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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yours is fully as good as this, Harry," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The editor may not think so." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Then he ought to." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "This story is by one of his regular contributors, Kenella Kent...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We'll wait till she is through," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Good-morning, Mr. Houghton," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Good-morning. Take a seat, please, said the editor, pleasantly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Are you one of our contr...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ha! ha!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "the night is well fitted to my purpose. Ere it passes, Isabella Gomez shall be mine." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I think that will do, said Mr. Houghton, hastily." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What can I do for you, young gentlemen?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Are you the editor of the 'Standard'?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I am. Do you wish to subscribe?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have already written something for y...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, Mr. Walton, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "May I ask if the plot is original?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "It is so far as I know, sir. I don't think I ever read anything like it." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Of course the...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mr. Lynn, I congratulate you," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I can't tell you how glad I feel, Oscar," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Let me suggest that you owe me a commission for impressing upon the editor the propriety of paying you." }, { "f...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Of course you must dance, Harry, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You don't want to be a wall-flower." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I may have to be, said Harry." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I shall know none of the young ladies ex...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Good-evening, Miss Vincent," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Good-evening, Mr. Fletcher." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I am very glad you have favored the party with your presence." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Thank you, Mr. Fletcher. Don't...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I was rather surprised to see Walton here," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, I met him with Oscar." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Then why were you surprised?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Because his social position does not entitle him ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Poor Fitz! said Oscar, when on their way home Maud gave an account of their conversation," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am afraid he will murder the tin-pedler some time, to get rid of such an odious relationship." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Stand...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I. B. FITCH & Co." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Gazette. He felt on the high road to success. Seeing that his young compositor was meeting with success and appreciation abroad, Mr. Anderson called upon him more frequently to write paragraphs for the" }, { "f...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Are you going to send out the money, Mr. Anderson?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Not I. Now that Walton has got well learnt, I don't need another workman. I shall respectfully decline his offer." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Here's a letter for you, W...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There is a chance for a first-class investment, Harry," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Do you want to join me in it?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "No, I would rather pay the money to have 'your friend' keep away." }, { "from": "gpt", "value"...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This is my birthday, Mr. Ferguson," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Is it? asked Ferguson, looking up from his case with interest." }, { "from": "human", "value": "How venerable are you, may I ask?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I don't feel ver...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How do you feel this morning, Mr. Anderson?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I feel weak and languid, and indisposed to exertion of any kind." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You need some change." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That is precisely...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It never occurred to me before, but I really think you could, said the editor," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Perhaps Ferguson would take me in?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I should be glad to do so; but I don't know that my humble fare would be good...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Gazette" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "For the first time since our connection with the 'Gazette,' we purpose taking a brief respite from our duties. The state of our health renders a vacation desirable, and an opportune invitation from a brother at the West has been...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I would like to see the editor," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am the editor," }, { "from": "human", "value": "You are the youngest-looking editor I have met, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Have you filled the office long?" }, {...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am afraid you are working too hard, Harry, said Ferguson." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You are doing Mr. Anderson's work better than he ever did it, and your own too." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I enjoy it, said Harry." }, { "from": "gpt"...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Is that you, Clapp? asked Ferguson." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Where did you come from?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "From St. Louis." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Then you didn't feel inclined to stay there?" }, { "from": "hum...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How was it with you, Luke? asked Harry." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Do you like the West no better than Clapp?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "You don't catch me out there again, said Luke." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It isn't what it's...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hard work doesn't suit your constitution, does it?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I can work as well as anybody, said Luke;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "You were lucky enough to have your fare paid to the West for you." }, { "from": "gpt", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Where's Mr. Anderson?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He's been in Michigan for a couple of months." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You don't say so! Why, who runs the paper?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ferguson and I," }, { "from":...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What are you going to do about it?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I should like to buy the paper, but I don't see how I can. Mr. Anderson wants two thousand dollars cash." }, { "from": "human", "value": "How much have you got?" }, { "from": "gpt",...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Excuse our calling you in, Squire Trevor, said Ferguson," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Do you want my advice? he said, looking up from the perusal." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Buy the paper. It is worth what Anderson asks for it." }, { "from...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Bound to Rise." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Take a seat, professor, said Harry, cordially." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I am delighted to see you." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "How you have grown, Harry! said the professor." }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Did you write this article? he asked, after a pause, pointing to the leader in the last issue of the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Gazette." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, sir." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Then, by Jove, you can write...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What is the matter Harry? You look pale," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have a bad headache, and am feeling out of sorts." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I don't wonder at it. You are working too hard." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I don't...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Gazette," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am cramming for the summer examinations and hot work I find it, I can tell you. This summer I am going to Niagara, and shall return by way of the St. Lawrence and Montreal, seeing the Thousand Islands, the rapids, and so on. I may send you a letter or two for the 'Gazette,' if...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It will make me neither worse nor better, he reflected." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The time will come, I hope, when I shall have risen high enough to be wholly indifferent to such ill-natured sneers." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A pretty good year's work, Harry," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, said Harry;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Gazette, but of course had long relinquished the task of a compositor into his brother's hands. He had no foolish ideas about this work being beneath him; but he felt that he could employ his time more profitably in other ways. Under his judicious management, the" }, { "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mr. Walton," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That is my name. Won't you take a seat?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Can I do anything for you?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I see you don't know me," }, { "from": "human", "value": ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You have prospered wonderfully," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, said Harry, smiling." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I was a printer's devil when you knew me; but I never meant to stay in that position. I have risen from the ranks." }, { "fro...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Very well, then. There is no more to be said." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Very well, Jane," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Plant-Lore Legends and Lyrics." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No, said Nicholas;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Bruce of the Circle A," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I--Conquered," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "WORK AMONG THE HEATHEN" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "So she was his nephew an' only heir," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Niece; _niece!_ Not nephew!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Have it your way, Two-Bits said in his high voice, swallowing so his immense Adam's apple shot up half the extraordinary length of his lean throat toward his pointed chin, and slipped back again with a jerk."...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Let the thievin' go merrily on, I expect," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I expect you'd like to be foreman, wouldn't you, Dad? Two-Bits asked innocently, whereupon Hepburn certified the accuracy of that surmisal by moving uneasily." }, { "from": "human", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Her name's Jane, ain't it? Two-Bits was an ardent conversationalist." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Jane Hunter! I knowed a school marm named Hunter onct. She was worse'n thunder for sourin' milk." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'll bet--" }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Not exactly helpless, anyhow," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "For a beginning, this is quite remarkable!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, I didn't know I was overlooking any one! I suppose you men belong here, on the ranch, and it's likely you've been waiting for the new owner to come. Well, here I am! I'm Jane Hunter and I want to know who you are. Now what is your name?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My name is Hepburn, ma'am, Dad said and shook hands heavily." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I hope you like this place." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I know I shall, Mr. Hepburn. And your name?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That's Jimmy Ol...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'm Mister Beal," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Don't you believe that! laughed Hepburn." }, { "from": "human", "value": "That's Two-Bits. He ain't entitled to any frills." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Two-Bits it is! the girl cried, scanning...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It won't take long for things to happen. You can bank on that, Jimmy Oliver declared." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "She ain't our kind of a woman an' the good Lord alone knows what notions she'll have, but she'll get busy! She's that kind." }, { "from": "hum...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mr. Alward left word that any one of you four men would be competent and I'm going to choose one of you by chance: Understand, this is no guarantee to keep whoever is chosen on the job for any length of time, but I don't care to take the responsibility of handling the men myself...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am going to need all your help and all the suggestions that you can give me, --with a slight gesture to include the four, though she still looked straight at the tall Westerner,--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That's fair enough," }, { "from": "human", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now, draw! she directed, with a smile, holding them toward Curtis." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The lucky straw will be the shortest." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now it is your turn ... the last straw," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Thank you, ma'am, he replied in an even, matter-of-fact voice, though that annoying smile was still in his eyes," }, { "from": "human", "value": "You don't care to draw?" }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Very well, we will see who did win." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Mr. Hepburn's is the shortest!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "You would have drawn well," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "So it seems, ma'am," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But he looks as though he might take a ... long chance...." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You sent for me?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I had planned on talking to Mr. Hepburn this evening, she said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I want to get all the information and all the advice I can from the start. Carlotta said he had gone away, so, in spite of the fact that you wouldn't gamble with me this af...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Here you are, she said as she returned, holding one of the two glasses toward Beck, who rose to accept it." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "My uncle left a very small stock of drinks, but as soon as I know what I'm about I'll try to remedy that defect in an otherwise s...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I take it, ma'am, that you'll want this liquor to go where it'll do your future the most good?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You mean?..." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Just about what I said: that you'd like to have this brace of drinks do your future some good?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Why, yes, that was my intention. Why?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yo...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I don't understand that." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'm glad you didn't show how mad it made you," }, { "from": "human", "value": "But why.... What made you do it?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You said, you know, that you wanted that liq...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I understand your meaning, she said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We don't, ma'am. Most of us drink our share. I do." }, { "from": "human", "value": "But just now you threw yours away." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You see, I was bound to t...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My advice, ma'am!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "As long as I can remember, women about me have been drinking. Ever since I grew up I've been drinking. I've never taken too much; I've never needed it; I've done it because ... because it was being done." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You see, it's the same rule workin' backwards out here." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Did it ever occur to you that there might be people who gave little attention to what others think of them?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Sure thing! There are lots ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You see, you've got a big chance here. You've got a chance to be somebody. This is one of the biggest outfits in this state. All this country out here has been this outfit's range for years. You ain't got a neighbor in miles because you amount to so much. Away down Coyote Creek,...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Men will like you if you do things, ma'am.... Perhaps you'll like yourself better, too." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That's all very interesting, but what you said about my needing my brains and my grit is of greater interest. Do you mean that it's just a big job naturally or that there are complications?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Both." }, { "from": "human", "valu...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Do you smoke?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes; do you?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You don't approve of this, either?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why, ma'am, I like to smoke." }, { "from": "human", "value": "But you stare at me as though I were committing a crime." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You see, you're the first g...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I guess you and I don't understand each other very well, and, if we don't, it ain't any use in our talking further. As for advisin' you about your business...." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "After all, it don't make so much difference what other folks think of us. It...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I think that you think a lot of yourself, ma'am. That's more 'n most folks can say." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'm glad to have your opinion on the proportions of my job, she said briefly," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'm complimented," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now about the men, Miss Hunter," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How many will you need?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Not many yet. Four besides myself. There's seven here now. That is, there'll be six, because one is pullin' out this mornin' of his own accord. We'll need more when the round-up starts, but until then--about June...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I've come for my time, ma'am," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Won't you come in? Maybe you're not going to go just yet." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I don't know as I can stay, ma'am. I told your foreman a little while ago that I'd be going. Somebody's...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Won't you, please?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'll stay." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'm so glad! she cried." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And you're glad, aren't you, Mr. Hepburn?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Bet your life!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Now we can start doing business. Tom, Miss Hunter wants a horse, says she can ride and wants the best we've got, right off, to-day. There's that bunch that's been ranging in Little Pi隳n all winter. Guess we'd better bring...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I don't want us to have any misunderstandin', Tom. This mornin' I figured you wanted to move and I don't want any man in the outfit who'd rather be somewhere else, so long as I'm runnin' it. He shifted his weight in the saddle and glanced at Beck, who rode looking straight ahead...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Just foller on down and swing to the left. Keep right on. You'll pass the state boundry," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Goin' some place?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Utah. He was askin' the way." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Goin' far?" ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "In the second place, I don't care much about drawing the best job in the country like I'd draw a prize cake at a church social." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You passed it up, though. Now, why don't you pass up worryin' about my job?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You know, somebody's got to," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What's meant by that, Beck?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I don't want trouble, but if I've got to take trouble on, I'll do it on the run; you can tie to that! I don't like you, Hepburn; I don't trust you. Your way ain't my way--No, no, you listen to _me!_ as the other attempted to interrupt." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I guess we understand each other. Maybe you can get me fired. If so, that's satisfactory to me. So long as I'm here and working for you, I'll be the best hand you've got. If you're lookin' for good hands I'll satisfy you. If you ain't ... we may not get along so well." }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hello, Larry! exclaimed Hepburn." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What brings you out?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Nothin' much, judgin' by his conversation," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Visitor?" }, { "from": "human", "value"...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There he is now; see?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And so this is yours! the man laughed." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yours and your business!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "My business, Dick! For the first time I feel as though I had a real object in living." }, { "from": "gpt", "value":...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "When I left New York I was desperate. I came here to take something tangible that was mine and go back with it and now I've found out that the thing I want is nothing that I can see or touch, that I can't take it away with me. Not for a long time, anyhow. It isn't waiting ready-...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now I'm finished, absolutely, with the rot I've called life!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You amuse as much as you thrill me," }, { "from": "human", "value": "That's a splendid way to help a fellow: to laugh at the first effort I make to justify my exis...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You've always seemed to be a peculiarly material-minded girl and I had to play on that. But when I've talked ease and comfort and luxury to you, you know that I've meant more than just those things. It's been love, Jane ... love in every syllable." }, { "from": "gpt", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If it had been love, the real thing, that you felt, you'd have overwhelmed me with it, you would not have allowed another consideration to enter, you'd have swept me off my feet with making me understand that it was love. You wouldn't have talked places and motors, luxury and ai...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And there's another consideration: If this thing I have wanted never does come I have the opportunity of gaining all that you say you could give me by my own efforts: the comforts, the material things. I wouldn't be trading myself for them, you see; I'll be winning them with my ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "When men talk about you in town they grin. The bartender grinned when he told me about you. The banker grinned. The man who drove me out thought it was a fine joke! These men know; they're not skeptical because they know you or your past, but they know the job and that you're a ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You've been bored, perhaps, and discouraged. You've taken this thing as a ... a last straw. Won't you listen to reason?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There, there's Book One. Then looking out into the country...." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "There's the rest of the story." }, { "from": "human", "value": "And when you fail? What then?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Don't say _when_ so posi...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "After this the first thing I need is a drink." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "On the sideboard, she answered," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Anyhow, we'll drink to your future, whatever and wherever it may be," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "T...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I don't think you'd understand this man, Dick. He takes little things quite seriously and yet he appears to be laughing at the whole scheme all the time." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Do you mean that one of these roughnecks has been making love to you?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Dick, you don't understand! This man is so different from you, from me, from all of us. Rough, yes, but I don't think he'd try to buy a woman. And if he should I'm sure he'd be most frank about it; he wouldn't hide behind words." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That way is going to be my way, --with growing firmness." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'm playing a new game and I must play it according to the rules. I did more than make up my mind to leave the drinks and cigarettes alone. I resolved that I'd try to be worthy in...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ma'am, the horses are here. Your foreman said to tell you." } ]