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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sister found--all right!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I coaxed the story from her, Mr. Lee told his wife and Barbara later;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, Mammy, Mammy, she cried, in a passion of sobs," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, my dear--my baby," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I think, Billy, said Mr. Lee, the next morning," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And aren't they useful?" ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Does Keineth know how we spend the Fourth of July?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I hate firecrackers! Keineth shuddered." }, { "from": "human", "value": "We always went away over the Fourth to a little place out on Long Island." }, { "from": "gpt...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well--well--well," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A. Lincoln." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "My greatest grief in life, the little old lady said, holding the letter close to her heart," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The truest hearts aren't always under a uniform, my dear, and the old lady patted Keineth's hand." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The service that is done quietly and with no beating of drums is the hardest service to do!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Not about Andersonville, please, begged Peggy." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why, I know that by heart! A new one!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Something about the war," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No--no! I can't bear to think there is...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "His flesh stinging with the wound of the arrow, Robert lifted his musket and fired quickly. Years before, in his own country, he had been honored by his King for his good marksmanship, but it was God who guided that aim through the darkness, for it shot straight into the very he...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Jim stepped on the nail yesterday--what's that got to do with to-day! Peggy answered teasingly," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, we were going to hike to-day, Billy explained, too doleful to indulge in retort." }, { "from": "human", "value": "And all ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What can we do?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I don't care anything about the shoes, answered Billy," }, { "from": "human", "value": "He's only on trial--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If you girls could keep it a secret we'd give Pilot anot...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Your leg--well, now! cried Nora, all sympathy." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Faith--not my _own_ leg, but a leg of lamb! wept the other," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Where is that dog?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It really is very fool...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh--oh--oh!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It's from Sawyer's pond!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "The poor little thing. Keineth lifted it." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It's dead!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "It's their ne...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And I can tell the secret now, cried Alice," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You just wait! cried Billy. Peggy turned a terrible face upon Alice." }, { "from": "human", "value": "We'll never, never, never tell anything to the tell-baby again! she hissed." ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There's no use staying angry at Alice! Keineth protested in a low tone to Peggy as they walked away. She felt sorry for the little girl standing at a little distance irresolutely swinging a croquet mallet." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It was her secret, anyway and ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Will you play, Allie? You can have red and play last, she cried." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Come on, Ken!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "What a horrid day! with a wide yawn Peggy threw the stocking she was darning into the basket." }, { "fro...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No tennis or golf to-day," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Anyway we can swim," }, { "from": "human", "value": "In the rain?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why, of course, silly! Wouldn't we get wet, anyway?" }, { "from": "human", "v...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "All right, Peggy," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Darling! cried Barbara." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, are you all right?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What was it? Keineth managed to whisper." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'd never, never, never have forgiven myself," }, { "from": "human", "value": "You almost drowned," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And Pilot saved you!" }, { "from"...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "She'll be all right, I am sure, Mrs. Lee whispered to the anxious children. Later the doctor came, left some powders and patted Keineth on the head." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "A good sleep and quiet will fix up those nerves O. K. Then forget all about it." }, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It's from Washington, and it's got a seal on it like the seal of the United States!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, let me see!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I--I can't--it's from the President, I guess--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "T...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Faithfully, Woodrow Wilson. They began," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "My dear little soldier girl," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "DADDY." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ken, Ken." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, Billy." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Come on, I'll play tennis with you! Bet you can beat me, too!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Thanks awfully--that _was_ fun," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Say, Ken, if you'll tell me about your father I promise on my scout's honor not to tell a soul! And you ought to tell me anyway, for didn't my dog save your life, and didn't I give you first aid or you might've died!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, Billy!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "General" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I--I can't, Billy," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'll bet you haven't got any secret and you're just making up to be smart and I'll get even with you, baby! And you didn't beat me playing tennis, for I let you, an...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Did she tell you, Billy?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'll bet she hasn't got any secret that's worth knowing! And she needn't say she beat me at tennis, either." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, Billy Lee, you let her beat so's she'd tell you! I'm j...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We go for tramps into the woods and she tells us stories of the birds and trees. I never knew until she told me that there are male and female trees, and flowers and all the things that grow; did you know it, Ken? And we found a weasel, last summer--it was almost tame. We're goi...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We sleep right out of doors when it is clear. The woods smell so good and there are all sorts of funny sounds as if all the bugs and things were having parties." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh-h, I wonder if I'll like it!" }, { "from": "human", "value":...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Easy to remember--all B's," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Come back with some muscle in these arms of yours and a few more freckles on your nose," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Camp Wachita" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ken." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But we're all Ricky's girls, you see," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Ricky," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I don't see why you like to be with Stella Maybeck, Peggy had said to her one day." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I think she is horrid!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Why, Peggy!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, I think I could guess who did it, all right, and I just think it's a shame for anyone like that to I dare to come to Ricky's camp!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, do you think so?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Peggy!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'm not going to say another word," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I think you all know what has happened. I am disturbed, but I will not suspect one of my girls. All I want to say is this--so great is my trust in your loyalty, in your honor, and in your sense of what is square--if one of you, through an unfortunate yielding to temptation, has ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We should have suspected Jim, the villain, Ricky laughed." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Another chapter in scoutcraft, Peggy. Will you go, my dear, and tell Stella? Then she gently put her hand upon Peggy's head," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Judge no...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now I'm going to call all the girls together and tell them the whole story and that I'm just terribly ashamed." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hooray--hooray!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Three cheers for Stella!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Three cheers for Peggy!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Down with Jim Crow!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "You're all right, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "She played way over her head," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Good luck to you, kiddies, Mr. Lee had said to them at the breakfast table." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Play your best and then you won't mind if you are defeated. And if the other fellows play better, don't think up any excuses--it's something to be good losers!"...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We've _got_ to win!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We've got to win" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Someone called from the gallery," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Warm up!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Billy!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What a picture! Mrs. Lee whispered to her husband. She was not thinking of the game at all." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What a spirit! Think, William, what that can mean in this world when the child's grown up!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "That's j...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Play square," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, Billy did wake up, some one said and some one else added:" }, { "from": "human", "value": "If they'd lost it would have been his fault. That Randolph girl played a corking game for her age!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Dad, I've withdrawn my name from the paddle races!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What's wrong, son?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'm not a good sport--that's why, Billy answered with his usual frankness." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I h...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, I can tell by Barb's walk she's ahead," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "She was two down at the turn and Carol was playing par golf, someone volunteered." }, { "from": "human", "value": "What does down at the turn mean?" }, { "from": "gpt", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh-h!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Steady, steady, there, Barb," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why, it almost made me sick. Peggy confided to Keineth afterwards." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I will be a wreck when this week is over! And oh, if I can only win the life-saving medal to-morrow! Think of it, four prizes in the Lee family! There will be no living ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That's just pretend--he's an expert swimmer! It's Mary Freeman's turn! Watch her!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why, it was so real that it seemed awful funny to see him just get up like that," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well--it wasn't any easy thing to bring him in! Why, he struggled just as much as though he was really drowning! But, oh, Ken--Ken, I've won my medal!" }...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It's Aunt Josephine!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, dear, she'll spoil the fun!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, dear," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Maybe she has some word from father." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I have been asking Mrs. Winthrop to join us to-night in our beach frolic--you girlies must urge her!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, please do!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "She does look well, she admitted;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value":...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That's just why I like to go to picnics and things--it _is_ easy to get out of the habit of fun! Do send your man away and join us! It will be a great treat to know our Keineth's aunt a little better." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I will come, Aunt Josephine decided so suddenly that they were startled." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Keineth, dear, please tell Celeste to come to me." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It'll be such fun just to see how she'll act! Oh, I do wish that funny maid and that awful leather-man were going, too! Do you suppose she can _ever_ eat a bacon sandwich without a fork?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why, I haven't sung like this since I can remember, she laughed. The children were just finishing," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "There's a long, long trail a-winding, into the land o' my dreams!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This is the End of a Perfect Day" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "May I keep her up a little longer--I would like to have a little talk." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I cannot tell you, Aunt Josephine began," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You know I did not approve of the way my brother just turned her over to almost strangers. It seemed as if she ought to be with me. I would have sent her to a camp in Maine--a very fine camp for ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, I was so frightened! she cried." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Thank you for not letting me go. I'd have just _hated_ Miss Edgecombe's--after this! And I do want to stay with Peggy!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Poor Aunt Josephine! It must be awfu...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I feel all sort of queer inside, said Peggy, astride of a trunk," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And no school, chimed in Billy. He was on his knees packing toys." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I don't see what good school does, anyway! If nobody went to...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It's always just the nicest when we have to go to the city," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You're a fine-looking bunch to begin the winter's work, he laughed." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It ought to be very easy to you youngsters." }, { "from": "human", "value": "How lucky we are to be able to live like this," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'm just foolish, darling, only it seems such a little while ago that you were a baby, my first baby--and here you are going off to college, away from me!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'll always, always, always love home best," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "and no matter how far one of them might travel or in what gay places linger, would always be" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'd hate to be grown-up," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "and told her long stories of Liszt and Chopin and the other masters." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "They are the people that live forever," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I s'pose you're doing something you don't want me to know." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, if you don't want me--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Please, Peg, begged Keineth. She pulled her into the room." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I d...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why, you're just a kid! he answered impudently." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Mr. Brown's pretty busy! Then it suddenly occurred to him that it would be something like a joke on the" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well, come along," }, { "from":...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Let me play it for you," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Wait a moment; he waved her back to the stool." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I want Gregory to hear you." }, { "from": "human", "value": "This girl has brought in some music! I want you to hear it," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why, we've found a little gem! Peggy heard him mutter. Then to Keineth:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What did you say your name was?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We will consider it and let you know in a few weeks, he said. Then he shook hands with Keineth and Peggy." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And if you write anything more, please bring it to us." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, Peg, wouldn't it be grand ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You see there are ever and ever so many children near our home that never have any Christmas, and we used to wait for some to come and look into the window. Then Daddy'd invite them to go inside and pick out a toy. They'd be frightened at first, as if they couldn't believe it, b...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "These people live in a tenement down near the river. The father was crippled in an explosion several years ago and the mother has to work to support her family. There are seven children--the oldest is fifteen. What do you think they do at Christmas--and they love Christmas just ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We always do this, whispered Peggy to Keineth as they sat close together," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We'll do it," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I suppose we'll go on hanging up our stockings after we're doddering old grandparents," }, { "fr...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, it's going to be the best part of Christmas," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Much too lovely for children like you," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "May we children go up to the playroom, Mummy? It'd be more fun there," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, do I look like a real actress?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Just beautiful! Keineth whispered back." }, { "from": "human", "value": "But oh, I'm so scared! I know I won't remember a _single_ line!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The rascals!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Look at this," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I recognize Barbara's hand assisting," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Sh--h! The chatter suddenly ceased. Barbara pressed a button that shut off all the lights excepting the twinkling bulbs on the tree. In another room the children sang" }, { "from": "human", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Joy to the World." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Spirit of Childhood, come at our call!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I suspect you, Miss Bab, of a hand in those records," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I feel as if my heart _had_ been brushed by fairy wings to-night," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "William, it _can't_ be true!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Aunt Nellie." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Keineth, dear!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Daddy!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It may be a false report, my dear. There's been an accident at sea, and according to the paper--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "My daddy was in it! cried Keineth, putting her hands to her face." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Was my daddy in it?" }, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Uncle William has gone to telegraph immediately to the New York offices of the steamship line. We may learn more, my dear. You must be brave--you know how brave your father always was." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I don't believe it!" }, { "from": "human", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Please go away," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I don't believe it failed to drive away! She had seen a picture once of a sinking ship; a great wave of water had engulfed it, men were clinging to its side like flies! She remembered it now! Remembered, too, an awful st...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I think I'll practice, Aunt Nellie," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mummy, isn't it dreadful? What _will_ we do? She acts so queer!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Keineth will not believe it, Peggy! But when she does, when her loss comes to her, we must help her in every way! We must make her feel how much we love her and that she is...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You know it's a funny thing--no one on the boat had seen John Randolph! Maybe--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, maybe he got left!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Please read it, she said in a trembling voice." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I think it is from Daddy! I--can't!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh! Keineth cried." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Didn't I just have a hunch, now?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I feel as though this morning was weeks ago, she said afterwards as she and Peggy curled upo...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We can't take him on the street-car," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And he might get lost in the woods," } ]