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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yesterday I was deep in the tumult of Chicago, runs the entry," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The day remained beautifully springlike till about two o'clock when a gray haze came rushing downward from the north-west. Big black clouds developed with portentous rapidit...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You need watching," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mother, one of these days I'm going to move the kitchen to the south and build a real sure-enough dining room in between," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You'd better think a long time about that, she warningly replied." }, { "from": "human", "value": "We'...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I wish he, too, could enjoy this sweet and tranquil world," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Where can I keep a wife? My two little rooms in Chicago are all the urban home I can afford, and to bring a daughter of the city to live in West Salem would be dangerous." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why not accompany me on my round?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Prairie in the Sky," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The High Country." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You will not approve of these girls--they are on their way to Paris to study sculpture, but I want you to know them. They are Janet Scudder and my sister Zulime." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My sister has been in Kansas visiting mother and father and is now on her way to New York to take a steamer for France.... She intends to remain abroad for two years," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why go abroad, I demanded bluntly." }, { "from": "human", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Eugene Field has given us one, he urged," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Cubism," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Imagism and" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Futurism" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I will depict the life of a girl who has ambitious desires, and works toward her goal as blindly and as determinedly as a boy." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Rose" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "to match, arrived from the city, her alarm became vocal." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You mustn't spend your money for things like these. We can't afford such luxuries." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Don't you worry about my money, I replied," }, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What won't them Garland boys do next!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Am I not making in my small way the same sort of historical record of the west that Whittier and Holmes secured for New England? I asked my friends." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Am I not worthy of an occasional friendly word, a message of encouragement?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "From the dry hot plains, across the blazing purple of the mesa's edge, I look away to where the white clouds soar in majesty above the serrate crest of Uncomphagre. Oh, the splendor and mystery of those cloud-hid regions!... A coyote, brown and dry and hot as any tuft of desert ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Has the ceremony begun?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The snakes are in process of being gathered, I replied," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I've been studying the Cliff-Dwellings of the Mesa Verde. My name is Pruden. I am from New York." }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "High Country" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I want you to write for me a life of Ulysses Grant. I want it to follow Ida Tarbell's _Lincoln_ which is now nearing an end. Come to New York and talk it over." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is a mighty theme, I replied," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I have a feeling of swift change in art and literature here in America. This latest trip to New York has shocked and saddened me. To watch the struggle, to feel the bitterness and intolerance of the various groups--to find one clique of artists set against another, to know that ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "After all, I am a novelist," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I must sell my Dakota land first." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I will not give it away," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "High Country whose splendors of cloud and peak, combined with the broad-cast doings of the cattleman and miner, had aroused my enthusiasm. The heroic types, both white and red, which the trail has fashioned to its needs continued to allure me, and when in June, '97, my brother, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "White Men's Big Sunday," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "and in 1874 the Sioux most dreaded by the whites was" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Sitting Bull's Band." }, { "from": "human", "value": "The great spirit made me red, and red I am satisfied to remain, he declared." }, { "from": "gpt", "value"...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We intend to wipe these red sons-of-dogs from the face of the earth." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "On Special Duty," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The plans of the cattlemen have been momentarily checked, he said," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Remington fat man--too heavy on pony. Him 'fraid Injuns sure catch him, he said with a chuckle." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Him all-time carry box--take pictures. Him no warrior." }, { "from": "human", "value": "at every pore, careless of other duties,...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Wait, I get you somesing." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "My little boy--him dead. Him carry in dance dis fedder. You my friend. You take him." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I give you dis fedder--you my friend. You Indian's friend," }, { "from":...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Wolf Voice, do you believe the dead come back to get these presents," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, he soberly replied." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Spirit no eat tobacco, spirit eat spirit of tobacco." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "White soldier heap fool, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Stand up in rows to be shot at. Injun fight running--in bush--behind trees." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Wolf Voice, I hope we meet again," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, there is such a herd, the trader said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It is owned by Michel Pablo and consists of about two hundred, old and young. They can be reached by riding straight north for some twenty miles and then turning to the west. You will have to ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Buffalo!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We dug it from the valley of the Yukon, at a point called the Klondike. A thousand miles from anywhere. The Yukon is four thousand miles long, and flows north, so that the lower half freezes solid early in the fall, and to cross overland from Skagway--the way we came out--means ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Klondike" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What do you do it for? I asked." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Are you gold-hunting?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, no; I do it just for the fun of it. I love to move around up there, alone, above timber line. It's beautiful up there." }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My Grant life is now so nearly complete that I feel free to begin a work which I have long meditated. I began to dictate, to-day, the story of my life as boy and man in the West. In view of my approaching perilous trip into the North I want to leave a fairly accurate chronicle o...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We must raise all our guns to a higher power," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Edward loves to monologue," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Kansas, Nebraska and Dakota. They all held the notion that I understood these farmer folk well enough to reflect their secret antagonisms, which I certainly did. I recall getting pretty hot in my plea, but Roosevelt seemed rather proud of me as I warmly defended my former neighb...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I need an expedition of heroic sort to complete my education, and to wash the library dust out of my brain." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Swift are the changes of life, and especially of American life, I made note." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Most people think of Longstreet as a dead man, yet there he walks, the gray ghost of the Confederacy, silent, alone." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I shall go in _here_, and come out _there_--over a thousand miles of Trail," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How easy it would be to break a leg, or go down with my horse in an icy river! I thought. Nevertheless, I proceeded with my explanations, gayly assuring Howells that it was only a magnificent outing, quoting to him from certain circulars, passages of tempting descriptions in whi...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "She will probably be more French than American when she returns," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Her letters do not sound that way, he answered." }, { "from": "human", "value": "She seems eager to return, and says that she intends to work with me here in C...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This is the end of my historical writing, I notified McClure." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'm going back to my fiction of the Middle Border." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I don't like to have you go exploring, she said." }, { "from": "gpt", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am ashamed to turn back. I must go on, I said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I won't be gone long. I'll come out by way of the Stickeen." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, here I am," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is a mighty long, hard road, they said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I want the best and gentlest beasts obtainable, I said to Burton." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I am especially desirous of a trustworthy riding horse." }, { "from": "gpt...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I hate to see that horse take the long trail. Treat him well, partner." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ladrone," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I thought you were a goner, he said, huskily." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That horse of yours is a wonder." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Old boy, I said, as I patted his neck," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I will never leave _you_ to st...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You are the boss, the historian of this expedition. You are the proprietor. I am only the hired-man." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I can't afford to spend the winter on the Yukon, I said to Burton." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "My mother is not well and is asking for me. I will keep Ladrone--I am going to take him home with me--but the remainder of the outfit is yours. If you decide to go on to...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Good luck, Old Man," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Good Luck! he huskily responded." }, { "from": "human", "value": "My love to the folks." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He's a runnin' horse, ain't he?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, he's valuable. Take good care of him. He is Arabian." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "His courage and faithfulness made it impossible for me to leave him up there," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Feature" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I don't wonder you brought him back, he said, after careful study." }, { "from": "gpt", "valu...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What would Dr. Brander Matthews, Colonel Church and Howells, who had warmly commended the book, think of me at this moment?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Bring that spade," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "in a farce called" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Incog," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You must not run home, I said to her." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Make a fair trial of the Institution." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I must go to the city and look up that new daughter," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I can't understand why you went, Lorado said, and when, at the close of the afternoon, Browne, his brother-in-law, invited me to dinner, saying," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You'll find Miss Zulime Taft there," }, { "from": "human", "value": "She's had ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hello, sister Zuhl, called Browne." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Here is an old-time friend of yours." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I've come back to stay," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Whether you go on with your sculpture or not, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "American Colony" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "it appeared." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What America needs more than subject is skill, knowledge of how to paint, she declared." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Anything can be made beautiful by the artist's brush." }, { "from": "gpt", "va...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Camp Supper, and in these jolly, intimate evenings Miss Taft and her sister, Mrs. Browne, were guiding spirits. Being included in this group I acknowledged these parties to be the most delightful events of my life in Chicago. They appeared a bit of Bohemia," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Joys of the Trail" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "General Grant meant _Frederick_ Grant, and all hats were off to Dewey, Wood and Roosevelt." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You are precisely two years late with your story of the Great Commander," }, { "from": "human", "value": "It is always darkest just b...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I shall go in here at Quesnelle and come out there, on the Stickeen, and said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am now able to report. I did it. In spite of all the chances for failure I carried out my program." }, { "from": "human", "value": "A trailer m...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What fine humility, or rather modesty. I can't imagine any other man of Howells' eminence taking that tone." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "They come in a perfect stream," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Only a few men were out and these few were chilled by a cold room but nevertheless, this meeting is likely to have far-reaching consequences." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You are to be one of the trustees, Lorado wrote," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He wants you to be one of the trustees and has invited us all to go out at once and inspect the site." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sister Zuhl came back from Paris not to paint or model but to be married. She is definitely committed to another man." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, well--such is life!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "In going abroad now I shall be going among friends," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It is high time for you to visit England. I shall take great pleasure in having you for a week-end here at Old Rye" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You may count on me in July. I shall only be gone three months--four at the outside. I shall send Frank to stay with you--and I shall write every day." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Ride of the Valkyries." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That's a fine invention, but I'd rather hear you sing, and in this judgment Maria concurred." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It's grand, she admitted," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Minnie Minturn and" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The Palace...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Prince Albert frock coat was the proper holiday or ceremonial garment of an American democrat. The claw-hammer suit was to me, as to my fellow artist," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Shall we conform" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "and yet he himself,--though still outwardly faithful--had been heard to say," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I may be forced to wear the damned thing _yet_." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "In truth, said he," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Every one but John Burroughs says I must get into the swallow-tail coat; and I will confess that even here in New York I am often embarrassed by finding myself the only man in a frock suit at a dinner." }, { "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Feeling a bit queer along about nine o'clock I went to my state room.--When I came on deck the next time, my eyes rested upon the green hills of Ireland!--I am certain the ship's restaurant realized the highest possible profit in my case for I remember but two meals, one as we w...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am at a small inn, near the Terminal Hotel. I ate my dinner last night surrounded by English people. With brain still pulsing with the motion of the sea, I went to my bed, rejoicing to feel around me the solid stone walls of this small but ancient hotel." }, { "from": ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This is the beginning of your moral debacle, said he." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What will they say of you in Wisconsin, when they hear of your appearance at an English dinner wearing 'the livery of the oppressor'?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I was able to find Piccadilly Circus, Trafalgar Square, the Houses of Parliament, and a few other landmarks of this character. I spent a week or more, roaming about the old city, searching out, as most Americans do, the literary, the historic. I wanted to see the Tower," }, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "As an American over-seas member your seat is at the speakers' table" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am but one of lower orders, said he," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Who is the self-absorbed, gloomy chieftain on my left?" }, { "from": "gpt", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh! You've been to the Klondike!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What a bore these orators are!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Zangwill is right, I said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Cow-boy, you wore 'em to the manner born," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I like you in it. I wouldn't mind if you dressed that way every day." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Look at Hamlin Garland! Assuming an expression of patrician ease, I replied," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, yes, I have conformed. In London one _must_ conform, you know.--The English are quite inexorable in all matters of dress, you understand." }, { "fr...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You may count on me hereafter, I said to her." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'm going to quit traveling and settle down near you." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I hope you mean it this time," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Haven't you done e...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We used to pick plums along that creek. Or again as we were driving toward Mindora, she said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "When McEldowney built that house we thought it a palace." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sneffles and" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Montrose Junction." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Wagon Wheel Gap" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am coming to Chicago next year, and I shall journey all the way to West Salem just to test your mother's short-cake." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Let him come, she said confidently." }, { "from": "human", "value": "We'll feed him on it." } ]