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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I think the end has come, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You can ride no farther." }, { "from": "human", "value": "They want to take you from me. We will go on until we drop," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We will make the bluff before them, he said hoarsely." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ride!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There are more of them in front." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We are through. They are United States cavalry!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Larry, she said faintly," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I claim your protection for my wife, Captain Cheyne," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mrs. Grant can count upon it, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Those men were chasing you?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, said Grant." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "One of them is the Sheriff. I believe he intends to arrest me." ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We have come after a notorious disturber of this district who has, I notice, taken refuge with you, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I must ask you to give him up." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'm sorry, said Cheyne firmly." }, { "from"...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hadn't you better think it over? The boys are a little difficult to hold in hand, and we can't go back without our man," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Mr. Grant has given himself up to me. If there is any charge against him it shall be gone into. In the meanwhile, dr...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We are wasting time, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Still, I warn you that the State will hold you responsible if you turn that man loose again. Our wishes can still command a certain attention in high places." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I s...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You come along before you do something you will be sorry for, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'm not anxious for any unnecessary trouble, and it would have been considerably more sensible if I had stood in with the homestead-boys." }, { "from": "huma...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mrs. Grant is resting well?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, said Larry." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I owe a good deal to you." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You need not thank me yet. Your case will require consideration, and if the n...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I have decided to release your husband--on condition that he drives straight back to his homestead and stays there with you, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The State has undertaken to keep order and give every man what he is entitled to now; and if we find M...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Larry, she said softly," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have something to tell you." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I have guessed it already; and it means a new responsibility." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I don't understand," }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You will have to shake this nervousness off or you will make a fool of yourself before that man," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If it is convenient, Mr. Torrance would like to speak to you," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I have to thank you for coming, but I am going to talk plainly, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You connived at the meetings between my daughter and the rascally adventurer who has married her?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "They are married? ex...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am going to answer you plainly, and I think an examination of Hetty's cheque-book and the money she left behind will bear me out, she said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Once only did Hetty give Mr. Grant any dollars--fifty of them, I think, to feed some hungry ch...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You have shown yourself a good friend, he said gravely." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Still, you may understand the other side of the question if you listen to me." }, { "from": "human", "value": "That is the end of the plans of half a lifetime--and they...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You have yourself to blame for any inconvenience you have been put to, Mr. Breckenridge, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You conspired to assist your partner in an undertaking you could not expect me to forgive." }, { "from": "human", "value": "No...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I wonder what Mr. Clavering has done to win everybody's dislike, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You do not seem anxious to plead for him." }, { "from": "human", "value": "No, she said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I don't. I can, ho...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I wonder if you would listen to something I wish to tell you, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The trouble is that it requires an explanation." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I can decide about the rest when I have heard the explanation," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, said Breckenridge slowly," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I came out West, so to speak, because I was under a cloud. Now, I had never done anything distin...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I think you must make it a little plainer," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, said Breckenridge quietly," }, { "from": "human", "value": "This is serious, Mr. Breckenridge?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I never was more serious in my life, madam, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I know that I might have spoken--not more respectfully, but differently--but when I am too solemn everybody laughs at me." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Does it not stri...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No! she said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If in six months you are still in the same mind, you can come to Hastings-on-the-Hudson, and speak to me again. Then, you may find me disposed to listen; but we will go on to Fremont in the meanwhile." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I shall be in the same mind, he said," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I promised your friend, Hetty, that I would see you before I went away, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I left Cedar for the last time a few hours ago, and I am riding in to the railroad now. The stock you see there are mine and Allonby's, and the cars are wa...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Larry, she said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It had to be, my dear, he said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "They blocked the way, and nothing can stop the people you and I--and they--belong to, moving on. Well, we will look forward and do what we can...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Dora Deane," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The English Orphans," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Homestead on the Hillside," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Tempest and Sunshine," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Lena Rivers," }, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Common Prayer," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It's Helen, if anybody, she said aloud, just as a voice at the window called out:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Please, Cousin Lucy, relieve me of these flowers. I brought them over in honor of Katy's return." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, thank you, Morris! Kitty will like them, I am sure, Mrs. Lennox said, taking from his hand a bouquet of the choice flowers which grew only in the hothouse at Linwood." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Come in for a moment, please." }, { "from": "human", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Uncle Ephraim did not pay the bills, Mrs. Lennox faltered at last, feeling intuitively how Morris' delicate sense of propriety would shrink from her next communication." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Mrs. Woodhull wrote that the expense should be nothing to me, and a...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mrs. Woodhull was so urgent and so fond of Katy; and then, I thought it well to give her the advantage of being with such people as compose that party, the very first in Canandaigua, besides some from New York, Mrs. Lennox began in self-defense, but Morris did not stop to hear m...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I wish Cousin Morris had offered his carriage, she thought, as the corn-colored and white wagon disappeared from view." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The train stops five minutes at West Silverton, and some of those grand people will be likely to see the turnout," ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It's better, too, now, than when I came home, Helen thought, as with her rich, scarlet fruit she went slowly to the house." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Morris is here, and the new church, and if she likes she can teach in Sunday school, though maybe she will prefer...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We ought to have had some silver forks before Katy came home," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Never mind, mother, Helen answered, cheerily;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There are the oxen, the darling oxen, and that's Aunt Betsy, with her dress pinned up as usual," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It was perfectly splendid to get home," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "as she styled any departure from long-established customs, now knew she had found one, and with an injured expression withdrew the offered bowl, saying sadly:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You used to eat 'em raw, Catherine; what's got into you?" }, { "from"...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He is very fine looking, too, she said, whereupon Katy involuntarily exclaimed:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I wonder if he is as handsome as Wilford Cameron? Oh, I never wrote about him, did I?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Who is Wilford Cameron?" ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, and runs it, too, Aunt Betsy answered, energetically, proceeding to tell what goin's-on they had, with the minister shiftin' his clothes every now and ag'in, and the folks all talkin' together." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Morris got me in once, she said," }...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I think it right mean in him not to be here to see me, she said, poutingly," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Are you glad to have me home again, Uncle Eph?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, Katy-did, very glad, he answered." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I've missed you every day, though you do nothing much but bother me." }, { "from": "gpt", "va...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I can see the housekeeper and the birds and flowers, and maybe he will come pretty soon," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ain't Helen going with you?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Just as you like;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, Cousin Morris! she exclaimed, and, still holding his hand:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why didn't you come over at noon, you naughty, naughty boy? But what a splendid-looking man you've got to be, though! and what do you think of me?" }, { "from": "hum...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You wrote me once that you thought of being a minister, she added." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why did you change your mind? It must be splendid, I think, to be a young clergyman--invited to so many tea-drinkings, and having all the girls in the parish after you, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I did not decide rashly, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Dear cousin, what a good man you are, and how silly I must seem to you, thinking you cared for tea-drinkings, or even girls, when, of course, you do not." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Per...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Wilford Cameron with you on your trip?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes; let me tell you, and Katy spoke rapidly." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I saw him that night, and then Mrs. Woodhull took me to ride with him in the carriage, and then--well, I r...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You would like Mr. Cameron, Cousin Morris. He made me think of you a little, only he is prouder," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Perhaps so," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Did my little Cousin Kitty like Wilford Cameron?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I guess I did like him a little. I could not help it, Morris. You could not, either, or any one. I believe Mrs. Woodhull was more than half in love with him, and she is an old woman compa...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Did he get well?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No, he will always be a cripple, till God takes him to Himself," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "They were very proud, Morris said;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How would I appear by the side of those ladies?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I don't believe I shocked Wilford so very much, Katy rejoined, reproachfully, while again a heavy pain shot through Morris' heart, for he saw more and more how Wilford Cameron was mingled with every thought of the young girl, who continued:" }, { "from": "gpt", "valu...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My poor Kitty, you do like Wilford Cameron; tell me honestly--is it not so?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, I guess I do, and Katy's voice was a half sob." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I could not help it, either, he was so kind, so--I don't know w...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Your father, the lady added," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Who is she?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That is Katy Lennox, daughter of Judge Lennox, who died in East Bloomfield a few years ago." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Pretty, is she not?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Juno herself could not equal that, he thought, as Katy's fingers flew over the keys, executing a brilliant and difficult piece without a single mistake, and receiving the applause of the spectators easily, naturally, as if it were an everyday occurrence. But when by request she ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yea, mother, it was," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Not as I loved Genevra, he said, as he saw his mother about to speak, and there came a look of intense pain into his fine eyes as he continued:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That was the passion of a boy of nineteen, simulated by secrecy, but this is different--this...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I understand, then, that if you marry her you do not marry the family," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, I do not marry the family, Wilford rejoined, emphatically, but the expression of his face was different from his mother's, for where she thought only of herself,...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Let matters take their course for a while, she said," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Of course he will not, for I shall ask Dr. Morris to go after him in his carriage," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Episcopal quirks," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Wilford Cameron coming here? What will he think of us, we are so unlike him?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If Uncle Ephraim had only let me move the chimney, we could have had a nice spare sleeping-room instead of this little tucked up hole," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Of course if they had a beau, they'd want a t'other room, else where would they do their sparkin'." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'd like to sleep here myself. It looks real nice," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What have they done to that bed to make it look so flat? Put on a bed-quilt, as I'm alive! What children! It would break my back to lie there, and this Cannon is none the youngest, accordin' to their tell--nigh on to thirty, if not turned. It will make his bones ache, of course....
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'm mighty feared they'll find me out," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He's coming to-morrow--he surely is; I have his letter to tell me so." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What is it, Katy?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I hope you will not think me foolish or wicked, Katy began, her eyes filling with tears, as she felt that she might be doing Uncle Ephraim a wrong by even admitting that in any way he could be improved." }, { "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "God bless you, Katy, and may Mr. Cameron's visit bring you as much happiness as you anticipate," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And did Katy like this Mr. Cameron? but so far was she from guessing the truth that she only feared she might have displeased him by what sh...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Don't, for pity's sake, bring us a verdant specimen," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am Miss Lennox's cousin, deputed by her to meet and take charge of you for a time." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And are you the doctor who was so kind to Jamie? I did not expect this pleasure?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "We are almost there--that...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What would Juno or Mark say?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mark's favorite, he said, lifting up a volume of Schiller, and turning to the fly-leaf he read," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Helen Lennox, from Cousin Morris," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Rather pretty, more character than Katy, but odd, and self-willed, with no kind of style." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, auntie!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The land! if you didn't borry Morris' forks! I'd as soon eat with the toastin' iron," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The cows is to milk and the chores all to do, for I never keep no boy," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You'll find it pretty snug quarters, I guess, for such a close, muggy night as this, but if you can't stand it you must lie on the floor." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'll go back to-morrow morning," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "and intended for Katy; telling him, further, that the feather bed on which he slept was also a part of" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Catherine's setting out," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Suppose, Uncle Ephraim, you put on your coat for once. It is better than coming to the table so." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Pooh, was Uncle Ephraim's innocent rejoinder, spoken loudly enough for Wilford to hear," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I don'...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I stay at Silverton, first, because I think I can do more good here than elsewhere, and, secondly, because I really like the country and the country people, for, strange and uncouth as they may seem to you, who never lived among them, they have kinder, truer hearts beating benea...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Thank you; but it is hardly probable that I shall be here very soon, Wilford replied, adding, as he met the peculiar glance of Morris' eye:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I found Miss Katy a delightful traveling acquaintance, and on my way from Newport thought I woul...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why need you leave so soon?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, I have already outstayed my time. I thought of going yesterday, and my partner, Mr. Ray, will be expecting me," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Maybe I'll come again some time. Would you like to have me?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It was so queer in him to go so soon, she said;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Never mind, Katy, Helen said, soothingly." }, { "from": "human", "value": "If he's for you he will come back again. He could not stay here always, of course; and I must say I r...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, I do so hope you'll meet with Mr. Cameron, for then we shall know that he is neither sick nor dead, as I have sometimes feared." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Both Helen and Katy are pupils of mine, Morris replied," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Mark will tell you how busy I was," }, { "from": "human", "value": "From what Cameron tells me of your neighborhood there must be some splendid hunting and fishing ther...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I shall not take a refusal, he said, as Morris began to decline." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Mother and the young ladies will be delighted to see you again, while Jamie--well, Jamie, I believe, worships the memory of the physician who was so kind to him in France....
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "By the way, Dr. Grant, why did you never tell us of those charming cousins, when you were in Paris? Why, Brother Will describes one of them as a little water lily, she is so fair and pretty. Katy, I think is her name. Wilford, isn't it Katy Lennox whom you think so beautiful, an...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "When Will visits Silverton again I mean to go with him," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If you do you will find plenty of room at Linwood for those four trunks which I remember seeing in Paris, and your brother will tell you whether I am a hospitable host or not." }...