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34415 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Andrew is asking you to trust him with extensive powers; in fact, he demands something of the nature of a blank check, without explaining what use he means to make of it. I willingly admit that the position he holds by right is a strong one, and we have no direct means of restra... |
34415 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My suggestion is that we do nothing at present, but wait, as Andrew asks, until a meeting of the shareholders is held, when he must give a full account of his plans. Then we will see our course more clearly; but if he finds he can take us into his confidence sooner, so much the ... |
34415 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I must congratulate you, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You handled the thing better than one could have anticipated. I suppose you are going back shortly, to look for the lode?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am going back. I cannot tell you ... |
34415 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Over my boots, but my feet can't get any wetter, he remarked."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don't know that this is a judicious amusement after being invalided home from the tropics; but it looks a likely place for a mallard."
}
] |
34415 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm afraid the plover will put up any ducks there are about, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "They're a nuisance and you're not allowed to shoot them here. It will be bad to keep our line over this rough ground."
}
] |
34415 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Your bird!"
}
] |
34415 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm afraid I'm hardly up to snipe, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's a pity you were generous enough to give me the shot."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It was yours by right."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That, Murray disputed,"... |
34415 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Considering the bad light and the distance, it was a remarkably clean shot, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I expected to see that you had hit it with only a stray pellet or two."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I used the left barrel, Andrew expl... |
34415 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I was out with Mr. Allinson to-day, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "As he's a neighbor of yours, I've no doubt you know him pretty well. He struck me as a particularly straight man."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He is so, declared Ethel warmly.... |
34415 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Perhaps it's hardly correct to talk to you on business here, and I won't press you, but there's some information you may be able to give me,"
}
] |
34415 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am at your service,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Then I want to ask about the Rain Bluff mine. A little time ago a stock-jobbing friend told me it ought to turn out a good thing. He said that whatever Allinson's took up could be relied on, and it was clear that h... |
34415 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You have a reason for feeling anxious about those shares?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes. In my district, the risk of getting permanently disabled by the climate or shot by an ambushed nigger has to be considered. Stipend and pension are small, and I felt that I ... |
34415 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, he said at last,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I believe it is true that shares have been parted with by a man who has a say in the management of the company."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That sounds discouraging. If I sell out, I'll lose three... |
34415 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What is the idea?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "To put it roughly, something like this--more depends on character than specialized training; determination and strong sincerity often carry one farther than a knowledge of the rules of the game. One sees people who rel... |
34415 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I wonder, she said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "One old favorite of mine strikes me as rather grim and singularly hard to please; but so far as I can judge, he hits the mark now and then. It's a pet theme of his that only that which stands on justice, and is bette... |
34415 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's very open weather, Ethel remarked."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I suppose it's different in Canada?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In the part I'm best acquainted with the thermometer is now registering forty degrees below zero, and it would need... |
34415 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "So it was the Frobishers who saved you by sending off a rescue party! she exclaimed when he had finished."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But how did they know you were in danger?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's more than I can tell. Of course, we ... |
34415 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's an unpleasant topic and the fellow's a rascal, he answered."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's hard to say what might influence such men. They're not quite normal; you can't account for them."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But you're going back to... |
34415 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You know you have my good wishes,"
}
] |
34415 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There seems to be a creek abreast of us, Carnally said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We're in shoaling water; watch out for snags."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Shoot her up! Graham called out sharply."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Log r... |
34415 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Can't be kept under by baling, Carnally remarked."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We'll have to put her on the wind and make the beach."
}
] |
34415 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Looks as if we had to keep her running,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The end of the lake can't be far off and the water's too rough to do much with the paddle."
}
] |
34415 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The canoe wants a patch on her bilge, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Could you sew on a bit of the thin cedar with the copper wire, Graham? There's some caulking gum in the green can."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It would take me a day to mak... |
34415 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I heard something!"
}
] |
34415 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I struck some pretty rough country, he explained."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The creek winds a lot and I came across the range."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Did you find the cache?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Sure! It had been opene... |
34415 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This wouldn't strike one as an easy place to portage across, and the stream runs smartly past the stones we landed on, he chuckled."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I guess Mappin's boys will go straight on, and it may be some time before they get suspicious."
}
] |
34415 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You'll have to cook; I can't make another move, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It strikes me that the man who finds a mine in this country deserves all he gets. That raises the question--how is it that Mappin can trust the rascals he has sent after us? Suppo... |
34415 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The loon, he commented."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It was in the shadow by the big stone and must have swum a good piece under water. Somebody scared the bird; now it's gone again!"
}
] |
34415 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come out of the bush so we can see you!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What do you want? Carnally asked."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Are you alone?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Something to eat, said the stranger."
},
{
"from": ... |
34415 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now, said Carnally,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm starving,"
}
] |
34415 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There's a bannock and some pork yonder. It won't take long to warm up, but before you get any, we must have a talk. Why did you leave the rest of Mappin's hobos?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We wrecked our canoe in a rapid and lost all the grub. There was some trou... |
34415 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Will they follow us up?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Can't tell, said the stranger."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They'd be mighty hungry when they made the cache. Anyhow, I'd had enough of them."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Give him so... |
34415 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You're white,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why did you do that?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You'll have something else to carry and one gun's enough for this crowd,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Then you don't mean to fire me out?"
}... |
34415 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm not trying to kick, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Guess you've got a pull on me and I have to work, but I'm a bit played out yet, and your partner piled more weight on me than I can stand."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Stop and take a smo... |
34415 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A handy man; he's going to save us a lot of trouble, and we got him cheap."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He's a bit of a rogue, and claim-jumping isn't a creditable profession, Andrew replied."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Still, I don't think we ough... |
34415 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The point is, Graham explained,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, assented Andrew;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I believe that's true. There's a reason why I find it encouraging."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Now we'll talk of something... |
34415 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You go back to the last creek we crossed and catch some trout, he ordered."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Stay there until supper, whether you get any or not."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If I catch one with this outfit, it will be a mighty silly trou... |
34415 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They're promising, said Graham."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The weight is a good rough test, and though it doesn't tell us much about the proportion of lead to silver, I can find out something about that to-morrow. Jake, you might pound this handful of stuff as fi... |
34415 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I didn't know you were an assayer,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm not, Graham answered, smiling."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But you must remember that for twenty years I've clung to the idea that I might find the lode, and perhaps it isn't aston... |
34415 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I was lucky in getting hold of you and Jake,"
}
] |
34415 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You look pleased,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I feel so, declared Andrew."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We haven't improved the appearance of the place from an artistic point of view; but I don't know when I felt so content with what I've done. I us... |
34415 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I think we're all ready to start south at sunrise, Graham said presently, and looked at Turner."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Can you guess why your partners haven't turned up?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, answered the man."
},
{
"from": ... |
34415 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You can let up on that job. We won't want you any more,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Are you going to fire me here?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You've hit it, said Carnally."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We'll give you grub for two mea... |
34415 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You have been successful; I'm very glad,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, responded Andrew, holding her hand;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don't suppose I'd ever have found the lode if you hadn't en... |
34415 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It might be better, if you and Mr. Frobisher are not engaged."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He's writing letters, though I think he'll have finished soon. Wherever he is, he's generally busy; but I can answer for his being glad to see you."
},
{
"from": "hum... |
34415 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's very possible. Wouldn't it be pleasanter here? he hinted, as they approached a seat which stood in the shadow of the firs."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We might disturb your father by going in."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes,"
}
] |
34415 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "So you found the lode and recorded your claims? she said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That must have been a great relief; but what will you do next?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, he exclaimed,"
}
] |
34415 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Will it be a visit, or do you think of staying there?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I can't tell, said Andrew moodily."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If I can get things straightened up, I may come back to the new mine; but I shall not know until I arr... |
34415 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, she said,"
}
] |
34415 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "So far as we were able, he said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A good business proposition; this stuff should pay for smelting. I suppose you realize that your knowledge of the locality is valuable?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's what I am comin... |
34415 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What have you told my father? she asked."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He ran past me without speaking and nearly fell into the water as he jumped on board the launch. I can't remember having seen him go so fast."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Perhaps ... |
34415 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, she said, smiling,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Wouldn't it be fairer to judge them by what they would like to do? It's often better than the other."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, no! Liking's easy; one often gets no farther. Accomplishment ... |
34415 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What a beautiful country this is!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, answered Geraldine,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's the wildness that gets hold of one. I don't know when I was so happy as I was when hauling the canoe over portages, tracking he... |
34415 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I feel as if I'd presumed too far, she said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "After all, I'm only a girl and younger than you are, which doesn't seem to justify my imposing my half-formed views on you."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't think that mat... |
34415 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Can you come down to the beach behind the sawmill dump in a few minutes?"
}
] |
34415 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I suppose you have come for the money I promised you?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That's not the only thing, though I'd be glad to have it."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I didn't want to be seen talking to you at the hotel, Turner explained."
},
... |
34415 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We ought to have a clear day or two before the first of the crowd that's following us comes in, but that's all, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We want to get our prospecting done and the best locations picked before the rush begins, and we'll start as soon a... |
34415 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I guess the Allinson outfit know their business, he observed."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It looks a curious way to pitch a claim, but if you come to figure out the thing, it gives them the best frontage they could get. This corner post's just where I'd have put i... |
34415 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What in thunder are you firing two sticks for where you weren't told?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Watkins likes a big charge, grinned his companion."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He's surely rough on giant-powder."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"v... |
34415 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There's Scaith and Nepigon Jim, Watkins exclaimed."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Brought four other fellows with them. They're a tough-looking crowd."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, Joe, he said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Pretty g... |
34415 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Some of the boys from the settlement should get through by morning, and they're a straight crowd, Joe said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We'll take the trail first thing after breakfast."
}
] |
34415 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Scaith!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Quit it! warned Joe, striking him hard; and then shouted:"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Stand off before you get hurt!"
}
] |
34415 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Where's our boss?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I can't say, Joe answered."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "One of your crowd's in the gulch, and I've another here who'll sure get damaged if he don't keep still. I don't know which is which."
},
{
... |
34415 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You want to be reasonable, argued one."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What we're out for has nothing to do with you. This isn't your claim."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We're going to watch it,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Run them off! ... |
34415 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I guess you know what this is, he remarked."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The fuse is pretty short and there's a stick of giant-powder at the end of it. You had better quit before I pitch it into the midst of you. He added sharply:"
},
{
"from": "human",
... |
34415 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What's the trouble?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Jumpers! Joe answered, and turned to his companions."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's the first of the boys up from the settlement."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We were making for your ... |
34415 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Carnally and Graham should be here before night, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "They were getting ready to come up when we left. Jake allowed he wanted to be on the ground."
}
] |
34415 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I think that is all I can tell you, Mr. Allinson, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "On the whole, I venture to believe you must find our position eminently satisfactory. The one weak point, if I may say so, is the Rain Bluff mine. You will have seen that the sh... |
34415 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I think I can say that you have no cause for anxiety."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Thank you, said Sharpe."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Your assurance is a great relief. I wonder whether I may mention that you have your father's manner; it was his h... |
34415 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "To divulge this news would bring about a dangerous crisis, he warned Andrew."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I must strongly urge you to consult with Hathersage and defer any mention of new arrangements until after the meeting."
},
{
"from": "human",
"valu... |
34415 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If that is so, it must be done by the directors, with great caution. I must beg you not to force our hands."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, replied Andrew,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have nothing more to say. I shall attend the meeting and do... |
34415 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We must understand each other, Leonard said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I hear you have found the lode. Will you tell me your plans?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Not to begin with. I want some information about yours first. No doubt Mappin cabled ... |
34415 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have another demand to make. I want your consent to a dissolution of your partnership in Allinson's."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "This is too much! he exclaimed."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Have you lost your senses?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
... |
34415 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "At the worst, he would leave the firm with a very much larger capital than when he joined it, and there are, no doubt, other firms which would welcome him."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But Leonard is not going to leave the firm! Tell me, for one thing, why you wish... |
34415 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I take it that our chairman has made an error, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Our business is to consider the report; not necessarily to adopt it."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That is correct, said Leonard, smiling."
},
{
"from": "gpt... |
34415 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I move as an amendment that the report be held over until we are supplied with more details, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What I want to know is--why there is no dividend, and when we may expect one?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The questio... |
34415 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "May I inquire whether the gentleman is a practical miner himself?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I was, when I was young. Now I keep a shop and deal with pitmen. But I came here expecting to be told about a dividend. I put three hundred pounds into the Company, becau... |
34415 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I must ask the gentleman to find a seconder for his motion,"
}
] |
34415 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I second the amendment,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A director! exclaimed somebody, and a whisper ran through the hall."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mr. Allinson--the company's agent in Canada!"
}
] |
34415 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I suppose I'm taking an unusual line in offering the gentleman who has been speaking information which the chairman has refused him, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He asked when he might expect a dividend. The answer is--never, unless a radical change is mad... |
34415 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I suggest that we hear Mr. Allinson. We will learn the truth from him!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Let him speak!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I ask your attention. First, I must show you the worst of things, as I learned it on the spot in Canada. ... |
34415 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There is every reason to believe that your directors acted, as they thought, in your interests, but they have been misled."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "So have we!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm afraid that's true, Andrew agreed."
},
{
"fr... |
34415 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "At what price? cried one."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The shares will fall to a few shillings as soon as the truth about the mine is known."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "At par, said Andrew."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You will be ret... |
34415 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If any guarantee is needed, I shall be glad to supply it, so far as my means allow. My name is Allinson, a member of the family controlling the firm which promoted this Company. I may perhaps remark without undue pride that it is a point of honor with Allinson's to keep its prom... |
34415 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now, he said with an abrupt change of tone,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have told you how we found the Graham Lode, on which three of the richest claims have been contracted to me. Let me read you the reports of different assayers to whom I submitted specimens. ... |
34415 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have pleasure in proposing Mr. Antony Wannop, who is a large shareholder and Mr. Allinson's brother-in-law. Though I may be prejudiced, I feel that I may say that your interest may safely be trusted to the Allinson family."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "After what ... |
34415 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We have something to regret, said one awkwardly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's unfortunate we didn't quite grasp your intentions. We feel that although you took us unprepared, you have treated us with exceptional fairness."
},
{
"from": "human",
"va... |
34415 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You have won! she cried."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Antony came down last night and brought us the news. Then Gertrude was over this morning and could talk of nothing else. She said you were splendid, and she got quite vexed when I told her she needn't speak as i... |
34415 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have heard the news and am very glad, she said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But it was only what I had confidently looked forward to."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then you had a narrow escape of being badly disappointed. As a matter of fact, I ow... |
34415 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's a gratification to see you following in your father's steps at last, though I must say that for a long time we doubted your ever doing so. One recognized that you were influenced by a very proper sense of your responsibility yesterday, and though I thought you were, perhaps... |
34415 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You have all heard what happened in London yesterday, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Now that we are here together and those who have joined us are our host's good friends, it seems opportune to wish a long and useful career to the Head of the House."
}
] |
34415 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's your brother's rightful place, but he was a long time claiming it; and, after all, I don't see what Leonard can have done that he should be deposed."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That lies between him and Andrew, Hilda replied."
},
{
"from": "human",
... |
34415 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If you will let your man keep the horse ready I could catch the new night train back from the junction, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That would, perhaps, suit both of us best."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "As you wish,"
},
{
"from": ... |
34415 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Bring her back with you. Then the credit of the Allinson family will be in safe hands."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'll try, Andrew promised."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I wish I felt more sure of succeeding; but I wasn't thinking of the credit of... |
34415 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Jake, are you willing to take the post of our general manager in Canada?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Under Hathersage, as boss director?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, under me. Hathersage has left the firm for good."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
... |
34415 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I think you know why I have come,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No doubt you had mining matters to arrange,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I had; they have kept me since the train came in, and I never grudged loss of time so much; but I felt that I req... |
34415 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "from which the story takes its name was a tall tree that stood in solitary splendor on a mountain top. The fame of the pine lured a young engineer through Kentucky to catch the trail, and when he finally climbed to its shelter he found not only the pine but the _foot-prints of a... |
34415 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Blight. Two impetuous young Southerners' fall under the spell of"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The Blight's"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hell fer-Sartain"
}
] |
34415 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Harvester, David Langston, is a man of the woods and fields, who draws his living from the prodigal hand of Mother Nature herself. If the book had nothing in it but the splendid figure of this man, with his sure grip on life, his superb optimism, and his almost miraculous kn... |
34415 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Angel"
}
] |
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