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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Will you have something to drink, Harrison?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I don't mind if I do," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "So you've got a new 'devil' in your office," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes. He came this afternoon. How did you hear?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "He told me." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Do you know him?" }, { "from": "human...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There is so much to learn, and I know so little," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "As soon as I get well settled, he said to himself," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I mean to get some books and study a little every day. That is the way Franklin did. I never can be an editor, that's certain, without knowing more than I do now. Before I am qualified ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Holloa! exclaimed the latter," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I beg your pardon, said Harry, jumping up in some confusion." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I was so busy thinking that I didn't see you. I hope I didn't hurt you." }, { "from": "gpt",...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Let me introduce myself, in turn, as Harry Walton, junior apprentice in the office of the 'Centreville Gazette,' sometimes profanely called 'printer's devil.'" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Good! said Oscar, laughing." }, { "from": "human", "value": "How ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What a fine library you have, Oscar!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have a few books, said Oscar." }, { "from": "human", "value": "My father filled a couple of boxes, and sent me. He has a large library." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "This s...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Have you read all these books?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Not more than half of them. I like reading better than studying, I am afraid. I am reading the Waverley novels now. Have you read any of them?" ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It must have been jolly fun, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I shouldn't mind travelling round with him myself. Can you perform any tricks?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "A few," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Show me some, that's a g...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Come in!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How are you, Fitz? said Oscar, when he saw who was his visitor." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Draw up a chair to the fire, and make yourself comfortable." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Thank you, Oscar, said Fitzgerald, leisurely drawing off a pair of ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Are you about to enter the Academy, Mr. Walton?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No; I should like to do so, but cannot." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You are one of Oscar's friends from the city, I suppose, then?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value"...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My friend, he explained," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "In what capacity?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "He is profanely termed the 'printer's devil.' Isn't that so, Harry?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I believe you are right," }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It seems easy, said Harry." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I can take more than that." }, { "from": "human", "value": "It is the easiest of the modern languages, to us at least, on account of its having so many words similar to ours." }, { "from": ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I have made a good beginning, he thought." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "After I have learned something of French, I will take up Latin, and I think Oscar will be willing to help me in that too." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You're getting on fast, Harry," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I like it, said our hero." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I am glad I decided to be a printer." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I wish I wasn't one," }, { "from": "human", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He's got good, solid ideas, said he to Mr. Anderson, when Harry was absent." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He isn't so thoughtless as most boys of his age. He looks ahead." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I think you are right in your judgment of him, sai...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I wonder if he'll notice me, thought Harry." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "At any rate, I won't be wanting in politeness." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Good-afternoon, Mr. Fletcher," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Who is that?" }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It isn't a palace, said Ferguson," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "he added cheerfully," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hannah, said Ferguson," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am glad to see you, she said, offering her hand." }, { "from": "human", "value": "My husband has spoken of you. You are quite welcome, if you can put up with humble fare." }, { "from": "gpt",...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How do you like your new business?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I like all but the name," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I wonder how the name came to be applied to a printer's apprentice any more than to any other apprentice," }, { "from": "gp...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You are getting on finely, Harry, said Oscar Vincent, a fortnight later." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You do credit to my teaching. As you have been over all the regular verbs now, I will give you a lesson in translating." }, { "from": "human", "value":...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If you'll excuse me, Oscar, he said, rising," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I will leave you now, as I have something to do this evening." }, { "from": "human", "value": "If you insist upon it, Harry, I will excuse you. Come round Friday evening." }, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The fact is, Fitz, said Oscar, argumentatively," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Really!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I daresay your own ancestors were not always patricians." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, I suppose there are exceptions, Fletcher admitted reluctantly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Your father was smart." }, { "from": "human", "value": "So is Harry Walton. I know what he is aiming at, and I predict that he will be an influential editor ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Secretary will read the minutes of the last meeting," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Are any committees prepared to report?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mr. President, said Fitzgerald Fletcher, rising to his feet," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I would like to say a word in reference to this report." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Mr. Fletcher has the floor." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Does Mr. Fletcher put his recommendation into the form of an amendment?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I do." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Be kind enough to state it, then." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Nominations for membership are now i...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Look here, Fletcher,--what makes you so confoundedly exclusive is your ideas?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Because I respect myself," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Then you have one admirer," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What do you mean ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Good-morning, Mr. Bickford." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Good-mornin', young man. You've got the advantage of me. I never saw you before as I know of." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I am Tom Carver, at your service." }, { "from": "gpt", "v...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Fitz will be perfectly raving, said Henry Fairbanks." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "There's nothing that will take down his pride so much." }, { "from": "human", "value": "He'll deny the relationship, probably," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "H...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Look there, said Tom Carver," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I! answered Fitzgerald with a scornful look," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We don't want any tinware," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Want to know! Perhaps you haven't got tin enough to pay for it. Never mind, I'll buy you for old rags, at two cents a pound." }, { "from": "human", "value": "He has you there, Harvey, said Tom Carv...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I s'pose you was too young to remember me, said Abner." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I haint seen you for ten years." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Sir, said Fitz, wrathfully," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Of course you be, said the impert...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You seem kind o' riled to find that I am your cousin, said Abner." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Now, Fitz, that's foolish. I aint rich, to be sure, but I'm respectable. I don't drink nor chew, and I've got five hundred dollars laid away in the bank." }, { "f...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What have you there, Walton?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You can read it if you like," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Humph! said Clapp;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why shouldn't he?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, they...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Come round Thursday evening, Harry, said Oscar Vincent," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Thank you, Oscar. I shall be glad to accept your escort." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I am glad to see you, Mr. Walton, said he." }, { "from": "gpt", "v...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mr. President, said Fletcher, rising," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I must ask to be excused. I have not had time to prepare a declamation." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Mr. President, said Tom Carver," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Mr. Fl...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My lord, if you ask me, if in my life-time I thought any treason, or did any crime, That should call to my cheek, as I stand alone here, The hot blush of shame, or the coldness of fear, Though I stood by the grave to receive my death-blow, Before God and the world I would answer...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You did yourself credit, old boy! said Oscar, seizing and wringing the hand of Harry, as the latter resumed his seat." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why, you ought to go on the stage!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Thank you, said Harry;" }, { "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "By Jove! old fellow, said Oscar, as they were walking home," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am beginning to be proud of you. You are doing great credit to your teacher." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Thank you, Professor, said Harry." }, { "fro...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why is it? said Oscar." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Printing is a department of literature, and the Clionian is a literary society, isn't it?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Of course it is a literary society, but a printer's devil is not literary." ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You have made excellent progress, said Oscar." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It is only two months since you began French, and now you take a long lesson in translation." }, { "from": "human", "value": "That is because I have so good a teacher. But do you...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There are some who denounce ambition as wholly bad and to be avoided by all; but I think we ought to make a distinction between true and false ambition. The desire of superiority is an honorable motive, if it leads to honorable exertion. I will mention Napoleon as an illustratio...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Standard." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It seems to me you are unusually silent, Harry, said Ferguson." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You're not in love, are you?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Not that I know of, said Harry, smiling." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It's rather too...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I don't choose to interfere with your mode of life, unwise and ruinous as I may consider it, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We are slow to forgive those whom we have injured." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Weekly Standard. It was received by Mr...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I couldn't expect it to appear so soon, he reflected." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "These city weeklies have to be printed some days in advance. It may appear yet." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I wonder if any of the readers will think it was written by a boy?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Shall I tell Ferguson?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I should like to hear him speak of it, without knowing that I was the writer," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We print in another column an essay on 'ambition' by a new contributor. It contains some good ideas, and we especially commend it to the perusal of our young ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Who is Bayard Taylor, that made such a cheap tour in Europe?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "A young journalist who had a great desire to travel. He has lately published an account of his tour. I don't buy many books, but I bought that. Would you like to read it?" }...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Franklin" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Wouldn't Clapp feel disgusted, thought Harry," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Standard," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I want to improve in writing as much as, I can. I want to be something more than a printer, sometime. I shall try to qualify myself for an editor; for an editor can exert a good deal of influence in the community. I hope you will approve my plans." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Your affectionate father," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "P. S.--If you print any more articles, we shall be interested to read them." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Poor father! he said to himself." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He has led a ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I say, Luke, said John Clapp," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I've got tired of this kind of life. Here I've been in the office a year, and I'm not a cent richer than when I entered it, besides working like a dog all the while." }, { "from": "human", "valu...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Just so, said Luke." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If a feller was to live on bread and water, and get along with one suit of clothes a year, he might save something, but that aint _my_ style." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Nor mine." }, { "from...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You are a stranger in the village?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, I was never here before. I come from New York." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Indeed! If I lived in New York I'd stay there, and not come to such a beastly place as Centreville." }...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Where are you staying, Mr. Kensington?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "At the hotel. It's a poor place. No style." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Of course not. I can't help wondering, Mr. Kensington, what can bring you to such a one-horse place as this."...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "All right! said Kensington." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Then it's agreed. Now, boys, suppose we go round to the tavern, and ratify our compact by a drink." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I say amen to that, answered Clapp," }, { "from": "gpt",...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'll go myself, she said, rising, and laying down the stocking." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Hannah's out in the back room, and won't hear. I hope it aint Mrs. Smith, come to borrow some butter. She aint returned that last half-pound she borrowed. She seems to thin...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If you've got books to sell, she said, opening the attack," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I don't see what there is to laugh at," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I was laughing at the idea of my being taken for a book-pedler." }, { "from": "gpt", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'm afraid your eyes aint very sharp, Ferdinand, she said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I feel I'm gettin' old. Why, I'm sixty-one, come October." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Are you? I shouldn't call you over fifty, from your looks, aunt. Really I ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I don't think I can come here till to-morrow, Aunt Deborah, said Ferdinand, a little later." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'll stay at the hotel to-night, and come round with my baggage in the morning." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Very well, nephew, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I wish, Ferdinand, she said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why, aunt?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "You could stay here, and manage my farm for me." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Heaven forbid! thought the young man with a shudder." }, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now, aunt, I think I will be getting back to the hotel." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You'll come over in the morning, Ferdinand, and fetch your trunk?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, aunt. Good-night." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Goo...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We must have a drink on that, said Luke." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Walk up, gentlemen." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'm agreeable," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And I, said Clapp." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Never re...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "By the way, Aunt Deborah, he said, casually," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, I didn't notice it before, Ferdinand. It's very handsome." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I should think it ought to be, Aunt Deborah," }, { "from": "gpt", "value...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He insisted, so I went, and was handsomely treated, you may depend. Mr. Clayton gave me a new suit of clothes, and the next morning he took me to Tiffany's--that's the best jeweller in New York--and bought me this diamond ring. He first offered me money, but I felt delicate abou...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Strike while the iron is hot! said he to himself;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That's a good rule; but how shall I know when it is hot? However, I must risk something, and take my chances with the old lady." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Ferdinand, wh...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mr. Anderson, said he to the editor," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am going to leave you." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Have you got another place?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No; I am going West." }, { "from": "human", "v...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How are you, Oscar? said Harry, his face lighting up with pleasure." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am glad to see you back. I would shake hands, but I am afraid you wouldn't like it," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well, we'll shake hands in spirit, th...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But he said the money was worth that to him, she said to herself in extenuation," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Who'd think a little ring like that should be worth so much? she said to herself." }, { "from": "human", "value": "It's clear waste of money. B...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Good-morning, Mr. Simpson, said the old lady, answering the knock herself;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Thank you, Miss Deborah, I can't stop this morning. I was at the post-office just now, when I saw there was a letter for you, and thought I'd bring it along." ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ferdinand! she exclaimed in surprise." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why, I thought he was in Californy by this time. How could he write from New York? I s'pose he'll explain. I hope he didn't lose the money I lent him." }, { "from": "human", "value": "De...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ferdinand going to be married! He never said a word about it when he was here. And he don't say a word about Californy. Then again he says he hasn't seen me for years. Merciful man! I see it now--the other fellow was an impostor! exclaimed Miss Deborah, jumping, to her feet in e...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I must know at once, exclaimed the disturbed spinster." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'll go over to Brandon, to the jeweller's, and inquire. If it's paste, then, Deborah Kensington, you're the biggest fool in Centreville." }, { "from": "human", "value":...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Something's on her mind, I guess," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How blind I was! groaned Deborah in secret." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I saw he didn't look like the family. What a goose I was to believe that story about his changin' the color of his hair! I was an old fool, and that's all about it." }, { "from": "huma...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mr. President, he said warmly," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I must protest against this election. Walton is not a member of the Prescott Academy, and it is unconstitutional to elect him President." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Will the gentleman poin...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mr. President, he said, when the last vote was announced," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I desire to terminate my connection with this Society." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I hope Mr. Fletcher will reconsider his determination," }, { "from": "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Gentlemen, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He wanted to be President himself--that's what's the matter, said Tom Carver in a whisper to his neighbor." }, { "from": "human", "value": "But he couldn't blame us for not wanting to have him." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yours respectfully, PAULINE CLINTON," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "They won't laugh at me now," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "How are you, Fitz?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Very well, thank you, Oscar," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Anything new with you?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Whew...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There, said Fletcher, reading his letter through with satisfaction." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I think that will do. It is high-toned and dignified, and shows that I am highly cultured and refined. I will copy it off, and mail it." }, { "from": "human", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hiram, said Tom," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'm in for it, said Hiram," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Here in this hollow tree. He'll be very apt to halt here." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "All right! Go ahead, I'll follow." }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Back into the chamber turning, all my soul within me burning, Soon again I heard a tapping, something louder than before. 'Surely,' said I, 'surely that is something at my window lattice; Let me see then what thereat is, and this mystery explore-- Let my heart be still a moment,...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I never had such fun in my life," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Nor I." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I wonder what Fitz thought." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That the wood was enchanted, probably; he left in a hurry." }, { "from":...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I wonder if it was an animal, he reflected." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It was a fearful noise. I must find some other place to practise reading in. I wouldn't go to that wood again for fifty dollars." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Five dollars a week! said Harry to himself." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Half of that ought to be enough to pay for my clothes and miscellaneous expenses, and the rest I will give to father. It will help him take care of the rest of the family." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You see, therefore, my dear son, that a new era of prosperity has opened for us. I am now relieved from the care and anxiety which for years have oppressed me, and feel sure of a comfortable support. Instead of accepting the half of your salary, I desire you, if possible, to sav...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That is to begin an account, he thought." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If I can only keep that up, I shall feel quite rich at the end of a year." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Hard at work, I see, Harry," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Of course, Harry, we shall miss you, but if Mr. Ferguson is disposed to do a little additional work, we will get along till Monday. What do you say, Mr. Ferguson?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I shall be very glad to oblige Harry, said the older workman," }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why, Harry, this is capital," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Do you really think so, Oscar?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "If I didn't think so, I wouldn't say so." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I thought you might say so out of friendship." ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now, old fellow, make yourself at home, said Oscar." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You can get yourself up for dinner. There's water and towels, and a brush." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I don't expect to look very magnificent, said Harry." }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am glad to meet you, Mr. Walton, she said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oscar has spoken of you frequently." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Do you often come to Boston, Mr. Walton?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "This is my first visit," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Then I dare say Oscar will play all sorts of tricks upon you. We had a cousin visit us from the country, and the poor fellow h...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What paper are you connected with?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The 'Centreville Gazette.'" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I have seen it. It is quite a respectable paper." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But how different, thought Harry," ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I must leave in haste, said Mr. Vincent, when dinner was over." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oscar, I take it for granted that you will take care of your friend." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Certainly, father. I shall look upon myself as his guardian...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Have you given up the printing business?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No; I only have a little vacation from it." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Ah, indeed! It's a very dirty business. I would as soon be a chimney-sweep." }, { "from": "gpt", ...