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15843 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It wasn't until she came back, though, that I knew I belonged to her who could never belong to me. If I was dead at one end of the world and she dead at the other, we couldn't be any farther apart than life has put us two who can see and speak to each other every day!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And yet-- he looked at me now and laughed boyishly,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He turned to me with a sudden white glare of ferocity that appalled me."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I could kill him with my hands, said he, with a quiet cold deadliness to chill one's marrow,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, there's been enough trouble for her without that, so they're safe from me, the both of them. I wouldn't do anything to imperil her happiness to save my own life. She was born to be happy--and she's going to have her chance. _I'll_ see to that, Mary Virginia!"
}
]
|
15843 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There is your duty to yourself, I managed to say."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, yes, one owes a great duty to oneself and one's work, John. You are risking too much--name, friends, honor, work, freedom. For God's sake, John, do not underestimate the danger. You have not had time to consider it."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ho! Listen to the parson preaching self-interest! he mocked."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He's a fine one to do that--at this hour of his life!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I tell you you endanger everything,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I know that--I'm no fool. And _I_ tell _you_ it's worth while. To-night makes me and my whole life worth while, the good and the bad of it together. Risks? I'll take all that's coming. You stay here and say some prayers for me, parson, if it makes you feel any better. As for me, I'm off."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, very well! said I shrilly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You will take chances, you will run risks, _hein?_ My friend, you do not stir out of this house this night without _me_!"
}
]
|
15843 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I mean it, John Flint. I am going with you. Was it not I, then, who saved those tools and had them ready to your hand? Whatever happens to you now happens to me as well. It is quite useless for you to argue, to scowl, to grind the teeth, to swear like that. And it will be dangerous to try to trick me: I am going!"
}
]
|
15843 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Whatever happens to you happens to me,"
}
]
|
15843 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Parson, said he solemnly,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I've seen all sorts and sizes and colors and conditions of crooks, up and down the line, in my time and generation, but take it from me you're a libel and an outrage on the whole profession. Why, you crazy he-angel, you'd break their hearts just to look at you!"
}
]
|
15843 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It will break my own heart, and possibly my mother's and Mary Virginia's will break to keep it company, if anything evil happens to you this night,"
}
]
|
15843 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "When you get to heaven, parson, you'll keep them all busy a hundred years and a day trying to cut and make a suit of sky clothes big enough to fit your real measure, said he, irrelevantly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You real thing in holy sports, come on, since you've got to!"
}
]
|
15843 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "For Sale"
}
]
|
15843 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "President's Office,"
}
]
|
15843 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Regular old Durham shorthorn, isn't he? he commented in a low voice."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Wants to charge right out of his frame and trample. Take a look at that nose, parson--like a double-barreled shotgun, for all the world! Beautiful brute, Inglesby. Makes you think of that minotaur sideshow they used to put over on the Greeks."
}
]
|
15843 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What I want to know is, _why_ a lady should have to strip to the buff just to play with a pigeon?"
}
]
|
15843 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The greatest of the Greeks considered the body divine in itself, my son, and so their noblest art was nude. Some moderns have thought there is no real art that is not nude. Truth itself is naked."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Aha! said my son, darkly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I see! You take off your pants when you go out to feed your chickens, say, and you're not bughouse. You're art. Well, if Truth is naked, thank God the rest of us are liars!"
}
]
|
15843 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hold the light! he ordered in a curt whisper."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There--like that. Steady now."
}
]
|
15843 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A little lower--to the left. So! he ordered, and with steady fingers I obeyed. He stood out sharply in the clear oval--the"
}
]
|
15843 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death--"
}
]
|
15843 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And lead us not into temptation ... but deliver us from evil ..."
}
]
|
15843 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Here she comes!"
}
]
|
15843 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You have forgotten to put the other packages back,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, I'm not forgetting. I saw a couple of the names on the envelopes and I rather think these letters will be a whole heap interesting to look over, said he, imperturbably."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's a hunch, parson, and I've gotten in the habit of paying attention to hunches. I'll risk it on these, anyhow. They're in suspicious company and I'd like to know why."
}
]
|
15843 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You've had a ring twisted in your nose for once, old sport!"
}
]
|
15843 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Buck up! said Flint's voice in my ear."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's all over, and the baby's named for his Poppa!"
}
]
|
15843 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She has escaped from them, they cannot touch her, she is free! I exulted."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "John, John, you have saved our girl! No matter what they do to Eustis they can't drag her into the quicksands _now_."
}
]
|
15843 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You've done all even God Almighty can do, given me more than I ever could have asked You for--and now it's up to me to make good--and I'll do it!"
}
]
|
15843 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Parson--you see how it is with me?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I see. And I think she is the greater lady for it and you the finer gentleman, said I stoutly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It would honor her, if she were ten times what she is--and she is Mary Virginia."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "She is Mary Virginia, said the Butterfly Man,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I found something better than a package of letters to-night, parson. I found--_Me_."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Folks give all sorts of things to the church--dedicate them in gratitude for favors they fancy they've received, don't they? Lamps, and models of ships, and glass eyes and wax toes and leather hands, and crutches and braces, and that sort of plunder? Well, I'm moved to make a free-will offering myself. I'm going to give the church my kit, and you can take it from me the old Lady will never get her clamps on another set like that until Gabriel blows his trumpet in the morning. Parson, I want you to put those tools back where you had them, for I shall never touch them again. I couldn't. They--well, they're sort of holy from now on. They're my IOU. Will you do it for me?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I might have known you would! said he, smiling."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Just one more favor, parson--may I put her letters in her hands, myself?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "My son, my son, who but you should do that?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Great Scott, parson, here it is striking five o'clock, and you've been up all night! he exclaimed, anxiously."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Here--no more gassing. You come lie down on my bed and snooze a bit. I'll call you in plenty of time for mass."
}
]
|
15843 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Parson! said he, and his eyes glittered."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Do you know what we've stumbled upon? Dynamite! Man, anybody holding that bunch of mail could blow this state wide open! So much for a hunch, you see!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You mean--"
}
]
|
15843 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Inglesby's going to shove Eustis under, is he? Not by a jugfull. He's going to play he's a patent life-preserver. He's going to _be_ that good Samaritan he's been shamming. Talk about poetic justice--this will be like wearing shoes three sizes too small for him, with a bunion on every toe!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You can't see how it's going to be managed? Didn't you ever hear of the grapevine telegraph? Well then, dear George receives a grapevine wireless bright and early to-morrow morning. A word to the wise is sufficient."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He will employ detectives,"
}
]
|
15843 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Say, though, don't you wish you could see them when they stroll down to those beautiful offices and go for to open that nice burglar-proof safe with the little brass flower-pot on top of it? What a joke! Holy whiskered black cats, what a joke!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm afraid Mr. Inglesby's sense of humor isn't his strong point, said I."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Not that I have any sympathy for him. I think he is getting only what he deserves."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "murmured the Butterfly Man, piously, and chuckled."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't worry, parson--Alexander's due to fall sick with the pip to-day or to-morrow. What do you bet he don't get it so bad he'll have to pull up all his pretty plans by the roots, leave Mr. Hunter in charge, and go off somewhere to take mudbaths for his liver? Believe me, he'll need them! Why, the man won't be able to breathe easy any more--he'll be expecting one in the solar plexus any minute, not knowing any more than Adam's cat who's to hand it to him. He can't tell who to trust and who to suspect. If you want to know just how hard Alexander's going to be requited according to his works, take a look at these."
}
]
|
15843 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You wouldn't think folks wearing such names could be that rotten, would you? Some of them pillars of the church, too, and married to good women, and the fathers of nice kids! Why, I have known crooks that the police of a dozen states were after, that wouldn't have been caught dead on jobs like some of these. Inglesby won't know it, but he ought to thank his stars _we've_ got his letters instead of the State Attorney, for I shan't use them unless I have to.... Parson, you remember a bluejay breaking up a nest on me once, and what Laurence said when I wanted to wring the little crook's neck? That the thing isn't to reform the jay but to keep him from doing it again? That's the cue."
}
]
|
15843 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Here's her happiness--long, long years of it ahead of her, he said soberly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "As for you, you take back those tools, and go say mass."
}
]
|
15843 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "that the Green Things and the hosts of the Little People had heard overnight. In the dark the sleeping souls of the golden butterflies had dreamed it, known it was a true Word, and now they were out,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Little flames of God"
}
]
|
15843 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "which they do not. Just as Major Cartwright explains his purchase of them by the shameless assertion that it just tickles him to death"
}
]
|
15843 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Did you know, said he, over his coffee,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "After a moment, he added gently:"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I figured they'd be here by then--Madame and Mary Virginia."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What! You have induced Laurence to come while she is here--without giving him any intimation that he is likely to meet her? I said, aghast."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You are a bold man, John Flint!"
}
]
|
15843 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, somebody's got to stage-manage, parson, he said at last, lightly enough, but with a hint of tiredness in his eyes."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And then vanish behind the scenes, leaving the hero and heroine in the middle of the spotlight, with the orchestra tuning up 'The Voice that Breathed o'er Eden,' he finished, without a trace of bitterness."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "So I sent Madame a note by a little nigger newsie. His eyes crinkled, and he quoted the favorite aphorism of the colored people, when they seem to exercise a meticulous care:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Brer Rabbit say, 'I trus' no mistake.'"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You are a bold man,"
}
]
|
15843 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Spike"
}
]
|
15843 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Your note said we were to come, that everything was all right, said my mother, looking up at him with bright and trustful eyes."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Such a relief! Because I know you never say anything you don't mean, John."
}
]
|
15843 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mary Virginia! I had not known how rich and deep the Butterfly Man's voice could be."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mary Virginia, we promised you last night that if you would trust us, the Padre and me, we'd find the right way out, didn't we? Now this is what happened: the Padre took his troubles to the Lord, and the Lord presently sent him back to _me_--with the beginning of the answer in his hand! And here's the whole answer, Mary Virginia."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Armand! she said, fearfully."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "She has told me all. _Mon Dieu_, how have you two managed this, between midnight and morning? My son, you are a De Rancé: look me in the eyes and tell me there is nothing wrong, that there will be no ill consequences--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There won't be any comebacks, said John Flint, with engaging confidence."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "As for you, Mary Virginia, you don't have to worry for one minute about what those fellows can do--because they can't do anything. They're double-crossed. Now listen: when you see Hunter, you are to say to him, '_Thank you for returning my letters_.' Just that and no more. If there's any questioning, _stare_. Stare hard. If there's any threatening about your father, _smile_. You can afford to smile. They can't touch him. But _how_ those letters came into your hands you are never to tell, you understand? They did come and that's all that interests you. He began to laugh, softly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "All Hunter will want to know is that you've received them. He's too game not to lose without noise, and he'll make Inglesby swallow his dose without squealing, too. So--you're finished and done with Mr. Hunter and Mr. Inglesby! His voice deepened again, as he added gently:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It was just a bad dream, dear girl. It's gone with the night. Now it's morning, and you're awake."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Trust us, my child, said I, somewhat troubled."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And obey John Flint implicitly. Do just what he tells you to do, say just what he tells you to say."
}
]
|
15843 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes! said she, with a deep sigh of relief."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I trust you! Thank God for just how much I can believe and trust you!"
}
]
|
15843 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If I might offer a suggestion, I said in as matter-of-fact a voice as I could command,"
}
]
|
15843 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Laurence! Why, Laurence! But we didn't expect you home until to-morrow night! said she, kissing him motherly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "My dear, dear boy, how glad I am to see you! What happy wind blew you home to-day, Laurence?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, I finished my work ahead of schedule and got away just as soon as I could,"
}
]
|
15843 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I just ran in to see how you all were, he tried to be very casual."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "See you later, Padre. 'By, p'tite Madame. 'By, Flint."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Laurence! The Butterfly Man spoke abruptly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Laurence, if a chap was dying of thirst and the water of life was offered him, he'd be considerable of a fool to turn his head aside and refuse to see it, wouldn't he?"
}
]
|
15843 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I take it, said John Flint, boldly plunging to the very heart of the matter,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I take it, Laurence, that you still care a very great deal for this dear girl of ours? And now he had taken her hand in his and held it comfortingly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "More, say, than you could ever care for anybody else, if you lived to rival Methusaleh? So much, Laurence, that not to be able to believe she cares the same way for you takes the core out of life?"
}
]
|
15843 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, said the boy honestly,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I still care for her--like that. I always did. I always will. She knows."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Of course you do, kid brother, said Flint affectionately."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Don't you suppose I know? But it's just as well for you to say it out loud every now and then. Fresh air is good for everything, particularly feelings. Keeps 'em fresh and healthy. Now, Mary Virginia, you feel just the same way about Laurence, don't you? And he added:"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't be ashamed to tell the most beautiful truth in the world, my dear. Well?"
}
]
|
15843 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes! said she, and her head went up proudly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, oh, yes, I care--like that. Only much, much more! I shall always care like that, although he probably won't believe me now when I say so. And I can't blame him for doubting me."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But it just happens that I have never been able to make myself doubt you, said Laurence gravely."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why, Mary Virginia, you are _you_."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then, Laurence, said the Butterfly Man, quickly,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You have known me all my life, all of you, said he, stiffly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Have I ever given any of you any reason to doubt me!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, and we don't. Not one of us. But it's good for your soul to say things out loud, said Flint comfortably."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And now you've said it, don't you think you two had better go on over to the Parish House parlor, which is a nice quiet place, and talk this whole business over and out--together?"
}
]
|
15843 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mary Virginia! said the boy lover to the girl sweetheart,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Laurence, Laurence! she was half-crying."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, Laurence, are you sure _you_ care--yet? You are sure, Laurence? You are _sure_? Because--I--I don't think I could stand things now if--if I were mistaken--"
}
]
|
15843 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Laurence, if you only knew--Laurence, if it wasn't for John Flint--and the Padre--"
}
]
|
15843 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, I did what I did, said he, uncomfortably."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But, --he brightened visibly--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What ridiculous nonsense the man talks! said I, exasperated by this shameless casuistry."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "John Flint raves. As for me--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "As for you, said he with deep reproach,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why, John Flint, you--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "For heaven's sake, thank them both and have done with it! said she, a bit hysterically."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "God alone knows how they managed, but this thing lies between them, the two great geese. Did one ever hear the like?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Madame is right, as always, said Laurence gravely."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Remember, I don't know anything yet, except that somehow you've brought Mary Virginia and me back to each other. That's enough for _me_. I haven't got any questions to ask. His voice faltered, and he gripped us by the hand in turn, with a force that made me, for one, wince and cringe."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And Padre--Bughunter, you both know that I--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That we--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sure we know, said the Butterfly Man hastily."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Don't you know you're our kids and we've got to know? He began to edge them towards the door. I think his courage was getting a little raw about the corners."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, you two go on over to the Parish House parlor, where you'll have a chance to talk without being interrupted--Madame will see to that--and don't you show your noses outside of that room until everything's settled the one and only way everything ought to be settled."
}
]
|
15843 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "John Flint! said she, profoundly moved and earnest."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "John Flint, the good God never gave me but one child, though I prayed for more. Often and often have I envied her silly mother Mary Virginia. But now. John, I know that if I could have had another child that, after Armand, I'd love best and respect most and be proudest of in this world, it would be _you_. Yes, _you_. John Flint, you are the best man, and the bravest and truest and most unselfish, and the finest gentleman, outside of my husband and my son, that I have ever known. What makes it all the more wonderful is that you're a genius along with it. I am proud of you, and glad of you, and I admire and love you with all my heart. And I really wish you'd call me mother. You should have been born a De Rancé!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You might have been a De Rancé!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Madame! stammered Flint,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, well, never mind, then. Let it go at Madame, since it would embarrass you to change. But I look upon you as my son, none the less. I claim you from this hour,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm beginning to believe in fairy-stories, said Flint."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The beggar comes home--and he isn't a beggar at all, he's a Prince. Because the Queen is his mother."
}
]
|
15843 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I suppose, she mused,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Couldn't we have both! he wondered hopefully."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Please! Just for this once?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We could! We shall! said my mother, grandly, recklessly, extravagantly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Adieu, then, children of my heart! I go to confer with Clélie."
}
]
|
15843 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I feel full to the brim! said he gloriously."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I've got almost too much to hold with both hands! Parson, parson, it isn't possible you're fretting over _me_? Sorry for _me_? Why, man, consider!"
}
]
|
15843 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But I have got the thing itself, said the Butterfly Man,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, yes. But oh, my son, my son!"
}
]
|
15843 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Will you believe me, though, when I tell you what worried me like the mischief for awhile? Family, parson! You can't live in South Carolina without having the seven-years' Family-itch wished on you, you know. I felt like a mushroom standing up on my one leg all by myself among a lot of proper garden plants--until I got fed up on the professional Descendant banking on his boneyard full of dead ones; then I quit worrying. I'm Me and alive--and I should worry about ancestors! Come to think about it, everybody's an ancestor while you wait. I made up my mind I'd be my own ancestor and my own descendant--and make a good job of both while I was at it."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Are you grieving because you think I've lost love? Parson, did you ever know something you didn't know how you knew, but you know you know it because it's true? Well then--I know that girl's mine and I came here to find her, though on the face of it you'd think I'd lost her, wouldn't you? Somewhere and sometime I'll come again--and when I do, she'll know _me_."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "One little life and one little death, said the Butterfly Man,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes. said I."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is a great deal for a man to have. But I foresaw the empty, empty places, in the long, long years ahead. I added faintly:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Having that much, you have more than most."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You only have what you are big enough not to take, said he."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And I'm not fooling myself I shan't be lonesome and come some rough tumbles at times. The difference is, that if I go down now I won't stay down. If there was one thing I could grieve over, too, it would be--kids. I'd like kids. My own kids. And I shall never have any. It--well, it just wouldn't be fair to the kids. Louisa'll come nearest to being mine by bornation--though I'm thinking she's managed to wish me everybody else's, on her curl."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "So! You are your own ancestor and your own descendant, and everybody's kids are yours! You are modest, _hein_? And what else have you got?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Nothing but the rest of the United States,"
}
]
|
15843 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Parson, think of _me_ representing the Brigade down here on the Carolina coast, keeping up the work, fighting things that hurt and finding out things that help Lord, what a chance! A hundred millions to work for, a hundred millions of one's own people--and a trail to blaze for the unborn millions to come!"
}
]
|
15843 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The whole world to work for, and a whole lifetime to do it in! said the voice of America, exultant."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Lord God, that's a man-sized job, but You just give me hands and eyes and time, and I'll do the best I can. You've done Your part by me--stand by, and I'll do mine by You!"
}
]
|
15843 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Look! Look! A Turnus, father! The first Turnus of the year!"
}
]
|
15843 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "flashed out. And on a lower line,"
}
]
|
15843 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Parson! said the Butterfly Man, in a whisper that shook with the beating of his heart behind it:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Parson! _Don't it beat hell?_"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It does! It does! Oh, Butterfly Man, by the grace and the glory and the wonder of God, it beats hell!"
}
]
|
437876 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Going to leave the place with nobody in it?"
}
]
|
730157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I was not in his company, but I knew and loved him well,"
}
]
|
310360 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There's no room!"
}
]
|
28780 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A man whose heart is burning with passion follows the undulations of a thought."
}
]
|
28780 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How serene the joy, when things that are made for each other meet and are joined; but ah,-- how rarely they meet and are joined, the things that are made for each other!"
}
]
|
28780 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But great guns, man, I need you!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Makes no difference! the Chief roared."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Can't get along without you. Short handed. Gotta stay!"
}
]
|
28780 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Too much China. God, man, I'll be smuggling opium next!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Rubbish!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Want a shore station for a while?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Intend to rest up and then look around,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You'll be back. Mark my word. The sea and the wireless house is a winning combination. The old cities--new faces--freedom----"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm tired."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Pah! You've only begun. When does the _Vandalia_ clear for China?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Thursday night."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'll hold your berth open till Thursday noon. Hoping you'd break in a new operator. Queer chap. Glass eye. 'Member--Thursday noon."
}
]
|
28780 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He will be on hand sailing time,"
}
]
|
28780 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Gentleman!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Buy nothing,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You see my--my see you,"
}
]
|
28780 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No come buy?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "My never come buy, said the wireless man curtly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Wanchee you come help; savvy?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mebbe can do,"
}
]
|
28780 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You Wanchee cumshaw?"
}
]
|
28780 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Lo Ong, stated Moore,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Can do,"
}
]
|
28780 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No can do, he muttered, replacing the paper on his visitor's knee."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mino savvy."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Read that,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Wanchee money--cumshaw?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Lo Ong, declared Moore, losing his patience,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mebbe can do,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "O-o-ey, commented Lo Ong, shifting uneasily,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What's next?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Keep away. Savvy?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It says that?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Take look see, invited Lo Ong, poking his claw nervously down the column."
}
]
|
28780 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "High lady, he added nervously;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Wait a minute."
}
]
|
28780 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hi!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What's this?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Len Yang. _Len Yang_! Savvy?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "O-ho! And who is Len Yang?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Len Yang--city. Savvy? Shanghai--Len Yang--fort' day."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Fourteen days from Shanghai to Len Yang?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No. No! _No_! Fort'."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Forty?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "O-o-ey. The flattened nose bobbed up and down."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Keep away--ai?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Maskee,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You keep away--ai?"
}
]
|
28780 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I reckon she'll do, observed the inspector."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Aerial don't leak, does it?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No,"
}
]
|
28780 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This is your first trip?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I just came from the school. I'm pretty green. You see----"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I see. We'd better let me take the first trick. I'll sit in till midnight. After that there's very little doing. You may have to relay a position report or so. Be sure and don't work on navy time. The Chief will watch you closely for long-distance. The farther you work, the better he'll like it. How's the air? Have you listened in?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Do you mean--static? I heard a little. Seemed pretty far away, though."
}
]
|
28780 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ah--do you mind if I ask a few questions? You see, I'm kind of green."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Go ahead!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Where do I eat? With the crew? I hear that lots of these ships make you eat with the crew."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No. In the main dining-saloon. Mr. Blanchard, the purser, will take care of you. See him at six thirty."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's rather interesting to watch us pull out, said Peter when the noise had ceased."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But be careful. There's no rail around this deck."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mr. Moore, there's some excitement on the dock."
}
]
|
28780 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What do you make of it, Mr. Moore?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Of that? said Peter."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nothing--nothing at all. By the way, I forgot to tell you that the captain has issued strict orders forbidding subofficers to use the starboard decks. Always, when you're going forward, or aft, walk on the port side."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Everything's cleared up. The static is worse, and KPH may want you to relay a message or two to Honolulu. If you have trouble, let me know."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, yes, replied Dale, looking over his shoulder nervously."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I will. Thanks."
}
]
|
28780 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, well! observed Blanchard in the crisp, brittle accents of senility;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Here I am! agreed Peter with mild enthusiasm."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The bad penny!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ha, ha! The bad penny returns! The exclamation died in a futile cough."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What are you prowlin' around ship this time o' night for, eh? After three bells, Sparks. Time for respectable people to be fast asleep. Or, are you leavin' the radio unwatched?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm looking for information."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Lookin' for information? The thin voice suffered the quavery attrition of surprise."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Funny place to be lookin' for that commodity. What's on your mind? Eh?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Chinamen!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Chinamen? What Chinamen?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "One, a woman, came aboard as we were pulling out this afternoon. Who is she? Where is she? Where's she from? Where's she going? Who's with her? That's what I want to clear up."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Is that all? squeaked Blanchard. His wrinkled, dried lips were struggling as if with indecision. A veiled, a thinly veiled conflict of emotions apparently was taking place behind that ancient gray mask."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What--what for?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "My private information, smiled Peter."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Just curious, that's all. Didn't mean to pry open any dark secrets."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Sparks! Don't be in a hurry. I'm not so busy."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What's botherin' you? Maybe I could straighten you out."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Who are the occupants of stateroom forty-four?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Forty-four!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The passenger list. We shall see. Blanchard's red, shiny forefinger clawed down the column of names, halting at the numeral forty-four. The space was blank."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You see?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Empty?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Empty."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'll bother you with just one more question. What is Len Yang?"
}
]
|
28780 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Guess I'll take a turn on deck, if the fog's lifted, and roll in. G'night, purser."
}
]
|
28780 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "G'night, Sparks."
}
]
|
28780 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Four bells, all well!"
}
]
|
28780 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Feel the motion?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I wish I was dead!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Want me to finish your trick?"
}
]
|
28780 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Static's much worse, Mr. Moore. Frisco's sent me the same message three times now. It's for Honolulu. He says he won't repeat it again. The pale lips trembled in misery."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And there seems to be a funny sort of static in the receivers. The dynamos in the engine-room may cause it."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's strange, Peter reflected as he slipped on his blue coat."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There's never been any induction on board as far back as I can remember. Does it hum--or what?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, it grates, like static. Sounds like static, and yet it doesn't. Kind of a hoarse rumble, like a broken-down spark-coil."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That awful staticky sound---- And the _Rover's_ been calling us. He groaned miserably."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I couldn't answer either of them. I was lying on the carpet!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Get some sleep, advised Peter."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "When you feel better come up and relieve me. If I were you I wouldn't smoke cigarettes when you think it's rough."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I won't smoke another cigarette as long as I live!"
}
]
|
28780 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I can't raise KPH. Will you handle an M-S-G for me?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Sure! roared the _Vandalia's_ spark."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But wait a minute. Have you heard a broken down auxiliary asking for help? He's been jamming me for fifteen minutes. Seems to be very close, K."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Nix, replied the _Rover_ breezily."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Can't be at all close or I would hear him, too. I can see your lights from my window. You're off our port quarter. Here's the M-S-G."
}
]
|
28780 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Has the lookout reported any ship in the past hour excepting the _Rover_?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Is that the _Rover_ on our port quarter?"
}
]
|
28780 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Only thing in sight, Sparks."
}
]
|
28780 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "rasped the unknown sender, faltering."
}
]
|
28780 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They were the German gutturals of Luffberg, one of the oilers on the twelve-to-six watch."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Been fixin' the ventilator. Chief wondered if you were up. Wants to know why you ain't been down to say hello."
}
]
|
28780 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You look worried, vouchsafed Minion as their hands met. His quiet voice had a clarity which projected it nicely through the bedlam of engine-room noises."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why you up so early--or so late? Anything wrong?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mr. Minion, something's in the wind,"
}
]
|
28780 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mr. Minion, what is Len Yang? And where is it?"
}
]
|
28780 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Len Yang is a city in China. Why?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Where is Len Yang?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do you mean, how does one reach Len Yang?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Either."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mr. Moore --the suspicion fell from the chief's expression, leaving it calm and grave--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why, I understood the Pacific and Western Atlantic Transport Line owned her!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This man--he is a Chinese. Oh, I've never seen him, Mr. Moore. One of the richest of China's unknown aristocrats, the central power of the cinnabar ring. You have never gone up the river with us to load at Soo-chow?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Cinnabar from his mine is brought down the Yangtze on junks and transferred at Soo-chow?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A terrible place--horrible! Five years ago I visited Len Yang. Hideous people with staring eyes, dripping the blood-red slime of the mines! And girls! Young girls! Beautiful--for a while. He sighed."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "They work in that vicious hole!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Young girls?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Imported. From everywhere. I tried to find why. There is no explanation. They come--they work--they become hideous--they die! It is his habit. No one understands. Poor things!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Quite sure he imports them to work in the mines?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I made sure of that. I went up the river as _his_ guest. Trouble with the seepage pumps. Hundreds of them drowned like rats. Len Yang is near the trade route into India. Leprosy--filth--vermin! God! You should have seen the rats! Monsters! They eat them. Poor devils! And live in holes carved out of the ruby mud."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And in the center of this frightfulness--his palace! Snow-white marble, whiter than the Taj by moonlight. But its base is stained red, a creeping blood-red from the cinnabar. Damn him!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No escape?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Escape! Minion shouted."
}
]
|
28780 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Evidently he was referring to his losses."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Rotten line--rottener service--miss my man--Mukden----"
}
]
|
28780 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sparks, come to my cabin."
}
]
|
28780 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Starboard Jones"
}
]
|
28780 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Haven't seen much of you lately, Sparks, he observed, applying a steady match flame to the oval butt. He spoke in his usual tones, with a gruffness that balanced on a razor edge between rough jocularity and official harshness."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What's new? Have one of my ropes?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Had a little trouble first night out. No, thanks. Not smoking to-night."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What's 'at?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Some one used an electric machine. Jammed my signals."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Noticed anything else?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Lis'n to me, Sparks, you're a overgrown, blundering bull in a china-shop. You're----"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I mean: Keep your damn nose out of what don't concern you. Savvy? The heated words spilled thickly from the captain's red lips."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I mean: Butt out of what concerns Chinese women and--and--other words, mind your own particular damn business! Duty on this ship's to mind the radio. What goes on outside your shanty's none of your damn concern!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Wait a minute, he spat out."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Since you do know that somebody is being kidnapped on this ship----"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What in hell do you mean?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Exactly what I say. A Chinese woman, no matter who she is--is hiding some one, a woman, somewhere on this ship. That woman--that woman who's being held--grabbed my hand not five minutes ago. It's your duty----"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Keep your hands where they belong. You're talking like a fool. Kidnapped? You're crazy. My duty? You're a fool! You're talking baby talk. Captain Jones sprang from his chair."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You're on this ship to tend the wireless, he bawled."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You're under oath to keep your mouth shut. Any one back there?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Don't you know it breaks a government rule when that room's empty--at sea?"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hie! Hie!"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mr. Moore, the captain told me----"
}
]
|
28780 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't let them----"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Arms around my neck! he commanded hoarsely."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hold tight!"
}
]
|
28780 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hai! Hai! Woo-Sung way."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Shanghai-way. _Kuai cho_--hurry! roared Peter. A sigh escaped from the girl. She snuggled closer."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Woo-Sung. _Pu-shih_! Savvy?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hai! Mebbe can do."
}
]
|
28780 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Who are you? she whispered."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am Eileen Lorimer."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am--I was the wireless operator of the _Vandalia_."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The wireless operator? You heard my call?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Been waiting for China's lights--ever since. But how--what?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I know the code. My brother owned a private station. We lived in Pasadena--ages ago. It does seem ages. She stirred feebly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You don't mind?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, no,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am afraid--such a long time. Weeks? Years? She shuddered."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I do not know. Oh--I want to go home!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Were you in the loft above Ah Sih King's?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Roped! I broke loose."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The red note?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I scribbled with a nail, and threw it before she knocked me down. That woman was a demon!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "School-teacher, the girl was murmuring."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A wedding present for her--in Ah Sih King's. A small hand fumbled for his, and found it."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In the back room they began gibbering at me. And this demon came. Meaningless words--Ah Sih King leered. Called me the luckiest woman in China."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But how did you know?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hie! Hie!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He said when I saw the lights of China I would go aboard a beautiful ship. She was watching you. Three times our stateroom was changed. Always at night."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You used a coil?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "She had some affliction. A San Francisco doctor said the electric machine would cure it. And I pretended to use it, too. But it broke down that night."
}
]
|
28780 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I haven't a penny,"
}
]
|
28780 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Money--Chinese bills. Full of them! Miss Lorimer gasped."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I saw it. What are they for? And why did that dreadful woman----"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Jet-t-e-e-ee! sang the coolie, swinging the oar hard over. The sampan grated against a landing."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Shanghai. _Ma-tou_! _H[=a]n liang bu dung y[=a]ng che l[=a]i_!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Fifty one-thousand-dollar Bank of China bills!"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "What are we going to do?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We are going to cable your mother that you are starting for home by the first steamer, Peter cried, swinging her into the cleanest and most comfortable rickshaw of the lot."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The _Mongolia_ sails this afternoon."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What will become of you?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I will vanish--for a while. Otherwise I may vanish--permanently."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Won't I see you again? Ever? She looked bewildered and lost, as if this strange old land had proved too much for her powers of readjustment. Her rosebud mouth seemed to quiver."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Are you in danger, Mr. Moore?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A little, perhaps,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Because of me?"
}
]
|
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