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6002 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This is the pattern of it, the little seamstress explained."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's my house, Janet MacGregor, only it's dirty because while I was gone building my garden, some dirty filthy heathen came to live here. But now I'm home His Honor made them all go away. And as soon as I have earned enough money to pay the taxes and other things I shall make the house lovely again. The furniture is in a place called storage. I think I have to pay them something before I get my things, don't I, Dulcie?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What's the matter o' the storage bills?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don't know that it's any of your business but they amount to about two hundred dollars. I know what you're thinking, that with the furniture we could open a rooming house. I've been thinking that myself while Miss Day was gone. I've experience you know, my beastly step-aunt does make a good thing of it. So if you wanted to rent the basement and had some furniture of your own Miss Day might consider it."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If you've lodgings to let you've got to have some one to keep 'em tidy. There's a good bit o' money there for an able body. If the furnishings is what she ree-presents and you'd conseeder takin' me in on shares--I might conseeder--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Consider what?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Conseeder advancing for the storage of the furnishings--with the furnishings as security o' course. And doin' some cleanin' toward the matter o' what ma rent would be. Mind I'm no sayin' I would until I see the furnishings. I'm on'y conseederin'--I'll have the matter o' some ladders-- she peered again down the dark hallway,"
}
]
|
6002 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The garden is a little old pippin, Dulcie boasted."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We can make that all O. K. in a day or so, but the house did stump me! Janet MacGregor is an angel sent straight from heaven. If I ever get a commish' to sculpt an angel I shall use Janet MacGregor for my model, little Miss By-the-Day, she sighed drowsily,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My middle name is Trenton, answered Felicia literally."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Dulcie, I am going to tell you something. Something you must remember. When our little garden is lovely again, if any one--ever--kisses--you out there and you love him--don't let any one take you away from him. Because it might be too long afterward that you come back--you might be old like Grandy and Piqueur--so that he wouldn't know you when he saw you. He wouldn't know that you were the--Girl,--"
}
]
|
6002 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why-- her reply was the breathless reply of discovery,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I hadn't noticed till now--_how young your hands are!"
}
]
|
6002 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You'd better go to your by-the-day. Dulcie was almost saucy."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Babiche and I will stay and guard the fort. I'll show Janet all the dirt, I think there's enough to satisfy even her unholy craving--and then if she still wants to go into the deal I can go to the storage place. I know I could arrange it because I did it once for Aunt Jen; it's a bore, it takes all kinds of time, you'd hate it and-- tears threatened,"
}
]
|
6002 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh! it's home--it's really home--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "and wanted to die--die! Why, she couldn't live hard enough, the days seemed so short! She threw herself heart and soul into the fray; she grubbed in the bit of garden, she toiled upstairs and down with the clumsy paint brushes. Whenever she lacked for pence she strode forth to the art school where she had once been a pupil in the days before"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Uncle Al had put her money into the disastrous plumbing venture, and boldly demanded the right to pose at fifty cents an hour. With the bravado born of her new grip on life she brazenly descended on the"
}
]
|
6002 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's my stub, stub, stubborn way-- she chided herself,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I won't let any one tell me--I think it's only when I work that I learn--Work! that's the thing to learn with--it's like the 'Binnage'--the second digging of the garden to make things grow--its not pleasant but after all--it must be done."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "be a"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We should be immensely gay when we're working, shouldn't we, Dulcie? she asked one evening when they leaned far out of the windows to watch the ships in the harbor."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Think how gay the sailors are. I remember one who whistled while he cleaned the deck--he did it very quickly, much more quickly than the stupid boys who didn't whistle--I think when I sew I shall whistle,--not aloud-- she laughed,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Look Dulcie, it's not the way that she does it that matters--you and I brush as hard--but it's because it's Janet brushing--the broom acts as though it were Janet instead of just a broom--isn't it delightful? I shall have to make my needle me--and you shall--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "but the part of Dulcie that had wanted to create seemed dead--it seemed to have died back there that day when she had tried to die in"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Aunt Jen's house. Morning after morning when Felice went away she would encourage her. She would assure her that when she came back at night she would hear Dulcie calling"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's begun."
}
]
|
6002 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Case. He always called the house"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The Case."
}
]
|
6002 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Where might ye be livin'? You're no married?"
}
]
|
6002 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If you're so keen on helping my little lady why are ye no livin' here and paying her rent?"
}
]
|
6002 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How stupid I was not to offer it to you! Of course you must have longed for it directly you saw it--oh, do you know I think you must have felt it was just the place for a lawyer! Shall I tell you something-- she was down the stairs, running like a girl to point out the wonders of the room."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You see Grandy's father was a Judge and he knew Louisa's uncle--It was Louisa's uncle who used to live in this house and both those men used to sit in this room and talk and talk and talk--Mademoiselle told me about it. You shall have Grandy's father's picture over the fireplace. We shall bring it up from the hall. It's a beautiful picture--you'll just admire him! And to think-- we haven't unpacked the books, Grandy's father's books-- she smiled over her shoulder at Dulcie as she always smiled when she quoted that slangy young person,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That will be Some Law!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yep, I know it's a rookery and a rotten neighborhood, but I have reasons--"
}
]
|
6002 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How is the majesty of the law? Would it mind lifting a ladder for a poor woiking goil?"
}
]
|
6002 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "NOTICE TO LAWYERS AND SCULPTORS: HAVE SOME ON ME."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "By gad! he breathed, grinning,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Rumor, not even when she added,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Because as a lawyer, you're a false alarm."
}
]
|
6002 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mrs. Poomsonby's bridge luncheon."
}
]
|
6002 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In the gloaming Oh, my darling, Think not bitterly of me--"
}
]
|
6002 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now whadda ye know about that?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I do not know anything about it, she said demurely, and added with one of her casual references to the illustrious dead--she treated them all as though they were contemporary--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I think Heloise might know what to do. One of the things Abelard loved about her was that she always knew what to do--she was vairee good at administrating, like Janet, don't you think?"
}
]
|
6002 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There's a poor thing that's lost her address, crooned Mrs. Miller,"
}
]
|
6002 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Stop it!"
}
]
|
6002 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Or a play. I can write a play. But I can't sell knit underwear or I can't do general housework--I'm only--a toothache--Bobby Burns wrote me--maybe you've read me--"
}
]
|
6002 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Will you promise not to let her go till I get my hat?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You can't manage her, said the dentist,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I tell you she's irresponsible."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "So am I, confided Felicia serenely,"
}
]
|
6002 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What an idiot! she exclaimed,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, come along and get some dry clothes and tea anyhow, then you'll be vairee all right."
}
]
|
6002 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Poor Babiche, she crooned,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "When your mistress does come in--"
}
]
|
6002 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh! Oh! she cried in absolute ecstacy;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, Pandora! Pandora! don't move! How could I have been so stupid not to have seen you before! Oh, please drop the coat! Oh! Oh! you adorable--you beautiful person--you little old peach!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You--you're rather embarrassing-- she sighed,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Though of course, her eyes danced mischievously,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "she stretched one out--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "They're Grandmother Trenton's--and I think I have nice ears--but the rest of me-- she shrugged,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The rest of me won't do at all--my mouth is too big and--no, I wouldn't be at all your Pandora--it's dark here--that's why you thought you saw her--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I saw her, insisted the Sculptor Girl stubbornly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And you'd be a brute not to help me--I--look here, she lied casually,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I didn't tell you but I've managed a bit of money--I'm not asking you to pose for nothing--I can pay you more than you earn at your sewing--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, money, she stammered."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I didn't think about money--Sculptor Girl--how could you--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Taxes, ejaculated the Sculptor Girl bluntly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Interest! You can't forget 'em or we'll all be back in the gutter you know--So that's settled--to-morrow morning at nine--I'll have a good fire--you won't mind awfully, will you, if I hang wet cheese cloth around you--?"
}
]
|
6002 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's the same Bee on it that's on her brushes--it's the same Bee she has said was on the silver--it's--oh, if it only could be hers!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Blythe's coming to have the front room next as soon as Cross Eyes can pink-wash it-- Her eyes glimpsed the box, she fairly ran for it,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's Maman's, she exclaimed,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "How did you find it? She hugged it delightedly; she opened it--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Even its emptiness smells nice,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oughtn't there to be a secrud pocket in it, m'loidy? With the missing will and the dagger he stabbed her with?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nothing like that, laughed Miss Day with one of her delicious excursions into slang,"
}
]
|
6002 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What's she paying?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A good bargain, I made. It's like this--she writes, you know, so she doesn't get her money everyday as you and I do, Janet. She's more like--well, Dulcie when she's sculpting. So I made a bargain with her that she'd not pay her rent just now, that she'll pay later. She's to pay some girl's rent for as long as she stays herself rent free, do you see? As soon as she can she'll pay her own rent and she'll pay another rent too, that's vairee business like, don't you think, Dulcie?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "All the same, confessed Dulcie,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You've got to quit bringing home losers, Miss Day. You ought to pick one winner just to square yourself with Janet."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She's Christian, she assured Felice solemnly,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A Christian. Which was the more delightful from the fact that her sect was one that Janet had hitherto scorned as"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Irish Roman Catolic. But just to look at Molly O'Reilly was to know you'd love her. Fat, oh, ridiculously fat, in comparison with the rest of that skinny household--ruddy, glowingly ruddy, beside that pale-faced"
}
]
|
6002 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Here's something to put inside you-- she called to the perspiring colored woman who was washing and the tiny white person who was laboriously darning thin net,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "She stole a keen glance at the seamstress."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yours goes on this bit of table; Susy, put down the top of your toobs and get a stool."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Old Fashioned Chicken Pie."
}
]
|
6002 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They're all starlings singing that they can't get out--it's not fair --not a bit right--they ought not to starve, they ought not to freeze. And folks who say so are stupid! You can't grow roses like weeds--just anywhere! And they're going to be the roses in the garden of world-- they ought to be in the sun, they ought to be watched so carefully-- why can't the stupid old world see it! But it doesn't. It just tramples and chokes and freezes them until it's a wonder they evaire do blossom at all. And di-_rectly_ they do--the world's surprised--huh-- I should think it would be! It's not fair. It's all wrong. When I find the Portia Person I shall do something, I shall buy the church next door and I shall make a school. It shall be a school where you learn to do one useful thing that will earn your bread and butter. And the rest of the time--you shall dream."
}
]
|
6002 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You said you'd give me a joy-ride sometime if I had a new bonnet--I have. I really look like anybody else now. I do need that joy-ride just now, could you come for me?"
}
]
|
6002 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He is doing vairee nicely. His leg is better. It's only his spirit that's rather drowned, so I thought if he had a joy-ride and we took him home--"
}
]
|
6002 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "that she claimed was left from her catering business, but usually they ate only what their pooled funds could pay for and leaned back content to listen while Felice"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "or scolded or encouraged them; her leadership was utterly unconscious, her calm assumption that she was a very old lady hypnotized them into thinking she was. She made no rules or regulations. She frankly let them know that perhaps they could live there a day or perhaps a century; that the length of residence depended on the finding of the elusive, untraceable Portia Person. They all searched ardently for him. They all knew that when they"
}
]
|
6002 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She would like you to be happy here. You can't be truly happy if you are making anyone else unhappy."
}
]
|
6002 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Eighteen"
}
]
|
6002 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The help's entrance is on the side street, he informed her impudently."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You turn right around and go right out where you just came in and go around to the side where I tells you and go in there and you tell Joe I sent you. If he hain't too busy maybe he'll run you up on the freight elevator, but if he is you can walk. It's apartment 41, fourth floor, front."
}
]
|
6002 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I didn't notice she was such a high-stepping lady--"
}
]
|
6002 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You're fifteen minutes late--she said she'd send some one at eight o'clock--but come along, sew in the children's bedroom--"
}
]
|
6002 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I cut out some pinafores yesterday, continued the fretful voice,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I wish you would run up the seams of those on the machine--french-seam them, please--and if I get time I'll show you how I want the collars--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Good morning, Madame, she said in her clear contralto,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I think you do not understand. The Exchange should have told you that I am a needle-woman--that I do only hand work--I do not understand sewing machines--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Not understand sewing machines! shrilled the kimonoed one,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am not any one at all--but it so happens that I cannot use a sewing machine. Perhaps I can please you with my needle. Or, I can go home."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You can't do anything of the kind. It's the maid's day out and I have to go to a matinee and I'd counted on you to watch the children-- she shook her head in exasperation."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, take off your hat, don't stand there gawping. I suppose I'll have to put up with it. Do you know enough to sew on buttons and mend stockings?"
}
]
|
6002 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You certainly can sew, but you needn't bother to take such small stitches--I wish you'd stop fussing with that and press my frock--"
}
]
|
6002 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do you think you'd better risk it with me, Madame? she asked."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am not what-you-call-a-blanchisseuse--I have never held a flat-iron-- she was smiling because she was thinking of Grandy's inflexible order"
}
]
|
6002 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am only a needlewoman for hand work, she reiterated."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I know only embroidery and mending and knitting and the beading of purses--as they should have informed you--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "to numerous instructions about the children's lunch. She sighed with relief when two o'clock heard the door bang after a second grand exit when a caricatured edition of the mistress passed out in the form of"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Sadie's Thursday out."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mama doesn't allow her servants to eat in here--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "After all, they're not to blame, these two uncared-for savages!"
}
]
|
6002 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Let us go out of this room, she said coolly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I do not think it is possible for any one of us to be happy here any longer--"
}
]
|
6002 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This, announced the older child,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Then there is but one thing for us to do, she announced leading her small sheep behind her."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We shall have to go back to that unhappy room and make ourselves ONE CORNER--"
}
]
|
6002 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's not easy. But it's a game too. You see some one who is tired or cross or worried and you think 'This isn't pleasant.' Maybe you play a little on your lute, maybe you tell something droll that happened in the kennel or the garden--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Let's pretend-- she began in her low contralto"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I haven't really a lute of course, so I shall have to whistle instead of playing the strings and I can't sing any words while I'm whistling so I shall have to tell you the story before I make the song--the first little song I'm going to do on my lute is about a bridge and how the pretty ladies liked to dance across it."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Go away, Papa, ordered the older one casually."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We are pretending."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And why, may I ask, shouldn't I be allowed to pretend with you?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Will you let him pretend with us?"
}
]
|
6002 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This, confided Felicia"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "the children shivered sympathetically,"
}
]
|
6002 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh Margot! with your translation that should not offend your atheistic master by telling his granddaughter what _Dieu_ really means! The tired man, who'd known the song when he was a boy, was already laughing at Margot's version. But when Felicia came to"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "and merrily cried out"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "For the love of Mike"
}
]
|
6002 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh! Oh! exulted Felice,"
}
]
|
6002 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You didn't know how to run the sewing machine! she mocked the little woman who was rising from the hassock,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "the anger was rising higher and higher now,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Bertha!"
}
]
|
6002 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You'd better not talk any more, Felicia's clear voice interrupted the angry tirade."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Because I'm not listening and I'm sure you don't know yourself what you're saying. All day long I've been wondering what I could pretend you were like. First I pretended you were a big coarse zinnia. I don't like zinnias at all but some people do--they are gay and bold. Part of the time I thought I'd pretend you were a weed--a rather pretty weed that chokes flowers out if you don't watch it--but you aren't even as much use as a weed--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Stop her! Make her stop! the woman screamed."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "She's insulting me! Make her stop!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Of course you must stop! he spoke sternly as though he were speaking to a naughty child."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You must be out of your wits to talk that way! You'd--you'd better go--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Much better, Felicia agreed."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But I'd much better go after I get through telling her what I'm going to pretend she is! She's exactly like the Black Blight--that horrid black thing that makes the green leaves droop and the gay little flowers shrivel up--there's only one thing to do to keep it from killing the whole garden--that's to burn it out with coals!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Stop that!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I can't, she answered quietly,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "her eager words tumbled more gently now,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "she stepped very close to the amazed woman,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "a cooing sweetness crept into Felicia's tones, the naive earnestness, the gentle candor of her appeal, silenced both the man and the woman."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "She will like to hear about the way to be a mother. I know exactly the way--it's like this-- it isn't a bit like the way you do it-- her clear eyes looked straight into those of the awed person before her."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The way you do it is not at all pretty--not at all amusing--you shout and scold and fret and 'don't--don't don't'--all the time! That's not the way to be a mother! Felicia's eyes grew tender, her hand touched the woman's hand and patted it reassuringly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'll tell you the vairee best way to be a mother--evairy morning you have some one make you vairee, vairee pretty with a little lace cap and a rosy pillow--you must stay in your bed and wait till your children come to see you and then you must smile at them and speak vairee softly--this way, saying 'Go out in the garden and be happy, my dears!' And when they come back to you at twilight, oh so vairee happy--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's the time for you to say, 'Ah, Felicia, you look as though you'd been vairee happy today--in your garden--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Who are you? he demanded sharply,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, of course I know you-- she whispered gently,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I've been looking everywhere to find you. You're my Portia Person--only the Portia part of you is all quite lost--"
}
]
|
6002 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What's happening? Why don't you say what you've found out? Why don't you tell us something?"
}
]
|
6002 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Miss Day, darlint, she called through the half opened door,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I've the matter of a nibble of food here--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How sweet of you, Molly O'Reilly, come in--this is Mr. Ralph. Mr. Ralph, I know you'll like Molly O'Reilly--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's dying we all are wid curiosity, Mr. Portia Ralph. You should have a heart-- her speech was bolder than her beseeching eyes,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The poor children! Felicia sighed heavily."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Are you sure we couldn't tell them anything?"
}
]
|
6002 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Just a word, maybe,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We're making some headway, he vouchsafed,"
}
]
|
6002 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Lawyers is the numbskull boys, she grumbled,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I belave none of them know their business--"
}
]
|
6002 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sure, they's no need to worry. Take a peep through the door at Miss Felice. She's just knitting whilst they confab. Sure wid a couple o' hundred papers alyin' there they couldn't get through in no hurry now, could they?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I just can't, can't, can't give up their house--oh, wherever could I put them all? I couldn't take them to the House in the Woods. I couldn't let them go back--oh, oh, I can't lose their house--"
}
]
|
6002 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's not fair--it's not fair-- her tempestuous heart beat angrily,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Always when I seem to find what I must have, it is as though I had found nothing. This is worse than when I lost Dudley Hamilt--it's not fair--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's beastly, agreed the Portia Person inadequately,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "How silly of me! It was only the Tired part of me that spoke! She smiled."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am like Dulcie's Pandora a little. I have opened the box and let out all the troubles--but perhaps I haven't let out Hope-- probably everything is as right as right can be--in some of Grandy's papers--"
}
]
|
6002 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "May Day"
}
]
|
6002 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dulcie Dierckx! How dare you let me find you weeping again! When Pandora is almost here! I do declare you'll have to learn to swim and so will all of us if you're going to drip tears regularly, every day at five thirty--Molly says you're only hungry, nobody else is snivelling all over the place--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, the lawyer c-c-cusses--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then learn to cuss!"
}
]
|
6002 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She has just about eight days more before she'll be dumped in the gutter, for there's no possible way out--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Wouldn't it be droll, Felice asked Molly one day,"
}
]
|
6002 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now look at the du-urt! she wailed,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's fairly in loomps and choonks!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Here is the key to the secret chamber--"
}
]
|
6002 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, how stupid I've been! That's the storeroom key! The one I threw away the day I was angry at Mademoiselle D'Ormy! And it tinkled down, down, down-- she was hurrying out of the room."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "They were scrambling up the stairways, a laughing crew."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Bring something to break wood with you, called Felice over her shoulder,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Night of a Thousand Hopes but the Inventor sardonically added at midnight"
}
]
|
6002 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Look! all of us! he shouted buoyantly as he limped across the room to hold it against Felicia's shoulders,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Put it on her!"
}
]
|
6002 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't feel at all like me! I feel like Josepha or Louisa or whoever she was who wore it--"
}
]
|
6002 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You're so paintable! he begged,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I know it's rotten to ask you to sit for me, you're so busy now with all of us on your mind and the sewing and posing for Dulcie that you'll think you just can't--but oh, Dulcie Dierckx--look at her! Isn't she paintable!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's only the frock, Nor'. I'll lend it to you, I can't quite give it to you, I love it so--but you shall have a really model--we'll manage somehow--and you shall paint the frock--that's what's paintable--"
}
]
|
6002 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "green dress that she"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "her way to fame and it came about this way. Without actually realizing it she was getting accustomed to a fairly large audience on the Sunday afternoons when she whistled for the Wheezy's friends. They were so eager to hear her and their chance visitors were so numerous that the Matron arranged for her to do her"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "in the chapel hall at the front of the Home. And it was there that an enthusiastic member of the May Day committee chanced to hear her, one sunshiny April Day, an enterprising member who bluntly asked Felicia Day if she wouldn't"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "for the May Day program at the Academy of Music. It didn't occur to Felicia to make excuses, especially when the committee member explained things a bit. The only thing at which she balked at all was when the energetic person murmured,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Name please?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm not--anybody-- explained Felicia,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm not even sure myself who I am--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But we have to have a name to print on the program--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Vairee well, suggested Felicia,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Vairee business-like"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Number 17--DIVERTISSEMENT--Mademoiselle Folly in PRETENSES"
}
]
|
6002 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's only for ten minutes! And an encore if they like me!"
}
]
|
6002 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But I must remember to smile. They are persons and I have to please them, they're sounding rather fretty--"
}
]
|
6002 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What I am going to do for you I shall have to explain a little. There was a bald grouchy human in the front row, he honestly believed she was talking just to him! He leaned forward."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am going to do some songs for you but I can't exactly sing-- The bald man grunted, he considered that plain foolishness and it was!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But I can play this lute a little--and I can whistle--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Louder!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, dear! Oh, dear! Maybe some of them are deaf like the Wheezy's friends, oh dear! How slowly I must speak!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "These are not new songs, they are just songs you know. So you'd better not look at me while I do them. You'd better shut your eyes and pretend--oh, I _do_ hope you're good at pretending--you must pretend that you are seeing the first person you heard sing these songs for you when you were little. The first one I heard, Marthy sang. Marthy was lean and small and ra-ther old. She lived over our stable in the cleanest rooms! With red geraniums in the windows!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Marthy used to sing 'Cherry Ripe.' Do you know it? she asked so anxiously that one sympathetic soul murmured"
}
]
|
6002 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Cherry Ripe,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Gee, that's the stuff. You can't beat the old stuff! S'lovely stuff--"
}
]
|
6002 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Another! Another!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's vairee good of you to like them. Do you think you'd enjoy a French one now? That is if it isn't ten minutes. They told me to do this for ten minutes--"
}
]
|
6002 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Margot taught me this one. It is about a forest. I heard it first vairee early in the morning, the first morning I evaire did see a forest. Pretend you can see it. It was spring before the leaves had come but the tops of the trees were swaying and the branches had the colors you see when you dream--and the wind was warm and sweet and sighing. And on a maple tree a blackbird whistled--so--and in the shining melted snow-pools the little green frogs made this kind of noises--and down in the old stone stable two little new lambs were crying--it was a wonderful spring! You must pretend you can see Margot sitting in a gray stone doorway sorting seed in a little broken brown basket. Margot is ra-ther brown herself, but she has gray hair and black eyes and she's fat and she wears a blue dress, vairee old and clean and faded and a big white apron. Her voice isn't pretty I'm afraid, but her song is. Her song is the oldest song I've evaire heard. There was a Frenchman, Maitre Guerdon, who made it a long time ago. He was a fine gentleman with ruffles of lace on his sleeves and he had a lute--perhaps like this-- she picked up hers again"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "her voice faltered"
}
]
|
6002 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do you know--er--'Ever of thee I am fondly dreaming'?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Is it like this?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's the ticket, he nodded;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I just know it's about a person--who was thinking about some one he used to see, she translated dreamily,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "After the Ball."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The ball, she echoed regretfully,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I think I don't know about it-- what sort of a ball, was it, M'sieur--a little tennis ball?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "White Wings"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is stupid of me, I think I never heard the words except those two lines 'White wings they never grow weary--I'll think of my dearie--' and she finished the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Fly away home,"
}
]
|
6002 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ye sons of France, awake to Glory! Hark! Hark! what myriads bid you rise! Your children, wives and grandsires hoary--"
}
]
|
6002 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ladies and gentlemen! called the chairman of the committee,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I beg of you to be lenient. Mademoiselle Folly thanks you but she cannot whistle any more tonight--she says-- he cleared his throat,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and let them understand something about what had happened and it was he who protected her interests during the excitable days that followed. It took more tact to manage this new Mademoiselle Folly than to arrange matters with the strange persons who sought her out. Mademoiselle Folly still measured the value of her services by the same standards that had governed Little Miss By-the-Day's. She couldn't understand at all why one should be paid what seemed to be fabulous sums for a brief half hour of"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "that one loved, when a whole day's work that one hated meant only two dollars. I think if it hadn't been for the dire necessity of those last days before the impending auction they could never have made her consent to do it for money. Impossible mathematician that she was, she could see the multiple of even the lowest salary that vaudeville managers offered, meant hope that she could sometime pay the appalling sum total of the debts on the house in Montrose Place; that is, if, as the young lawyer pointed out, she could"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Surely it seemed during those first delightful weeks of her amazing vogue that she could"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Battledore and Shuttlecock"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "the same sort of"
}
]
|
6002 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mademoiselle Folly"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Lordy, she related to the Architect's wife, who couldn't even go into the garden these days,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "When I think of it I could shout! The toy shops have battledores and shuttlecocks! They're actually selling lace mits like Louisa's and coral combs like Octavia's and the hair dressers' shops have windows full of silly wax-headed figures with their hairs all neatly coiffed in the middles and knots tucked down behind like Felice--and the darling doesn't even know it!"
}
]
|
6002 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's you she wants, darlint, it's you they says can see her--it's a little girl she has--"
}
]
|
6002 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I brought something for her, Mary, I brought her first present. It's vairee old, it is--clothes--I found them first when I was ra-_ther_ little myself."
}
]
|
6002 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You shouldn't give them away--they're so old they're sacred."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I know they are but I want her to have them. They were Josepha's first clothes, I found that out from Mademoiselle D'Ormy."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I mustn't take them--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The nicest part of our all being poor together is that we can give each other anything we have. And I'm proud, proud, proud I have these for her. Isn't she--little-- she touched the tiny cheek longingly,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, Mary, I wish she was mine--she makes me understand something. It's this. About the Poetry Girl and the Sculptor Girl and you and me. It's that women aren't half so happy making statues and poems as they are making--gardens--and babies--"
}
]
|
6002 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "for the garden of her life--for the garden of the lives of all the folks she had taken into that house. They did not know all about her. They did not know how large the fortune was that was coming to her. They merely knew that there would be enough to take away the irritating fight for bread and butter and that each one of them would be taken care of until each one of them had taught his or her particular art to provide, and they knew, too, that each one was expected to repay in a"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "businesslike way--by helping some other fellow. They all of them knew that Miss By-the-Day was planning to sail for France. They knew it was about something in connection with the French property but they did not know that she was planning the most wonderful"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There is a man I know, she told him,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "she blushed adorably,"
}
]
|
6002 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Maybe there's a garden with my French house,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's not I you've painted, Nor', it's some one who's young! Shall I tell you a secret? I do wish you could take all your brushes and make me as lovely as that girl in the picture--oh, Nor'--she hasn't a gray hair!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Pouf! Those two or three little gray things that you got worrying about us! he touched them lightly,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why do you care how old you are--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I guess something-- he teased her."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I guess you only 'pretend' you're old--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's all very well, Miss Felicia Day, he sputtered,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Sssssh! she whispered,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "she paused to sniff critically as they passed the pantry door,"
}
]
|
6002 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Silliest way I ever heard of, he chortled,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Old!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I didn't mean 'old' really, he stammered,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I just meant, well, I just meant you were--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't look awfully old, do I? she asked it with such delicious anxiety that he laughed."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I mean, I don't look so awfully old as I did, do I?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You look just like your wonderful self and we wouldn't have you changed for worlds. Why, you're our fairy grandmother."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Do this for me, she commanded."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Telephone Mr. Ralph. Tell him I said that I didn't want him to keep the engagement that I had him make for me this evening. That I won't be here at nine o'clock, that I have to go out. That he mustn't bring the visitor I asked him to bring. That I've changed my mind about seeing that visitor."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But my heart's grown numb and my soul is dumb-- Like Dudley Hamilt, she couldn't bear to think of the rest of the song, there wasn't any hope of"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "After years"
}
]
|
6002 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There's a man wants to see you. Awfully theatrical looking person. I've a hunch it's that beast Graemer. He wouldn't say. Just said he must see you."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's stupid of him to come here. We did send for him, the Portia Person and I. I wanted to try once more about 'the Juggler.' I said dreadful things, Dulcie, to the little lawyer man that he sent. I told the little lawyer man that I thought his wicked Mr. Graemer was afraid to come to see us--so that's why he's come now, I suppose. I don't want to see him half so much as I did. I feel vairee cowardly. You must send your Majesty-of-the-Law down to me. I am a little afraid alone. And tell Blythe to come. Tell him quickly. I do not like this job, so I must do it quickly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Heart of a Boy."
}
]
|
6002 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Felicia, I love you with all my heart and soul! the choir boy was declaring in large red letters, which was rather versatile of him considering that his lips were pressed firmly upon the blonde lady's. The placard further announced that he was embracing"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "America's foremost romantic actress Edwina Ely"
}
]
|
6002 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dat guy you see going around de coiner, he explained to the gathering crowd who helped to pick him up."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I wasn't doing nothing to him, I was justa stooping over when all to onct he hit me and threw me paste in the street and grabbed me brush and trew it after me paste and just as I was going to lam him one he ups and shoves some money in me fists and groans, 'Beg your pardon, of course you aren't responsible' and off he goes--and somebody better watch after him for he must have a heluva jag."
}
]
|
6002 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There's not a chance in a thousand of my getting my hands on him, but, oh, if I only could--"
}
]
|
6002 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Your agent let us know that you're starting for abroad. That's a nice little plan but it won't get you anywhere at all, he began tersely."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Except of course that you may get a little fun out of it if you've never been on the other side. But the best thing for you to do before you go off for your vacation is to have a contract, signed and sealed, in your inside pocket. Frankly, I'm charmed with your--er-- personality. I saw you a couple of months ago at the Palace and I like the way you get hold of people. I should say that with the right kind of training you ought to go quite a long way: who knows? he was laughing so good humoredly that he did not see her wince,"
}
]
|
6002 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If evaire I did want a play, she answered coolly,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I would know exactly where I would 'pick it up,' as you call it. I would not 'pick it up' the way you 'pick up' plays, M'sieur Graemer. I have a friend whose play you 'picked up'--"
}
]
|
6002 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I did not want you to come to my house, she began passionately."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I just wanted you to see the lawyer who attends to certain legal matters for me. The little breathless rush of her words fascinated him, the alluring way she slurred her syllables together, the quick staccato with which she paused on short words! At first he hardly grasped what she was saying, so intent was he upon her extraordinary manner of speaking. It made him feel somehow like a child. It irritated and soothed him at the same time."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I did not want you to come here at all. She stamped her foot for emphasis."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It is insulting for you to be in Maman's garden! But now that you're here and Blythe is here and I am here, why, I think we must talk things ovaire. With this lawyer who lives here with us. It is Blythe's play 'The Magician' that we will talk about. It was in your offices for almost a year and you had it there at least two years before you wrote 'The Juggler,' didn't you? Tell me!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The two plays are utterly dissimilar--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The two plays are utterly similar. Felicia's cool voice corrected him. She had an exasperating directness of manner!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Whenever you are counting how vairee much money you did have from 'The Juggler' do you not sometimes think that the girl who wrote the play ought to have some of those moneys?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The two plays were totally dissimilar--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Felice! Felice! groaned the Poetry Girl."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You're just wasting your breath! It's no use talking to him! Why, I almost got down on my knees to him! I wept--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I shall not weep, said Felicia calmly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I shall just tell him how vairee simple it would be for him to explain. He can just tell people that it is her play and that some of it is her moneys and then he can give you the money. Oh, you couldn't have understood how bad, bad, bad you made things for her! Even this spring, while you were still getting money from her play, she was poor and sick and almost starving--just like the girl in her 'Magician'--"
}
]
|
6002 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am one of Miss Modder's legal advisors, he began importantly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You probably know that we are anticipating bringing another and much stronger action against you. But if you should happen to feel that you wanted to enter into some sort of negotiations for an adjustment of--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'll be damned if I do--"
}
]
|
6002 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Let me explain for you a little, she pleaded,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am sorry that these lawyer men do not understand. I know exactly how you happened to do it. You didn't mean to take it at first, did you? I know because I once took something that was not mine. It was food, she smiled a little at the memory."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It did not seem like stealing because it was just a little food. It just seemed like something I wanted and that I must have and so I took it. Maybe that was the way it was with you about 'The Magician.' It was something that you wanted and must have! Perhaps it didn't seem like stealing because it was only something that was written on a paper. It wasn't even like something you could hold in your hand. It was just something somebody wrote down on some pieces of paper. Maybe you didn't understand that it was all of her hopes and dreams--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Gad! What a Sunday School you do keep!"
}
]
|
6002 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There's Mr. Graemer, she said;"
}
]
|
6002 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Stop them! Stop them!"
}
]
|
6002 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do not stop striking him! Do not stop!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Strike him much, much more, Dudley Hamilt!"
}
]
|
6002 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Are you real-- he stammered,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am vairee real-- she answered breathlessly,"
}
]
|
6002 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dudley Hamilt! Dear Dudley Hamilt! You are hurting my arms a little--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Felice! Forgive me! I didn't mean to--it's only that I am afraid you are not real--I am afraid to let you go--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nevaire do--"
}
]
|
436675 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes--and thank you. I thank you more deeply than you imagine."
}
]
|
138573 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No good? You don't care what happens to it?"
}
]
|
311943 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Lord! he done it well--got away with five hundred and a horse!"
}
]
|
43235 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm a slave, he told himself viciously;"
}
]
|
43235 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You're it."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I've got it?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What about Temple?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Killed last night--flattened by a truck that came over the center-line. On an almost deserted highway just outside the base,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Accident?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You know better than that. The truck was hot, a semi with bum plates, and no driver when the cops got there. His voice turned harsh."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No ... it was no accident."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm sorry, Crag said quietly. He hadn't known Temple personally. He had been just a name--a whispered name. One of three names, to be exact: Romer, Temple, Crag. Each had been hand-picked as possible pilots of the Aztec, a modified missile being rushed to completion in a last ditch effort to beat the Eastern World in the race for the moon. They had been separately indoctrinated, tested, trained; each had virtually lived in one of the scale-size simulators of the Aztec's space cabin, and had been rigorously schooled for the operation secretly referred to as"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Step One."
}
]
|
43235 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Things are happening. The chips are down. Time has run out, Adam."
}
]
|
43235 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We know the East is behind us in developing an atomic spaceship. Quite a bit behind. We picked up a lot from some of our atomic sub work--that and our big missiles. But maybe the knowledge made us lax."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Now ... they're ready to launch."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Now!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I didn't think they were that close."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Intelligence tells us they've modified a couple of T-3's--the big ICBM model. We just got a line on it ... almost too late. Gotch smiled bleakly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "So we've jumped our schedule, at great risk. It's your baby,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm glad of the chance."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You should be. You've hung around long enough, Gotch said dryly. His eyes probed Crag."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I only hope you've learned enough ... are ready."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Plenty ready,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I hope so."
}
]
|
43235 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You've got a job, Adam."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Wait,"
}
]
|
43235 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Crag, meet Adam Crag."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Glad to know you."
}
]
|
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