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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Wal, how be ye Randy? I hear ye're havin' a tremenjous lot er gaowns made ter take ter Boston with ye." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is true that mother is having Janie Clifton make some things for me," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Wal, I live on the other side er the place, the woman continued," }, { "from": "human", "value": "No, that isn't true," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Gitting uppish 'fore she gits ter Boston. Do'no what she'll be when she's stayed there a spell." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It'll be stupid here without you, Randy, said Dot Marvin," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I don't know but that we shall all go...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I ought not to think that there could be anything which is not charming where Miss Dayton is, and I believe I'm silly to let Dot's remarks make me the least bit uneasy. I'll start intending to like every girl I meet, and who knows? Perhaps I shall," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "O Randy, my Randy, I can't let you go!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'm not going to stay always, dear. Look up, Prue, while I tell you. I'll write you nice long letters, and you shall write to me, and I'll send you something 'way from Boston. Won't that be nice? C...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The planning has been so delightful, and I have been anticipating so much that I have looked forward to this morning when I should start, but now the time has come I almost wish I'd never said I'd go." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I want ye should go, though; it's a great chance fer ye, and don't forget ter write, Randy. I couldn't stand that," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, I could not forget you all," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ah, don't say a word, Randy, I could well afford it, an' I put it there jest fer a little surprise." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Father would wish me to be brave, and mother would not like to see me crying." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Going away, going away," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Poy, coiks, tawts an' sanditches," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What a horrid man," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "For my Randy." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Dear little Prue, murmured Randy," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Traveling alone, dear?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I thought so, said the old lady," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, yes, said Randy," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Ah, that is it, said the sweet old voice." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, the homesickness will wear off after a time, a...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Boston! Boston!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Do you see your friends?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "O Randy dear, you did come didn't you?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am so glad to see you, Mrs. Seymour, are you acquainted with this dear friend of mine? I thought you were conversing when you stepped upon the platform." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We have had no introduction, said the old lady, smiling," }, { "from": "h...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, no, said Helen," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My dear, I am sure that you are Randy, and I am going to tell you that I am Helen's aunt, and that I think I have been as eager to have you with us as Helen has been." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It is nice to have you so glad to see me, will you let me love you wh...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I waived the ceremony of an introduction, said the elder woman with a smile," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "While I thought Randy was just behind me waiting until her belongings were safely housed," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How lovely she is," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "How handsome your dear old aunt is, said Randy to Helen, as they walked along the upper hall." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Her hair is like the frost, and her eyes just twinkle, twinkle, like stars whe...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Grimm's Tales" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You were lovely then, but I think you are grander now," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "To think that I shall have just time to make myself presentable, and at home I should have been awake long ago, and by this time have dressed Prue and myself and have eaten breakfast. Whatever made me sleep so soundly?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The school will not open until next week, said Helen," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Of course I shall call upon her, she was saying." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I wonder that you ask such a question. She is Miss Dayton's friend, and that, in itself, is enough to make me wish to go. Miss Dayton is all that is lovely and I would do much to please h...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Isn't Randy a queer name, Nina? No name in particular is it?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Very likely her name is Miranda, and Randy is just a cute little pet name, said Nina." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Some people might question if Polly was much...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am so glad that you have come, because you see I have left all my friends at home, there was a little tremor in her voice," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You have gained three friends to-day, said Nina," }, { "from": "human", "value": "We could call for...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I think she is one of the sweetest girls that I know, and Polly, did she seem _very_ countrified to you?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Now, Nina," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Who knew that she was a regular beauty, and who for a moment supposed that ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Good-bye Tabby, she called," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Just starting for school Prue? said she," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well, it takes me longer to get started than when Randy was here, said Prue." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, I've got my Randy's letter buttoned inside my jacket, said Prue," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I used to like school, but tisn't any fun 't all without my Randy." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What's the matter, Prue, said Hi," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I want yer ter play squat tag with us." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I don't want to play, said Prue," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I want my Randy." }, { "from": "hu...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If we stay with Randy, we won't have ter go ter school, said Hi," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And see my Randy every day, said Prue," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Randy looked nice in anything, said Hi," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I li...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Does it take long to get to Boston?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, I guess not, said Hi," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Don't you know the way?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, yes, I know the way to the deepot, said Hi," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You're the nicest girl I know Prue; will ye give me some er your lunch, if I'll give you half er my apple?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, yes, assented Prue," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'm getting hungry too. Here, let's divide this gingerbread ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We've been walking so long, we must be most to the deepot, Hi," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I guess so, the small boy answered," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, you're taking care of me real good, Prue answered sweetly," }, { "from": "gpt",...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I seen 'em a-settin' on a stump back er the school, volunteered one small boy," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Want me ter go'n look for 'em?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Possibly they have gone home," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ill? Why no, indeed! Why, what is it you say, Miss Gilman? That Prue has not been at school since the morning recess?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now it's no use gettin' frightened. She's likely enough in someone's house as safe as can be, and what we've got ter do is ter harness up an' call at the houses where Prue is acquainted an' she'll be with us before dark, I'll warrant ye." }, { "from": "gpt", "value":...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, Hi, I've _got_ to sit down again, I'm so tired, and I'm cold, too," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "This'll make ye warm, Prue, I'm a big boy so I don't mind." }, { "from": "human", "value": "We might lay down on these leaves jest a few minutes 'til we'...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I shouldn't like to have the children meet him," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Be still! commanded his companion," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Ef they're not ter be faound alive, then I hope it'll not be the Square that finds 'em." }, { "from"...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, of all the pretty sights! he ejaculated." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Safe an' saound an' warm I'll bet ye, but haow on airth come they over here?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How did ye git lost?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We wasn't lost, answered Prue," }, { "from": "human", "value": "How could we be lost when we knew where we was going? We was going to Boston to my Randy, and we're 'most to the cars, but we're just resti...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Alive or,--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I want some supper," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh Prue, don't ye leave us again," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But I was going to get my Randy and bring her home to you, said Prue," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My! Did you see her wink? Is she alive?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Your loving sister, RANDY." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yor little PRUE." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What _will_ Prue do next, I wonder?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "The idea of thinking that because those little cats could not open their eyes, it would be a fine idea to 'pick' them open!" }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It blows a gale, said Aunt Marcia, at the breakfast table." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Really, Helen, if it is such a hurricane as this, I would not advise you to go this afternoon." }, { "from": "human", "value": "There are always concerts which are w...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "They are not to enjoy the concert," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "A penny for what is in your mind, Randy," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I was just wondering how many of the people whom I see on foot and in carriages are going to the concert," }, {...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, I never heard anything like that! Will they play again?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Was not that a wonderful bit of music?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, yes, said Randy," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I know her very well, Helen replied," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Tell her, said Randy, eagerly," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A cordial welcome after the concert to Miss Helen Dayton and her friend." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And so you became tired," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I did not know that any living being could sing as you sang this afternoon, she said," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Not care for your flower? I want it more than all of these," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "O! Helen, she continued." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I received my first inspiration from the birds and the brook at home, when as a little country girl I listened to their voices, and longed to make my tones as pure as theirs. This young girl has brought it all b...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I shall never forget you," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I shall keep your rose in memory of you." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And oh, I wish that you had been there to see and hear it all." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why, Randy, child! exclaimed Aunt Marcia laughing," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I thought it rather cold this afternoon, and stayed cosily at home instead of...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It was all so charming that I suppose I stared; at least Polly Lawrence said that I did." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I saw Polly with you just as we were leaving the hall, said Helen," }, { "from": "human", "value": "She said, 'Why Randy Weston, you ar...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Nasty old wind! I hate ye and ye know it. 'F I'd a been 'lowed ter stay home an' whittle like I wanted ter, I wouldn't a lost my cap. I scratched my fingers gittin' it, an' _that_ makes me mad." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hello, Hi, said Jack." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why, look here little feller," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well I'd just like to try it and see how it would seem. I could write letters home to the girls as Randy does, and I think that would be just grand." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I know that she will be homesick before she's been away a week, she said to her husband...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I do hope she's well, and I must say I wish I'd never consented when she begged to go," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, she's all right. If she was sick they'd let us know. Most likely she's had 'nough of it, and hates ter say so." }, { "from": "human", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I guess my Randy knows 'most everything now, Prue was saying." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "She has such long lessons, and studies late, and she's seen the big stores, and she's been to a concert full of fiddles where she saw a great big Primmy Dommy!" }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Want ter know what I done Saturday?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "When I put him on the bed an' held his head over the hole in the tick, you'd oughter seen his tail switch! The mouse was a runnin' 'round in the cage, an' Tom dove into the slit a scatterin' the straw all over the bed. My! Didn't it fly?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value":...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It's a cauld day, lass," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Will it be too cauld to venture out an' meet the music maester?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It's worth yer while, mon, ye ne'er heard sae blithe a voice as Janie's." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What are some of your songs, child?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'll sing, 'Comin' thro' the rye,' if it please you," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Very well," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Come nearer, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Willingly," }, { "from": "human", "value": "If a body meet a body Comin' frae the town If a body kiss a body Need a body frown." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Child, you have the voice of an...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Weel, Janie, lass, and did the music maester think ye could sing?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There's' in a' the world nae ane like our Sandy." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I've often thought the same mysel," }, { "from": "human", "value": "And between ye, ye mean tae spoil me completely, wi' yer flattery that I own is sweet tae hear." }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'll put fresh logs on the fire, said Sandy," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "muttered the man." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'd like ter know if it ain't er comin' ter-night." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There she is naow," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The cauld increases, said Sandy." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'll stir the fire an' throw on anither log." }, { "from": "human", "value": "It's snawin'," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ain't ye glad ye're na scurryin' after the sheep at hame, ye big auld dear?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ah, Tam, Tam, she cried with a laugh," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Hark, Sandy! Did some one knock?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Nae ane's aboot this night--Ay, Margaret, ye're right as usual, there's a faint sound, an' I'll be seein',--" }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "For I shall take ye hame, lass, I know that's where ye wad be, and warm in the bear skin I'll wrap ye, an' in the sleigh 'twill be nae time before we'll be at ye're door." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I could not stay away another day. The road from the depot was so...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This package was delayed in arrivin'," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, I never, never will go away to school again." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You never shall, said Mrs. Small," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I said nothing, but this morning I ran away to the depot and when I had bought my ticket and was in the cars riding toward home I was happier than I had been for weeks. But the train was late and it was very dark when I left the cars at the Centre and started to walk home." },...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "She always means what she says, said Nina Irwin." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I value a compliment which Randy gives, for she never flatters. If she says a pleasant word, it comes straight from her heart, and her heart is warm and loving." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What shall you wear, Nina," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Whatever mama suggests," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Because, continued Polly," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I think we ought to dress, well--in a very showy manner, for Miss Dayto...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yor litle PRUE." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The cunning little thing, said Nina," }, { "from": "human", "value": "That is what I meant when I said one day to you, Nina that it was hard, and at the same time delightful to be here. I love father, mother ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Then I remember that father and mother wish me to excel in my studies, and I crowd back the tears, and by reminding myself that with the spring I shall return, I try to be cheerful." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "O Randy! The longer I know you, the more truly I love ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If they were all here to-night,--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, this will never do," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How _could_ I forget them, the first pretty slippers which I ever owned?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Like Cinderella's," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, how kind you are to give this lovely party for me, just me. I feel like Cinderella, only, she added laughing," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am sure that I shall not lose my crystal slipper when to-night the clock strikes twelve." }, { "from": "human", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Miss Randy," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "O Jotham, truly you cannot guess how glad I am to see you." }, { "from": "human", "value": "And do you think I can tell you with what pleasure I have looked forward to this evening?" }, { "from": "gpt", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It seems to me that Jotham looks like a prince to-night." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He has a charming manner, said Miss Dayton," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How sweet Randy Weston looks in her white gown and ribbons! One would know that she would never wear a gaudy dress." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Every one admires Randy. I do believe that they would think she looked sweet in white calico." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Do you remember a certain girl, Miss Dayton, he asked," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Pardon me, the girl could not truly have been bored, Miss Dayton replied," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Is that really true?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Were you at the last symphony?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes,--no,--that is I think I was, but I can't quite remember," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, you _would_ remember if you were really there, persisted Peggy," }, { "from": "gpt", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I saw you talking with Cyril Langdon just before we left the drawing-room. He is ill at ease, because Peggy is teasing him, but when he chooses to talk he is very interesting. Do make Peggy stop, she is spoiling his evening. Ask him,--oh ask him about the Tech. athletics or anyt...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It would never do to ask her why she isn't enjoying my party, she said to herself," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What has been my greatest pleasure in life?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have always enjoyed social pleasures, she continued," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Pardon me, if I venture to say that that is the charm which has preserved your beauty," } ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And, in return let me say, that the young man who thinks it worth while to pay a graceful compliment to one who is quite old enough to be his grandmother, proves himself to be a worthy descendant of his talented father, a perfect gentleman of the old school, replied Aunt Marcia;...