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13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And this sloop, which is his property, she thought,"
}
] |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Let go that sheet! Want to swamp us, foolin' with that fancy fish rod?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Aye, aye, skipper!"
}
] |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Going---too--fast--for--me! Whoa! Back up a little, ladies, and let me climb aboard."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, of all the crazy critters! the"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "declared."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Stand by with th... |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, Betty!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What's the matter? Land sakes!"
}
] |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh! Oh! He's hurt!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He's drowned--dead! ejaculated Betty Gallup."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Here, Miss Lou, you take the wheel----"
}
] |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Handle the boat yourself, Betty! she commanded."
}
] |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Give him to me. Land sakes! gasped Betty over her head."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I never see no city gal like you, Miss Lou."
}
] |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I--I'm all right, he muttered."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Sorry made such a--a fool--of--myself."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hush up, _you_! snapped Betty."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'd ought to have seed to this skiff. Then you ... |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Going to get him back to Tapp Point just as quick as I can, declared the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "to Louise."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Doctor ought to see that cut."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, Betty!"
},
{
"from": "... |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Thank you--thank you,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm goin' to put you ashore in the skiff right there by the store, Miss Lou,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Shouldn't I get a doctor and send him over to the Point?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"v... |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You need a handy man, I see, the actor observed."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What a fine catch you have had--blackfish, snappers, and fluke, eh? I'll carry the baskets up to your uncle's store for you. Fine old man, your uncle, Miss Grayling. And what stories he c... |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Horrid taste she has, I must say,"
}
] |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh! ejaculated Cecile."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That's Judson Bane, the Broadway star, she's walking with. I'd like to know him myself."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You coarse little thing!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And you not ... |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That big actor man will put poor Fordy's nose out of joint with the film lady, Prue said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Look out for that dog, Cis. It's the Perritons'. If you run over him----"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nasty little thing!"
},
... |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Say! something's happened to Ford, I guess,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Run down and see,"
}
] |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What's happened to him? she cried."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You're Mrs. Gallup, aren't you?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm Bet Gallup--yes. You run call up Doc Ambrose from over to Paulmouth. Your brother's got a bad knock on the head."
},
... |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You got a hard crack and no mistake, young man, the physician said, plastering his patient's head in a workmanlike manner."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But you've a good, solid cranium as I've often told you. Not much to get hurt above the ears--mostly bone all the... |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It really serves you right, Ford, for taking that movie actress sailing,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It is a judgment upon him, sighed their mother, wiping her eyes."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, Ford, if you only would settle down and not be so... |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Those blackfish look so good I long for a fish supper,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Wait till I speak to Uncle Amazon, Mr. Bane."
}
] |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, I brought it over, seeing I had a light load. I didn't know what else to do with it. Of course, it was Cap'n Abe give it to me to ship. Let's see, I didn't happen to see you here that night you came, an' I brought the young lady's trunks over, did I?"
},
{
"from": ... |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Get set! and would immediately add:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Action! Camera! Go!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Course, Perry Baker drawled,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I sent it to Boston as consigner, myself; so when the chest war... |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well! he finally ejaculated,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why, you long-winded sculpin! exclaimed Cap'n Amazon, at length goaded to speech."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Bring that chest in and take a reef in your jaw-tackle. I knew a man once't look... |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The moment is not propitious, I fear. Uncle Amazon seems to be put out about something."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Don't bother him now, I beg, urged the actor, lifting his hat."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I will call later--if I may."
},
{
... |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Watch out where you're putting your foot, Perry!"
}
] |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Whee! 'Ware below!"
}
] |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Land o' Liberty an' all han's around! bawled the irrepressible Milt Baker."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There ain't ho corpse in that dust, for a fac'!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What kind of a mess d'ye make that out to be, I want to know?"
}
] |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, I vum! drawled the expressman, at length recovering speech."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I hope Huldy'll be satisfied."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then, _where's Cap'n Abe_?"
}
] |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You fellers seem to think that I'm Abe Silt's keeper. I ain't. Abe's old enough--and ought to be seaman enough--to look out for Abe Silt. What tomfoolery he packed into that chest is none o' my consarn. I l'arnt years ago that Moses an' them old fellers left the chief commandmen... |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Good fishin', Niece Louise? Bring home a mess?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, indeed, she told him."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The baskets are outside. Let Amiel bring them around to the back."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Aye, aye... |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It would explain why Uncle Abram never became a sailor--the only Silt for generations who remained ashore. Yet, he spoke that night as though he loved the sea--or the romance of it, at least,"
}
] |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But, sighed the girl in conclusion,"
}
] |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hi-mighty likely mess of tautog you caught, Louise, he said, ladling the thick white gravy dotted with crumbly yellow egg yolk upon her plate with lavish hand."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That Lawford Tapp knows where the critters school, if he doesn't know much e... |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But land sakes! Miss Lou, ain't this an awful thing 'bout your Uncle Abe's chest? That old pirate knows more'n he'd ought to 'bout what's come o' Cap'n Abe, even if they ain't brought it home to him yit."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Now, Betty, I wish you wouldn't,... |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But it stands to reason Cap'n Abe had no intent of shipping aboard any craft with sich dunnage in his chest as they say was in it."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No-o. I suppose that is so,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then, what's become of the poor ... |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Cap'n Abe warn't no seafarin' man, pursued Betty,"
}
] |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why do you say that, Betty?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But what has Uncle Amazon to do with the mystery of his brother's absence?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Humph! If he _is_ Cap'n Abe's brother. Now, now, you don't know no more about this old p... |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, you can't tell me! That old pirate's handled a crew without no tongs, you may lay to that! And what he's done to poor old Cap'n Abe----"
}
] |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Them movin' picture people are hoppin' about The Beaches like sandpipers, observed Cap'n Amazon at the breakfast table."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And I opine they air pretty average useless, too. They were hurrahin' around all day yest'day while you was out fish... |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now you will see us grinding them out, Miss Grayling,"
}
] |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am sure you can do well in that part, Miss Grayling. It is exactly your style."
}
] |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There ye be, Mr. Lawford, crowed the man,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You had your glass on us, did you?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I did, young man--I did. An' when that bobbin' skiff walloped ye on the side of the head I never 'spected t' see y... |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Lady from Poughkeepsie."
}
] |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Louise!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What brings you forth so early in the morning, auntie?"
}
] |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, my! she cried."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What a mistake! The movie queen turns out to be some pumpkins!"
}
] |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Louise, I wish to talk to you,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "True, sighed her niece."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And how extremely exact you always are in your use of the language, auntie. You never wish to talk _with_ me. _You_ will do all the talk... |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, she told young Malcolm Standish firmly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Uncle Amazon is not to be made a peepshow of by the idle rich of The Beaches. Besides, from your own name, you should be a descendant of Miles Standish, and blood relation to these Cape Codder... |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come out of there! Come out instantly, Diddimus! What do you mean by venturing in where we are all forbidden to enter? Don't you know, Diddimus, that only fools dare venture where angels fear to tread? Scat!"
}
] |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Walnut Stain"
}
] |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ford Tapp was here last night, Cap'n Amazon told Louise at the breakfast table."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I cal'late he was lookin' for you, though he didn't just up an' say so. Seemed worried like for fear't you wouldn't have a good opinion of him."
},
{
... |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You take keer o' yourself, Louise, he added huskily."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If anything should happen to you, what--what would Abe say?"
}
] |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Cap'n Amazon, you are an impostor. You have assumed a character that is not your own. You tell awful stories about adventures that never befell you. What do you mean by it all? And, in conclusion and above all, _Where is Cap'n Abe_?"
}
] |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What's in the _Globe_ paper, Joab? asked Cap'n Amazon."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You millionaires 'round here git more time to read it than ever _I_ do, I vum!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It don't cost you nothin' to have us read it, said Cap'n ... |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That was some v'y'ge, as the feller said, continued Cap'n Amazon, getting well under way as he lit his after-breakfast pipe."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Them monkeys kep' all the crew on the jump and the afterguard scurcely got a meal in peace, I was----"
},
{... |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Here's news o' her, Cap'n Joab said in a hushed voice."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And it ain't good news, Cap'n Silt."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What d'ye mean?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Report from Fayal. A Portugee fisherman's... |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You be brave, girl--you be brave. Abe an' Professor Grayling being together, o' course they'll get along all right. One'll help t'other. Two pullin' on the sheet can allus h'ist the sail quicker than one. Keep your heart up, Louise."
}
] |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ye don't _know_ that Cap'n Abe's on that there craft, Am'zon Silt!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, if I don't--an' if you don't--don't lemme hear you makin' any cracks about it 'round this store so't she'll hear ye,"
}
] |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Pestiferous infant, drawled Marian,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Is she a Broadway star?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, she's a star all right, Cecile said, with disgust in her tone."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We've been a trio of ... |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Of course, she won't have me anyway,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why should I give her up? Further, why should I marry Dot Johnson against my will, whether I can get Louise Grayling or not?"
}
] |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'll show him! Young upstart! Settin' the women on me! Ha! Thinks he can do as he pleases forever and ever, amen! I'll show him!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What d'you mean by it?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mean by what, dad?"
},
{
"from"... |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Is this a straight answer, Lawford? Or are you just talking to hear yourself talk?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am determined not to marry Dot."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And you'll marry that other girl?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value"... |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Leave Abe for knowing his own business, Niece Louise. 'Tain't any of our consarn,"
}
] |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Writing up the log"
}
] |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is a mystery to me, Louise--a perfect mystery--how you are able to endure that awful creature and his coarse stories. That dreadful tale of the albatross sticks in my mind--I cannot forget it, she complained."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And his appearance! No m... |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Abe can look out for himself,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'll give 'em a fortnight to be heard from, Cap'n Joab Beecher said confidently."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then if ye don't hear from Cap'n Abe, or the noospapers don't print nothin' more... |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "When the _Mailfast_ burned the sea was calm; but in six hours a sudden gale came up and drove the two boats into the southwest. They wasn't provisioned or watered for a long v'y'ge, and they had to run for it a full week, ev'ry mile reeled off takin' them further an' further fro... |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The danger of the Sargasso threatens all sailin' ships in them seas. Steam vessels have a better chance; but many a craft that's turned up missin' has undoubtedly been swallowed by the Sargasso."
}
] |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sargasso Sea, he said reflectively, between puffs of his pipe, after the idlers had left the store."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, 'tis a fact, Niece Louise. That's what Abe drifted in for years--a mort of seaweed and pulp."
},
{
"from": "human",
"va... |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, Miss Grayling! shrilled Cecile."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "May I come up? I want to speak to you."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, commanded Prue firmly, preparing to step out of the car."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I will speak... |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dear Miss Grayling, drawled Marian, putting out a gloved hand."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Pardon the informality. But mother wants to know if you will help us pour tea at our lawn fete and dance Friday week? It would be so nice of you."
},
{
"from": "huma... |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You know what he's gone away for? No? To get a job! He and father have disagreed dreadfully."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh! I am so sorry,"
}
] |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't you approve at all of me, Mr. Tapp?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ha! Beg pardon! ejaculated the candy manufacturer."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Did you think I was watching you?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I _know_ you were, sh... |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, dear, Miss Grayling! What _did_ he say? He is so excitable. She almost wept."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I hope he has said nothing to offend you?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't be worried, Mrs. Tapp, she assured her."
},
{
"from": ... |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But you go too far, Louise. Even good nature cannot excuse this. I am only thankful that young man is not at home. Surely you cannot be really interested in Lawford Tapp?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Do spare my blushes, begged Louise, her palms upon her cheeks but... |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Aunt Euphemia! cried Louise, when the master mariner ushered the lady in."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What has happened?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Haven't you heard? Did you not get a letter?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "From daddy... |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mark my word, declared Aunt Euphemia, with her most indignant air,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The old pirate! That he is!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Louise, my child, come away from here at once. This is no place for a young woman--or for any se... |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come! commanded Mrs. Conroth again."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "This is no fit place for you; it never _has_ been fit!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Avast, there, ma'am!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You are an old villain!"
},
{
... |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yep. I got one myself,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, captain!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yep. From Abe. Good reason why your father didn't speak of Abe in his letter to your a'nt. Didn't in yours, did he?"
}
] |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well! that's nothin'. Ahem!"
}
] |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ye-as, he admitted cautiously."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That 'pears to be Cap'n Abe's handwritin', sure 'nough."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Course 'tis! squealed Washy Gallup."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "As plain, as plain!"
},... |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am by far the oldest person aboard the _Curlew_, skipper included. They are all young fellows, both for'ard and in the afterguard. Yet they treat me like one of themselves and I am having a most enjoyable time."
}
] |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well! well! And how's old Jerry been to-day? Louise heard him say. Then:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hi-mighty! What's this?"
}
] |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh! What is it?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Dead! he said brokenly,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dead, Niece Louise! Poor old Jerry's dead--and him and me shipmates for so many, many years."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh! screamed th... |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You are Cap'n Abe,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Poor Jerry!"
}
] |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "So I heard unendin' experiences of men who had gone to sea. And at night I read everything I could get touchin' on, an' appertainin' to, sea-farin'. In my mind I've sailed the seven seas, charted unknown waters, went through all the perils I tell 'bout. Yes, sir, I don't dispute... |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "So I called this--this dream brother of mine--'Am'zon.' These Cardhaven folks warn't likely to know whether I had a brother or not. And I made up he went to sea when he was twelve--like I told ye, my dear. Ye-as. I did hate to lie to ye, an' you just new-come here. But I'd laid ... |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But Cap'n Am'zon--he's another critter entirely. They mebbe think he's an old pirate or the like, and he chuckled again,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But when the _Curlew_ arrives home?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hi-mighty, ye-as! I see _that_, he... |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But nothin' funny, Mr. Bane, Gusty begged."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Land sakes! It's the easiest thing in the world to get a laugh out of a fat woman fallin' down a sand bank, or a fat man bein' busted in the face with a custard pie. I don't want folks to laugh... |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Land sakes! I can cry re'l tears with the best of 'em--you see if I can't, Miss Grayling. You ought to be a movie actress yourself. It don't seem just right that you ain't."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But I fear I could not weep real tears,"
},
{
"from": "... |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Poor Ford! Cecile said, shaking her head."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He's up against it. I'm going to save up part of my pocket money for him--if he'll take it. I think daddy's real mean, and I've told him so. And when Dot Johnson comes I'm not going to treat her... |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Miss Grayling!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Lawford! I am _so_ glad to see you, she rejoined frankly. And then she had to pull her hands away quickly and raise an admonitory finger."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Walk beside me--and be good, she comma... |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't, she said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I know it's because of me you have been driven to work."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You know that, Miss Grayling? Louise!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes. I had a little talk with your fa... |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Land sakes! you come 'way down here to the Cape to be took in by a feller like Ford Tapp, Niece Louise? I thought you was a girl with too much sense for that!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But what has love to do with sense, uncle?"
},
{
"from": "human",
... |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm so happy and so sorry, both together, that I'm half sick, she said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Lawford is so proud and joyful that I could cry every time I look at him. And his father's so cross and unhappy that I have to cry for him, too."
},
{
"from... |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And as, for Lawford Tapp----Why, his people are impossible, Louise. Wherever you have your establishment, if you marry him, his people, when they visit you will have to be apologized for,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Let--me--see, murmured Louise."
},
{
"fr... |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then ye'll hear the sea sing psalms, as the feller said, an' no mistake. Them there picture folks'll mebbe git a show at a re'l storm. That's what they been wishin' for--an' a wreck off shore. Land sakes! if they'd ever _seed_ a ship go to pieces afore their very eyes they would... |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We're going to have a humdinger of a gale, announced Milt Baker, the last to enter and bang the store door."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "She's pullin' 'round into the no'th-east right now, and I tell Mandy she might's well make up her mind to my lyin' up tight an' ... |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then, after the fight was over and they'd hove the others overboard, they begun to see they needed me to navigate the _Galatea_. They give me the choice of four inches of cold steel or actin' as navigator--the bloody crew o' pirates!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "An... |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We burned that barque, proceeded the storekeeper dreamily,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hi! ain't ye heard 'bout it?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Bout what?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There's a schooner drivin' in on to the Gull Rock... |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Like sandpipers, muttered the storekeeper."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Crazy critters. Wonder where that schooner is."
}
] |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Lucky chap, you, Abe Silt, after all, he muttered."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Lucky you ain't at sea in a blow like this."
}
] |
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