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22819 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How would you like to _learn_?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, I never thought, said Elsie."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, yes, of course, if you'll teach me some time, I'll do it every day after I get so that I can."
},
{
"from": "gpt",... |
22819 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But, Katy, don't you want to get ready for church?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I went to early mass this mornin', miss. I declare to goodness, I'm that shabby that I don't like to appear out in broad daylight."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, Katy... |
22819 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Your loving friend, Elsie M----."
}
] |
22819 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do tell me a lot to write to auntie (that's my stepmother); I have always told her everything I'm thinking about, and now it will be rather difficult for I only think now about the stage and Cousin Julia and you, Elsie-Honey. I hope you think of me?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
... |
22819 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, Mattie, I don't believe I have had so much that is hard as most people have,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You are like the princess, you see, murmured the child."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But I s'pose you feel awfully sorry about your auntie ... |
22819 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Won't you come to see us, mother and me and the baby--you'll just love him, Miss Moss, he can pat-a-cake and by-by and almost talk and lots else, too. Won't you please come?"
}
] |
22819 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, Elsie, that's capital! he exclaimed."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "She's the nicest sort of woman, Mrs. Howe is. She's hardly more than a girl in spite of that little brood of five. She gets out very little, and if you would go around once in a while it would me... |
22819 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, mother, here's Miss Moss! cried Mattie, then dropped her hand and exclaiming,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "My goodness, there's that baby already!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm so pleased to see you, Miss Moss, said Mrs. Howe quietly."
},
... |
22819 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't see how you do it--other people's washing,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I couldn't if Mattie and Charles Augustus didn't help me so much,"
}
] |
22819 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't you hate it?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, no, said Mrs. Howe quietly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I love to iron, especially pretty things, and I don't mind washing, now that I've got set tubs. You wouldn't believe, would you, that your u... |
22819 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, Elsie-Honey, the passage ran,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I was so relieved and thankful to get your letter and feel convinced that you like Uncle John and Aunt Milly just as well as I do Cousin Julia--though I don't see how you can--quite. It came to me the n... |
22819 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I like your manner of speaking of my specialty, Cousin Julia, she remarked."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Pray tell me why you want to hear it again, if you have such scant respect for it?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If you must know, child, I want ... |
22819 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What I cannot understand, said Miss Pritchard at this time, repeating very much what she had said before,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "They didn't take to the idea with any enthusiasm,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You certainly are the strangest Pri... |
22819 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now you're down, you may as well do your stunt and have it over, Elsie,"
}
] |
22819 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do you know what you look like, Cousin Julia?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, my saucy Marley, I do not."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Like 'Heaven only knows' --the girl heaved a tremendous sigh--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "My dear,... |
22819 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, Miss Marley, I wish I could persuade you to sing that again, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I caught a bit and a glimpse at a distance--just enough to tantalize me."
}
] |
22819 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Go ahead, dear, said Miss Pritchard cheerfully, and turning to her friend:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "My little cousin thought I was scolding her, Mr. Graham. The truth is, I'm the one who should be scolded. I chose the work I cared for at about Elsie's age and w... |
22819 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's good enough for the vaudeville stage just as it is, he declared."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There's only one fault."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, what is that?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Your voice is too good--altogether t... |
22819 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Just where did you get hold of that song?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "My mother used to sing it,"
}
] |
22819 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's an old nursery rhyme, I believe, the artist went on, still half in his perplexity."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Isn't it singular about the name--or perhaps you were named for it?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I was named _after_ it,"
},
{
... |
22819 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That kid, Miss Marley, was dirty and sticky beyond words, and she was the daintiest, freshest, sweetest girl imaginable. But she smiled and held out her arms and he just tumbled into them. She hugged the little beggar close, never minding her pretty gown, and brought him back to... |
22819 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Wait, Miss Marley, that isn't all, he exclaimed."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "As I recalled the young lady, I saw her face only dimly. Now do you know it suddenly comes to me that she had the largest, deepest dimples I had ever seen, one in either cheek. And I reme... |
22819 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Elsie Marley"
}
] |
22819 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, of course, that was my mother! I knew it without the dimples!"
}
] |
22819 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There is no place where earth's sorrows Are so felt as up in heaven, There is no place where earth's failings Have such kindly judgment given."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Uncle John couldn't have administered first aid himself more successfully,"
},
{
"fro... |
22819 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Elsie, there's something I want to say to you as an older woman to a young girl, she began."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You will have one difficulty to contend with that I had in newspaper work, only in your case the temptation will be greater, and your task corre... |
22819 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I suppose, observed the real Elsie Marley thoughtfully, drawing one of her long curls over her shoulder,"
}
] |
22819 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, Elsie, love, it would be sweet to do it sort of _Grecian_, she cried in her sentimental fashion,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Let her leave it as it is a little longer, Milly, her husband pleaded,"
}
] |
22819 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Of course, assented Mrs. Middleton."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Elsie's the picture of her mother, I suppose?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She reminds me of her mother more and more every day, he said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I s... |
22819 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And I love to do it, added Elsie,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Of course, agreed Mrs. Middleton, smiling;"
}
] |
22819 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No wonder you felt like putting up your curls and saying farewell to youth, Elsie, he said whimsically yet ruefully."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Your aunt is just right, dear, and we'll make a change at once. What should you say to going on to New York to make you... |
22819 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Katy, here are your wages for last week, she said rather brusquely, trying to press the money into her hands."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mrs. Middleton will--I hope she'll pay you in full very soon, but at any rate she--that is, you're going to get your wages reg... |
22819 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And, Miss Elsie, I wish you hadn't let what I've confided to you sort o' set you against your aunt. Everybody has their failin's, they do say, and after all if she don't do worse than eat choc'late-creams and munch headache-tablets, why, she's pretty harmless as ladies go. Mis' ... |
22819 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, Miss Elsie, I hate to take your money, protested Kate with tears in her eyes."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I wouldn't 'a' come to you only I'm strapped myself, what with buyin' the hat with all them plumes, and the missus after borrowin' my last five-dollar bil... |
22819 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, Miss Moss, I'm so glad you spoke, for I've been wanting to tell you about our seniors in domestic science this year at the high school. I think I have the nicest class I've ever had. We meet three times a week at eleven o'clock, and I have wondered if you might not like to j... |
22819 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Uncle John? Has anything happened?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, it ain't him. He's in the city, pore lamb, and it's myself is thankful you'll be here to tell him. It's her. Riggs was here a-dunnin' me for his money soon after you left, and nothin' would do but ... |
22819 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, dear, I have an old album in the chest by the window that has pictures of Aunt Ellen, Cousin Ellen, and Cousin Augusta. There are half a dozen, I think, of Cousin Ellen, and three or four of your mother, but no baby picture of you, nor any other, if that's what you're looki... |
22819 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Many thanks, Cousin Julia,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Cousin Julia, she said presently,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I can't help wondering--honestly, don't you ever wish I looked more--I mean that I looked any like them? They're mighty aristocrat... |
22819 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now, Elsie, Miss Pritchard went on,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I want to ask you something--I have more money than I know what to do with. Whom should I spend it on if not on you?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then it's because I'm a Pritchard you ... |
22819 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dear me, how little Elsie must have had in her life to be so absurdly grateful as she is, she said to herself."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And what a life those women must have led her to make her so ready to refuse what meant so much to her if it came to her as t... |
22819 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Pinafore,"
}
] |
22819 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, my angel, what a voice, what a voice! cried madame."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Entrancing! marvellous! It's simply perfect in tone and quality, and correct practice would increase its range. And when you put on a little more flesh (here, even Elsie Moss groan... |
22819 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I confess, Elsie, I can't conceive how you should want so large a sum at this time, Miss Pritchard began."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I trust you so thoroughly that I believe it must be for something worth while--at least you think it is, child. And I feel that yo... |
22819 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A check?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Cash, please, Cousin Julia,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Please tell me--are you doing this, too, because I'm not a Pritchard, or as my guardian?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "As your guardian, Elsi... |
22819 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Argumentation --"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Is a lie ever justifiable? These girls of the"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Per aspera ad astra"
}
] |
22819 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You and I will do better with checks, Elsie, though Aunt Milly will have none of them,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You and I will do better with checks, Elsie, though Aunt Milly will have none of them,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We'll begin with ... |
22819 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Four hundred ninety-two dollars! he gasped."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Wait, Elsie, we'll look them all through before we do any more. There's something wrong. Now this goes back--let me see. Bill rendered--bill rendered--it seems to go back a year or more. I won... |
22819 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This has all been too much for your aunt, Elsie, he said finally."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "She wanted to spare me, and when the task got beyond her strength she wouldn't give in. She has been a greater sufferer than any of us dreamed. Apparently she has had tho... |
22819 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My dear child! he cried, smiling tenderly,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I wouldn't touch your money for the world. The truth is, I ought to pay you a salary as housekeeper and pastor's assistant, though I couldn't begin to compensate you for the better part. You ha... |
22819 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "For your winter clothes, Elsie, he explained."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Aunt Milly reminded me. In fact, she rather scolded me for not thinking of it earlier. And she suggests that you get one of the schoolgirls and go into Boston for a day's shopping on Saturda... |
22819 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, Uncle John, I really don't need a thing!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Nonsense, my dear, I have the word of your aunt that you will need everything. Kate has told her that during the summer all the fashions have flopped completely over, so that last year's clot... |
22819 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Adam Bede from the shelves, she confessed that it tired her head."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Henry Esmond"
}
] |
22819 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, Elsie, I know what I'd just love to hear, she cried,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Little Women"
}
] |
22819 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Per aspera ad astra"
}
] |
22819 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Elsie Marley"
}
] |
22819 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But, my dear child, he exclaimed earnestly,"
}
] |
22819 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I wonder, Miss Marley, if you ever heard about Miss Pritchard's love-story? he asked rather hesitatingly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It all happened of course before you were born; but your family may have spoken of it to you?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"... |
22819 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Has it been a hard day, honey?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, yes, Cousin Julia,"
}
] |
22819 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I think I'll go now, and--write a letter,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Go by all means, dear, Miss Pritchard bade her,"
}
] |
22819 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There's no use, the girl cried out within herself,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I simply cannot stand it. I can't go on so. Cousin Julia's gone to a funeral. I'll have one while she's gone and bury everything deep down. There's nothing else to do. Now that I know f... |
22819 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I thought of black broadcloth, rather plain. Should you think that would be right, Aunt Milly?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Quite right, dear. It would be, of course, the proper thing, Mrs. Middleton returned,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, Aunt M... |
22819 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Besides which, he added,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I realize that most of the other factors and changes that contribute are really due to you and to your influence, Elsie dear."
}
] |
22819 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My dear child, what has happened? Miss Pritchard cried as Elsie relieved her of her wraps and bag, and she dropped weakly into a chair."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I believe your dimples have actually doubled in size since morning. It's positively uncanny, you kno... |
22819 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, Cousin Julia, really when you understand, it's simply wonderful, she went on eagerly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm the only one picked out thus far, and you know most of the others are related to the profession, too. And even if that thing is so old, I can'... |
22819 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, Miss Moss, would you just as lief walk back a little way? he asked suddenly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I had something I wanted to say to you, and there's the parsonage and I haven't begun. I won't make you late for your supper--or dinner, whatever it is."
... |
22819 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And Do You Ken Elsie Marley, Honey?"
}
] |
22819 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Castle bob,"
}
] |
22819 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Elsie Marley, Honey,"
}
] |
22819 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, Cousin Julia, I'm so happy, so happy I'm afraid I'll just burst like a circus balloon. Oh, dear darling, you're so good to me. And I suppose you're sick to death of the same old thing, and dread the thought of another week of it."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Bu... |
22819 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I should be only too glad to do it for the experience alone, Elsie rattled on,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "--there was a catch in her voice--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, I do sympathize, dear little cousin, she said,"
}
] |
22819 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Another week at the Merry Nickel, another week at the Merry Nickel! Bliss! Bliss! Bliss!"
}
] |
22819 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I thought of a mound in sweet Auburn,"
}
] |
22819 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I rather hope so, Miss Pritchard returned in a quiet voice that was like a part of the silent storm,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I know what you have been thinking, dear, she said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You're thinking that I'm not consisten... |
22819 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The trouble is, she went on sadly,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, Cousin Julia!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, dear, that's what I am exactly, an old killjoy; but truly I cannot help it, though I have tried. I have struggled hard against my pre... |
22819 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Cousin Julia, she said with tremulous dignity,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don't want you to come with me this week. I can go back and forth in a carriage by myself. I've got to go through it, for I promised and they will have made arrangements, but--please don'... |
22819 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My dear, it's only because I love you so, because you are the very apple of my eye, that I talk so, the latter declared, and the warm words went straight to the girl's sore heart."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I know I'm not just, but dear, we won't let anything com... |
22819 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'll go any night you say, Miss Pritchard,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Don't make _me_ choose, Mr. Francis, she begged."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There's so much at stake that if I knew when you were to be there, I should be so nervous I couldn'... |
22819 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now, Miss Pritchard, can't you shut down at once on that vaudeville business and set her to studying under a first-rate teacher? he demanded."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "She ought not to lose a minute. Of course she is rather small--too bad she isn't taller--but f... |
22819 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "arrested her attention. Then she read the paragraph with beating heart. She read it twice before she fully comprehended--understood that Elsie Marley had completed her sixth week at the Merry Nickel in her song-dance specialty,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And Do Y... |
22819 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I thought as much from the way you spoke her name, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Elsie will be delighted. May I call Mrs. Middleton?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Just a moment, please. I felt troubled about Elsie, Mr. Middleton, and came on ... |
22819 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Perhaps I should have sent word, she went on."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But I hesitated. I knew you didn't approve of Elsie's father marrying me."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, Mrs. Moss, if I had any such feeling, it has long since disappeared... |
22819 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Elsie has been away lately?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, no, Mrs. Moss, she only went into Boston to do some shopping."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But she was in New York in May?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why, no, he returned w... |
22819 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Has Elsie said anything--shown any interest in the stage?"
}
] |
22819 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Shall I tell her who it is, or just send her in, saying that it's an old friend?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Don't tell her who it is,"
}
] |
22819 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Elsie!"
}
] |
22819 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And who are you? she cried wildly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Am I mad or is this a lunatic asylum?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am Mrs. Moss, she said in a sort of desperation."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Pray tell me who you are... |
22819 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mrs. Richard Moss! I'm sure I don't know any such person; do you, Elsie?"
}
] |
22819 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Elsie, darling, are you ill?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, Cousin Julia, only--startled, _scared_,"
}
] |
22819 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You don't know her, dear?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes--I do. That's what--fazed me, gasped Elsie."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's my--stepmother. I'm afraid something awful has happened."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "My child, ar... |
22819 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't understand, she said finally."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You are evidently an old friend of my little cousin's. Perhaps you are the lady she stayed with while she was finishing her school after Mrs. Pritchard's death?"
}
] |
22819 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She hasn't any grandmother. She never had one. And she isn't----"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, _Moss_, I have it! exclaimed Miss Pritchard."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You're the mother of Elsie's friend at Enderby--though I believed her to be a... |
22819 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I found there instead of this Elsie, instead of Mr. Middleton's own niece, a strange girl who has lived there since last June as Elsie Moss. Her first name happened to be Elsie, too, but her last name is Pritchard--Marley, I should say."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": ... |
22819 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How could she!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, Elsie?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That was why I hedged about going to Enderby, said Elsie incoherently,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I didn't dare let Uncle John see my dimples. They... |
22819 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, Elsie, I am your Cousin Julia--to the end of things, Miss Pritchard assured her. And she spoke almost solemnly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But tell me, dear--you didn't know what you were doing? Oh, Elsie, you didn't realize that it wasn't--that it was--wron... |
22819 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, Cousin Julia, I was sorry! the girl cried,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I was terribly sorry. But it only came on me when everything was--sort of--_fixed_, you know. I couldn't bear to break up Elsie Marley's happiness at Enderby, and--I couldn't bear to have i... |
22819 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How Elsie could have accepted so much from you, knowing all the while she was deceiving you, I cannot understand!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Accepted! Oh, Mrs. Moss, if you could only know half the girl gave, you wouldn't speak of accepting! protested Miss Pritch... |
22819 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The child has actually grown rich overnight, observed Miss Pritchard."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "She has saved all she has earned and if need be could pay for her own lessons for a time at least. But I should like nothing better than to retire and take her to liv... |
22819 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She's too sweet and good for the stage, cried Mrs. Moss."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Do you suppose we can get her away? Do you think she'll be willing to give up and cultivate her voice instead?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She doesn't look now as... |
22819 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, Katy, has anything happened?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Anything happened? Well, I like that! ejaculated Kate between her gasps."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, nothin's happened yet, but I suspicioned something was a-goin' to and so I hiked... |
22819 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If you're bound to go, then, you might as well get two tickets, for I'm goin' with you,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Sure thing. If you go, I go,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But, Katy, you wouldn't do such a thing? You wouldn't leave--them?"
},
... |
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