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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Let me help you, Mona, said Mr. Fairfield, kindly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Is it something you have to tell us,--or ask us?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, sir, yes! That's it!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, tell us, then. But take your time and tell us quietly. Then you won't get incoherent."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You see, Mr. Fairfield,--and Mrs. Fairfield, my father is going to Europe next week. It's on a business trip, and he only just found out that he had to go. He will take me with him if I want to go, but I don't! So I proposed a plan to him instead of that, which he thinks is fine. And,--and, I want to know what you think about it."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We will probably approve of it, if your father does,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well--it's just this. For me to stay at home, and keep our house open, and have Patty stay there with me, instead of her going to the mountains with you."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You and Patty stay there alone!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, sir; not alone. Father would ask his sister, my Aunt Adelaide, to stay with us, as chaperon. She's a lovely lady, and she'd be glad to come."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, I don't know,--I don't know, said Mr. Fairfield."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm not sure I could go off and leave Patty with strangers."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But I'm not a stranger, said Mona,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How long will your father be gone?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Two months. August and September. He would rather take me with him, but he said if you all agreed to my plan, he would do so, too."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, it's a surprise, said Mr. Fairfield,"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Pebbles."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why can't we both stay here? she said at last."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Let Mona visit me here, and let her aunt chaperon us just the same."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, no, Mona said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I know father wouldn't consent to that. You see, it's a great undertaking to close up our big place, and find homes for the servants, and look after the horses and gardens and all that, just for two months. Father was relieved at the thought of just walking off and leaving it all in charge of Aunt Adelaide. And then, we could have so much more room there, you know-- Mona paused, blushing. She did not want to imply that"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Red Chimneys was a grandly appointed mansion, while"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Pebbles"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, I know, said Nan, kindly helping her out."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You have such immense grounds, and luxuries of all sorts. Why, your place is a Pleasure Park of itself, with the pond and tennis court, and fountains and grottoes and all such things."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, it is a lovely summer place, said Mona, earnestly,"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, so far as I have a voice in this matter, I'd like to go. I think it's very kind of Mona to ask me, and I'd try not to be a troublesome visitor. You know, Father Fairfield, how much I would rather stay in Spring Beach than go to the mountains. And I suppose I could take my motor-car to Mona's with me."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, of course, Mona said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And father says if I don't go to Europe, he'll buy me a runabout just like yours, and we can have lovely times going out together."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Would your aunt come at once?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, father will send for her as soon as we decide. But you know, Mrs. Fairfield, I should keep house, as I always do, and Aunt Adelaide would only be with us in the cause of propriety."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Red Chimneys"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Are you sure you could behave yourself, Patty? asked her father, teasingly,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, yes, said Patty, drawing down the corners of her mouth demurely."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In fact, as I should be on my own responsibility, I'd have to be even more careful of my manners than I am at home."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, Puss, he said,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I really wanted you with us on our trip, but as you'd rather stay here, and as this way seems providentially opened for you, I can only say you may accept Mona's invitation if you choose."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Then I DO choose, you dear old Daddy! cried Patty, making a rush for her father, and, seating herself on the arm of his chair, she patted his head, while she told him how glad she was of his consent."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "For, she said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I made up my mind not to coax. If you didn't agree readily, I was going to abide by your wishes, without a murmur."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, what a goody-girl! said Mr. Fairfield, laughing."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Now, you see, Virtue is its own reward."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And I'm SO glad! Mona declared, fervently."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, Patty, we'll have perfectly elegant times! I was so afraid you wouldn't WANT to come to stay with me."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, yes, I do, said Patty,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Let you have it, said Mona, promptly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Your way is always better than mine."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But suppose you two quarrel, said Mr. Fairfield,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, we won't quarrel, said Mona, confidently."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Patty's too sweet-tempered,--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And you're too amiable,"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You'll faint in the train, Nan, on a day like this, she said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Do wait until to-morrow."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There's no prospect of its being any better to-morrow, said Mr. Fairfield, looking anxious;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I know it, said Patty, who loved hot weather."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, perhaps you'd better go, then; but it will be just BOILING on the train."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No more so than here, said Nan, smiling. She wore a light pongee silk travelling gown, which was the coolest garb she could think of."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But what's bothering me is that Mrs. Parsons hasn't arrived yet."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, she'll come to-day, said Patty."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mona says she telegraphed yesterday that it was too hot to travel, but she'd surely come to-day."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Red Chimneys,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But it's going to be just as warm to-day, went on Nan."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Suppose she can't travel to-day, either?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, she'll have to, said Patty, lightly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If you can travel, I guess she can. Now, Nan, don't bother about her. You've enough to do to think of yourself and try to keep cool. I'm glad Louise is going with you. She's a good nurse, and you must let her take care of you."
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't talk as if I were an invalid, Patty. I'm sensitive to the heat, I admit, and this weather is excessive. But I'm not ill, and once I get a whiff of mountain air I'll be all right."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I know it, Nancy; and so fly away and get it. And don't waste a thought on poor, worthless me, for I shall be as happy as a clam. I just love broiling, sizzling weather, and I'm sure my experiences at Mona's will be novel--if nothing else,--and novelty is always interesting."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I hope you will have a good time, Patty, but it all seems so queer. To go off and leave you with that girl, and an aunt whom we have never even seen!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, I'll see her this afternoon, and if she won't give me a photograph of herself for you, I'll draw you a pen portrait of the Dragon Lady."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I hope she will be a Dragon, for you need some one to keep you steady. You mean to do right, but you're so thoughtless and impulsive of late. I'm afraid it's growing on you, Patty."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And I'm afraid you're a dear old goose! The heat has gone to your head. Now, forget me and my vagaries, and devote all your time and attention to the consideration of Mrs. Frederick Fairfield."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ready, Nan?"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, Miss Patty, said that worthy, in answer to her enquiries,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I've enough av food for yer luncheon, an' thin I'll dispose av the schraps, and lave the refrigerators clane an' empty."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's right, Susan, said Patty, in most housekeeperly tones;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, Miss; Mrs. Fairfield said we was all to go at five o'clock. Thin Miller will lock up, and give yersilf the keys."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Very well, Susan, she said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And where are you all going?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Jane, she's going to take another place, Miss; but I'm going to me sister's for a time. It's a rest I'm nadin'."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "If you want anything, Susan, she said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Thank you, Miss Patty. I'm thinkin' I'll be fair comfortable at my sister's. But if you do be goin' by in yer autymobile, wave yer hand, just. It'd please us all. You know the house,--down on the Scudder Road."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, I know, Susan. I often pass there, and I'll wave my hand at you every time."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Red Chimneys"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Pebbles."
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Doctor fears sunstroke. Advises me to wait until to-morrow,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Father doesn't know this, said Mona."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You see, he left this morning for New York. His steamer sails this afternoon. Of course, he was sure Aunt Adelaide would come to-day. What shall we do, Patty?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, of course it's too bad. But I'm not afraid to stay alone one night without your aunt. You've so many servants, I'm sure there's no danger of fire or burglars."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, it isn't that, Patty! I'm not afraid of such things. But, you see, we've no chaperon,--just us two girls there alone,--it isn't proper."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, Patty laughed,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, I hope she will! I'll telegraph her she MUST! But,--Patty,--you see--well, I shall have to tell you!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Tell me what?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, just this: I have invited a little party to welcome you this evening. Not many,--just about a dozen of the boys and girls. And how can we receive them without Aunt Adelaide there?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "For mercy's sake, Mona! Why didn't you tell me this before?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I wanted it to be a surprise,--to welcome you to 'Red Chimneys.'"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, I know. Well, what CAN we do? We must do something! Shall I telephone to Mrs. Sayre to come and chaperon us?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She can't come. She has a house party coming to-day. The Sayre girls are coming to us to-night, but Mrs. Sayre has some older guests, and she couldn't come."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, let's ask Mrs. Dennison. No, she's away, I know. How about Mrs. Lockwood?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She's ill; Lena told me so this morning. Oh, Patty, shall I have to send them all word not to come?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Looks that way to me. And I'm sorry to do that, too. How many are asked, Mona?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "About twelve, counting you and me. I thought it would be such a nice welcome for you."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And so it would! You're a dear to think of it. I suppose your things are all ordered?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes; a caterer will bring the supper. I don't know what it will be,--cook looked after it."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Cook! Cook! Mona--I have an idea! No, I haven't, either! It's too crazy! Oh, DO you suppose we could? LET'S!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Patty, are YOU crazy? What ARE you talking about? And it's almost five o'clock. I suppose I must telephone them not to come! Well, I'll go home and do it, and you come on over as soon as you're ready. We'll spend the evening alone in my boudoir, and we'll amuse ourselves somehow."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Wait a minute, Mona. Let me think. Yes, I do believe I'll do it! Mona, suppose I provide a chaperon. Will it be all right to have the party then?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, yes, if it's a proper kind of a lady,--of course it will."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don't know whether you'll think her a proper lady or not, she said,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Susan, Patty began,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, Miss Patty; me name is Hastings. Me husband is dead this four years, rist his sowl."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, Susan, I want you to do something for me, and you may think it's very queer, but you'll do it, won't you?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Nothin's quare, Miss Patty, if you bid me do it. What is it, ma'am?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Susan, Miss Mona and I expected to have a party at her house to-night, but her aunt, who was to chaperon us, hasn't arrived. So I want you, Susan, to let me fix you up, and dress you in a proper gown, and then I want you to act as a lady who is visiting at 'Red Chimneys.' Can you do this?"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Is it a masqueradin', belike, you want, Miss Patty?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes; just that, Susan. Could you do it?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Av coorse I cud do it, if you be wantin' me to; but wud I look good enough, Miss?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You'd look all right, after I dressed you; but, Susan, could you talk with less,--less accent?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Me brogue, is it, Miss? Faith, an' I fear I can't be after conquerin' that! It's born in me."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Patty, said Mona,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I think your scheme is crazy,--perfectly CRAZY! But--if you really mean it, I'll tell you that I HAVE an Irish aunt,--at least, sort of Scotch-Irish,--and if we pass Susan off for her, the--the ACCENT won't matter."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Just the thing! cried Patty, gleefully."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I see my way clear now! It IS a crazy plan, Mona, I admit that,--but do you know of any better?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No; but, Patty, think a minute. Of course, the truth will leak out, and what will people say?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, it won't leak out,--and, if it did, what harm? Susan is a nice, respectable woman, and as a member of my family is capable of chaperoning me in her own personality. But I choose this other game because it's more fun. I shall dress her up in,--in,--Susan, you couldn't wear a gown of Mrs. Fairfield's, could you?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The saints presarve us, Miss Patty, it wuddent go halfway round me!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No; so it wouldn't. Well, I'll find something. Oh, there's a gown in the attic that Mrs. Allen left here--she's Nan's mother, Mona,--that will be just right. It's grey satin and silver lace. Oh, Susan, you'll look GREAT!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Patty, she said,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mona, my child, said Patty, serenely,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I warned you that our ways might clash, and you said I might do exactly as I chose while at 'Red Chimneys.'"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "So I did, Patty,--and so I do. I'll go home now, and leave the rest of this performance to you. Come over soon, won't you?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, said Patty,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'll be there for dinner. Good-bye, Mona."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You know, Susan, this is to be a dead secret. Don't ever tell anybody. And you must obey my orders implicitly. I'll pay you something extra for your trouble."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sure, it's no trouble at all, Miss Patty. I'd do anything for ye, whativer. But you must be afther tellin' me just what to do."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Of course I will. And, first of all, Susan, you must go home,--I mean, to your sister's,--get your dinner there, and then come to 'Red Chimneys' about half-past seven and ask for me. They'll bring you right up to my room, and I'll dress you up as I think best. Then we'll take you down to the drawing-room, and all you'll have to do, Susan, is to sit there all the evening in a big easy chair. Can you knit, Susan?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, Miss Patty."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, bring a piece of knitting work, not an old grey thing,--a piece of nice, fleecy white wool work. Have you any?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I've not, Miss, but I'll get some white yarn from my sister, and start a shawl or a tippet."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes; do that. Then you just sit there, you know, and knit and glance around the room now and then, and smile benignly. Can you smile benignly, Susan?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then, Susan, if there's music, you must listen, and wag your head in appreciation, so! When we dance, you must look on with interest and again smile benignly. Not many of the young people will talk to you, except to be introduced at first, but if they do, answer them pleasantly, and use your brogue as little as possible. Do you understand, Susan?"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Red Chimneys."
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Patty, she began,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I can't let you carry out that ridiculous scheme! I'm going to telephone to the young people not to come."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Haven't telephoned yet, have you?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No; I waited to tell you. But I'm going to begin now,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, I wouldn't, said Patty, smiling at her hostess."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You see, I've set my heart on having this party, and I'd hate to have you upset it."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But, Patty, consider how--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Consider,--cow--consider! Well, my fair lady, I have considered, and I must request you to hang up that telephone, and trust all to me."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Awfully warm, even yet, isn't it? she said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What time is dinner, Mona? I've a lot to do before that party of yours comes off."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I ordered dinner early, so we'd have time to dress afterward. Come, Patty, I'll show you your rooms."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There there, she said;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "All right, Patty, she said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I said you should have your own way, and so you shall! Get Miller to chaperon us, if you want to,--I won't say a word! Now, come on with me."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Red Chimneys,"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's out best suite, said Mona, complacently,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's charming, declared Patty,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You shall, Patty! All the time you are here, your word shall be law in this house, both over the servants and myself."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, I can manage the servants, cried Patty, gaily."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm rather good at that. Now, if I can only manage you!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You can! I'll prove so manageable and docile, you'll scarcely know me!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I think, Miss Fairfield, she observed to her reflection in a gold-garlanded mirror,"
}
] |
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"value": "Red Chimneys,"
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "You'll melt in all that toggery! said Patty, bluntly, and Mona sighed as she saw Patty's diaphanous frock. Then, led by Mrs. Hastings, they went down to the drawing-room. They put Susan through a few lessons in introductions, practised calling her"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Aunt Rachel,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Isn't it warm? he said, and as this required no answer save,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It is, indeed, Susan acquitted herself creditably, and even refrained from saying"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Keep it up, Susan! whispered Patty."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You're a howling success! Everything's all right."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come for a stroll on the veranda, Patty, said Jack Pennington, coming up to her."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mayn't I take her, Mrs. Hastings, if I'll be very careful of her?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Shure an' ye may, sir,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You have my permission. Go with the young gentleman, Miss Patty."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Interesting lady, that new aunt of Mona's, isn't she?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Very,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I always like that foreign accent, went on Jack;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, no, opined Patty."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't think Mrs. Hastings IS French."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ah, German, then, perhaps. I've heard that particular accent before, but I can't just place it."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I think it's sort of,--of Scotch, don't you?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Faith, an' I don't, thin! I'm afther thinkin' she's a daughter av ould Ireland, arrah."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Perhaps the lady IS Irish, she said;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That's so. She IS much better dressed than when I saw her last."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Saw her last! What do you mean?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, of course I MAY be mistaken, but do you know, she looks like a--like a lady I saw once in the kitchen garden at 'The Pebbles.'"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And pray what were you doing in that kitchen garden?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, I was helping Miller look after your motor one day, and I strolled around the house, back to the front veranda that way. And, --Jack's voice sank to an impressive whisper,--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, Jack! and Patty burst into laughter."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "She IS our cook! Don't give it away, will you?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Never! Never! But WHAT a joke! Does no one know it?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No one at all but Mona and myself. You see--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, that's the best ever! declared Jack as she finished."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Patty, you do beat all! No one else will guess, I'm sure,--and I'LL never tell. But it's most too good a joke to keep, now, isn't it?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But it's going to BE kept! Why, if some people knew of it, they'd drum me out of Spring Beach. And anyway, Jack, I wouldn't have done it, if Susan hadn't been such a dear respectable person herself."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm sure she is, and to show I believe it, I'll take her out to supper."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Gracious, goodness, Jack! I never thought of supper! Will she have to eat with us?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Of course she will! And, as I say, I'll take her out, so there'll be no danger of further discovery."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Red Chimneys"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "All right, she said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But I must sit the other side of you. I want to keep my eye on her."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is a beautiful home, is it not, Mrs. Hastings?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It is, sir, returned Susan, careful of speech and accent, but unable to forget her deference."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Such airy rooms and fine, high ceilings."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Will you sit here, Mrs. Hastings?"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "I say, he whispered,"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Are you fond of motoring, Mrs. Hastings?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, I like it, she said,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, then you know of Miss Fairfield's fad. I didn't know you knew her so well. I thought you had just arrived here. Have you been to Spring Beach before?"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, my niece, Mona, has told me so much about her friend, Miss Fairfield, that I feel as if I had known her a long time."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Are you fond of bridge, Mrs. Hastings?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Bridge, is it? I'm fond of the game, but I play only with expayrienced players,--so don't ask me."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ho! ho! Jack, that's a good one on you! said Guy Martin, who sat within hearing."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You're right, Mrs. Hastings; he's no sort of a player, but I'm an expert. May I hope for a game with you some time?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We'll see about it, young sir,"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "I hope I didn't bother you, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You see, I know all about it, and I think it's fine of you to help the girls out in this way."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You helped me far more than you bothered me, sir, Susan replied with a grateful glance."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Will it soon be over now, sir?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, they'll have a few more dances, and probably they'll sing a little. They'll go home before midnight. But, I say, Mrs. Hastings, I won't let 'em trouble you. You sit in this cosy corner, and if you'll take my advice, you'll nod a bit now and then,--but don't go really to sleep. Then they'll let you alone."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "You were a villain to tease poor Susan so at the table,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "She came through with flying colours,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, but it was mean of you to fluster the poor thing."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Don't you know why I did it?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "To tease me, I suppose,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes; but, incidentally, to see that pinky colour spread all over your cheeks. It makes you look like a wild rose."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Does it? said Patty, lightly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And what do I look like at other times? A tame rose?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No; a primrose. Very prim, sometimes."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have to be very prim when I'm with you, and Patty glanced saucily from beneath her long lashes;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "To what?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "To friskiness. I NEVER know what you're going to do next."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Isn't it nicer to be surprised?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well,--that depends. It is if they're nice surprises."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, mine always are! I'm going to surprise you a lot of times this summer. Are you to be here, at Mona's, all the rest of the season?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I shall be here two months, anyway."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's time enough for a heap of surprises. Just you wait! But,--I say,--I suppose--oh, pshaw, I know this sounds horrid, but I've got to say it. I suppose everything you're invited to, Mona must be also?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not necessarily, she said, coldly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You are quite at liberty to invite whom you choose. Of course, I shall accept no invitations that do not include Mona."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Quite right, my child, quite right! Just what I was thinking myself."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You ought to be ashamed of yourself,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am! Oh, I AM! deeply, darkly, desperately ashamed. But I've succeeded in making your cheeks turn that peculiar shade of brick-red again!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They aren't brick-red!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No? Well, a sort of crushed strawberry shading to magenta, then!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Am I forguv?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "On condition that you'll be particularly nice to Mona all summer. And it's not much to your credit that I have to ASK such a thing of you!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You're right, Patty, and Jack looked honestly penitent."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm a good-for-nothing brute! A boor without any manners at all! Not a manner to my name! But if you'll smile upon me, and let me,--er--surprise you once in a while, I'll,--oh, I'll just tie myself to Mona's apron strings!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mona doesn't wear aprons!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, I know it,"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "What are you doing to-morrow, Patty?"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "We're going to the Sayres' garden party,--Mona and I,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, good gracious! rejoined Dorothy."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I suppose Mona will have to be asked everywhere, now you're staying with her!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not to YOUR parties, Dorothy, for I'm sure neither of us would care to come!"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Them cheeks is now a deep solferino colour,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Forgive me, Dorothy, she said;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I didn't mean what I said, and neither did you. Let's forget it."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "You managed that beautifully, Patty, said Jack, as a little later, they returned to the house for the last dance."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You showed fine tact."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What! In speaking so rudely to Dorothy?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, in getting out of it so adroitly afterward. And she had her lesson. She won't slight Mona, I fancy. Look here, Patty. You're a brick, to stand up for that girl the way you do, and I want to tell you that I'll help you all I can."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, Jack, that's awfully good of you. Not but what I think you OUGHT to be kind and polite to her, but of course you haven't the same reason that I have. I'm her guest, and so I can't stand for any slight or unkindness to her."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, of course not. And there are lots of ways that I can--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That you can surprise Mona,"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'll see you to-morrow at the Sayres',"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, said Mona, smiling."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We're going to the garden fete. The Sayres have a house party, you know. I've always longed to have a house party."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "This would be a fine place for one,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, it would. Do you suppose I COULD have one?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Easy as pie! declared Jack."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why don't you?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Perhaps I will, after Aunt Adelaide comes. This,--this chaperon to-night is only temporary, you know."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, I know,"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Good-night, Mrs. Hastings, said Beatrice Sayre."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The girls are coming to my garden party to-morrow, and as my mother also expects guests, I'm sure she'd be glad if you would come."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Thank you, Miss, when Jack interrupted by saying,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Such a pity, Bee, but Mrs. Hastings goes away to-morrow. Another aunt of Mona's is coming to play chaperon at 'Red Chimneys.'"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, said Beatrice, carelessly;"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "I say, he whispered to Patty,"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "You were fine, Susan, just fine,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I did me best, Miss Patty. I made some shlips, sure, but I thried that hard, ye wuddent belave!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You were all right, Susan, declared Mona."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Now you can trot off home as fast as you like, or you can stay here over night, as you prefer."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And now for bed,"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Patty, you're a wonder! her hostess remarked, with conviction."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Can you ALWAYS do EVERYTHING you undertake? But I know you can. I never saw any one like you!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, said Patty, complacently."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "They don't catch 'em like me very often. But, I say, Mona, wasn't Susan just a peach? Though if Jack Pennington hadn't helped, I don't know how she would have behaved at the supper table."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Isn't he a nice young man, Patty?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Lovely. The flower of chivalry, and the glass of form, or whatever it is. But he's a waggish youth."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, he's kind. Patty, I'm going to have a house party, and he's going to help me!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You DON'T say! My dear Mona, you ARE blossoming out! But you haven't asked MY permission yet."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, I know you'll agree to anything Jack Pennington favours."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Sure, I will! But he seems to favour you, and I don't always agree with you!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, anyway, Patty, it will be perfectly lovely,--and we'll have a gorgeous time!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Where do I come in? Providing cooks for chaperons?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nonsense! Aunt Adelaide will come to-morrow, and she'll do the chaperon act. Now, I'll tell you about the house party."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not to-night, Lady Gay. It's time for you to go beddy, and I, too, need my beauty sleep."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You need nothing of the sort,--you're too beautiful as it is!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, Mona,--Monissima! DON'T say those things to me! I'm but a weak-minded simpleton, and I MIGHT think you meant them, and grow conceited! Hie thee away, fair maiden, and hie pretty swiftly, too. And call me not to breakfast foods until that the sun is well toward the zenith."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You needn't get up till you choose, Patty. You know you are mistress here."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, you're that. I'm merely the adviser-in-chief. And what I say goes!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Indeed it does! Good-night, Patty."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Good-night, Mona. Scoot!"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come in,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Aunt Adelaide has arrived!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, that isn't a national calamity, is it? returned Patty."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why this look of dismay?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Wait till you see her! SHE'S a National Calamity!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, then, we must get Susan back again! But what's wrong with your noble aunt?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, Patty, she's so queer! I haven't seen her for some years, but she's not a bit as I remembered her."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, don't take it too seriously. Perhaps we can make her over to suit ourselves. Did you expect her so early?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No; but she said she came early to avoid the midday heat. It's almost eleven. Do finish dressing, Patty, and come down to see her."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hasten me not, my child. Aunt Adelaide will keep, and I'm not in rapid mood this morning."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, bother; come on down as you are, then. That negligee thing is all right."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No; Aunt Adelaide might think me a careless young person. I shall get into a tidy frock, and appear before her properly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, go on and do it, then. I'll wait for you."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I declare, Patty, Mona said,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And, as a rule, THEY look like the dickens. But describe the visitor to me, Mona."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No; I'll let you get an unbiased first impression. Here's Janet, now DO get dressed."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "On, Stanley, on! she cried, catching Mona's hand, and dancing out into the hall."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Where is the Calamity?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hush, she'll hear you! Her rooms are just over here. She told me to bring you."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "How do you do, my dear? she said, with a wan little smile at Patty."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "How pretty you are! I used to be pretty, too; at least, so they told me. She gave a trilling little laugh, and Patty said, heartily,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm sure they were right; I approve their opinion."
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am not ill, Mrs. Parsons said, almost, it seemed, in answer to Patty's unspoken thought."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am not very strong, and I can't stand hot weather. But I am really well,--though of a delicate constitution."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Perhaps the sea air will make you stronger after a time,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, I hope so; I hope so. But I fear not. However, I am trying a new treatment, combined with certain medicines, which I am sure will help my failing health. They tell me I am always trying new remedies. But, you see, the advertisements recommend them so highly that I feel sure they will cure me. And, then, they usually make me worse."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But you have a doctor's advice, don't you?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No; I've no faith in doctors. One never knows what they put in their old prescriptions. Now when I buy one of these advertised medicines, they send me a lot of little books or circulars telling me all about it. This last treatment of mine sends more reading matter, I think, than any of the others, and their pamphlets are SO encouraging."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But, Aunt Adelaide, broke in Mona,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm not an invalid, my dear. I'm sure a few more weeks, or perhaps less, of this cure I am trying now will make me a strong, hearty woman."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "May I call you Aunt Adelaide, too?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, yes, my dear. I seem to take to you at once. I look upon you and Mona both as my nieces and my loved charges. I had a little daughter once, but she died in infancy. Had she lived, I think she would have looked like you. You are very pretty, my dear."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You mustn't tell me so, Aunt Adelaide, said Patty, smiling at her."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It isn't good chaperonage to make your girls vain."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mona is pretty, too, went on Mrs. Parsons, unheeding Patty's words."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But of a different type. She hasn't your air of refinement,--of class."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, don't discuss us before each other, laughed Mona, good-naturedly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And I'm jealous and envious enough of Patty already, without having those traits fostered."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, went on Aunt Adelaide, reminiscently,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, yes, Aunt Adelaide, Mona said, speaking briskly;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, I don't want to lie down. I'll join you girls very shortly. I suppose you have a maid for me, Mona? I shall need one for my exclusive service."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, yes, Auntie; you may have Lisette."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Not if she's French. I can't abide a French maid."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, she is,--partly. Then I'll give you Mary. She's a good American."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Americans have no taste. Is there a Norwegian girl on the place? I had a Norwegian maid once, and she--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, there isn't, said Mona, deeming it wise to cut short another string of reminiscences."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You try Mary, and if you don't like her, we'll see what we can do."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well--send her to me--and we'll see."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's lucky you have such shoals of servants, said Patty."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "At our house, we couldn't give a guest a choice of nationalities."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, Patty, isn't she a terror?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Who, Mary?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No! Aunt Adelaide! It gives me the creeps to look at her. She's so slight and fragile, I expect to see her go to pieces like a soap bubble."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "She IS like a soap bubble, isn't she! But, Mona, you mustn't talk about her like that. I feel sorry for her, she looks so ill and weak. I think we ought to do all we can to cheer her up, and to restore her health and strength. I'm sure she's refined and dainty in her way."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, she's all of that. But I don't see how she can do the chaperon act."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, well, there isn't much to do. It's only the idea of having a matronly lady here to observe the proprieties."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But I don't believe she can do that. I think she'll take to her bed soon. She ought to go to a good sanitarium."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Nonsense, Mona, she isn't as ill as all that! Can't you see through her? She's the sort of lady who likes to fancy she's ill, and likes to try all sorts of quack medicines."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, you can look after her, Patty; you seem to understand her so well."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "All right, I will. Hush, here she comes."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sit here, won't you, Aunt Adelaide?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'll try this, my dear, but I fear it's too low for me. Can you get another cushion or two?"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "I ALWAYS keep a thermometer near me, she explained,"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mary, she said, petulantly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, I sent Mary away, didn't I? How long she's gone! Mona, can't you find a screen somewhere to shade that sun a little?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There are screens to roll down from the veranda roof, Aunt Adelaide; but it is so shady here, and they cut off the breeze so. However, if you want them down---"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I certainly do,"
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Please excuse me, said Mona, who was thoroughly annoyed at the fussing and fidgeting ways of her aunt,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am a very poor reader."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I can read fairly well, said Patty, good-naturedly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Let me try."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Higher Health,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Don't go so fast, commanded her hearer;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But when Patty provided pauses for thought, Aunt Adelaide said, petulantly,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Go on, do; what are you waiting for?"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, Patty! cried Mona, as soon as they were out of hearing."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Isn't it awful! How CAN we stand having such a horrid old fusser around?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Whoopee! Mona! moderate your language! Mrs. Parsons isn't so very old, and she isn't horrid. If she's a fusser, that's just her way, and we must politely submit to it."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Submit, nothing! If you think, Patty Fairfield, that I'm going to be taken care of by that worry-cat, you're greatly mistaken!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Stop, Mona! I won't let you call her such names; it isn't nice!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "She isn't nice, either!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She's your aunt, and your guest; and you must treat her with proper respect. She isn't an old lady; I don't believe she's fifty. And she IS ill, and that makes her querulous."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, do you want to wait on her, and read to her, and put up with her fussiness all summer?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It doesn't matter whether we want to or not. We have to do it. Your father sent for her, and she's here. You can't send her away."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I suppose that's so. But, oh, Patty, how I do dislike her! She's changed so. When I saw her some years ago, she was sweet and gentle, but not so fidgety and self-centred."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You were so young then, Mona. You probably thought little about her character. And, too, her ill health has come, and that has undoubtedly ruffled her disposition."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, she'll ruffle mine, if she stays here long."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Of course she'll stay here, and we must make the best of it. Perhaps we can train her to be a little less exacting. And then, too, you can arrange to have the servants wait on her. You needn't do it yourself, always."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Patty, you're a great comfort. If anybody can train that woman, you can. So please try, for as you say, she'll have to stay, I suppose, until father comes home. Just think, she's father's own sister! But she isn't a bit like him. Dad isn't fussy at all."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, your father is of a lovely disposition. And so kind and indulgent to you, Mona."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes; Dad is a darling. But we don't seem to get into the best society, as he expected, when he built this big house. I wonder why."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't bother about that now, said Patty, who was going to talk to Mona some time on that very subject, but was not ready yet."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Now, as to Aunt Adelaide, for I may as well call her that since she wishes it. I think, Mona, the only way to manage her is to be always kind and sweet to her, but not to let her impose upon us. I can see she is rather exacting, and if we always give in to her whims, she will always expect it. So let's start out, as we mean to continue. I'll read to her occasionally, but I can't always be at her beck and call. Perhaps Janet can do it."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, Janet is a good reader. But, of course, Aunt Adelaide would find fault with her reading, as she did with yours."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, I expect that's her nature. But she'll be easy enough to get along with, if we all play fair. We'll have to give and take. And don't judge her by this morning. She was tired and worn, and, as yet, unused to her new surroundings. She'll feel more at home to-morrow."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She can't ACT more at home! Well, I'll give her a trial, Patty, but I warn you, if she DOESN'T get placider, I'll suit myself with another chaperon, that's what I'll do!"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "You've cooked it too much! she exclaimed;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm sorry, ma'am, said the surprised James."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Shall I cook another portion?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, said Mrs. Parsons, resignedly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'll make out with this, though it is very distasteful."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am sorry, Aunt Adelaide; but perhaps you will enjoy the ice cream."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, ice cream is my favourite dessert, and I hope, Mona, you will have it often."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I hope, my dears, you will excuse me now. I always take a nap at this hour, and as it is so warm I will not reappear until about dinner time."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Very well, Aunt Adelaide, said Mona, greatly pleased at the plan."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ring for Mary when you want her. Patty and I are going out this afternoon, so we'll all meet at dinner time."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, my dear. And will you please order iced tea sent to me at four o'clock, and have the house kept as quiet as possible during my nap hour?"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Let's walk, said Patty, when Mona proposed the motor-car."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's not far, and its lovely and cool now."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "You'd look a lot better, Mona, said Patty, straightforwardly,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That's all very well for you to say, returned Mona, a little pettishly,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Some day I'll show you how to wave it more loosely; it'll be prettier than those kinky frizzes."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, these won't last long. The curl comes out of my hair as soon as it's in. And it leaves straight wisps sticking out all over."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's just it. To-morrow I'll show you a wiser and a better plan of curling it."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I wish you would, Patty. There are lots of things I want you to advise me about, if you will."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "For, said he, as they strolled away,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Indeed there is! cried Patty."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There's lots to do. There's tennis and croquet and quoits and other games I see already."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Too hot for such things,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then, these tents all about, have interesting inhabitants. There's a fortune teller in one, I know."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Fortune tellers are never interesting. They just make up a lot of stuff with no sense to it."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But lots of things with no sense to them are interesting, laughed Patty."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I begin to think, Captain Sayre, that you're blase. I never met any one before who was really blase. Do tell me how it feels."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nonsense, child, you're poking fun at me. I'm not blase at all."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "I wish you were, she said, a little regretfully;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, I can't. I assure you, I'm both nice and enthusiastic, if not so awfully young."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Prove it,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "All right, I'll prove it by poking an inquisitive nose into every tent on the place. Come on."
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You're NOT blase, she declared."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I never saw any one less so. If you fight with as much energy as you enjoy yourself you must be a fine soldier indeed!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, I am! returned the captain, laughing."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm one of Uncle Sam's noblest heroes! He hasn't realised it yet, because I've not had a real good chance to prove it, but I shall, some day."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Perhaps you could show other people, without waiting for Uncle Sam's turn."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'll show you now, he said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Give me chance for a brave, heroic deed, and watch me hit it off!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I will! said Patty, with twinkling eyes."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But it's Secret Service. I mean Sealed Orders. I'll lead you to it, but you may 'hit it off' without realising it."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Lead on, fair lady! From now, you are my superior officer."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now Captain Sayre, you have the opportunity you wanted, to ask Miss Galbraith to go with you to the fortune teller's tent."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Miss Fairfield has told you of the secret hope I cherish; will you grant it, Miss Galbraith?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How funny for Edgar to do that! Then realising the impolite implication, she added,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He's so infatuated with you, Patty. I'm surprised to see him leave you."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Soldier men are very fickle, said Patty, assuming a mock woe-begone expression;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, indeed; Edgar is splendid. He has lived in the Philippines and other queer places, and he tells such funny stories. He is most entertaining. But I see mother beckoning to me; I must go and see what she wants."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You're a brick! he exclaimed;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That wasn't my only motive, said Patty, gazing after the captain and Mona--as they stood at the door of the fortune teller's tent."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He is such a charming man, I wanted to share him with my friend."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "H'm--you say that to tease me, I suppose. But I remember, before he arrived on the scene, you thought ME such a charming man that you wanted to share ME with your friend."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, yes, agreed Patty, lightly,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "As if I'd EVER forget anything YOU say to me! By the way, Mona says she's going to have a house party. What do you s'pose it'll be like?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I s'pose it'll be lovely. She hasn't talked to me about it yet, for we really haven't had time. The new chaperon came to-day."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Is she a veritable Dragon? Won't she let you girls do anything?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't think DRAGON exactly describes her. And she hasn't denied us anything as yet. But then, she only came this morning."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I shall call soon, and make friends with her. I'm always liked by chaperons."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, Mrs. Hastings, for example,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, all chaperons look alike to me, said Jack."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now, let's go over and hear the band play."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Come on, you two, you're just the ones we want."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "WHAT for?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "To help plan the Pageant. You'll be in it, won't you, Patty? It's for charity, you know."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I can't promise until I know more about it. What would I have to do?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, you have to be part of a float. Stand on a high, wabbly pedestal, you know, and wave your arms about like a classic marble figure."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But I never saw a classic marble figure wave her arms about, objected Patty;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I can't look at her, she isn't here. But I look at you, and I see you're just the one for 'The Spirit of the Sea.' Isn't she, Lora?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, I think so."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You THINK so! put in Jack Pennington."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I KNOW so! Patty would make a perfect 'Spirit of the Sea.' I vote for her!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm not a candidate, said Patty, who had divined Lora's wish."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I won't agree to take any special part until I know more about the whole thing."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, you'll soon know all about it, went on Guy."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We're going to have a meeting soon to arrange for the parts, and plan everything."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Have that meeting at our house, won't you? asked Patty, suddenly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I mean at 'Red Chimneys.' Won't you all meet there?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why, yes, said Guy."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We'll be very glad to. I tell you, there's lots to be done."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Red Chimneys,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I thought you'd meet here, she said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I know, returned Guy,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, I don't care, said Lora,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Now SHE'S mad! commented Jack."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's the beautiful part of getting up a show; all the girls get mad, one after another."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You are! exclaimed Lena Lockwood, in amazement."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I didn't know you COULD get mad!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Patty gets about as mad as a small Angora kitten,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, agreed Patty,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'll tell you now, said Guy, speaking very fast."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's to be a Pageant, a great and glittering Pageant, made up of floats with tableaux on 'em, and bands of music playing, and banners streaming, and coloured fire firing, all over Spring Beach."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That tells some, but not all, said Patty."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You tell me more, Lena."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, the Floats will represent the Sea and different rivers and all sorts of things like that. And they are all under different committees, and every chairman has to look after her own people."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And whose people are we?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mrs. Sayre has the general committee of floats under her charge."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But the Sea Float is my especial care, Patty, broke in Guy Martin,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not to-day, thank you. I have to think these matters over slowly. What do you want Mona Galbraith to be?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I hadn't put her name down yet, but I daresay she'll be asked to take some part."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I daresay she WILL, returned Patty,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nonsense, that part requires a sylph-like girl, such as--such as you or Lora. Mona Galbraith is too heavy for any self-respecting spirit."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, never mind, said Patty,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Get good fortunes?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Very much so, returned the captain."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Miss Galbraith is to become a Duchess later on, and I am to achieve the rank of a Rear-Admiral. What more could we ask?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Nothing! exclaimed Patty."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You'll make a gorgeous Duchess, Mona. I can see you now, prancing around with a jewelled coronet on your noble brow."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Can't you see me, said Captain Sayre,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But I've never seen you prance at all. I supposed you were too dignified."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You did! Well, you never were more mistaken in your life. Watch me, now."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, said Captain Sayre, laughing;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm not tired,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You're a wonderful dancer, said Captain Sayre."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Who taught you?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But, she said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I haven't had any lessons of late, and I don't know the new fancy dances."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Some of them are beautiful; you really ought to know them. Mayn't I call on you, and teach you a few new steps?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'd love to have you do so. I'm staying with Miss Galbraith, you know. But you're not here for long, are you?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'll be here about a week, and I may return later for a short time. At any rate we can have a few dances. I never saw any one so quick to catch the spirit of the music. You love dancing, don't you?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, I do. But I love it more in cooler weather."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, this hot spell won't last long. And it's so cool mornings. Suppose I run over to see you to-morrow morning. May I?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Do, said Patty, cordially."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mona and I will be glad to have you."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But I'm coming to see YOU"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You're coming to see us both,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Red Chimneys"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Aunt Adelaide, she said, when Mrs. Parsons insisted that Patty should give up the suite of rooms she occupied to some of the arriving guests,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's too high up for the dear child, argued Aunt Adelaide."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'd like to have her nearer me."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You wouldn't, if she's in the habit of crying all night, said Patty."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm quite willing to give up my pretty rooms, but Mona won't let me, and I never quarrel with my hostess' decisions."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Meaning, I suppose, that I do, said Aunt Adelaide, querulously."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Of course, you girls know more than I do. I'm only a poor, old, set aside nobody. I couldn't expect to be listened to, even when I advise you for your own good."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We want you mostly for ornament, Aunt Adelaide. If you'll put on one of your prettiest dresses, and some of that lovely old lace of yours, and your amethyst jewellery, and be on hand to welcome our guests this afternoon, Mona and I will relieve you of all bother about household arrangements."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Red Chimneys"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "In this weather, she said,"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "But I think I'd better coax her to wear that purple satin, said Mona,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Wait and see, said Patty."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I took pains to hang her lavender crepe de chine right in the front of her wardrobe, and I hope she'll let her eagle eye light on that, and seek no further!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Patty, you're a born conspirator. I hope you'll marry a foreign diplomat, and help him manage his international intrigues."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, I could manage the intrigues and the diplomat both, I expect."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm sure you could! Now, let's fly and get dressed. The Kenerleys will come soon and I'm crazy to see Adele's darling baby."
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I hope you like this gown, she said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I hesitated a long time, but finally chose it because it matched my necklace."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's lovely, said Patty, enthusiastically;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You dearest old thing! she cried."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You haven't changed a bit, except to grow better looking! And, Mona, here's my husband,--Jim, his name is,--but HERE'S the baby!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What an angel of a baby! cried Mona, taking the smiling infant in her arms."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And a solid angel too,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes; she's nearly two years old, and she weighs exactly right, according to the best schedules. She's a perfect schedule baby in every way."
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mona, said Mr. Kenerley,--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I shall have to call you that, for I doubt if my wife has ever even mentioned your last name to me, and if she has, I have forgotten it,--Mona, how long does one have to be a guest at 'Red Chimneys' before he is allowed to go for a dip in that tempting looking ocean I perceive hard by?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, only about ten minutes, said Mona, laughing at his impatience."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Do you want to go now, alone, or will you wait until later? Some men are coming soon who would probably join you for a swim. I expect Bill Farnsworth."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "DO you! Dear old Bill! I haven't seen him for years. But he's so big, he'd take up all the surf,--I think I'll go on by myself. And I know you girls have lots of gossip to talk over--so, I'll see you later."
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, where is she? she exclaimed, and Aunt Adelaide petulantly explained that Patty and Adele had gone to look after the baby."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Pretty poor manners, I call it, to leave me here all alone. It never occurred to them that I'd like to see the baby, too!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Never mind, Aunt Adelaide, you'll have lots of time to see that baby. And, of course, Adele wants to go to her rooms and get things arranged. You and I will wait here for the next arrivals. Laurence Cromer is due about now. He's an artist, you know, and he'll think you're a picture in that exquisite gown."
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't stare at me, Mr. Cromer, she said, saucily."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Baby May pulled my hair down, but I have the grace to be ashamed of my untidiness."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's exquisite, said Cromer, looking at her admiringly;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, I know that lady you quote! She always had her shoestrings untied and her hat on crooked!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If you want to see sweet disorder in dress, here's your chance, cried Mona."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Here comes Daisy Dow, and she's one who never has her hat on straight, by any chance!"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Here I am, Mona!"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm all coming to pieces, she said, apologetically, as she was introduced to the others."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But we flew along so fast, it's a wonder there's anything left of me. Can't I go and tidy up, Mona?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, indeed. Come along with me, Daisy. They're all here now, Patty, except Bill and Roger. You can look after them."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "All right, I will. I don't know Mr. Bill, but that won't matter. I know Roger, and of course the other one will be the gentle Bill."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "laughed Mona."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Little Billy is about six feet eight and weighs a ton."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That doesn't frighten me, declared Patty, calmly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I've seen bigger men than that, if it was in a circus! Skip along, girls, but come back soon. I think this house party is too much given to staying in the house. Are you for a dip in the ocean before dinner, Mr. Cromer?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No; not if I may sit here with you instead."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, Aunt Adelaide and I are delighted to keep you here. All the guests seem to run away from me. I know not why!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'll never run away from you!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You'd better! she warned."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm so contrary minded by nature that the more people run away from me the better I like them."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ah, said Laurence Cromer, gravely;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "H'm, said Patty to herself, as the pair walked away."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "H'm! I rather like that young man! He has some go to him."
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How are you?"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "How DARE you!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Whoopee! Wowly-wow-wow! I thought you were Mona! Oh, can you EVER forgive me? But, no, of course you can't! So pronounce my doom! Shall I dash myself into the roaring billows and seek a watery grave? Oh, no, no! I see by your haughty glare that is all too mild a punishment! Then, have me tarred and feathered, and drawn and quartered and ridden on a rail! Send for the torturers! Send for the Inquisitioners! But, remember this! I didn't know I was kissing a stranger. I thought I was kissing my cousin Mona. If I had known,--oh, my dear lady,--if I had KNOWN,--I should have kissed you TWICE!"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Be careful, she warned, shaking a finger at him."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I was just about to forgive you because of your mistake in identity, but if you make me really angry, I'll NEVER forgive you."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come back, and ALL will be forgiven,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "This is your punishment, said Patty, gaily, paying no attention to his fooling."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You are not to tell of this episode! I know you'll want to, for it IS a good joke, but I should be unmercifully teased. And as you owe me something for--for putting me in a false position----"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Delightful position!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You owe me SOMETHING, went on Patty, severely,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I WON'T tell, was the fervent reply."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I swear I won't tell! It shall be OUR secret,--yours and mine. Our sweet secret, and we'll have another some day."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Another secret, I mean. What DID you think I meant? Any one is liable to have a secret,--any two, I mean. And we might chance to be the two."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You're too big to talk such nonsense,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, I KNOW how big I am. PLEASE don't rub THAT in! I've heard it ever since I was out of dresses. Can't you flatter me by pretending I'm small?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I could make you FEEL small, if I told you what I really thought of you."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, do that, then. What DO you think of me?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I think you very rude and--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You don't think any such thing,--because you KNOW I mistook you for Mona, and it's not rude to kiss one's cousin."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Is she your cousin? She never told me so."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, her grandfather's stepdaughter's sister-in-law married my grandmother's second cousin twice removed."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, then you're not very nearly related."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No; that's why we don't look more alike. But, do you know my name? Or shall I introduce myself?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I fancy you're Big Bill Farnsworth, aren't you?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes,--but DON'T call me big, PLEASE!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, I'll call you Little Billee. How's that?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's lovely! Now, what may I call you?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Miss Fairfield."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am delighted to meet you, Miss Fair--Fair, with golden hair. Pardon me, I've a terrible memory for names, but a good reserve fund of poetry."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Miss Fairfield, my name is. Pray don't forget it again."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If you're so curt, I shall think it's a Fairfield and no favour! You're not mad at me, are you?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Certainly not. One can't get mad at an utter stranger."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, I don't think people who kiss people can be classed as utter strangers."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, you will be, if you refer to that mistake again! Now, remember, I forbid you ever to mention it,--to me, or to any one else. Here comes Mona."
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hooray! Patty! Here's me!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, Roger!"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Isn't this just too downright jolly! Roger exclaimed, as he looked at the sea and shore, and then brought his gaze back to the merry group on the veranda."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Haven't you any chaperon person? Or are we all kids together?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We have two chaperons, announced Patty, proudly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "One, you may see, just down that rose path. The lady in trailing lavender is our house chaperon, Mrs. Parsons. The impressive looking personage beside her is an artist of high degree. But our other chaperon,--ah, here she comes! Mrs. Kenerley."
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It won't be so very easy, Mrs. Kenerley, said Roger."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "My word for it, these are wilful and prankish girls. I've known Miss Fairfield for years, and she's capable of any mischief. Miss Galbraith, now, is more sedate."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nonsense! cried Patty."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm the sedate one."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You don't look it, observed Mona."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Your hair is a sight!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is, said Laurence Cromer, coming up and catching the last remark;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Indeed I won't,"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "May I come in?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What lovely hair! she exclaimed, as Patty pushed in more and more hairpins."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You're a perfect duck, anyway. I foresee I shall be terribly jealous of you. But I say, Patty,--I MAY call you Patty, mayn't I?--don't you dare to steal Big Bill Farnsworth away from me! He's my own particular property and I don't allow trespassing."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Are you engaged to him?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No,--not exactly. At least, it isn't announced. But--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, pshaw, don't trouble to explain. I won't bother your big adorer. But if he chooses to speak to me, I shan't be purposely rude to him. I like boys and young men, Miss Dow, and I like to talk and play and dance with them. But I've no SPECIAL interest in any ONE, and if you have, I shall certainly respect it,--be sure of that."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You're a brick, Patty! I was sure you were the minute I laid my two honest grey eyes on you. But you're 'most too pretty for my peace of mind. Bill adores pretty girls."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, don't cross bridges before you come to them. Probably he'll never look at little me, and if he should, I'll be too busy to see him. There ARE others, you know."
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I've saved a lovely seat for you, said Laurence Cromer, advancing to Patty;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why, what have I done to be forgiven for?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You've spoiled your good looks, for one thing. You HAD a little head sunning over with curls, and now you have the effect of a nice little girl who has washed her face and hands and neatly brushed her hair."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But one can't go around like Slovenly Peter,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why not, if one is a Pretty Peter?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, pshaw, I see you don't know me very well. I never talk to people who talk about me."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Good gracious, how can they help it?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, you see, I'm accustomed to my girl and boy friends, whom I've known for years. But here, somehow, everybody seems more grown up and societyfied."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How old are you?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's my impression that that's a rude question, though I'm not sure."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It isn't, because you're not old enough to make it rude. Come, how old?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Nineteen, please, sir."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, that's quite old enough to drop boy and girl ways and behave as a grown-up."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But I don't want to,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That doesn't matter. Your 'reluctant feet' have to move on whether they wish to or not. Are you bashful?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Sorta,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You're anything but bashful! You're a coquette!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, no! and Patty opened her eyes wide in horror."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, kind sir, DON'T say THAT!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm going to paint you, he announced,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, Roger! cried Patty, as young Farrington came toward her."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What DO you think? Mr. Cromer is going to paint a picture of my head and call it 'Reluctant Feet'! He says so."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, said Cromer, unconscious of any absurdity;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Miss Fairfield is a fine subject."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's better than being called an object, said Roger, joining them,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You haven't a soul for art?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, I haven't an artful soul, I fear. How are you getting along, Patty, down here without your fond but strict parents?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Getting along finely, Roger. Aunt Adelaide plays propriety, and Mona and I keep house."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "H'm, I'm 'fraid I scared off our long-haired friend, said Roger, as Cromer rose and drifted away."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Never mind, I want to talk to you a little myself. I say, Patsy, don't you let these men flatter you till you're all puffed up with pride and vanity."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now, Roger, AM I that kind of a goose?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, you're blossoming out so, and getting so growny-uppy looking, I'm 'fraid you won't be my little Patty-friend much longer."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Fine! Lots better than when I saw her in May. She dresses better, don't you think?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, I guess she does, said Patty, demurely, with no hint as to WHY Mona's appearance had improved."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She's an awfully nice girl, Roger."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, I always said so. And you and she help each other. Sort of reaction, you know. What do we do down here?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, there are oceans of things planned. Parties of all sorts, and picnics, and dances, and motor trips, and every old thing. How long can you stay?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm invited for a week, but I may have to go home sooner. Isn't that Western chap immense?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What the--oh, I say, Patty! You're not favouring him, are you? Why, you've only just met him to-day, haven't you?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, certainly; I never saw him before. No, I'm not favouring him, as you call it."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then why are you the colour of a hard-boiled lobster? Patty! quit blushing, or you'll burn up!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Don't, Roger; don't be silly. I'm NOT blushing."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, no! You're only a delicate shade of crimson vermilion! Well, if you want him, Patty, I'll get him for you. Do you want him now?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No! of course I don't! Do be still, Roger! And stop that foolish smiling! Well, then, I'm going to talk to Adele Kenerley."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Such a GOOD child, Mrs. Kenerley was saying;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, she's a heavenly baby!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You must choke off my wife, he said, smiling,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And why not? cried Mona."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "SUCH a baby deserves appreciation. I can hardly wait till to-morrow to wake her up and play with her."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "She's a good enough kiddy,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now, Jim, cried his wife,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There, there, Adele, if you're going to tell anecdotes of my parental devotion, I'm going to run away! Come on, Farnsworth, let's go for a stroll, and talk over old times."
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The house party is upon us, she wrote,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The baby is a perfect darling, and her parents are very nice people. TERRIBLY devoted to the infant, but of course that's to be expected. Roger is a comfort. It's so nice to have an old friend here among all these strangers. Oh, and there's an artist who, I know, spells his art with a big A. He wants to paint me as 'Cherry Ripe' or something, I forget what. But I know his portraits will look just like magazine covers. Though,--I suppose I AM rather of that type myself. Oh, me! I wish I were a tall, dark beauty, with melting brown eyes and midnight tresses, instead of a tow-headed, doll-faced thing. But then, as the poet says, 'We women cannot choose our lot.' I'm in for a good time, there's no doubt about that. We've parties and picnics and pageants piled up mountain high. So if I don't write again very soon, you'll know it's because I'm a Social Butterfly for the time being, and these are my Butterfly Days. Aunt Adelaide is rather nicer than when I last wrote. She gets on her 'company manners,' and that makes her more amiable."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My goodness gracious!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hello, you pretty little poppet!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Stop! Look! Listen! cried Patty, gaily, as the unabashed intruder calmly seated himself on the broad, low window-sill."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Do you consider it good manners to present yourself in this burglarious fashion?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, you see, my room opens on this same veranda,--indeed the veranda seems to run all around the house on this story,--and so I thought I'd walk about a bit. Then I chanced to spy you, and--well, I'm still spying. Is this your dinky boudoir? How fussy it is."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I like it so,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Of course you do. You're fussy yourself."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am not! I'm NOT fussy!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, I don't mean that the way you think I do. I mean you're all dressed fussy, with pink ribbons and lace tassels and furbelows."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes; I do love frilly clothes. Now, I suppose your ideal girl wears plain tailor-made suits, and stiff white collars, and small hats without much trimming,--just a band and a quill."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Say, that's where you're 'way off! I like to see girls all dollied up in squffly lace over-skirts,--or whatever you call 'em,--with dinky little bows here and there."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Is this frock all right, then?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Just the ticket! I'm not much on millinery, but you look like an apple blossom trimmed with sunshine."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why, you're a poet! Only poets talk like that. I doubt if Mr. Cromer could say anything prettier."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, do you read Austin Dobson? I never thought--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You never thought a big, hulking fellow like me could appreciate anything exquisite and dainty, either in poetry or in people, he said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't blame you, Miss Fairfield; I am uncouth, uncultured, and unmannered. But I am fond of books, and, perhaps by the law of contrast, I am especially fond of the Minor Poets."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You shan't call yourself those horrid names, said Patty, for his tones rang true, and she began to appreciate his honest nature;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes; but I suppose everybody does that. I say, won't you come outside for a bit? That room is stuffy, and the air out here now is great. Couldn't you skip down with me for a whiff of the sea?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why, I ought to be dressing for dinner."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, there's lots of time yet. Come on. Don't tell anybody, just fly out at this window, like Peter Pan, and we'll elope for half an hour."
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, I think I won't go down to the beach, she said, suddenly pausing at the foot of the stairs."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I must go right back."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nothing of the sort, and Farnsworth grasped her arm and fairly marched her along the path to the gate."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You're not a quitter, I know, so what silly notion popped into your head just then?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, she parried,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "All the more reason for snatching this chance to get acquainted."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Somebody might see us."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Let them. It's no crime to stroll down to the beach."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Somebody might object to my monopolising you like this."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Who, Mona?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No; not Mona."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Who, then?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Is there no one who might justly do so?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, indeed! Unless Mrs. Parsons thinks I'm neglecting her."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nonsense. I don't mean her. But, what about Miss Dow?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Daisy Dow! Well, Miss Fairfield, I'm a blunt Westerner, and I don't know how to say these things subtly, but when you imply that Daisy has any special interest in me, you do me undeserved honour. I've known her for years, and we're good chums, but she'd have no right to comment if I walked down to the sea, or into it, or across it. NOW, will you be good?"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's fortunate you Eastern people have a sea, Farnsworth said, as he gazed across the black distance,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You Western people have a sea, too, I believe,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, but we don't really need it, as you do. We have seas of land, rolling all over the place. We can get our breath inland; you have to come to the ocean to get a full breath."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That's the popular superstition. I mean, that we are cramped and all that. But, really, I think we all have room enough. I think the Westerner's idea of wanting several acres to breathe in is just a habit."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Perhaps you're right, he said;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Of course you could. But why should you? If you like the West, the big, breezy, long-distance West, there's no reason why you should cultivate a taste for our little cramped up, stuffy East."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's right! But I wish I could show you our country. Wouldn't you love to go galloping across a great prairie,--tearing ahead for illimitable miles,--breathing the air that has come, fresh and clean, straight down from the blue sky?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You make it sound well, but after that mad gallop is over, what then? A shack or ranch, or whatever you call it, with whitewashed walls, and rush mats and a smoky stove?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "By George! You're about right! It wouldn't suit YOU, would it? You couldn't fit into that picture!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm 'fraid not. But if we're going to fit into the picture soon to assemble in Mona's dining-room, we must make a start in that direction. Mr. Farnsworth--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Call me Bill, oh, DO call me Bill!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why should I?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Because I want you to; and because I think you might make that much concession to my Western primitiveness and unceremoniousness."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But I don't like the name of Bill. It's so,--so--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "So uncouth? Yes, it is. But I'm not the sort to be called William. Well, DO call me something pleasant and amiable."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'll call you Little Billee. That's Thackeray's, and therefore, it's all right. Now, can you slip me back into my own apartments as quietly as you took me away?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Of course I can, as it's nearly dark now. Here we go!"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "I've arranged it with Mona, he said, straightforwardly,"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nay, nay, fair sir; it suits me not, thus to be parcelled out. We Eastern girls are not to be had for the asking."
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What's up? enquired Roger, as he obediently followed Patty's whispered order to"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Nothing, returned Patty, airily;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have to have my own way, that's all; and as my old friend and comrade, you have to help me to get it."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Always ready, declared Roger, promptly,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't be silly, Roger. He's so unused to our sort of society that he's willing to bow down at the shrine of any pretty girl."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, Patsy-Pat! Do you consider YOURSELF a pretty girl? How CAN you think so? Your nose turns up, and I think you're a little cross-eyed--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, Roger, I am not!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, perhaps I'm mistaken about that; but you've a freckle on your left cheek, and a curl on your right temple is out of place."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It isn't! I fixed it there on purpose! It's supposed to look coquettish."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Very untidy!"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dashing girl, Miss Dow,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, indeed, said Patty;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now, isn't it funny! Just from the way you say that, I know you don't like her."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, Jack, don't be mean. I DO like her."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, you don't; at least, not very much. She isn't your style."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, then, if you think that, don't say it. I MUST like Mona's guests."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, of course. Forgive a poor, blundering idiot! And don't worry, Patty, no one shall ever know from me that you and the Dashing Daisy aren't boon companions."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You're so nice and understanding, Jacky boy, and I'm much obliged. Do you remember the night you discovered who our chaperon was, and you helped me out so beautifully?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Always glad to help the ladies. What are we doing to-night, after this feast of fat things is over?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Nothing especial; dance a little, I suppose, sit around on the veranda, sing choruses, and that sort of thing."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There's a glorious full moon. Couldn't we escape for a little spin? Just a very short one, in my runabout?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, I'd love to. Or we could take my runabout."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Or Mona's for that matter. I don't care what car we take, but I do love a short, quick drive, and then come back for the dance."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "All right, I'll go. Mona won't mind, if I don't stay long."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, only just around a block or two. Just to clear the effect of these flowers and candles from our brain."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Isn't your brain a little weak, if it can't stand flowers and candles?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Perhaps it is, and perhaps that's only an excuse to get away. Hooray! Mona's rising now; let's make a mad dash."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No; that isn't the way. Let's slide out quietly and inconspicuously, through this side door."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't know as I want to go motoring, Jack, she said, perching herself on the marble balustrade;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Just as you like, girlie. Ha! methinks I hear vocal speech! Some one approacheth!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Won't you girls catch cold?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "These be not mortal maidens, said Jack, who was in whimsical mood."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "These be two goddesses from Olympian heights, who have deigned to visit us for a brief hour."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And unless you're very good to us, observed Patty,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Let's do something, said Daisy, restlessly;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You'd bounce into bed with pneumonia, said Patty."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But Jack and I were talking of motoring. Suppose we take two runabouts and go for a short spin."
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'll get mine, proposed Jack, but Bill Farnsworth said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, I don't understand an electric awfully well. Let's take this car. I can run this O.K., and it will hold the four of us."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "All right, said Jack;"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Isn't this fun!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "This is the way we Westerners ride!"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's grand! gasped Jack."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But I hope Big Bill knows what he's about."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You bet he does!"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't want to turn back yet, do you?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We must turn soon,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We're going to drive straight into that moon!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hurry up! cried Patty."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Catch it before it drops below the horizon. Speed her!"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Whoopee! shouted Bill."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "This is some going! Sit tight, Daisy, and hold on for all you're worth! Are you people in the back hall all right?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Right we are! returned Jack."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Are you going straight THROUGH the moon?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yep! If we catch her in time! Hallo, she's touched the earth!"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Where are your stars? queried Farnsworth, gazing upward."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Nice country, this! No stars, no moon, no nothin'!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The lamps give enough light, cried Daisy."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Don't slow down, Bill! Go on, this flying is grand!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come on in,--the flying's fine!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, do let's turn back, she begged."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He doesn't hear me,--make him hear, Jack."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I say, Farnsworth, and Jack tapped the burly shoulder in front of him,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Back it is!"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Shower coming up, said Farnsworth, blithely;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, I will take it, Billy. I'm awfully chilly."
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, indeed! said Patty, as Jack offered her his coat."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have the laprobe, you know, and I'll put it round my shoulders. Never mind if my skirts are spoilt. Turn up your collar, Jack, it will pour in a minute now."
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do get home, Bill! she cried, crossly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Can't you go any faster?"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Speed her, Bill, went on Daisy, petulantly;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why DO you, Bill?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Shut up, Daisy! he cried."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm doing the best I can,--but that's all the good it does. We've got to stop. The gasolene is out!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Red Chimneys"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We can't stop, shrieked Daisy,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I can get along without your forgiveness, Daisy, if I can only get you people home safely. Great Cats, how it rains! I say, Pennington, what do you think we'd better do? Where's Miss Fairfield?"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Here I am!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Miss Fairfield is awfully afraid of electrical storms,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Pooh! exclaimed Daisy."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What a 'fraid-cat! I'm not frightened,--but I'm terribly wet. I'm soaked! I'm drowned!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "So are we all, Daisy, said Bill, shivering as the wind flapped his dripping shirtsleeves;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, WE can move! Let's get out and walk."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, Daisy, what's the use? Where could we walk to?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, I think you two men are horrid! You just sit there and let Patty and me catch our death of cold. Though Patty is wrapped up snug and warm in that robe. If SHE'S protected you don't care about ME!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Daisy! what nonsense---"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If you think I'm snug and warm, Daisy Dow, you're greatly mistaken! I NEVER was so uncomfortable in all my life! And I'm scared besides! That's more than you are!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "While the girls are comparing notes of discomfort, he said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I've been DRIER, he replied,"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Pardon my hilarity, he said, as he caught a glimpse of Patty's face,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "All right, I'll laugh with you! and Patty sat upright, the dark laprobe held hoodwise, so that she looked like a mischievous nun."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If you'll please turn off the thunder and lightning, I won't mind the rain a bit. In fact, I'm getting used to it. I know I was meant for a duck, anyway."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, Duck, the thunder and lightning are getting farther away, said Bill, truly,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Can't we get under the car?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not very well; and it wouldn't help much. It's rather wet, even under there,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We passed a house about a mile back, said Patty,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I thought of that, said Bill,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, no matter about me, said Daisy, spitefully;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Daisy Dow, he said, quietly,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But I can walk, put in Patty, anxious to prevent a quarrel."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I haven't on walking boots exactly, but I can flounder along somehow. And we MUST get to shelter! Help me along, Jack, and I'll try not to mind the thunder and lightning."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Plucky little girl!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What time is it?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Just twelve o'clock,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Then we MUST try to get to that house, declared Patty."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I had no idea it was so late. Come, people, no matter what the result, we must TRY to reach shelter and civilisation."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Right! said Pennington."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's the only thing to do. I remember the house. There was no light in it, though."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No; it's so late. But we can ring up the family, and they'll surely take us in for the night."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Not if they see us first! exclaimed Bill."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, Miss Fairfield, you look like Ophelia with those flowers tumbling all over your face!"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What ARE you laughing at? snapped Daisy."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, DO think it's funny, Daisy, implored Patty, still laughing."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, DO! for it ISN'T funny at all, unless we MAKE it so by thinking it IS so!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Stop talking nonsense, Daisy flung back."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, I've sprained my ankle. I can't walk at all! Oh, oh!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Daisy, he said, sternly,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, I suppose I CAN walk, she said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'll hold you, he replied, cheerily."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now we'll take this lantern, and we'll walk ahead. Pennington, you follow with Miss Fairfield. Don't talk much, you'll need all your strength to walk through the storm. It's abating a little, but it's raining cats and dogs yet."
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I should think they'd leave a night light in the hall,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Whew! exclaimed Jack."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's good to get where that rain doesn't drive straight into your eyes, anyway! Ring the bell, Farnsworth."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Can't find it. Ah, here it is!"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You keep punching this bell, Pennington, suggested Bill,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I've been all the way round, he said;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I suppose they're afraid we're burglars, observed Patty;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If they don't come pretty soon, I WILL be a burglar, declared Bill,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Throw pebbles at the window,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No good! commented Bill."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "So here goes!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, my gracious! exclaimed Patty."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "WHAT a thing to do!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The only way is the best way, returned Bill, gaily."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now, wait a minute, you girls, I'll let you in."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Don't come in this way, he cautioned,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'll open the front door."
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Can't do it, he called to those outside."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'll open another window."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Couldn't let you girls walk in on that broken glass, he explained."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Come in this way, and make yourselves at home."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We're too wet,--we'll spoil things,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Nonsense! Come on! Where DO you suppose the electric light key is? Whoo! here we have it!"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Home, Sweet Home."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Come away from that, Daisy. We have to enter this house to shelter ourselves, but we needn't spoil their belongings unnecessarily."
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Where DO you suppose the people are? They MUST have heard us come in, even if they were sound asleep."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's pretty queer, I think,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh! cried Daisy,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It IS queer,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nonsense! she said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You're an ungrateful bunch! Here you have shelter from the storm, and you all begin to cry! Well, no, she added, smiling,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There, there, Daisy, said Bill,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Go along, Little Billee; but hurry back and dry yourself before you catch pneumonia."
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Not a soul in the whole house! he reported."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I've been all over it, from attic to cellar. Everything in good order; beds made up, and so forth. But no food in the larder, so I assume the family has gone away for a time."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, of all funny situations!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Come to the fire, Little Billee, and see if you can't begin to commence to dry out a little bit."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I've just washed my hair, and I can't do a thing with it! said Big Bill, comically, as he ran his fingers through his thick mane of brown, wavy hair."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But, I say, this fire feels good! Wow! but I'm damp! I say, Pennington, I've been thinking."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hard?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, hard. Now you must all listen to me. I expect opposition, but it doesn't matter. What I'm going to say now, GOES! See?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm at the head of this expedition, and in the present emergency, my word is law!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, go on, said Patty, laughing."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What's it all about?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's just this. You two girls have got to stay in this house, ALONE, while Pennington and I walk back to Spring Beach, NOW!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Good gracious! What for?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I WON'T do it! I WON'T stay here alone!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Be quiet, said Bill, looking at Daisy sternly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You MUST do as I say."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You're right, Farnsworth, said Jack Pennington."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's nearly one o'clock, and we must start right off."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, agreed Bill."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Now, Miss Fairfield, I assure you, you will be perfectly safe here. It isn't a pleasant prospect, but there's nothing else to be done. The house is securely fastened against intruders. You can lock the drawing-room doors on this side, so the broken window need cause you no uneasiness. We will walk back to 'Red Chimneys,' unless we can get a lift somehow. But, at any rate, we will send a car back here for you at the earliest possible moment."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It IS the only thing to do, agreed Patty;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Good idea! laughed Bill."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I saw some men's raincoats in the hall. I think we will appropriate them, eh, Pennington?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Good-night, ladies,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's awful, Daisy whimpered,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You're talking nonsense, Daisy, said Patty, sternly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now, look here, if you'll just be friendly and decent, we needn't have such a bad time, but if you're going to be cross and cry all the time, I shall simply let you alone, and we'll have a horrid, uncomfortable time."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What are you going to do? she enquired as Patty took off her chiffon gown, and held it carefully before the fire."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That frock is ruined."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, I know, but I'm going to pick it out and make it look as decent as I can. I suppose I'll have to wear it home when I go. Take off yours, and I'll dry them both nicely. I'm good at this sort of thing. Here, I'll unhook it."
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hunt around, Daisy, Patty said, knowing it best to keep the girl occupied."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Surely you can find something to put round our shoulders. An afghan or even a table cover would do for a dressing jacket."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They're bookcase curtains, she explained."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I slipped the rings off the pole. See, we can each have one."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Good! said Patty, draping the curtain round her shoulders, sontag fashion."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "These are fine. Now, see, I'm getting your dress quite fluffy again."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "So you are. I'll finish it, and you do your own. Aren't you going to bed, Patty?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, not exactly. Suppose we sleep here. You take the couch, and I'll doze in this big armchair."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Are you--are you frightened, Patty?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "N--no; NO! Of course I'm not! What's there to be afraid of?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well--I am,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Daisy Dow! You stop that! I'd be all right if you'd behave yourself! Now, don't you get hysterical! If you do, I'll--I'll telephone for the doctor! Oh, Daisy! the TELEPHONE! WHY didn't we think of that before? There MUST be one! Let's hunt for it."
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Bill must have found that out, Patty said, thoughtfully;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why not? demanded Daisy."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why wouldn't he tell us?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Because he's so thoughtful and considerate. I feel sure he thought it would make us feel more lonely if we knew the telephone was there, but wouldn't work."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, it does! declared Daisy."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm so lonely and frightened and miserable, I believe I'll die!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, no, you won't, said Patty, cheerfully."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Now, I'll tell you what, Daisy. You lie down on the couch,--here's a nice afghan to put over you,--and I'll sing a little."
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What time is it?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I've no idea, said Patty, laughing."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I never wear my watch in the evening. But, and she looked from the window as she raised the blind,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I see streaks of pink, so that must be the east, and the sun is about ready to rise. So up, up, Lucy, the sun is in the sky, or will be soon. And I'm sure our deliverers will soon come to rescue us from this durance vile!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Bookcase curtains are all very well for boudoir jackets, she said,"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, Daisy, here they come!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hooray! he called, as he came nearer, and Mona, who sat beside him, cried out,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, Patty, Patty! Are you safe?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Safe? Of course I'm safe,"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Thank Heaven! cried Big Bill, as he fairly flung himself out of his driver's seat and rushed up to her. He almost took her in his arms, but just checked his mad impulse in time, and grasping both her hands, shook them vigorously up and down as he whispered,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, my little girl! You never can know what it cost me to go off and leave you here alone!"
}
] |
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