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

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6002	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "There's the Portia Person in Temple Bar." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "A woman lawyer?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "No, he's a man. I only thought he was a woman when I was little. I can't quite think of his name but he is in Temple Bar and he came to see Maman and he told me if there was trouble to come to him--I've looked and looked, but I can't find him today." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I see-- the Justice looked out of the window thoughtfully," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Maman only had that one." } ]
6002	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'm sorrier than I can tell that you are having this trouble. This house in Montrose Place, Miss Day, has been your own property since you were eighteen years of age. It was formerly the property of your mother-- he consulted the papers," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Octavia Trenton Day. This Mr. Burrel who had charge of your property has paid neither the taxes on it, nor the interest on some mortgages that he arranged on it, for about seven years back. Can you understand that? And the house has been rented in the meantime to a great many families, it is technically a tenement house. The present trouble is not only about these unpaid taxes and the unpaid interest, but you have violated the Tenement House laws. You have not installed proper fire escapes or plumbing, you have not answered any of the notices that have been sent you. This court had to fix an arbitrary fine--which you have not paid." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I nevaire do pay things, answered Felicia, greatly bewildered," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "she ended with a businesslike decision," }, { "from": "human", "value": "But that is what I have been trying to explain. This Mr. Burrel has been missing for over three years. This Margot you speak of must have had some other way of getting funds for you." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Margot hasn't vairee much, Felicia told him," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I can't ask her for anything more. I think Mr. Judge, you'll just have to take my house." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "These papers show, he explained," }, { "from": "human", "value": "" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And the rest of it?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Is eighteen thousand eight hundred and forty-two dollars and seventy- eight cents." } ]
6002	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "That's all there is now, she remarked, almost cheerfully," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "She was so calm that he knew she was utterly unaware of the enormity of the amount." }, { "from": "human", "value": "If I am going to have thirty days more, she concluded," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'm quite sure I can get the rest for you, I'll find the Portia Person, I know, evaire so many lawyers weren't in Temple Bar today. He might be there tomorrow, you know. She nodded confidently." }, { "from": "human", "value": "But that's all I can give you now. You've been vairee good to try to make me understand. I'm rather stupid about it because Mademoiselle did not teach me those things. And Maman arranged for the Portia Person to attend to it." } ]
6002	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "My dear Miss Day, he stammered," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "he put the purse in her hand." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I am more sorry than I can tell you that I have had to fix this fine--it is purely arbitrary --I am very sorry--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Of course you would be, said Felicia slowly, her clear eyes looking at him without malice and without scorn." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You must be sorry a great deal of the time, aren't you? You couldn't be really happy making so many people unhappy as I've watched go to talk with you today--they looked vairee unhappy." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Perhaps I make some of them happy," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I didn't see a happy one," } ]
6002	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I hope you won't think I'm impertinent, he suggested suddenly," } ]
6002	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'm going, --oh, how she wanted to say" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "! It took all her reserve to finish her sentence calmly!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "To eighteen Columbia Heights." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That's not far, he felt an inexpressible relief that she had somewhere to go," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'm not quite ready to go home myself, but my car is waiting for me. Suppose we have one of these boys take your bag down for you and that you let my chauffeur drive you to Columbia Heights while he is waiting for me--I should be very glad if you would--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I was just pretending, she said clearly," }, { "from": "human", "value": "ah, the stilted phrases with which Mademoiselle had instructed her so many years ago!--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "She's refreshingly different, he thought." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Refreshingly different." } ]
6002	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "There must be some mistake in your address, Madam, this is eighteen Columbia Heights. She was overwhelmed, she could think nothing whatever to say to him. He came to the rescue himself with a quiet," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Perhaps if you have the name of the person you wanted to see--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "It's Dudley Hamilt." } ]
6002	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "The druggist says that the Hamilt house stood where this apartment is being built, Madam. He says he understands that the elder Mr. Hamilt is dead but that the younger one has an office somewhere in Manhattan. Perhaps you could speak with him on the telephone--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "How nice of you! she rose obediently to follow him, putting Babiche carefully on the cushioned seat." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Will you tell the druggist that I'd like to?" } ]
6002	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Who is it?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Can't you remember? she asked quietly." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I am Felice.--Yes, I _am_ Felice. I have been trying to find your house, Dudley Hamilt, but it's gone, they are building a vairee big house there. I didn't have your letter, that letter that you sent me. Not till Zeb brought it to me day before yesterday. That was why I didn't write to you where I was." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Where are you now? the excitement in his voice frightened her." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Tell me, where are you?" } ]
6002	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Tell me quickly where you are--I must see you--oh, your voice sounds as though I'd not lost you at all-- he laughed nervously like an embarrassed boy," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I want to see you--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Let's pretend, she interrupted him, her low contralto voice trembling," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Let's pretend that I'm somewhere you can't see me--I only wanted--to tell you that I had your letter. I wanted you to know how happy it made me to have it. Dudley Hamilt--" } ]
6002	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, she looks awfully ill--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'm not ill--" } ]
6002	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I think the lady was kinda faint, mumbled the clerk, mechanically replacing the dangling receiver." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "She's O.K. now--ain't you?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Did you find where you wanted to go?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If it's not too far, she answered with dignity," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I think I'd like to go to my own house--it's in a street called Montrose Place." } ]
6002	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "That wasn't I, I saw in there-- her thoughts blurred," } ]
6002	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "This, said the judge's chauffeur dubiously," } ]
6002	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "TONY HE SELLA COAL WOOD ICE" } ]
6002	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "A. Cohen. Pressing 25 and 50 cents." } ]
6002	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Vell, he rasped," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Vat do you vant, madam?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I want to stay here." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You vant to rent a room? I calls mine missus-- he called stridently," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I think she gotta room for three dollars, I don' know--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Four we should get, whined a nasal voice" }, { "from": "human", "value": "This, announced Felicia to the slatternly woman" } ]
6002	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "That ain't my business, the woman shrugged when she saw Felicia looking at her." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We pays out rent by a receiver since the Mister Burrel goes avay--I gotta get mine renta in adwance. I gotta nice room if you vant to stay." }, { "from": "human", "value": "But it's my house, of course I'll stay." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It's a nice room, three dollars a veek--you vant to see it?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I should like you to take me to it at once, she announced with dignity." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You'll carry my bag, please." } ]
6002	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Maybe, she exulted secretly," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "she smiled as she caught herself thinking it on the stairway--" } ]
6002	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Woman, go at once." } ]
6002	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, Babiche! she whispered," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Babiche, how happy--we should be--to be home!" } ]
6002	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ah! Babiche! she murmured, smiling at the smudgy spot on the wall," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What a naughty child I used to be!" } ]
6002	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "You no taka mine fires! Get out!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh! Oh! I know it is all a dream! It's too ridiculous to be true!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "It is not a dream --she shuddered," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The back yard is real--even with all the rubbish there, the back yard is real! The gate is there--the first thing I shall make them clean will be the back yard--after all, it won't be so difficult as my garden in the woods. I shall not have to wait to find the pattern, I know exactly how it all belongs. And I know that about this whole house. I shall --she grew more determined," } ]
6002	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "You tell that to Mister Grady, she scoffed," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Mr. Grady, he is goin' to buy this house, comes the auction next Tuesday--" } ]
6002	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I hain't collecting for myself, he assured her," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I only collects for the receiver for the estate--you can see 'im if you like--he's up in th' Temple Bar buildin'." } ]
6002	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "It's been droll, she began," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have been trying all day to make persons understand that it's my house. I can't make anybody believe me, not the tailor's missus, nor the rent collector nor the 'receiver for the estate,'" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, you've talked with that scamp, have you?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I've talked with a great many--scamps --she caught at new words as delightedly as though they had been new flowers, and he laughed again. She was too absurd, this grotesquely garbed old maid!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I haven't found the Portia Person-- a note of gravity crept into her voice again," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "--she leaned forward excitedly," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I thought it out--it's as good as the pattern of the garden--the reason you have to make me pay fifty dollars for-- violating that Tenement Law is because there are too many persons in my house, isn't that it?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Then, she decided triumphantly," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Miss Daniel come to judgment!" } ]
6002	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Then you can't 'actually' make me pay anything--those fines or taxes, until you prove that I'm the person who owes them--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Again Miss Daniel comes to judgment!" } ]
6002	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Good morning, Miss Day," } ]
6002	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Good marnin', yer Honor! she groaned exactly like that rheumatic soul. He laughed silently, his head thrown back on his shoulders. How could he know that she couldn't help" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And she looks like a little old tramp, he recounted at luncheon to a friend," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Most extraordinary person, one minute she puts a lump in your throat--you're so sorry for her you could curse, and the next--Lordy! the next minute you wonder at her impertinence--it's not exactly impertinence either,--it's absolute frankness." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No manners, eh?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "No manners at all. A manner," } ]
6002	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Where, she thought," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Do persons get money?" } ]
6002	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "If I knew where the Wheezy was I'd have her make you a cushion--oh! oh! Babiche! How stupid I've been! The Wheezy got money, Mademoiselle used to give it to her from Maman's purse, two dollars every day--for sewing--why, Babiche, I can sew beautifully--much better than the Wheezy!" } ]
6002	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Applications for work received Tuesdays and Fridays." } ]
6002	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "THIS PROPERTY FOR SALE OR TO LET SUITABLE FOR GARAGE OR MOVING PICTURES APPLY YOUR OWN BROKER" } ]
6002	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "That pattern of it all is gone--I can't see how it was unless I close my eyes," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "WOMAN'S EXCHANGE AND EMPLOYMENT AGENCY" } ]
6002	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, what's your business?" } ]
6002	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, how you've lasted!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I mean--the little person made of string-- murmured Felicia abashed." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I saw her here--when we came for The Wheezy--Mademoiselle D'Ormy and I." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, that Mademoiselle D'Ormy, she squinted through her adjusted glasses, her shaking, purple-veined hands fumbling with the silk that was wound around the bows to protect her thin old temples," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "She hain't been here this long while, have you seen her?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Do you know me?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Don't know as I do--yet it seems like I did too--you hain't been here in a long while, have ye?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Don't you remember--I lived in that same house where Mademoiselle D'Ormy stayed--she brought me in here when I was a little girl--when we came to get the Wheezy to sew--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I never knew anybody named Wheezy." }, { "from": "human", "value": "The Wheezy was fat-- Felicia puffed out her chest, tilted her chin downward and hunched up her shoulders like the Wheezy. She cleared her throat and panted and let her breath come sighingly through her pursed lips," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "She couldn't see why under the shining canopy the Major had her make c-cushions for the dogs--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, you mean Sophia Pease--dear! dear! she wiped her eye glasses tremblingly," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "She's been out to the Baptist Home for the Aged this long whiles. Her eyes went back on her--a nice sewer, as nice a sewer as we ever had--dear, dear! I don't know when anybody asked me about Sophia Pease--she made them dolls you was just mentioning-- she motioned toward the disconsolate string toy--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Now can't you remember me?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Can't say as I do--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "But I am Felice--the little girl who came with Mademoiselle D'Ormy to get Miss Pease--can't you see that I am?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That child--why you hain't she--she wouldn't be the matter of half your age--you must be thirty-five or forty, hain't ye? She grew up and run away like the rest of her women folks-- she giggled sardonically," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Was a young limb, she was, I used to hear her whistling at them choir boys next door--a young limb--all the girls in that family was man- chasers--the mother run off with the rector's son--younger'n she was-- by a good two years I should say, she must ha' been thirty if she was a minute--but pretty--prettier n' her mother--ever see the mother, Miss Trenton--Miss Montrose that was?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Did you? breathed Felicia." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, did you see Grandy's Louisa?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Did I ever see her? the Disagreeable Walnut leaned her sharp elbows on the show case." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I see her when she was a bride--I'd just took charge here then--she was a high-stepper! The Major hadn't a penny when she married him but she had all the Montrose money and she got him--some say as she told him if he'd marry her she'd live on what he earned--but I guess he couldn't have earned the matter of her shoe strings--not the way she dressed--she was stylish and tasty in her dress--and then she eloped--with that lawyer fellow--some says she didn't elope with him, but she went off for some French property her mother had left her--but I dunno--she was an awful high-stepper. All I know is that after she was dead and the Major brought Miss Octavia home--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Did you see Maman? Did you? Felicia could hardly breath," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Did you see Octavia--wasn't she sweet? Wasn't she darling--didn't you love her, love, love her?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Too high-stepping! sniffed the old woman," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Whole lot of 'em was too high-stepping for me--never liked any of 'em--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "She didn't step at all-- Felicia's anger was rising," }, { "from": "human", "value": "She just stayed in her bed and stayed in her bed--how dare you say you--oh! oh! Color burned in her pale cheeks," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I won't have you say such things--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well, I hain't quarreling with you about them folks, said the Disagreeable Walnut sententiously," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "They're all dead and buried anyhow. And pore Sophia Pease might jes' as well be--mewed up in that Baptist home where her friends, if she's got any, can't see her excepting on Sundays--my stars! I wouldn't go to live in that Home, no sir, I wouldn't--nor I wouldn't want to live at the--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Can you tell me, Felicia broke in upon this flood of opinions," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Where I could go to see Miss Pease?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'm telling you--the Baptist Home--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I do think she'd know me, Felicia murmured thoughtfully." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I do think she would." } ]
6002	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "What was you coming in for--anything you wanted to buy?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "How stupid I am to forget. I came because it was Friday, you know, I wanted to have some work, please. For two dollars a day and lunch." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Are you registered or new?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I--I think I'm new, I'm not registered." }, { "from": "human", "value": "By the day or home work?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "By the day," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Then sign here," } ]
6002	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "By The Day," } ]
6002	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sorry I was late, she dumped various bundles on the counter," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "How'd you make out, Susan? She eyed Felicia as she began pulling at her gloves." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Did my sister find what you wanted?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "She wants work, quavered Susan, considerably less reliant than she'd been a moment before." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I dunno where the work book is. I declare I can't keep track of where you put things, Sarah--is there anybody could use her? She wants sewing." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, you've signed it in the wrong place. You should have put your name there--not the way you were going to work --her finger rested on the place Felicia had written." }, { "from": "human", "value": "What is your name? Your name isn't Miss By-the-Day is it?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why, I think it is, Felicia smiled back," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I think it will have to be--it's Day," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Miss or Mrs.?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Miss." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And what kind of work, please?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Like the Wheezy--sewing--for two dollars a day and lunch" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "There's a day a week at 440 Linton Avenue--Mrs. Alden's, perhaps you could go there. Have you references?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I don't even know what they are," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well you must have an address, where do you live?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "In my own house, her chin lifted proudly," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Montrose Place." }, { "from": "human", "value": "But if you have a house, the interrogator's voice was kindly if her words were severe," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I haven't, that's why I came. You see it's all taxes and assessments and fines and--it's so fearfully dirty and I haven't any money --she held out Louisa's reticule a bit ruefully." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You can see I haven't." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I see --the brisk person stepped back to the telephone. She was thoughtful as she waited for her connection. She talked quietly, murmuring things about some one who looked thoroughly responsible. Presently she wrote down an address that she handed to Felicia." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You must be there at eight o'clock in the morning, can you do that, Miss By-the-Day?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "There's something else I'd like you to write--it's the place where Miss Pease lives--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "You can't go to see her except Sundays, Miss Sarah cautioned her." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "They're strict." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Su-san --she called through the doorway," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "She tried to make out she knew me, but I dunno--she can't never sew to suit Mis' Freddie Alden and you know she can't--nobody can please young Miss' Alden--old Miss' Alden was bad enough but young Miss' Alden is worse--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "only Felicia could have" } ]
6002	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "? Seamstress after seamstress had come and gone in that impossibly selfish household, the meek ones enduring it until they could endure no more, the proud ones hurrying angrily away; competent or incompetent, not one of them had ever been able to please her exacting employer, yet Felicia, mercifully unaware of the heart aches she would endure within, walked staunchly through the iron gates, with" } ]
6002	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "The" } ]
6002	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why, she's a precious, she protested sweetly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "She'll just stay right beside me if you can find her a cushion--" } ]
6002	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, well, never mind that!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'm going down for Mr. Alden's tray, she announced primly," } ]
6002	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I positively won't have stray animals about the house," } ]
6002	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'm going out for my two hours, I think he won't want anything. I think he will just doze, he usually sleeps while I'm gone. But he didn't like his lunch, so I'll leave it here. If he should call, do you mind taking it in?" } ]
6002	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Nurse 'phoned she can't get back until after four and would I mind giving Mr. Alden his orange juice when he wakes up. It's in this glass I'm lifting to you-- A moist red hand was thrust through the open space at the bend of the stair casing." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You give it to him if he is asking before I'm back. I'm stepping across the way to my cousin's for a while--" } ]
6002	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "You can't have it, you precious little beggar, she whispered." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It isn't for doggies." } ]
6002	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "One simply cannot, as Mrs. Alden remarked" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "They might take just a bit of chicken skin to feed to a tiny hungry dog. And" }, { "from": "human", "value": "might lift a bit of chicken wing to hungry human lips and after that" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "might deliberately and delicately eat the rest of it and give the bone to the doggie. And" }, { "from": "human", "value": "might crunch the bits of celery and eat the last delicious spoonful of the custard--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "They" } ]
6002	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, Babiche! Babiche! Aren't we delight-fully wicked!" } ]
6002	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Miss Grant--if you'll bring that confounded tray in I'll try to eat a bite--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Miss Grant--I said I'd--" } ]
6002	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Are you really vairee hungry?" } ]
6002	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Lord no! I'm not hungry! I'm never hungry--but what in the Jumping Jehosophat are you doing here?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'm mending. By-the-day, you know. Your nurse went walking. And your cook went to see her cousin. So if you really were hungry--isn't it lucky you aren't?--I don't know what we would do." } ]
6002	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "There was chicken-- he remembered petulantly," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I like that cold--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "It was vairee good-- Felicia assured him. Just to hear Felicia say" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Vairee mouthing it as Mademoiselle D'Ormy had done, was refreshingly different." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Babiche had the skin and the bones and I had the rest. We stole it, you know--" } ]
6002	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, well, Miss--Whadda-you-call-it, he was growing more peevish." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You'll have to find something for me--" } ]
6002	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "And of course, added Felicia with perfect good humor," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I shall have to pay a forfeit--I always did when I took anything from Maman's tray. If I was caught." } ]
6002	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Forfeits for Maman, she continued," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Miss Whadda-you-call-it, he retorted," } ]
6002	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why Mr. Alden--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Where's the seamstress?" } ]
6002	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, really, she began," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I think that's the most impudent thing that I have ever had any one do in my house! What do you think I hired you for?" } ]
6002	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "For two dollars a day--and lunch--" } ]
6002	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "And-- he looked triumphantly at his angry niece-in-law's snapping eyes," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "She had a good lunch, I'm sure I instructed the cook to give her a lunch--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Cold lamb-- he cackled," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I heard you say cold lamb--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Very well, Uncle Peter, said Mrs. Alden tapping her pointed patent leather toe impatiently," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Don't go, Miss Whadda-you-call-it--I want to finish the game. She can pay you but don't go. It's my house, isn't it? he fretfully interrogated the nurse," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I guess it's my house yet even if I am half dead. I'm not all dead yet, not by a long shot--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Sit down, can't you? he demanded of Felicia," } ]
6002	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Check! he called buoyantly," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Check!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "You play adroitly, she encouraged him." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And I'm really ra-ther glad I stole your luncheon for here comes your supper. I know you'll be hungry for your supper--" } ]
6002	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Here's your money," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You might as well take it, even if you didn't work full time. Of course, I won't want you to come again." }, { "from": "human", "value": "No?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Miss Whadda-you-call-it!--Call that woman back here, Miss Grant! She stepped to his door." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I wish you'd come around sometimes, he asked her pleadingly," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I do admire a good game of chess--and it's my house, I tell you, this is my house, even Clara can't say this isn't my house!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'll come sometimes, she promised," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "she stepped back to her abashed employer." }, { "from": "human", "value": "she murmured passionately," } ]
6002	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Let's pretend-- she murmured under the turmoil of noises--the house was perturbed at suppertime,--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Let's pretend you put them there, Maman--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "That woman, that Mrs. Alden is just a WEED! A weed like the tailor's missus and the rest. Some one ought to pull her right out of Uncle Peter's house! She is worse than a weed! She ought to have to be a by- the-day! And sit in a windy hall and sew and sew. And then some one ought to bring her a tray, with messy napkins and just two pieces of dry lamb and a sad tomato--and all the while that she was eating it somebody ought to put Uncle Peter's tray on the table beside her! With chicken and custard and celery and all! Yes, that's what some one should do, Babiche!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But I do wish, she murmured, after they'd settled themselves on the narrow bed for the night," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I could remember whether Mademoiselle ever let the Wheezy have such a dreadful luncheon--I shall ask her tomorrow--" } ]
6002	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "If you want to speak to Mrs. Sperry why under the shining canopy don't you come in? She'll be back in a second." } ]
6002	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Can't you remember when you used to sew for us at Montrose Place, how I called you the Wheezy and it made you cross?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And can't you remember anything else I did? I mean that the little girl did? For if you could I would do it and then you'd know--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "She used to whistle-- the admission came slowly after deep thought," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "She used to whistle real good, when the old man wasn't about." } ]
6002	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "We're going to pretend something, she called to them softly," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Would you like to pretend? We're going to pretend I'm a little girl in a back yard who has been hearing Marthy sing--Marthy sings a song called Billy Boy about a boy who had been courting. She used to say, in the song, 'Where have you been, Billy Boy, Billy Boy--Where have you been, charming Billy?' I can't sing but you shall hear me whistle it--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Churry Ripe--Churry Ripe-- and" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ever of thee I am fondly dreaming--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Why under the shining canopy I didn't know who you was-- she muttered apologetically," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "My soul, I guess it's because I can't half see!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "No, it's because-- Felicia sighed," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'm not really that little girl any more. Only the Happy Part of her is here-- she put her hand on her breast." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'm really old--like Grandy--like Piqueur. I can see vairee well. I saw myself-- she paused," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "she managed to laugh a little." }, { "from": "human", "value": "But Wheezy dear, there's a man who has to know that I am Felicia Day. Will you tell him that you know I am?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I remember, I remember in the years long passed away, A little maid and I would meet beside the stream to play-" } ]
6002	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'll come another visiting day-- she patted the Wheezy's shoulders," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I like to! You all are _so_ good at pretending!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Do you know, she told Judge Harlow in the morning," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I did find some one who knows who I am?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Even if you get so old that you don't look at all as you used to there's some part of you that people can't forget. Some Happy Part of you! You really ought to try it! Perhaps there is some old lady up there who used to know you when you were little! If you'd go there some visiting day and whistle for her she'd know you, just as quick! You try it!" } ]
6002	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "You'll have to find me another by-the-day," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "How'd you make out Saturday?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I--made--_out_-- Felicia laughed back at her." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "She was a WEED, that woman. The old man played chess with me but she didn't like us to do it. I couldn't take the two dollars--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'm afraid you aren't businesslike, Miss Sarah chided," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I do, Felicia assured her," } ]
6002	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "This would be a good book for anybody so unbusinesslike as you, she confided as she presented her client with it." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "In the back here are pages to write what you earn and what you spend and to keep track of the days you are going out." }, { "from": "human", "value": "INCOME" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "EXPENDITURES. With the first pages Felicia wrote a letter to Margot, a masterly letter in which she bade her servant tell Zeb that the filthy dirty heathen were going to be sent away, a letter in which she warned Margot that unless Grandy were too unhappy she would not go back to the House in the Woods until the house in the city was clean once more. She explained that certain legal matters had to be attended to. The round stroke of her pen seemed to proclaim her complete confidence that they could be attended to satisfactorily. But the postscript begged Margot to tell Bele to stay all he could with Grandy," }, { "from": "human", "value": "If Grandy looks at the chess board tell Bele to put the men on it and shove a man every time Grandy pushes one--you must all keep Grandy happy. And the last postscript of all said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The narcissi are lovely, I have them in my room!" } ]
6002	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "INCOME EXPENDITURES Two dollars Bone--five cents Apples, cakes and sandwiches forty five cents Narcissi One dollar." } ]
6002	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Honest, she made me feel like I oughta be giving things away instead of selling 'em, he apologized to his astounded boss, who had met the new customer on her way out," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Honest, she got me hipped!" } ]
6002	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Babiche, she chattered," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "When I was young, like the girls in Piqueur's song I found my fun in spring forests; but now-- she was looking out across the river at the gleaming towers of Manhattan, glimpsing the jewel-like line of trolleys crawling slowly over the lighted bridges, watching the busy shipping that scurried over the harbor in the violet and bronze evening," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Now I find it in spring cities--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "All of the ivy isn't gone and there's wistaria and we can make new ivies from slips, next spring it must be just as it used to be. Perhaps we can find the old benches, I know exactly where to build the paths. We will have to get some pebbles to make the paths. We must plant plenty of narcissi again, Babiche. Because some day, there might be some other girl who lived in this house and who walked in the garden and when Her Night came we would want it to be just as lovely as it was That Night--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "of what the house was to be, she only longed to get the" } ]
6002	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "that she longed to be planting. She had promised herself eagerly that the very day when the heathen were gone she would plant some ivies. She was pretending vehemently that the heathen were gone and that she didn't have to be a" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "yet before night she was exclaiming passionately," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I am proud, proud, proud I was a by- the-day--" } ]
6002	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Seeley's" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "she quickly discovered that the Seeley household made rather an event of the seamstress' coming. There was no necessity for stealing a lunch. Indeed, when lunchtime arrived she was ushered into the basement dining-room and invited to eat with the rest of the family and as many of the" } ]
6002	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Miss Day, meet Mrs. J. Furthrington's chauffeur--Miss Day is sewing for me-- she poured their teas impartially. It appeared that Mrs. J. Furthrington's chauffeur did not often grace the boarding house for his meals. He usually, as he expressed it" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Good gracious, chaffed Mrs. Seeley," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I thought you'd felt grand from associating with swells and changing your rooms--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well I feel swell, he admitted dubiously," }, { "from": "human", "value": "he slid his long body under the table and grasped his plate as a steering wheel," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Hain't he comical?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "He's vairee good at pretending--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Any time you want a joy-ride, call on me!" } ]
6002	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Only get a different bunnet-- he waved Louisa's from the peg on the hall rack, Felicia didn't mind in the least, she was mouthing this new phrase" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Joy-ride, it sounded delightful. All the same she rescued her bonnet and carried it upstairs with her." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I love that boy like a plate of fudge, confided Mrs. Seeley as she and Felicia were ascending to the ornate bedroom where the sewing was waiting." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He's the life of the place. Everybody likes him. I don't know what there is about him, he hain't so handsome but he certainly is poplar. Yet Dulcie won't stand for him--Dulcie thinks he's fresh." } ]
6002	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Says he to her only last night, 'Cheer up, I'll take you a nice ride down to the morgue.' I thought everybody'd die laughing to hear him but she just got up and stalked out of the dining-room like somebody had insulted her. And I can't get a peep out of her today. Just this noon I says to her, pleasant enough, because I was short of help, wouldn't she come down and wait on table, but would she? demanded Mrs. Seeley bitterly," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "She would not. She said she was no scullery maid and slammed the door in my face and went back to her wet mud--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, is she building a garden?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Nothing so useful as a garden, snorted Mrs. Seeley," }, { "from": "human", "value": "But I should think, breathed the seamstress her eyes glowing as she lifted them from her work," } ]
6002	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Where is your dog?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What dog?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "The dog you were going to wash-- Felicia's voice was casual." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "With the 'scarbolic.'" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I wasn't--trying to wash any dog--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Then I wish you'd lend me your--'scarbolic,' she entreated sweetly," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Babiche really needs a bath." } ]
6002	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I can't stand it-- she sobbed bitterly," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I've got to quit--you don't know how I feel--I feel as if--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "When you feel that way, interrupted Felicia quietly," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It's my own business if I do--I'd rather be dead than the way I am-- she stretched out her arms passionately," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I haven't room to breathe! I did have that top floor front you know, it was a peach of a place to work. But she rented it to a chauffeur and put me in this hole--oh, oh, when all I asked was room for my model stand and room for my clay --when all I wanted was room for Pandora--you can't know how I feel--" } ]
6002	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Listen, that's Mrs. Seeley coming back up the stairs. She's bringing me my two dollars. You put on your shoes and when she's down the stairs I'll whistle--so--vairee softly. And then you will come out and down we'll go. It will really be a great favor if you will--it's a big house, my house and I'm ra-_ther_ lonely--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I've no hat, she whimpered," }, { "from": "human", "value": "It's no use--I don't want to go--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You would, the seamstress insisted," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Her arm was through Dulcie's, they were really walking along." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And we shall buy our supper there too. Miss Susan has fat jars of baked beans and little round corn muffins and I think she has quince jelly--" } ]
6002	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, it's altogether too dreadful-- she exclaimed." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It's worse than Aunt Seeley's--I can't go in--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "It's an awful place--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It's going to be lovely, promised Felicia stoutly," }, { "from": "human", "value": "It used to be lovely. Look here, she drew the girl to the window and pointed out across the gleaming river," } ]
6002	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Whatever is it?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It's the weeds--this is going to be a wonderful, wonderful day, Dulcie, you're going to be so glad--just think! The tailor and the tailor's missus and all of them are going--" } ]
6002	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Impractical" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Steamer chairs, she decided instantly," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I left two steamer chairs and some rugs over on Ella Slocum's back porch--I'll bet we could get a grocery boy to bring them over for us--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Only what good will it do? she tramped about the great room restlessly," }, { "from": "human", "value": "It's no use, Miss Day, you might better have let me quit --you've got troubles enough without bothering with me--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Isn't there room enough? asked Felicia shyly." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Isn't it big enough?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It's big enough for the model stand-- she admitted moodily." }, { "from": "human", "value": "It's a good light. I could paint these silly papered walls--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Are they so silly? she asked." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I didn't know." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It's no use, that moody creature was muttering despondently." }, { "from": "human", "value": "There's space enough but it's no use. I don't seem to want to do it any more--I used to sit and dream about how I'd do it and how it would make other people dream just to look--it wasn't going to be any ordinary Pandora--it was to be a symbol--a symbol of what goes on in your heart when you're young--before you know about life--oh, I can't chitter-chatter about it--but I used to think I could make it--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Of course you can make it, Felicia insisted." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Not just now-- she led the girl to the window," } ]
6002	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "It's all right, she called up to Felicia," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I know it's after eight, he said," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Babiche and I will wait up for you, she said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We'll wait--" } ]
6002	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Maybe the dear old duffer will be asleep when we get there and I can send you right back, Mr. Alden suggested hopefully." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He was so darned good to me when I was a kid that I can't let him miss anything I can get for him--Lord knows that's not much--I thought I could get you right away but I didn't have any name and I couldn't find out where you came from--my wife didn't have your address--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Just as soon as he is asleep, he whispered," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Uncle Peter" } ]
6002	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ah! Why didn't you come earlier?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It's not feasible --" }, { "from": "human", "value": "It couldn't be pulled off --" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Quixotic plan --" } ]
6002	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Check!" } ]
6002	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "A drink, he panted and closed his eyes." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Come again, Miss Whadda- you-call-it-" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Mr. Alden said for me to 'phone the garage, that the car would be here for you directly--will you sit down--" } ]
6002	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "That's all right--we agree with you--we'll go in your wild scheme if you can find some other fools too--only, I say Dud, before you beat it just sing a couple things, will you? You might be gone six months instead of three and that's too long between songs. I know you aren't singing and you haven't any voice and all that, but just a couple to show there's no hard feeling--those things you used to--the one that the darkey boy wrote--that Dunbar chap--'The Sum'--and that other one--" } ]
6002	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I believe I'll run up to say Howdy and Good-by to your Uncle Peter--" } ]
6002	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, Dudly Hamilt!" } ]
6002	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Beg pardon," } ]
6002	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "You'll be as good as ever when it's summer--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Un-cle Pe-ter- called Freddie Alden," } ]
6002	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Thou art the blood of my heart of hearts, Thou art my soul's repose; But my heart's grown numb and my soul is dumb--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Sorry. Can't sing it.--'Night, Uncle Peter. 'Night everybody--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Gad, he's a queer chap! If I had his voice I'd sing--" } ]
6002	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why, yes, answered Freddie Alden," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I say, Miss Grant--this little woman here--she's fainted--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "CERTAIN LEGAL MATTERS" } ]
6002	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "after dinner on an evening when she was about to depart FOREVER--or anyhow until Mr. Freddie came for her again--was a tremendous sight. Especially on an evening when at the highest moment of her justifiable wrath Mr. Freddie would appear and nonchalantly suggest a" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "as casually as though Janet were not already on the verge of explosion. Of course she would prepare the lunch, stabbing the bread-saw viciously into the defenseless loaf and muttering dark things as she assembled something she called" } ]
6002	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "There, there--don't ye mind her-- she lifted glum eyes to Mr. Freddie as she soothed the sobbing woman," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It's this that Miss' Freddie's tantrums brings the help to! Many a time have I masel' felt like givin' way the way this poor soul is givin' way. It's on'y ma fierce pride that saves me--don't ye cry over Miss' Freddie's way o' speakin'--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "It wasn't Mrs. Freddie, it wasn't anybody-- Felicia lifted her streaming eyes from Janet's spare bosom. She was deeply chagrined that the group hovering on the stairway could see her tears." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It was just that--I was tired--that Uncle Peter's room was rather hot--that I liked to hear the man sing--I'm vairee well-- Her drawling" }, { "from": "human", "value": "sounded anything but well, it was almost a sob in itself." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Truly vairee well--" } ]
6002	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "It's worth ony money to Mr. Freddie to have Mr. Peter snatch a bit of contentment from life--and Mr. Freddie is that prodigal with money that if you don't take it of him he'll hand it to the next one--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But I can't take money for playing--chess is only playing, its only for work we should take money." } ]
6002	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "It's Janet MacGregor with me, Dulcie. She's a widow woman. This is Dulcie Dierckx, Janet, you'll like Dulcie-- She had Babiche in her arms now, and was leaning wearily against the balustrade," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Janet was good to bring me home--I was a silly fool--I cried, Dulcie--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Is onybody livin' here? she demanded." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I thought I saw them all movin' out--I heard the building was comin' down to make room for lofts." } ]
6002	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Would you think the basement might be to let to a decent body? It's no worth much, so old and all but I know a body as might conseeder it. Impractical as the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "How much would you pay?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Is it your hous'?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It's Miss Day's-- Dulcie nodded toward Felicia." }, { "from": "human", "value": "She's just been thinking she might rent part of it. Of course its altogether too large for her." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If she's livin' here where's her furnishings?" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There's the Portia Person in Temple Bar." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "A woman lawyer?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "No, he's a man. I only thought he was a woman when I was little. I can't quite think of his name but he is in Temple Bar and he came to see Maman and he told me if there was trouble to come to him--I've looked and looked, but I can't find him today." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I see-- the Justice looked out of the window thoughtfully," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Maman only had that one." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'm sorrier than I can tell that you are having this trouble. This house in Montrose Place, Miss Day, has been your own property since you were eighteen years of age. It was formerly the property of your mother-- he consulted the papers," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Octavia Trenton Day. This Mr. Burrel who had charge of your property has paid neither the taxes on it, nor the interest on some mortgages that he arranged on it, for about seven years back. Can you understand that? And the house has been rented in the meantime to a great many families, it is technically a tenement house. The present trouble is not only about these unpaid taxes and the unpaid interest, but you have violated the Tenement House laws. You have not installed proper fire escapes or plumbing, you have not answered any of the notices that have been sent you. This court had to fix an arbitrary fine--which you have not paid." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I nevaire do pay things, answered Felicia, greatly bewildered," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "she ended with a businesslike decision," }, { "from": "human", "value": "But that is what I have been trying to explain. This Mr. Burrel has been missing for over three years. This Margot you speak of must have had some other way of getting funds for you." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Margot hasn't vairee much, Felicia told him," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I can't ask her for anything more. I think Mr. Judge, you'll just have to take my house." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "These papers show, he explained," }, { "from": "human", "value": "" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And the rest of it?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Is eighteen thousand eight hundred and forty-two dollars and seventy- eight cents." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That's all there is now, she remarked, almost cheerfully," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "She was so calm that he knew she was utterly unaware of the enormity of the amount." }, { "from": "human", "value": "If I am going to have thirty days more, she concluded," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'm quite sure I can get the rest for you, I'll find the Portia Person, I know, evaire so many lawyers weren't in Temple Bar today. He might be there tomorrow, you know. She nodded confidently." }, { "from": "human", "value": "But that's all I can give you now. You've been vairee good to try to make me understand. I'm rather stupid about it because Mademoiselle did not teach me those things. And Maman arranged for the Portia Person to attend to it." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My dear Miss Day, he stammered," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "he put the purse in her hand." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I am more sorry than I can tell you that I have had to fix this fine--it is purely arbitrary --I am very sorry--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Of course you would be, said Felicia slowly, her clear eyes looking at him without malice and without scorn." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You must be sorry a great deal of the time, aren't you? You couldn't be really happy making so many people unhappy as I've watched go to talk with you today--they looked vairee unhappy." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Perhaps I make some of them happy," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I didn't see a happy one," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I hope you won't think I'm impertinent, he suggested suddenly," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'm going, --oh, how she wanted to say" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "! It took all her reserve to finish her sentence calmly!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "To eighteen Columbia Heights." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That's not far, he felt an inexpressible relief that she had somewhere to go," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'm not quite ready to go home myself, but my car is waiting for me. Suppose we have one of these boys take your bag down for you and that you let my chauffeur drive you to Columbia Heights while he is waiting for me--I should be very glad if you would--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I was just pretending, she said clearly," }, { "from": "human", "value": "ah, the stilted phrases with which Mademoiselle had instructed her so many years ago!--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "She's refreshingly different, he thought." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Refreshingly different." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There must be some mistake in your address, Madam, this is eighteen Columbia Heights. She was overwhelmed, she could think nothing whatever to say to him. He came to the rescue himself with a quiet," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Perhaps if you have the name of the person you wanted to see--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "It's Dudley Hamilt." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The druggist says that the Hamilt house stood where this apartment is being built, Madam. He says he understands that the elder Mr. Hamilt is dead but that the younger one has an office somewhere in Manhattan. Perhaps you could speak with him on the telephone--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "How nice of you! she rose obediently to follow him, putting Babiche carefully on the cushioned seat." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Will you tell the druggist that I'd like to?" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Who is it?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Can't you remember? she asked quietly." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I am Felice.--Yes, I _am_ Felice. I have been trying to find your house, Dudley Hamilt, but it's gone, they are building a vairee big house there. I didn't have your letter, that letter that you sent me. Not till Zeb brought it to me day before yesterday. That was why I didn't write to you where I was." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Where are you now? the excitement in his voice frightened her." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Tell me, where are you?" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Tell me quickly where you are--I must see you--oh, your voice sounds as though I'd not lost you at all-- he laughed nervously like an embarrassed boy," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I want to see you--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Let's pretend, she interrupted him, her low contralto voice trembling," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Let's pretend that I'm somewhere you can't see me--I only wanted--to tell you that I had your letter. I wanted you to know how happy it made me to have it. Dudley Hamilt--" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, she looks awfully ill--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'm not ill--" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I think the lady was kinda faint, mumbled the clerk, mechanically replacing the dangling receiver." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "She's O.K. now--ain't you?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Did you find where you wanted to go?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If it's not too far, she answered with dignity," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I think I'd like to go to my own house--it's in a street called Montrose Place." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That wasn't I, I saw in there-- her thoughts blurred," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This, said the judge's chauffeur dubiously," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "TONY HE SELLA COAL WOOD ICE" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A. Cohen. Pressing 25 and 50 cents." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Vell, he rasped," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Vat do you vant, madam?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I want to stay here." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You vant to rent a room? I calls mine missus-- he called stridently," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I think she gotta room for three dollars, I don' know--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Four we should get, whined a nasal voice" }, { "from": "human", "value": "This, announced Felicia to the slatternly woman" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That ain't my business, the woman shrugged when she saw Felicia looking at her." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We pays out rent by a receiver since the Mister Burrel goes avay--I gotta get mine renta in adwance. I gotta nice room if you vant to stay." }, { "from": "human", "value": "But it's my house, of course I'll stay." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It's a nice room, three dollars a veek--you vant to see it?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I should like you to take me to it at once, she announced with dignity." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You'll carry my bag, please." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Maybe, she exulted secretly," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "she smiled as she caught herself thinking it on the stairway--" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Woman, go at once." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, Babiche! she whispered," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Babiche, how happy--we should be--to be home!" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ah! Babiche! she murmured, smiling at the smudgy spot on the wall," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What a naughty child I used to be!" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You no taka mine fires! Get out!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh! Oh! I know it is all a dream! It's too ridiculous to be true!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "It is not a dream --she shuddered," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The back yard is real--even with all the rubbish there, the back yard is real! The gate is there--the first thing I shall make them clean will be the back yard--after all, it won't be so difficult as my garden in the woods. I shall not have to wait to find the pattern, I know exactly how it all belongs. And I know that about this whole house. I shall --she grew more determined," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You tell that to Mister Grady, she scoffed," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Mr. Grady, he is goin' to buy this house, comes the auction next Tuesday--" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I hain't collecting for myself, he assured her," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I only collects for the receiver for the estate--you can see 'im if you like--he's up in th' Temple Bar buildin'." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It's been droll, she began," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have been trying all day to make persons understand that it's my house. I can't make anybody believe me, not the tailor's missus, nor the rent collector nor the 'receiver for the estate,'" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, you've talked with that scamp, have you?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I've talked with a great many--scamps --she caught at new words as delightedly as though they had been new flowers, and he laughed again. She was too absurd, this grotesquely garbed old maid!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I haven't found the Portia Person-- a note of gravity crept into her voice again," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "--she leaned forward excitedly," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I thought it out--it's as good as the pattern of the garden--the reason you have to make me pay fifty dollars for-- violating that Tenement Law is because there are too many persons in my house, isn't that it?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Then, she decided triumphantly," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Miss Daniel come to judgment!" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Then you can't 'actually' make me pay anything--those fines or taxes, until you prove that I'm the person who owes them--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Again Miss Daniel comes to judgment!" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Good morning, Miss Day," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Good marnin', yer Honor! she groaned exactly like that rheumatic soul. He laughed silently, his head thrown back on his shoulders. How could he know that she couldn't help" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And she looks like a little old tramp, he recounted at luncheon to a friend," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Most extraordinary person, one minute she puts a lump in your throat--you're so sorry for her you could curse, and the next--Lordy! the next minute you wonder at her impertinence--it's not exactly impertinence either,--it's absolute frankness." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No manners, eh?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "No manners at all. A manner," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Where, she thought," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Do persons get money?" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If I knew where the Wheezy was I'd have her make you a cushion--oh! oh! Babiche! How stupid I've been! The Wheezy got money, Mademoiselle used to give it to her from Maman's purse, two dollars every day--for sewing--why, Babiche, I can sew beautifully--much better than the Wheezy!" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Applications for work received Tuesdays and Fridays." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "THIS PROPERTY FOR SALE OR TO LET SUITABLE FOR GARAGE OR MOVING PICTURES APPLY YOUR OWN BROKER" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That pattern of it all is gone--I can't see how it was unless I close my eyes," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "WOMAN'S EXCHANGE AND EMPLOYMENT AGENCY" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, what's your business?" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, how you've lasted!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I mean--the little person made of string-- murmured Felicia abashed." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I saw her here--when we came for The Wheezy--Mademoiselle D'Ormy and I." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, that Mademoiselle D'Ormy, she squinted through her adjusted glasses, her shaking, purple-veined hands fumbling with the silk that was wound around the bows to protect her thin old temples," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "She hain't been here this long while, have you seen her?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Do you know me?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Don't know as I do--yet it seems like I did too--you hain't been here in a long while, have ye?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Don't you remember--I lived in that same house where Mademoiselle D'Ormy stayed--she brought me in here when I was a little girl--when we came to get the Wheezy to sew--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I never knew anybody named Wheezy." }, { "from": "human", "value": "The Wheezy was fat-- Felicia puffed out her chest, tilted her chin downward and hunched up her shoulders like the Wheezy. She cleared her throat and panted and let her breath come sighingly through her pursed lips," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "She couldn't see why under the shining canopy the Major had her make c-cushions for the dogs--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, you mean Sophia Pease--dear! dear! she wiped her eye glasses tremblingly," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "She's been out to the Baptist Home for the Aged this long whiles. Her eyes went back on her--a nice sewer, as nice a sewer as we ever had--dear, dear! I don't know when anybody asked me about Sophia Pease--she made them dolls you was just mentioning-- she motioned toward the disconsolate string toy--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Now can't you remember me?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Can't say as I do--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "But I am Felice--the little girl who came with Mademoiselle D'Ormy to get Miss Pease--can't you see that I am?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That child--why you hain't she--she wouldn't be the matter of half your age--you must be thirty-five or forty, hain't ye? She grew up and run away like the rest of her women folks-- she giggled sardonically," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Was a young limb, she was, I used to hear her whistling at them choir boys next door--a young limb--all the girls in that family was man- chasers--the mother run off with the rector's son--younger'n she was-- by a good two years I should say, she must ha' been thirty if she was a minute--but pretty--prettier n' her mother--ever see the mother, Miss Trenton--Miss Montrose that was?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Did you? breathed Felicia." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, did you see Grandy's Louisa?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Did I ever see her? the Disagreeable Walnut leaned her sharp elbows on the show case." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I see her when she was a bride--I'd just took charge here then--she was a high-stepper! The Major hadn't a penny when she married him but she had all the Montrose money and she got him--some say as she told him if he'd marry her she'd live on what he earned--but I guess he couldn't have earned the matter of her shoe strings--not the way she dressed--she was stylish and tasty in her dress--and then she eloped--with that lawyer fellow--some says she didn't elope with him, but she went off for some French property her mother had left her--but I dunno--she was an awful high-stepper. All I know is that after she was dead and the Major brought Miss Octavia home--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Did you see Maman? Did you? Felicia could hardly breath," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Did you see Octavia--wasn't she sweet? Wasn't she darling--didn't you love her, love, love her?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Too high-stepping! sniffed the old woman," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Whole lot of 'em was too high-stepping for me--never liked any of 'em--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "She didn't step at all-- Felicia's anger was rising," }, { "from": "human", "value": "She just stayed in her bed and stayed in her bed--how dare you say you--oh! oh! Color burned in her pale cheeks," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I won't have you say such things--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well, I hain't quarreling with you about them folks, said the Disagreeable Walnut sententiously," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "They're all dead and buried anyhow. And pore Sophia Pease might jes' as well be--mewed up in that Baptist home where her friends, if she's got any, can't see her excepting on Sundays--my stars! I wouldn't go to live in that Home, no sir, I wouldn't--nor I wouldn't want to live at the--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Can you tell me, Felicia broke in upon this flood of opinions," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Where I could go to see Miss Pease?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'm telling you--the Baptist Home--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I do think she'd know me, Felicia murmured thoughtfully." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I do think she would." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What was you coming in for--anything you wanted to buy?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "How stupid I am to forget. I came because it was Friday, you know, I wanted to have some work, please. For two dollars a day and lunch." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Are you registered or new?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I--I think I'm new, I'm not registered." }, { "from": "human", "value": "By the day or home work?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "By the day," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Then sign here," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sorry I was late, she dumped various bundles on the counter," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "How'd you make out, Susan? She eyed Felicia as she began pulling at her gloves." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Did my sister find what you wanted?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "She wants work, quavered Susan, considerably less reliant than she'd been a moment before." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I dunno where the work book is. I declare I can't keep track of where you put things, Sarah--is there anybody could use her? She wants sewing." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, you've signed it in the wrong place. You should have put your name there--not the way you were going to work --her finger rested on the place Felicia had written." }, { "from": "human", "value": "What is your name? Your name isn't Miss By-the-Day is it?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why, I think it is, Felicia smiled back," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I think it will have to be--it's Day," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Miss or Mrs.?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Miss." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And what kind of work, please?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Like the Wheezy--sewing--for two dollars a day and lunch" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "There's a day a week at 440 Linton Avenue--Mrs. Alden's, perhaps you could go there. Have you references?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I don't even know what they are," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well you must have an address, where do you live?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "In my own house, her chin lifted proudly," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Montrose Place." }, { "from": "human", "value": "But if you have a house, the interrogator's voice was kindly if her words were severe," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I haven't, that's why I came. You see it's all taxes and assessments and fines and--it's so fearfully dirty and I haven't any money --she held out Louisa's reticule a bit ruefully." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You can see I haven't." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I see --the brisk person stepped back to the telephone. She was thoughtful as she waited for her connection. She talked quietly, murmuring things about some one who looked thoroughly responsible. Presently she wrote down an address that she handed to Felicia." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You must be there at eight o'clock in the morning, can you do that, Miss By-the-Day?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "There's something else I'd like you to write--it's the place where Miss Pease lives--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "You can't go to see her except Sundays, Miss Sarah cautioned her." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "They're strict." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Su-san --she called through the doorway," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "She tried to make out she knew me, but I dunno--she can't never sew to suit Mis' Freddie Alden and you know she can't--nobody can please young Miss' Alden--old Miss' Alden was bad enough but young Miss' Alden is worse--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "only Felicia could have" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "? Seamstress after seamstress had come and gone in that impossibly selfish household, the meek ones enduring it until they could endure no more, the proud ones hurrying angrily away; competent or incompetent, not one of them had ever been able to please her exacting employer, yet Felicia, mercifully unaware of the heart aches she would endure within, walked staunchly through the iron gates, with" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why, she's a precious, she protested sweetly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "She'll just stay right beside me if you can find her a cushion--" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, well, never mind that!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'm going down for Mr. Alden's tray, she announced primly," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I positively won't have stray animals about the house," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'm going out for my two hours, I think he won't want anything. I think he will just doze, he usually sleeps while I'm gone. But he didn't like his lunch, so I'll leave it here. If he should call, do you mind taking it in?" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Nurse 'phoned she can't get back until after four and would I mind giving Mr. Alden his orange juice when he wakes up. It's in this glass I'm lifting to you-- A moist red hand was thrust through the open space at the bend of the stair casing." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You give it to him if he is asking before I'm back. I'm stepping across the way to my cousin's for a while--" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You can't have it, you precious little beggar, she whispered." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It isn't for doggies." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "One simply cannot, as Mrs. Alden remarked" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "They might take just a bit of chicken skin to feed to a tiny hungry dog. And" }, { "from": "human", "value": "might lift a bit of chicken wing to hungry human lips and after that" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "might deliberately and delicately eat the rest of it and give the bone to the doggie. And" }, { "from": "human", "value": "might crunch the bits of celery and eat the last delicious spoonful of the custard--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "They" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, Babiche! Babiche! Aren't we delight-fully wicked!" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Miss Grant--if you'll bring that confounded tray in I'll try to eat a bite--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Miss Grant--I said I'd--" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Are you really vairee hungry?" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Lord no! I'm not hungry! I'm never hungry--but what in the Jumping Jehosophat are you doing here?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'm mending. By-the-day, you know. Your nurse went walking. And your cook went to see her cousin. So if you really were hungry--isn't it lucky you aren't?--I don't know what we would do." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There was chicken-- he remembered petulantly," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I like that cold--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "It was vairee good-- Felicia assured him. Just to hear Felicia say" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Vairee mouthing it as Mademoiselle D'Ormy had done, was refreshingly different." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Babiche had the skin and the bones and I had the rest. We stole it, you know--" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, well, Miss--Whadda-you-call-it, he was growing more peevish." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You'll have to find something for me--" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And of course, added Felicia with perfect good humor," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I shall have to pay a forfeit--I always did when I took anything from Maman's tray. If I was caught." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Forfeits for Maman, she continued," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Miss Whadda-you-call-it, he retorted," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why Mr. Alden--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Where's the seamstress?" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, really, she began," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I think that's the most impudent thing that I have ever had any one do in my house! What do you think I hired you for?" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "For two dollars a day--and lunch--" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And-- he looked triumphantly at his angry niece-in-law's snapping eyes," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "She had a good lunch, I'm sure I instructed the cook to give her a lunch--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Cold lamb-- he cackled," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I heard you say cold lamb--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Very well, Uncle Peter, said Mrs. Alden tapping her pointed patent leather toe impatiently," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Don't go, Miss Whadda-you-call-it--I want to finish the game. She can pay you but don't go. It's my house, isn't it? he fretfully interrogated the nurse," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I guess it's my house yet even if I am half dead. I'm not all dead yet, not by a long shot--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Sit down, can't you? he demanded of Felicia," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Check! he called buoyantly," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Check!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "You play adroitly, she encouraged him." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And I'm really ra-ther glad I stole your luncheon for here comes your supper. I know you'll be hungry for your supper--" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Here's your money," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You might as well take it, even if you didn't work full time. Of course, I won't want you to come again." }, { "from": "human", "value": "No?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Miss Whadda-you-call-it!--Call that woman back here, Miss Grant! She stepped to his door." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I wish you'd come around sometimes, he asked her pleadingly," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I do admire a good game of chess--and it's my house, I tell you, this is my house, even Clara can't say this isn't my house!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'll come sometimes, she promised," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "she stepped back to her abashed employer." }, { "from": "human", "value": "she murmured passionately," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Let's pretend-- she murmured under the turmoil of noises--the house was perturbed at suppertime,--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Let's pretend you put them there, Maman--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "That woman, that Mrs. Alden is just a WEED! A weed like the tailor's missus and the rest. Some one ought to pull her right out of Uncle Peter's house! She is worse than a weed! She ought to have to be a by- the-day! And sit in a windy hall and sew and sew. And then some one ought to bring her a tray, with messy napkins and just two pieces of dry lamb and a sad tomato--and all the while that she was eating it somebody ought to put Uncle Peter's tray on the table beside her! With chicken and custard and celery and all! Yes, that's what some one should do, Babiche!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But I do wish, she murmured, after they'd settled themselves on the narrow bed for the night," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I could remember whether Mademoiselle ever let the Wheezy have such a dreadful luncheon--I shall ask her tomorrow--" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If you want to speak to Mrs. Sperry why under the shining canopy don't you come in? She'll be back in a second." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Can't you remember when you used to sew for us at Montrose Place, how I called you the Wheezy and it made you cross?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And can't you remember anything else I did? I mean that the little girl did? For if you could I would do it and then you'd know--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "She used to whistle-- the admission came slowly after deep thought," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "She used to whistle real good, when the old man wasn't about." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We're going to pretend something, she called to them softly," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Would you like to pretend? We're going to pretend I'm a little girl in a back yard who has been hearing Marthy sing--Marthy sings a song called Billy Boy about a boy who had been courting. She used to say, in the song, 'Where have you been, Billy Boy, Billy Boy--Where have you been, charming Billy?' I can't sing but you shall hear me whistle it--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Churry Ripe--Churry Ripe-- and" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ever of thee I am fondly dreaming--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Why under the shining canopy I didn't know who you was-- she muttered apologetically," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "My soul, I guess it's because I can't half see!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "No, it's because-- Felicia sighed," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'm not really that little girl any more. Only the Happy Part of her is here-- she put her hand on her breast." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'm really old--like Grandy--like Piqueur. I can see vairee well. I saw myself-- she paused," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "she managed to laugh a little." }, { "from": "human", "value": "But Wheezy dear, there's a man who has to know that I am Felicia Day. Will you tell him that you know I am?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I remember, I remember in the years long passed away, A little maid and I would meet beside the stream to play-" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'll come another visiting day-- she patted the Wheezy's shoulders," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I like to! You all are _so_ good at pretending!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Do you know, she told Judge Harlow in the morning," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I did find some one who knows who I am?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Even if you get so old that you don't look at all as you used to there's some part of you that people can't forget. Some Happy Part of you! You really ought to try it! Perhaps there is some old lady up there who used to know you when you were little! If you'd go there some visiting day and whistle for her she'd know you, just as quick! You try it!" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You'll have to find me another by-the-day," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "How'd you make out Saturday?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I--made--_out_-- Felicia laughed back at her." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "She was a WEED, that woman. The old man played chess with me but she didn't like us to do it. I couldn't take the two dollars--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'm afraid you aren't businesslike, Miss Sarah chided," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I do, Felicia assured her," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This would be a good book for anybody so unbusinesslike as you, she confided as she presented her client with it." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "In the back here are pages to write what you earn and what you spend and to keep track of the days you are going out." }, { "from": "human", "value": "INCOME" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "EXPENDITURES. With the first pages Felicia wrote a letter to Margot, a masterly letter in which she bade her servant tell Zeb that the filthy dirty heathen were going to be sent away, a letter in which she warned Margot that unless Grandy were too unhappy she would not go back to the House in the Woods until the house in the city was clean once more. She explained that certain legal matters had to be attended to. The round stroke of her pen seemed to proclaim her complete confidence that they could be attended to satisfactorily. But the postscript begged Margot to tell Bele to stay all he could with Grandy," }, { "from": "human", "value": "If Grandy looks at the chess board tell Bele to put the men on it and shove a man every time Grandy pushes one--you must all keep Grandy happy. And the last postscript of all said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The narcissi are lovely, I have them in my room!" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "INCOME EXPENDITURES Two dollars Bone--five cents Apples, cakes and sandwiches forty five cents Narcissi One dollar." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Honest, she made me feel like I oughta be giving things away instead of selling 'em, he apologized to his astounded boss, who had met the new customer on her way out," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Honest, she got me hipped!" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Babiche, she chattered," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "When I was young, like the girls in Piqueur's song I found my fun in spring forests; but now-- she was looking out across the river at the gleaming towers of Manhattan, glimpsing the jewel-like line of trolleys crawling slowly over the lighted bridges, watching the busy shipping that scurried over the harbor in the violet and bronze evening," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Now I find it in spring cities--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "All of the ivy isn't gone and there's wistaria and we can make new ivies from slips, next spring it must be just as it used to be. Perhaps we can find the old benches, I know exactly where to build the paths. We will have to get some pebbles to make the paths. We must plant plenty of narcissi again, Babiche. Because some day, there might be some other girl who lived in this house and who walked in the garden and when Her Night came we would want it to be just as lovely as it was That Night--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "of what the house was to be, she only longed to get the" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "that she longed to be planting. She had promised herself eagerly that the very day when the heathen were gone she would plant some ivies. She was pretending vehemently that the heathen were gone and that she didn't have to be a" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "yet before night she was exclaiming passionately," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I am proud, proud, proud I was a by- the-day--" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Seeley's" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "she quickly discovered that the Seeley household made rather an event of the seamstress' coming. There was no necessity for stealing a lunch. Indeed, when lunchtime arrived she was ushered into the basement dining-room and invited to eat with the rest of the family and as many of the" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Miss Day, meet Mrs. J. Furthrington's chauffeur--Miss Day is sewing for me-- she poured their teas impartially. It appeared that Mrs. J. Furthrington's chauffeur did not often grace the boarding house for his meals. He usually, as he expressed it" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Good gracious, chaffed Mrs. Seeley," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I thought you'd felt grand from associating with swells and changing your rooms--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well I feel swell, he admitted dubiously," }, { "from": "human", "value": "he slid his long body under the table and grasped his plate as a steering wheel," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Hain't he comical?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "He's vairee good at pretending--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Any time you want a joy-ride, call on me!" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Only get a different bunnet-- he waved Louisa's from the peg on the hall rack, Felicia didn't mind in the least, she was mouthing this new phrase" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Joy-ride, it sounded delightful. All the same she rescued her bonnet and carried it upstairs with her." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I love that boy like a plate of fudge, confided Mrs. Seeley as she and Felicia were ascending to the ornate bedroom where the sewing was waiting." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He's the life of the place. Everybody likes him. I don't know what there is about him, he hain't so handsome but he certainly is poplar. Yet Dulcie won't stand for him--Dulcie thinks he's fresh." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Says he to her only last night, 'Cheer up, I'll take you a nice ride down to the morgue.' I thought everybody'd die laughing to hear him but she just got up and stalked out of the dining-room like somebody had insulted her. And I can't get a peep out of her today. Just this noon I says to her, pleasant enough, because I was short of help, wouldn't she come down and wait on table, but would she? demanded Mrs. Seeley bitterly," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "She would not. She said she was no scullery maid and slammed the door in my face and went back to her wet mud--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, is she building a garden?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Nothing so useful as a garden, snorted Mrs. Seeley," }, { "from": "human", "value": "But I should think, breathed the seamstress her eyes glowing as she lifted them from her work," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Where is your dog?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What dog?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "The dog you were going to wash-- Felicia's voice was casual." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "With the 'scarbolic.'" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I wasn't--trying to wash any dog--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Then I wish you'd lend me your--'scarbolic,' she entreated sweetly," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Babiche really needs a bath." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I can't stand it-- she sobbed bitterly," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I've got to quit--you don't know how I feel--I feel as if--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "When you feel that way, interrupted Felicia quietly," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It's my own business if I do--I'd rather be dead than the way I am-- she stretched out her arms passionately," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I haven't room to breathe! I did have that top floor front you know, it was a peach of a place to work. But she rented it to a chauffeur and put me in this hole--oh, oh, when all I asked was room for my model stand and room for my clay --when all I wanted was room for Pandora--you can't know how I feel--" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Listen, that's Mrs. Seeley coming back up the stairs. She's bringing me my two dollars. You put on your shoes and when she's down the stairs I'll whistle--so--vairee softly. And then you will come out and down we'll go. It will really be a great favor if you will--it's a big house, my house and I'm ra-_ther_ lonely--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I've no hat, she whimpered," }, { "from": "human", "value": "It's no use--I don't want to go--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You would, the seamstress insisted," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Her arm was through Dulcie's, they were really walking along." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And we shall buy our supper there too. Miss Susan has fat jars of baked beans and little round corn muffins and I think she has quince jelly--" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, it's altogether too dreadful-- she exclaimed." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It's worse than Aunt Seeley's--I can't go in--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "It's an awful place--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It's going to be lovely, promised Felicia stoutly," }, { "from": "human", "value": "It used to be lovely. Look here, she drew the girl to the window and pointed out across the gleaming river," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Whatever is it?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It's the weeds--this is going to be a wonderful, wonderful day, Dulcie, you're going to be so glad--just think! The tailor and the tailor's missus and all of them are going--" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Impractical" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Steamer chairs, she decided instantly," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I left two steamer chairs and some rugs over on Ella Slocum's back porch--I'll bet we could get a grocery boy to bring them over for us--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Only what good will it do? she tramped about the great room restlessly," }, { "from": "human", "value": "It's no use, Miss Day, you might better have let me quit --you've got troubles enough without bothering with me--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Isn't there room enough? asked Felicia shyly." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Isn't it big enough?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It's big enough for the model stand-- she admitted moodily." }, { "from": "human", "value": "It's a good light. I could paint these silly papered walls--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Are they so silly? she asked." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I didn't know." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It's no use, that moody creature was muttering despondently." }, { "from": "human", "value": "There's space enough but it's no use. I don't seem to want to do it any more--I used to sit and dream about how I'd do it and how it would make other people dream just to look--it wasn't going to be any ordinary Pandora--it was to be a symbol--a symbol of what goes on in your heart when you're young--before you know about life--oh, I can't chitter-chatter about it--but I used to think I could make it--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Of course you can make it, Felicia insisted." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Not just now-- she led the girl to the window," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It's all right, she called up to Felicia," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I know it's after eight, he said," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Babiche and I will wait up for you, she said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We'll wait--" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Maybe the dear old duffer will be asleep when we get there and I can send you right back, Mr. Alden suggested hopefully." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He was so darned good to me when I was a kid that I can't let him miss anything I can get for him--Lord knows that's not much--I thought I could get you right away but I didn't have any name and I couldn't find out where you came from--my wife didn't have your address--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Just as soon as he is asleep, he whispered," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Uncle Peter" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ah! Why didn't you come earlier?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It's not feasible --" }, { "from": "human", "value": "It couldn't be pulled off --" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Quixotic plan --" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Check!" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A drink, he panted and closed his eyes." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Come again, Miss Whadda- you-call-it-" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Mr. Alden said for me to 'phone the garage, that the car would be here for you directly--will you sit down--" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That's all right--we agree with you--we'll go in your wild scheme if you can find some other fools too--only, I say Dud, before you beat it just sing a couple things, will you? You might be gone six months instead of three and that's too long between songs. I know you aren't singing and you haven't any voice and all that, but just a couple to show there's no hard feeling--those things you used to--the one that the darkey boy wrote--that Dunbar chap--'The Sum'--and that other one--" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I believe I'll run up to say Howdy and Good-by to your Uncle Peter--" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, Dudly Hamilt!" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Beg pardon," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You'll be as good as ever when it's summer--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Un-cle Pe-ter- called Freddie Alden," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Thou art the blood of my heart of hearts, Thou art my soul's repose; But my heart's grown numb and my soul is dumb--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Sorry. Can't sing it.--'Night, Uncle Peter. 'Night everybody--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Gad, he's a queer chap! If I had his voice I'd sing--" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why, yes, answered Freddie Alden," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I say, Miss Grant--this little woman here--she's fainted--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "CERTAIN LEGAL MATTERS" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "after dinner on an evening when she was about to depart FOREVER--or anyhow until Mr. Freddie came for her again--was a tremendous sight. Especially on an evening when at the highest moment of her justifiable wrath Mr. Freddie would appear and nonchalantly suggest a" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "as casually as though Janet were not already on the verge of explosion. Of course she would prepare the lunch, stabbing the bread-saw viciously into the defenseless loaf and muttering dark things as she assembled something she called" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There, there--don't ye mind her-- she lifted glum eyes to Mr. Freddie as she soothed the sobbing woman," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It's this that Miss' Freddie's tantrums brings the help to! Many a time have I masel' felt like givin' way the way this poor soul is givin' way. It's on'y ma fierce pride that saves me--don't ye cry over Miss' Freddie's way o' speakin'--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "It wasn't Mrs. Freddie, it wasn't anybody-- Felicia lifted her streaming eyes from Janet's spare bosom. She was deeply chagrined that the group hovering on the stairway could see her tears." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It was just that--I was tired--that Uncle Peter's room was rather hot--that I liked to hear the man sing--I'm vairee well-- Her drawling" }, { "from": "human", "value": "sounded anything but well, it was almost a sob in itself." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Truly vairee well--" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It's worth ony money to Mr. Freddie to have Mr. Peter snatch a bit of contentment from life--and Mr. Freddie is that prodigal with money that if you don't take it of him he'll hand it to the next one--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But I can't take money for playing--chess is only playing, its only for work we should take money." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It's Janet MacGregor with me, Dulcie. She's a widow woman. This is Dulcie Dierckx, Janet, you'll like Dulcie-- She had Babiche in her arms now, and was leaning wearily against the balustrade," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Janet was good to bring me home--I was a silly fool--I cried, Dulcie--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Is onybody livin' here? she demanded." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I thought I saw them all movin' out--I heard the building was comin' down to make room for lofts." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Would you think the basement might be to let to a decent body? It's no worth much, so old and all but I know a body as might conseeder it. Impractical as the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "How much would you pay?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Is it your hous'?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It's Miss Day's-- Dulcie nodded toward Felicia." }, { "from": "human", "value": "She's just been thinking she might rent part of it. Of course its altogether too large for her." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If she's livin' here where's her furnishings?" } ]