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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It was so nice of you, Leonora dear, to think of giving such a lovely gift to Miss Edith all on your own account, she remarked;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Thank you very much, Miss Lindsay, for getting the book, she replied calmly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'll give you the money now, please. I'm glad it's the edition Miss Edith wants," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Done her this time! chuckled Dily...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We look like a set of grinning imbeciles! complained Lennie Chapman," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You'd like it still less if you were turned into a pattern pupil like me! grumbled Gipsy." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I hate making an exhibition of m...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Dear friendt, com here and show ze ozers how you do open ze mouz." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "were an impossibility to Fräulein's German tongue, and the girls giggled continually at the" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "She treats us exactly as if we were kindergarten babies! sneered Hetty Hancock." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I don't know how German girls of our age would enjoy her silly jokes, but I think she's a rotter!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "And she's so ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ze original vords are, of course, in German, explained Fräulein," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have, volunteered Mary Parsons bluntly." }, { "from": "human", "value": "A brother." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And how old?" }, { "fr...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hush, my baby, sweetest, best, Little mousie's gone to rest" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Hosh, my baby, sveetest, best, Leetle moozie's gone to rest" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Really, this is too much! protested Dilys Fenton." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We can't be expected to sing her silly songs." }, { "from": "human", "value": "It's just baby nonsense!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The music's pretty," }, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, dear me, Gipsy! I'm very sorry! said Miss Edith, puckering up her forehead anxiously." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'm afraid you girls behave very badly in the singing class. You ought to have more respect for Fräulein Hochmeyer. I hope Mary Parsons' mother wo...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Though how I'm to do it when she insists on forcing those absurd baby songs upon us, I can't tell. Stop! I've an idea. Oh, I don't know whether I can, but I mean to have a jolly good try! No time like the present. I've half an hour before tea." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Very creditable, Gipsy. Really not at all bad," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I know they're not up to much, said Gipsy apologetically," }, { "from": "human", "value": "It might be a good idea. Give me the paper, and I'll see what I can do." }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I hear you not like to sing about hares and babies? commented Fräulein." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "So! It must be all about school? Yes. You have among you von who can write in verse (nodding cheerily to the abashed Gipsy)." }, { "from": "human", "val...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Do let's be nice to her! pleaded Gipsy." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "She's really a very decent sort on the whole. She can't help being a foreigner and talking with a queer accent." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Why, you were the first to make fun of ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Your 'Hurrah! for the dear old School!' has got in my brain, Yankee Doodle, said Mary Parsons." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It haunts me all day long, and I can't get rid of it." }, { "from": "human", "value": "We'll sing it in the lecture hall on the l...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I never dare ask Gipsy a word about her father, said Hetty Hancock." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "She shuts up like an oyster if one throws out the faintest hint." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Do you think she still believes in him?" }, { "fro...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Got too many irons in the fire already to find time to write learned papers on Natural History, Yankee Doodle, objected Lennie." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "One would have to cram it all up out of the encyclopædia, and that's too hard work for this child!" }, {...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why shouldn't we turn the tea-room into a café chantant? she said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We should get far more money in that way than if people only went in for refreshments. Charge them an admission, and then tea extra. They'll stay far longer, and take mo...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I've put you down for two solos, Gipsy Latimer, said Helen Roper magnanimously." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What would you like to sing?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I wonder if it would be possible to borrow a banjo? I used to play one out in Amer...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We've taken exactly three times the money by the refreshment room that we did last year," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It was a ripping idea of Gipsy's to add the music!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, I'll give Gipsy the credit that's due to her, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Our journal now seems a going concern, and a well-established feature of the Lower School; it is earnestly to be hoped that everyone will make a supreme effort to ensure its success, and that more members will take their share in swelling its pages. Criticisms and suggestions ar...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Wants criticisms, does she? said Maude Helm." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, I'll guarantee she'll get them for once." }, { "from": "human", "value": "And suggestions too! giggled Gladys Merriman." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "She's had ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Members are invited to suggest any fresh features that they consider would be advantageous for the forthcoming summer term, and to offer any criticisms on the past number." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I think we may all declare ourselves perfectly satisfied with th...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I may perhaps be allowed to state, she remarked calmly," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Maude's perfectly right! interposed Gladys Merriman, rising hastily." }, { "from": "human", "value": "This Magazine business has been a 'one man show' all along. Nobody...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, do let me speak! I'll give it them hot!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If this is to be a representative meeting, it's time some reply was made to Maude Helm's insinuations. The main object of Maude's remarks seems to be to cast a slur upon Gipsy Latimer, and to ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I suggested Leonora as editress, corrected Maude, rising angrily." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Miss Poppleton herself proposed it!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We don't want Poppie's pet, thanks!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "She's not going to manage our Guild for us!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "We can make our own choice!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I beg to propose that Gipsy Latimer cont...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'm sure I didn't want to be editress. I can't think why they suggested it," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "To carry favour with Poppie, and spite Gipsy! declared Lennie Chapman." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I don't blame you: they made you a cat's-paw...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'll pay her out somehow--see if I don't! she grumbled to her chum Gladys." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Wish I could think of some really good way!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I know! cackled Gladys suddenly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "They're little plain birds to look at, but they just sing their hearts out, she said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I learnt Browning's piece about the thrush when I was at school in Australia, and I always wanted to hear a real English one. I don't wonder he was en...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I say, Yankee Doodle, is this meant for you? It was a thin foreign envelope, and bore a South African stamp, and it was addressed to" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Miss Latimer, Briarcroft Hall, Greyfield, England" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "First of April; nicely sold!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What is it, Gipsy? What's the matter?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Read it! Oh, how could anybody?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I never thought much of you, Maude Helm, but I didn't believe even you could have invented such a detestably mean, dastardly trick as this. You deserve to be boycotted by every decent girl in the school." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It was only a joke, blustered Ma...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Don't tell her! she whispered huskily." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What's the use? It would only make a fuss, and I hate fusses. The thing's over now, and I'd rather try and forget it. Maude needn't be proud of such a poor joke!" }, { "from": "human", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We had meant to ask you for Christmas, said Meg," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It's a little present, Gipsy dear, she said nervously," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, Miss Edie! If a letter should happen to come for me from South Africa while I'm away, you'd send it on, wouldn't you?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'd bring it m...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "So this is Meg's idol! Glad to see you, my dear! he remarked." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If you can cure Meg of standing on one leg and puckering up her mouth when she talks, I'll be grateful. She seems disposed to listen to you in preference to anyone here, so p...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "She's my friend, and hasn't come here to play with little boys. Run away to the nursery, and leave us alone!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Billy must do some extra prints, and you could put them in the Magazine, suggested Meg to Gipsy." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You could write an article on 'Mountaineering in Cumberland'. It would be grand, and would make Maude Helm gnash her teeth with envy." },...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I vote we ride as far as Ribblethwaite, leave our machines there, and then climb Hawes Fell, he announced." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We've started so early we'd have heaps and loads of time. It would be a thing worth doing! I didn't broach the idea at home becau...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Dad would have taken us if he hadn't been busy at his office, and we can manage so well ourselves now, we can get on all right without him." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Then we can take our sandwiches with us. We're sure to want them up there," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes; best to fortify ourselves thoroughly before we start," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Billy'll be fearfully sick when he hears where we've been...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Beats school, doesn't it? said Donald, with a chuckle of enjoyment, as he helped himself to a third serving of honey." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I say, though, we shan't have to stop too long feasting here if we mean to get to the top of Hawes Fell. It's a jolly ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Isn't it glorious? I always say our fells need a great deal of beating, said Meg, who was an enthusiast over her native county." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I don't believe there's a wood equal to this anywhere!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "A north-...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I expect that last crag will give us enough practice in that, remarked Donald." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I've brought a rope with me in case we want it--got it wound round and round my waist under my coat." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, that ex...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We can find our way home by our footsteps in the snow!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I wonder if we ought to turn back," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Turn back! exclaimed Donald." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You don't mean to say you wan...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There we are! The very place! shouted Donald." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I knew we'd find it if we pegged along. Now, can you girls tackle this last bit? Wouldn't you like to use the rope?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'm going to eat my sandwiches here; I'm fagged out," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We'd better be going, or we shan't be able to find our way," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Right-o! only we must each add a stone to the cairn first, replied Donald." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I've a pencil here, and we'll write our names on them as...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We must keep due west, and look out sharp for precipices. Don't let us get separated on any account. Hadn't we better use the rope again?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I don't believe we're anywhere near the way we came up. I don't recognize these rocks in the least...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It was a narrow squeak, though, confessed Meg." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I don't mind telling you now that I thought we should have to stay up there all night! It's getting fearfully late--we must sprint back when we reach our machines." }, { "from": "hu...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You young scamps! I'd no idea you were going climbing on your own! said Mr. Gordon." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'd have forbidden it if I'd known. Hawes Fell is a nasty little bit at the finish." }, { "from": "human", "value": "But we did it, Dad! cri...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It's no use mincing matters, Gipsy! she began, blustering a little to hide her own sense of uneasiness." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Here we are at the beginning of another term, and things are exactly the same as they were at Christmas. Not a word from your father...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I can't get at Gipsy nowadays! said Hetty Hancock to Dilys Fenton." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "She seems quite changed this term, since Poppie's made her into a kind of pupil teacher. It's as if there were a barrier suddenly set up between us." }, { "from"...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We'd pay all Gipsy's share between us, only, please, we'd rather she didn't know anything about that part of it," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I can't decide anything at present, she said briefly." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I doubt if Gipsy can be ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Done Poppie for once, I believe! triumphed Dilys." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "She can't have the cheek to keep our Secretary at home. The Guild would mutiny." }, { "from": "human", "value": "She's made such a fuss of the Guild, she's bound to allow us ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'm going to do a bolt--don't give me away!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ha-chaw! Ha-chaw! Ha-chaw!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, indeed! So it's you, Gipsy Latimer, is it? said the Principal grimly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What are you doing here, I should like to know?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You've been out, Gipsy Latimer; it's easy enough to tell that! So you're the one who's been seen every evening in Mansfield Road!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Out! gasped Gipsy, galvanized into speech by the utter falsity of the accusation." }, { "from": "h...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This is what comes of fostering the children of adventurers! she said bitterly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I feel as if I had warmed a serpent, and it had turned and stung me for my pains." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I couldn't have believed it o...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Isn't it awful? sighed Lennie Chapman." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And to think that we had to tell about her!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "We don't believe she's really done it, though," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It looks bad, I'm ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You'll gain nothing by this obstinacy! stormed Miss Poppleton." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'll make you see who is in authority here! Do you actually imagine I shall allow a girl like you to set herself against the head of the school? Here you stay until you own ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I've never had a home! choked Gipsy." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh! I wonder why some people are always left out of everything?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, Gipsy! she began tremulously," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Miss Poppleton doesn't know I'm here, but I felt I must come. Oh! you poor, naughty, naughty child, why did you do it? How could you, Gipsy? I'd never have thought it possible. Oh, do be a good girl and...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, Miss Edie, I can't bear you to misjudge me! she exclaimed bitterly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Indeed, if you only knew, I am telling the absolute, whole truth. Have I ever told you an untruth before?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "No, Gipsy. Bu...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That's all you'll get, she remarked brusquely." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Miss Poppleton says you don't deserve pudding to-day. And quite right, too! Bread and water'd be enough for you, in my opinion. Why haven't you the pluck to face things in an honourable way...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There isn't a single soul here who cares! I shall have to go away and find Dad!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I believe I can manage it, she murmured." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "My toe would fit into that hole, and I could catch hold of the bracket. I haven't learnt mountaineering for nothing, and if I could tackle that crag on Hawes Fell I oughtn't to be stumped by a gu...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Gipsy!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Hello! It's never you! Oh, Meg, you angel!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Don't make such an idiotic noise, but help me in quietly. Mum's the word! How are you getting on here?" }, { "from": "gpt", "valu...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No, Meg; it's awfully good of you, but I must go farther away than that. I'm off to Liverpool. Don't look so staggered; I've quite made up my mind!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Liverpool! Why, that's miles and miles away! How will you go? And what will you do when ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'll tell you what we'll do! she exclaimed." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Let's change dresses! Then if Poppie tries to follow you, it will throw her off the scent. Mine's longer than yours, too, so it will be better for a stewardess." }, { "from": "human", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now! breathed Meg." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "As quick as you can, without putting your heels through the glass!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "It was the nearest squeak! gasped Gipsy, as the pair, after a rapid slide down the gutter pipe, reached t...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Want a ticket, Miss?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, thank you; I'm only going to get a paper," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Very sorry, Miss, said the man civilly," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "To go along with you! she gasped." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Indeed I shan't do anything of the sort." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Better not make a scene, Miss, ad...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "They seem desperately afraid of my escaping! I wonder they don't handcuff me!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I should like to know what charge you have against me," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Withdrawing yourself from the hands of your lawful schoolmistress and present guardian," }, { "from": "human", "value": "But I was only on my way home!" }, { "fr...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I wonder what sort of a scrape I'm in for," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am happy to be able to inform you, Madam, that our search has been successful," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What? Have you found her? cried Miss Poppleton eagerly; then she stopped as she recognized Meg." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Ah! So that's ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, Miss Poppleton! Isn't it a horrible mistake! she exclaimed." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I told them my name, and they wouldn't believe me! Oh! please, may I go home immediately? My mother will be so dreadfully anxious at my being so late!" }, { "from":...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Gipsy run away! cried Mrs. Gordon in great consternation." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And you changed dresses with her so as to help her? Oh, Meg! what have you done! You naughty, foolish, foolish girl! You little know the dangers you may have thrown her into. We ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why, here's the tea cloth that I thought had been lost in the wash! she exclaimed." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And Miss Lindsay's dressing jacket--she was afraid she must have left it in London. Why! and here's a coat of Daisy Scatcherd's. I remember quite plainly...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Fetch Miss Poppleton! she cried to the alarmed servant who ran to the linen room at the sound of her wails." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, dear! To think it's all my fault!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It's Gipsy's missing letter, Dorothea! It must have come after all, you see, only I can't imagine how it got into Daisy Scatcherd's pocket. I don't remember looking in the pockets when I put the coat by. And it's been there all this time! Look, the postmark is Cape Town, 3 Novem...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I hope my girlie will behave well, and give no trouble, he wrote." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "She is generally ready to attach herself to anybody who is kind to her." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I must question Daisy Scatcherd at once, she remarked...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It must have been on my birthday, she faltered." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have a kind of recollection that I stopped the postman in the drive, and he gave me several letters. But indeed I never noticed one for Gipsy! If I even looked at the name, I didn't take...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'll never go back again--never! she resolved." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Not if I have to sweep a crossing or sell flowers! But I don't think it will come to that, because I'm sure I can get a post on board ship. Oh, what a blissful relief it is to be on my own ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, Miss; want repairing, I suppose?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, they're in perfectly good order; but I wish to sell them. What price can you give me for them?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We don't do that kind of business," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Won't you buy it then?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "No; it's not in our line at all." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Then where should I be able to sell it?" }, { "fr...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This looks more the kind of place, she murmured." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'll have a try here, at any rate." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "HE PAUSED AND PEERED AT GIPSY" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I see you sell secondhand jewellery here, and want to know if you care to buy a watch," }, { "from": "human", "value": "It depends on the article. Have you brought it with you?" }, { "fr...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Liverpool? said the inspector who stood at the platform door." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You've just time if you're quick. That's the train over there on No. 3." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Am I right for Liverpool?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Quite right, Miss; change at Preston, that's all," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I feel almost as if I'd been shipwrecked again--in a borrowed dress and hat, and nothing else to call my own!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Smith? I couldn't tell you, I'm sure; there are so many Smiths, said the girl at the counter, with a superior smile." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "One of them may be a sea captain, for anything I know. You'd better look in the Directory." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I shall go to 'Ocean Villa' first, she thought." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It has a particularly nautical sound. I shouldn't think anybody but a sea captain could possibly live there. 'The Anchorage' sounds hopeful too, though it ought to be the home of somebody ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I must get back to Liverpool, she thought," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Teas Provided" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But my goodness gracious! You'll never get a situation at this time of night! she broke out." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why, don't you know all the offices close at half-past five?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "The offices all closed! Do you mean t...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I've only one and ninepence left, she faltered." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And out of that I have to pay for my tea and keep a few pennies to go back into Liverpool with by the car. Could I get a night's lodging anywhere very cheaply? Do you know of a clean place...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Doesn't look much in the stewardess line of business, she muttered." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "There's something wrong here, I'm afraid. I'll have a talk with her to-morrow." } ]