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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The first thing to settle, she said decidedly," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The first thing will be to take every stick of furniture out of the room, and have the carpet up. I know what girls are when they do jobs of this kind. You will be up to your eyes in paste, and it won't be safe to leave anything within touching distance. The furniture must be re...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My estimate, ladies! It is always more satisfactory to have an agreement beforehand." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, of all the outrageous pieces of impudence! Seven and ninepence, indeed! You must have taken leave of your senses. If you think I am going to pay you four or five shillings for carrying a few odds and ends of furniture along the passage, you are mightily mistaken! And we sh...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My, Miss Lorna, wouldn't the pattern go round? The charwoman said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I like a bit of gilding meself. It looks 'andsome. The parlourmaid said," }, { "from": "human", "value": "How will the furniture look against it, miss? which...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Eh, what? Eh, what? Something quite novel, eh! Didn't go in for things of this sort in my young days. Very smart indeed, my dear, very smart! Now I suppose you will be wanting some new fixings, (his hand came slowly out of his waistcoat pocket, and my hopes ran mountains high)."...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It gives the final touch of luxury to the whole." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It was your idea, Una. I shall always feel that it was your gift, and every pleasant hour I spend here will be another link in the chain which binds us together. This visit of yours will be memorable, in more ways than one!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Did she remind you of anyone? he asked, and when I said" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Why, she is you to the life! Appearance, manner, character--everything. It might have been meant for a portrait, he declared." },...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, I liked Nan very well, she said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Desperately in love!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am going to enjoy myself, and I don't care what happens." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I have broken a man's heart for the sake of a little fun and excitement for myself, and as a sop to my wounded vanity!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Roses!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is my fault! I know quite well it is my fault, he cried, bending over me, his face so drawn and puckered with anxiety that he looked quite old." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am a stupid, blundering fellow, and you have been an angel to be so sweet and forbearin...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am not vexed at all. On the contrary, I am enjoying myself very much. The flowers are lovely. I always--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Don't put me off, Una; don't trifle with me. It's too serious for that. You are cold to me to-night, and it has come to this, tha...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What is there to know? Only that I love you with all my heart and strength--that I have loved you ever since the moment I first saw your sweet face. You did not seem like a stranger, for I had been waiting for you all my life. Oh, Una, these few weeks have been like a dream of h...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We all love you, Una. My mother thinks you the most charming girl she has ever met. She was speaking of you to me only last night; she feels naturally a little sad, poor mother! to know that she is no longer the first consideration to her boy, but she quite understands. And the ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I know it seems presumption to ask so much. I am an insignificant nobody, and you might marry anyone you liked. In every sense of the word but one I am a wretched match for you, but love counts for something, and you will never find anyone to love you more. I'd give my very life...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mother sent me upstairs to ask if you would prefer to have your breakfast in bed. She thought you were not up." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, yes, I have been waiting. Lorna, don't look at me like that! I cried desperately." }, { "from": "human", "val...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Come down and talk to mother. She is all alone, and she is old and will understand better than I do. Oh, Una, I shall always love you! I shan't be able to help it, whatever you have done. I didn't mean to be unkind, but I am--so--miserable!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sit down, dear. Come close to the fire, your hands feel cold, she said, pushing me gently into an easy chair, and poking the coals into a blaze." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You and I want a little talk to each other, I think, and we shall be quite uninterrupted he...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I understand! There is nothing more to say, then, except that if you were so very sure of your own feelings, I cannot understand how it is that you have allowed the matter to get this length. I am thankful to know that my boy's principles are strong enough to prevent his disappo...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I will go to-day. There is a train at one o'clock. I can send a telegram from the station, and tell mother I am coming. I will go up- stairs now and pack," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "She hopes to be home by five o'clock, said the servant." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Miss Vere and Lady Mary are in the blue sitting-room. Mr Dudley has just come to call." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Don't tell me it is an outbreak of small-pox! cried Lady Mary, huddling back in her chair, and pretending to shudder at my approach." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That's the worst of staying in a doctor's house--you simply court infection! If it's anything interesti...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Thank you, everyone was quite well when I left. You need not be afraid of infection, and Lorna is nicer than ever. We have certainly not quarrelled." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Then why this thusness?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Scalps, Babs, scal...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You mean that I am worse?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "My dear young lady, you must not be despondent. Hope on, hope ever! You can do more for yourself than any doctor. These things take time. One never knows when the turn may come," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What is it, darling?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The doctor! I have been longing to see him; I thought I was better, that he would be pleased with my progress, but it's no use--I can see it is no use! He has no hope. I shall be like this all my life. Babs, _think_...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You are more like a flower than ever, Una! It _is_ nice to see you again!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I sent for you to come to see me, Rachel, because I wanted particularly to ask you a question. I have been ill nearly a year now, and I get no better. I am beginning to fear I shall never get better, but have to be like this all my life. I have lain here with that thought to kee...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I? Oh, you are mistaken--quite, quite mistaken. I have the most happy home. Everyone is good and kind to me; I have no troubles, except seeing dear father's sufferings; and so many blessings--so much to be thankful for!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You mean your en...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You are talking nonsense, Vere! You don't know Mr Dudley as Rachel does. You don't understand his character." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, said Rachel proudly," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Loving him! Not his loving you! Rachel, are you sure?" ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ah, Rachel, she said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I see how foolish I was to expect you to answer my question in a few short words. We speak different languages, you and I, and I can't even understand your meaning. I wish I could, Rachel--I wish I could! The old l...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I think the secret lies in the way we look at life--whether we want our own way, or are content to accept what God sends. If we love and trust Him, we know that what He chooses must be best, and with that knowledge comes rest, and the end of the struggle--" }, { "from": ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If you please, marm, a messenger has come to request Miss Greaves to return home at once. Mr Greaves has had a sudden stroke--" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The motor-car! It shall come round at once, and you will be home in five minutes. I'll go round to the stables!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Will wished it. He thought he could help me to cheer mother, but she won't hear of it for the next twelve months at least, and, of course, I must do as she prefers. We have waited so long that another year cannot make much difference." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My dear, it was awful after you left--positively awful! Lorna said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Wallace went about looking like a ghost, and mother cried, and father was worried to death. Wallace declared at first that he would go abroad, but father told him that ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, Vere! I cried;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You raised your head, Vere! Oh, ever so high you raised it! You were watching us, and forgot all about yourself, and it didn't hurt you a bit--you smiled all the time. Try again if you don't believe me--try, darling. You can do it, if you like!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am going to get well, Babs, but I must never forget this experience! As long as I live I shall keep this couch in my bedroom, and when I have been selfish and worldly I shall lay down straight on my back as I have done all these months and stay there for an hour or two, just t...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There sat Jim like a monument of propriety, she said, dimpling with amusement at the remembrance," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Carstairs is a splendid fellow. I admire him immensely, and there is no doubt about his feelings. He has adored your sister for years, but-- she never appeared to me to appreciate his devotion!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "By her own account she has never thought o...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, I mean to be happy! I have had so much anxiety and trouble this last year that I'm just bubbling over with pent-up spirits. This engagement has put the finishing touch to my self-control, and I must do something at once to let off steam. Did you hear me ask Rachel to go over...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Perhaps I may stroll down to the Lodge to meet you on your return!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It's gone, sir! The brake has gone. I can't hold her!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Gone? Broken? Are you sure--perfectly sure?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Quite sure, sir. What shall I do? Run through the village and chance the river, or turn up th...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We will not risk other lives besides our own. If that is the choice, run her up the bank, Johnson!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Right, sir!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Una, Una!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Una!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There is something I have to say, and the sooner it is said the better for both of us, he began." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I owe you an explanation for what occurred--that day. I should like you to understand that I hardly knew what I was about. It seemed as if ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And what will--you do, Una?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, I shall do nothing. I shall stay at home--like the little pig, I said, trying to laugh, and succeeding very badly." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I shall help Vere with her marriage preparat...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, it is hard that I should have brought this upon you! I who would give my right hand to ensure your happiness. Have I spoilt your life, Una? Will you think hardly of me some day, and wish that we had never met?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, Will, I said;" }...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Not e'en the dearest heart and next our own, Knows half the reason why we smile or sigh!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Christian Year. A girl's parents think:" }, { "from": "human", "value": "She has a comfortable home, and nice food and clothes, and we ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Dearest Una,--I am so glad to hear you are keeping well, and feeling happier about your sister's health. It is very nice to know that dear Mrs Sackville is so much stronger this winter, and that your father is full of health and vigour. So you are expecting a visit from your sol...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am quite well again, she wrote," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Una, it is all over! Rachel has set me free! It is her own doing, entirely her own wish. I had no idea of it until Christmas Eve, when she sent me a letter telling me that she was going to South Africa with her mother, and could not continue our engagement. She asked me not to c...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Don't try to dissuade me. You know I am not given to rash decisions, and I have thought over nothing else than this step for some weeks past. I know I am right, and in the future you will see it too, however strangely it strikes you now. It would perhaps be better if you did not...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "She has never loved me! he declared." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "She had, as she says, an affection for me as she might have had for a friend, a brother--an affection such as I had for her, but she does not know--we neither of us knew the meaning of--love!" }, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Too good to be true. She has filled so large a place in my life. I have such a strong admiration for her that it would have been a real pain to have parted coldly. But to keep her as my friend, to know that her affection is unchanged, and yet to be free to seek my own happiness ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Nothing will give me greater pleasure than to hear that Will is happily married and settled down. He has been too long alone, and would so thoroughly appreciate a home of his own. I have done him a great injustice by condemning him to so many lonely years, but our engagement nee...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, Rachel! I cried." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I know, I know! You can't deceive me, dear. You have done this for our sakes, not your own. Oh, I hoped you had been too much engrossed to notice what happened that day. When you said nothing about it, I was so reli...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I feel such a wretch to take my happiness at the expense of yours. You are an angel, Rachel, to be so sweet and forgiving. I should be a fury of rage and jealousy if I were in your place, but you give it all up without a murmur." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Rachel, I cried," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I know now why this has happened! I have been wondering how anyone so good and unselfish as you could be allowed to have such a trouble as this, and how it could be for the best that you are passed over for a creature l...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Thank heaven, I shall have you left, Babs! It will be a long time before I can spare you to another man." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Una! he cried." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Where do we want to come down, Jack?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Something has happened down at Vantine's," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Pretty well," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You were scared too, what's the use of denying it?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "So it's as bad as that, is it!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Shylock, do you hear? will you lend the money?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We don't take the last launch back to ship," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A Message to Garcia. I thought so little of it that we ran it in the Magazine without a heading. The edition went out, and soon orders began to come for extra copies of the March" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Philistine," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It's the stuff about Garcia," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Give price on one hundred thousand Rowan article in pamphlet form--Empire State Express advertisement on back--also how soon can ship." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Message to Garcia," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Message to Garcia." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A Message to Garcia" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There is a fellow by the name of Rowan will find Garcia for you, if anybody can." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "took the letter, sealed it up in an oilskin pouch, strapped it over his heart, in four days landed by night off the coast of Cuba from an open boat, disapp...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Please look in the encyclopedia and make a brief memorandum for me concerning the life of Correggio." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, sir," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "that Correggio is indexed under the C's, not in the K's, but you will smile very sweetly and say," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Never mind," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You see that bookkeeper," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes; what about him?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well, he's a fine accountant, but if I'd send him up-town on an errand, he might accomplish the errand all right, and on the other hand, might st...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Take it yourself!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "is away, as well as when he is at home. And the man who, when given a letter for Garcia, quietly takes the missive, without asking any idiotic questions, and with no lurking intention of chucking it into the nearest sewer, or of doing aught else but deliver it, never gets" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I do not know," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I observe that your hand trembles a little." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Different men are of different opinions; some like apples, some like inions, sang Patty, as she swayed herself idly back and forth in the veranda swing;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "she went on," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I don't care a snipjack. ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I can't see it, Patty, he would say;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The Pebbles, as they called their seashore home, and she silently rebelled when she thought of" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Camilla," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It almost seems as if you might take your motor-car, Patty," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I thought so, too, at first; but father says not. You see, not all mountain roads are modern and well-kept, and, of course, we'll be moving on, now and then, and Camilla IS a n...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hello," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I say, began young Pennington, conversationally," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, chimed in Lora Sayre," }, { "from": "human", "value": "But suppose I want to go, said Patty, bravely trying to treat the subject lightly;" }, { "from": "gpt", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'm awfully sorry about it," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "There's nothing to be sorry about, Madame Nan, she cried, gaily;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, you WILL!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And the Country Club summer dance! said ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I don't want to stay at this place, I don't like it any more! I am going to the mountains, Where I've never been before. I shall tramp the mountain pathways, I shall climb the mountain's peak; I don't want to stay in this place, So I'll go away next week!" }, { "from": "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You people, began Patty, after Nan had left them," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I know it, said Beatrice," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Not at all, Bee. She has stayed here three months to please me, and turn about is fair play." }, { "from": ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "To go away from all this, she thought," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Live in a trunk, I s'pose, she went on to herself;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, Patricia Fairfield! she exclaimed to her own reflection." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You ought to be ashamed of yourself! YOU, who are supposed to be of amiable disposition, YOU whom people call 'Sunshine,' because of your good nature, YOU who have every joy...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That's better! she said, wagging her head at the pretty, smiling face." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Now, never again, Patty Fairfield, let me see you looking mopy or peevish about anything! Mind, not about anything at all! You have enough blessings and pleasures to...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now, mind you, Patricia, not a whimper out of you to-morrow! Not a shadow of a shade of disappointment on your fair young brow? Only happy smiles and pleasant words, and just MAKE yourself enjoy the prospect of those poky, gloomy, horrid old mountains!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why, Mona, you look a little,--er,--hasty!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes,--yes,--and well I may! she panted." }, { "from": "human", "value": "What DO you think, Patty? Oh, Mr. Fairfield, DO say yes! Coax him to, won't you, Mrs. Fairfield! Oh, I can't...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mona Galbraith, said Patty, laughing," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, don't say that, Patty! exclaimed Mona, laughing herself." }, { "from": "human", "value": "ANYTHING but that! It must be convincing,--it must,--it MUST!" }, { "from": "gpt", ...