Alignment-Lab-AI/GutenDialogue2 · Datasets at Hugging Face

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34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Henry Russell! she exclaimed, trying to reveal both dignity and disdain, in spite of her ridiculous position," } ]
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "My dear Frieda, you do me an injustice, he began," } ]
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Very well, Henry; now that you have accomplished your purpose, I hope you will be good enough to leave me," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I prefer to see you safely through the woods. When we are nearer the house I may be able to find someone to take my place." } ]
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "There are many things I would like to talk over with you, Frieda, but this is not the time. Neither do I want you to think I meant to take an unfair advantage of you by forcing myself upon you without your knowledge. I think I scarcely realized myself just what I was doing. I am...
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Please don't tell Mrs. Naxie, Bryan, that I spoke of it, she volunteered as soon as she beheld the preparations," } ]
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Frank told me to tell you that he was sorry not to be able to come over with us this afternoon, Bryan, Jack announced a few moments later, when the four of them had gone out to select a place where tea could be served," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But for some reas...
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Do you know, Frieda, Jack whispered when they were safe from being overheard," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I would give a great deal if Bryan and Olive would learn to care for each other. Ordinarily I think it is horrid to be a matchmaker, but Bryan and Olive are b...
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Captain MacDonnell and Olive look too much alike, she argued." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I prefer marriages where the man and woman are contrasts." } ]
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "BUT Henry cannot go; it is absurd! He never shot a gun in his life and besides I--" } ]
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I think you must be mistaken about your husband's being unable to shoot, Frieda, Lord Kent answered dryly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "As a matter of fact I believe he is an expert; he told me himself that he had taken prizes for marksmanship when he was a boy, bu...
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "You mean that Henry has joined the army--that he has crossed over to France without asking me how I would feel--without even coming to say good-bye," } ]
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "But, my dear child, how could your husband come to say good-bye to you when you have been steadfastly refusing to see him for weeks? Frank continued, still a little impatient over feminine unreasonableness." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He told me to tell you his pl...
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Won't you motor down to the station with me, please, Jack?" } ]
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Bryan is expecting to be here again this afternoon for a farewell visit, dear. He has been delayed for some reason or other but hopes to leave with his regiment tomorrow, Frank announced on the way to his train." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Do you know I think Brya...
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "May I have one of Vive's blue ribbons to tie in my buttonhole, please, Lady Jacqueline? he asked." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Lady Jacqueline being a title which Captain MacDonnell had originated for Jack, but which many other people also used." }, { "from...
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, I'll go if you'll come back to dinner with Frank and the rest of us, she agreed." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'll be ready in five minutes." } ]
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I wish you would give this to Frank for me, Lady Jack, and if anything happens to me ask him to read it, and to let you read it afterwards if he thinks best. Sorry to be mysterious, but this is a kind of cranky wish of mine." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "All right, ...
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Strange for Bryan to have confided this letter to us, Frank remarked, as he put it carefully away in a strong box where he kept his important papers." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I wonder what old Bryan has written? I never dreamed he had a secret in his life which...
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "What is it, Frieda?" } ]
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, I have just received a note from a young soldier to whom I sent the first pair of socks I ever made, she returned." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He may not have originated the poem, but it is almost worth the trouble and the time I took on the socks. Do listen:"...
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I wonder if I am improving?" } ]
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Jimmie and I are going to drive down to the village to see old Dame Quick, she announced," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I promised to read to her this afternoon." }, { "from": "human", "value": "What will you do with Jimmie while you read? He will never ...
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Huggins" } ]
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "America" } ]
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sure, I've been waitin' and longin' for the sight of you these two hours," } ]
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "You know you have had half a dozen visitors during the two hours you say you have been waiting, Mrs. Huggins, Frieda returned. For it was true that the tiny house and the old woman were the center of all the gossip in the village." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I exp...
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "But you have not told me any special news this afternoon, Frieda protested, having lifted her cup for a second helping of tea, and making up her mind that she could not think of herself while visiting, as she usually did at home." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "My sis...
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Suppose you tell my fortune, she suggested rather shyly. For some time past she had been thinking of just this." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Didn't you say you sometimes told the fortunes of the boys and girls in Granchester, and that a great many things you predic...
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "You have had too many of the things you wish without ever having to work for them, or to wait, little lady, she repeated slowly. Then she glanced down into the extended tea cup." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I think I see that you will have to lose something before ...
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "But, Frank, I don't think you understand the situation in the United States, Jack argued, speaking good naturedly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You see, we represent so many nationalities, so many differences of opinion and training, that we can't all think alike. ...
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "You are not afraid of anything in the world, are you, Jack?" } ]
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Goodness, Frank, what an extraordinary opinion you and a few other people have of me! I am one of the biggest cowards in the world about the things I am afraid of. I simply don't happen to be afraid of animals, as so many women are. And that is not a virtue, but because I was br...
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "After all, Jack, it is not for us to decide anything concerning Frieda and her husband. That is for them. We are simply doing what Professor Russell has requested of us." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, but Frieda," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Frie...
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am afraid you have had to do the forgiving recently, Jack. I expect I have been difficult. But I feel so torn these days wanting to be over in France doing the real work with fellows like Bryan, and at the same time wanting to be here with you and the babies and knowing I am p...
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I know, Frank, she answered," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, Jack, I don't; but I thank you for understanding." } ]
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "This is from Bryan, I believe, Jack. Do tell me what he says." } ]
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Bryan says he is all right and sends his love to the family, but more especially to his Lady Vive. He asks us all to write to him oftener if we can manage it, as we are his adopted family and he has no other. Frieda, he says your gift of socks is the most wonderful in all France...
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, I am nothing but a civilian these days and Bryan is a soldier. I can't expect the same interest to be bestowed upon me, even by my own wife." } ]
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is Bryan, Frank then exclaimed without waiting to be asked." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I had word from the War Office today that he had been mortally wounded." } ]
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Are you sure, Frank, there can be no mistake?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am afraid not, dear. Bryan was leading a charge out of his trench when a shell hit him. His own men carried him back to a field hospital." } ]
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "But the news only said that Bryan was fatally hurt--not that things were over?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes; but I'm afraid he may be by now, Frank answered." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I have sent half a dozen cables for more news." }, { ...
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Bryan's letter, Frank, Jack remarked quickly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Don't you think you ought to open it? He said that if anything happened to him you were to read it first, and afterwards I was to see the letter if you thought best. I remember he seemed muc...
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I don't know what to do, Jack, he argued." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If Bryan still lives he may, of course, recover and I would not then like to feel that I have pryed into his secret. On the other hand, you may be right and Bryan may have made some simple reque...
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Read this, Jack. It is just as well that you should know what is in it. Bryan must have been considerably upset over his farewells and the thought of what might lie ahead of him, or he would never have made such a request of us. He must have realized afterwards that the thing is...
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I don't see what you find impossible, Frank, Jack answered, placing the letter inside the envelope and quickly returning it." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I was only waiting until we heard more news to ask you to let me go to Bryan, even if he had not made this requ...
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Tell me your reason please, Frank. This isn't like you. You can't mean to be so selfish--even so cruel." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am sorry to have to say this to you, dear. I wish you could have been willing to do what I asked, without demanding my reason. But...
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am sorry, Frank, she answered quietly," } ]
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'll let you know as soon as I hear from the war office," } ]
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "What is it, Jack? Are you going up to London to join Frank?" } ]
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "No; I am not going to Frank, she explained," } ]
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Perhaps you won't approve what I am planning to do any more than Frank does, Jack continued," } ]
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I hope you won't be angry with me, Jack, and of course I cannot hope to influence you if Frank cannot; but I don't think you ought to do so serious a thing without Frank's consent. In any case, please don't go away without his knowing. You must know that this is not right and th...
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am glad you asked me that, Frieda, dear, she responded," } ]
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Go ahead, Jack, then, and no matter what happens I'll stand by you and swear you've done the right thing to the bitter end. You have been more right than other people as long as I've known you. I would not pay any attention to Olive. I told you that Olive was getting to be an ol...
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Somehow I wish Jack wouldn't. Maybe at the last moment she'll see Frank and change her mind, Frieda suggested, staring out at the winter landscape with her small nose pressed mournfully against the window pane like a discontented child." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": ...
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Jack has written me a note telling me that she has gone to France. You both probably know I did not wish her to go. Please let us not speak of this matter again." } ]
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, Frank, I am so glad to be at home again. It has all been so distressing. Poor Bryan is going to get well, but I fear he will hate it when he does, for he may never walk again. He does not know this yet." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am horribly sorry for Bryan...
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "You are still angry with me, Frank? Jack queried, though the question was scarcely a necessary one." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You have not yet seen that I had the right to judge for myself in this thing about Bryan? After all, what possible wrong have I done? An...
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "After all, Frank, even if you do continue to disapprove of me and to think I did wrong to disobey you, won't you make friends with me? Please say I'm forgiven?" } ]
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I presume, Jack, that you consider it a very simple matter for me to say I forgive you and to overlook your utter disregard of my wishes, and your deception in the matter. But I cannot see the thing in that light. You have not only wounded me, but you have made me ridiculous. To...
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "made her particularly" } ]
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "What are you thinking about, Frieda? Certainly not of what I just said to you." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Still I was thinking of you, Frank, she answered, smiling," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Perhaps as a matter of vanity, yes, Frieda? But of co...
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Of course you are going to think I am interfering, Frank, and no one ever pays any real attention to what I say, but I just thought I'd tell you anyhow. You are making a big mistake. Of course I realize that you are not so silly as not to appreciate Jack, but I don't believe you...
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I know I am silly, Frank, she confessed," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You are an infant, Frieda, Frank remarked." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Of course Jack has been paying visits and has stayed too long. But perhaps I had best go and look for her, ...
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Poor Bryan, one did not like to allow oneself to think of him too often these days, yet he must be brought back home as soon as possible," } ]
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "There is trouble in the big house, also, she said to herself, wagging her old head." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Funny how when trouble of one kind gets loosed in the world, so many other kinds follow it." } ]
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "There was nothing more for him to do but to go home also," } ]
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Frank, is that you?" } ]
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sit down for a little while will you please, Frank? The ground is not particularly damp in some places, I have been sitting here a long time." } ]
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "You are not ill, are you, dear?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I was dizzy and very tired a little while ago, I don't know just how long. I sat down here to rest and fell asleep for a time. I am quite all right now." } ]
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "There is something I want to say to you, Frank. I have been making up my mind to speak of it for some time. This afternoon I knew I had to decide. I went off for a long walk and now I have decided." } ]
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I want to go home, Frank?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I mean I want to go back to the Rainbow ranch to see Jim and Ruth and Jean, but Jim most of all," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Please don't answer, Frank, until I have explained to you a little b...
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I think this is a pretty severe punishment, Jack, if you think I am unfair. But you must let me take you home to Kent House now; Olive and Frieda are both dreadfully worried to know what has become of you." } ]
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Certainly you don't show much consideration for Frank, Frieda protested when she first heard the news." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It seems to me that England is _his_ country and he has a good deal more work to do and goes through a lot more than you do, Jacqueli...
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Just the same you'll be sorry and ashamed of yourself some day, Jack Ralston. You need not pretend anything to me, I understand the present situation perfectly. Frank was rather horrid to you and he ought not to be allowed to be a bully, but you could really twist him around you...
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Dame Quick" } ]
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Are you a deserter, Henry, hiding from justice?" } ]
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I most certainly am not, my dear," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I was slightly wounded soon after my arrival at the front. But I also found that my scientific knowledge could be of more service than my abilities as a soldier. So I came back to England and have been ...
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am going to take Henry Russell back to the United States with me in ten days, she remarked aloud, but in a very small whisper." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I don't know how I am going to manage him or the British Government, but I am going to, somehow. I thought ...
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I don't see how Jack and Frank could have told you I was well, Henry, she said plaintively." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I don't suppose you have noticed but I have lost a good many pounds." }, { "from": "human", "value": "No, I had not noticed before, ...
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Do you know, Henry, if you say things like that to me oftener, I feel sure I will care for you more. But please get your hat and come with me now, I want to introduce you to a very dear, old friend of mine in Granchester. Afterwards, if your hand does not hurt, you must go up to...
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Rainbow Castle," } ]
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is still just the loveliest, homiest place in the world!" } ]
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Have a cup of coffee in the morning early, Jack. I have promised Ruth not to take you too far, but I've a new horse for you to try and I want you to have the first ride over the ranch with me, while the others are still asleep. You and I are the only ones who have ever really lo...
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'll be down in ten minutes, Jim. Is that the horse for me? Isn't he a beauty? But hitch yours and mine somewhere outside and open the Lodge door, I didn't lock it last night, and come in and start my coffee. I just opened my eyes this minute." } ]
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ain't anybody been doin' anything to you, you don't like, Boss? Jim demanded, purposely breaking into the old careless speech he had used before Ruth's coming to Rainbow Ranch to educate them all, and Jim more than any one." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Because if a...
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "He is one of the most perfect creatures I ever saw, Jim. I don't care what other people say, I like our fine western horses better than any others in the world." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Try him, Jack," }, { "from": "human", "value": "His movement se...
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I suppose Jim tried to show you every horse and every cow on the ranch, Jack, Ruth began." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I hope you are not worn out, child. I told him to allow you one night's rest." } ]
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, and after she has had breakfast I want to take Jack and everybody down to the Rainbow Mine. I always feel it belongs more to Ralph, and to me than to the others. Oh, simply because my husband was its first engineer." } ]
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Remember, Henry, when you and Ralph were more or less blown up going down the shaft of the old mine. It was after that, Frieda adopted you." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I had my legs broken didn't I, so I couldn't get away? Well, Frieda always prefers her victims h...
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I don't believe this is far from the place where Frank and I discovered the first gold in Rainbow creek, Jack remarked drowsily, a little worn out from the excitement of the day." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "How filled the old ranch was with memories and thoughts o...
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "When is Frank coming over to join you, Jack? Jean Merritt asked unexpectedly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ralph hopes to get home from his work at the canal in a few weeks and it would be a great pleasure if he and Frank could be here at the same time." }, { ...
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "After all there is some advantage in being an old maid, one does not have to worry continually over being in the same place with one's husband. You will all have to come over to see my Indian School some day soon. Perhaps I am wedded to that." }, { "from": "gpt", "va...
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, come now Frieda, you don't really believe anyone has such poor taste as that," } ]
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, well, perhaps the combination is prettiest after all. Vive is the only real beauty with her dark eyes and yellow hair." } ]
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I believe Vive really is the prettiest of all the children," } ]
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Britain" } ]
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "What is it, Olive? Jack asked sharply, as soon as she saw her." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Which one of the children is it? What has happened?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "There is nothing to be seriously frightened about, Jack, Olive replied quiet...
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "If Vive dies do you think Frank will ever forgive me," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I don't see what Frank has to forgive? The point is will he ever forgive himself for having you go through all this alone?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "But I ought no...
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is over," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Please do not let anyone come with me, she asked." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I must go outdoors alone." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Henry Russell! she exclaimed, trying to reveal both dignity and disdain, in spite of her ridiculous position," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My dear Frieda, you do me an injustice, he began," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Very well, Henry; now that you have accomplished your purpose, I hope you will be good enough to leave me," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I prefer to see you safely through the woods. When we are nearer the house I may be able to find someone to take my place." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There are many things I would like to talk over with you, Frieda, but this is not the time. Neither do I want you to think I meant to take an unfair advantage of you by forcing myself upon you without your knowledge. I think I scarcely realized myself just what I was doing. I am...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Please don't tell Mrs. Naxie, Bryan, that I spoke of it, she volunteered as soon as she beheld the preparations," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Frank told me to tell you that he was sorry not to be able to come over with us this afternoon, Bryan, Jack announced a few moments later, when the four of them had gone out to select a place where tea could be served," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But for some reas...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Do you know, Frieda, Jack whispered when they were safe from being overheard," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I would give a great deal if Bryan and Olive would learn to care for each other. Ordinarily I think it is horrid to be a matchmaker, but Bryan and Olive are b...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Captain MacDonnell and Olive look too much alike, she argued." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I prefer marriages where the man and woman are contrasts." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "BUT Henry cannot go; it is absurd! He never shot a gun in his life and besides I--" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I think you must be mistaken about your husband's being unable to shoot, Frieda, Lord Kent answered dryly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "As a matter of fact I believe he is an expert; he told me himself that he had taken prizes for marksmanship when he was a boy, bu...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You mean that Henry has joined the army--that he has crossed over to France without asking me how I would feel--without even coming to say good-bye," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But, my dear child, how could your husband come to say good-bye to you when you have been steadfastly refusing to see him for weeks? Frank continued, still a little impatient over feminine unreasonableness." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He told me to tell you his pl...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Won't you motor down to the station with me, please, Jack?" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Bryan is expecting to be here again this afternoon for a farewell visit, dear. He has been delayed for some reason or other but hopes to leave with his regiment tomorrow, Frank announced on the way to his train." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Do you know I think Brya...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "May I have one of Vive's blue ribbons to tie in my buttonhole, please, Lady Jacqueline? he asked." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Lady Jacqueline being a title which Captain MacDonnell had originated for Jack, but which many other people also used." }, { "from...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, I'll go if you'll come back to dinner with Frank and the rest of us, she agreed." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'll be ready in five minutes." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I wish you would give this to Frank for me, Lady Jack, and if anything happens to me ask him to read it, and to let you read it afterwards if he thinks best. Sorry to be mysterious, but this is a kind of cranky wish of mine." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "All right, ...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Strange for Bryan to have confided this letter to us, Frank remarked, as he put it carefully away in a strong box where he kept his important papers." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I wonder what old Bryan has written? I never dreamed he had a secret in his life which...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What is it, Frieda?" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, I have just received a note from a young soldier to whom I sent the first pair of socks I ever made, she returned." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He may not have originated the poem, but it is almost worth the trouble and the time I took on the socks. Do listen:"...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I wonder if I am improving?" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Jimmie and I are going to drive down to the village to see old Dame Quick, she announced," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I promised to read to her this afternoon." }, { "from": "human", "value": "What will you do with Jimmie while you read? He will never ...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Huggins" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "America" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sure, I've been waitin' and longin' for the sight of you these two hours," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You know you have had half a dozen visitors during the two hours you say you have been waiting, Mrs. Huggins, Frieda returned. For it was true that the tiny house and the old woman were the center of all the gossip in the village." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I exp...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But you have not told me any special news this afternoon, Frieda protested, having lifted her cup for a second helping of tea, and making up her mind that she could not think of herself while visiting, as she usually did at home." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "My sis...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Suppose you tell my fortune, she suggested rather shyly. For some time past she had been thinking of just this." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Didn't you say you sometimes told the fortunes of the boys and girls in Granchester, and that a great many things you predic...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You have had too many of the things you wish without ever having to work for them, or to wait, little lady, she repeated slowly. Then she glanced down into the extended tea cup." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I think I see that you will have to lose something before ...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But, Frank, I don't think you understand the situation in the United States, Jack argued, speaking good naturedly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You see, we represent so many nationalities, so many differences of opinion and training, that we can't all think alike. ...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You are not afraid of anything in the world, are you, Jack?" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Goodness, Frank, what an extraordinary opinion you and a few other people have of me! I am one of the biggest cowards in the world about the things I am afraid of. I simply don't happen to be afraid of animals, as so many women are. And that is not a virtue, but because I was br...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "After all, Jack, it is not for us to decide anything concerning Frieda and her husband. That is for them. We are simply doing what Professor Russell has requested of us." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, but Frieda," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Frie...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am afraid you have had to do the forgiving recently, Jack. I expect I have been difficult. But I feel so torn these days wanting to be over in France doing the real work with fellows like Bryan, and at the same time wanting to be here with you and the babies and knowing I am p...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I know, Frank, she answered," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, Jack, I don't; but I thank you for understanding." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This is from Bryan, I believe, Jack. Do tell me what he says." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Bryan says he is all right and sends his love to the family, but more especially to his Lady Vive. He asks us all to write to him oftener if we can manage it, as we are his adopted family and he has no other. Frieda, he says your gift of socks is the most wonderful in all France...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, I am nothing but a civilian these days and Bryan is a soldier. I can't expect the same interest to be bestowed upon me, even by my own wife." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is Bryan, Frank then exclaimed without waiting to be asked." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I had word from the War Office today that he had been mortally wounded." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Are you sure, Frank, there can be no mistake?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am afraid not, dear. Bryan was leading a charge out of his trench when a shell hit him. His own men carried him back to a field hospital." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But the news only said that Bryan was fatally hurt--not that things were over?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes; but I'm afraid he may be by now, Frank answered." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I have sent half a dozen cables for more news." }, { ...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Bryan's letter, Frank, Jack remarked quickly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Don't you think you ought to open it? He said that if anything happened to him you were to read it first, and afterwards I was to see the letter if you thought best. I remember he seemed muc...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I don't know what to do, Jack, he argued." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If Bryan still lives he may, of course, recover and I would not then like to feel that I have pryed into his secret. On the other hand, you may be right and Bryan may have made some simple reque...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Read this, Jack. It is just as well that you should know what is in it. Bryan must have been considerably upset over his farewells and the thought of what might lie ahead of him, or he would never have made such a request of us. He must have realized afterwards that the thing is...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I don't see what you find impossible, Frank, Jack answered, placing the letter inside the envelope and quickly returning it." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I was only waiting until we heard more news to ask you to let me go to Bryan, even if he had not made this requ...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Tell me your reason please, Frank. This isn't like you. You can't mean to be so selfish--even so cruel." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am sorry to have to say this to you, dear. I wish you could have been willing to do what I asked, without demanding my reason. But...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am sorry, Frank, she answered quietly," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'll let you know as soon as I hear from the war office," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What is it, Jack? Are you going up to London to join Frank?" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No; I am not going to Frank, she explained," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Perhaps you won't approve what I am planning to do any more than Frank does, Jack continued," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I hope you won't be angry with me, Jack, and of course I cannot hope to influence you if Frank cannot; but I don't think you ought to do so serious a thing without Frank's consent. In any case, please don't go away without his knowing. You must know that this is not right and th...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am glad you asked me that, Frieda, dear, she responded," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Go ahead, Jack, then, and no matter what happens I'll stand by you and swear you've done the right thing to the bitter end. You have been more right than other people as long as I've known you. I would not pay any attention to Olive. I told you that Olive was getting to be an ol...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Somehow I wish Jack wouldn't. Maybe at the last moment she'll see Frank and change her mind, Frieda suggested, staring out at the winter landscape with her small nose pressed mournfully against the window pane like a discontented child." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": ...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Jack has written me a note telling me that she has gone to France. You both probably know I did not wish her to go. Please let us not speak of this matter again." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, Frank, I am so glad to be at home again. It has all been so distressing. Poor Bryan is going to get well, but I fear he will hate it when he does, for he may never walk again. He does not know this yet." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am horribly sorry for Bryan...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You are still angry with me, Frank? Jack queried, though the question was scarcely a necessary one." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You have not yet seen that I had the right to judge for myself in this thing about Bryan? After all, what possible wrong have I done? An...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "After all, Frank, even if you do continue to disapprove of me and to think I did wrong to disobey you, won't you make friends with me? Please say I'm forgiven?" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I presume, Jack, that you consider it a very simple matter for me to say I forgive you and to overlook your utter disregard of my wishes, and your deception in the matter. But I cannot see the thing in that light. You have not only wounded me, but you have made me ridiculous. To...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "made her particularly" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What are you thinking about, Frieda? Certainly not of what I just said to you." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Still I was thinking of you, Frank, she answered, smiling," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Perhaps as a matter of vanity, yes, Frieda? But of co...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Of course you are going to think I am interfering, Frank, and no one ever pays any real attention to what I say, but I just thought I'd tell you anyhow. You are making a big mistake. Of course I realize that you are not so silly as not to appreciate Jack, but I don't believe you...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I know I am silly, Frank, she confessed," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You are an infant, Frieda, Frank remarked." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Of course Jack has been paying visits and has stayed too long. But perhaps I had best go and look for her, ...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Poor Bryan, one did not like to allow oneself to think of him too often these days, yet he must be brought back home as soon as possible," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There is trouble in the big house, also, she said to herself, wagging her old head." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Funny how when trouble of one kind gets loosed in the world, so many other kinds follow it." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There was nothing more for him to do but to go home also," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Frank, is that you?" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sit down for a little while will you please, Frank? The ground is not particularly damp in some places, I have been sitting here a long time." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You are not ill, are you, dear?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I was dizzy and very tired a little while ago, I don't know just how long. I sat down here to rest and fell asleep for a time. I am quite all right now." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There is something I want to say to you, Frank. I have been making up my mind to speak of it for some time. This afternoon I knew I had to decide. I went off for a long walk and now I have decided." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I want to go home, Frank?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I mean I want to go back to the Rainbow ranch to see Jim and Ruth and Jean, but Jim most of all," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Please don't answer, Frank, until I have explained to you a little b...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I think this is a pretty severe punishment, Jack, if you think I am unfair. But you must let me take you home to Kent House now; Olive and Frieda are both dreadfully worried to know what has become of you." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Certainly you don't show much consideration for Frank, Frieda protested when she first heard the news." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It seems to me that England is _his_ country and he has a good deal more work to do and goes through a lot more than you do, Jacqueli...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Just the same you'll be sorry and ashamed of yourself some day, Jack Ralston. You need not pretend anything to me, I understand the present situation perfectly. Frank was rather horrid to you and he ought not to be allowed to be a bully, but you could really twist him around you...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Dame Quick" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Are you a deserter, Henry, hiding from justice?" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I most certainly am not, my dear," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I was slightly wounded soon after my arrival at the front. But I also found that my scientific knowledge could be of more service than my abilities as a soldier. So I came back to England and have been ...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am going to take Henry Russell back to the United States with me in ten days, she remarked aloud, but in a very small whisper." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I don't know how I am going to manage him or the British Government, but I am going to, somehow. I thought ...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I don't see how Jack and Frank could have told you I was well, Henry, she said plaintively." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I don't suppose you have noticed but I have lost a good many pounds." }, { "from": "human", "value": "No, I had not noticed before, ...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Do you know, Henry, if you say things like that to me oftener, I feel sure I will care for you more. But please get your hat and come with me now, I want to introduce you to a very dear, old friend of mine in Granchester. Afterwards, if your hand does not hurt, you must go up to...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Rainbow Castle," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is still just the loveliest, homiest place in the world!" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Have a cup of coffee in the morning early, Jack. I have promised Ruth not to take you too far, but I've a new horse for you to try and I want you to have the first ride over the ranch with me, while the others are still asleep. You and I are the only ones who have ever really lo...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'll be down in ten minutes, Jim. Is that the horse for me? Isn't he a beauty? But hitch yours and mine somewhere outside and open the Lodge door, I didn't lock it last night, and come in and start my coffee. I just opened my eyes this minute." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ain't anybody been doin' anything to you, you don't like, Boss? Jim demanded, purposely breaking into the old careless speech he had used before Ruth's coming to Rainbow Ranch to educate them all, and Jim more than any one." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Because if a...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He is one of the most perfect creatures I ever saw, Jim. I don't care what other people say, I like our fine western horses better than any others in the world." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Try him, Jack," }, { "from": "human", "value": "His movement se...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I suppose Jim tried to show you every horse and every cow on the ranch, Jack, Ruth began." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I hope you are not worn out, child. I told him to allow you one night's rest." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, and after she has had breakfast I want to take Jack and everybody down to the Rainbow Mine. I always feel it belongs more to Ralph, and to me than to the others. Oh, simply because my husband was its first engineer." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Remember, Henry, when you and Ralph were more or less blown up going down the shaft of the old mine. It was after that, Frieda adopted you." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I had my legs broken didn't I, so I couldn't get away? Well, Frieda always prefers her victims h...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I don't believe this is far from the place where Frank and I discovered the first gold in Rainbow creek, Jack remarked drowsily, a little worn out from the excitement of the day." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "How filled the old ranch was with memories and thoughts o...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "When is Frank coming over to join you, Jack? Jean Merritt asked unexpectedly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ralph hopes to get home from his work at the canal in a few weeks and it would be a great pleasure if he and Frank could be here at the same time." }, { ...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "After all there is some advantage in being an old maid, one does not have to worry continually over being in the same place with one's husband. You will all have to come over to see my Indian School some day soon. Perhaps I am wedded to that." }, { "from": "gpt", "va...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, come now Frieda, you don't really believe anyone has such poor taste as that," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, well, perhaps the combination is prettiest after all. Vive is the only real beauty with her dark eyes and yellow hair." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I believe Vive really is the prettiest of all the children," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What is it, Olive? Jack asked sharply, as soon as she saw her." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Which one of the children is it? What has happened?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "There is nothing to be seriously frightened about, Jack, Olive replied quiet...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If Vive dies do you think Frank will ever forgive me," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I don't see what Frank has to forgive? The point is will he ever forgive himself for having you go through all this alone?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "But I ought no...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is over," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Please do not let anyone come with me, she asked." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I must go outdoors alone." } ]