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30214 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But just as the big fellow was about to cook me for good and all, he concluded,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That was when I pulled the lever in the dome building!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That lever, Dex! he said swiftly."
},
{
"from": ... |
30214 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Back to the pen!"
}
] |
30214 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This isn't going to mean anything but a short delay, I'm afraid, said Brand, clenching his fists in an agony of futility."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "They'll be in here in a minute, and get us like trapped rats."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Not bef... |
30214 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That'll teach 'em to be careful how they try to rush us from _that_ door, said Dex, through set teeth."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Now let's see if that tank scheme of ours can be worked."
}
] |
30214 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Greca dear, --the girl started at the warmth of his thought, and a faint pink rose to her pale cheeks--"
}
] |
30214 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Careful, called Dex, his jaw set and grim as the monster lashed out in its wrath."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If you bore in too long with that tube there'll be nothing left of our tank but a cloud of smoke."
}
] |
30214 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sorry, old fellow, Brand muttered to the screaming beast."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We hate to bait you like this, but it has to be done. Come on, now, through that wall behind you, and give us a chance at the lever."
}
] |
30214 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hope there's enough left of it to do the trick, said Brand, white-lipped. The monster was smoking in a dozen spots now, and several of the hump-like scales on its back had been burned away till the vast spine looked like a giant saw that was missing a third of its teeth."
},
... |
30214 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The door to the dome--"
}
] |
30214 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It had better be soon, Dex! he called."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Rogans in front of us--Rogans behind us--and--look out! On your side of the fence, there!"
}
] |
30214 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The thing's going mad, Brand! he cried, his voice high-pitched and brittle."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Watch out!"
}
] |
30214 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "God, it must be five stories tall!"
}
] |
30214 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Again!"
}
] |
30214 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Once more--"
}
] |
30214 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "After me! he shouted to Dex."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "One of us has got to reach that lever while the creature's still there to shield us!"
}
] |
30214 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hurry, for God's sake!"
}
] |
30214 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "More--if you can!"
}
] |
30214 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, sobbed Greca, fighting for breath."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We can't stand this, panted Dex."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We've fixed the Rogans, all right. But we've fixed ourselves, too! That ... |
30214 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That does it, I think,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "On our way! he said vibrantly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "To the space ship! We leave for Earth at once!"
}
] |
30214 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And so it ends,"
}
] |
30214 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's terrible--yes. But think what it means! The knell of all the Rogans been sounded to-day. As soon as the secret of these death-tubes has been analyzed by our science and provided against, my friend and I will return from Earth with a force that shall clear the universe of th... |
30214 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Will you come to Earth with me, Greca, and stay by my side till we return to set your people in power again?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "My people need leaders now. I must stay and help direct them in their new freedom. But you--you'll come back with the others fr... |
21625 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, she said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I wouldn't like that at all. I don't believe I _could_. I couldn't _bear_ it!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My dear, her mother chided,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That's just it,"
},
{
... |
21625 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Stephen, dear! Don't encourage her in being queer. I don't like her to be queer. Mrs. Lorimer was not in the least queer herself, unless, indeed, it was queer to be startlingly lovely and girlish and appealing at forty-one, with a second husband and six children. She was not an ... |
21625 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Look here, Mildred, he said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "All right, Stepper, said the child, relievedly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She went contentedly away and a moment later they heard her robust young voice lifted on the lawn next door,--"
... |
21625 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Honor, _dear_! You--you mustn't, really----"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Don't _you_, Muzzie? Don't you like him better? the child wanted persistently to know."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He was very nice, of course; I did like him awfully. But he ... |
21625 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now, then, let's have it. You want Honor to go to Marlborough. As she herself asked and I myself repeated,--why?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And as I answered you both, said his wife, trying hard to keep the conversation spinning lightly in the air as he did,"
}... |
21625 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I can't see why it should make her any less unselfish to attend the best girls' school than to--to run with the boys."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He loved words, Stephen Lorimer; he played with them and juggled them."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ye... |
21625 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, look at her!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Leave her alone, Mildred. Leave her alive!"
}
] |
21625 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I _am_ holding it!"
}
] |
21625 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "said Mrs. Lorimer, tragically."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That's the second time this week!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Rough on the kid, said her husband."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "See him now."
},
{
"from": "human",
... |
21625 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's all right, Top Step, he called, meeting the leaping gladness of her glance."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We've decided, your mother and I. You're going to L. A. High! You're going---- but now he dropped his voice and spoke only for the woman beside him, slippi... |
21625 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How do you do, Mr. King? Like summer, really, isn't it? and looked hastily away. One never could be sure of finding him quite himself. Even if he walked quite steadily he might not be able to talk quite steadily, but he was always a King, always sure of his manner, be he ever so... |
21625 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If his mother had lived he might have had a chance, the poor boy, Mrs. Lorimer would sigh,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "My dear, said Stephen Lorimer,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's an even chance, said Stephen Lorimer,"
}
] |
21625 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You'll simply have to study, Jimsy, that's all,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Study, yes, but that's not learning, Skipper! (She had been that ever since her first entirely seaworthy summer at Catalina.)"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I can study, if I... |
21625 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I suppose I am too sensitive, she said,"
}
] |
21625 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, she said, nodding her head,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But yes, a voice, as I have said. Send her to me when her schooling is over."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "She has a future?"
},
{
... |
21625 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Wild Kings"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I was right, wasn't I?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well ... if you can only keep on being right about it! I'm so thankful about her singing. That year abroad will be wonderful. She'll meet new people ... real... |
21625 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mildred, he said, quitting the battlefield for the eternal balcony,"
}
] |
21625 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He is, Stephen Lorimer said facetiously,"
}
] |
21625 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, Top Step, said Stephen one of those evenings,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Popularity? She opened her candid eyes wide at him."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, Stepper, you know it's not that! They don't come to see me! They don't mind me, of... |
21625 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Eastern people, said Mrs. Lorimer."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A mother, rather delicate-looking, and one son, eighteen or nineteen I should say. He's frail-looking, too, and he limps a little. I imagine they're very nice. Everything about them --her magazine read... |
21625 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Gee, said Jimsy,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, I suppose he sort of fills in with other things, Honor conceded."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I expect, if people can't do the things that count most, they go in for other things. He seems awfully ke... |
21625 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "she told her husband and her daughter,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "--she laughed at the memory."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She said, 'And from what part of the East do you come, Mrs. Lorimer?' When I said I was born here in Los Angeles she almost... |
21625 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A clever youngster, he told his wife, watching him from across the room."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Brains. But I don't like him."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Stephen! Why not?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don't know yet. But I kno... |
21625 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Stepper, said Honor,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have, said her stepfather."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I've got the words here and I'm messing about for some music to go with them."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Wait a minute! Here'... |
21625 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Gee...."
}
] |
21625 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Corking for a song, Top Step. I'll hammer out some chords ... doesn't need much."
}
] |
21625 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mother, I'd like one of those wireless jiggers, --or a new saddle-horse, or a new roadster--and she was able to answer,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Dearest, I'll get it for you! Mother'll get it for you to-morrow!"
}
] |
21625 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Carter has really done a great deal for those children,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, Stephen admitted."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's true. He has. And --he sighed--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Stephen dear,--what could they d... |
21625 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You see, she explained to her stepfather,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Carter doesn't realize how hard Jimsy has to grind for all he gets. Even now, Stepper, after being here a year, he actually doesn't realize the importance of Jimsy's getting signed up to play. I... |
21625 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, dearest?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mother, I want Honor Carmody."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Carter!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I want Honor Carmody. He rode over her murmured protests."
},
{
"from": "human",
"v... |
21625 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's so perfect, Carter, to have it come in Jimsy's last year,--to win the State Championship for L. A. just before he leaves."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Sure of winning?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It will be pretty stiff going. They're awfully ... |
21625 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, I say, she greeted Honor,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, Miss Bruce-Drummond, it is. We were hoping for a dry field. They're more used to playing in the mud than we are. But it'll be all right."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm fearfully keen ... |
21625 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hello, Jimsy!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Beastly, but it doesn't really matter. We're certain to---- she broke off and looked closely at him."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Jimsy, what's the matter?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh ... ... |
21625 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's O. K., Skipper, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I can. I'm going to. I will."
}
] |
21625 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My word!"
}
] |
21625 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There, Stepper, said Honor, tensely,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "So, that's the boy with the beamish boot, eh?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes. He mustn't get a chance. He _mustn't_."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You're frightfully ke... |
21625 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't believe, cut in the fresh, crisp voice of Miss Bruce-Drummond,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why, said Honor, without turning her head,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "she was on her feet again, screaming,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value... |
21625 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I say, my dear, is _that_ a down?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, said Honor, patiently."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's a down, and now there'll be another because they have---- again she cut short her explanation and caught hold of her stepf... |
21625 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Of course, I'm not up on this at all, but I'm rather afraid your young friends are getting the worst of it, my dear!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's the longest first half I ever saw in my life,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ah, yes,--I daresay it ... |
21625 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Peach of a kick!"
}
] |
21625 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But --said Miss Bruce-Drummond, her mouth close to Honor's ear--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not yet! Honor shouted."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Wait!"
}
] |
21625 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "When we get home, she said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'll explain to you exactly what a 'down' is!"
}
] |
21625 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Gusty says he's slept all day,"
}
] |
21625 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You know, Stephen, said Miss Bruce-Drummond while they were having their coffee in the living room,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Do you see it, too?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I may not know what a 'down' is, but I've still reasonably sharp eyes i... |
21625 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Taking this over to my Dad, Jimsy explained."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Back in a shake."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I see. How about a ride to the beach? Supper at the ship-hotel? Celebrate a little?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "De... |
21625 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Jimsy!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Skipper!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I slipped out--sh ... Jimsy, I--_please_ don't go with Carter to-night! I don't mean to interfere or--or nag, Jimsy,--you know that, don't you? She slipped a little on the wet... |
21625 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's--it's all right! said Honor in a breathless whisper."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm all right, Jimsy. Let me----"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Jimsy ... what--what is happening to us? Jimsy, dear, we never before--Jimsy, are we--are we--_Is th... |
21625 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "At least, Mildred Lorimer wept,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "--she lifted tragic, reproachful eyes to him--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Some day, said her husband, sturdily,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Stephen, how _can_ you? One of ... |
21625 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mother wants only your happiness; you know that, dear."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, then, there's nothing to worry about, said Honor, comfortably,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mother wants real happiness for you, Honor, genuine, lasting happin... |
21625 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mother cannot let you go about unchaperoned with Jimsy, Honor. People would very soon suspect----"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don't think they would, Muzzie, said Honor, calmly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "None of the other mothers are so partic... |
21625 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I beg your pardon, Mr. Lorimer,--you were saying?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Want to walk up the coast, Skipper? and Honor said,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes,--just as soon as I've put these things away,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value... |
21625 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I guess, he said, casually,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Heavenly, said Honor, a little breathlessly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Italy! Just think, Jimsy,--next year at this time I'll _be_ in Italy!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Gee, ... |
21625 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No; you can't go to Italy, Skipper. That's settled."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Then--what are we going to do, Jimsy dear?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, we'll just get-- his bright face clouded over."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "G... |
21625 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It was an exquisite bit of workmanship, cunningly carved and chased, with a look of mellow age. There were two clasped hands,--not the meaningless models for wedding cakes, slim, tapering, faultless, but two cleverly vital looking hands, a man's and a woman's, the one rugged and... |
21625 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Honor!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Carter! Carter, _dear_! Oh, but it's wonderful to see you! It's _next_ best to having Jimsy himself!"
}
] |
21625 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, my dear,--fancy finding you here! Your stepfather wrote me you were studying in Florence and I've been meaning to write you. What luck, your turning up now! The friend who came on with me has been called home, and you shall do some climbs with me!"
},
{
"from": "gp... |
21625 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And I daresay they'll keep you over here all the while,--not let you go home for holidays, for fear you might lose your heads and bolt for Gretna Green?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mercy, no! Her eyes widened, startled."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": ... |
21625 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Right, said Stephen Lorimer, amiably,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You mean Rodney?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I mean Jimsy King, naturally, as you quite well know, Sapphira,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Stephen, I don't think Mr. Ki... |
21625 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Woman, said Stephen Lorimer,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He caught her in his arms as youthfully as Jimsy might have done with Honor, and told her again, between kisses."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You lovely, silly, stubborn thing, kiss your wise... |
21625 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "So, she nodded."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "News? Good or bad?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Good, said Honor, swinging round on the piano stool."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The best in the world!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"v... |
21625 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "said the great singer again."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It is of some comfort, then, to embrace so much of fatness, when your arms ache to feel muscles and hard flesh? There, there, my good small one, she patted her with a puffy and jeweled hand,"
},
{
"f... |
21625 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Had a bully practice to-day, or,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Saw old Duffy last night and he told me all about--"
}
] |
21625 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ethel, he said to Miss Bruce-Drummond who had met up with them for a week-end at Stirling,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes. It's rather frightful, really, to separate people who have no means of communication. Especially when--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"... |
21625 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do you know it's nearly five, woman, and Mildred waiting tea for us at the Stirling Arms?"
}
] |
21625 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, he would say, smiling in reminiscence,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Carter, Honor would interrupt,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, nothing serious, Honor! Nothing for you to worry about! He has to do more or less as others do, a man of his pro... |
21625 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It really would be rather a shame, Honor,--much as we'd love having you with us on the trip home. You're coming on so wonderfully with your work, the _Signorina_ says. She intends to have you in concert this winter, and coming home would spoil that, wouldn't it?"
}
] |
21625 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This is pretty rough, Top Step. You don't have to tell me."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Stepper, dear, I don't want to be a goose----"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You're not, Top Step."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But I'm anxious. When... |
21625 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's I,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Cartie! You did make me jump! Honor smiled at him; she was so cozily at peace for the moment that she had an increased tenderness for their frail friend."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It was so still in the hotel ... |
21625 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm going to kiss you, said Carter, huskily."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I've wanted to kiss you for years ... always ... and I'm going to kiss you now!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, you're not, Carter, said Honor. She got her arms out of his gr... |
21625 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Remember what I said, Top Step, 'Cross-my-heart!'"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'll remember, Stepper, dear! _Thanks!_ She turned to Carter and held out a steady hand."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My love to your mother, Carter, and I do hope you'll... |
21625 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dear Honor-- Carter had written in a ragged scrawl unlike his usual firm hand--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Will you try to forgive me? You are the kindest and least bitter person in the world; I know you can forgive me. But--and this will be harder--can you forge... |
21625 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "God Save the Weasel or"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Pop Goes the Queen, but bad enough in all truth. Therefore, I keep cannily out of all discussion of Honor's voice. I gather, however, that it has surprised every one, even the _Signorina_, and that there is no dou... |
21625 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes,--thanks--isn't every one sweet? But did Stepper write you that Jimsy was 'Varsity Captain this year, and that they beat Berkeley twelve to five? And that Jimsy made _both_ touchdowns? Do you remember that game you saw with us--and how Jimsy ran down the field and shook hand... |
21625 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, Miss Bruce-Drummond, I can hardly wait to get back to real living again!"
}
] |
21625 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But you know, _Signorina_ dear, that I'm going to give it up and be married next year?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You cannot give it up, my poor small one. It will not give you up. It has you, one may truly say, by the throat!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"... |
21625 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How-do? Veree glod! Veree glod! Tha's nize you coming home! Veree glod!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And we've got three new dogs, Honor, and two cats, and----"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Stepper, where is Jimsy?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"v... |
21625 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There, there, Muzzie _dear_! You can't help it. You must just stop caring so. It isn't your fault."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "People will think--people will say----"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No one will blame you, dear. Every one knows what a t... |
21625 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I think, said the girl at length,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'd like to go up to my room and rest for a little while, if you don't mind, Muzzie,--and Stepper."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Right, T. S. You'll want to be fresh for to-morrow."
},
... |
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