book_id
stringlengths
2
6
title
stringclasses
1 value
author
stringclasses
1 value
conversations
listlengths
1
5.07k
23785
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "Here is Mr. Hardman's receipt, Gail," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Where did you get the money!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I took the licking," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Took the licking! From whom!" }, { "from": "human", ...
23785
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "She's a great one for notes, he muttered, jerking the scrawl down, half impatiently, half amused." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What does she say this time? Whew!" } ]
23785
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "P.s. Gale said I should come myself and say this but I thot it was safest to rite as long as youre still mad." } ]
23785
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why, Dr. Bainbridge, what do you mean by making me jump so? I nearly lost my skin! I never saw you at all. Where did you come from--the clouds?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, miss. If I had been there you would have seen me before this, for if ever anyone was wal...
23785
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, I would 'f I was you, and I'd give her a good big piece, too. I'll nurse Annette if you want me to. Shall I give her a bath and dose her with medicine every few minutes, like we did mother? Does she need to be wrapped up in wet rags or painted with _irondye_? Or do you wan...
23785
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "Miss Gail, girls, any of you! It's all my fault! Peace is down at the Fisher house watching over Annette. I sent her there this afternoon while I went after a woman to stay with the child, and have just this minute heard that Grandma Cole sprained her ankle on the way there and ...
23785
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "What a picture! murmured the doctor huskily, leaning over to touch the damp forehead and feel the pulse of his little patient." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "This is the first natural sleep she has had for days. Bully for Peace! I confess I was worried about leaving ...
23785
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am afraid you can't, dear. It costs fifty cents to enter the grounds, and even if they admit children at half price, that would mean twenty-five cents for each of you three youngest, and Hope would have to pay the full amount, as she is now in her 'teens. We can't afford to go...
23785
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "If only we hadn't sold Black Prince, she mourned," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "How much do watermelons sell for in the city?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Shure an' it depinds on the size." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Mine are great big...
23785
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'll tell you what I will do. If you can sell all those twenty-one melons at twenty-five cents each, you can have half the money for your trouble. That will still leave me enough to get our family inside the Fair. Will you do it?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'll t...
23785
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "What are you going to do?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Try one of my melons and see if it isn't ripe. This feller will do, I guess. It is big, but not too big. She plunged the shining blade deep into the green rind, and as the two halves fell apart, disclosing the ...
23785
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "Let's eat one-half all up 'fore we begin the other," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "All right, Peace agreed." }, { "from": "human", "value": "The melon _does_ look pretty big, and maybe we can't hold it all at one sitting. I'll push the other half under th...
23785
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, who are you?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Two of the Greenfield kids, answered Peace." }, { "from": "human", "value": "We were just trying one of my melons when we heard what you said. We've got some fine ones in our garden, and I'll sell them che...
23785
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, my darlings! my precious melons! she cried in grief." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Someone has eaten them all up!" } ]
23785
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "I don't s'pose they would have won a prize anyway, but it was hatefully mean of whoever took them. I'll bet Mike O'Hara did it to get even with me for selling the others to the city folks and keeping all the money myself! I'm going straight over and tell him what a nice kind of ...
23785
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "Have you drawn a map?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No--o, I can't seem to get a good one. The first time I tried, it looked like an elephant with two trunks, and the second time the Mississippi River came out of the middle of Florida. In this last picture, the land...
23785
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now we'll stick on the _mush_. Hold this map, Allee, so's it won't wiggle." } ]
23785
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "It doesn't stay very well, does it?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, it doesn't! snapped Peace in exasperation." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I shall not bother with it any more. I'm tired of fooling with it when it acts like that. I'll throw it out ...
23785
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "Faith has been baking; maybe there are some dishes to lick. I wonder if she made any frosting. Mrs. Lacy always wants caramel, and I just love that." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Faith's cross like you are," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Cakes always m...
23785
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "Candies! gasped Peace." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Sh! Don't cry! I'll help you pick them up. They must be for Minnie Eastman's birthday cake. I s'pose that is the white frosted one. The candies aren't hurt a mite, Allee. Stop snivelling. Let's see what is in that...
23785
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "The pin marks don't show much, do they?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, but I shan't leave them there anyway--not alone. We'll cover the railroads with these colored candies, and the rivers we'll make of green sugar. They are blue on the map, but green and blue ai...
23785
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "Peace Greenfield, she said severely," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I--I thought it was Minnie's birthday cake. I--I just dec'rated it." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Just decorated it! What for? What business had you to touch it? That was pure mischief...
23785
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'm going to take that cake over to Mrs. Grinnell's--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Gail said we had to stay here until noon," }, { "from": "human", "value": "She said we had to sit in these _chairs_ till then," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "...
23785
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "It's 'cause my chair keeps slipping that I can't do it, she said, after several vain attempts to lift the cake." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have only one hand to pick this heavy thing up with. Stick this piece of string through the back of my chair, Allee, and I...
23785
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "For the land sakes! cried the plump, motherly woman, upsetting a pan of apples in her surprise." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What are you young ones playing now?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "This isn't exactly a play, Peace answered." }, { "...
23785
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mrs. Grinnell, Mrs. Grinnell, we are all here!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, well, exclaimed the woman, smiling into the flushed face at her elbow," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Peace's geography cake was the hit of the evening last Saturday, bu...
23785
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "She won't let you give the entertainment!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "She doesn't care about the entertainment at all, but she won't let us have the barn, and here I've been and asked Effie and Tessie and Mike, and they all promised to take part. Oh, dear! I did w...
23785
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "No, she doesn't care a single speck. She said we could give it in the orchard, but then anyone could come and look on without having to pay a cent, and I can't get my money at all." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, you can. We will give the entertainment in our car...
23785
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "Cecile, exclaimed her friend Frances," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Peace Greenfield, answered Cecile, almost too amazed for speech, for this was the first time she herself had ever heard the young whistler." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Father calls ...
23785
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "Give from the depths of your heart, he urged." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Think of these millions of people needing the Gospel. Brother Peak has come direct from the field, he knows conditions better than anyone else can know them. He tells us they need more missi...
23785
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why, Cecile! stammered Gail, glancing involuntarily from the girls' fresh, white suits to her own shabby print frock and rolled-up sleeves." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "This is a great treat. Come right in! We are so glad to have you call. Don't apologize; you are ...
23785
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "You little darlings! the hostess exclaimed at sight of them." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Take them right upstairs, Sophy; mamma wants them at once. Cecile, you look tired out. Oh, yes, I can understand just how you feel for Sara and Marion were here all day yester...
23785
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "This is the corner, mamma, said Frances, as the car came to a standstill at one of the busiest streets;" } ]
23785
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "Stay right here," } ]
23785
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "Are you sick, Mr. Blind-man?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Not now, little lady." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Then you have been?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, this is my first day out for two weeks." }, { "from": "human", ...
23785
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "Maxwellton braes are bonnie, Where early fa's the dew, And it's there that Annie Laurie Gied me her promise true-- Gied me her promise true, Which ne'er forgot will be; And for bonnie Annie Laurie I'd lay me doon and dee." } ]
23785
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "He's been sick and can't play as much as he used to could, until he gets strong again; so he needs all the money he can get. Don't forget him when you go by again." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Just s'posing we all had our eyes punched out so's we couldn't see, and ...
23785
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "I should have gone, too," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, indeed, Hope declared." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You have a dreadful cold now; but I think she might have let me go. Towzer isn't enough company on such a night, and like as not he will ge...
23785
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "Have you ever heard the wind go 'Yoooooo?' 'Tis a pitiful sound to hear! It seems to chill you through and through With a strange and speechless fear," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What's that? Sounded 's if--it _was_ the gate banging and someone is coming up the st...
23785
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, Gail, not Mr. _Skinner_!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, answered the oldest sister in a strained, unnatural voice that struck terror to the little spy's heart," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Mr. Skinner!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value"...
23785
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "Isn't there someone we know who could loan us the money?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I can't think of a soul. Most of father's close friends were ministers, and they wouldn't be able to help us. We have no relatives living. We haven't anybody--" }, { "from...
23785
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "We have Mr. Strong, too, reminded Peace." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Maybe he knows how the money could be paid." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I had thought of asking his advice, but of course it was too stormy tonight. We must wait until day." },...
23785
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "What did you say?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I looped my fingers up in circles like make-b'lieve eye-glasses, and said, 'Mah deah man, yoah hat is too tall and yoah pants ah too wide. I don't like the looks of them, but I am too p'lite to say so.'" }, { "...
23785
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "Girls, it's a quarter to one! Fly into bed, every one of you! School keeps tomorrow just the same. Try to lay aside this trouble at least for tonight and get a little sleep. In the morning I will speak to Mr. Strong about it--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And remem...
23785
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "and hesitatingly began," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I've wiped the dishes and fed the hens and dusted the parlor--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But I haven't swept the parlor yet," }, { "fro...
23785
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "Let me go with Mrs. Grinnell, was the prompt reply." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I won't be in your way all day, then; and while I am gone, the hens will have laid enough eggs to pay back Mrs. Hartman. I borrowed only five. Twenty-eight hens ought to be able to lay...
23785
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "My, but I'm glad, she hummed to herself as she scrambled into her best dress and flew out of the door into the warm autumn sunshine." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I thought she wouldn't let me go, and then I couldn't get the money. Oh, I am so glad, so glad!" }, ...
23785
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "To Martindale, she said, briefly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Come along! There isn't time to clean up. We'll hide you under the lap robe. Mrs. Grinnell won't care. Cherry, Oh, Cherry, tell Gail I have taken Allee with me! She ain't _very_ dirty, and I'll keep her...
23785
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why, cried Peace, almost in dismay," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, in this case, laughed the relieved woman, climbing into the rig and clucking at the horse," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, yes, it's lots of fun watching the people go by. There ...
23785
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "Are we all here?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Course! What did you think we left behind? I know how to get across crowded streets. Here is the door. I wonder which is Smart and which is Swift,--there are three men in the room." }, { "from": "human", "va...
23785
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "What security have you to offer?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Sickerity?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, when we loan money we have to have some security from the party. They must own some property or something of value to give us so if the money ...
23785
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why so pensive, little maid? That face would scare the tramps away." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, Mr. Strong, she cried, catching his hand and pulling him down beside her," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, dear, I know all about it. Gail told me,...
23785
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, Peace, I came over to see Gail. Where can I find her?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "In the kitchen, most likely. Come along; I will hunt her up." } ]
23785
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "I beg your pardon, said Mr. Strong." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I thought it was someone who wanted me." }, { "from": "human", "value": "It is, replied the shabby man." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I take it that you are pastor of the Park...
23785
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "You don't like drumsticks the best, do you, Mr. Strong? And neither does Mrs. Grinnell. I heard her say so lots of times. She likes the wings. I want something that ain't so skinny. That's why I always choose drumsticks. There are four in this affair--four drumsticks, I mean. Yo...
23785
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, I have, he answered decidedly," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, dear, thought Peace," }, { "from": "human", "value": "But though her face lengthened, she did not voice such sentiments, and started for the kitchen, saying," }, { "from": "gpt...
23785
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "read Peace slowly, spelling out the long, unfamiliar words and finding it dry reading. She turned the yellowed pages rapidly in search of pictures, but found none. She skipped several lines and began again to read," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "said the sister, look...
23785
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ladies and gentlemen, I've already told Grandpa, and he said it was all right--I apologize. I s'pose you are hungry, same as I, and that's what has kept you busy eating for so long. I shouldn't have hollered at you from the door like I did, but if you wanted that drumstick as ba...
23785
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "It's just as I 'xpected, Peace blurted out at length." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I said I bet you wanted the farm yourself, seeing that old Skin--Mr. Skinflint didn't get it." }, { "from": "human", "value": "No, it isn't that, Peace. We--Grandma and I...
23785
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "Here was a family without any father and mother, and there were a father and mother without any family. You needed the one and we needed the other. But at first the way didn't seem clear. I was given to understand that you didn't want to be adopted, and as I found that Gail was ...
23785
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "When I discovered your grandfather's identity only a few days ago, the way seemed suddenly open to me. Hi Allen had shared his home with me when I was an orphan; I would share my home with his little granddaughters, alone in the world and in trouble,--for by this time I had hear...
23785
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "I have talked the matter over with Gail, and she agrees if the rest of you will consent. I am not a millionaire, but we are pretty well fixed in a material way and can give you a great many pleasures and advantages that the little town of Parker can never offer. There are fine s...
57236
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why don't you write it down?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I never learned the trade of writing." }, { "from": "human", "value": "But detective stories are so popular!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, because the detective is a romantic fi...
57236
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "B. Enderby" } ]
57236
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, what's the matter?" } ]
57236
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ahh, they're only overgrown bell-hops!" } ]
57236
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "I suppose you are wondering why I sent for you?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It was the heading on your letter paper. What do you mean by 'confidential investigator'--a detective?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Something a little better than an ordina...
57236
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "It doesn't matter so much what other people think of you, she said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have to make up my mind about you for myself. Tell me more about yourself." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'm not much of a hand at the brass instrument...
57236
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "It was a single strand of sixty-seven black pearls ranging in size from a currant down to a pea. They were perfectly matched, and each stone had a curious, bluish cast, which is, I believe, quite rare. As jewels go nowadays, it was not an exceptionally valuable necklace, worth a...
57236
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "The lost necklace was exactly like this," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Had you two?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "These are artificial." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "A very natural mistake, she said." }, { "from": "human", "va...
57236
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "On the night in question I wore the real pearls in the first act. I am sure of that, because they were glowing wonderfully when I took them off--as if there was a tiny fire in each stone. I put them in the pocket of the nurse's uniform and carried them on the stage with me durin...
57236
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "I had you shown right up because I want my friends to become accustomed to seeing you. I hope you did not mind." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I suppose I ought to account for you in some way, she went on," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, let them sup...
57236
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "Give me the facts!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But you, he said impatiently," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I don't know you." } ]
57236
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "I beg your pardon, I said stiffly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I recognise the right of only one person to examine me in this manner. That is my client." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Forgive me, he said winningly." }, { "from": "gpt", "v...
57236
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am not a narrow man, he said in his best manner." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I will not hold it against you. Only show me that you are the man for the job, and I will aid you with all my power." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I spoke too hastily mys...
57236
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "Have the police been notified?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Miss Hamerton imposes absolute secrecy." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Quite so, he said quickly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That is wise." }, { "from": "human", "...
57236
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "Then you think that the robbery was engineered by experts?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "How can I tell?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I expect I shall have to come often to you for help." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I expect you to, he ...
57236
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "I have always known him, she said simply." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That I happen to buy things from him is merely incidental. He was a friend of my father's and he is a very good friend to me. He has proved it more than once." }, { "from": "human", ...
57236
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, you did not, you have not?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Certainly not, I said quickly." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I knew you didn't wish it." } ]
57236
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "It tortures me! she cried," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Know what?" } ]
57236
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "Does she favour him?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Nah! he said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "She's got too much sense. He's a four-flusher, a counter-jumper, a hall-room boy! Lord! the airs he gives himself you'd think he had a million a year! He's ...
57236
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "What's this?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Blue pearls, he rattled off." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Latest smart novelty. A hit. Mrs. Minturn Vesey had one sent up only yesterday. She wore it to the opera last night." }, { "from": "gpt", ...
57236
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "Look here, I said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I expect you'll want to have me thrown out for bothering you, but I'm in a hole." }, { "from": "human", "value": "What can I do for you?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'm a fiction writer, I s...
57236
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "I couldn't say, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Its value would be fabulous." }, { "from": "human", "value": "But give me some idea, I said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, say half a million, he said." }, { "from": "human",...
57236
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'm sorry now that I introduced you to my friends. Though I do not see how I could have seen you without their knowing it." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why sorry?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I have thought--if it would not tie you down too closely-...
57236
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "What's the matter?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "McArdle here found a piece of paper on the stage with funny writing on it. It's a mystery like." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Let's have a squint at it," } ]
57236
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "A code is generally regular words, I suggested mildly, as became the newest and humblest member of the company." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Nobody would ever think up these crazy combinations of letters. I should say it was a cryptogram." }, { "from": "hum...
57236
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "appears as EA&BO, whereas in the next line it is FBACP." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Company" } ]
57236
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "Not bad news? she asked apprehensively." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'm not equal to it!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "But how do I know what is bad and good to you?" } ]
57236
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "You're a welcome messenger! she cried." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, I'm happy now! I won't worry any more! I know!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Don't mind me! she begged." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You're on the right track! You'...
57236
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "What, _you_! she said, making out to be bored to death." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I thought I was going to have a peaceful afternoon." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Cheer up, I said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'm going right away a...
57236
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "It's the work of a clever gang, she said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "They have put a member, perhaps more than one in the company." }, { "from": "human", "value": "But what a lot of trouble to take, I objected," }, { "from": "gpt", "value"...
57236
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, sir, forty thousand dollars." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Go way! was the reply." }, { "from": "human", "value": "How do you know?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I saw it entered in his bank book. I was in his dressing-room, and I saw i...
57236
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "Too insistent, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Paintings will not merge." } ]
57236
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "Daylight is rude and unmanageable, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Artificial light I can order to suit my mood." } ]
57236
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "She paid me at different times exactly twenty-five thousand, seven hundred for them." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I know, I said quietly." }, { "from": "human", "value": "But what was their value?" } ]
57236
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "I see you know the truth, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well--I am in your hands. I hope you will keep the secret. Only a great deal of unhappiness could result from its becoming known." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I shall not tell, I said."...
57236
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am a fool about precious stones, he went on with that disarming smile." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No shop-keeper has any right to indulge in a personal passion for his wares. Pearls come first with me, then diamonds. Would you like to see my diamonds?" } ]
57236
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am no miser, he said smiling." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Quantity does not appeal to me, nor mere bigness. Only quality. This is my whole collection, seventy-two stones, the result of thirty years' search for perfection." } ]
57236
Unknown Title
Unknown Author
[ { "from": "human", "value": "Aren't they lovely?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, like a snake," }, { "from": "human", "value": "That feeling seems strange to me. I love them." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Put them away!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Wo...