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29753 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You are twenty-six and growing set in your ways, she would mentally accuse--"
}
] |
29753 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Office notions are not so nice as the frilly, cry-on-a-shoulder-when-the-biscuits-burn notions, she would end, dolefully."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Fancy my tall self weeping on the superintendent's shoulder because a cablegram has gone astray! Making women over... |
29753 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I wish someone else would try baking these greasy things,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why don't you slip on a kimono instead of a starched house dress, Mary? Whoever is spick-and-span on Sunday morning?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't get Mary t... |
29753 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm terribly poor this week and if I should have a quarrel with Gay I want to have enough carfare to come home alone--you know how we scrap,"
}
] |
29753 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How do they do it? Mary sighed."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Come, Luke, let's get on the trail of something green and real."
}
] |
29753 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He's Vondeplosshe's boy,"
}
] |
29753 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I was born in the room over the large bay window; the one next to it was my nursery--a dear old spot. Rather tough, old dear, to have to stand outside! Or:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Father was a charter member of the club, so they carry me along without dues. De... |
29753 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He is so convenient, she had defended."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You can always call him up at the last minute if someone has disappointed for cards or dinner, and he is never busy. He can shop with you as well as a woman, lunch with you, dance with you--and he ... |
29753 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm cross. You were gambling again--yes, you were! Never mind how I know. I know!... I'll have macaroni, ripe olives, and a cream puff."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The same, Gay said, mournfully; adding:"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, deary, I ... |
29753 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I can't live at your club, she continued;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I owe more than that, he admitted;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I wouldn't waste time talking. I'd marry you. Her good humour was returning."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"val... |
29753 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I wish you wouldn't talk that way. When we are married and you meet my friends you'll have to brush up on a lot of things."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I guess I'll manage to be understood, she retorted;"
}
] |
29753 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A perfectly lovely time!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Perfectly lovely! he echoed, politely."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't work too hard to-morrow, Babseley, will you? And do nothing rash until you see me."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"valu... |
29753 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And I'll have to go to work to-morrow,"
}
] |
29753 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It will never be the same, darling, she was saying, glancing in a mirror to see if the light showed the rouge boundaries too clearly--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Don't be silly. You know it's a relief. You can sit back and rest from now on--until I'm divorced,"
... |
29753 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If you call natural feelings of a mother and an aunt 'working hard' I am at a loss----"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, I don't call anything anything; I'm dead and almost buried. She looked at her small self in the pier glass."
},
{
"from": "human",
"v... |
29753 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Two more days before the wedding, she complained."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There's the Twill luncheon to-day and a bridge and tea at Marion Kavanaugh's--I hate her, too. She gave me the most atrocious Chinese idol. I'm going to tell her I have no proper place f... |
29753 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, Gaylord Vondeplosshe is going to be an usher.... Well, what else could I do at the last moment? Wasn't it absurd for a grown man like Fred Jennings to go have the mumps? Gay knows everyone and I'm sure he is quite harmless.... Oh, Steve is well and terribly busy, you know. ... |
29753 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You dear---- she began in stereotyped, high-pitched tones as she pressed the spring."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You duck! she added a trifle more enthusiastically, viewing the bowknot of gems in the form of a pin--a design of diamonds four inches wide with a cent... |
29753 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I guess Steve can't go any better than that,"
}
] |
29753 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This is a joy,"
}
] |
29753 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Tired?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Dead. It's terrible, papa. I don't know how I'll stay bucked up. I want to burst out crying every time a bell rings or any one speaks to me.... Oh, Jody, your fingers are all thumbs! Please try it again."
},
{
"from": "hu... |
29753 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But your mother liked the rooms--and the things. I remember I bought a combination chair and stepladder for a dollar and it didn't work. He gave a chuckle."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It stayed in a sort of betwixt and between position, about one third stepladder ... |
29753 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, when she came out of the door she looked as pretty as you'll look in all your stuff, and she came right up to me and said, game as a pebble, 'Mark, we're man and wife and we'll never be sorry, will we? And when you're rich and I'm old we will stay just as loving!' I didn't... |
29753 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I've given you all she would have had,"
}
] |
29753 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Daddy, she began with a quick indrawing of her breath,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why wouldn't she?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't know--only I sometimes do almost think--would you suspect it? When I go to the office and watch those queerly ... |
29753 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We're doing ourselves proud,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What I told Beatrice this morning. Only she is all nerves. She can't enjoy anything--it will be a relief to me, Mark, as well as a loss, when it is over."
}
] |
29753 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do you remember the time you did the beadwork for the head carpenter's wife and when she paid you for it you spent the dollar for liquid rouge? Todd was so mad he wouldn't speak for a week,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Don't say such things! Think how it would emba... |
29753 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I shan't see you a moment until we're married, he began, mournfully."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I've been most awfully neglected. But as you are going to be all mine I can't complain. You're prettier than ever, Bea.... Love me?... Lots?... Whole lots? You don't s... |
29753 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Wonderful."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Must have cost thousands."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Handsome couple. Couldn't have happened in any other country but America."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "War fortune."
},
{
"from": "h... |
29753 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Like cattle--peasants--all because of money. A war profiteer, that's what he was. And she isn't anything at all except that she has her father's money. She glanced toward Mary's closed door."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Poor Mary, she thought;"
}
] |
29753 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sh-h-h! Not a word out loud! I want to escape. Mrs. O'Valley is waiting round the corner in a cab. I forgot the long-distance call--the one we expected yesterday."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It came while everyone was at the church. I stayed here in case it did. T... |
29753 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You'd miss even a heartache if it was all you had,"
}
] |
29753 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Gad! he began, characteristically."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Thought I'd find you in your cool and hospitable office inviting me to have a siesta."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Try it in a few days and we will be quite shipshape. Mary wheeled up a... |
29753 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How are you getting on?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Splendidly. We expect Mr. O'Valley a week from Monday--but of course you know that yourself."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Gad,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And how is Mr. Constantine... |
29753 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Will you help me? Constantine demanded almost piteously."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Belle's out of the running, you know."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm cleaning my own house, Mary began, looking at the surrounding disorder,"
},
{
"from"... |
29753 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I wouldn't ask Gaylord if I had to do it myself, Constantine said, brushing by the maid who opened the door."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There is a young man we could easily spare. If he ever gets as good a job as painting spots on rocking-horses I'll eat my hat."... |
29753 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm afraid I cannot help you, sir. I'm not this sort. I shouldn't be able to please. Besides, it is robbing your daughter of a great joy--and a wonderful duty, if you don't mind my saying it--this arranging of her own home. We have no right to do it for her."
},
{
"from"... |
29753 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Profane ladies and screaming gentlemen. Well, I've put a screaming-gentleman tag on Gaylord Vondeplosshe--but what about yourself? Where are you attempting to classify?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Me? I'll be damned if I help you out,"
}
] |
29753 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A supper! Mark Constantine demanded crisply that same evening, merely groaning when his sister told him that Gaylord had undertaken all the errands and was such a dear boy."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And send it up to my room--ham, biscuits, pie, and iced coffee,... |
29753 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A ten-dollar-a-week raise was cheap for such a woman,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Gay has telephoned that he is coming to-night. Were you going to use the parlour, Mary?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, I'm going to water the garden. It's as dry as... |
29753 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I can't burn the candle at both ends. I work all day and I have to relax when I leave the office. If my form of a good time is to read or set out primroses it is nothing to cry thief for, is it? I want you to go out, mother, as you very well know. And you are welcome to fill the... |
29753 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now you've got her going, Luke objected."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Say, Trudy, you don't kill yourself tearing off any work at the shop!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Luke, began his mother,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I admit Mary ... |
29753 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You've no idea how jolly easy it was, Babseley. There was a dressing case I know Bea will keep--it brought me a cool hundred commission--it had just come in. I plunged and bought two altar scarfs she can use for her reading stand--she likes such things, besides all the bona-fide... |
29753 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hurrah for the eternal frolic! she said, adding:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But we'll know Beatrice and Steve socially, won't we?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Of course!"
}
] |
29753 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Keep right on working hard, Trudy said, fondly, as they kissed each other good-night."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'll tell Mary to-morrow. I want to leave my big trunk here because we might want to stay here for a few days when we come back."
},
{
"from":... |
29753 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't mourn so, mother. I'm a happy old maid, she insisted when the comments grew too numerous for her peace of mind."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Trudy was not the sort to blush unseen, and it's a relief not to have to cover up her mistakes at the office. Everythi... |
29753 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I wonder where they will live."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not here, her daughter assured her."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And if you'd only say yes I could get such a sunny, pretty flat where the work would be worlds easier."
},
{
"from":... |
29753 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I kept Trudy only because she needed work--and a home, Mary said, frankly;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Don't go upsetting him. He eats his three good meals a day and always acts like a little gentleman. You'll nag at him until he runs away like my brother Amos did... |
29753 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You're mean in spots, Mary told herself."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You know how it would have pleased her."
}
] |
29753 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "After all, she's mother, Mary thought, rounding the corner leading to the office building,"
}
] |
29753 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You are mine--mine--mine! very likely punctuating the words with kisses. Yet he must return each day to Mary Faithful and say:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You are my right-hand man; I need you."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A penny for your thoughts... |
29753 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ah--so I don't please, he bantered."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, tell us all about it. I've a thousand questions--my father-in-law says you are the only thing I have that he covets. How about that?"
}
] |
29753 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's nearly eleven, Steve exclaimed,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Here he cut a rosebud from the big wreath and handed it gravely to Mary; he cut a second one and fastened it in his own buttonhole."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Lead me out, Hodges. I... |
29753 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She's kept things humming, hasn't she?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A prize, Steve said, proudly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't find a slip-up any place. I'll be back at two, Miss Faithful, in case any one calls.... How is Bea?"
},
{
... |
29753 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You and Bea can go play round New York all you like. Let the New York crowd come to see you and be entertained, they'll be glad to eat your dinners and drink your wine if they don't have to pay for it. We can get away with Hanover but we'd be handcuffed if we tried New York. Whe... |
29753 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Have him come to our apartment, she left word,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Dear me, Bea, what a wonderful hat! her aunt sighed."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I never saw anything more becoming."
}
] |
29753 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Steve doesn't appreciate anything in the way of costumes, she complained."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He just says: 'Yes, deary, I love you, and anything you wear suits me.' Quite discouraging and so different from the other boys."
},
{
"from": "human",
... |
29753 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Poor tired boy, she used to think when Steve would come into the office with a fagged look on his handsome face and new lines steadily growing across his forehead."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You don't realize yet--you haven't begun to realize."
}
] |
29753 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Every Basque a noble rang true in this descendant of a dark-haired, romantic young woman whom his grandfather had married. There was blood in Steve which Beatrice might have envied had she been aware of it. But Steve was in ignorance, and very willingly so, regarding his ancesto... |
29753 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ise a naughty dirl--I is--want somebody to play wif me--want to be amoosed. Do oo care? Nice, busy lady--big brain."
}
] |
29753 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If Mrs. O'Valley telephones or calls please say I have gone out to the stockyards, he told Mary."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And will you lend me your office for the afternoon? I'm so rushed I must be alone where I can work without interruption."
},
{
"fro... |
29753 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why shouldn't they treat me splendidly? I have never robbed or maltreated any of them. Tell me something. It is time we talked seriously. We can't exist on the cream-puff kind of conversation. What in the world has your way of going through these finishing schools done for you?"... |
29753 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "As pretty as a picture, Mrs. Faithful declared, quite chirked up by the bridal atmosphere."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "How do you do it, Trudy? And why didn't you write us something besides postals? They always seem like printed handbills to me."
},
{
"fro... |
29753 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I haven't any new jewellery except my wedding ring, she mourned."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I expected Gay's sister to give me one of her mother's diamond earrings--I think she might have. They are lovely stones--but she never made a move that way--she's horrid. ... |
29753 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm not mean, Mary, unless I want to accomplish something--but Gaylord is mean on general principle. He sulks and tells silly lies when you come to really know him. Oh, I'm not madly in love--but we can get along without throwing things. It's better than marrying a clod-hopper w... |
29753 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We are just starting from here, Trudy reminded her as she watched the gray eyes flicker with humour or narrow with displeasure."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Wait and see--we'll soon be living neighbour to the O'Valleys. Besides, there is such an advantage in being ... |
29753 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Being in the kitchen gets me nothing, so why bother about it? Trudy explained, hardly opening the door."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We have no halls or furnace to care for, and an apartment house sounds so well when you give an address. I wish we could have afford... |
29753 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And only take up your mornings! You can slip extra sandwiches in your pockets for me, deary. I'll give you a rubber-pocketed vest for a Christmas present, Trudy exclaimed."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, say everything in front of Mary--she knows what we really ar... |
29753 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Bea is like all her sort, he warned Trudy when the point of Beatrice's having to invite the Vondeplosshes for dinner was close at hand;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Sell them and use the money. I never have practical clothes."
}
] |
29753 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Babseley, she's coming to call to-morrow!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Really? I wish we had a better place. I feel at a disadvantage. If it were a man I wouldn't mind, I could act humble and brave--that sort of dope. But it never goes with a woman; you have to bul... |
29753 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What's mine is my own, and what's yours is mine."
}
] |
29753 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, Mrs. O'Valley, so good of you. I'm ever so happy to have you. I'm afraid it isn't proper to be wearing this old tea gown but I had a bad headache this morning and I stayed in bed until nearly luncheon, then I slipped into the first thing handy.... Oh, no. Only a nervous head... |
29753 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sit here, Mrs. Steve, for I can't call you Mrs. O'Valley with Gay singing the praises of Bea and Beatrice and the Gorgeous Girl."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Then--er--call me Beatrice,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How wonderful! But only on conditi... |
29753 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You have made this place look well, Beatrice said, presently,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It is a perfect tinder box. Papa knows the man who built it."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We are merely trying out love in a cliffette, she said, sweetly,"
... |
29753 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It was almost too easy; I didn't have to work as hard as I really wanted to."
}
] |
29753 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do you like'em?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No; I told you before that they amused me. She is fun, and poor Gay is a dear."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Are you going to have them round all the time? That woman's laugh gets on my nerves, and I want ... |
29753 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Am I a bear? Come and kiss me. If you like them or they amuse you just tote 'em about, darling. Only can't you manage to do it while I am out of town? They do fleck me on the raw."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hermit--beast,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value... |
29753 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My dear boy, I am very sorry your secretary's muzzy has died--but I cannot change my plans. I accepted for both Trudy Vondeplosshe and myself more than a week ago."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You don't imagine for an instant that Trudy will not go? She boarded the... |
29753 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I shall not ask you to go with me,"
}
] |
29753 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Have you been at her house?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes. Where is that paper? I dropped it in this chair when I came in for luncheon."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I had it taken away. I abominate newspapers in a drawing room--or muddy shoes, sh... |
29753 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We won't give up having a home, Mary told him the night of the funeral;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I guess I'll work pretty hard at school,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Of course you will. I'm proud of you now, and if you work and show you deserve... |
29753 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm never going to get married. I want to make a lot of money like Mr. O'Valley did--quick. Then we'll go and live in Europe and maybe I'll get a steam yacht and we'll hunt for buried treasure,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "All right, dear. Just work hard for now an... |
29753 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Not anybody need take care of myself,"
}
] |
29753 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm sorry not to be at the office, she began, thinking he had come to persuade her to return."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Sit down. Well--you see, indicating the stacks of addressed envelopes--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I really can't come back ... |
29753 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We'll decide that later. I came to see just--you. Surprised? I wanted to ask if there is anything I can do for you. I want to help if I may."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I've no exact plans. Just a definite idea of finding a small apartment and making it as homey a... |
29753 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You don't know how I'd like a slice of homemade bread, he pleaded."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Must I turn up my coat collar and go stand at the side door?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I made it because Luke had eaten nothing but pie and cake. You ... |
29753 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Man alive, sighed Steve, stretching out leisurely,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I came to console you and I'm being consoled and fed--in body and mind--made fit for work.... I say, what do you think of letting the Boston merger be made public at the banquet on----"... |
29753 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I sprinkled talcum powder on them and the powder is all smudged away, so Jody has been spying. She is packing her things now and I shall refuse any references. But who will ever take such good care of me, Steve? And please get dressed; we are invited to the Marcus Baynes for din... |
29753 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I must give you a coin because you gave me a knife, and unless I did so the old superstition might come true--and cut our 'business affections' right straight in two!"
}
] |
29753 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Are you going to let him go?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I think so; he's a doddering nuisance they tell me."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But he's old and he has always served so faithfully. I don't think it's right to send him away now. He does do... |
29753 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, what did you have to do?"
}
] |
29753 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "After that we dressed in all our grandeur for the fancy-dress ball at Colonel Tatlock's, Beatrice as Juliet and I as the young and dashing Romeo! Shivering in our finery we drove to the Tatlock's to make fools of ourselves until three A. M. and shiver home again with aching head... |
29753 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mr. O'Valley has explained how rushed I have been with my classes, she began, prettily,"
}
] |
29753 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't expect you to appreciate my viewpoint and my wishes, but at least be well-bred enough to tolerate them!"
}
] |
29753 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sprint a bit, I can catch up to you."
}
] |
29753 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We'll furnish the lunch and the gasolene, and you take us to the picnic grounds!"
}
] |
29753 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You see, aunty, she explained one stormy February afternoon while they were having a permanent wave put in their hair,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Trudy is so obliging and useful, and I'm sorry for her. She tries to do so many nice things for me that I never have ... |
29753 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, I don't know, Beatrice murmured as she consulted a hand glass."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am beginning to wish I had married a man about papa's age. It would have been much jollier in some ways. Steve is so strenuous and rude. A cave man is fun to be engage... |
29753 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How ripping!"
}
] |
29753 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Were you near here when you telephoned? Beatrice asked, curiously."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You weren't ten minutes getting here and you look as spick and span as if you had stepped out of a bandbox."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Look outside and... |
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