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28854 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A big, deep voice, like a man's, and Poppie's saying 'Yes'. I daren't stop more than a second; but somebody's there, you may be sure of that. And the box is standing in the vestibule too."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I believe she's come to stay!"
},
{
"fro... |
28854 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Glad to make your acquaintance! she began."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Miss Poppleton said she'd introduce me to the school, but I guessed I'd rather introduce myself--thought I'd do the thing better than she would, somehow. I don't like stiff introductions--I'm n... |
28854 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What did you say your name was?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That's right--fire off your questions! I've been at seven schools before this, and everybody starts with the same catechism. I'm ready to answer anything within reason, but perhaps I'd best take a seat wh... |
28854 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Queen of the Waves"
}
] |
28854 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Only a few days more, and we shall be in port, said Mr. Latimer, looking through his pocket telescope at the outline of Cape Finisterre."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I think we may congratulate ourselves on the splendid weather we've had the whole time."
},
{
... |
28854 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm afraid we're going to have a terrible tossing, said Mr. Latimer, as he bade Gipsy good night."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mind you don't get pitched out of your bunk. We're having bad weather with a vengeance now."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "T... |
28854 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Gipsy, child! he exclaimed."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We must go on deck! Here, fling this coat round you! No, no! You can't wait to dress! We've sprung a bad leak, and the captain says we must take to the boats. Hold tight to my arm, and be a brave girl!"
}
] |
28854 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Have I time to fetch my papers?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No; only to save yourself and your child, was the hasty reply."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come at once; the vessel is filling fast, and may settle even before we can get off her."
}
] |
28854 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They've sighted us! yelled the captain."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "They're turning her about and putting her back!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Thank God we're saved!"
}
] |
28854 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She only fainted from exhaustion, she could hear the doctor saying."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We'll soon have her all right again. Ah, here comes the beef tea! A few hours of sound sleep will make all the difference. When she wakes, you'll find she's almost hers... |
28854 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It was distinctly awkward to be left with nothing in the world but a nightdress that I could call my own! laughed Gipsy."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Wasn't it funny on the _Alexia_? People were ever so kind in lending me things, but they didn't fit. Mrs. Hales' sk... |
28854 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What school am I to go to?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I spoke to Captain Smith about it, and he recommended one at a place called Greyfield. He said his niece used to be there once, and liked it. I'm going to take you to-day. We must get the 11.40 train."
},
... |
28854 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Poppie by her pupils, was a double B.A., for she had taken her degree in both classics and mathematics. She was a rather small, determined little lady, with a bright complexion, sharp, short-sighted, greenish-grey eyes, which peered at the world through a pair of round rimless s... |
28854 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Good morning"
}
] |
28854 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Who sent you here, Gipsy?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Nobody, replied Gipsy, quite unaware of having given any occasion for offence."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I only came to ask leave to run out and buy a pan, and some sugar, and a few other thi... |
28854 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What you ask is perfectly impossible, she replied."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The boarders here are never allowed to go out alone to do shopping."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "So some of them told me last night, but I didn't believe them. I thought... |
28854 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I say, who's that foreign kid?"
}
] |
28854 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Can't say, I'm sure, responded Emily Atkinson,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "She's Spanish and American and New Zealand and South African and several other things, and she's been shipwrecked dozens of times,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Let her speak... |
28854 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She's sharp enough, at any rate, commented Mary Parsons."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not very easy to take a rise out of her, I should think."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Awfully pretty, I call her, responded Joyce Adamson."
},
{
"from": "g... |
28854 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Look here, Gipsy Latimer! she said to herself,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Home Rule Bill"
}
] |
28854 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What we want to do is to combine, she announced."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's not the slightest scrap of good a few single girls going and airing their woes to the Sixth. They're not likely to listen. If we could show them that the whole of the Lower School is... |
28854 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "First rate! said Lennie."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'll help you to make some copies. We must pin one up on the notice board of each Junior classroom, and one in the dressing-room. It'll make a stir, and no mistake!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "R... |
28854 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Lennie, you make them take their seats properly, commanded Hetty;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Chairman"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ladies and gentlemen, she began glibly,"
}
] |
28854 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Girls! I'm afraid most of you will think it's rather cheeky of me to have taken the matter up when I've only been ten days or so at Briarcroft, and I'd like at the very start to apologize for what really must look to you like a piece of cocksure presumption. I think you'll all a... |
28854 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Go on! Go on!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There are at present ninety-three girls in this school, continued Gipsy."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Twenty-two are in the Fifth and Sixth, and seventy-one in the lower Forms. Just compare those figures! T... |
28854 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I put it to the meeting. Are you ready to combine and stand together? Those who are in favour, kindly hold up their hands."
}
] |
28854 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She's right!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We've been kept down too long!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I always said it was monstrously unfair!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The Seniors will have to give way!"
},
{
"from": "human... |
28854 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I may take it, then, that the motion is carried by the general consent of the meeting, she continued."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We're agreed that some stand ought to be made against the aggressions of the Seniors. Now, the next question to be considered is what ... |
28854 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I will!"
}
] |
28854 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Good! replied Gipsy."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Then we'll make up a test case. If it's refused, then we draw up a statement of our grievances, and what we want reformed, and present it at the General Meeting. If that's also refused-- (Gipsy paused a moment to le... |
28854 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It seems to me we've got the game into our own hands if we like, continued the speaker."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Nobody can force us to subscribe to societies of which we don't approve. We'll insist on a referendum of the whole school, and see how the result tu... |
28854 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's the best idea I've ever heard! declared Meg Gordon."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Gipsy Latimer's a trump! I'll support her in anything she proposes."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I wonder we never thought of such a thing before,"
},
{
"f... |
28854 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hello, you kids! What are you doing here? exclaimed Doreen Tristram."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Just you quit, and be quick about it, too!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Kids, indeed! retorted Hetty Hancock."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value":... |
28854 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's nothing to do with it, she faltered rather lamely."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If you Juniors have any complaints to make, you must make them at the Annual Meeting."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We're going to,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
... |
28854 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Only what everyone expected!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Trust the Sixth not to give in a single inch!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They've been asked heaps of times before."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Then it adds another nail to th... |
28854 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If any member of the Society has an objection to raise or a suggestion to make, kindly put it before the meeting now, that it may be discussed before the voting begins."
}
] |
28854 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In the name of the whole of the Lower School I have an objection to raise and a suggestion to make, she began, in her clear, high-pitched voice."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We Juniors consider that we are unfairly treated in many ways in the Guilds, and we demand ... |
28854 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm afraid it's not exactly the province of Juniors to sit on the Committee, returned Helen, with a sarcastic smile."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You can hardly expect us to comply with that demand."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Cheek!"
},
{
... |
28854 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hadn't we better yield a point, and let them have one or two candidates of their own?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Certainly not! It would be the greatest mistake to give way. Leave me to deal with them,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Guilds of your o... |
28854 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Those in favour of union with the present Guilds kindly put a nought, and those in favour of separation a cross, commanded Helen."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Any paper with anything more on it will be disqualified. Girls! I make a last appeal to you to remember ou... |
28854 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I think one of us is entitled to help to check the counting,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, certainly! Please come and satisfy yourselves,"
}
] |
28854 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Rule, Britannia! Britannia rules the waves! Juniors never, never, never, will be slaves!"
}
] |
28854 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It will be far better than dividing things up, said Hetty Hancock,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes! Gipsy! Gipsy!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, she said firmly;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I've only been a fortnight in the school,... |
28854 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You can keep the accounts, and read aloud the minutes of the meetings, and all those sorts of business things better than anybody,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If I don't happen to forget which country I'm in, and add things up as cents and dollars, instead of penc... |
28854 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's sickening, the way everybody truckles to her, declared Maude to a few of her particular chums."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I vote we stick out, at any rate, and don't let her have everything her own way. We don't want the school Americanized to suit her fancy... |
28854 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There are headmistresses and headmistresses, she said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Of course one expects them to stand on a pillar above the common herd, but some of them condescend to peep down below. Now Poppie doesn't. I'd as soon think of going to the man in t... |
28854 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There! said Gipsy, putting her burden down with a slam."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I reckon if any of you care to learn how to make American Fudge, now's your chance! Positively the last opportunity! By the by, 'reckon' is one of the words Poppie said I'd got to ... |
28854 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I hope it's a sort that goes cold quickly, and won't take till next morning to harden, said Dilys Fenton."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Last 5th of November I think we didn't boil ours quite long enough, and we really couldn't wait, so we ate it soft."
},
{
... |
28854 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I knew it would!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, it's made an awful smell! Open the window, somebody! shrieked Gipsy."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If we don't mind, Poppie'll nose it out, and come poking up. Oh! Good gracious!"
}
] |
28854 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Who brought these things here?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I did. I got them from the kitchen, answered Gipsy."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We always made Fudge in the schoolroom in Dorcas City,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You won't ... |
28854 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I feel as if I were shut up in a box! she declared."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "How can you all go on every day so contentedly with this 'prunes and prism' business? When I was at school up-country in Australia the mistress used to notice when we got restless, and... |
28854 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is as frisky as--well, as a colt! said Mary Parsons."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You'd better not try to catch that creature, Gipsy."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It'll pretty soon kick her off if she does! said Alice O'Connor."
},
{
"fro... |
28854 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Stop her! Stop her! she gasped wildly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, for pity's sake, somebody stop her!"
}
] |
28854 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She's as good as a cowboy!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Or a circus rider!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well done, Gipsy!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Bravo!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You ought to be ashamed of yours... |
28854 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It was very naughty of you, you know, Gipsy dear! she said in her kind-hearted, deprecating manner."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don't know anything about riding, but it looked most dangerous, and of course, if Miss Poppleton said it was wrong, it was wrong. My s... |
28854 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You're like the girl in the cinematograph who tracks the villain to his mountain retreat, or finds the hero, bound with cords, lying in the brushwood, and then rides off post-haste to inform the sheriff. She always catches a wild-looking horse, and gallops full speed!"
},
{
... |
28854 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A fine model you are for the Lower School! said Doreen Tristram sarcastically one day."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Can't even walk decently in line, and prance about for all the world like a monkey tied to a barrel piano!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value"... |
28854 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But I can't go to the Shakespeare lesson without my _Hamlet_, she remonstrated."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Suppose I'm asked to read?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You should have thought of that before! snapped Doreen."
},
{
"from": "gpt",... |
28854 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, I say! Look at Yankee Doodle!"
}
] |
28854 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Gipsy Latimer, go back down the stairs!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, thanks! It's shorter this way, and saves time,"
}
] |
28854 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You needn't think you're going to play these tricks with impunity, she said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You'll report yourself to-morrow at the monitresses' meeting at four o'clock. We'll see what the head of the school has to say to you!"
},
{
"from": "h... |
28854 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Gipsy Latimer, you are here to report yourself for insubordination, began Helen Roper with dignity."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Do you realize that monitresses are officers in this school, and that their authority is only second to that of the mistresses?"
},
... |
28854 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mind you do as you're told next time, then, commanded Helen."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'll excuse you this once, but if it happens again, I warn you that I shall send you straight to Miss Poppleton. You may think yourself very lucky to be let off so easily. You... |
28854 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Couldn't have kept my face a moment longer! she choked to one or two friends who were waiting for her."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, you should have seen me as the penitent! I think I did the thing rather neatly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You ... |
28854 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It was over too soon, and they didn't use the chute after all,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Gipsy! you never--you couldn't-- Oh, surely----!"
}
] |
28854 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But I've Dad, and he's better than a whole family; and it's fun to go about the world with him, though I do live mostly at hotels when I'm not at school, she said to herself."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm not going to worry my head. Dad will send me a letter as ... |
28854 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Scatterbrains"
}
] |
28854 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I expect he's got something more for me,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Give me the letters, please! It's my birthday!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Only three this afternoon, missy! Don't know whether any of 'em's for you or not,"
},
{
"from":... |
28854 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A whole pound! Isn't it lovely? I shall buy a new camera, or perhaps a bookcase like Hetty Hancock's; or I want a bracelet watch most fearfully badly, and I expect I'll get some more money at Christmas that I could put to it. What would you advise, Miss Edith?"
},
{
"fro... |
28854 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yet it's really a most necessary thing, urged Gipsy."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "How else can one give notice of coming events, and reports of what has taken place? It's such fun, too! Why shouldn't we steal a march on the Upper School and start one of our own?"
... |
28854 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Best call a general meeting of the Guild; then we can propose the thing, and have it carried through in proper order, said Hetty."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I believe it will catch on. Gipsy, you write out some notices and pin them up in the classrooms."
}
] |
28854 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There's one principal matter to be settled, said Dilys, who, as President, occupied the post of chairman."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We've got to choose an editor."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then I beg to propose Gipsy Latimer,"
},
{
"fr... |
28854 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That'll quite cut the Seniors out of it, said Meg Gordon."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We don't want them to get any of the credit."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And 'Juniors' Journal' has a nice juicy kind of sound,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
... |
28854 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "on hockey, was told off for"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Sports and Pastimes ; Ethel Newton, a day girl, who lived a few miles away quite in the heart of the country, undertook the"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nature Notes ; Meg Gordon's fertile bra... |
28854 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "--otherwise her school desk. Some were couched in rather a facetious vein, but she answered them as if they were intended to be serious, sometimes with a comic result. A correspondent who signed herself"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Honeysuckle had enquired:"
},
... |
28854 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But that's just put on, said Hetty Hancock."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "They know all about it. I saw Helen Roper and Doreen Tristram sneak into our classroom yesterday when no one was there, at dinner-time. The Mag. was lying on Miss White's desk, and they took i... |
28854 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Gipsy Latimer, she began uncompromisingly,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I've sent for you to enquire if you've heard anything at all from your father?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's a most extraordinary thing! commented Miss Poppleton."
},
{
... |
28854 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm afraid it's only too evident he wants to get rid of the burden of your education. We've got to trace him somehow. It's all very fine for him to leave you here and desert you!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Father would never desert me! she gasped at last."
},
... |
28854 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, Gipsy, she said more kindly,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm afraid it looks a bad business. I'm sure you understand that it would be impossible for me to keep on my school if pupils did not pay their fees. I can't afford to be kept waiting. In your case, ho... |
28854 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I wish Dad would write! Oh, he can't have forgotten me! I wish I'd anybody to go to; I haven't a soul nearer than New Zealand!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You mustn't make yourself so miserable, Gipsy dear! said Miss Edith nervously."
},
{
"from": "human",... |
28854 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He'll let me hear about him somehow, she said to herself."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I must just try and be very patient. Dad desert me! Why, the idea's ridiculous. And I've a feeling I'd know if he was dead. No! He's alive somewhere and thinking of me, and it wi... |
28854 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I vote that each girl undertakes to make a certain number of articles; that would be far the easiest, and then we should know how we stand, suggested Alice O'Connor."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We'll draw up a list, and write it down."
},
{
"from": "human"... |
28854 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Each girl could surely undertake at least three articles--that ought to be the minimum--and as many more as she's capable of doing,"
}
] |
28854 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I beg to propose an amendment, she put in quickly,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Excellent! commented Dilys."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Who votes for the amendment?"
}
] |
28854 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But I haven't even a skein of embroidery silk!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Never mind! Hetty and I can get the silks, and you shall do some extra work to make it square. We shall be exactly quits in that way. You can do all the painting part, too, on those blotter... |
28854 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "GIPSY GENERALLY RESPONDED WITH SPIRIT"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "When are you going to get some new hair ribbons, Yankee Doodle? asked Gladys Merriman one day."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Those red flags of yours are looking rather dejected."
}... |
28854 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She won't find that in a hurry!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There'll be a fine to-do when she misses it,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "People who suffer from 'swelled head' just deserve a little wholesome medicine, to cure them of thinking too much ... |
28854 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Where's my atlas? Who's had my atlas? It was here yesterday!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Really, Gipsy Latimer, I don't wonder you can't find your things in such an untidy desk! remarked Miss White."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You must stay after ... |
28854 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Pencil--indiarubber--map book--notebook--and atlas. I've not forgotten anything!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Have you all brought your things? she enquired authoritatively."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Face about into line, and hold them out so tha... |
28854 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Where's your atlas, Gipsy Latimer? How is it you're the only one to forget? Been taken from your desk? What nonsense! Things don't lose themselves. If you were tidy, you'd be able to find your books. No, I'm not going to accept any excuses. You all know what you want for the les... |
28854 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I've a very shrewd guess who put it there, too! she remarked to Hetty Hancock."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Maude and Gladys were giggling something to Alice O'Connor, and they all looked at me and simply screamed."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You d... |
28854 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No; what's up? Anything decent?"
}
] |
28854 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh! something I heard just now downstairs. I was passing the Seniors' door, and Allie Spencer came out and told me."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She said it concerned your Form."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"va... |
28854 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I say, isn't it a joke? There's actually a new boarder coming to-morrow."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "New girls seem to choose odd times to come nowadays, said Lennie."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why didn't she wait till the half term--it's only ab... |
28854 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A most stodgy-looking girl, whispered Hetty."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don't take to her at all. She's not one half as nice as Gipsy. By the by, where is Gipsy? I haven't seen her since four o'clock."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Where've you be... |
28854 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dad promised to come back for me, and he will!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm afraid I know more of the world than you do, Gipsy, and it looks bad--very bad indeed! replied Miss Poppleton, with a dismal shake of her head."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value... |
28854 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She's the meanest thing I ever met in my life, said Lennie Chapman indignantly one day."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "She borrowed my penknife three times this morning, and when I asked her what had become of her own, she said it was such a nice one, it seemed a pit... |
28854 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I wouldn't be friends with her if she owned the Bank of England! declared Lennie."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I think she's too contemptible for words."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "By the by, girls, said Dilys,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"val... |
28854 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You've let her off too easily, grumbled Lennie afterwards, as she added up her list."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's a shame the richest girl in the class should give the least."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I haven't finished with her yet, my frie... |
28854 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Would you please order a Russia leather blotter for Miss Edith? she said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We've decided on that, unless you know of anything she'd like better. Leonora Parker would like to give her a separate present, quite on her own account."
},
... |
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