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

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29753	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "We owe for all but the left back tire, Trudy said before any one had the chance to hint of the fact;" } ]
29753	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "How do I know Alice Twill will really come across? he began." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And I suppose you've got the machine covered with mud, too. Anyway, what do I know about decorating? I work on my reputation and everyone's sympathies and I'm in fear all the ...
29753	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Where is Luke? she asked, taking off her things and lying down wearily on the sofa." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, Mary mine, you don't know how good it is to be here again, to be able to talk--really talk to someone." }, { "from": "human", "value": "...
29753	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, I am a fraud, she said, with sudden honesty." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I wouldn't come to see you unless I wanted something. I want to talk to you with all barriers down. I wish you had ever done some terrible thing or were unhappy. I don't know why, Mary d...
29753	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "You're growing up, that's all. And I'm not good--not a bit good. Why, Trudy, do you know I have had to fight hard--terribly hard about something? I've never told any one before. I can't really tell what it is!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Over what? You saint in wh...
29753	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, my poor girl!" } ]
29753	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "We could almost retire, Trudy suggested;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Don't worry. Bea would never let a little thing like a husband stand in the way of her progress." } ]
29753	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Gad, commented her father, during the heat of the argument," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I thought you were pretty well off as you were. Will Steve like it?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "He doesn't care what I do, she hastened to assure him." }, ...
29753	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "If my wife insists, go ahead--but don't move your arts-and-crafts shop into my office. I'm not enough interested to see designs and so on. I never had time to be one of the leisure class, and I'm too old to be kidded into thinking I'm one of them now. But I did make a mistake, h...
29753	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "What astral vibrations does your given name bring you?" } ]
29753	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "You don't know how often I've wanted to come and see you, he said, unashamedly, delighted that Luke was out of the way and he could play in his fashion the same as Beatrice did in hers." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It isn't business, really. I just wanted to talk t...
29753	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Furthermore, we ought to hold to our place in the social scheme and be the backbone of the nation, keep our principle and not be nagged eternally by a sickly conscience after we have gone and sold our birthrights. Gorgeous Girls and their sort have the sole fortification of doll...
29753	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now there's something wrong when we've come to this, and the wrong does not lie with these people but with those they imitate--Gorgeous Girls, new-rich with sickly consciences and lack of principle and common sense; and these Gorgeous Girls in turn take their styles, slang phras...
29753	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "But we must grasp the other side of the matter--that all play and no work make her simply impossible; that culture and self-sufficiency can go hand in hand. The American woman really is--and must continue to be--the all-round, regular fellow of the feminine world. Then she will ...
29753	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "And love must be the leavener of it all--with all her progress and her ability, trained talents and clever logic, the American woman must not and will not renounce her romance--for it is part of God's very promise of immortality." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "How of...
29753	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "And now I'll make you a cup of coffee. And never let me catch you here again!" } ]
29753	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Bea will look like a fishwife when she is forty, he told Trudy soon after the villa was under way and the first anniversary drew near." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "She eats as much candy in a week as an orphan asylum on Christmas Day. Why doesn't someone tell her t...
29753	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, why don't people tell you that you look an utter fool with that extra-intelligent edition of tortoise-shell glasses that you wear?" } ]
29753	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Trudy eats candy, lots of it, and she stays thin," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes; but she works and you don't. You don't even pay a gymnasium instructor for daily perseverance, for you could do exercises yourself if you wanted. You sleep late and keep the house l...
29753	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now Steve felt just as badly about going as you do to have him away, her father said by way of clumsy consolation." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And he bought you a mighty handsome gift." }, { "from": "human", "value": "But I have one quite as lovely, Be...
29753	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I didn't bother to telephone you or wire--I got in at eight this morning and came right up here. I knew you'd not be up, he added, curtly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Would you mind waiting in Miss Faithful's office until I'm at liberty?" } ]
29753	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I've been thinking about you, Miss Faithful, and I do envy you. Do you know why? You have more of my husband than I have; that was what I came to tell you. For business is his very life and you are his business partner. I only have the tired remnant that occasionally wanders hom...
29753	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, no, that's not true. You see----" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I've decided that if business is more important to my husband than his wedding anniversary I shall be of importance to him in his business, she continued." }, { "from": "human", "value": ...
29753	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'm glad Beatrice was not with me, she said, sweetly," } ]
29753	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I think I've earned it," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "A year ago I went away and you stayed. Of course you have earned it. But I am going to miss you." } ]
29753	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "It's a fortunate thing that she isn't going to visit the North Pole; she'd be so chilly when she returned you'd have to wrap the entire office in a warming pad. I was thinking this morning that with the way she lives and manages she must have saved some money. Do you know if she...
29753	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "You don't know how I've missed you, Steve told Mary upon her return." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Don't I look it?" } ]
29753	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "How stupid! How can she--when the wicker basket is the one logical place for----" } ]
29753	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "So you really missed me?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Missed you! Heaven alone can record the unselfish struggle I endured to let you play. I give you my word." } ]
29753	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "And now I will be polite enough to ask if you had a good time?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Very! And Mrs. O'Valley?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "We don't care about Mrs. Gorgeous Girl or any one else. We are quite content with each other. True, thi...
29753	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "So after several weeks my wife appeared on my business horizon and hung that mirror up and had those other things moved in and then she discovered that the impudent girls were all copying her coats and hats and stuff and even used her sort of perfume, and she decided that her du...
29753	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, you must keep on with the grind. And you want your sort of playmates and fun, and it's such decent, upright fun in comparison--oh, pshaw!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Business isn't quite so good, he began anew in an impersonal, even voice." }, { "fro...
29753	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Of course I'm going to be dragged some place this evening, so I wouldn't have much time--but may I come to supper? I'm going out of town next week. There, isn't that a good reason to come to-night?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Suppose the world knew this--our littl...
29753	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "So she wears her prettiest frock for this man--a wooden-faced bookkeeper perhaps; or a preoccupied president--and she dreams of him and is jealous of him and very likely gossips about him. And the years pass and she stays just as shut away and misunderstood and starved. And some...
29753	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, the business woman's life isn't all beer and skittles. We're expected to lie about our hearts, yet be as reliable as an adding machine about our columns of figures; to be shut away from the social world, thrown with men more hours a day than their wives see them and yet rema...
29753	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I never appreciated you before. Please don't feel that telling me this will make any difference save that I'll stay aloof--as you suggest. I can forget it, somewhat, if that will make you feel any better about it. It is all quite true and equally hopeless--true things usually ar...
29753	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Let's phone cook to bring over our dinner. Then our husbands can come along or not just as they like. We'll have a parlour picnic; and no one will bother about being dressed. And we'll go to the nickel dance hall later." } ]
29753	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I wanted to ask you if Mary Faithful has returned, she said, throwing down the manuscript as he came in." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Heavens, don't look like a thundercloud! You used to complain about getting into evening dress for dinner; and now when they are as...
29753	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "If you wish to make some radical change regarding your husband would you mind waiting until he has had a chance at a shower bath and some breakfast?" } ]
29753	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Good morning --wondering if he looked confused--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I wanted to say that I am on the country-club committee to welcome English golfers, and I'll be away this week off and on. And--and whenever you want me to I'll try to keep under cover fo...
29753	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I wanted to add a postscript, she interrupted." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That's only running true to form, isn't it? Here it is: If you ever at any time, because you are emotional and in many ways untried, find yourself unhappy and at cross purposes, and try to ...
29753	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Of course Steve thinks a woman should drudge and slave over those crying mites as if the nation depended upon it, she concluded," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'm sure the children get on well enough. Just think, if you had to plan all the meals and dress and undres...
29753	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "You have worked very hard, haven't you? he asked." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But you have wonderful results." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Do you think so? Everyone hates me now, for there will never be another royal bedroom set like mine on the ma...
29753	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I must have all the office force come and see this--it would be such a treat. And we can serve tea on the lawn." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Do. They don't often take time to go to museums." } ]
29753	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "If she gets a live lion--and she will, because I'm writing to a circus man now, Gay told Trudy--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'm going to sprain my ankle and be laid up from the day the beast arrives until he goes--he won't tarry long, the police won't have it. Bu...
29753	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "You cannot keep him, even if you pulled all his teeth and taught him to be a dope fiend, Steve said in desperation after the roars of Tawny Adonis had been reported to the police as annoying." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He is growing bigger every day and all he ha...
29753	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "She is going to the West Indies with an artist friend, and they are going to make a marvellous collection of water-colour paintings of birds and flowers, a sort of memorial to the boy. Jill says she will sell them and give the proceeds for the _crèche_ charity. Well, that is all...
29753	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why don't you diet seriously? she purred." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It's only right for your true friends to tell you. The double chin is permanent, I'm afraid." } ]
29753	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Perhaps I will diet, was all she said, smiling sweetly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And tell Gay he must come see me to-morrow. I have a plan that I want to tell him--and no one else. Besides, there is a flaw in the last pair of candlesticks he bought for me." }...
29753	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I thought you were going to stay away until evening, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You spoiled the sale." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Did I? What were you about to do--play soul mate if they'd take the old things? I'm the one who found those...
29753	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why should I? she answered, aggrievedly. Steve looked unusually handsome this afternoon, and seemed to fit into the antique chair; and, in contrast to her contemplated property doll, Beatrice felt amiable and willing to play for favour." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": ...
29753	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Nothing is really hurt, but they always mess things up, Steve said, coming to the doorway to hold up a precious record book." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "See this? I wonder why they always leave such a lot of stuff to clear away. Now the whole extent of damage is t...
29753	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "They've shoved this cabinet over as if they had a special antagonism to it, he was saying, righting a small piece of furniture containing mostly Mary's papers." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "There--not hurt, is it? Do the drawers open?" }, { "from": "human", ...
29753	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I suppose that's as bad an omen as to break a mirror under a ladder on Friday the thirteenth. Now shall I have the men sweep the office out? There is no reason we cannot get to work to-morrow." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Wait a moment about sweeping out offices an...
29753	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I hate you and am only waiting to prove it but meanwhile I'll play off the friend lizard no matter how painful." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "and" } ]
29753	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I hate this decorating business, Steve said in final condemnation." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I agree with my father-in-law that when a man approaches me with a book of sample braids and cretonnes under his arm I feel it only righteous that he be shot at sunrise-...
29753	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Gad, that's good!" } ]
29753	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "How cold-hearted it sounds--a long siege!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But it is true. He will not die--he will live until that splendid vitality of his has been snuffed out by a careless law of rhythm, so you may as well buck up and run in to see him every day and...
29753	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "What do you want with a diamond? You know I'm always on the ragged edge of failing!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Because you gamble and drink and are a born fool, she protested." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You could make real money if you would lis...
29753	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'll buy you a diamond ring, old dear, he said, lightly," } ]
29753	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "You make me so tired I wonder why I don't clear out, she retorted." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You think I'm afraid to buy a diamond ring and charge it to you? Watch me!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Just try it and see what will happen." }, { ...
29753	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "It seems so good to come back here," } ]
29753	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ah--I suppose," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You are such a busy man; you don't know how I admire you." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Um--have you seen the morning papers?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Thank you but Gay read them to me at ...
29753	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mary is a wonderful girl, isn't she? Of course you have a Gorgeous Girl, too--but she is for playtime. I should think it would mean a great deal to have Mary for your chief confidante--she is so good, and yet human and----" } ]
29753	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "How is dear old Mr. Constantine?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The same." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Poor dear. So hard for Bea, too. She says she will not do much this season. She feels if--if it should not be much longer, you understand --a lowere...
29753	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "She would even marry him if she could dispose of Gay," } ]
29753	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, Trudy! Run home--your house is on fire! Your cretonnes will burn! she said, half in earnest." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "My dear child, I'm mighty busy. It is so stupid of Parker! She turned to Steve." }, { "from": "human", "value": "He made the or...
29753	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "No, Bubseley; sell it and let us use the money to start a fund for heating the huts of aged and infirm Eskimos. The Salvation Army has never dropped up that way." } ]
29753	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'm going to bundle you off, Mary informed her." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I really must--or was it anything special?" } ]
29753	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Of course--just let me know when." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh --archly--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Sometimes. French lessons; theatre; general odd jobs." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No particular caller?" }, { "from": "h...
29753	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I say, old dear, he began," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have had the greatest luck! I call it nothing short of a fairy tale." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Where--where did you get it?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Beatrice really--the ...
29753	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "in the family. It was something so new to plan for and talk about, such a valid excuse if she did not wish to accept invitations, and an excellent reason for runaway trips to Atlantic City or New York" } ]
29753	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "What can I do for Mrs. O'Valley?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I came in to say hello. I've neglected you lately. But you have been so horrid about not coming to see my gardens that you deserve to be neglected. Her dove-coloured eyes watched Mary closely." }, { ...
29753	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'm afraid you have been reading novels--the ones where the business woman grows paler and more interesting looking each day and somehow happens to be wearing a tempting little chiffon frock when the firm fails and the young and handsome junior partner takes refuge in her office...
29753	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "No, I don't think you do realize. Or to run errands icy-cold days, down slushy streets or slippery hills? To carry great bundles of such daintiness as you are wearing and leave them at the doors of big houses such as your own, numbed, hungry, envious--and not understanding the w...
29753	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "All this time the handsome junior partners and so on for whom we keep business house and through propinquity are supposed to love--they have fallen in love with sheltered girls such as your own self, and everything is quite as it ought to be. Now do you really think the capable ...
29753	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Deary, I've been too extravagant," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'd be mighty glad if you felt you could live more simply." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You duck! Just what I'm about to do. I'm going to be the loveliest Queen Calico you ever did see--...
29753	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Then there is the servant question. Now cook is seventy-five dollars a month; the three maids are fifty each, besides all they steal and waste; the laundress and her helper, the chauffeur and all the garden men; the food, light, heat--to say nothing of extra expenses; my parties...
29753	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, Steve ventured, looking at the tray," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'm afraid I don't agree----" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I know your ideas. You think I ought to be frying chops for you and giving praise because I have a nineteen-dollar near...
29753	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "All right, darling, he said, glibly, feeling that Gorgeous Girls were get-rich-quick men's albatrosses," } ]
29753	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "You are not going, he began, angrily." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'm damned if you do!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, my dear, my own dear, she murmured within. Outwardly she shook her head briskly and added," }, { "from": "gpt", "va...
29753	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "But when you have a ready-made stock-market fortune handed to you, and a Gorgeous Girl wife, and the world comes to fawn upon you--you soon become intoxicated with a false sense of your own achievements and values. It does not last--nor does it pay. Such joy periods are merely r...
29753	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I shall go to the Meldrum Brothers on the fifteenth.--M. F." } ]
29753	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "When you can fool the letter man and the charwoman you have nothing to fear from the secret service." } ]
29753	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I can't see why you go," } ]
29753	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I can't go running off to Bermuda and Florida like you people can. I am forced to find my recreation in my work--and hides and razors are a queer combination for a woman who really likes gardens and sea bathing. She laughed so genuinely that Beatrice told herself that Trudy was ...
29753	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Are you sorry?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No; only you grow accustomed to things. You remember how mother felt about the old house." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I guess they'll miss you a lot." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Everyone's ...
29753	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I can get a construction set for six dollars, Luke was saying." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That will make the bridge models I told you about last week. I'm going to get one." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, dear, I would," } ]
29753	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I spy" } ]
29753	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, of course, and" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "How interesting!" } ]
29753	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, Mary, Trudy began, coughing and trying to sit up," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I thought you'd never come. Why, I'm not so sick----Gay, go outside and wait for the doctor and the nurse. Just think, I'm going to afford a nurse. Oh, the pain in the chest is somet...
29753	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now, my dear, you must put on a warm dressing gown and something to pad your chest--this nightgown is a farce, she said, sternly, rising." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Where shall I find something? Oh, Trudy--don't!" } ]
29753	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "My, but I've been a bluff, she said, tears on the white, shiny cheeks." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Gee, but that doctor takes his time, too. I had to beg something great before husband would go for you. He's awful mean, but I always told you he was, and he would h...
29753	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Did you see the ring? It's a wonderful stone." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Gee, but that ring made a lot of trouble. Mary, come here, deary. Will you forgive me? They say you forgive the dead anything. Listen, I was awfully discouraged and Gay was so mean and I was...
29753	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "None of you ever treats me rightly when I do smile on you; now go take care of yourselves any way you like, for you have ruined me, too." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "A get-rich-quick man always pays for his own speed" } ]
29753	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why gamble so, my dear Stevuns? she began, almost petulantly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And do you know that every time I make engagements for you you are late? You are nearly a half hour late to-night." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I am losing th...
29753	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "You don't seem to understand what I am saying, and all that is happening. First I played Arizona copper until they taught me not to monkey with the band wagon; then I played Cobalt until the same thing took place. He sank impolitely into an easy-chair." }, { "from": "gpt...
29753	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "You look shabby and tired, she complained;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You mean you won't begin with me, you won't take our one chance for happiness? Just to begin together to learn and earn, be real? Do you think for one instant I will be like Gay Vondeplosshe, s...
29753	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why, Steve, he said in a pleased tone," } ]
29753	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "The dogs! I knew it! Why didn't you tell me long before? Blocked 'em off--snuffed 'em out. Meddling with wildcat stocks--asinine any way you figure it! Well, I don't know that I blame you. The first success was too sweet to leave untried again, eh? He chuckled as if something am...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We owe for all but the left back tire, Trudy said before any one had the chance to hint of the fact;" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How do I know Alice Twill will really come across? he began." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And I suppose you've got the machine covered with mud, too. Anyway, what do I know about decorating? I work on my reputation and everyone's sympathies and I'm in fear all the ...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Where is Luke? she asked, taking off her things and lying down wearily on the sofa." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, Mary mine, you don't know how good it is to be here again, to be able to talk--really talk to someone." }, { "from": "human", "value": "...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, I am a fraud, she said, with sudden honesty." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I wouldn't come to see you unless I wanted something. I want to talk to you with all barriers down. I wish you had ever done some terrible thing or were unhappy. I don't know why, Mary d...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You're growing up, that's all. And I'm not good--not a bit good. Why, Trudy, do you know I have had to fight hard--terribly hard about something? I've never told any one before. I can't really tell what it is!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Over what? You saint in wh...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, my poor girl!" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We could almost retire, Trudy suggested;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Don't worry. Bea would never let a little thing like a husband stand in the way of her progress." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Gad, commented her father, during the heat of the argument," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I thought you were pretty well off as you were. Will Steve like it?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "He doesn't care what I do, she hastened to assure him." }, ...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If my wife insists, go ahead--but don't move your arts-and-crafts shop into my office. I'm not enough interested to see designs and so on. I never had time to be one of the leisure class, and I'm too old to be kidded into thinking I'm one of them now. But I did make a mistake, h...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What astral vibrations does your given name bring you?" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You don't know how often I've wanted to come and see you, he said, unashamedly, delighted that Luke was out of the way and he could play in his fashion the same as Beatrice did in hers." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It isn't business, really. I just wanted to talk t...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Furthermore, we ought to hold to our place in the social scheme and be the backbone of the nation, keep our principle and not be nagged eternally by a sickly conscience after we have gone and sold our birthrights. Gorgeous Girls and their sort have the sole fortification of doll...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now there's something wrong when we've come to this, and the wrong does not lie with these people but with those they imitate--Gorgeous Girls, new-rich with sickly consciences and lack of principle and common sense; and these Gorgeous Girls in turn take their styles, slang phras...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But we must grasp the other side of the matter--that all play and no work make her simply impossible; that culture and self-sufficiency can go hand in hand. The American woman really is--and must continue to be--the all-round, regular fellow of the feminine world. Then she will ...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And love must be the leavener of it all--with all her progress and her ability, trained talents and clever logic, the American woman must not and will not renounce her romance--for it is part of God's very promise of immortality." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "How of...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And now I'll make you a cup of coffee. And never let me catch you here again!" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Bea will look like a fishwife when she is forty, he told Trudy soon after the villa was under way and the first anniversary drew near." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "She eats as much candy in a week as an orphan asylum on Christmas Day. Why doesn't someone tell her t...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, why don't people tell you that you look an utter fool with that extra-intelligent edition of tortoise-shell glasses that you wear?" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Trudy eats candy, lots of it, and she stays thin," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes; but she works and you don't. You don't even pay a gymnasium instructor for daily perseverance, for you could do exercises yourself if you wanted. You sleep late and keep the house l...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now Steve felt just as badly about going as you do to have him away, her father said by way of clumsy consolation." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And he bought you a mighty handsome gift." }, { "from": "human", "value": "But I have one quite as lovely, Be...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I didn't bother to telephone you or wire--I got in at eight this morning and came right up here. I knew you'd not be up, he added, curtly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Would you mind waiting in Miss Faithful's office until I'm at liberty?" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I've been thinking about you, Miss Faithful, and I do envy you. Do you know why? You have more of my husband than I have; that was what I came to tell you. For business is his very life and you are his business partner. I only have the tired remnant that occasionally wanders hom...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, no, that's not true. You see----" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I've decided that if business is more important to my husband than his wedding anniversary I shall be of importance to him in his business, she continued." }, { "from": "human", "value": ...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'm glad Beatrice was not with me, she said, sweetly," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I think I've earned it," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "A year ago I went away and you stayed. Of course you have earned it. But I am going to miss you." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It's a fortunate thing that she isn't going to visit the North Pole; she'd be so chilly when she returned you'd have to wrap the entire office in a warming pad. I was thinking this morning that with the way she lives and manages she must have saved some money. Do you know if she...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You don't know how I've missed you, Steve told Mary upon her return." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Don't I look it?" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How stupid! How can she--when the wicker basket is the one logical place for----" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "So you really missed me?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Missed you! Heaven alone can record the unselfish struggle I endured to let you play. I give you my word." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And now I will be polite enough to ask if you had a good time?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Very! And Mrs. O'Valley?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "We don't care about Mrs. Gorgeous Girl or any one else. We are quite content with each other. True, thi...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "So after several weeks my wife appeared on my business horizon and hung that mirror up and had those other things moved in and then she discovered that the impudent girls were all copying her coats and hats and stuff and even used her sort of perfume, and she decided that her du...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, you must keep on with the grind. And you want your sort of playmates and fun, and it's such decent, upright fun in comparison--oh, pshaw!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Business isn't quite so good, he began anew in an impersonal, even voice." }, { "fro...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Of course I'm going to be dragged some place this evening, so I wouldn't have much time--but may I come to supper? I'm going out of town next week. There, isn't that a good reason to come to-night?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Suppose the world knew this--our littl...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "So she wears her prettiest frock for this man--a wooden-faced bookkeeper perhaps; or a preoccupied president--and she dreams of him and is jealous of him and very likely gossips about him. And the years pass and she stays just as shut away and misunderstood and starved. And some...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, the business woman's life isn't all beer and skittles. We're expected to lie about our hearts, yet be as reliable as an adding machine about our columns of figures; to be shut away from the social world, thrown with men more hours a day than their wives see them and yet rema...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I never appreciated you before. Please don't feel that telling me this will make any difference save that I'll stay aloof--as you suggest. I can forget it, somewhat, if that will make you feel any better about it. It is all quite true and equally hopeless--true things usually ar...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Let's phone cook to bring over our dinner. Then our husbands can come along or not just as they like. We'll have a parlour picnic; and no one will bother about being dressed. And we'll go to the nickel dance hall later." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I wanted to ask you if Mary Faithful has returned, she said, throwing down the manuscript as he came in." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Heavens, don't look like a thundercloud! You used to complain about getting into evening dress for dinner; and now when they are as...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If you wish to make some radical change regarding your husband would you mind waiting until he has had a chance at a shower bath and some breakfast?" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Good morning --wondering if he looked confused--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I wanted to say that I am on the country-club committee to welcome English golfers, and I'll be away this week off and on. And--and whenever you want me to I'll try to keep under cover fo...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I wanted to add a postscript, she interrupted." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That's only running true to form, isn't it? Here it is: If you ever at any time, because you are emotional and in many ways untried, find yourself unhappy and at cross purposes, and try to ...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Of course Steve thinks a woman should drudge and slave over those crying mites as if the nation depended upon it, she concluded," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'm sure the children get on well enough. Just think, if you had to plan all the meals and dress and undres...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You have worked very hard, haven't you? he asked." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But you have wonderful results." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Do you think so? Everyone hates me now, for there will never be another royal bedroom set like mine on the ma...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I must have all the office force come and see this--it would be such a treat. And we can serve tea on the lawn." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Do. They don't often take time to go to museums." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If she gets a live lion--and she will, because I'm writing to a circus man now, Gay told Trudy--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'm going to sprain my ankle and be laid up from the day the beast arrives until he goes--he won't tarry long, the police won't have it. Bu...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You cannot keep him, even if you pulled all his teeth and taught him to be a dope fiend, Steve said in desperation after the roars of Tawny Adonis had been reported to the police as annoying." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He is growing bigger every day and all he ha...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "She is going to the West Indies with an artist friend, and they are going to make a marvellous collection of water-colour paintings of birds and flowers, a sort of memorial to the boy. Jill says she will sell them and give the proceeds for the _crèche_ charity. Well, that is all...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why don't you diet seriously? she purred." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It's only right for your true friends to tell you. The double chin is permanent, I'm afraid." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Perhaps I will diet, was all she said, smiling sweetly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And tell Gay he must come see me to-morrow. I have a plan that I want to tell him--and no one else. Besides, there is a flaw in the last pair of candlesticks he bought for me." }...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I thought you were going to stay away until evening, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You spoiled the sale." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Did I? What were you about to do--play soul mate if they'd take the old things? I'm the one who found those...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why should I? she answered, aggrievedly. Steve looked unusually handsome this afternoon, and seemed to fit into the antique chair; and, in contrast to her contemplated property doll, Beatrice felt amiable and willing to play for favour." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": ...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Nothing is really hurt, but they always mess things up, Steve said, coming to the doorway to hold up a precious record book." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "See this? I wonder why they always leave such a lot of stuff to clear away. Now the whole extent of damage is t...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "They've shoved this cabinet over as if they had a special antagonism to it, he was saying, righting a small piece of furniture containing mostly Mary's papers." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "There--not hurt, is it? Do the drawers open?" }, { "from": "human", ...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I suppose that's as bad an omen as to break a mirror under a ladder on Friday the thirteenth. Now shall I have the men sweep the office out? There is no reason we cannot get to work to-morrow." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Wait a moment about sweeping out offices an...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I hate you and am only waiting to prove it but meanwhile I'll play off the friend lizard no matter how painful." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "and" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I hate this decorating business, Steve said in final condemnation." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I agree with my father-in-law that when a man approaches me with a book of sample braids and cretonnes under his arm I feel it only righteous that he be shot at sunrise-...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Gad, that's good!" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How cold-hearted it sounds--a long siege!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But it is true. He will not die--he will live until that splendid vitality of his has been snuffed out by a careless law of rhythm, so you may as well buck up and run in to see him every day and...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What do you want with a diamond? You know I'm always on the ragged edge of failing!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Because you gamble and drink and are a born fool, she protested." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You could make real money if you would lis...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'll buy you a diamond ring, old dear, he said, lightly," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You make me so tired I wonder why I don't clear out, she retorted." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You think I'm afraid to buy a diamond ring and charge it to you? Watch me!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Just try it and see what will happen." }, { ...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It seems so good to come back here," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ah--I suppose," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You are such a busy man; you don't know how I admire you." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Um--have you seen the morning papers?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Thank you but Gay read them to me at ...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mary is a wonderful girl, isn't she? Of course you have a Gorgeous Girl, too--but she is for playtime. I should think it would mean a great deal to have Mary for your chief confidante--she is so good, and yet human and----" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How is dear old Mr. Constantine?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The same." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Poor dear. So hard for Bea, too. She says she will not do much this season. She feels if--if it should not be much longer, you understand --a lowere...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "She would even marry him if she could dispose of Gay," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, Trudy! Run home--your house is on fire! Your cretonnes will burn! she said, half in earnest." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "My dear child, I'm mighty busy. It is so stupid of Parker! She turned to Steve." }, { "from": "human", "value": "He made the or...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No, Bubseley; sell it and let us use the money to start a fund for heating the huts of aged and infirm Eskimos. The Salvation Army has never dropped up that way." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'm going to bundle you off, Mary informed her." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I really must--or was it anything special?" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Of course--just let me know when." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh --archly--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Sometimes. French lessons; theatre; general odd jobs." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No particular caller?" }, { "from": "h...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I say, old dear, he began," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have had the greatest luck! I call it nothing short of a fairy tale." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Where--where did you get it?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Beatrice really--the ...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "in the family. It was something so new to plan for and talk about, such a valid excuse if she did not wish to accept invitations, and an excellent reason for runaway trips to Atlantic City or New York" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What can I do for Mrs. O'Valley?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I came in to say hello. I've neglected you lately. But you have been so horrid about not coming to see my gardens that you deserve to be neglected. Her dove-coloured eyes watched Mary closely." }, { ...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'm afraid you have been reading novels--the ones where the business woman grows paler and more interesting looking each day and somehow happens to be wearing a tempting little chiffon frock when the firm fails and the young and handsome junior partner takes refuge in her office...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No, I don't think you do realize. Or to run errands icy-cold days, down slushy streets or slippery hills? To carry great bundles of such daintiness as you are wearing and leave them at the doors of big houses such as your own, numbed, hungry, envious--and not understanding the w...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "All this time the handsome junior partners and so on for whom we keep business house and through propinquity are supposed to love--they have fallen in love with sheltered girls such as your own self, and everything is quite as it ought to be. Now do you really think the capable ...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Deary, I've been too extravagant," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'd be mighty glad if you felt you could live more simply." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You duck! Just what I'm about to do. I'm going to be the loveliest Queen Calico you ever did see--...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Then there is the servant question. Now cook is seventy-five dollars a month; the three maids are fifty each, besides all they steal and waste; the laundress and her helper, the chauffeur and all the garden men; the food, light, heat--to say nothing of extra expenses; my parties...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, Steve ventured, looking at the tray," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'm afraid I don't agree----" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I know your ideas. You think I ought to be frying chops for you and giving praise because I have a nineteen-dollar near...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "All right, darling, he said, glibly, feeling that Gorgeous Girls were get-rich-quick men's albatrosses," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You are not going, he began, angrily." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'm damned if you do!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, my dear, my own dear, she murmured within. Outwardly she shook her head briskly and added," }, { "from": "gpt", "va...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But when you have a ready-made stock-market fortune handed to you, and a Gorgeous Girl wife, and the world comes to fawn upon you--you soon become intoxicated with a false sense of your own achievements and values. It does not last--nor does it pay. Such joy periods are merely r...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I shall go to the Meldrum Brothers on the fifteenth.--M. F." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "When you can fool the letter man and the charwoman you have nothing to fear from the secret service." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I can't see why you go," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I can't go running off to Bermuda and Florida like you people can. I am forced to find my recreation in my work--and hides and razors are a queer combination for a woman who really likes gardens and sea bathing. She laughed so genuinely that Beatrice told herself that Trudy was ...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Are you sorry?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No; only you grow accustomed to things. You remember how mother felt about the old house." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I guess they'll miss you a lot." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Everyone's ...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I can get a construction set for six dollars, Luke was saying." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That will make the bridge models I told you about last week. I'm going to get one." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, dear, I would," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I spy" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, of course, and" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "How interesting!" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, Mary, Trudy began, coughing and trying to sit up," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I thought you'd never come. Why, I'm not so sick----Gay, go outside and wait for the doctor and the nurse. Just think, I'm going to afford a nurse. Oh, the pain in the chest is somet...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now, my dear, you must put on a warm dressing gown and something to pad your chest--this nightgown is a farce, she said, sternly, rising." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Where shall I find something? Oh, Trudy--don't!" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My, but I've been a bluff, she said, tears on the white, shiny cheeks." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Gee, but that doctor takes his time, too. I had to beg something great before husband would go for you. He's awful mean, but I always told you he was, and he would h...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Did you see the ring? It's a wonderful stone." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Gee, but that ring made a lot of trouble. Mary, come here, deary. Will you forgive me? They say you forgive the dead anything. Listen, I was awfully discouraged and Gay was so mean and I was...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "None of you ever treats me rightly when I do smile on you; now go take care of yourselves any way you like, for you have ruined me, too." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "A get-rich-quick man always pays for his own speed" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why gamble so, my dear Stevuns? she began, almost petulantly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And do you know that every time I make engagements for you you are late? You are nearly a half hour late to-night." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I am losing th...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You don't seem to understand what I am saying, and all that is happening. First I played Arizona copper until they taught me not to monkey with the band wagon; then I played Cobalt until the same thing took place. He sank impolitely into an easy-chair." }, { "from": "gpt...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You look shabby and tired, she complained;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You mean you won't begin with me, you won't take our one chance for happiness? Just to begin together to learn and earn, be real? Do you think for one instant I will be like Gay Vondeplosshe, s...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why, Steve, he said in a pleased tone," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The dogs! I knew it! Why didn't you tell me long before? Blocked 'em off--snuffed 'em out. Meddling with wildcat stocks--asinine any way you figure it! Well, I don't know that I blame you. The first success was too sweet to leave untried again, eh? He chuckled as if something am...