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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Papa, Izzie's eating first again."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Put down that loaf and wait until your mother dishes up, or you'll get a potch you won't soon forget."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Say, pop--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Don't 'say, pop' me! I don't want no street-bum freshness from you!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I mean, papa, there was an up-town swell in, and she bought one of them seventy-five-cent candlesticks for the first price."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "said Mr. Kantor, rinsing his hands at the sink."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Didn't I always tell you it's the first price, times two, when you see up-town business come in? Haven't I learned it to you often enough a slummer must pay for her nosiness?"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Giddy-app! he cried."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Giddy-app!"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "See, Leon--what mamma got! A violin! A fiddle! Look! The bow, too, I found. It ain't much, baby, but it's a fiddle."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Aw, ma--that's my old violin. Gimme. I want it. Where'd you find--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hush up, Izzie! This ain't yours no more. See, Leon, what mamma brought you. A violin!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Now, you little _chammer_, you got a feedle, and if you ever let me hear you holler again for a feedle, by golly! if I don't--"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Look, Abrahm, he knows how to hold it! What did I tell you? A child that never in his life seen a fiddle, except a beggar's on the street!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Lookie--lookie--Leon!"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Leon--darlink!"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Take that! By golly! one more whimper out of you and if I don't make you black-and-blue, birthday or no birthday! Dish up, Sarah, quick, or I'll give him something to cry about."
}
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Look how solemn he is, like he was thinking of something a million miles away except how lucky he is he should have a pink birthday-cake. Uh--uh--uh! Don't you begin to holler again. Here, I'm putting the feedle next to you. Uh--uh--uh!"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Esther, you dish up. I'm going somewhere. I'll be back in a minute."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Where you going, Sarah? Won't it keep until--"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Leon, you're in a draught."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Leon, it's thirty minutes till your first number. Close that door. Do you want to let your papa and his excitement in on you?"
}
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Just feel my hands, ma. Like ice."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I've got your fleece-lined gloves here, son."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No--no! For God's sake--not those things! No!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "They're bringing more seats on the stage. If they crowd me in I won't go on. I can't play if I hear them breathe. Hi--out there--no more chairs! Pa! Hancock--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Leon, Leon, ain't you ashamed to get so worked up? Close that door. Have you got a manager who is paid just to see to your comfort? When papa comes, I'll have him go out and tell Hancock you don't want chairs so close to you. Leon, will you mind mamma and sit down?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's a bigger house than the royal concert in Madrid, ma. Why, I never saw anything like it! It's a stampede. God! this is real--this is what gets me, playing for my own! I should have given a concert like this three years ago. I'll do it every year now. I'd rather play before them than all the crowned heads on earth. It's the biggest night of my life. They're rioting out there, ma--rioting to get in."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Leon, Leon, won't you sit down, if mamma begs you to?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Try to get quiet, son. Count--like you always do. One--two--three--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Please, ma--for God's sake--please--please!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Look--such beautiful roses! From Sol Ginsberg, an old friend of papa's he used to buy brasses from eighteen years ago. Six years he's been away with his daughter in Munich. Such a beautiful mezzo they say, engaged already for Metropolitan next season."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I hate it, ma, if they breathe on my neck."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Leon darlink, did mamma promise to fix it? Have I ever let you play a concert when you wouldn't be comfortable?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do it now! Now, I tell you. I won't have them breathe on me. Do you hear me? Now! Now! Now!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Son, she said, with an edge of authority even behind her smile,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mamma, he said, kissing again and again into the palm,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I know, son; it's nerves!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They eat me, ma. Feel--I'm like ice! I didn't mean it; you know I didn't mean it!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "My baby, she said,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now, ma--now--now--don't forget Rimsky!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Rimsky! A man three times your age who was playing concerts before you was born! Is that a comparison? From your clippings-books I can show Rimsky who the world considers the greatest violinist. Rimsky he rubs into me!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "All right, then, the press-clippings, but did Elsass, the greatest manager of them all, bring me a contract for thirty concerts at two thousand a concert? Now I've got you! Now!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Elsass! Believe me, he'll come to you yet! My boy should worry if he makes fifty thousand a year more or less. Rimsky should have that honor--for so long as he can hold it. But he won't hold it long. Believe me, I don't rest easy in my bed till Elsass comes after you. Not for so big a contract like Rimsky's, but bigger--not for thirty concerts, but for fifty!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "All right, then, he cried, laying his icy fingers on her cheek;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Leon, you mustn't make fun."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Make fun of the sweetest girl in this room!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "All right! Trying to get me married off again. Nice! Fine!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Is it any wonder I suffer, son? Twenty-one years to have kept you by me a child. A boy that never in his life was out after midnight except to catch trains. A boy that never has so much as looked at a girl and could have looked at princesses. To have kept you all these years--mine--is it any wonder, son, I never stop praying my thanks for you? You don't believe Hancock, son, the way he keeps always teasing you that you should have a--what he calls--affair--a love-affair? Such talk is not nice, Leon--an affair!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Love-affair poppycock! said Leon Kantor, lifting his mother's face and kissing her on eyes about ready to tear."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, I've got something, ma, right here in my heart for you that--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Leon, be careful your shirt-front!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's so--so what you call 'tender,' for my best sweetheart that I--Oh, love-affair--poppycock!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "My boy--my wonder-boy!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There goes the overture, ma."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Here, darlink--your glass of water."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I can't stand it in here; I'm suffocating!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Got your mute in your pocket, son?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, ma; for God's sake, yes! Yes! Don't keep asking things!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ain't you ashamed, Leon, to be in such an excitement! For every concert you get worse."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The chairs--they'll breathe on nay neck."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Leon, did mamma promise you those chairs would be moved?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Where's Hancock?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Say--I'm grateful if he stays out. It took me enough work to get this room cleared. You know your papa how he likes to drag in the whole world to show you off--always just before you play. The minute he walks in the room right away he gets everybody to trembling just from his own excitements. I dare him this time he should bring people. No dignity has that man got, the way he brings every one."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Open--quick--Sarah! Leon!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Open--Sarah!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sarah, it's me! Quick, I say!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "For God's sake, ma, let him in! I can't stand that infernal battering."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Abrahm, go away! Leon's got to have quiet before his concert."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Just a minute, Sarah. Open quick!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come in, pa."
}
] |
9864
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Abrahm, didn't I tell you not to dare to--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Leon--mamma--I got out here an old friend--Sol Ginsberg. You remember, mamma, from brasses--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Abrahm--not now--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Go 'way with your 'not now'! I want Leon should meet him. Sol, this is him--a little grown up from such a _nebich_ like you remember him--_nu_? Sarah, you remember Sol Ginsberg? Say--I should ask you if you remember your right hand! Ginsberg & Esel, the firm. This is his girl, a five years' contract signed yesterday--five hundred dollars an opera for a beginner--six rôles--not bad--_nu_?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Abrahm, you must ask Mr. Ginsberg please to excuse Leon until after his concert--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Shake hands with him, Ginsberg. He's had his hand shook enough in his life, and by kings, to shake it once more with an old bouncer like you!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's a proud day, he said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, yes, Gina. Here, shake hands with him. Leon, they say a voice like a fountain. Gina Berg--eh, Ginsberg--is how you stage-named her? You hear, mamma, how fancy--Gina Berg? We go hear her, eh?"
}
] |
9864
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How do you do, Leon Kantor?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "How do _you_ do?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We--father and I--traveled once all the way from Brussels to Dresden to hear you. It was worth it. I shall never forget how you played the 'Humoresque.' It made me laugh and cry."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You like Brussels?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I will never be so happy again as with the sweet little people of Brussels."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I, too, love Brussels. I studied there four years with Ahrenfest."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I know you did. My teacher, Lyndahl, in Berlin, was his brother-in-law."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You have studied with Lyndahl?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He is my master."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I--Will I some time hear you sing?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am not yet great. When I am foremost like you, yes."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Gina--Gina Berg; that is a beautiful name to make famous."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You see how it is done? Gins--berg. Gina Berg."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Clev--er!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I--Well--we--we--are in the fourth box--I guess we had better be going--Fourth box, left."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's a wonderful house out there waiting for you, Leon Kantor, and you--you're wonderful, too!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The--flowers--thanks!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "My father, he sent them. Come, father--quick!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Abrahm--quick--get Hancock. That first row of chairs--has got to be moved. There he is, in the wings. See that the piano ain't dragged down too far! Leon, got your mute in your pocket? Please, Mr. Ginsberg--you must excuse--Here, Leon, is your glass of water; drink it, I say. Shut that door out there, boy, so there ain't a draught in the wings. Here, Leon, your violin. Got your neckerchief? Listen how they're shouting! It's for you--Leon--darlink--Go!"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Kol Nidre,"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Bravo--bravo! Give us the 'Humoresque'--Chopin Nocturne--Polonaise --'Humoresque.' Bravo--bravo!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Humoresque"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Leon darling, you surpassed even yourself!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Quit crowding, children. Let him sit down. Here, Leon, let mamma give you a fresh collar. Look how the child's perspired. Pull down that window, Boris. Rudolph, don't let no one in. I give you my word if to-night wasn't as near as I ever came to seeing a house go crazy. Not even that time in Milan, darlink, when they broke down the doors, was it like to-night--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ought to seen, ma, the row of police outside--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hush up, Roody! Don't you see your brother is trying to get his breath?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You should have seen the balconies, mother. Isadore and I went up just to see the jam."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Six thousand dollars in the house to-night, if there was a cent,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hand me my violin, please, Esther. I must have scratched it, the way they pushed."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, son, you didn't. I've already rubbed it up. Sit quiet, darlink!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "God! wasn't it--tremendous?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Six thousand, if there was a cent, repeated Isadore Kantor."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "More than Rimsky ever played to in his life!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, Izzie, you make me sick, always counting--counting!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Your sister's right, Isadore. You got nothing to complain of if there was only six hundred in the house. A boy whose fiddle has made already enough to set you up in such a fine business, his brother Boris in such a fine college, automobiles--style--and now because Vladimir Rimsky, three times his age, gets signed up with Elsass for a few thousand more a year, right away the family gets a long face--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ma, please! Isadore didn't mean it that way!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Pa's knocking, ma! Shall I let him in?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Let him in, Roody. I'd like to know what good it will do to try to keep him out."
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Elsass--it's Elsass outside! He--wants--to sign--Leon--fifty concerts--coast to coast--two thousand--next season! He's got the papers--already drawn up--the pen outside waiting--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Abrahm!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Pa!"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "he cried."
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, well, what is this, anyway, a wake? Where's the coffin? Who's dead?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Don't, Leon! she cried."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Such talk is a sin! It might come true."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Rosie-posy-butter-ball, he said, pausing beside her chair to pinch her deeply soft cheek."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Cry-baby-roly-poly, you can't shove me off in a wooden kimono that way."
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't get your comedy, Leon."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That's the way the fellows at camp joke about coffins, ma. I didn't mean anything but fun! Great Scott! Can't any one take a joke!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "O God! O God!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Did you sign over power of attorney to pa, Leon?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "All fixed, Izzie."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm so afraid, son, you don't take with you enough money in your pockets. You know how you lose it. If only you would let mamma sew that little bag inside your uniform, with a little place for bills and a little place for the asafoetida!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now, please, ma--please! If I needed more, wouldn't I take it? Wouldn't I be a pretty joke among the fellows, tied up in that smelling stuff! Orders are orders, ma, I know what to take and what not to take."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Please, Leon, don't get mad at me, but if you will let me put in your suit-case just one little box of that salve, for your finger-tips, so they don't crack--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Three boxes, if you want. Now, how's that?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And you won't take it out so soon as my back is turned?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Cross my heart."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I can't stand it! Can't! Can't! Take my life--take my blood, but don't take my boy--don't take my boy--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mamma, mamma, is that the way you're going to begin all over again, after your promise?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I can't help it--can't! Cut out my heart from me, but let me keep my boy--my wonderboy--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oughtn't she be ashamed of herself? Just listen to her, Esther! What will we do with her? Talks like she had a guarantee I wasn't coming back. Why, I wouldn't be surprised if by spring I wasn't tuning up again for a coast-to-coast tour--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Spring! That talk don't fool me. Without my boy, the springs in my life are over--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, ma, you talk like every soldier who goes to war was killed! There's only the smallest percentage of them die in battle--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mamma, please!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I can't help it, Leon; I'm not one of those fine mothers that can be so brave. Cut out my heart, but leave my boy! My wonder-boy--my child I prayed for!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There's other mothers, ma, with sons!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, but not wonder-sons! A genius like you could so easy get excused, Leon. Give it up. Genius it should be the last to be sent to--the slaughter-pen. Leon darlink--don't go!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ma, ma--you don't mean what you're saying. You wouldn't want me to reason that way! You wouldn't want me to hide behind my--violin."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I would! Would! You should wait for the draft. With my Roody and even my baby Boris enlisted, ain't it enough for one mother? Since they got to be in camp, all right, I say, let them be there, if my heart breaks for it, but not my wonder-child! You can get exemption, Leon, right away for the asking. Stay with me, Leon! Don't go away! The people at home got to be kept happy with music. That's being a soldier, too, playing their troubles away. Stay with me, Leon! Don't go leave me--don't--don't--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "God! ma, this--this is awful! Please--you make us ashamed--all of us! I don't know what to say. Esther, come quiet her--for God's sake quiet her!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mamma darling, you're killing yourself. What if every family went on this way? You want papa to come in and find us all crying? Is this the way you want Leon to spend his last hour with us--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, God--God!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I mean his last hour until he comes back, darling. Didn't you just hear him say, darling, it may be by spring?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Just think, darling, how proud we should be! Our Leon, who could so easily have been excused, not even to wait for the draft."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's not too late yet--please--Leon--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Our Roody and Boris both in camp, too, training to serve their country. Why, mamma, we ought to be crying for happiness. As Leon says, surely the Kantor family, who fled out of Russia to escape massacre, should know how terrible slavery can be. That's why we must help our boys, mamma, in their fight to make the world free! Right, Leon?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We've got no fight with no one! Not a child of mine was ever raised to so much as lift a finger against no one. We've got no fight with no one!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We have got a fight with some one! With autocracy! Only this time it happens to be Hunnish autocracy. You should know it, mamma--oh, you should know it deeper down in you than any of us, the fight our family right here has got with autocracy! We should be the first to want to avenge Belgium!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Leon's right, mamma darling, the way you and papa were beaten out of your country--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There's not a day in your life you don't curse it without knowing it! Every time we three boys look at your son and our brother Mannie, born an--an imbecile--because of autocracy, we know what we're fighting for. We know. You know, too. Look at him over there, even before he was born, ruined by autocracy! Know what I'm fighting for? Why, this whole family knows! What's music, what's art, what's life itself in a world without freedom? Every time, ma, you get to thinking we've got a fight with no one, all you have to do is look at our poor Mannie. He's the answer. He's the answer."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "What time do you leave, Leon?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Any minute, ma. Getting late."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't let them little devils of French girls fall in love with my dude in his uniform."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hear! Hear! Our mother thinks I'm a regular lady-killer! Hear that, Esther?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You are, Leon--only--only, you don't know it!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Don't you bring down too many beaux while I'm gone, either, Miss Kantor!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I--won't, Leon."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Remember, Esther, while I'm gone, the royalties from the discaphone records are yours. I want you to have them for pin-money and--maybe a dowry?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't, Leon--don't--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I like him! Nice fellow, but too slow! Why, if I were in his shoes I'd have popped long ago."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Gina!"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Surprise--everybody--surprise!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why, Gina--we read--we thought you were singing in Philadelphia to-night!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "So did I, Esther darling, until a little bird whispered to me that Lieutenant Kantor was home on farewell leave."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You mean, Miss Gina--Gina--you didn't sing?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Of course I didn't! Hasn't every prima donna a larynx to hide behind?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, I--I'll be hanged!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Leon--you--really going? How--terrible! How--how--wonderful!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "How wonderful'--your coming!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I--You think it was not nice of me--to come?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I think it was the nicest thing that ever happened in the world."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "All the way here in the train I kept saying, 'Crazy--crazy--running to tell Leon--Lieutenant--Kantor good-by--when you haven't even seen him three times in three years--'"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But each--each of those three times we--we've remembered, Gina."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But that's how I feel toward all the boys, Leon--our fighting boys--just like flying to them to kiss them each one good-by."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Come over, Gina. You'll be a treat to our mother. I--Well, I'm hanged! All the way from Philadelphia!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, son, you going to play--for your old mother before--you go? It'll be many a month--spring--maybe longer, before I hear my boy again except on the discaphone."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why, I--I don't know. I--I'd love it, ma, if--if you think, Esther, I'd better."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You don't need to be afraid of me, darlink. There's nothing can give me the strength to bear--what's before me like--like my boy's music. That's my life, his music."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why, yes; if mamma is sure she feels that way, play for us, Leon."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What'll it be, folks?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Something to make ma laugh, Leon--something light, something funny."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "How's that?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's like life, son, that piece. Crying to hide its laughing and laughing to hide its crying."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Play that new piece, Leon--the one you set to music. You know. The words by that young boy in the war who wrote such grand poetry before he was killed. The one that always makes poor Mannie laugh. Play it for him, Leon."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, no--Rosa--not now! Ma wouldn't want that!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I do, son; I do! Even Mannie should have his share of good-by."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "They want me to play that little arrangement of mine from Allan Seegar's poem. 'I Have a Rendezvous....'"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It--it's beautiful, Leon. I was to have sung it on my program to-night--only, I'm afraid you had better not--here--now--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Please, Leon! Nothing you play can ever make me as sad as it makes me glad. Mannie should have, too, his good-by."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "All right, then, ma, if--if you're sure you want it. Will you sing it, Gina?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why, yes, Leon."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "But I've a rendezvous with Death On some scarred slope of battered hill, When spring comes round again this year And the first meadow-flowers appear."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That, Leon, is the most beautiful of all your compositions. What does it mean, son, that word, 'rondy-voo'?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, I--I don't exactly know. A rendezvous--it's a sort of meeting, an engagement, isn't it, Miss Gina? Gina? You're up on languages. As if I had an appointment to meet you some place--at the opera-house, for instance."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That's it, Leon--an engagement."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Have I an engagement with you, Gina?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, how--how I hope you have, Leon."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "When?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "In the spring?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's it--in the spring."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Quick, Leon! I got the car down-stairs. Just fifteen minutes to make the ferry. Quick! The sooner we get him over there the sooner we get him back! I'm right, mamma? Now, now! No waterworks! Get your brother's suit-case, Isadore. Now, now! No nonsense! Quick--quick--"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Br-r-r! she said, full of all men's awe at the carbon-dioxide paradox."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm so hot I'm cold!"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "If Niagara Falls was claret lemonade, You'd see me beat it to a watery grave."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That'll be enough canary-talk out of you, Clare. Hand me my shirt-waist there off the hook."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Didn't Kess say we had to show Keokuk the line before lunch?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If the King of England was buying ermine sport coats this morning, I wouldn't show 'em before I had a cold cut and a long drink in me. Hurry! Hand me my waist, Clare, before the girls come in from showing the bridesmaid line."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Minneapolis don't know it, but after this showing he's going to blow me to the frappiest little lunch on the Waldorf roof."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You'd shove over the Goddess of Liberty if you thought she had her foot on a meal ticket."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes; and if I busted her, you could build a new one on the lunch money you've saved in your time."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Waldorf! You've got a fine chance with Minneapolis. You mean the Automat, and two spoons for the ice-cream."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Say, Hattie, don't let being an old man's darling go to your head. The grandchildren may issue an injunction."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You let him alone! He's a darn sight better than anything I've seen you girls picking for yourselves. You never met a man in your life whose name wasn't Johnnie. You couldn't land a John in a million years."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, who said anything about old St. Louis, I'd like to know?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You did, and you leave him alone! What do you know about a real man? You'd pass up a Ford ride to sit still in a pasteboard limousine every time!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, of all things! Did I say anything?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, you did!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, for my part, he can show you a good time eight nights in the week and Sundays, too."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He 'ain't got grandchildren--if you want to know it."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Did I say he had?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, you did!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, I don't blame any girl for showing grandpa a good time."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You could consider yourself darn lucky, Clarice Delehanty, if one half as good ever--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ask the girls if I don't always say old St. Louis is all to the good. Three or four years ago, right after his wife died, I said to Ada, I said--"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hurry along there with fifty-seven, Delehanty! Heyman's got to see the line and catch that six-two Chicago flier."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Tell him to chew a clove; it's good for breathless haste,"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Have I been asking you for five years, Kess, to knock before you poke your head in on us girls?"
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "What's the idea, Becker? Keokuk wants to see you in the wrap line."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "If you want me to lay down on you, Kess, for sure, just ask me to show the line again before lunch. I'm about ready to keel. And you can't put me off again. I'm ready, and you got to come now."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Say, look here. I've got my business to attend to, and, when my trade's in town, my trade comes first. See? Take off and show Keokuk a few numbers. I want him to see that chinchilla drape."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'll show him the whole line, Kess, when we're back from lunch. I got to talk to you, I tell you. You put me off yesterday and the day before, and this--this is the last."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The last what?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Please, Kess, if you only run over to Rinehardt's with me. I got to tell you something. Something about me and--and--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Tell it to me here. Now!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I can't. The girls'll be swarming in any minute. I can't get you anywheres but lunch. It's the first thirty minutes of your time I've asked in five years, Kess--is that little enough? Let Cissie show Keokuk the blouses till we get back. It's something, Kess, I can't put off. Kess, please!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Wait for me at the Thirty-first Street entrance, he said,"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Get a move on,"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Lordy! she said, closing her eyes and pressing her finger-tips against them,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I wish I could lease this spot for the summer!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What'll you have? There's plenty under the 'ready to serve.'"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Some cold cuts and a long ice-tea."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Kess, can you guess?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come on with it!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Have you--noticed anything?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Say, I'd have a sweet time keeping up with you girls!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You kept up with me pretty close for three years, didn't you?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Say, you knew what you were doing!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I--I'm not so sure of that by a long shot. I--I was fed up with the most devilish kind of promises there are. The kind you was too smart to put in words or--or in writing. You--you only looked 'em."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I suppose you was kidnapped one dark and stormy night while the villain pursued you, eh? Is that it?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, what's the use--rehashing! After that time at Atlantic City and--and then the--flat, it--it just seemed the way I felt about you then--that nothing you wanted could be wrong. I guess I knew what I was doing all right, or, if I didn't, I ought to have. I was rotten--or I couldn't have done it, I guess. Only, deep inside of me I was waiting and banking on you like--like poor little Cissie is now. And you knew it; you knew it all them three years."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Say, did you get me over here to--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I only hope to God when you're done with Cissie you'll--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You let me take care of my own affairs. If it comes right down to it, there's a few things I could tell you, girl, that ain't so easy to listen to. Let's get off the subject while the going's good."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, anybody that plays as safe as you--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, if you want me to clear out of this place quicker than you can bat your eye, you just--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, no, Kess! 'Sh-h-h-h!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If there ever was a girl in my place had a square deal, that girl's been you."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You've held down a twenty-dollar-a-week job season in and season out, when there've been times it didn't even pay for the ink it took to write you on the pay-roll."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There's nothing I ever got out of you I didn't earn three times over."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A younger figure than yours is getting to be wouldn't hurt the line any, you know. It's because I make it a rule not to throw off the old girls when their waist-lines begin to spread that makes you so grateful, is it? There's not a firm in town keeps on a girl after she begins to heavy up. If you got to know why I took you off the dress line and put you in the wraps, it's because I seen you widening into a thirty-eight, and a darn poor one at that. I can sell two wraps off Cissie to one off you. You're getting hippy, girl, and, since you started the subject, you can be darn glad you know where your next week's salary's coming from."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Maybe I--I'm getting hippy, Kess; but it'll take more than anything you can ever do for me to make up for--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Gad! he said, flipping an ash in some disgust,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I wish I had a ten-cent piece for every one since!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, she cried, her throat jerking,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now look here, he said, straightening up suddenly,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don't know what your game is, but if you're here to stir up the old dust that's been laid for five years--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, no, Kess! It's only that--what I got to tell you--I--it makes a difference, I--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There's nothing in these years since, I swear to God, or in the years before, that I got to be ashamed of!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "All right! All right!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If ever a girl came all of a sudden to her senses, it was me. If ever a girl has lived a quiet life, picking herself up and brushing the dust off, it's been me. Oh, I don't say I 'ain't been entertained by the trade--I didn't dodge my job--but it's been a straight kind of a time--straight!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm not asking for an alibi, Becker. What's the idea?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Kess, she said, leaning forward, with tears popping out in her eyes,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I.W. Goldstone has asked me to marry him."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Huh?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Night before last, Kess, in the poppy-room at Shalif's."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Are you crazy?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's the God's truth, Kess. He's begging me for an answer by to-night, before he goes back home."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I.W. Goldstone, of Goldstone & Auer, ladies' wear?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, I'll be strung up!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He--he says, Kess, it's been on his mind for a year and a half, ever since his spring trip a year ago. He wants to take me back with him, Kess, home."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Whew!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You're no more surprised than me, Kess. I--I nearly fell off the Christmas tree."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Good Lord! Why, his wife--he had her in the store it seems yesterday!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She's been dead four years and seven months, Kess."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Old I.W. and you!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He's only fifty-two, Kess; I'm thirty-four."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I.W. Goldstone!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I know it. I can't realize it, neither."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why, he's worth two hundred thousand, if he's worth a cent!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I know it, Kess."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The old man's stringing you, girl. His kind stop, look, and listen."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He's not stringing me! I tell you he's begging me to marry him and go back home with him. He's even told his--daughter about me."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Good Lord--little Effie! I was out there once when she was a kid. Stopped off on my way to Hot Springs. They live in a kind of park--Forest Park Street or something or other. Why, I've done business with Goldstone & Auer for fifteen years, and my father before me! Good Lord!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What'll I do, Kess?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "So that's the size of the fish you went out and landed!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I didn't! I didn't! He's been asking me out the last three trips, and post-cards in between, but I never thought nothing of it."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why, he can't get away with this!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "They won't stand for it out in that Middle West town. He's the head of a big business. He's got a grown daughter."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He's got her fixed, Kess--settled on her."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hattie Becker, Mrs. I.W. Goldstone! Gad! can you beat it? Can't you just see me, when I come out to St. Louis pretty soon, having dinner out at Mrs. I.W. Goldstone's house? Say, am I seeing things?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What'll I do, Kess? What'll I do?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I tell you that you can't get away with it, girl. The old man's getting childish; they'll have to have him restrained. Why, the woman he was married to for twenty years, Lenie Goldstone, never even seen a skirt-dance. I remember once he brought her to New York and then wouldn't let her see a cabaret show. He won't even buy sleeveless models for his French room."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I tell you, Kess, he'll take me to Jersey to-morrow and marry me, if I give the word."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not a chance!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I tell you yes. That's why I got to see you. I got to tell him to-night, Kess. He--goes back to-morrow."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, what are you going to do?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I--I don't know."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Where do you stand with him? Sweet sixteen and never been kissed?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He--he don't ask questions, Kess. I--I'm his ideal, he says, of the--kind of--woman can take up for him where his wife left off. He says we're alike in everything but looks, and that a man who was happy in marriage like him can't be happy outside of it. He--he's sized up pretty well the way I live, and--and--he knows I don't expect too much out of life no more. Just a quiet kind of team-work, he puts it--pulling together fifty-fifty, and somebody's hand to hold on to when old fellow Time hits you a whack in the knees from behind. But he ain't old when he talks that way, Kess; he--he's beautiful to me."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Does he wear a mask when he makes love?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He's got a fine face."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "So that's the way you're playing it, is it? Love-stuff?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, I've had all the love-stuff knocked out of me. Three years of eating out my heart is about all the love-stuff I can handle for a while. He don't want that in a woman. I don't want it in him. He's just a plain, good man I never in my life could dream of having. A good home in a good town where life ain't like a red-eyed devil ready to hit in deep between the shoulder-blades. I know why he says he can see his wife in me. He knows I'm the kind was cut out for that kind of life--home and kitchen and my own parsley in my own back yard. He knows, if he marries me, carpet slippers seven nights in the week is my speed. I never want to see a 'roof,' or a music-show, or a cabaret again to the day I die. He knows I'll fit in home like a goldfish in its bowl. Life made a mistake with me, and it's going to square itself. It's fate, Kess; that's what it is--fate!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Pull yourself together there, Becker; we're in a public place."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If only I could go to him and tell him."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, you can't."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's not you that keeps me. Only, I know that with his kind of man and at his age, a woman is--is one thing or another and that ends it. With a grown daughter, he wouldn't--couldn't--he's too set in his ways to know how it was with me--and--what'll I do, Kess?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Say, I'm not going to stand in your light, if that's what's eating you. If you can get away with it, I don't wish you nothing but well. Looks to me like all right, if you want to make the try. I'll even come and break bread with you when I go out to see my Middle West trade pretty soon. That's the kind of a hairpin I am."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's like I keep saying to myself, Kess. If--if he'd ask me anything, it--it would be different. He--he says he never felt so satisfied that a woman had the right stuff in her. And I have! There's nothing in the world can take that away from me. I can give him what he wants. I know I can. Why, the way I'll make up to that little girl out there and love her to death! I ask so little, Kess--just a decent life and rest--peace. I'm tired. I want to let myself get fat. I'm built that way, to get fat. It was nothing but diet gave me the anaemia last summer. He says he wants me to plump out. Perfect thirty-six don't mean nothing in his life except for the trade. No more rooming-houses with the kitchenette in the bath-room. A kitchen, he says, Kess, half the size of the show-room, with a butler's pantry. He likes to play pinochle at night, he says, next to the sitting-room fire. He tried to learn me the rules of the game the other night in the poppy-room. It's easy. His first wife was death on flowers. She used to train roses over their back fence. He loved to see her there. He wants me to like to grow them. He wants to take me back to a home of my own and peace, where life can't look to a girl like a devil with horns. He wants to take me home. What'll I do, Kess? Please, please, what'll I do?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Go--to it--girl, and--God bless you!"
}
] |
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|
[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hattie?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Here I am, I.W."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I looped up the sweet-peas."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Good!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Get dressed a little, Hattie, and I'll get out the car and ride you out to Forest Park Highlands."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's so grand at home this evening, I.W. I'm too comfortable to even dress myself."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You huck home too much, Hattie."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I guess I do, honey; but it's like I can never get enough of it. The first year I was a home body, and the second and third year I'm two of 'em."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's something you'll never hear me complain of in a woman. There's a world of good in the woman who loves her home."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's not that, I.W. It's because I--I never dreamed that there was anything like this coming to me. To live around in rooms, year in and year out, in the lonesomest town in the world, and then, all of a sudden, a home of your own and a hubby of your own and a daughter of your own, why--I dunno--sometimes when I think of them days it's like life was a big red devil with horns and a tail that I'd got away from. Why, if it was to get me again, I--I dunno, honey, I dunno--I--just--dunno."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You're a good woman, Hattie, and you deserve all that's coming to you. I wish it was more."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And you're a good man--they don't come no better."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm satisfied with my bargain."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And me with mine, honey, if--if you don't mind the talk."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "S-ay, this town would talk if you cut its tongue out."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You're my nice old hubby!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If I ever was a little uneasy it was in the beginning, Hattie--the girl--those things don't always turn out."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's her as much as me, I.W. She's the sweetest little thing."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Never seen the like the way you took hold, though. I'll bet there's not one woman in a hundred could have worked it out easier."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That's right--kid me to death."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Put on your cap, I.W.; it's getting damp."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Want to go to the picture-show awhile, Hattie?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No. When Lizzie's done the dishes, I want to set some dough."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Let's walk, then, a little. I ate too much supper."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Just in the side yard, I.W. It's a shame the way I don't dress evenings."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "S-ay, in your own home, shouldn't you have your own comfort? You can take it from me, Hattie, no matter what Effie tells you, you're twice the looking woman with some skin on your bones. I want my wife when she sits down to table she should not look blue-faced when the gravy is passed. Maybe it's not the style, but if it suits your old man, we should worry who else it suits."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's not right, I.W., but I love it--this feeling at home for--for good. She rose out of the low mound she had made in the chair, tucking up the white wrapper at both sides."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Come; let's walk in the side yard."
}
] |
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|
[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Next month is my New York trip. All of a sudden Effie begs I should take her. We'll all go. What you say, Hattie? It'll do us good."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You take the kid, I.W. Lizzie needs watching. Yesterday I had to make her do the whole butler's pantry over. She just naturally ain't clean."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You got such luck with your roses, Hattie; it's wonderful!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "M-m-m-m!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I must spray for worms to-morrow,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Where's Effie?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Telephoning."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I ask you, is it a shame a child should hang on to the telephone an hour at a time? Fifty minutes since she was interrupted from supper she's been there."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What's the harm in a young girl telephoning, I.W.? All young folks like to gad over the wire."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What can a girl have to say over the telephone for fifty minutes? Altogether in my life I never talked that long into the telephone."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Let the child alone, I.W."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Who can she get to listen to her for fifty minutes?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Birdie Harberger usually calls up at this time."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Always at supper-time! Never in my life has that child sat down at the table it don't ring in our faces. The next time what it happens you can take sides with her all you want, not one step does she move till she's finished with her supper."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "As easy with her as you are, I.W., just as unreasonable you can get."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "On the stairs-landing for an hour a child should giggle into the telephone! I'm ashamed for the operators. You take sides with her yet."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't, I.W.; only--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You do!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She's in her room now, I.W.! cried Mrs. Goldstone."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "She hasn't been telephoning all this time at all. Now, crosspatch!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You know much! Can't you see she just lit up? Effie!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Coming, pop!"
}
] |
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|
[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You'll never guess!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "By my watch, Effie, fifty minutes! If it happens again that you get rung up supper-time, I--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It was Leon Kessler, pop; he didn't leave on the six-two. Can you beat it? Down at the station he got to thinking of me and turned back. Oh, my golly! how the boys love me!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You don't tell me! said Mr. Goldstone."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "To-day in the store he says he must be back in New York by Monday morning."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Is my daddy's daughter going out in a seventy horse-power to Delmar Garden? She is!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Them New York boys spend too much money on the girls when they come. They spoil them for the home young men."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Can I help it if he couldn't tear himself away?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "S-ay, don't fool yourself! I said to him to-day he should stay over Sunday. After the bill of goods I bought from him this morning, and the way he only comes out to see his trade once in five or six years, he should stay and mix with them a little longer. That fellow knows good business."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Listen to him, Mamma Hat! Let's shove a brick house over on him."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Effie, Effie, why didn't you let him go?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Let him? Did I tie any strings to him? I said good-by to him in the store this afternoon. Can I help it that the boys love me? Why didn't I let him go, she says!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Effie, you--you're so young, honey. Leon Kessler's an old-timer--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I hate kids. Give me a _man_ every time. I like them when they've got enough sense to--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why didn't you let him go, Effie? Ain't I right, I.W.? Ain't I right?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "S-ay, what's the difference if he likes to show her a good time? If I was a young man, I wouldn't pass her up myself."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But, I.W., she's--so young!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Who's young? I'm nineteen, going on--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You've been running with him all the three days he's been here, honey. What's the use getting yourself talked about?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, any girl in town would be glad to get herself talked about if Leon Kessler was rushing her."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Effie, I won't let you--I won't--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, I like that!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Effie, I--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You ain't my boss!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Effie!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But, papa, she--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You apologize to your mother--this minute! You talk to your mother the way you know she's to be talked to!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I.W., she didn't--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You hear me!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I.W.! Don't holler at her; she--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She ain't your boss? Well, she just is your boss! You take back them words and say you're sorry! You apologize to your mother!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, she--I--I didn't do anything. She's down on him. She--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, Effie, would I say anything if it wasn't for your own good?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You--you were down on him from the start!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Effie darling, you must be mad! Would I say anything if it wasn't for our girl's good to--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I--oh, Mamma Hat, I'm sorry, darling! I never meant a word. I didn't! I didn't, darling!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, Effie--Effie!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I didn't mean one word I said, darling! I just get nasty like that before I know it. I didn't mean it!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My own Effie!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "My darling Mamma Hat!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Effie, Effie, don't let--"
}
] |
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|
[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's him!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Effie!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Let me go, dearie; let me go!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But, Effie--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Say, Hattie, I don't want to butt in, but it don't hurt the child should go riding a little while out by Delmar Garden--a man that can handle a car like Leon Kessler. Anyways, it don't pay to hurt the firm's feelings."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But, I.W.--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Popsie darling, I'll be back early. Mamma Hat, please!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Your mother says yes, baby. Tell Kess he should come for Sunday dinner to-morrow."
}
] |
9864
|
Unknown Title
|
Unknown Author
|
[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It don't pay, Hattie, to hurt Kessler's feelings, and, anyhow, what's the difference just so we know who she's running with? It's like this house was a honey-pot and the boys flies."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You oughtn't to let her! You--hadn't the right! She's too young and too--sweet for a man like him. You oughtn't to let her!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, Hattie, that child's own mother that loved her like an angel couldn't worry no more foolishly about her than you do. Gad! I think you wimmin love it! It was the same kind of worrying shortened her mother's life. Always about nothing, too. 'Lenie,' I used to say to her, just to quiet her, 'it was worry killed a Maltese cat; don't let it kill you.' That child is all right, Hattie. What if he does like her pretty well? Worse could happen."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, it couldn't! No!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why not? He 'ain't seen her since a child, and all of a sudden he comes West and finds in front of him an eye-opener."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He's twice her age--more!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The way girls demand things nowadays, a man has got to be twice her age before he can provide for her. Leon Kessler is big rich."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He--he's fast."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Show me the one that 'ain't sowed his wild oats. Them's the kind that settle down quickest into good husbands."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "S-ay, it 'ain't happened yet. I'm the last one to wish my girl off my hands. I only say not a boy in this town could give it to her so good. Fifteen years I've done business with that firm, and with his father before him. A-1 house! S-ay, I should worry that he ain't a Sunday-school boy. Show me the one that is. Your old man in his young days wasn't such a low flier, neither, if anybody should ask you. He made a whirring noise in his throat at that, pinching her cold cheek. She was walking rapidly now toward the house."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, since our daughter goes out riding in a six-thousand-dollar car, to show that we're sports, lets her father and mother take themselves out for a ride in their six-hundred-dollar car. I drive you out as far as Yiddle's farm for some sweet butter, eh?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, no; I'm cold. It's getting damp."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "S-ay, you can't hurt my feelings. On a cool night like this, a brand-new sleeping-porch ain't the worst spot in the world."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She's so young--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Now, now, Hattie; worry killed a Maltese cat. Come to bed."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You go. I want to wait up."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hattie, you want to make of yourself the laughingstock of the neighborhood. A grown-up girl goes out riding with a man like Leon Kessler, and you wants to wait up and catch your death of cold. If we had more daughters, I wouldn't have no more wife; I'd have a shadow from worry. Come!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'll be up in a minute, I.W."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why, Hattie, if there's anything in the world to worry about, wouldn't I be the first? Ain't you well?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Then come. I'll get a pitcher of ice-water to take up-stairs."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'll be up in a minute."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don't want, Hattie, you should wait up for that child and take your death of cold. Because I sleep like a log when I once hit the bed, don't you play no tricks on me."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'll be up in a minute, I.W."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Come, Hattie; and be sure and leave the screen door unhooked for her."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, I.W."
}
] |
9864
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|
Unknown Author
|
[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Effie!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mamma Hat! Honey, you didn't wait up for me?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, I'm hanged! What did you think--that I was kidnapping the kid?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "How--how dared you! It's after two, and--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Tell her, Leon! Tell her! Oh, Mamma Hat! Mamma Hat!"
}
] |
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|
Unknown Author
|
[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Tell her, Leon!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, what would you say, Becker, what would you say if I was to come out here and swipe that little darling there?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, Leon--kidder!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If--what?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I said it!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Tell her, Kess; tell it out! Oh, mommie, mommie!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You little darling, I'm going to put you on my back and carry you off to New York."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, mommie, cried Miss Goldstone, flinging back her head so that her face shone up,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's the idea, Twinkle-pinkle. I'd carry you off to-night if I could!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mommie Hat, ain't you glad?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Effie--Effie--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mommie, what is it? What's the matter, darling? What?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I--it's just that I got cold, honey, sitting here waiting--the surprise and all. Run, honey, and get me a drink. Crack some ice, dearie, and then run up-stairs in the third floor back and see if there's some brandy up there. Be sure to look for--the brandy. I--I'll be all right."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "My poor, darling, cold mommie!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You wouldn't dare! Such a baby--you wouldn't dare!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Dare what?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You can't have the child! You can't!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What do you mean?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What do I mean?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Say, look here, Becker, are you stark, raving crazy? Is it possible you don't know that, in your place, nobody but a crazy woman would open her mouth?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Maybe; but I don't care. Just leave her alone, Kess, please! That little baby can stand nothing but happiness."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why, woman, you're crazy with the heat. If you want to know it, I'm nuts over that little kid. Gad! never ran across anything so full of zip in my life! I'm going to make life one joy ride after another for that joy baby. That kid's the showpiece of the world. She's got me so hipped I'm crazy, and the worst of it is I like it. You don't need to worry. As the boys say, when I settle down, I'm going to settle hard."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You ain't fit to have her!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Say, the kind of life I've lived I ain't ashamed to tell her own father. He's a man, and I'm a man, and life's life."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Now look here, Becker. That'll be about all. If you're in your right senses, you're going to ring the joy bells louder than any one around here. What you got on your chest you can just as well cut your throat as tell; so we'll both live happy ever after. There's not one thing in my life that any jury wouldn't pass, and--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I've seen you drunk."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, what of it? It took three of us to yank old I.W. out from under the table at my sister's wedding."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You--What about you and Cissie and--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Here, dearie! There wasn't anything like brandy up in the third floor. I found some cordial in the pantry. Drink it down, dearie; it'll warm you."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Kessie darling, you've got to go now. I want to get mommie up-stairs to bed. You got to go, darling, until to-morrow. Oh, why isn't it tomorrow? I want everybody to know. Don't let on, Mamma Hat. I'll pop it on popsie at breakfast while I'm opening his eggs for him. You come for breakfast, Leon. You're in the family now."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Good night, Twinkle-pinkle, till to-morrow."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Good night, darling. I won't sleep a wink, waiting for you."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Me, neither."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "One more, darling--a French one."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Two for good measure."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sleep tight, beautiful! Good night!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Good night, beautifulest!"
}
] |
9864
|
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|
Unknown Author
|
[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, Mamma Hat, I--"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I.W.! I.W.! Quick! Wake up!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I.W.! Please!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I.W.! Try to wake up! For God's sake, I.W.!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "My God! Who? What's wrong? Effie! Hattie."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, no; don't get excited, I.W. It's me--Hattie!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nothing, I.W. Nothing to get excited about. Only I got to tell you something."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Where's Effie?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She's home."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What time is it?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Three."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Come back to bed, then; you got the nightmare."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, no!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You ain't well, Hattie? Let me light up."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, no; only, I got to tell you something! I 'ain't been to bed; I been waiting up, and--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And what?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She just came home--engaged!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "My God! Effie?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Engaged--how?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I.W., don't you remember? Wake up, honey. To Kess, to Leon Kessler that she went automobiling with."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Our Effie engaged--to Leon Kessler?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, I.W.--our little Effie!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You don't tell me!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, I.W., please--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Our little girl. S-ay, how poor Lenie would have loved this happiness! Our little girl engaged to get married!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I.W., she--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We do the right thing by them--eh, Hattie? Furnish them up as many rooms as they want. But, s-ay, they don't need help from us. He's a lucky boy who gets her, I don't care who he is. Her papa's little Effie, a baby--old enough to get engaged!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I.W., she's too--young. Don't give him our little Effie; she's too young!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I married her mother, Hattie, when she wasn't yet eighteen."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I know, I.W., but not to Leon Kessler. She's such a baby, I.W. He--didn't I work for him nine years, I.W.--don't I know what he is!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm surprised, Hattie, you should hold so against a man his wild oats."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Then why ain't oats for the man oats for the woman? It's the men that sow the wild oats and the women--us women that's got to reap them!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "S-ay, life is life. Do you want to put your head up against a brick wall?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A wall that men built!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's always hard, Hattie, for good women like you and like poor Lenie was to understand. It's better you don't. You shouldn't even think about it."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But, I.W.--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If I didn't know Leon Kessler was no worse than ninety-nine good husbands in a hundred, you think I would let him lay a finger on the apple of my eye? I don't understand, Hattie; all of a sudden this evening, you're so worked up. Instead of happiness, you come like with a funeral. Is that why you wake me up out of a sleep? To cry about it? Don't think, Hattie, that just as much as you I haven't got the good of my child at heart. Out of a sound sleep she wakes me to cry because a happiness has come to us. Leon Kessler can have any girl in this town he wants. Maybe he wasn't a Sunday-school boy in his day--but say, show me one that was."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I.W., don't let him have our little Effie!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nonsense! he said, in some distaste for her voice choked with tears."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Cut out this woman foolishness now and come to bed. Is this something new you're springing on me? I got no patience with women who indulge themselves with nervous breakdowns. I never thought, Hattie, you had nothing like that in you."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If you do, I can't stand it! I can't stand it, I.W.!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I worked for him nine years, I.W. I--I know him."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "How?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I know him, I.W. She's too good for him."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "How do you know him?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I--the girls, I.W. One little girl now, Cissie--I--I hear it all from my friend Delehanty--sometimes she--she writes to me. I--the models and--the girls and--and the lady buyers--they--they used to gossip in the factory and--I--I used to hear about it. I.W., don't! Let go! You hurt!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He--I.W.--he--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He what? He what?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He--ain't good enough."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I say he is!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But he--I.W.--she--she's such a baby and he--he--. You hurt!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then tell me, he what?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I.W., you're hurting me!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He what--do you hear?--he what?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Don't make me say it! Don't! It--it just happened--with him meaning one thing all the time and--me another. I was thrown with that kind of a crowd, I.W., all my life. All the girls, they--It don't make me worse than it makes him. With me it was once; with him it's--it's--I didn't know, I.W. My mother she died that year before, and--I needed the job, and I swear to God, I.W., I--kept hoping even if he never put it in words he'd fix it. Kill me, if you want to, I.W., but don't throw our Effie to him! Don't! Don't! Don't!"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "I didn't know, I.W.! Don't kill me for what I didn't know!"
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "God, he cried,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I.W.!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My child engaged to--to her mother's--you--you--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I.W.! Do you see now? You wouldn't let him have her! You wouldn't, I.W.! Tell me you wouldn't!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I want him if he touches her to be struck dead! I want him to be struck dead!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Thank God!"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "You go! he said, and then in a gathering hurricane of fury,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I.W., don't yell! Don't! Don't!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Go--while I'm quiet. Go--you hear?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I.W.!"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "What have I done? What have I done? What have I done?"
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "You ought to heard, mamma, that fellow over in the specs, when he gimme the test for the glasses."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Tee-hee!--it sounds silly to repeat it."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You got the Schump eyes, Stella. I always used to say, with his big blue ones, your poor father ought to been a girl, too."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, ma--the way I look out of them."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "See, Stella, if you'd only mix with the young men and not be so stiff-like with them. See! Is he the sober, genteel kind who could sit out an evening in a self-respectin' girl's front parlor?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I--I can't ask a fellow if he didn't ask me, can I? I can't make a pusher out of myself."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A girl don't have to make a pusher out of herself to have beaus; it's natural for her to have them in moderation. I don't want my girl shut out of her natural pleasures."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Before I'd let a girl like Cora Kinealy have all the beaus! I bet _she'd_ ask him."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It--it just ain't in me, ma. The other girls do, I know--you ought to heard the way Mabel Runyan was kiddin' a fellow in the silks to-day--it just ain't in me to."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nowadays, young men got to be made to feel welcome."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I just don't seem to take."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If only I--I wouldn't turn all red!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I bet Cora Kinealy would have asked him."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I--I'll ask him, ma."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mornin'. Goo-goo!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Tee-hee!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Believe me, Bettina, those are some goo-goos!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'd be pleased to have you--come--to--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I told the little wifey last night, 'Angel Face, I've found a pair of goo-goos that are a close runner-up to yours.'"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Copper toes for the little boy? Just be seated, please."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "There you go again! Honest, you two make me mad. I can't go out and lasso 'em, can I?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "She doesn't give 'em a chance, Cora; mark my word! The trouble is, she's too good for most she sees. They ain't up to her."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I can't understand it, Mrs. Schump. I always say there ain't a finer girl on the floor than Stella. When I see other girls, most of 'em fresh little rag-timers that ain't worth powder and shot, bringing down the finest kind of fellows, and Stella never asked out or nothing, I always say to myself, 'I can't understand it.' Take me--what Arch Sensenbrenner ever seen in me, with Stella and her complexion working in the same department--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You got a way, Cora. There's just something about me don't take with the boys. Honest, if I could only see one of you girls alone with a fellow once, to see how you do it!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Just listen to her, Mrs. Schump, with her eyes and complexion and all!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There's not a reason my girl shouldn't have it as good and better than the best of them. She's a good girl, Cora. Stella's a good girl to me."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Aw, mamma--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Don't I know it, Mrs. Schump! I always say if ever a girl would make some nice-earning, steady fellow a good wife, it's--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Good wife'! That ain't the name! Why, Cora, for ten years that child has lifted me on my bad days and carried me and babied me like I was a queen. It's nothing for her to rub me two hours straight. Not a day before she leaves for work that she don't come to me and--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Fellows don't care about that kind of thing. A girl's got to have pep and something besides complexion and elbow-grease. I'm too fat."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She's always sayin' she's too fat. With one pound off, would she look as good, Cora? If I hadn't been as plump as a partridge in my girl-days--and if I do say it myself, I was as fine a lookin' girl as my Stella--do you think Dave Schump would have had eyes for me? Not if I was ten times the woman I was for him."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Sure she ain't too fat, Mrs. Schump. I always tell her it's her imagination. I know a girl bigger than she is that's keeping company with an expert piano-tuner. Why, I know girls twice her size. Stella's got a right good figure, she has."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Lots of good it does me! I--It's just like my brains to go right to my hands, once you put me with a fellow. That time your brother Ed called for me for that party at your house--honest, I couldn't open my mouth to him."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Can't understand it! 'Honest,' I says to Ed that time after the party, I says to him, 'Ed, why don't you go over and call on Stella Schump and take her to a movie or something? She's my idea of a girl, Stella is.' Think I could budge him? 'Naw,' was all I could get out of him. Just, 'Naw.' Honest, I could have shook him. But did he run down to that little flirt of a Gert Cobb's the very same night? He did. Honest, like I said to Arch, it makes me sick. Is it any wonder the world is filled with little flips like Gert Cobb, the way the fellows fall for 'em?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I never could be fresh with a boy. Take that time at your party. I bet your brother Ed would have liked me better if I'd have got out in the middle of the floor with him, like he wanted me to and like Gert did, to see who could blow the biggest bunch of suds off his stein. I never could be fresh with a fellow."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That's just the trouble, Mrs. Schump. Stella don't see the difference between what's fresh and what's just fun. Is there anything wrong about one stein of beer in a jolly crowd? A girl can be nice without being goody-good. If there's anything a fellow hates, it's a goody-good. Take a fellow like Arch--you think he'd have any time for me if I wasn't a good-enough sport to take a glass of beer with him maybe once a week when he gets to feeling thirsty? Nothing rough. Everything in moderation, I always say. But there's a difference, Mrs. Schump, between being rough and being a goody-good."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There's something in what you say, Cora. I've had her by me so much, maybe I've tried to raise her a little over-genteel. There ain't one single bad appetite she's got to be afraid of. It's not in her. I used to tell her poor father, one glass of beer could make him so crazy loony he never had to try how two tasted."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm bashful, and what you goin' to do about it?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Say, you and Ed's foreman ought to meet together! Honest, you'd be a pair! Ed brought him to the house one night. Finest boy you ever seen. Thirty-five a week, steady as you make 'em; and when they put in girls to work down at the munitions-plant where him and Ed works, Ed said it was all they could do to keep him from throwing up his job from fright. Whatta you know? A dandy fellow like him, with a dagger-shaped scar clear down his arm from standing by his job that time when the whole south end of the plant exploded. A fellow that could save a whole plant and two hundred lives afraid to face a few skirts! Crazy to get married. Told Ed so. Always harping on his idea of blue eyes and yellow hair, and then, when he gets the chance, afraid of a few skirts!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That's me every time with fellows. I get to feelin' down inside of me something terrible--scary--and all."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Say, I'll tell you what! I'll get Ed to bring him down to Gert Cobb's party next Saturday night, and you come, too."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There's two of a kind for you, Mrs. Schump. A fellow that's more afraid of girls than explosions, and a girl that's afraid to blow a little foam off a glass of beer! Them two ought to meet. Me and Arch and Ed'll fix it up. How's that for a scheme? Now say I ain't your friend! Are you game?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don't go out tryin' to meet fellows that way."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You see, Mrs. Schump, the way she puts a gold fence around herself?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Cora's puttin' herself out for you, Stella. There's no harm in a Saturday night's party in the company of Cora and some genteel friends."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Gert Cobb don't know I'm on earth."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You hear, Mrs. Schump? Is it any wonder she don't get out? All I got to do is say the word, and any friend of mine is welcome in Gert Cobb's house."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'll make you up them five yards of pink mull for it, Stella. It's a shame that pretty dress-pattern from your two birthdays ago has never had the occasion to be made up. It's nice of Cora to be puttin' herself out."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Look at 'er, like I was asking her to a funeral!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There's such a pretty sash I been savin' to make up with that mull, Cora. A handsome black-moiré length of ribbon off a beaded basque her father gimme our first Christmas married."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'll lend her my pink pearls to wear. Honest, I never knew a girl could wear pink like Stella."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Not your--pink beads, Cora?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You heard me the first time, didn't you? 'Pink' was what I said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ma!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Now ain't that nice of Cora?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Quick--are you game?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why, yes--Cora."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Honest, Cora, I feel just like I'm intruding."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Naw."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Here! I tried once to, and she wouldn't take it."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You two go on and talk together. I've chewed Arch's right ear off already."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's a grand evenin'--ain't it, Mr. Sensenbrenner?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Arch Sensenbrenner, if you don't stop pinching me! Honest, my arm's black and blue! Honest! What'll Stella think we are? Now cut it out!"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "I--You--you and Mr. Sensenbrenner go on, Cora. I--me not knowin' Gertie Cobb and all--I--I--feel I'm intruding. You and him go on. Please!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Now, Stella Schump, you're coming right to this party with me and Arch. We can't do more than tell her she's welcome, can we, Arch?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sure."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I promised your mother I'm going to see to it that you get away from her apron-strings and out among young folks more, and you're coming right to this party with me and Arch. Ain't I right, Arch?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sure."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You mustn't feel bad, honey, that Ed couldn't get John Gilly to come around and call after you. Ed says he'd never get him to steam up his nerve enough to call at a girl's house after her; but ain't it enough he's coming to Gert's to-night just to meet you? You ought to heard him when Ed got to telling him what kind of a girl you was. 'Gee!' Ed says he says. 'Big blue eyes like saucers sounds good to me! Well,' he says, Ed says he says, 'if my nerve don't lay down on me, I'll show up there with you.' That's something, ain't it, for a fellow like John Gilly to do just to meet a girl? Ain't it, Arch, for that fine, big fellow, Ed's foreman, you seen up at our house that night? You know the one I mean, the one with his arm scalded up from the explosion."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sure."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Honest, if I wasn't already tagged and spoken for, I'd set my cap for him myself."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ain't he the cut-up, Stella?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He sure is."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Br-a-a-y!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, show her the way the zebra in the Park goes on Sunday morning, Arch!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Heigh-ho! He-e-e-e-e-e-e-e!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ain't that lifelike, Stella?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It sure is."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, look! Up there--the third story--see--those are the Cobbs' windows, all lit up! Oh, gee! I just can't make my feet behave. Waltz me around again, Archie! No; you got to take the first dance with Stella."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh no, Cora; he wants--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You hear, Arch?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sure; only, I can't force her if she don't want to."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Sure she wants to! Hurry! I hear Skinnay Flint's ukulele. Gee! I just can't make my feet be-have!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "H,"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Stella, your hair looks swell!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ma plaited it up last night with sugar-water."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Here, just this speck on your lips, just a little to match your cheeks!--See--all the girls use it."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ugh--no--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There, just a stroke. Fine! Say, wasn't Arch killing to-night when he called my cheeks naturally curly?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You look grand, Cora. Sure you don't want your pink beads?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'll throw 'em down and step on 'em if you take 'em off."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I just love that changeable silk on you."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Does the split under the arm show?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Notta bit."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come on, then!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, Cora--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come on!"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Cora Kinealy! Hello, Cora! How's every little thing?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Baby-shoes--tra-la-la!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, you changeable-silk kiddo! Turn green for the ladies."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Come on over here, Cora, and make Arch tell fortunes!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Gertie, this is my girl friend, Stella, from the shoes, I brought. Y'know? I told you about her. Ed's bringing down a gentleman friend for her."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Make yourself right at home. At our house, it's what you don't see ask for. Skin-nay Flint, if you don't stop! Make him quit, Cora; he's been ticklin' me something awful with that little old feather duster he brought along. Whatta you think this is--Coney Island? E-e-e-e-e-e!"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Leggo!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Quit--ouch--e-e-e-e-e! That's right; give it to him! Cora--go to it--e-e-e-e-e--"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Certainly,"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's great to watch the young ones,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It sure is,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Like I tell Gert, it makes me young again myself."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It sure does."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Give it to 'em in the house, I say, and it keeps 'em in off the street."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Your daughter is sure one pretty girl."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Gert's a good-enough girl, if I could keep her in. I tell 'er of all my young ones she's the prettiest and the sassiest. Law, how that girl can sass!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Like my mother always says to me about sass, sass never gets a girl nowheres."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Indeed it don't! It's lost her more places than my other two, married now, ever lost put together. You work in the Criterion?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes'm. Children's shoes."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I bet you're not the kind of a girl to change places every week."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No'm. Criterion is the only place I ever worked at. I started there as Cash."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I bet you give up at home out of your envelop."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes'm."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Father?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No'm. He was a night watchman and got shot on duty."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mother?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes'm."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Brother?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No'm."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sister?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No'm."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Only child, huh?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes'm."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Eats, maw--eats! The crowd's thirsty--spittin' cotton. What's the idea? My tongue's out. Eats! Quick, for Gawsakes--eats!"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, Ed! This from Miss Kinealy between large mouthfuls of sandwich and somewhat jerkily from being dandled on Mr. Sensenbrenner's knee,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Where's your friend--where's John Gilly?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, Ed!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Naouw, Eh-ud!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'll give you a slap on the wrist."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Naouw, Ed!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now tell me--where is he, Ed? Shut up every body! Where is he, Ed?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That guy had sense. One whiff of this roughhouse and he bolted down again, six steps at a jump. He slipped me so easy I was talking to myself all the way up-stairs. That guy had sense. Petticoat shush-shush can't put nothing over on him."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Aw, Ed!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And him dated for Stella! Honest, it's a rotten shame! Suddenly Miss Kinealy flashed to her feet, her glance running quick."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Where is she? Well, Stella Schump, sitting over there playing chums with yourself! Honest, your name ought to be Chump! Whatta you think that is--the amen corner? You're a fine bunch of social entertainers, you fellows are! Bring her up a chair. Gee! you are! Honest, Gertie Cobb, I wouldn't want my cat to be company to you! Bring 'er up a chair, Ed. Here, next to me! Honest, it's a rotten shame! Give 'er a sandwich. Open 'er up a bottle. Gee! you're a fine crowd of fish, you are!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Have this one on me, Stella! he cried."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Your guy bolted of stage fright; but I'm here, and don't you forget it!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Aw--tee-hee!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Here!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm on the water-wagon,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Say, here's a girl won't blow the foam off a fellow's glass for fear she'll get soapsuds in her eyes!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Wash her face with 'em!"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Here, now--open your mouth and shut your eyes."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Open it for her, Ed."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Aw, no; don't force her if she don't want it."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Gowann, Stella; be human, if it hurts you."
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Attaboy! Say, tell it to the poodles and the great Danes! That Jane's no amachure!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Now, there!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "More?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm game."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't give 'er a whole glass, Ed."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That's more like it! Didn't kill you, did it? Now eat that Swiss-cheese sandwich and come over next to me and Arch while he tells fortunes."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I said palm-reading, Arch, not hand-holding. Leave that part to Ed and Gert over there. Now quit squeezing--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I see, he began, his voice widening to a drawl--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I se-e a fellow about my size and complexion entering your life--"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Gee! it's hot in here! she muttered, no one heeding or hearing."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Sure hot. Whew!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Going on a long journey, and a fellow about my size and complexion is going along with you, and there's money coming--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Sure hot!"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Gimme, she said, lifting the pink-mull, ankle-length skirt as if it trailed a train and marching off down-street;"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, you!"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Aw! she repeated, scolding and stamping down at them."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Aw! Aw! You!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nine--ten--e-lev-hun--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hoddado?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hello!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hello!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Got a girl?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Nope."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Blow suds?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Where?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Cora's."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You're under arrest, he said, laconically."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Solicitin'. Come on; no fuss."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "O Lord! she said, pressing inward at her waistline to abet laughter, following him voluntarily enough, and her voice rising."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You make me laugh. You make me laugh."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That'll do,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Whoop la-la!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Now, you get noisy and watch me."
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, you don't! Aw, no, you don't! Whatta you think I yam? Cora's! Tell it to the poodles and the great Danes!"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Whatta you think I yam? Tell it to the poodles and the great Danes!"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Stella Schump. Officer Charles Costello."
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And she says to me, she says, your Honor, 'Got a girl?'"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Were those her exact words to you?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, your Honor."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Proceed."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And I says to her, I says, 'No,' and then she comes up close and says to me, she says, 'Buy me a drink?'"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Were those her exact words?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, your Honor, as near as I can remember."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Go on."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And I says to her, 'Where do you want to go?' and she says to me, giving me a wink, 'Cora's.'"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Cora's?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, your Honor; the Cora Jones mulatto woman that was cleaned out last week."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "She suggested that you accompany her to the house of the Jones woman?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Beg pardon, your Honor?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "She suggested this resort?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, your Honor. 'Cora Jones,' she said."
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You! You! You're no amachure! Cora Jones! Cora Kinealy! Go tell it to the great Danes! Say it again! Gimme leave! Gimme leave! The immediate peremptoriness of the gavel set her to blinking, but did not silence."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Come to order in the court!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Aw!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Proceed, officer."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And then, when she starts off with me, I says to her, I says, 'You're under arrest,' and brought her over."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That'll do."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Does the defendant wish to take the chair?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "His Honor asks if you want to state your case."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Huh?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Do you wish to state your case from the witness-chair? Since you did not employ counsel, do you wish to state your own case?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nit."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Look up here, my girl. I am the judge, trying to help you."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Aw!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Is this your first offense?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, it's my offense, ain't it?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Address the court properly. Are you intoxicated or only slightly dizzy?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He lied about Cora Kinealy. He lied--that little skunk lied."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Didn't you ask him to go there with you?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sure; but he's no amachure."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Are you?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "An amateur?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, this Jane ain't."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Will you go quietly into the next room with the matron and tell her all about it? The court does not want to have to deal too harshly with a girl like you. Do you want to engage counsel and have your case go over? If there is a chance, I don't want to have to send a girl like you away."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Aw, you--you're a poodle and a great Dane!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ten days,"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Maizie Smith. Officer Jerry Dinwiddie."
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "So! she said, a highly imperfect row of lower teeth seeming to jut out, and her voice wavy with brogue and vibrant to express all its scorn."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "So!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mrs. O'Connor--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "So! Ye've come back in time for the buryin'! Faith, an' it's a foine toime for the showin'-up of the chief mourner! Faith now it is!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mrs. O'Connor--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ain't ye ashamed? Ain't ye ashamed before the Lord to face your Maker?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Please--please--Mrs. O'Connor--what--what--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The pasty-faced lyin' ways of ye! I can see now how ye look what ye are! I'd have believed it as soon of my own. It's the still water that run deep in ye, is the way your girl friend put it. The hussy under that white complexion of yours! Your sainted mither! Oh, ain't ye ashamed in the name of the Lord to face your Maker?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "O God--please what--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Your sainted mither! Niver, after that letter from ye the next night after her scourin' the city, a whimper more out of her--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I wrote--I wrote--they gimme a stamp--I wrote--how--Where is she?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A cousin had called ye sudden-like for sickness was how she put it. Faith and me niver once a-smellin' the mice, the way she lay there, waitin', waitin' day after day, doubled up in the joints and waitin' for thim ten days to pass--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "O God!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I found her in bed yisterday, a-clutchin' the letter, or niver to my own dyin' would I have known the shameful truth of it. It's screw open her poor hands I had to, for the readin' of the letter that had been eatin' 'er for all them days of waitin'. Ye hussy! Ye jailbird--and me niver thinkin' but what it was the sick cousin! Me niver smellin' the mice! Your own girl friend, neither. Ye hussy! Jailbird!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh! Oh! Oh!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's only because she was sainted I'm lettin' ye up in on her. She layin' up there, waitin'. Strangers that crossed her poor hands on her poor breast and strangers that laid her out. Niver even a priest called in on her. She a-layin' up there, waitin'--the Lord have mercy on your soul! If ye ain't afraid before the Lord to look on her, come up. It's thankin' God I am she can't open her eyes to see ye."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "O my God! O my God! God! God! What have I done? What have I done? Mamma--mamma--mamma! O my God! What? What--"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Lonesome?"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Workin'?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Huh?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Lord! she said, indicating Second Avenue with a nod."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The lane's like a morgue to-night."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Cold, ain't it?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Lay off my territory. I seen him first."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh--sure--yes--all right."
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Where you goin'?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No place. Where you goin'?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm cold."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Buy you a drink?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come on."
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "O God! she kept repeating, her stress growing."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "O God! God! God!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "O my God! And then in rapid succession, closing her eyes and digging her finger-nails into her palms:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mamma! Mamma! Mamma!"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Where you goin'?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Eh?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Where you goin'?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No place."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm cold."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Pu-pu-pup."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Pu-pu-pup."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Aw, you!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Go home and go to bed, he said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A nice-appearin' girl like you ought to be ashamed."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I--ain't."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Run along."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Where?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You're barkin' up the wrong tree."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "O God! she began, under her breath."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "O God! God! Then:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mamma! Mamma! Mamma!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You _are_ cold, he said, reaching out to pinch her jacket sleeve."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That's a warm coat. Where do you live?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Lemme alone,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You got the shivers, he said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Better go home."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Lemme alone."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ain't there no way you girls can learn to behave yourselves? Here --digging down into his pocket--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Where you live?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I dunno. I dunno."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You surely know where you live."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I tell you I dunno."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What's in there?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "My--my clothes."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Let's see."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Don't,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, he said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What got you in?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I--I--I dunno."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Aw, now, yes, you do know. Try to think--take your time--what got you in?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I--I--can't--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, you can. Go on; I ain't lookin' at you."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now, now, he said, still in profile;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You see, mister--you see, it was my--my mamma--my beautiful, darling mamma--O God!--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, yes; it was your mamma--and then what?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It was my mamma, my beautiful, darling mamma! What'll I do, mister? I can't make it up to her. No way--nohow. She's gone--she's gone--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Easy--easy--try to keep easy."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I used to kiss her hands when they was embroiderin'. I used to grease 'em for her all night when she screamed with the pain of 'em. I used to scream at night, too, when I was doin' my time--her there waitin'--she died alone--there waitin'--the letter they gave me the stamp for--I--I was crazy with scare when I wrote it--O God!--mamma--mamma--mamma!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It was this way--O God, how was it?--it was this way--you see, me and my mamma and sometimes a friend--Cora Jones--no--no--no--Cora Kinealy--we used to sit in the lamplight--no--no--first, I was in the shoes--the children's shoes--they used to come in, little kiddies with their toes all kicked out wantin' new shoes--cute little baby-shoes that I loved to try on 'em. My friend--Cora--my friend--O God!--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Now, now, like a good girl--go on."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My friend Cora--my darling little mamma--I never knew nothing about anything except me and my mamma, we--it worried her that I didn't have it like--like other girls--I--you see--you see, mister?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, yes, I see."
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She died, mister, she ended up finally, turning her salt-bitten eyes full upon him;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Did she?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Did she, mister?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, no, he said, finally,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do you think I'm bad, mister?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, Stella! No! No! No! My God, no!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm cold."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Come."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Where?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm goin' to take you across the street there to the Young Women's Shelter Home for to-night. Just across there. See the sign? Don't be afraid, Stella. Please don't be afraid."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I ain't."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Come, Stella."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm all right,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Don't be afraid, Stella, he said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm here. I'm here."
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Say, Max, guess why I think you're like a rubber band."
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Like a rubber band?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yeh."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Give up."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Aw, give a guess."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, I don't know, Miss Sadie, unless--unless it's because I'm stuck on you."
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ain't that a good reason, Miss Sadie? It's a true one."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You're one swell little guesser, you are _not_. You couldn't get inside a riddle with a can-opener. 'Cause you're stuck on me! Gee!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, I am."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I didn't ask you why you was like a bottle of glue. I asked you why you was like a rubber band."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Aw, I give up, Miss Sadie."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Gee! that must have been cracked before the first nut."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Smarty!"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's the spring fever gets inside of me and makes me so stretchy, Miss Sadie. It's a good thing trade is slow down here in the basement to-day, because it's the same with me every year; the Saturday before spring-opening week I just get to feeling like all outdoors."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Wait till you see me with a new red-satin bow stuck on my last summer's shape. Dee Dee's got to lend me the price for two yards of three-inch red-satin ribbon for my spring opening."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I bet you look swell in red, Miss Sadie. But a girl like you looks swell in anything."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Red's my color. Dee Dee says my mamma was a gay one, too, when it came to color. Had to have a red bow pinned somewheres around all the months she was in bed and--and up to the very night she died. Gimme red every time. Dee Dee's the one that's always kicking against red; she says I got too flashy taste."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Say, if she keeps bossing and bossing at you, what do you keep on living with her for?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Wouldn't you live with your own mother's sister if she raised you from a kid? What am I going to do, put her in cold storage, now that her eyes are going back on her? Up in the ribbons she can't hardly keep her colors graduated no more, that's how blind she's getting. Only yesterday a dame brought back some lavender ribbon and wiped up the whole department with Dee Dee for putting it over on her as blue. What am I going to do?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Honest, Miss Sadie, I didn't know that she was your aunt and that her eyes was bad. I've seen you two together a lot and noticed her thick lenses, but I just didn't think."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, now I'm telling you."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I just thought she was some old girl up in the ribbons you was living with for company. Honest, I didn't know she had bad eyes. Gee!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, they ain't bad. Only she's so blind she reads her paper upside down and gets sore if you tell her about it."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And me thinking she was nothing but a near-sighted old grouch with a name like a sparrow."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Dee Dee ain't her real name. When I was a kid and she took me to raise, that's the way I used to pronounce Aunt Edith. Gee! you don't think Dee Dee was the name they sprinkled on her when they christened her, did you?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Gee! but you're a cute little lady when you laugh like that."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Say, and ain't you the freshie! Just because you're going to be promoted to buyer for your department won't get your picture in the Sunday supplement. No white-goods buyer I know of ever had to build white marble libraries or present a bread-line to the city to get rid of his pin-money."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I bet you was a cute little black-eyed, red-cheeked little youngster, alrighty."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I wasn't so worse. Like I tell Dee Dee, the way she's held me down and indoors evenings, it's a wonder a kid like me grew up with any pep at all."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Poor little lady!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's like Dee Dee says, though. I never was cut out for life behind the counter. Gee! I'd soak my pillow in gasolene every night in the week if it would make me dream I'm automobiling."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Poor little lady!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Say, ain't it hot? With the Opening on Monday, they better get the fans working. Last year three girls keeled. Honest, sometimes I think I'd rather spend the summer under the daisies out on the hill than down here in this basement."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't I wish I had an auto to take you spinning in to-night."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You ought to see the flier a friend of mine has got. A Mercury Six with a limousine top like a grand-opera box."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Your--your--friend?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes. He's that slick-looking, little fat fellow that's a cousin to Mamie Grant up in the ready-to-wears. He was down here talking to me the other day."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I seen him."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Gee! you ought to feel yourself in his Mercury Six. 'Lemme die,' I says to him the last time I was in it. 'Just lemme close my eyes right in here and die happy,' I says, cuddled up in the red-leather seat with a cornucopia of daffodils tickling my nose and a street-car full of strap-hangers riding along-side of us."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I--I guess if you got swell friends like that, a boat excursion down the river 'ain't got much of a sound for you."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He says he's got a launch in summer--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Honest, Miss Sadie, I--I just been trying for the better part of two weeks to ask permission if I could come and call on you some evening, Miss Sadie, but--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Whoops! ain't he the daredevil!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The first boat of the season, Miss Sadie, a swell new one they call the _White Gull_, goes down to Coney to-night, and, it being real springtime, and you feeling kind of full of it, I thought maybe, it being the first boat of the season, maybe you would take a river ride this grand April night, Miss Sadie."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "My aunt Dee Dee, Mr. Meltzer, she's right strict with me. She don't think I ought to keep company with any boys that don't come to see me first at my house."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I know it, Miss Sadie; that's the right way to do it, but I think I can get around her all right. Wasn't she down here in the basement the day I first heard about my promotion, and didn't she give me the glad hand and seem right friendly to me? I can get around her all right, Miss Sadie. I can always tell if a person likes me or not."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Anyways, if her eyes ain't too bad, Mr. Meltzer, I got a date with my friend if his car is out of the shop from having the limousine top taken off. We--we're going for a little spin."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Gee! if I've made three sales this livelong day I don't know nothing about two of them."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You're right to pick out the lucky fellows who can buy a good time. A little girl like you ought to have every enjoyment there is. If I could give it to you, do you think I would let the other fellows beat me to it? The best ain't none too good for a little lady like you."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Aw, Mr. Meltzer! Her bosom filled and waned."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Aw, Mr. Meltzer!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I mean it."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Aw, looka, and I wanted to sneak up before closing and get Dee Dee to snip me two yards of red satin, and she won't cut an inch after the bell. Ain't that luck for you? Ain't that luck?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Lemme get it for you, Miss Sadie. I know a girl up in the ribbons--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, no, Mr. Meltzer. I--I got to charge it to Dee Dee, and, anyways, she gets mad like anything if I keep her waiting. I gotta go. 'Night, Mr. Meltzer! 'Night!"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hurry up, Sadie."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Dee Dee! How'd you girls up here get on your duds so soon? I thought maybe if I'd hurry upstairs you--you'd find time to cut me a two-yard piece of three-inch red satin for my hat, Dee Dee--to-morrow being Sunday. Two yards, Dee Dee, and that'll make two-sixty-nine I owe you. Aw, Dee Dee, it won't take a minute, to-morrow Sunday and all! Aw, Dee Dee!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Aw, Dee Dee, who ever heard of wearing fur on a hat in April? I gotta stick a red bow on my last summer's sailor, Dee Dee."
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Please, Dee Dee!"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Aw, Dee Dee!"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Watch out, Dee Dee! Step down; there's a curb."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don't need you. It's lots you care if I go blind on the spot."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dee Dee!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "God! if I didn't have nothing to worry me but red ribbons! I told the doctor to-day while he was putting the drops in my eyes, that if he'd let me go blind I--I--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now, now, Dee Dee! Ain't you seeing better these last few days?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If you had heard what the doctor told me to-day when he put the drops in my eyes you'd have something to think about besides red ribbon, alrighty."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I forgot, Dee Dee, to-day was your eye-doctor day. He's always scarin' you up. Just don't pay no attention. I forgot it was your day."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Sure you forgot. But you won't forget if I wake up alone in the dark some day."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dee Dee!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You won't forget then. You won't forget to nag me even then for duds to go automobiling with fly men that can't bring you no good."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dee Dee, I 'ain't been but one night this week. I been saving up all my nights for--for to-night."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "To-night. Say, I can't keep you from going to the devil on skates if--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's only the second time this week, Dee Dee, and I--I promised. He'll have the limousine top off to-night--and feel, it is just like summer. A girl's gotta have a little something once in a while."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What do I gotta have? What do I gotta have but slave and work?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's different with you, Dee Dee. You're older even than my mamma was, and didn't you say when you and her was girls together there wasn't a livelier two sisters? Now didn't you, Dee Dee?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "In a respectable way, yes. But there wasn't the oily-mouthed, bald-headed divorced man alive, with little rat eyes and ugly lips, who could have took me or your mamma out auto-riding before or after dark. We was working-girls, too, but there wasn't a man didn't take off his hat to us, even if he was bald-headed and it was twenty below zero."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Aw!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, 'aw'! You keep running around with the kind of men that don't look at a girl unless she's served up with rum-sauce and see where it lands you. Just keep running if you want to, but my money don't buy you no red ribbons to help to drive you to the devil!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The way you keep fussing at me, when I don't even go to dances like the other girls! I--sometimes I just wish I was dead. The way I got to watch the clock like it was a taximeter the whole time I'm out anywheres. It's the limit. Even Max Meltzer gimme the laugh to-day."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You'd never hear me say watch the clock if you'd keep company with a boy like Max Meltzer. A straight, clean boy with honest intentions by a girl lookin' right out of his face. You let a boy like Max Meltzer begin to keep steady with you and see what I say. You don't see no yellow streak in his face; he's as white as the goods he sells."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I know. I know. You think now because he's going to be made buyer for the white goods in September he's the whole show. Gee! nowadays that ain't so muchy much for a fellow to be."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, I think the kind of fellows that fresh Mamie Grant gets you acquainted with are muchy much. I'm strong for the old rat-eyed sports like Jerry Beck, that 'ain't got a honest thought in his head. I bet he gives you the creeps, too, only you're the kind of a girl, God help you, that's so crazy for luxury you could forget the devil had horns if he hid 'em under a automobile cap."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sure I am. I 'ain't seen nothing but slaving and drudging and pinching all my life, while other girls are strutting the Avenue in their furs and sleeping mornings as long as they want under eider-down quilts. Sure, when a man like Jerry Beck comes along with a carriage-check instead of a Subway-ticket I can thaw up to him like a water-ice, and I ain't ashamed of it, neither."
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "When a girl gets twenty, like you, it ain't none of my put-in no more. Only I hope to God your mother up there is witness that if ever a woman slaved to keep a girl straight and done her duty by her it was me. That man 'ain't got no good intentions by--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, ain't you--ain't you a mean-thinking thing, ain't you? What kind of a girl do you think I am? If he didn't have the right intentions by me do you think--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, I guess he'll marry you if he can't get you no other way. Them kind always do if they can't help themselves. A divorced old guy like him, with a couple of kids and his mean little eyes, knows he's got to pay up if he wants a young girl like you. Oh, I--Ouch--oh--oh!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Dee Dee, take my arm. That was only an ashcan you bumped into. It's the drops he puts in your eyes makes 'em so bad to-night, I guess. Go on, take my arm, Dee Dee. Here we are home. Lemme lead you up-stairs. It's nothing but the drops, Dee Dee."
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Watch out, Dee Dee, the scuttle. Lemme go in first. Gee! it's cold indoors and warm out, ain't it? Wait till I light up. There!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Lemme alone. I can see."
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Gee! Dee Dee, six-twenty already! I got to hurry. Unhook me while I sew in this ruching."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Going for supper?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yeh. He invited me. This is cottage-pudding night; tell old lady Finch when I ain't home for supper you got two desserts coming to you."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don't want no supper."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Aw, now, Dee Dee!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "God! my feet!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Soak 'em."
}
] |
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|
[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Here, Dee Dee, I'm so nervous when I hurry. You sew in this ruche; you got time before the supper-bell. See, right along the edge like that."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "God! I--I just 'ain't got the eyes no more. I can't see, Sadie; I can't find the needle."
}
] |
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|
[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's the drops, Dee Dee, and this gaslight, all blurry from the curling-iron in the flame, makes you see bad."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yeh, I know. I know."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sure! Here, lemme do it, Dee Dee. I won't stay out late, dearie, if your eyes are bad. We're only going out for a little spin."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I should worry if you come home or if you don't--all the comfort you are to me."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You say that to me many more times and you watch and see what I do; you watch and see."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The sooner the better."
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's just the way I feel about it--the sooner the better."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Then we think alike."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You 'ain't been such a holy saint to me that I got to pay up to you for it all my life."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That's the thanks I get."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You only raised me because you had to. I been working for my own living ever since I was so little I had to He to the inspectors about my age."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Except what you begged out of my wages."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I been as much to you as you been to me and--and I don't have to stand this no longer. Sure I can get out and--and the sooner the better. I'm sick of getting down on my knees to you every time I wanna squeeze a little good time out of life. I'm tired paying up for the few dollars you gimme out of your envelop. If I had any sense I--I wouldn't never take it from you, nohow, the way you throw it up to me all the time. The sooner the better is what I say, too; the sooner the better."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That's the thanks I get; that's the--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Aw, I know all that line of talk by heart, so you don't need to ram it down me. You gotta quit insinuating about my ways to me. I'm as straight as you are and--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You--you--take off that ivory-hand breast-pin; that ain't yours."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sure I'll take it off, and this ruche you gimme the money to buy, and this red bracelet you gimme, and--and every old thing you ever gimme. Sure I'll take 'em all off. I wish I could take off these gray-top shoes you paid a dollar toward, and I would, too, if I didn't have to go barefoot. It's the last time I borrow from--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Aw, you commenced that line of talk when you was ten."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I mean it."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, if you do, take off them gloves that I bought for myself and you begged right off my hands. Just take 'em off and go barehanded with your little-headed friend; maybe he can buy--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You--Oh, I--I wish I was dead! I--I'll go barehanded to a snowball feast rather than wear your duds. There's your old gloves--there!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I just wish I--I was dead."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Aw, no, you don't! There's him now, with a horn on his auto that makes a noise like the devil yelling! There's your little rat-eyed, low-lived fellow, now. You don't wish you was dead now, do you? Go to him and his two divorces and his little roundhead. That's where you belong; that's where girls on the road to the devil belong--with them kind. There he is now, waiting to ride you to the devil. He don't need to honk-honk so loud; he knows you're ready and waiting for him."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Gimme--the key."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Aw, no, you don't. When you come home tonight you knock; no more tiptoe, night-key business like last time. I knew you was lying to me about the clock."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You gimme that key. I don't want you to have to get up, with all your kicking, to open the door for me. You gimme the key."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If you wanna get in this room when you come home to-night, you knock like any self-respecting girl ain't afraid to do."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You--oh--you!"
}
] |
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|
[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do I need my heavy coat, Jerry?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Now didn't I say I was going to keep you warm? Quit your squirming, Touchy. I won't bite. Ready, George. Up to the Palisade Inn, and let out some miles there."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Gee! Jerry, you got the limousine top off. Ain't this swell for summer?"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now, now, snuggle up a little, Peachy."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That's better."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ain't it a swell night?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Now we're comfy--eh?"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, Peachy, how are you? Peachy is just the name for you, eh? 'Cause I'd like to take a bite right out of you--eh, Peachy? How are you?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Fine and--and dandy."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Look at me."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Aw!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Look at me, I say, you pretty little peach, with them devilish black eyes of yours and them lips that's got a cherry on 'em."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Honest, you're the limit."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What's your eyes red for?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "They--they ain't."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Cryin'?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Like fun."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You know what I'd do if I thought you'd been crying? I'd just kiss them tears right away."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, you would _not_."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Little devil!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Quit calling me that."
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Gad, George! you black devil you, why don't you watch out what you're doing?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But, suh, I--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "None of your black back-talk."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Jerry! She was shivering, and a veil of tears formed over her hot, mortified eyes."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Gee! what are you made of? You seen he couldn't help it when that taxi turned into us so sudden."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Aw, did I scare the little Peachy? That's the way they gotta be handled. I ain't ready by a long shot to let a black devil spill my brains."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sure he could, if he watched. He's a bargain I picked up cheap, anyways, 'cause he's lame and can't hold down heavy work. And bargains don't always pay. But I'll break his black back for him if--Aw, now, now, did I scare the little peach? Gee! I couldn't do nothing but kill _you_ with kindness if you was driving for me. I'd just let you run me right off this road into the Hudson Ocean if you was driving for me."
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It ain't none of my put-in, but he couldn't help it, and I hate for you to yell at anybody like that, Jerry."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Aw, aw, did I scare the little Peachy? Watch me show the little Tootsie how nice I can be when I want to--Aw--aw!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Quit."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "All tired out, too; all tired out. Wait till you see what I'm going to buy you to-night. A great big beefsteak with mushrooms as big as dollars and piping-hot German fried potatoes and onions. M-m-m-m! And more bubbles than you can wink your eye at. Aw--aw, such poor cold little hands, and no gloves for such cold little hands! Here, lemme warm 'em. Wouldn't I just love to wrap a little Peachy like you up in a great big fur coat and put them little cold hands in a great big muff and hang some great big headlight earrings in them little bittsie ears. Wouldn't I, though. M-m-m-m! Poor cold little hands!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Gee! Ain't I the nut to--to cry? I--I'll be all right in a minute."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I knew when I seen them red eyes the little Peachy wasn't up to snuff, and her cute little devilishlike ways. What's hurting you, Tootsie? Been bounced? You should worry. I'm going to steal you out of that cellar, anyways. Been bounced?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "N-no."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The old hag 'ain't been making it hot for you, has she?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sh-she--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Gad! that old hag gets my fur up. I had a mother-in-law once tried them tricks on me till I learned her they wouldn't work. But the old hag of yourn--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's her eyes; the doctor must have scared her up again to-day. When she gets scared like that about 'em she acts up so, honest, sometimes I--I just wish I was dead. She don't think a girl oughtta have no life."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Forget it. Just you wait. She's going to wake up some morning soon and find a little surprise party for herself. I know just how to handle an old bird like her."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sometimes she's just so good to me, and then again, when she gets sore like to-night, and with her nagging and fussing at me, I don't care if she is my aunt, I just _hate_ her."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We're going to give her a little surprise party."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But ain't I the limit, Jerry, airing my troubles to you, like you was a policeman."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Now, now--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Quit! Leggo my hand."
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I got it. Why don't you lemme kidnap you, kiddo?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Lemme kidnap you to-night and give the old hag the surprise of her life when she wakes up and finds you stolen. I'm some little kidnapper when it comes to kidnapping, I am, kiddo. Say, wouldn't I like to take you riding all wrapped up in a fur coat with nothing but your cute little face sticking out."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Aw, you're just fooling me."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Fooling! Lemme prove it, to-night. Lemme kidnap you this very night. I--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Is--is that what you mean by--by kidnapping me?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sure. There ain't nothing I'd rather do. Are you on, Peaches? A sensible little queen like you knows which side her bread is buttered on. There ain't nothing I want more than to see you all bundled up in a fur coat with--headlights in your little bittsie pink ears."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You--What kind of a girl do you think I am? O God! What kind of a girl does he think I am? Take me home--take me--What kind of a girl do you think I am?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Just what I said, Peachy. What I meant was I'd marry you to-night if we could get a license. I'd just kidnap you to-night if--if we could get one."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You--you didn't mean that."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sure I did, Peachy. Say, with a little girl of my own I ain't one of them guys that you think I am. Ain't you ashamed of yourself, Peachy--now ain't you?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Jerry--Only a girl like me's got to be careful--that was all I meant, Jerry. Jerry!"
}
] |
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