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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Get down from that wall!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Who are you, girl?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I don't know, 'zactly who I are--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Dudley Hamilt! Come here at once!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Dudley! Dudley Hamilt!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He's expelled! He can't come back till he's a tenor!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Tradespersons' Street." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Scarbolic was what she understood it to be, she mustn't touch it or she'd" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What's this dull town to me? Rob-in's not here--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Churry Ripe, Churry Ripe, Who'll buy my churries--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Where have you been, Billy Boy, Billy Boy? Where have you been, charming Billy?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "KING CHARLES AND BLENHEIM SPANIELS For sale within." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Go out into the garden and be happy, and that at twilight she would say," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You look as though you had been very happy in the garden--" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Nevaire come back, nevaire!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'm sorry you were unhappy!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "persisted Felicia," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I was proud, proud, proud when I threw it!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "But you made Mademoiselle unhappy and you've made me unhappy--and you can't be truly happy, Felicia, when you're making some one else unhappy--" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Let's pretend! she whispered," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Let's pretend I didn't do it! Now let's pretend I'm Grandy!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Madame, will you see ze Major?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ah! Octavia! she would say, eloquently," }, { "from": "human", "value": "How charming you look to- day!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If you look over the dining-room fireplace you can see how fine his father was--" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If your father was a judge-man why aren't we judge-mens?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, because we've gone straight to the dogs--and very small bow-wows at that--" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It will be a little stupid at first, Cherie, but we will try to make it go--and think what fun it will be that day when we tell the Major, 'It is Felice and not stupid old Octavia who is going to play with you.' First you shall learn where to move the pieces and how to tell me what Grandy has moved--then, we shall tie a handkerchief over my eyes--as we do when you and I play hide the thimble--my hands shall not touch the men at all. I shall say 'Pawn to Queen's Rook's square' and you shall put this little man here--this is the Queen's Rook's square-- It must have been the oddest game in the world, really, between that stern old man and the blindfolded invalid and the grave little girl who was learning to play. Of course it was easier for Octavia--she didn't have to move her hands or keep her eyes open. She could lie lower on the pillows--she smiled--a wavering smile when her father's triumphant" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Check!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Alas, Felice! she would murmur gaily," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "They talked a great deal about chess. And how you can't expect to do so much with pawns and how you mustn't mind if you lose them. But how carefully you must guard the queen--or else you'll lose your king--and how if" }, { "from": "human", "value": "You just learn a little day by day soon you'll have a gambit, and how" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It's not easy, Octavia assured her," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Absolutely no! Absolutely no! her grandfather's voice would ring out," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I tell you I will not! A man who takes a pension for doing his duty to his country is despicable! And as for the other matter--I do not have to touch anything that was my wife's! I do not approve of the manner whereby she obtained that income--if Octavia wishes it, that is a different matter--it can be kept for the child if Octavia chooses to look at the matter that way--but for myself I will not touch it! I do not require it--I will not touch it--it was a bad business--There is nothing quixotic about my refusal, nothing whatever, sir! We differ absolutely on that point, as we do on most others!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Do you wish to have the work done by the job or by the day?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Two dollars a day and lunch," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Haven't you any ancestors?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Of course. And they have been poor but they were honest," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Were our ancestors poor but honest?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I shouldn't say, he answered her curtly," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Because, Missy, putting on the frills and writing out the pedigree in French like he does makes folks pay jes' about twict as much for those dogs--" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You must be patient with the silly fears of a woman who mistrusts all lawyers--these deeds are duplicates of those that another--" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It's the Portia Person who is talking with Maman-- she assured Mademoiselle gravely," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Felicia, he said chokily," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, Portia Person, she answered sweetly, after she had risen as Mademoiselle had told her to when a visitor should arrive. Although she must have been eleven she was trembling with excitement, because he was her first visitor." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, Portia Person, I will--only, how will I know--that I am in--Trouble--where is Trouble?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I mean, if there's anything you need that you haven't--if there's anything you want some one to tell you about--now do you know?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Why, there are things right now that I want some one to tell me about--" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Shall we not go tell Maman I was happy today in the garden?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "How queer, Mademoiselle! There are little rains in your eyes." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Not to-day. It was somehow a rather difficult time for them all; the Major was morose and sullen and Mademoiselle often had" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Whys and wheres and whens and whats had satisfied, but Mademoiselle's abrupt," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I can't tell you--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "It does not concern you--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Zat is not of consequence--" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, Oh, she cried," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why didn't you tell me that Maman had gone to the House in the Woods? Why didn't you let me go with her? For she said we would make the garden together!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "How did you know?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Because Babiche is gone, she answered triumphantly." }, { "from": "human", "value": "And Babiche wouldn't be gone from the house unless Maman were gone--so they've gone to the House in the Woods--to attend to the garden--with-- she frowned until she remembered" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Felicia, he groped for words as he faced the questioning-eyed child," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I--we--you--cannot go to the House in the Woods just now--I have Certain Legal Matters that must be attended to--but we--we will go some day--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "This afternoon, if you wish, she said," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I will play chess with you. I can do three gambits. I tried them alone yesterday. We'll not play in Maman's room--but in the garden--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Check!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Maman, we were a little happy in the garden-- she whispered," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It was Maman's--do not touch it!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That was Louisa's, you cannot have it! Or most fearful cry of all," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Put that shawl back, Felicia! It was Madame Josepha's--Louisa herself never wore it, it cost so much!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mme. J. Trenton, 8 Rue de la--" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What a very little woman must have worn you-- she whispered," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "As little as-- she frowned," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Maman! Maman!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I hate--hate--hate--Mademoiselle!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "And I monsieur, I hate zis ongrateful child! I theenk I hate your whole ongrateful race--I served your wife like one slave! And for Miss Octavia I was like two slaves! Zis child has ever hated me! I am weary of your whole race--I shall go back to ze country where I belong--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Felicia, the Major's tone was terrifying," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I apologize for her, he continued." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But I think Mademoiselle D'Ormy, you are right. She is growing into a woman and you are growing into a child--" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is a woman's duty to think of her charms, Mademoiselle had said," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You are very charming today, my dear!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh Felicia! I hope you'll be happy today in the garden!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Where is she gone?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It's hot-- she remarked plaintively." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I think I'll go into the garden--" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Order! Order! he screamed," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ladies and gentlemen! Boys! Kindly remember this is the last rehearsal, the final rehearsal! When the organist begins the choir should file in very slowly--the principals remain outside until the choir is in--I would like the tenor and the baritone soloists' voices to sound as far off as possible as they approach--will those gentlemen be so good as to stand at the extreme end of the yard?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Jove! he ejaculated," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Now I _have_ done it--my cap's on top of the wall--" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Second cap I lost here, lost one when I was a little shaver--there was a girl--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why--girl!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You may as well know, said the Major sternly," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "he folded his arms, and looked so stern in the dim light of her bedside lamp that Felicia shivered," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Did Maman have to stay in bed because she fell off a bench?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Not for that, she answered briefly," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Even if it wasn't evaire, Felicia persisted," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'd be proud, proud, proud I climbed the wall--I shall tell Maman so--" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Precious lamb, were you thinking to see your mother?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Silly old Marthy! Don't you know? That's what we're going to the House in the Woods for--to see how Maman has made her garden lovely--I was so proud, proud, proud when I knew Grandy was going to take me-- I've waited so long since Maman went away--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "God forgive him! moaned Marthy, so softly that the girl did not hear her, but aloud she said compassionately," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Don't be settin' your heart too much--on seeing her--" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We've not been in the manner of friends, him being so careful and all of ye, but oh, Miss Felice, it's proud I am that I watched you in your bit of a yard and it's sorry I am that you're going--and it's long the days will be till you come back--and if there's anything that Zeb or I could do for you--" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You can tell Dudley Hamilt I've gone to the House in the Woods--when he comes to ask you--" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This is too far for Dudley Hamilt to come--he will nevaire find me--" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Look, there is Maman's cart--" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The horse, he stammered," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Better wrop up good, he warned her solemnly," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "S'cold." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Thar, Major, he called back cheerfully over his shoulder," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We're a- gittin' thar--" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now that's luck," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It's all ready--supper and all--just as though it were twenty years ago, Monsieur! Ah-- sympathy rang in her voice as the Major helped Felice descend," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I did not know--she is--lame-- Her lantern was on the ground now, her sturdy arm had encircled the slender figure in the coat," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Margot will help--so--" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You've kept it well--" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Felicia, he said slowly," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We will drink to your home coming--" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Look, Grandy, she cried," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is good to hear she said as she entered. And helping Felice up the circular stairway she murmured tenderly," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You cannot know, Miss Felicia, how glad we are, my uncle Piqueur and I, that the house is opened once more--you're not so tall as your mother, are you?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, where is Maman?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "She is not here. But this is the bed where she always slept when she was young--the bed at which she laughed so much--ah, Miss Felicia, don't you think you will like it? See how droll-- her brown wrinkled hand rested on a beautifully carved corner post," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "These are little monkeys climbing for fruit--when she was a baby Mademoiselle Octavia used to put her hands on them so--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I know. She used to tell me, she confided." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "She told me that Poquelin, the father of Moliere, made it." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "She is not so beautiful as Octavia-- she thought," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "she sighed as she tiptoed clumsily out of the room and down the draughty stairway. She stood respectfully beside the Major's chair." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Monsieur, she said gravely," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I do not desire that she shall-- he answered." }, { "from": "human", "value": "It is better not to have her--but-- his voice faltered." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I regret that she does not understand that her mother--that Miss Octavia-- his thin old hand tightened its grip on the frail arm of the chair," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I do not know, he ended miserably," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Sometimes I think, she said distinctly," }, { "from": "human", "value": "She laughed softly at his start." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Do not think I am out of my wits-- She tapped her head significantly." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I do not mean like a ghost--I do not see her. Only there is something, most of all in the springtime--that makes me happy. Perhaps Octavia's daughter will feel it. Perhaps that thing, whatever it is, will make it easier for me-- she wiped her eyes," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Maman, she muttered drowsily as the Major paused outside her door on his way to his room," }, { "from": "human", "value": "In the garden--" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Piqueur, she cried entreatingly" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He sings of a girl--of more than one girl--who takes care of sheep-- the song tells them to hurry up--that time drips through the fingers like water-- Margot's own throaty voice joined lustily into her uncle's refrain, but a second later she was translating once more." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You must find your fun in the spring forests--when you're young--" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, wait! wait! she cried," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Wait until I can do it--" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "she cried," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh! sighed Margot." }, { "from": "human", "value": "It is good to be young. It is good--go back to your bed, little one, I'll bring your breakfast." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Is Maman comfortable this morning? she was chattering." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Will she be in the garden? Where is the garden? I've looked and I can't see it--or is she in her bed yet? And is it up-stairs?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "So many questions! she evaded." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Eat your breakfast and I will help you dress--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yesterday, she confided," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I was unhappy; it seemed too far to come-- I was afraid, from something Marthy said, that I wasn't going to find Maman--she said I mustn't set my heart on it--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Listen carefully, she entreated," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Where did she go?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "She went-- Margot's throaty voice dragged painfully," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "She went where all good women go when their work is done--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Her work wasn't done, objected Felice." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "She said it would be a great deal of work to build the garden over, she said she was afraid it would be all weeds--Piqueur was so old--she said--Oh! why are you weeping, Margot?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "When she went away from me first, moaned Margot," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I thought I could never stand it--it was so still and so lonely here in the woods without her--and now, after all these years that I have learned to live without her--it is as if she had gone away again to have to try-- to tell you-- she knelt at the bedside, her lips moved piteously." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Try to understand, little one, she is gone--neither you nor I can find her--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Nor the Major?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "The Major least of all, said Margot firmly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "She is not--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Not what?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "She is not living any more," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Not living? questioned Felicia, her eyes widening with frightened-- comprehension--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh! Oh! her voice rose tempestuously, angrily," }, { "from": "human", "value": "You shall not say such dreadful things! They are not true! The Major said we should come to this house in the Woods, he said--" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You'd better go away, Margot, she ordered clearly," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You can't stay here and talk so to me-- the childish simplicity of her phrases was absurdly inadequate to express her scorn," }, { "from": "human", "value": "You do not know that I have a vairee bad temper--I make myself proud, proud, proud when I lose it --but it will make you vairee unhappy if I do--I say and I do most dreadful things when I'm angry--If I call for the Major he will come and send you away--for always and forevaire--as he did Mademoiselle D'Ormy--and no matter how sorry I am afterward he will not let you stay--" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Grandy! she called, her clear tones ringing down to him," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Grandy, you will have to come and send this Margot away--you will--" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This Margot, Felicia's words tumbled impetuously," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "She's been telling me lies--she says Maman isn't here--that she isn't in the garden--or in the house--she says she--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "You'd better stay, Margot, said Major Trenton," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I think Miss Felicia will need you. Felicia, let Margot wrap that gown about you, it's chilly here. Felicia, we do not know how to make you understand about your mother--we did not want to make you sad when you were little so I did not tell you. It was her wish that I should not distress you-- his face worked pitifully," }, { "from": "human", "value": "he groped for words," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "his lips were quivering," }, { "from": "human", "value": "his words trailed miserably," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "She is not living--" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And she said the Happy Part of her would be here?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Then, said Felicia calmly," }, { "from": "human", "value": "If she said so, she will, and you and Margot are both stupid and bad to tell me that she won't--If you will find my shoes-- she turned petulantly to Margot," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I will walk until I find her--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "But you cannot find her, she is gone-- the deep agony of his voice rang in the great room," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Quite gone--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Where has she gone?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Wait, wait, she entreated," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You will understand some day! Just now we won't talk about it any more. She's not here but she has left so many things for you! So many messages for you! So much for you to do! Look, Miss Felicia! She held aloft a broad sun-hat and a pair of gauntleted gloves," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Just where she hung them--as if she knew you might want them! These are the things she wore when she worked in the garden--here's her wicker basket with the trowel and the hand fork-- and here's the garden book-- She was standing before Felicia now holding out the treasures." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If you'll sit over there by the window I can tell you about the day she found this book--" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And whose name is this?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It's the initial of the man who gave it to her--J.--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "And J. gave this book to Maman?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No--no-- she explained." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Your Maman found this book over there in the cupboard--it's a very old book, Cherie. It is a book that a man gave to-- her fat fingers checked off the generations lightly," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "she waved her hand toward the opened door of the wardrobe," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Margot wiped her eyes with the back of her hand--the Major moved toward the window and looked down upon the garden." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "She put them all in order, each one's clothes in a different place, I was the one who helped her. And she used to laugh while we sorted the things and say what fun it would be for the next one who came to see them--that's you, Miss Felicia--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh! Oh! breathed Felicia, her eyes shining like stars." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "How sweet of her! How sweet of you, Margot, to keep them all for me! You are sweet, sweet, sweet to bring me her gloves! Once she told me about this hat, I knew its ribbons would be blue! I know how they tie in back so's it won't make me warm under my chin--she told me--look, isn't this the way? Her slender hands lifted the hat to her hair, so sweetly rumpled from her pillows," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Look, Grandy, look at me! I am wearing Maman's hat --she told me I could wear it when I came to the House in the Woods! Do you think it looks well on me? Her naive vanity almost broke their hearts." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Do you, Grandy? Look at me!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "You look very charming, my dear, he murmured, he was breathing hard," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "he was in the doorway now, his head held high," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Bele, oh, Bele! You careless boy! Bring some wood for Miss Felice! Make a fire up here! It's damp!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Never tell me a man knows how to bring up a child, she scolded as she stirred her soup," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Miss Louisa was very handsome, Margot informed her," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "My aunt says she was the handsomest girl she ever saw--but very high-minded, very uppish!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I know about her, Felice answered easily," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Mademoiselle D'Ormy belonged to her. Louisa went to Paris, you know, and Mademoiselle lived there. Mademoiselle used to tell me she bought clothes and clothes and clothes! Are these those clothes?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Josepha's clothes came from Paris too-- she spread a great brocaded velvet coat before her," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Josepha wasn't pretty at all like the rest of them, she looked like her father, they said, and he was a homely old man--Josepha had a temper--I never saw her--I wasn't even born when she went away, but my aunt served her and she said Mistress Josepha had an air--a way with her--if things didn't suit her-- she lowered her voice impressively--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Ah--what she wouldn't do, that Josepha! Once my aunt took her an omelette--a beautiful omelette cooked with chopped fine carrots and peas and parsley and a big tall glass of milk for her breakfast, but Josepha, she had desired broiled chicken that morning, so she walked straight to the window here where I'm standing and threw the omelette out--She would always throw things--that one--her shoes-- or anything--when she was angry--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Margot, she confided," }, { "from": "human", "value": "she grew thoughtful," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "she hugged a wee muff jealously to her breast," }, { "from": "human", "value": "You won't, will you?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "These are the oldest of all-- Margot was kneeling and tugging at a carved cedar chest that was under the bed," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "These are the things that belonged to the first one of you, the things that belonged to Prudence Langhorne. She dragged the chest triumphantly to the girl's side." }, { "from": "human", "value": "On top,-- the odor of the cedar was wafted out into the room like the odor of the pine plains through which Felice had been driving yesterday," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "She spread the gray stuffs and brown linsey woolseys out scornfully. Their voluminous skirts and long tight sleeves and queer flat yellowed collars were stupid enough in the midst of all the splendor about them." }, { "from": "human", "value": "But look, now look, what she wore after she came--" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh! Oh! cried Felice," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "She bobbed out of the chair excitably," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Look at the little silver shoes for it! Oh Margot, dress me in it at once! Oh, Margot! How pretty I'll be for dinner every day--" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Louisa's things aren't pretty at all, she babbled breathlessly," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "They look like Imprudence's," }, { "from": "human", "value": "And look! Little chess men and a little chess board. Get a table! I'll checkmate you before even dinner is ready! Margot has to go brown the chickens--hurry Margot, I'm hungry--" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If I could only see how it went-- she would fret," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I can't see which one of them it is." }, { "from": "human", "value": "The Sixteenth Practise --that was a brave plan" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "but sometimes she thought it must be after the" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "In France, she read," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The Theory and Practise of Gardening" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The box tree is a green shrub of greatest use and one of the most necessary in the garden. There are two sorts, the dwarf box which we French call Buis A' Artous much used for planting the embroidery of Parterres. It naturally does not grow very much which makes it called dwarf box. The other kind is the Box Tree of the woods, which advances much higher and has bigger leaves which make it fit to form Pallisades and green Tufts for Garnishing. It comes up in the shade but is a long time gaining any considerable height. It is put to a great many petty uses, as making balls--as the climate of France is very different from that of the Indies in the degree heat _it is better to raise from slips and layers than to try to sow seed which is a great time coming up_." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The Distempers and Insects that Attack....The great Enemies are Rabbets, Garden Mise, Moles, Caterpillars, Maybugs, Ants, Snails, Turks, Canthardies and an abundance of weeds, the names of which are unknown to us--" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That's what has hidden the garden, she murmured," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "she wrinkled her nose in disgust." }, { "from": "human", "value": "The wind blew so chill that at midnight she pattered across the old carpet to make the casement fast. The whole cleared space below her glistened with the fairy glamour of the first frost. Under the magic silvery whiteness the lost" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "with their paths and borders stood out as clearly in the moonlight as the day when Madame Prudence's workmen had charted them there. She laughed aloud as she ran back and turned to the map labelled" }, { "from": "human", "value": "The twentieth and laft practife which is the most superb and which is The Bifected Oval." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, Oh! she murmured as she leaned across the stone sill, unmindful of the cold, to blow a tiny kiss to the fountain cupid," }, { "from": "human", "value": "How stupid I was not to see! You just live in half the oval and the kitchen garden and the stables are the other half--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Some say it can be done within five years, but ye author believes from experiences both at Versailles and in ye south of England that a decade or more is necessary to establish any garden--" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why couldn't you ask Mr. Burrel? He could send them to the junction and I could go with the oxen--I have always asked him for vegetable seeds when I sent the spring list of supplies--write in a paper, Cherie, all that we need--put down the roses and the trees and the lily bulbs and all--tell him that he must send them." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "These are some things we need for our garden, she said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You will please have them sent at once." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I am not certain, he began as he stared amazed at the lengthy order," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But we must have them, she announced. She played her trump card valiantly," }, { "from": "human", "value": "You can give it back to me if you can't get them, I have another person--who can attend to--Certain Legal Matters for me--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "May I ask whom?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I know where he is, she asserted childishly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He is in Temple Bar, Brooklyn, and he would get them for me quickly, I'm sure. You see, in April we shall need these things for the planting. He told me-- she added this with delicious positiveness," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I--I will see that you get what you wish, Miss Felicia-- he capitulated." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You do not need to ask any one else about it--I'm glad to do you the favor--" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "She had long since made him a partner in her own game that she called pretending." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Pretending just as in the old days when she had played with Maman. Of course, she had to whistle to pretend and he still affected a scorn of the whistling he had once forbidden. The" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Let's pretend, Grandy! Let's pretend I'm not Felice! Let's pretend I'm a blanchisseuse--that's a washerlady. This is a thing that Piqueur's mother learned in France when she was young--whenever Margot and I spread our linen on the grass to bleach we whistle this--" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This song, she would explain joyously," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Grandy, she whispered once," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You stub-stub-stubborn man! Why don't you learn to pretend! Why don't you make believe they're all here? she waved her hand toward the portraits around them!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I pretend they're proud, proud, proud I'm here! It must have been vairee stupid for them before I came!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He who would woo a widow must not dally He must make hay while the sun doth shine He must not say 'Widow, be mine--be mine!--'" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But boldly cry 'Widow, thou MUST--'" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh Maman! Maman! If you'd only been there! You wouldn't have brought me away!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I don't remember this--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Because that's mine! she had retorted passionately," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It's mine! Mine! And it didn't belong evaire to any other woman only me!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Louisa, I forbid you to go to Paris--it's a bad business--" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I want to see Major Trenton--" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You'll have to see me, answered Felicia, coolly," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Bele, not--so-- deep! You're smothering them--what is your business?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, oh! cried Felicia softly and dropped to her knees." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, oh, it's a little Babiche! Oh Zeb! Zeb! To think I didn't see who you were--" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I want to ask you a thousand million things! I want to ask Marthy a thousand million things--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Has she gone away, like Maman? she asked softly." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I know how hard it is when folks go away, Zeb." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But that's not the matter o' my comin'-- Zeb pushed his bowl away and stood respectfully," }, { "from": "human", "value": "That matter o' my comin' was as I must see the Major. On your going away, Miss Felicia, he promised me rent free for my lifetime and he gave me all the breedin' stock they was and left me the business for what I could make, so's to speak. Which isn't what it were, with new-fangled big dogs getting in style now. And with Marthy gone and all. But now with Mr. Burrel skipped out like he did, things is awful--just awful--and It seemed like I'd got to tell the Major--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Sit down, Cherie, she murmured," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Margot will get it out--have you seen Mr. Burrel? she questioned eagerly," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We've no sign of him this long time--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "He's skipped out-- repeated Zeb dully," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Things is awful--Come last Thursday they pasted 'Auction, April 10 for Unpaid Taxes' over everything. So's when I was packing my things I come on some writing Miss Octavia left Marthy. As to how to get here, and I come." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Do you think, she asked," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He wouldn't, he answered," }, { "from": "human", "value": "But, Miss Day, you couldn't go!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Couldn't I just! she breathed. She was quite calm about the details. Her perfect poise awed both Margot and the doctor into thinking her quite capable." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Zeb could stay here with Margot, the doctor could take me to the station, Zeb says he didn't come on a boat, just a train. And you know, Margot, when I get to Brooklyn, I'll go right to Temple Bar. There was a man, as I told you, another lawyer. When I was young he told me to go to him if anything happened. Maman had him come. He will know what to do." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What are you pretending?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'm pretending I'm going on a journey, she answered cheerfully." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Don't you think I look like going on a journey, Grandy?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I think you look very charming, my dear, he murmured automatically, his thin hand on the top of his cane. He shivered slightly." }, { "from": "human", "value": "But I forbid you to go to Paris--bad business--it's a bad business, Louisa!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It's silly, faltered Felicia," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Hey, wait! he addressed the doctor as he started a second time. He fumbled in an inner pocket of his rough coat." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I was forgetting, Miss Felicia, a matter of a letter for you I found in Marthy's things--she sent it off at you this long time ago but it came back at her--" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Please send this to Miss Trenton (if that's her name). At once." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh Tomothy Tom! she groaned one showery April day," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Not if you're going to take that jump over the fence in the second act," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I hate for us to eat here, the food's so good, she murmured with the same plaintive note that makes the audience weep at the end of the third act of" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The Juggler." }, { "from": "human", "value": "But I had a very special reason for wanting to come here," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, he does usually lunch here, he admitted," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I understood from Edwina that you were boyhood friends." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Tattle-tale!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You were! she persisted," }, { "from": "human", "value": "If you ever were, said Graemer earnestly," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Permit me to suggest that you renew your youth. What I want him for is partly on Edwina's account. The Juggler" }, { "from": "human", "value": "He's not a press agent--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He's the prince of press agents, answered Graemer easily," }, { "from": "human", "value": "But that was politics-- protested the fat man." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He wouldn't call that being a press agent and I doubt if you could interest him in anything theatrical." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I can if I can get at him. Some one's bound to if I don't. It isn't only for 'The Juggler' that I want him, it's for all my things--what I'm going to offer him is something big--about the biggest end of the game--but I don't want to seem to go to him so I thought that if there was some casual way--if you should ask him to lunch with us--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He probably wouldn't--of course he might-- the baritone ruminated," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Our fuss was a long time ago. He settled himself comfortably, he dearly loved to gossip." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He's a queer chap, Dud is. Always was. We used to sing in the same boy choir when we were kids. Little church over in Brooklyn. He was an angel terror, regulation boy sopran'. Into everything. Nearly drove the old choir master to drink. Was always being expelled. Our families both belonged to the church so Brownly always took us back after a row blew over. And carried us along while our voices were changing. When I first began doing baritone Dudley was singing all the tenor solos, had a peach of a voice, but he never did anything with it afterwards." }, { "from": "human", "value": "After what?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I made a sort of break one night-- The fat man felt of his neck ruefully." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Tried to joke with Dud a little, it was a year or so afterward and I thought he'd gotten over things--but--er--he hadn't. He-- He paused and blushed." }, { "from": "human", "value": "That's he though, coming through the door, he ended." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Want me to try for him?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Don't ball things up, Tommy, she murmured under her breath," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Leave it to us--get out if you see he's still miffed with you--Please come over here, Mr. Hamilt, she called softly." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I want you to meet Mr. Graemer." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Have you seen me in 'The Juggler'? Aren't you willing to say I can act now? He never would-- she turned to Graemer." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He always said I couldn't--but, don't you think I do in 'The Juggler'?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "It's an actress-proof part, isn't it?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Brute!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Perhaps he is complimenting me," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Not at all, promptly answered the rude Mr. Hamilt." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You've all but ruined the play with your everlasting managing. It's a peach up to the last act. Until you chuck that maudlin bunch of slush and scenery at us. Where did you get that play, anyhow?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why, he wrote it last summer," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes? his uplifted eyebrows were insulting as he glanced quizzically at Graemer." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Then he was about twenty-five years younger last summer than he is now. The first two acts of that play--Gad, it got me up till then, but the rest of it-- he broke a bit off a crusty roll and buttered it carefully," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I can readily believe, Mr. Graemer, he added deliberately," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You have to give the public what it wants," }, { "from": "human", "value": "No, you don't, said Dudley Hamilt." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You have to make the public want what it's going to get--or what it needs." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Which is exactly what I wanted to see you about," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If I ever did get into the theatrical game, he answered rather more good-humoredly than he had yet spoken," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I wouldn't insult the public by a perpetual bluff that they were getting something new. I wouldn't keep handing out things that assumed the public all had salacious minds or else no minds at all. I don't mean that I'd go in for uplift stuff--that isn't what the theater is for--it's to amuse--to thrill-- to wake up our emotions--it's to _play_--But as you chaps who control the thing have it going now it's so damnably mechanical there's no sense of play left in it. Why don't you find something that admits the audience has an imagination?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "As for instance?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I don't know-- Hamilt sighed," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I haven't the least idea what. Only it ought to be something that everybody is unconsciously hankering for--something that we miss all the while--something we lack in this machine-age. Something that will come across the footlights by itself instead of having to have the spotlight show it to us, something that would make us feel the way we did when we were kids--I guess it's romance--and perhaps the spirit of it is gone--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I came in here rather deliberately, Mr. Hamilt, because I've been wanting to have a talk with you for a long time. It isn't only about 'The Juggler' that I wanted to talk with you but about all of my productions. There are so many of them and I am so busy with them that there are a lot of angles of the game that I do not have time to touch. The thing I need is what you have aptly described--some one who will make the public want what it's going to get. Some one who will make it think it's going to get what it wants. The kind of thing you did last fall in politics--making the whole thing seem something any regular fellow must find out about and something he'd have a lot of fun finding out. It's struck me all the while you were pulling your strings that that sort of work about the stage would wake up the theater-goer the same way you waked up the voter." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It might, agreed Mr. Hamilt cautiously." }, { "from": "human", "value": "There might be ways--if you had something to back your statements that the game was worth while--I mean to the theater-goer--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, wouldn't you be willing to think it over and have another talk with me? I don't mean immediately and I do mean on a big scale. I'm sure you understand that--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "What you suggest is rather interesting, was all the answer he vouchsafed," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I might." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Middle name is Cynic--but he's pretty young yet." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And the best looking thing," }, { "from": "human", "value": "He's given me an idea, he announced suddenly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Or perhaps it was Tom's gossip about him. How'd you like to do an ingenue part like that missing lady affair--start with your head over a garden wall--call it 'The Heart of a Boy,' say--fill it up with this stuff Hamilt calls youth--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I've just remembered the girl's name, he announced, wiping a crumb from his moist lips." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It was Felicia something or other--sort of sad, wasn't it?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Maybe it would have been sadder if she'd married him, suggested Edwina ironically." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He is a grouch, you can't get around that." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Poor old Tommie! he thought ruefully," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I don't know why I should go on hating him because he will blab--it's the nature o' the beast--that stupid little much-divorced animal that married him-- he glared at two innocent young shoppers who were passing," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Gad, women are such sophisticated cows nowadays-- Spring always made him wretched, spring always made him fretful, spring always sent him off for the woods somewhere, any woods so long as it was woods. He pondered over whether he could get away Friday or would have to wait till Saturday morning, and eventually decided on Saturday, consulting a memorandum book scowlingly as he did so, jotting down appointments. He noted that he would have to be in his office at five o'clock on Friday. Somebody or other was going to telephone him about something. Which made him reflect irritably that of all the mechanical devices of a mechanical age the thing he hated most of all was a telephone! He could scarcely endure the stupid way everybody shrieked" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Hello!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "On a journey the traveler should enumerate all the traveling equipment in fives to avoid the confusion caused by losing one's belongings. Count upon the fingers what one has possessed upon starting." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Perhaps the wistaria will have to be pruned--perhaps the ivy around the fountain will need trimming--maybe the narcissi will need thinning out when they're through blossoming--I'm stupid about narcissi. I've been living so long where there weren't any--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Myself, decided Felicia nodding," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I must be careful not to lose myself." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Temple Bar where one may find the Portia Person who long ago promised to help should one ever be" }, { "from": "human", "value": "To be sold at auction for unpaid taxes--By the order of J. K. Harlow, Justice of the--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "First, Felicia at least began her thinking clearly," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I shall go to see the Judge and I shall say 'Don't sell Grandy's house because Certain Legal Matters hasn't attended to things. Just wait. I know another lawyer, he's in Temple Bar. He will attend to everything.' Oh no! First I'll go find the Portia Person and while he is attending to everything I will send a letter to Dudley Hamilt's house--then I will go to Grandy's house and wait for Dudley Hamilt to come--oh! oh! Babiche--I can't arrange things clearly in mind, I can't no matter how I try! Only I must--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "First the Portia Person--then the Judge--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "struggled valiantly with the russet bag; the new Babiche, cramped and shaken from her day and night of travel, poked her snubby nose from under the traveling coat and sniffed and squeakingly yawned. Louisa's bonnet had worked itself askew, the sharp wind from the river was flapping the heavy clothing about her slender ankles and displaying the outlandish old" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Congress gaiter" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "For the love of hivin, he thought," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Thim movie actors will dress like annything for the money-- and glanced about automatically to see the camera man. But something in the terror of the little woman's glance flashed over the crowded crossing to his warm Irish heart," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Hullo, she's no acterine! He ploughed through the river of travel and caught at her arm and felt her slight weight sag against him." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Annybody as turned her loose-- he continued his soliloquy after he'd jollied a newsboy into escorting her across to the Temple Bar Building," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Ought to be sent up-- He vented his disgust at the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "on a daring chauffeur and watched until the newsboy came panting back to his stand to nod a triumphant grinning affirmative" }, { "from": "human", "value": "he held his own head regally to signal the cross-town traffic," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Queer lot!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If I was you, said the girl," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'd go get myself a bite to eat. It's noon, everybody's going out--don't you see?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Do you go to get yourself 'a bite'?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Not till two o'clock," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I wish, decided Felicia whimsically," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, I'll be darned! she announced frankly to the elevator starter," }, { "from": "human", "value": "She May Have Seen Better Days till the news-stand girl giggled and told him he was" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Too comical" }, { "from": "human", "value": "She may be a nut, admitted the girl," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But she's kinda got me going. Gee I'd like to find the lawyer for her just to find out was she Dorothy Arnold come back--or somebody like that." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Did you find what you were looking for?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I couldn't find the man I wanted, she confided," }, { "from": "human", "value": "To be sold for unpaid taxes that Zeb had brought to her. He read it slowly till he came to the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Order of Justice Harlow" }, { "from": "human", "value": "That's an easy one, he cheered her," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'll take you over there right now and put you next to a fellow who works there. He'll slip you through to his Honor himself and you can tell him your troubles." }, { "from": "human", "value": "there was a deal of waiting, sometimes in anterooms, sometimes in corridors, a deal of answering the questions of not overly intelligent clerks, and late afternoon found her sitting primly cuddling her restless doggie, waiting for some one to bring the tax records. She was a little tireder, a little hungrier, a little less sure of herself than when the friendly news girl had advised her to" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "After I see the Judge then I'll go to Dudley Hamilt." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "She looked, as he explained afterward," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You are the Felicia Day mentioned here?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "And have you any other lawyer than Mr. Burrel--the lawyer who has disappeared?" } ]