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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How is it, he thought, as he turned impatiently from the casement," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "As he thus mused, he placed his hand upon a small box on one of the tables." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yet within this, resumed his soliloquy, and he s...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ancient and Modern Physics" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ancient and Modern Physics" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "For twenty years and more I was without a hearing, yet my interest and my faith in what I had to say never flagged, the eagerness of my love for my subject never diminished." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "World." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I told you so;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "World building. With Mr. Willson talk never flagged. We discussed the past and the future of our planetary chain, we built plans for the true and wholesome relation of sexes, we tried to find out--and needless to say neve...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "These differ only in the rate of vibration, each plane vibrating through one great octave, with gulfs of" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "of and for phenomena within the etheric sun-globe, say the Eastern teachers, where the etheric solids, liquids, and gases meet and mingle and interchange. Within this" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "are all the planets--the" }, { "from": "human", "value": ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": ") and ether; that the differences of each of the elementary prakritic substances (iron, copper, sulphur, oxygen) are in their molecules, the fundamental atom being the same; that each of these elementary substances vibrates only through one octave, though on different keys; that...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Each and every prakritic atom is the center of an etheric molecule, says our Western science; but that of the East adds this:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And each atom of that etheric molecule is the center of a pranic molecule, and each atom of prana in that pran...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "but, it adds," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "When the prakritic atom is vibrating in chord with its etheric envelope, say our textbooks," }, { "from": "human", "value": "" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, says the Hindu teacher;" }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "All knowledge is relative, and only relatively true," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "All knowledge obtained by observation and experience is relative, and only relatively true." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "originally did. The old verb" }, { "from": "human", "value": "was meant what a man knew without being told it, as" }, { "fro...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sound" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "So rare and fine is this matter that it interpenetrates carbon or steel as water interpenetrates a sponge, or ink a blotting pad. In fact, each atom of" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No two physical atoms touch, said Faraday." }, { "from": "human", "value...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "is" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Step into the shade, where the ocean of ether is vibrating more slowly, and the ether of the body reduces its vibration." }, { "from": "human", "value": "The ether is the origin of all force and of all phenomena." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The subdivision of prakritic matter until we reach etheric atoms chemically united to make the physical unit" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The two worlds are one world--as much at one with ours as the world of gas about us is at one with our liquids and solids. It is 'continuity, not impact.' They not only touch everywhere and in everything, but they are one and the same in action and reaction." }, { "from"...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "As above, so below, was the secret Key-word. The unity of all the material universe in its prakriti, ether, prana and manasa, was the corner stone of this knowledge. The three planes above prakriti were called Astral, and in common speech there was the ordinary division into two...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That is all the good it did him," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If there are any who care to follow up the line of thought I have opened, who care for the questions that interest us of the East, I will talk as long as they care to listen, provided they will not ask for knowledge that will give them power over others, which cannot fail to be ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We have not cared particularly for the minor details by which explosives are made, or metals obtained from oxides. We have preferred to push on into realms beyond as fast as we could, seeking first the Kingdom of Heaven and its Righteousness, knowing that when it was found all t...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "of phenomena, not more than 100 miles thick, of this prakritic globe, with the whole earth within the corresponding skin of phenomena of the solar etheric globe, within the kinetic belt in which it was made, the ether which surrounds each prakritic molecule is not merely any and...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "and which decreases from the surface of the core" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "at the ocean level, then at the distance of 21,000 miles from it, in a revolving globe, the two forces would be equal; the" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And God called the firmament Heaven." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "of the manasic globe--in what God calls Heaven--amount to no more on that globe, or in Heaven, than so many balls of thistle-down blown across a meadow do on this earth of ours. Everything that can be created in thought must be there. It is in thought only, but in thought it is ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "--that of the Angel Man. The three planes of Spirit above were undifferentiated consciousness, but they were in different octaves of vibration, and these working on the three highest forms of differentiated consciousness (manasic matter) brought them to chording Vibration so tha...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "endowed with speech, while the Angel-man was given" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "To his mind of manasa had been added the Spirit--the Atma-Buddhi's Consciousness of the three Spiritual planes. He has become" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Angels," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Cain took unto himself a wife." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "applying only to the seventh manifestation, or prakriti, while the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "with" }, { "from": "human", "value": "of two globes only, itself and the Divine Mind globe, although its" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Brinton's" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "that" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "belongs to the prakritic plane. The lines of descent from the Light through the star and sun to planet are" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No upper globes of any chain in the solar system can be seen," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "the former two" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "to the sun, is the basis for an elaborate superstructure, both in the physics and the metaphysics of the East. It is used in physics to explain how the" }, { "from": "human", "value": "came to an end at the pe...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mercury and Venus revolve on their axes in the same time that they revolve around the sun, which is another way of saying that" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "and an inaccurate way of presenting the truth. The screw that holds the tire at the outer end of the spoke do...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "of no axial rotation by the interior planets, made by Schiaparelli and confirmed by Flammarion in 1894, has since been fully verified by our Western astronomers. All the new astronomies accept it. But the admission of astronomical" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Few were the followers, straggling far, That reached the lake of Vennachar;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The planets absorb and use nearly all the solar energy--all except the very small amount the minor specks of cosmic dust may receive. There is not the least par...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "of the two bodies are said in our physics exactly to balance, and it lies, says our physics," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "This is the earth's" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "From the earth laya to the solar laya centre, the energy, we may say, is positive; beyond both the solar and the earth laya centre, in the fields touching at them, it is negative --or vice versa. The line connecting the layas is the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Pat...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'm quite in earnest, grannie," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You will have to turn the cabinet over to him, of course?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, I mustn't stay here and keep you from 'redding' up your kitchen, as you call it" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You and I will do better with checks, Elsie, though Aunt Milly will have none of them," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well, Elsie, we kn...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am, I repeat, happy to say that I can give you a home here and clothe you suitably. That will release your income, which can be put to any use which we may decide upon after consultation together. Your lawyer tells me that you are through school, and neither you nor he speak o...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Don't you want to come out and walk a little? she asked in a singularly sweet, eager voice." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "There's a hot-box, or some such thing, and they say it'll be an hour more before we get away. It might seem good to stretch our legs on the prai...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, please do, please come for just a wee turn," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Do you know, I've been simply crazy all the way to come and speak to you, she confessed as soon as they were outside." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I spotted you the very first thing, but I was rather phased by that woman with you. Wasn't she the--goodness gracious!...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I never met her until a week ago, she went on languidly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "She happened to be a friend of my lawyer's wife, and he wished me to come as far as I could in her company. I suppose I oughtn't to travel the rest of the way alone, but he didn't...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now if this were a scene in a play, remarked Elsie Moss reflectively," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "she hesitated." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You don't feel comfy, do you?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The sun is so hot, it's hardly sa...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, dear, I suppose _you're_ going to New York, too? she asked." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Everybody seems to be except poor me." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Of course! Oh, dear, and I'm simply _perishing_ to go! But I'm due in a poky little place...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But he'll never, never consent, she went on mournfully," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But I have always understood that to be an actress one must go through much that--isn't nice," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, but that's half the fun--the struggle...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I can't help wondering what my uncle will be like, she said soberly, thrusting her hand into the pocket of her coat." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You see, I've never seen him, though he and my mother were the greatest chums ever when they were young--almost like tw...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He's awfully religious-looking, you know, Elsie Moss continued." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He wears the same sort of waistcoats and collars the Episcopalians do, though he's a Congregationalist, and his picture is more than dignified, I can tell you. Well, no dou...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What have you done since?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I've learned what a difference mothers make," }, { "from": "human", "value": "It might have been, you know," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I was so small I couldn't do much, and we had an awful time for a year. Dad was always more or less hard up, but he was worse after the earthquake, and if we had a servant she wasted things so that he was wild. He married again--a schoolteacher, and it wasn't a year, quite, afte...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What do you think, exclaimed Miss Moss as she seated herself," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It isn't either, responded the other with a curious sense of disappointment." }, { "from": "human", "value": "My name is Elsie also." }, { "from": "gpt", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Do you ken Elsie Marley, honey? The wife who sells the barley, honey? She won't get up to serve her swine, And do you ken Elsie Marley, honey?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Is there--any more?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "One more, and then you just ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, Elsie-Honey, I've got something perfectly gorgeous to tell you, cried the dark Elsie." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Listen--you're not very keen about going to your cousin's, are you?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "And I just _hate_--the short of i...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There's certainly nothing about it that even my stepmother could object to, Elsie Moss concluded." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Nobody's being cheated: they are both going to get what they would really choose if they had a chance, and to escape what might be very un...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, we'll see each other often, we'll just have to, Elsie-Honey, she cried." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And anyhow, we'll want to compare notes and brush up on our parts. We'll visit back and forth. You come to New York and I----" }, { "from": "human", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And this is Elsie?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And this is your friend, Elsie?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "My friend, Miss M-Marley," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He's a darling, she said to herself as they moved toward the Trinity Place Station," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I hope, Elsie, your friend wasn't in pain?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, no, the girl assured him, trying, but vainly, to add" }, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, no, she repeated." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, no, Uncle John --resolutely--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "And doesn't lose any opportunity for practice? He smiled, but rather ruefully." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Poor child! S...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Per aspera ad astra." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Your Aunt Milly will be here directly," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "She is not very strong, as you know, Elsie, and the excitement may have been too much for her, he explained." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "She has looked forward so eagerly to your arrival." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Elsie!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Dear child! Little orphan stranger! she cried." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "How I have longed for this hour! Indeed, I so longed for it that at the last moment my strength failed me, and when the train whistled I had to drop on my bed in exhaustion. But enough of t...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Jack, dear, you have never asked Elsie to take off her things--your own niece!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "These men, my dear!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That's Katy's apron, remarked Mrs. Middleton plaintively." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Do you know, Jack, I feel sure she sits in here when there's no one around. Now that book on the table by the window must be hers." }, { "from": "human", "value": "It...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Don't think, dear Elsie, that we're unkind to our poor but worthy Kate, the latter remarked, sitting down next to Elsie and taking the girl's limp hand in hers." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "As a matter of fact, she has a sitting-room of her own. This house, you kno...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, Jack, that's exactly what the poor dear wants; I've been trying to get a word in to ask her," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Where did you decide to put her, Milly? In the blue room?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, dear, but I'm not perfectly su...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Katy, this is our niece, Miss Moss, who has come to live with us, Mrs. Middleton announced." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Have you got the blue room ready for her?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "No'm, not yet," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Is that my story-book you've got, ma'am?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It's only Katy," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Have you got everything that you want, miss?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "The clothes-press is full of mussy things, and the wash-bowl was dirty, and there weren't any clean towels," }, { "from": ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He's sort o' hangin' off as if, perhaps, he was hopin' you might," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, Katy, thank you, but I'm sorry you have taken so much trouble. I----" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, Miss Moss, dear, I love to do it, and I'll keep it so all the time if you'll only stay, urged Kate." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Now don't tell...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, Mr. Middleton, I'll say good-by, for I shan't be here when you return." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I suppose you are tired, Elsie, dear?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, no, she returned and added, almost unconsciously," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Uncle John." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Then I wonder if I can't work you in at the ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why, where's Miss Rachel?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, I think you're ever 'n' ever so much nicer, and so pretty!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "The baby did it, she said sorrowfully as she exhibited a picture torn across." }, { "from": ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There! Miss Stewart will never know, she said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Do you want another book now?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, please; but--is it right for Miss Rachel not to know?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Perhaps not,...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why don't you sit down at the table and look at the picture papers?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, I've got to mind the baby, said Mattie--Mattie Howe was the name on her card." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I must be home when he wakes up. Good-by....
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I almost wish she weren't coming until a week later, she said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Do you know, I think if I had actually passed my fiftieth birthday, I might feel somehow more solid and fortified. It's really an ordeal for an old-fashioned woman like myse...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, what do you think! she cried." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "My young relative has decided for some reason to take a later train and has telegraphed me to that effect. Now there's something rather alert and self-reliant about that. That girl must have something...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Cousin Julia?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Elsie--Elsie Marley?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Sure," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Elsie, you must be altogether a Marley," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'm certainly no Pritchard, returned Elsie coolly, and not without enjoyment," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, of course, I ought to regret it, you being the last of the family; but I'm afraid I don't, returned Miss Pritchard." }, { "from": "human", "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Of course, you don't remember your father, Elsie, but do you remember any other of the Marleys or know anything of them?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Just one member of the family, said Elsie, getting down from the window-seat." }, { "from": "human", "v...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That's the only Marley I've ever known, Cousin Julia, but she's rather a dear old body," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "How very difficult it's going to be to explain now, Elsie Marley said to herself as she dressed on Friday morning." }, { "from": "human", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, no--Uncle John, not at all," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, then, what should you say to giving Miss Rachel another day of rest? he suggested." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I have been afraid for some time that she's rather letting people get ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What are you going to do this morning, Elsie?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Write some letters," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Robinson Crusoe" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Do you want another book?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Have you got anything about Edison? he asked." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I've got to write a composition about electricity, and I thought I might start with him." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You might start with Benjamin Franklin," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Sure!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Dictionary of American Scientists." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Katy, my bed hasn't been made, nor my room done to-day," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Bless my soul, I clean forgot it, said Kate in real consternation." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'll go right up this very minute as soon as I've cast my eyes on th...