact, I wasn't ignorant at all. I was extr... |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "So I want you to see, she went on, quietly, as though no interruption had occurred,"
}
] |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You'll have to let me take that back, he muttered, unsteadily."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I didn't know what I was saying. It's come on me so suddenly that it's broken me all up. I haven't realized till this evening what--what everything meant. It seemed to me th... |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'll try,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You'll do more than try--you'll succeed. Only very small souls could grudge him what he's earned when he's worked so hard and given himself so unstintingly. The very fact that you and I know that we love each other will make i... |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'll promise to do anything you ask me throughout our lives. I don't admit that Conquest should demand this thing or that he had any right to let you offer it. But since you want to give it--and I can show you no other token of my love--and shall never again be able to tell you ... |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why did you never tell me that you knew Norrie Ford--years ago?"
}
] |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I should probably have told you some time."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Very likely. The odd thing is that you didn't tell me at once."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It wasn't so odd--given all the circumstances."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"valu... |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Very well, she laughed;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm quite ready to air it; only I don't know just how it's to be done."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Suppose you were to tell me what happened, in your own language?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
... |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You see, I'd been thinking a good deal of my father and mother. I hadn't known about them very long, and I lived with their memory. The Mother Superior had told me a few things--all she knew, I suppose--before I left the convent at Quebec; and Mr. and Mrs. Wayne--especially Mrs.... |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Perhaps you did, he persisted. Then, as she remained silent,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Did you?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't know that one could call it that,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But you don't know that one couldn't... |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What I feel for you is ... something so much like ... love ... that you would never have known the difference ... if you hadn't wrung it from me."
}
] |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No; I won't sit down, he explained, hurriedly, and not without excitement,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Good-bye?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Not for long, I hope. I'm off--to give myself up."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But why to-ni... |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There they are, Ford said, jerkily."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "By George! they've got ahead of me."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You're Mr. John Norrie Ford, ain't you?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am."
},
{
"from": "human",... |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't think there's anything special to say, Ford remarked, with the awkwardness of a simple nature at an emotional crisis."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm not very good at thanks. Miss Strange knows that already. But it's all in here --he tapped his breast, wit... |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You'll come to-morrow? I shall be home about five."
}
] |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, he said, hoarsely,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I shall not come to-morrow."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then, the next day."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, nor the next day."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, when... |
13212 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Go on, Laporte, he said to the chauffeur, in a sharp voice."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Miss Strange is ready."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, no, Miriam cried, stretching both hands toward him."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm not r... |
913065 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm glad to see you've made friends with him,"
}
] |
11054 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And is a daughter come to bless These aged eyes once more? Thy father's pains will now be less-- His pains will now be o'er!"
}
] |
11054 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ask not, her father cry'd, to know What known were added pain; Nor think, my child, the tale of woe Thy softness can sustain."
}
] |
11054 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And bade his"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ugolino's woe --a celebrated picture by Sir JOSHUA REYNOLDS, taken from DANTE. [B]"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nature's look benign pourtrays"
}
] |
11054 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If fate, she answer'd, has decreed That on the hostile plain,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "My Edwin's faithful heart must bleed,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Trust me, my love, I'll not complain, I'll shed no fruitless tear;"
},
{
"from": "g... |
11054 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Tho' nature heaves these parting groans, Without complaint I die;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yet one dear care my heart still owns,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "For York, a warriour known to fame, Uplifts the hostile spear;"
},
{
"from": "... |
11054 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'll go, the hapless Edwin said, And breathe a last adieu!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And with the drops despair will shed,"
}
] |
11054 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Unceasing grief this heart must prove, Its dearest ties are broke;--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, say, what ruthless arm, my love,"
}
] |
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