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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "For goodness' sake, tell us what this is all about! Sue said, dragging her over to the couch."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We're just dying to know!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There isn't much to tell, she said wearily."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I've been perfectly horrid about Carita being ill, that's all--she's sick, you know. They wouldn't let me see her this morning--that is, they kept me out of the Infirmary, so I sent for Cousin Tracy."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You sent for your cousin!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How did you send for him?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Telephoned."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I adore your nerve, she said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, isn't this lovely!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Didn't you know that would get you in trouble?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I didn't seem to care--this morning. I wish I had."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Was Miss North--awful?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, she was lovely."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Didn't she take away your privileges?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don't know yet--she's to tell me later."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, she will, so cheer up, Sue comforted."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The worst is yet to come!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, Sue, stop! She doesn't know anything about it, Blue Bonnet. I shouldn't worry. Come on over in my room and have some eats."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, come on! Sue wants to fix your hair. By the way, may I wear your white Peter Tom to-night? I'm wild for one."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Thanks, awfully, Annabel said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You are welcome to anything of mine, you know. One gets so tired of one's own things. Sue and I change all the time."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You mean _you_ do the changing, Sue said, laughing."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Annabel's worn out every pair of silk stockings I've got--honestly she has! I've got on a pair of Wee Watts' now, and they sag something awful. I think it's so inconsiderate of Wee to be fat. Nobody ever can borrow from her!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Let's all change round to-night, Annabel suggested."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Blue Bonnet can wear my pink organdy, and I'll wear this--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Where do I come in?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "At the head of the procession, as usual, dearest, Annabel promised."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You can wear that sweet yellow gown of Blue Bonnet's. Can't she?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I reckon she can, Blue Bonnet said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I've never worn it myself yet."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, that doesn't matter: she'll christen it."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm afraid it is a little long for me. Maybe I could take a tuck in it somewhere. Yes, I can; here! See?"
}
] |
23916
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I've been wild to get at your hair ever since I first saw you. You're too old to wear it in a braid. Here, give this ribbon to Carita; she's in the infant class yet."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Part it, Sue, she said, studying Blue Bonnet's face."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She has a heavenly nose for it--real patrician. Didn't any one ever tell you that you ought to wear it parted?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No--I can't remember that any one ever did."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How funny! Your face is made for it."
}
] |
23916
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Didn't I tell you? she said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Here, take this mirror. Isn't it splendid? Why, it makes you look all of twenty. You could go to a Harvard dance and get your program filled in two minutes with your hair like that!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "BLUE BONNET TOOK THE MIRROR AND LOOKED AT HERSELF FROM ALL ANGLES."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It is rather nice, she said, and a rosy flush stole into her cheeks."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But Aunt Lucinda would never stand for it. I know she wouldn't!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Change it when you go home then. But you are too old for hair-ribbons--really you are. Isn't she, Sue?"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Wait--the dress,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If you don't mind, I believe I'll wear my own."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "All right, if you feel that way, of course. Then we won't wear yours."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, yes, you will--please do! You are quite welcome. I only thought--- I--you see, I have never worn anybody's clothes in my life. It seems so funny--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nonsense. You'll get over that. You can't be so particular in boarding-school. Everybody does it. If Annabel doesn't care, why should you?"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Give me the text of 'A Grammarian's Funeral,'"
}
] |
23916
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "You mean tell what it is about?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Exactly, Miss Ashe."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well-- Blue Bonnet halted lamely for a second,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I couldn't understand it--that is, all of it--but I think it's about some students taking the body of their teacher up a mountain to bury it--and singing as they went."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "You have the idea, Miss Ashe. It amuses the class to think of students singing as they bury their teacher, though I daresay there might be more truth than poetry in it."
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Have you been awfully lonely, Carita?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No--not a bit."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Really?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, truly I haven't. Mrs. Goodwin is such a dear, Blue Bonnet. She makes me think of my mother. She read to me--and cooked things for me, herself: the best milk toast, with cream on it; and to-day I had ice-cream--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You did? Well, that's more than we had. This was heavenly hash day!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I've had visitors, too; Miss North--she brought me those flowers over there--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Fraulein!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes--and she was real nice--as nice as _she_ could be, you know. Mary sent me this by Mrs. Goodwin--look!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, a scrap book!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A memory book, Carita corrected."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You put everything in it, you know; things to remind you of the school after you have graduated or gone away. I hope I'll get it awfully full. Oh, Blue Bonnet, I know I'm going to be so happy here--in the school. Everybody has been so good to me."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And I'm doing penance for trying to thrust attention on Carita which she didn't need,"
}
] |
23916
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "So sorry you can't go, dear, she said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's just awfully too bad! There's to be a wonderful singer to-day--I can't seem to think of her name; it's one of those long Italian ones--but her clothes are perfect dreams. I'm dying to see her gown. If we get anywhere near Huyler's after the concert I'll bring you some candy. That's one reason I wanted your muff; it holds such oceans. I think maybe we'll get into S. S. Pierce's too. If we do, I'll stock up. My allowance came this morning; I'm feeling particularly opulent."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "There's a gentleman to see you in the reception-room, Miss Ashe, she said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Miss North says you may see him for fifteen minutes."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A gentleman! To see me?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, Miss Ashe."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "An old gentleman, Martha?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No--a young man."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's queer. Where's his card?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He didn't send one, Miss Ashe."
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Alec! Oh, how glad I am to see you! How ever in the world did you happen to come? How's Uncle Cliff, and Uncle Joe, and everybody on the ranch? Have you been to Woodford or are you just going?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "One question at a time--please. Let's see, the first--Oh, yes; I happened to come because I got my appointment to West Point--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You did? How perfectly splendid! When?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A couple of weeks ago. I came on immediately to prepare. Mr. Ashe is well, so is Uncle Joe. They sent you all sorts of messages. I have been in Woodford for several days. I came through here the first of the week, but I wasn't in shape to call--exactly--not on a young lady in a fashionable boarding-school. I'm afraid I wouldn't have been admitted. I had to have some clothes--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How awfully well you're looking,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, I'm fine--can hold my own now, I think; thanks to Texas. That's a great country you've got down there."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Isn't it, though! Is Benita well?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Fine."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How's Uncle Joe's rheumatism?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Better, I guess. Haven't heard him complain."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then it _is_ better, Blue Bonnet said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And old Gertrudis--and Juanita? How are they?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Fine--all of them."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, how I should love to see them! When is Uncle Cliff coming to see me?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Along about Easter vacation, I think."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He is? Really--aren't you joking, Alec? He hasn't said anything about it to me."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Maybe I've let the cat out, then. Well--it's true just the same. That's the way he talks now. Hadn't we better sit down?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, I'm awfully rude. Sit here."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You took me so by surprise that I forgot my manners."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I expected to find you over-stocked on 'em, to tell the truth. My, but you look grown up! What have you been doing to your hair? Does Miss Clyde stand for that?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Aunt Lucinda hasn't seen it yet. It's something new."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The We Are Sevens are still clinging to hair-ribbons. I saw Kitty Clark this morning. She was on her way to school."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You did? I'm wild to see the girls. I'm going home next week to stay over Sunday. That is, I am, if I can manage to keep the rules. I'm doing penance this week."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What have you been up to?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We'll talk of that another time. And you got your appointment! How pleased the General must be."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes--rather! He's no end pleased. It's been his dream, you know. As far as I'm concerned I'd as lief take to ranching. I'm pretty much in love with that Texas of yours. Look at the brawn it's put on me."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's certainly made you over, she said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You look as if you could fight now. You'd have made a poor soldier before!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It seems very--inhospitable, she said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Go? Why, I've just come!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I know, but Miss North said you could stay fifteen minutes--that's all. I don't know how she ever happened to let me see you in the first place. I'm just a bit in disgrace this week."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I had a very pressing note from your aunt, that's why, I fancy. I sent it on up before I saw you. Miss Clyde said I was to see you; she doesn't usually mince matters."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She certainly does not,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Couldn't you ask to have the time extended? Alec looked wistful."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, I haven't given you half the messages from the ranch yet."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I might try. I'll see."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Miss Ashe tells me that you have just come from her home in Texas, Miss North said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I can quite appreciate how much you have to tell her of her friends. Perhaps you would stay and dine with us?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, do, Alec--please!"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "If you ever get me into a deal like that again, you'll know it! It was worse than busting my first broncho."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now, Carita, tell me all of it--everything you heard. Come on, I think I ought to know."
}
] |
23916
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, what do you ask me for, Blue Bonnet? I don't like to tell you--really I don't! What's the use? Oh, dear, I wish I hadn't dropped that hint. I didn't mean to--it just slipped out."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Go on. Tell me."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's just gossip. Like enough there isn't a word of truth in it."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Never mind. Tell me."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "All right, then: Mary Boyd says that Annabel Jackson is a perfect little toady--that she always finds out if a girl has money and nice clothes and things, before she has anything to do with her. She says Annabel has found out that you have a great deal of money, and that's one reason she's so nice to you."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But I haven't a great deal of money--not to spend here, anyway. I haven't any bigger allowance than Annabel has--or Sue, for that matter!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, but it's got out about your ranch; that you have a lot coming to you some day--and--and that you brought me here--that you're paying my way--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Who told that? That's my business and Uncle Cliff's--entirely!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You said something about being responsible for me when I was sick. I reckon the girls put two and two together and started the story. I can't think how else it got out."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, I'm so sorry, Carita. It must make you feel--horrid!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Not a bit, Carita answered cheerfully."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Everybody knows that a poor clergyman's daughter would never get in a school like this without some help. It was splendid of you to do it. I don't mind any one's knowing. Honestly I don't, Blue Bonnet. Don't be angry."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, Blue Bonnet! Why did you make me tell you? I knew it would only make you unhappy. What difference does it make, anyway?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Just this difference: I like Annabel--for herself--and she likes me for what I've got. I suppose that's the way _all_ those girls feel--Sue and Wee, and Ruth--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You know that isn't true, Blue Bonnet. Everybody loves you for yourself. Why, I have the loveliest 'trade last' for you, right this minute. I'll give it to you now, and you can save mine till you hear it. Mary Boyd says--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Never mind, she said,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, you've got 'em--loads! Look at the We Are Sevens! They perfectly adore you. Now, don't they?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, I reckon they like me,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I shouldn't have told you all this, Blue Bonnet, only you made me. I wouldn't have dropped the hint about Annabel, only I think she's so awful nervy about wearing your clothes. Why, your Peter Tom's a sight--and that yellow dress--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, I don't care about the clothes, Carita. Uncle Cliff will get me some more. Annabel hasn't hurt them any. The Peter Tom will clean. You know how white wool soils, yourself."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, I'm not going to worry over what Mary says, she announced after a few minutes' deliberation."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I think Mary is apt to take snap judgment. She put me on the wrong track altogether about Doctor Giles. She said he was a regular old fogy--too slow for words, and--why, he's a man with a big reputation--Cousin Tracy's own doctor."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mary is a dear, though, Carita said loyally."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "She's apt to be a little opinionated, maybe. Peggy Austin thinks she is--though Peggy dotes on her."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Most smart people are, Blue Bonnet admitted."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mary is as sharp as tacks. We've just three-quarters of an hour to get the train. I wonder if Mrs. White is ready to take us to the station."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, how well you look, dear, she said, turning her to the light."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "How very well! You are as plump as can be. You have rounded out wonderfully."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, that's the only difficulty, Grandmother. Boarding-school has a tendency to round people out--too much! I wish you could see Wee Watts--one of the girls. She's huge! Poor Wee, she hates it so."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "How long have you been putting up your hair, Blue Bonnet?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not so very long, Aunt Lucinda. The girls made so much fun of hair-ribbons--the girls I go with. They thought I was much too old to wear them, and after I took them off, it was so hard to go back to them again. Don't you like it this way? The girls liked it parted. They said--they seemed to think my nose suited it."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's very pretty, she said slowly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don't think you need to cover your ears so completely, do you? The style is too old for you, though. You look--much older."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "How Blue Bonnet grows to resemble her mother. Do you remember, Elizabeth wore her hair that way when she first began putting it up? The child grows to be more of a Clyde every day."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We're going out to see Chula,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Chula? Why, dear, didn't Aunt Lucinda write you that Chula is out at pasture? She was eating her head off in the barn, and with no one to exercise her--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Of course, she said,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Suppose you take Solomon for a run over to the General's, Mrs. Clyde suggested."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Alec is at home. You must make the best of your visit; he is leaving on Monday."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Where's he going?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "To Washington, to school. He prepares there for West Point. He has a trying period before him, and much hard work. Be sure to put on rubbers and big coats. It is very cold to-day."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Was just coming over to see you,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "All right. We'll go back."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, come along. Grandfather is expecting this visit."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, my, we must run, she said, flying out the door and pulling Carita after her."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Aunt Lucinda will be serving dinner. Come over, Alec--to-night if you can."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Perhaps, he called after her."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm up to my ears in work just now. Preparing for the Point's no joke, you know."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I wish we could see the We Are Sevens to-night, Blue Bonnet said as she began the meal."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It seems like a year since I last saw them. Sometimes I can hardly remember how they look."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You will have plenty of time to refresh your memory, Miss Clyde promised."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "They have planned for every hour of your visit--almost."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's the We Are Sevens, she said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I know it is! I'll go."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, it's a party! A surprise party! Come quick, Carita."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, you haven't changed a bit!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But you have, Blue Bonnet--lots! What is it?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's her hair, Debby discovered."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "She's put it up! And her dresses are longer, too."
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Haven't we had a heavenly time to-night, Carita, Blue Bonnet asked between yawns, after they had retired."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Didn't Kitty Clark look pretty? I'm going to get after her hair to-morrow and do it like mine. Won't it be sweet? She has such loads."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "That was a very nice sermon, Blue Bonnet remarked on the way home."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I think Doctor Blake is growing. Don't you, Aunt Lucinda?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Or Blue Bonnet is,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Perhaps that is it, Aunt Lucinda. Anyway he's more interesting."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "I began to think you were not here, Miss Cross, she said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "May I come in?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I was busy, she answered, dropping her eyes."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I came as quickly as I could."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am inspecting drawers, and I am late to-day. Things seem to have piled up so this week. Shall I begin with yours? It is quite unnecessary; they are always immaculate--but rules are rules."
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Miss Ashe is away, isn't she? Gone home for the week-end. She seems to be an unusually sweet, attractive girl--so unaffected and genuine. You must count yourself very lucky, Miss Cross--Why, what is this?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "To whom does this belong, Miss Cross, do you know? I am amazed to find such a book in this room. French literature of this kind is expressly forbidden."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You have never seen it before?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Have you seen Miss Ashe reading it at any time?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, Miss Martin."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "This is her drawer, is it not?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes--it is her drawer."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Patty."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Angela--Angela Dare! Deborah Watts said,"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "I almost had it, Deborah, and it was so good. Quite the best thing I've done this year. It went like this:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, Deborah; now see what you've done! I can't get it! I never shall be able to again--not just that way, and it was so pretty--a sonnet. The lines were in three quatrains and a couplet, with the climax in the octave--you--oh, I'm so annoyed at you."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Angel's Retreat."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Angel's Retreat"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I haven't very many virtues, Deborah Watts was saying, trying to assume a modest attitude, and failing;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You don't look as if you'd ever been sick in your life,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I haven't, Wee admitted,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Were you ever in an accident?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, I can't say that I ever was--but--what I mean is, I am not nervous. I haven't any fear of things happening when I'm riding, or train wrecks or--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "How about a mouse? Sue Hemphill inquired."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You said the other night--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, how absurd, Sue--a mouse! Nobody is afraid of a mouse--really afraid--they're just so horrid, that's all. They're such squirmy things--ugh! No, what I mean is--I guess I'm not very clear, but I hardly know what _fear_ is. I'm never afraid of being out nights--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm not either, Angela Dare said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I think intuition is _my_ long suit, Annabel Jackson said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sometimes it's perfectly uncanny. I can almost read people's thoughts and know what they are going to say and do."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "How?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, I don't know how. No one can account for those things."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I thought you might help Mary Boyd--she's short on intuition--just at present."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What's Mary done now?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mary's furious, she said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She's preparing for one of her monthly flights to Chicago. She's packing up."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What's the matter this time?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Same old story. Fraulein! I think it is a shame those children have to have her all the time. She's ruining their dispositions. They all just hate her."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What did Mary do, Sue?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, you'll have to get the particulars from her. It's as good as a vaudeville stunt to hear Mary tell it. They were having an orgy of some kind last night--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Was Carita in it?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I think she was. There was a room full."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I must go and see, she said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I hope Carita isn't in trouble."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Come back again, the girls called after her."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We've something to discuss later."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mary's going home, she said, and a sob shook her."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She says she's going to-night. Oh, I'll miss her so, Blue Bonnet."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Going home?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, I should say I am, Mary announced, dragging out one garment after another from her closet."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I wouldn't stay in this school another day for anybody. Fraulein has acted perfectly outrageously. I think she's crazy!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What's she done, Mary?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Done! Well, she's done enough to drive me out of this school--that's all!"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There, she cried, the tears springing to her eyes;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Now, she said,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Tell me,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, we were having a party in here last night--a sort of feast. It was Peggy's birthday and her mother sent her a box. Peggy's room is so near Fraulein's she never can have anything there, so we had it here. We waited till all the lights were out, and it was as still as could be. We were having a dandy time, when Peggy said she'd forgotten a box of candy in her room and went to get it. We waited for her, and after a while there was a knock on the door--just a little timid knock, as if Peggy were trying to fool us. She knew a knock like that would scare us to death, so we thought we'd fool her. I happened to have a pitcher of water on the stand there, so we opened the door a little way--it was pitch dark--and let her have it, full force!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well--it wasn't Peggy--it was Fraulein! Didn't you hear her scream? It was enough to wake the dead. Miss North came running and Miss Martin--she's on this floor too, now, and--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, Blue Bonnet, you couldn't have helped laughing to save you--it was perfectly killing. Fraulein was so angry she just tore round. She threatened to have us all expelled--disgraced--everything you could think of! At least we took it for that--it was all in German--every word."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And Miss North has taken away all my privileges for two weeks--two whole weeks! That means that I can't go to the party the girls are getting up for the twenty-second, or anything, and I'm just not going to stand it. I'm going home! You see if I don't--this time!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, you're not, Blue Bonnet said gently, putting her arm round her."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You're not going to do anything of the kind, you know you're not. You'd be ashamed to. It would look as if you were afraid to face the music--and you can--you must!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's not why I'm going, she said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm not afraid of punishment."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's the way it would look."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don't care how it would look. I wouldn't be here to see anyway."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then you haven't any pride."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I guess I have as much pride as you have, or any one else!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Not if you're going to run away, you haven't. Besides, I can't blame Fraulein so very much for being angry. It isn't so funny to be drenched like that. She was doing her duty, wasn't she?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, she's always snooping round, if that's what you mean. Get her on your own hall for awhile and see how you like it."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I shouldn't like it. Not at all; but that's not the point."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What is the point?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That you've made a mistake and you aren't big enough to take the blame. My uncle says that making a mistake isn't such a very grave thing in itself, it's human nature. The trouble comes in not trying to correct it."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You'd better not be so preachy, she said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Everybody hates a goody-goody--here!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Don't worry, she said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'll never be called that by any one who knows me! I've done nothing but make mistakes and get in hot water all my life. Wasn't I doing penance last week myself?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Then I should think you would know how other people feel."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I do. That's why I'm trying to advise you. I reckon it's a mighty selfish way to look at it, Mary, but you'll be a heap happier yourself to do the square thing. It gives you such a comfy sort of feeling."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm perfectly comfortable now, Mary said obstinately."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I wish it had been a hose instead of a little pitcher--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You don't wish anything of the kind. You're angry. When people are angry they aren't responsible. I'm going to tell you something I did last summer to one of my very best friends when I was angry."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "You did--that, Blue Bonnet?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I did, Mary, and it was a dear lesson. I've had a line on my temper ever since--sometimes it gets away, for a while, but not so often. Now come on, be a thoroughbred! Go and talk to Fraulein."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "All right, Mary, if you've got a damp cotton cord for a back bone--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "She's knocking on Fraulein's door, as sure as you live,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Of course, Blue Bonnet said, hanging a couple of dresses back in the closet."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mary's all right. She doesn't mean half she says."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Angel's Retreat."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hurry up, Ruth Biddle said, as she entered the room."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We've a lot to say to you--too much for ten minutes."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Go ahead, then, I'm listening."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You are about to have a great honor conferred upon you,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Blue Bonnet quoted."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This is the thrusting kind, I suppose--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We want you to join our club, Blue Bonnet, Annabel said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We haven't time to be frivolous. I have a lesson in exactly seven minutes with Mrs. White. Will you?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A club! she said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What kind of a club?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, just a club--something like a sorority. I'm the president, if that's any inducement."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It certainly would be, Annabel, but--you see I belong to one club--a little one in Woodford. I don't know how the girls would feel about my joining another."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You won't be in Woodford much from now on, Annabel said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You'd better take the 'good the gods provide,'--it's some club!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don't doubt that--but--what do you do?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We don't give our private affairs to the public, Sue said, laughing to take the edge off the rather bald statement."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Do you, in your club?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well--there isn't much to tell."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There is, in ours. We have a serious purpose--sometimes."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Who's in it?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Annabel, Sue, Wee, Angela and Patty--myself, of course, and you, if you'll come."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, it would be another We Are Sevens, Blue Bonnet said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That's the name of our club. Isn't that odd?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sleep over it, Blue Bonnet, and let us know to-morrow. It'll keep,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "All right, suppose I do. I'll try to let you know to-morrow if I can. I'd really like to write to the girls--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Is Miss Ashe here? Martha inquired."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If she is, Miss North would like to see her in the office."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mercy, how popular some people are! Ruth remarked."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What is it, Blue Bonnet? More trouble?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Not this time, Blue Bonnet said, her head up, her eyes shining."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "My conscience is clear anyway."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Is this your property, Miss Ashe?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, she said,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You are quite sure that it is not your book, or one that you borrowed?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Perfectly sure, Miss North. I never saw it before."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That is very strange, Miss Ashe. The book was found in your drawer while you were at home for the week-end. Miss Martin found it covered with some underwear."
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In _my_ drawer! Who do you suppose could have put it there?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That is what I am trying to find out. It is the kind of book that is expressly forbidden in the school, Miss Ashe. This is a very serious matter."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And you think, Miss North, that _I_ would have a book like that in my drawer?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I should not like to think it, Miss Ashe, but--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Doesn't my word count for anything? I am in the habit of telling the truth."
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I _want_ to believe that you are telling the truth. Miss Ashe, but--I am sorry to say that I have known girls, who thought they were truthful, to dissemble--to--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am not one of those girls, Miss North. I give you my word of honor that I never saw that book, or one like it, in my life, until this minute. That is all I can say--you may believe me or not."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "One moment, Miss Ashe. There is no need for anger. This, as I stated before, is a serious matter. It is possible that the girl who brought this book into the school did not realize its full import; its true significance. No girl could read it without taking away much of the bloom that it is our privilege to guard and preserve. Even I, at middle age, should find this book--obnoxious."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And you think that I would secrete a book of that kind in my drawer? That I would touch it any more than you would?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do you know of any one who would be likely to put the book in your drawer, Miss Ashe?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, Miss North, I do not. I don't believe any of the girls I know would have done it."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Very well. You may go now. The matter will be thoroughly investigated."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And in the meantime I remain under suspicion?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Straight and true like an Ashe, Honey"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We have many of us rested under an injustice, Miss Ashe, but right always triumphs. I am old fashioned enough to believe that. The matter will be sifted to the bottom."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, Mother, Mother! she cried, sinking into a chair,"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, Miss Ashe! Blue Bonnet, dear--what is all this about? What is the matter? Can I help you?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I just wanted my mother--for a minute, she said slowly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sometimes I need her so--want her--nobody knows how much! I suppose girls never do get used to being without a mother, do they, Mrs. White--no matter how kind and dear one's friends and relatives may be?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Couldn't you tell me what the trouble is? Perhaps I could help you?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Did you know, she said after a moment,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, were you--were you? Blue Bonnet cried, her own sorrow for the moment forgotten in another's grief."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It must have been awful to give her up--awful! I'm so sorry."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Did I ever show you this? It's my mother. I got it last year on my sixteenth birthday. I love it better than anything in the world."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is a lovely face, she said, handing it back."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A lovely face--_better_ than lovely--womanly. One feels the spirit back of it. When you are lonely again, think what a gift such a mother has been. What a privilege to follow in her footsteps--carry out her hopes of you--her ideals."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "I brought you this, she said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I tore it off my calendar a few moments ago. It has a little message for you. Let's pin it up here in your mirror for a day or two, so you will see it every time you dress."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Life is mostly froth and bubble, One thing stands like stone: Kindness in another's trouble, Courage in one's own."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What's the matter with Blue Bonnet? Annabel Jackson asked Sue Hemphill."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She looks sick--or worried to death. What's happened?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don't know, Sue said, shrugging her shoulders."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I thought myself she looked awfully upset this morning, but when I asked her if anything was wrong, she said--I can't remember what she did say--but I took it that she wasn't going to tell, if there was."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There's something the matter. That look she's got on her face doesn't spell happiness--not by a long ways."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why don't you use your Sherlock Holmes talent on her,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "My what, Sue?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This intuition business you were telling us about yesterday. You said you could read people's thoughts."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I didn't say I was a mind reader, did I?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well--something like that."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, Sue, how perfectly ridiculous! Tell that to one or two more and I'll be a spiritualistic medium holding seances in my room."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You can't be angry with Sue when those dimples pop out,"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Are you ill, Miss Ashe? she had asked, calling Blue Bonnet to the desk after the class adjourned."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You don't look well. Better go up and show your tongue to Mrs. Goodwin or Miss Martin."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It isn't my tongue--that is--I'm not at all ill, thank you, Professor Howe,"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You may translate, Miss Ashe,"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come, Miss Ashe, the third oration, please; begin where Miss Watts left off--Cicero attacks Catiline, saying:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, I beg your pardon, Miss Attridge. Where Deborah left off, you say?"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Cheer up, cheer up,"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You look cheerful enough for all of us, Sue, Blue Bonnet answered."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What's happened to you?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Billy's coming--going to be here for dinner; so is his room-mate, Hammie McVickar."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hammie! What a funny name!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hamilton! Funny little chap, too. Wait till you see him."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Decided about the club yet, Blue Bonnet?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Not yet,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What do you call this club, Sue?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Ancient Order of Lambs,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Sue! tell me. What is it?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's it, of course. Why not?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The Ancient Order of Lambs! Really?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We amble and we gamble, We frolic and we bleat; Something new in lambkins Rather hard to beat!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Dear me, is that from Angela's pen?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Angela! Mercy, I should hope not! Angela doesn't write doggerel--she writes verse."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, I beg your pardon,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Blue Bonnet, you'd make such a love of a lamb. Do join us."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I reckon I would, she said, her natural humor coming to the surface."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm always being led to slaughter--if that helps any. I can't say I'm a willing sacrifice, however."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You'll do, Sue said, taking up the step again."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'll tell the girls you've about made up your mind--and--Blue Bonnet, come here, listen! Put on that white dress to-night; the one with the pink under it, will you? I want you to meet Billy and Hammie, if I can arrange it. Don't forget!"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Are you ill, Joy? Blue Bonnet asked kindly; but Joy turned her face away and answered"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No,"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come back, she called."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Miss North has given you permission to come to the reception-room and meet Billy and Hammie. Hurry, they can only stay a half hour."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Isn't Billy a dear? Sue said, running into Blue Bonnet's room to say good night."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And isn't Hammie McVickar splendid? I think he's the best-looking man I know. Billy says he's a prince--the fellows at college all swear by him. So glad you could meet them. Good night. Sleep well."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "What is wrong with me?"
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "May I see you for a minute after school, Annabel?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Of course, Annabel answered."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I think it is about time you saw me--or somebody! You look as if you had the weight of the universe on your shoulders lately. Are you going to tell me what it is all about?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "All right. Where shall I meet you?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "In my room after the walk. Joy practises then. We can be alone."
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "I think--I believe I have a clue. In fact I know I have. Leave this to me for a day or two. I wish you had come to me sooner. There was no need of your suffering like this. I think I know the young person--"
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "In number six, I think, Annabel. She used to, anyway."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Thank you. I want to see her a minute."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "May I speak with you a minute?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "For a minute, she said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm busy."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It will only take a minute, I fancy. When do you intend to acknowledge the book you hid in Blue Bonnet Ashe's drawer while she was away?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't know what you mean, she said slowly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What are you talking about?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You know what I'm talking about, all right. Do you remember the day two weeks ago when we were out walking and stopped in that queer little book shop? One of the girls wanted to get her Quatre-vingt-treize. You went to another part of the shop--alone. I came up behind you--something had attracted my attention--you didn't see me. I heard you ask for the book--I will not mention the name. I saw the clerk hand it to you--give you your change. Saw the whole transaction with my own eyes! This is no hearsay."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I haven't words to express my opinion of you, Joy Cross, Annabel went on."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A girl who would put another girl in the position you have put Blue Bonnet Ashe--as honest and innocent a girl as ever drew the breath of life. You're a coward--a miserable--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Wait, she said,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I didn't mean to hurt Blue Bonnet Ashe--please believe that, Annabel. It was all a mistake--an accident. I thought it would right itself, and I kept still. I did buy the book--I was reading it in my room; some one knocked at the door--I was sitting by Blue Bonnet's bureau--I reached over and laid it in her drawer--just until I opened the door. I meant to take it right out again--but--it was Miss Martin. She was inspecting drawers--she found the book--she--I--oh, can't you see how it was--how it all happened--so quickly? I couldn't think of anything but the disgrace. I wanted to save myself. I wouldn't have cared so much if I hadn't been a Senior. I thought it might keep me from graduating--from some of the honors that I have fought for. I never dreamed it would go so far. I thought--oh, I don't know what I thought--why I did it. I suppose I'm ruined utterly."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, there is only one thing to do now, of course you understand that, Joy. You must go to Miss North immediately."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, no, not that! I can't do that. I can't! I can't!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You _will_, Annabel said sternly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Stop that crying! Haven't you any nerve at all? You will go to Miss North at once! Immediately, do you understand? or I will. An innocent girl has suffered long enough."
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "You understand? You go at once--this minute!"
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Miss North is in her office at this hour, she said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Go immediately"
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Praise be! Sue said, when Blue Bonnet laughed at one of her jokes."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I thought you had given up laughing, Blue Bonnet. You haven't even smiled since Tuesday. Coming down to the Gym to dance to-night?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I think I will. I've got to run up-stairs first and get a clean handkerchief."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, Joy, she said,"
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Wait, Joy called, her eyes burning into Blue Bonnet's."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Wait!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I want to tell you-- the words came with painful effort--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I _must_ tell you. I've been a coward long enough. _I_ put that book in your drawer."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "You, Joy? You! I can't believe it!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I suppose not, she said dully, and the flush died from her face."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No one would have believed me so wicked! They don't know me as I am."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Tell me about it, Joy, please. I know you didn't do it on purpose. You couldn't have. I never did anything to make you hate me like that."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now we can talk better, she said, sitting down on the hearth rug beside her."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Tell me how it happened. It's been such a mystery to me."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "I suppose I ought to be awfully angry at you, Joy, for letting me suffer as I have the past few days--but--somehow--I'm not--at all. I feel so sorry for you that there isn't any room for anger. I think I can understand how it happened."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You can! It doesn't seem possible that any one could see my side."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, yes, they could. All but the untruth, Joy--that was the worst, of course--but then--maybe you haven't been brought up on the truth as I have. The truth is a sort of religion in our family. That and 'do unto others.'"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No--I can't find excuse in that. My people are truthful. They're queer, maybe, but they are truthful and honest."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "It was the thought of my mother's awful disappointment that tempted me to lie to Miss Martin, she said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It all happened so quickly I scarcely had time to think clearly. I was so afraid of being expelled--I will be now, of course. Miss North is going to bring the whole thing before the Faculty to-morrow."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, no--surely she won't do that! Blue Bonnet cried."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Did you tell her what you've just told me, Joy?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No. I'm not playing for sympathy. I'll take what's coming, if--if only the girls didn't have to know."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "They don't, Blue Bonnet said determinedly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nobody knows it but Annabel Jackson and myself. Annabel won't tell, and nobody ever knows what goes on in Faculty. Now, what is that?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, dear, she said,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I forgot all about going to study hour. I just know that's Fraulein."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You were not in the study hall, Miss Ashe,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, I wasn't. I was engaged."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You were excused?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No--I was not."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Then I shall haf to report to Miss North."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do, she said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don't mind giving you that little treat."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I perfectly abominate that woman, she said, going back to the hearth rug."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "She can anger me quicker than any one I ever knew. I was terribly rude to her; but she is so aggravating. She adores getting something on me."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It will make her sleep better, she said to herself as the door closed between them."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Poor girl; my heart aches for her. If she stays here the girls have just got to be nicer to her--that's all! And she's going to stay--she _must_, even if I have to send for Uncle Cliff to help straighten things out."
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Whew! Mary Boyd said, blowing into the room breezily and tossing an armful of books into the middle of her bed,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mary! Carita exclaimed,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, I don't know. Yes, I think I should if I'd had the chance. I'd like to know what's the matter--there's something, all right."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mary, you're so curious, remarked Peggy Austin from the couch."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It was a regular meeting, wasn't it?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Indeed it wasn't. Faculty's met on Tuesday since time began. Guess I ought to know. I've just escaped being up before it twice."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "What's the matter with you, Blue Bonnet? Mary asked."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You're as sober as a judge. They weren't discussing you in the meeting, were they?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, I just wager they were! Look how she's blushing."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The very idea, Mary. What's Blue Bonnet done? You are the worst--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I know what's the matter with Blue Bonnet, Peggy Austin said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "She's _scared_ pink! She had better be, too. She's going to be initiated into the Lambs to-night. They won't do a thing to her! Why, when they took Angela Dare in, she had hysterics. They had to get a doctor for her. It nearly broke up their club. Miss North said it came near ending sororities for all time in the school."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, pooh, Mary scoffed."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Angela has no business in one anyhow. She's too emotional. One never knows what she's going to do. She has high strikes over exams--and just anything. Angela's only half human. She's like that Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe--or somebody who was so frail in body--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mrs. Stowe!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "She means Mrs. Browning, Peggy said loftily."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "English isn't Mary's long suit."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, but I can add two and two,"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "This means that you are now pledged to our Order. Mint is our emblem. You'll get the roast at the initiation."
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sorry to be inhospitable, Blue Bonnet, but I can't let you in. You see you aren't expected until to-night. At twelve, remember; and, for goodness' sake, take a look down the hall before you venture out. We don't want Fraulein to spoil things. I reckon Sue had better fix up your pillow before you come."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Fix up my pillow!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes. She'll show you. She's an artist at it."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "She'll get some of Wee Watts' hair. She's got a Jane, and a switch, too--it's about the color of yours--and she'll pin it on your pillow--fix it up so that if Fraulein suspects anything and takes a peek in your room she'll swear you're sleeping like a baby."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, we haven't been here three years for nothing, let me tell you, Annabel confessed."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You need all your wits."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How am I going to wake up? Blue Bonnet asked."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I know I never can without an alarm of some kind. I'm an awfully good sleeper."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's easy. Tie a string round your wrist and put the string outside the transom--let it hang down the wall. Nobody will see it after the lights are out. Some of us will pull it and waken you about a quarter to twelve. Don't wake Joy. She might go to Miss North, or do something."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, she wouldn't. Joy isn't so bad as we all thought, Annabel. I want to tell you about her sometime. We must try to be nicer to her if she stays here."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, she'll stay, never fear. They aren't expelling any graduates--especially a student like Joy Cross. She's made a wonderful record. Miss North's got to admit that, whatever else Joy's done. Good-by. See you later. I'm in an awful hurry. You'll excuse me, won't you?"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Where's Joy?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "In the bathroom."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Good! Here, turn down your bed quick, Blue Bonnet."
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sue! How ever did you do it? Why, from the back it looks just like me. I always braid my hair that way at night. It's wonderful!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Practice makes perfect. Get in on the other side and don't disturb it. Cover it up a bit more till Joy gets to bed. Don't forget the string on your arm, and, whatever you do, don't get scared and scream when I yank it. Remember! Good night."
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Get up, quickly! You're late. We couldn't find the string anywhere."
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Is the candidate ready for initiation? a voice from the couch asked."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If so, let her speak."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The master of ceremonies will then conduct her to the middle of the room and blindfold her."
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, spirits of all departed lambs, attend! attend! Hear me call! Hear me call!"
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Conductor, advance the candidate. Let her extend the hand of fellowship to her sister lambs."
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "THE GHOST IN THE CENTRE OF THE GROUP ROSE."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The candidate is warned not to scream, came a stern voice from out the darkness, and Blue Bonnet struggled for better self control. Something soft and woolly was next thrust into her arms--something that said"
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Is the candidate now ready to take the oath of allegiance?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "She is ready,"
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Welcome, sister lamb, she said, squeezing Blue Bonnet's hand."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You're game, my dear. Our hats are off to you. You didn't balk once."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Occasion."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Remember the time the Proctortoise caught us up here? Sue Hemphill asked, helping herself to her sixth sandwich."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Proctortoise was one of Fraulein's many appellations."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I never was so scared in my life. That was my first midnight feast, and I thought for some time it would be my last."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I reckon I do remember, Annabel said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I lost my privileges for a month because I owned I got it up. It was the time Mother sent me that huge box of good things on my birthday. Wasn't that the grandest box, Wee? Remember how sick you got from eating so much of Mammy Jane's fruit cake and mince pie?"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Remember! Well, I guess I do. I've never touched a piece of fruit cake since."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm the same way about lemon pie, Sue admitted."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I ate a whole one up here at a feast once, and I've never been able to stand the sight of one since."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "This old room could tell some great tales if it could speak, couldn't it? Patty Paine said, looking about."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's a barren hole, but I adore it. I've had some great times here. Remember the night we thought we heard some one coming and we got into the trunks? That was the time Angela fell down-stairs and had hysterics. It was initiation night, too, wasn't it? My, but wasn't Miss North furious! I thought she'd freeze into an icicle. It took her weeks to thaw out."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Had you a suspicion that she _had_ thawed out?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, she isn't so bad, Ruth, Patty defended."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I've got a right soft spot in my heart for Miss North--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Girls! what was that noise? Angela Dare interrupted in a whisper."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm sure I heard some one walking."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, Angela! You're always hearing things. Your imagination is worse than your conscience. They're both ingrowing, Ruth declared."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don't think you heard a blessed thing!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, she did, Ruth, Blue Bonnet insisted."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I heard it, too."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You did?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes--shh--there! You heard it then, didn't you?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's a rat or a mouse! Oh, see--there it goes--look, behind that big brown trunk!"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Wee Watts, Annabel said sternly,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'll faint if it comes near me--I know I shall, she wailed, her teeth chattering."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh--oh--there it goes again--oh, oh, don't scare it this way--don't--don't, Annabel! Please--please--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hush! she said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do you want to get us all in trouble? I thought you had such courage--met big things so well--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, I do, Blue Bonnet--I really do--but this is a little thing--such a horrid little thing--oh, oh--it's under this box--oh--"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Who is in this room?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, Blue Bonnet, came the answer,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do you think any of the girls have been caught, Annabel?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don't know. If they haven't it's good luck, not good management. Look out--there ought to be a step here--yes, there is, walk carefully. No sprained ankles to-night."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "You're game clear through, she said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I think everything is all right. I can't hear a sound anywhere."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Three o'clock and all is well! Annabel said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Good night. Don't worry."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I fancied I heard a scream last night--or this morning, rather. It sounded down Commonwealth Avenue. A piercing scream, as though some one were in great distress. Did any one else hear it?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, Madam de Cartier, Sue Hemphill said, equal to the occasion."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It was dreadful, wasn't it? As if some one were horribly frightened. It was about three o'clock, I think. I was awake and heard the clock striking on the lower corridor. What could it have been?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I really don't know, Miss Hemphill, though I have a theory. I may be quite wrong, however. It seems strange, doesn't it? This street is so eminently respectable and quiet."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sue's perfectly furious at Deborah, Annabel said, catching up with Blue Bonnet on the way to chapel."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "She won't speak to her this morning. I ran in to borrow a tie a minute before breakfast, and Wee had been crying. Poor old Wee! I feel sorry for her. She's such a good sport generally. I reckon she can't help being afraid of mice. Some people are, you know--awfully!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do you think anybody knows about what happened?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don't know. Miss North acted awfully queer this morning. One of the girls asked if anybody heard that scream in the night, and the funniest look came over Miss North's face. To tell the truth, I think the teachers know all about it and the joke's on us. I haven't been so scared in an age. It's pretty risky for a Senior to be up to such high jinks."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Will Miss North do anything about it, do you think?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No--I hardly think so. She's pretty lenient to the 'Lambs.' We help support her pet charity. She's terribly interested in settlement work. Anyway, I don't believe she half minds a little innocent fun; but, of course, she couldn't sanction it openly. Annabel stifled a yawn."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm so sleepy I don't know how I'm ever going to get through this day. I scarcely slept a wink all night. I got to worrying about that candle we left burning in the sky parlor; and finally, after numerous and painful visions of the building burning down at my own personal expense, I got up, felt my way along those dark halls, and put it out."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You went back alone!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I did. I think myself I deserve a medal--don't you?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You deserve several, Annabel. It was too plucky for anything. Why didn't Ruth go with you?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, Ruth was asleep. It seemed a pity to wake her. I didn't mind much. I never was afraid of the dark."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dear old Wee, Sue said, as she read the note through twice and then carefully pinned it in her memory book."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "She's got the biggest heart. Nobody could stay angry at her two minutes--I can't anyway. And, she added, philosophically,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I suppose if she's afraid of mice, she's _afraid_--and that's all there is to it."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "I adore these Sunday mornings, Blue Bonnet said, linking her arm through Annabel Jackson's as they left the room after an especially helpful talk."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I think Miss North is wonderful. She never preaches at you; but what she says sticks. I'd a lot rather hear her talk than Sarah Blake's father--our minister at home. Aunt Lucinda says Mr. Blake is very spiritual, but he's terribly prosy. I have the awfullest time trying to keep awake when he talks--it's dreadful!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, you'll have a treat to-day at Trinity, Blue Bonnet. The Bishop is going to preach. I adore him. He's terribly good to look at, too, with all his fixings--his cross and ring and beautiful robes. I had a letter to him when I came here, and he called one day. He wasn't nearly so handsome without his robes; but he was perfectly dear--and quite jolly. I expected to be awed by him; but I wasn't, a bit. I almost caught myself telling him everything I'd done since I arrived here; but I checked myself in time."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It must have been a beautiful experience,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We've just time to do our rooms before we dress. Help me make my bed and I'll return the compliment."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What are you going to wear to-day, Blue Bonnet? Annabel asked, her eyes straying toward Blue Bonnet's closet."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I haven't a thing! I've just got to have some new clothes."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Poor little 'Flora McFlimsey,' she said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But I'm tired of them all! I'd so love a change."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Choose, she said generously."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Only leave me my muff, to-day. I perish by the wayside in this climate. I'd give--oh, most anything, for a streak of Texas sunshine!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, thank you, dear! You're so good about your things. I'll take your black fur hat, if you don't mind--and the blue waist. I'm quite mad about blue just now. I never used to think I could wear it."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't know about this 'Alice' shade. What do you think? Can I wear it all right?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You look beautiful in anything to me, Annabel--yes, I think it is very becoming. Will you walk with me to-day?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Surely; though I suppose Ruth will pout--but no matter! Reckon we had better hurry a little."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Jesus and the Woman of Samaria"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "That _was_ a wonderful sermon, Annabel, she said as they left the church."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Dear me, how I do wish Mr. Blake could sit under the Bishop for a while. I wonder if he ever heard him. I daresay he hasn't. He's what Grandmother calls a 'dyed in the wool Presbyterian.'"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Cheer up! You don't have to listen to him often,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, that's true. But _think_ of Grandmother and Aunt Lucinda! They've been listening to him for most twenty years."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, well, 'habit's a cable,' Annabel quoted glibly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It jerks us along and we get into the way of thinking we like things whether we do or not. I daresay your aunt dotes on him."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Aunt Lucinda isn't--well--she isn't just the doting kind, Annabel; but I don't suppose she'd trade Mr. Blake for the Bishop if she could. Loyalty's the backbone of Aunt Lucinda. She's very fond of Sarah, too. By the way, did I tell you that Grandmother and Aunt Lucinda are coming up to spend a few days of the spring vacation with me? Aunt Lucinda has a lot of shopping to do, and Grandmother loves a little change. They've asked Sarah Blake to come with them. I wish the rest of the girls could come. Wouldn't it be fun if the Lambs could meet the We Are Sevens?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, lovely, Blue Bonnet! I'm quite wild to see Kitty Clark. I'm real jealous of her. She's your best friend, isn't she?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Kitty's a dear, she said;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Annabel! I know what I'm going to do! Alec said that Uncle Cliff was coming at Easter. I'll write to him this very afternoon and ask him to invite the We Are Sevens up here for a day or two just before vacation begins--just the day before--and give us, the Lambs and the We Are Sevens, a party. Maybe a matinee party with a dinner at the Copley Plaza afterward."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, Blue Bonnet! _Do_ you think he would? That would be heavenly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He'd adore to do it. I am sure."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "He'll never be able to resist that plea, she said to Annabel, who had brought her writing materials into Blue Bonnet's room."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He'll just _have_ to come when he gets this. I shouldn't wonder if it didn't bring him sooner than he expected."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't you think that a matinee party with tea afterward at the hotel would be lovely, Annabel? Then dinner about seven o'clock. We might do something in the evening, too."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Angels' Retreat."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Will you look at Joy Cross! Ruth Biddle said to Sue Hemphill."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What has got into her? She's been fixed up that way for several days; blue bow--hair curled--"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Let's all sit together,"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "she said haughtily, lagging behind with Sue."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "She isn't our kind at all. I don't know what's got into Annabel lately. She's perfectly crazy about Blue Bonnet Ashe--completely under her thumb."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Lots of us in the same boat, Ruth. I'm quite crazy about her myself."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, she needn't think she can run the school. She's behind this Joy Cross vogue. She's not going to ram her down my throat. The Biddles usually choose their own society."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You've sort of got an idea that name gives you special dispensation, haven't you, Ruth--kind of a free passport to the upper realms? Well, forget it! It hasn't. It wouldn't get you any farther with folks that count than Cross, or Ashe, or Hemphill. It's what you bring to your name; not what it brings to you. It's like what Miss North said the other day about life. It isn't what you get out of it, but what you put into it that counts."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Nevertheless I shall retain the privilege of choosing my associates and not having them thrust upon me."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's all right, Ruth, but when you get lonesome, come on back into the fold. I've an idea that Joy Cross is going to make a place for herself in the school whether you like it or not. Blue Bonnet seems to have got at her in some way lately, and she says she's really quite likable! She says Joy makes her think of the late chrysanthemums in her grandmother's garden. They never get ready to bloom until everything else is gone; but you appreciate them all the more after they've weathered the frost and come out brave and brilliant. Funny idea, isn't it? Blue Bonnet has such queer ideas. I think she's very unusual."
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And her manners, Mother, are almost unbelievably improved. I really had quite a shock the other day, she confessed after her last visit."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Several teachers told me that Blue Bonnet would undoubtedly have received the medal for the greatest general improvement at the end of the year had she entered in September. I wish you might have seen her enter the reception-room. Her whole bearing is changed. She has dropped that hoydenish, tomboyish manner that was so offensive when she returned from the ranch. She neither waved, nor called to me from the head of the stairs as she came down, but positively glided into the room with ease and distinction."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Blue Bonnet is growing into a young woman now, Mrs. Clyde answered."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "She is leaving the hoydenish period. She will emerge, butterfly-like, from her chrysalis. I have never doubted it for a moment. There is a time for all things."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Something else pleased me, too, Miss Clyde went on."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Blue Bonnet seems to have made desirable friends among teachers and pupils. They all like her--even that odd room-mate, whom, you remember, she was predestined to hate. I confess I thought her rather impossible, myself; but Miss Cross seems to have blossomed out suddenly, and Blue Bonnet says--to use her own expression, 'she is not half bad.'"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Does Blue Bonnet still call her 'the cross?'"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, and declares that she has taken up 'her cross' and is 'bearing it cheerfully'--whatever that may mean. Blue Bonnet loves figures of speech. Her comparisons are really very amusing sometimes. I hardly know what to make of her sudden tolerance of this girl; whether it is a case of propinquity, duty, or over-generousness on Blue Bonnet's part. At any rate, she seems to have espoused the cause of the cross, nobly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Bless her dear heart, Mrs. Clyde murmured Softly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The world will never end for Blue Bonnet at her own doorstep. She has a real genius for friendship. I am glad she finds her room-mate pleasant. I feared from her letters that she never would."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Something has happened to change her mind, Miss Clyde said shrewdly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The girl's personality never appealed to Blue Bonnet. I rather suspect that Blue Bonnet feels that she needs friends. She has been very unpopular, I understand."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Lambs"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "How do you do?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "How do _you_ do?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nicely, thank you."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Did you bring paper dolls?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I hate 'em! I hoped maybe you had soldiers. Everything here's for girls!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now, isn't that strange, Blue Bonnet said, untying a parcel with haste."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I brought things for girls last time--seemed sort of natural to buy dolls and dishes, being a girl, but this time I brought the very things you wanted. Soldiers!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "For me? All for me?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You may play with them all you like. Perhaps you will want to pass them on to some other little boy when you tire of them."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I sha'n't never tire of 'em. I just love 'em. Oh, ain't they grand! Why, there's a whole lot, ain't they?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A regiment, Blue Bonnet said, delighted with the child's enthusiasm."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And horses! Soldiers must be well mounted, of course!"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Horses! he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Horses! Gee!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm afraid you are getting too excited, Blue Bonnet cautioned."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'll have to take them away if you make yourself ill with them."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You can't get 'em, he said, and the brown eyes flashed."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I wouldn't give 'em up to nobody."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You don't have to give them up. You mustn't get excited, that's all. It's bad for sick people; it gives them fever."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Aw--I gets fever anyway. I'm used to it. I'm 'bercular! It's in my knee."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A tubercular knee?"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Gabriel,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Gabriel! What a beautiful name! Gabriel--what?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You couldn't say all of it if I tell you. It's Jewish."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "GABRIEL LOOKED UP IN DISDAIN."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Let me try. Perhaps I'll surprise you. Then I'll tell you mine. I have a queer name, too."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Tell yours first."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "All right. It's Blue Bonnet. Blue Bonnet Ashe."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's pretty, though. I like it."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why do you like it?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don't know. Kind of makes me think of flowers."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It _is_ the name of a flower, Blue Bonnet said, surprised at his intuition."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A very pretty flower that grows down in Texas."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They'll march this way, he said, half to himself--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, I wouldn't let them fight, if I were you. Soldiers don't fight any more--not here in America. This is a land of peace."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Aw--quit yer kiddin', he paid."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What's soldiers fer?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You haven't told me your other name, she said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You took advantage of me. I told you mine."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It ain't pretty! The kids call me Gaby. That's enough. Call me that."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "How old are you?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nine--comin' next August."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "August? My birthday is in August; the twenty-first."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's mine, too!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Really? she said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Aren't you mistaken? Certain it's the twenty-first?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Sure, I am. Ask her!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's what he has always said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, we're sort of twins, aren't we, Gabriel? If I'm near Boston next summer we'll have to celebrate, won't we?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come again some day, Gabriel called when Blue Bonnet took leave of him."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And bring some soldier books with you."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If you please, the nurse finished for him."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Miss Ashe won't come again if you are not polite."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If you please,"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "They been in battle more 'en fifty times since you was here, he announced."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "They've licked everything in sight--the American army has. This is them on this side. I'd like some British fellers if you could get 'em. Did you know we licked the British, sure 'nough?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We surely did, Blue Bonnet said, matching enthusiasm with his. It was strange to see a little Jewish emigrant espousing the cause of freedom so rapturously."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Showed them their proper place, didn't we?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Bet yer! Gabriel said, doubling up his fist and aiming a blow at the pillow behind the soldiers."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Bet yer!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You must hurry and get well, and perhaps some day you can go and see the soldiers. I have a friend who is going to be one. He'll be at West Point next year."
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why don't you let me do more things for you, Blue Bonnet? Carita would say when she was refused the pleasure of waiting upon her."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don't believe Annabel Jackson has run a ribbon in her underwear this year. Mary Boyd always does it for her. She loves to do it. Peggy Austin waits on Sue Hemphill, hand and foot. Isabel Brooks is getting a terrible case on Wee Watts, too. By the way, Blue Bonnet, did I tell you? Isabel has the sweetest new way of spelling her name. Isobel! You say it quickly--like this--_Is_obel! Mary Boyd thought of it. I do wish I could find a new way to say Carita, but it seems hopeless."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Carita! just you let me catch you changing it. _Is_obel! Why, that's perfectly absurd!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not when you get used to it. Peggy thinks it's distinguished. I do too. Peggy has taken up her own middle name. We're all trying to call her by it, but it's awfully hard. She says she perfectly hated it when she was a child, but now she thinks it's quite stylish."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What is it?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Jerusha! Priscilla Jerusha is the whole of it. It does sound dreadful, doesn't it? Peggy loathes it put together. She says her mother does too. She had to be named that for her grandmother because she's going to inherit her money some day. Isn't it splendid that there is such a rage for old-fashioned names now? Peggy says it will make an awful hit with her grandmother when she hears that she is being called Jerusha. She thinks it quite likely that she will do something nice for her. Peggy thinks that she will change the spelling of it though. She thought some of 'Jerrushia.' It is much more foreign sounding, isn't it?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's much more ridiculous, Blue Bonnet said with some impatience."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You children must lie awake nights thinking up these weighty subjects. Jerrushia! Really, Carita, I am amazed at you!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nearly seventeen has its advantages over"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Blue Bonnet! look here! See what just came in the mail! You have one, too, and so has Annabel! Oh, such a lark! Run down to the box quickly and get your letters!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Read it, she said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's from Billy. We're invited to a tea at Harvard. Mrs. White is to chaperon us. It's to be next Friday afternoon, and the boys are coming for us in an automobile."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But--Sue, can we go? Will Miss North let us?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, yes--with Mrs. White. Why not? You're not doing penance for anything are you?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, certainly not! But it seems quite unusual; going off with a lot of boys like that."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A lot of boys! There's only Billy, and Hammie McVickar, and an escort for me--Billy doesn't say what his name is. I don't call that such a terrible lot; and Harvard is quite respectable. At least, it is supposed to be."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I think it would be glorious, Sue. I certainly hope Miss North will let us accept."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She will, Sue said confidently."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "She let us go last year. Such fun! It makes me laugh to think of it yet. We went to Billy's rooms. He had a caterer and a great spread. Tea and sandwiches; all kinds of cakes, candies--a huge box for each of us to carry home; and the most beautiful ice-cream with nuts in it. Um! I can taste it yet. Oh, but it was larky!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It must have been,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "This time, Billy says, it is to be very select. What he calls a close corporation! Just you and Annabel and I, and Mrs. White. They sent Mrs. White a separate invitation. Wasn't that clever of them, since we just had to have a chaperon? I'm going over to her room now to see if she'll accept. Come along."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Of course you won't refuse, Mrs. White, will you? Sue implored, arms about Mrs. White's shoulders."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Billy quite dotes on you, you know. He says in my note that you've just got to come. He and Hammie will accept no substitute. Billy would be so awfully disappointed if you didn't come."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I wouldn't hurt Billy for the world, Susan, she said. The teachers always called Sue"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Susan --those who had known her since her entrance as a very young girl."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You know I never inflict unnecessary pain. I happen to know just how hard your friends would take my refusal. I will consult Miss North."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Will you? Will you really? Oh, you are such a dear, Mrs. White. And try to show her how very necessary it is for us all to go. Billy does get _so_ lonely without me--we're such chums. Father feels dreadfully to have us separated as we are."
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I think afternoon tea is the loveliest thing, Sue said, as they went back to Blue Bonnet's room for a brief visit."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There's something about it that makes one feel so grown up--so sort of lady-like! I've always said that when I keep house--I shall, you know, for father, as soon as I am through school--that I'll serve tea every afternoon, rain or shine, at five o'clock, and advertise the fact among all my friends."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's very hospitable, Blue Bonnet replied absently."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Do they have tea every afternoon at Harvard?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Blue Bonnet! Oh, that's ripping! At Harvard. What do you take them for?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don't know that that's such an awful _faux pas_, Blue Bonnet said with asperity."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They always have afternoon tea at Oxford. Alec Trent has a friend there and he told him so."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well--in England--that's different. It's so awfully English, you know."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's why I thought maybe they did it at Harvard. Because it is so awfully English, you know!"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is all right, Susan, she said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Miss North is very glad to have you accept your brother's invitation for Friday afternoon, and I shall go with pleasure."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We can go, she announced breathlessly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Friday! Harvard! I just knew we could. Isn't it great? At two-thirty, remember! And girls! Don't forget--borrow everything you can, and look stunning!"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Emma-_line_ and Jassa-_mine_ Brown may report at the desk at the end of the period."
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You may say what you have to say to the room, Miss Emma-_line_,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Miss Brown! Answer when I speak! Why do you not answer?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I didn't know you were addressing me. My name is not Emma-_line_! She drew out the"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's no use, she said in a whisper to Wee Watts, who occupied a seat with her,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I can't get my brain in working order to-day to save me. Have you a glimmer of an idea about Emerson's essay on 'Compensation?' I've got to write it up."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Emerson! Heavens, no! He's as deep as the sea. Ask me something easy, Blue Bonnet. My grey matter's at your disposal--what's left of it. I think I've overtaxed it with my own theme. Do you know anything about hypnotism?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I think it's the tea we're going to this afternoon that's distracting me, Blue Bonnet confessed, when Fraulein had removed the weather eye."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I can't seem to get it out of my mind. I know we're going to have a perfectly wonderful time. I wish you were going, Wee."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes--it would be lovely. I suppose Annabel has borrowed everything in sight. I've given her my Egyptian bracelet and my jade ring. Don't let her have your furs to-day. You look so pretty in them yourself."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, she doesn't want them, Blue Bonnet answered loyally."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I think she's going to get Angela's. They are white fox--almost like mine. Oh, bother! What on earth is 'compensation,' anyway? I've read this essay ten times and it's perfect Greek to me. Don't you know, Wee, really? This thing has got to be handed in in twenty minutes."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Look it up, she suggested, turning to the C's."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Sometimes you can get a start that way."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Thank you so much, Wee, she whispered in passing,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I've got to sit alone where I can think. You're _nice_, but you're _too_ entertaining."
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Annabel's changed her mind, it read."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "She's not going to wear her suit. She thinks she'll wear her new crepe de chine and borrow Patty's fur coat. Don't you think that will make us look out of place in just waists and suits? Answer."
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We will begin with Miss Ashe, she said, busying herself with some papers on her desk."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You may read what you have prepared on the Emerson work, Miss Ashe. Come to the front of the room, please."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am not prepared, Professor Howe. I am sorry--but--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Have you been ill, Miss Ashe?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, not ill, but--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Take your seat and remain after the class is dismissed, Miss Ashe."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This afternoon, Professor Howe? Oh, I can't to-day. It is impossible--"
}
] |
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