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{
"from": "human",
"value": "What makes Blue Bonnet so still?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Take this seat and find out, Little Miss Why, Blue Bonnet retorted with an effort."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Maybe you haven't as much regard for your tongue as I have. I want to keep mine whole."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Girls, she cried,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Doughnuts, Amanda finished with rapture."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Wait until you taste them! Aunt Priscilla is a wonder at cooking. She has the best things you ever ate in your life."
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's so clean I hate to muss it up with my things,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I speak for this bed, Kitty said, depositing her things carelessly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I slept in it the last time we came. It's as good as a toboggan. You keep going down and down and--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We're going to draw for it, Amanda announced from the wash-stand where she was wrestling with Debby's mud."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It will hold four; the other three girls will have to go in the next room."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why couldn't we bring the other bed in here--I mean the springs and mattress? Debby suggested."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do you think your aunt would care, Amanda?"
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, Blue Bonnet Ashe, she said, coming in the room followed by her aunt with a lamp,"
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "I feel as if I never could eat another mouthful as long as I live,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That's just the way I used to feel last summer on the ranch after one of old Gertrudis' meals,"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do any of you play?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Blue Bonnet does, Kitty announced promptly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come, 'little Tommy Tucker must sing for his supper.'"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "We Are Sevens."
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Anybody would think you were going to sleep in it, Kitty, you're so particular, Amanda objected."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Get busy and help some."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I spoke for the big bed,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, and it was selfish of you. We're going to draw for the big bed. I told you that before."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "You're an obliging dear, Sarah, Kitty said appreciatively,"
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "It seems to me that it is so much easier to be good--that is, to be religious, in the country, Blue Bonnet said as they neared the meeting-house, and the bell in the small tower rang out slowly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There's something comes over you when you hear the bell calling, and see the people gathering--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I reckon so--that's as near as you can come to it. There are feelings there aren't any words for, you know, Kitty--kind of indescribable."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Unless some one will kindly volunteer to play the organ to-day, the minister said, rising in the pulpit,"
}
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23916
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "It has been perfectly glorious, Blue Bonnet declared to Amanda's aunt as they parted with her at daybreak Monday morning."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We've just loved every minute of our visit here, and would you mind--all of you--I want the whole family--standing out there by the big gate while I get a picture of you? I couldn't possibly forget you after the perfectly lovely time you've given us, but I'd like the picture to show to Grandmother and Aunt Lucinda."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, Blue Bonnet, Kitty complained,"
}
] |
23916
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "I think, Miss Clyde said to her mother one morning late in November, as she put the last article in her suitcase and snapped it shut,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Are you not afraid Honora and Augusta will feel hurt? Mrs. Clyde remonstrated."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They enjoy Blue Bonnet so much, it seems a pity not to let them see all they can of her."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "They will have plenty of visits with her later on, Mother. I feel sure they will understand. If you keep well, and everything is all right here, we might extend our visit over Sunday. In that case we should go to them, of course."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't get lonesome, that's a duck,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Blue Bonnet, please address your grandmother less familiarly. Those expressions you have acquired are not respectful. I cannot tolerate them any longer,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I didn't mean it for disrespect, Aunt Lucinda. I only meant it for love; but I won't do it again if it annoys you."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It does annoy me very much, dear. Stop and think of the word you used just now. A duck! In what possible way could your grandmother resemble a duck?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I didn't say she resembled one, Aunt Lucinda. I said--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We will not argue the question, Blue Bonnet. Please eliminate the word from your vocabulary. It is inelegant as well as inexpressive."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Take good care of yourself, dearie, the gentle voice was at that moment calling,"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "And this is the new member of our family,"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ask Mrs. Goodwin to come here, Martha, please."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Our house-mother, Mrs. Goodwin, Miss Clyde--Miss Ashe. Miss Clyde would like to see the room we have reserved for her niece, Mrs. Goodwin."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am sorry, Miss Clyde, that we could not give Miss Ashe a room alone as you desired, but entering so late it is quite impossible. I am sure she will enjoy her room-mate however, a Miss Cross from Bangor, Maine. We think it a wise plan to put an Eastern and a Western girl together when possible--the influence is wholesome to both."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "May we come in, Miss Joy?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Certainly,"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "The view is beautiful from here,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The bathroom and closets are here."
}
] |
23916
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "I just can't do it, Aunt Lucinda. I never in this world can room with that girl and be happy. Joy Cross! Who ever heard of such a name? It's plain to be seen which she'll be. A cross, all right!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Anybody would know to look at her she couldn't be a joy! Did you notice how she shook hands, Aunt Lucinda?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That will do, Blue Bonnet. It is very unjust to criticize people you don't know. Appearances are often deceiving. Miss Cross may prove a delightful companion--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, no, Aunt Lucinda. She couldn't--not with that nose. It's the long thin kind--the kind that pokes into everything. And her eyes! Did you notice her eyes? They're that awfully light kind of blue--they look so cold and unfeeling; and she was so--so--un-cordial when Mrs. Goodwin said I was to room with her. She wasn't even polite. She didn't say she was glad, or that would be nice or--she didn't say anything--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There wasn't time to say much,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Grandmother says there is always time for courtesy,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nothing can be done at present, Blue Bonnet. You heard Mrs. Goodwin say that all the rooms are taken. Perhaps some change can be made later--but now--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Now, I shall just have to take up my cross and bear it, of course; but I sha'n't cling to it a minute longer than I have to, you may be sure of that."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Let's begin at Hollander's, Aunt Lucinda, Blue Bonnet said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I love Hollander's. We could get the Peter Thompsons there, and my evening dresses and slippers and things."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am afraid you did not read the school catalogue very carefully, Blue Bonnet. It especially requested simplicity of dress."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I know it did, Aunt Lucinda, but you saw how sweetly the girls were gowned at dinner. Perhaps the dresses _were_ simple, but they looked expensive and--dressy, she added for want of a better word."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That pretty dark girl that sat next me had on the darlingest pink organdy with a Dutch neck. Oh, it was so dear. I wonder where she got it?"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, Aunt Lucinda, she exclaimed, holding up two that attracted her,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I can't make up my mind which of these is the prettier. I adore this blue crepe with these sweet buttons, but the white organdy is such a love with that white fixing--and, oh, will you look at that yellow chiffon! I suppose I couldn't have chiffon, could I? It looks too partified."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But you might try on the white, and the blue gown,"
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "I feel exactly as if I were getting a trousseau, Blue Bonnet said, as they started for a tailor's, where she was to be measured for suits."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And, Aunt Lucinda, there's just one more thing I want--two things! A desk and some books. You saw that desk in the room I am to have. Well, the cross--I mean Miss Cross--had her things in it. I saw them. I don't want to share it with her. We'd be forever getting mixed up and fussing. I'd like to avoid that."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Look, Aunt Lucinda, there's Cousin Tracy!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, well, he said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Where did you come from?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Woodford."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "When, pray?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yesterday."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Look here,"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's the Harvard-Yale game, isn't it,--to-morrow? I'm crazy about it. Oh, I do hope Harvard wins! My father was a Harvard man. So are you, I remember."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Want to see it?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Could I? Could we get tickets?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have two. Right by the cheering section."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You wouldn't mind, would you, Aunt Lucinda? Why, the We Are Sevens wouldn't get over it in a week. It seems too good to be true."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "COPLEY PLAZA HOTEL, BOSTON, MASS.,"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "P. S. Miss North seems very nice, but you never can tell how people are going to be until you live with them, I hope for the best. B. B."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, to begin at the very beginning, Blue Bonnet said, looking into the eager faces of the We Are Sevens,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, we know all about that, Kitty said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, we took the automobile and went straight to the Stadium. You never saw so many automobiles in all your life. They would reach from here to--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, Blue Bonnet, we don't care a rap about the automobiles, Kitty declared impatiently."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What did you do when you got to the Stadium?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We took our seats. You see, we got to the Stadium about one o'clock, and as the game didn't begin until two, we had a perfectly lovely time watching the people gather. Cousin Tracy said there were about forty thousand. The cheering section was just a solid mass of college men, with a band at the bottom, and the most elastic lot of cheer leaders in white sweaters you ever saw. This is the way they do it."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But the most exciting moment was when the Yale men came trotting out on the field in white blankets and blue legs."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In blue legs!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, that was the impression. A few minutes later the Harvard team came trotting on. They had black sweaters and red legs. They peeled off the black sweaters though, showing crimson underneath. Then the game began. I can see them yet."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then what? Go on!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Then they played. And how they played, Kitty! And when it was over and Harvard had won. Did you hear me?--_Harvard won_--twenty to nothing, and for the first time in years, it was as if--well, as if pandemonium were let loose."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And then, Blue Bonnet went on,"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then what happened?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Much, Amanda. We went up on top of the Stadium. It has a promenade all round it, on top; the view is beautiful--the Charles River, and Cambridge across it, and thousands and thousands of automobiles, and the crowd moving in a solid mass--the people still cheering and laughing--oh, it was great! I felt as if I wanted to stay on forever!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It must have been heavenly, Kitty murmured."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Did the girls look pretty?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Pretty? Well, they certainly did. I was just going to tell you about that. The Yale girls all wore big bunches of violets--a Yale emblem. The Harvard girls wore dark red chrysanthemums. I had some, and a pennant, which I waved madly. There were more pretty gowns than you ever saw at one time in all your life. Great splashes of color all through the crowd; and the furs--that reminds me: all of a sudden I realized that my fur was gone. The white fox that Uncle Cliff gave me last Christmas. You can imagine the sinking sensation of my heart."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, dear, you lost it?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, but I found it. It had slipped off my back and dropped behind the seat. You can believe I held on to it mighty tight after that."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Did you go home then?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Go home? Well, I should say not. People never go home until they have to, after a big game like that; they're too excited--they have to work it off gradually. Cousin Tracy and I went to dinner where there were loads of Harvard people dining. After dinner we went to a light opera, and there--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Imagine! Why, the Harvard men didn't let him finish the first line before they had him off the stage--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mobbed him?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Call it what you like. I don't think they injured him, for he came back and sang Harvard songs--nothing else; sang like an angel, too."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, but you were in luck, Blue Bonnet, Kitty sighed."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I could die happy if I'd had your chance."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It does make you feel that way, Kitty. I can see myself telling my grandchildren about that game. It's almost like an inheritance, something you can pass along. I've cut out all the notices from the papers and kept the literature they passed around. Now, I think I've told you every blessed thing. Would you all like to come up-stairs and see my new clothes?"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Aunt Lucinda, Blue Bonnet called,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Sarah says she will come over Saturday and help sew the markers on my clothes. Isn't that lovely?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is very kind of Sarah, I am sure."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And, Aunt Lucinda, don't you think it would be nice to have a little tea, or luncheon or something, and let all the girls help?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It would be nice to have the girls, Blue Bonnet, but--"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "But what?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Marking clothes is rather a particular piece of work, you know."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I think _I_ could help, perhaps, Miss Clyde,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am sure you could, Sarah, and thank you very much; your work is always beautiful. Perhaps you would do some of the handkerchiefs."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Only five days now until Uncle Cliff comes,"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Five days! I can hardly wait. Grandmother, did you ever think what Uncle Cliff's been to me? Why, he's been father, mother, brother, sister! Many's the time on the ranch when I'd get lonesome he'd play tag with me, or marbles, or cut paper dolls and make me swings--anything to make me happy. Seems like I'm only just beginning to understand how much I owe him; always before I've just kind of taken everything for granted. Sometimes I can hardly wait until I'm grown up to make a nice home for him--to take care of him, and do the things--the little things men like to have done for them."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm beginning to feel grown up, sometimes, Grandmother. Going on seventeen is a pretty good age, isn't it? It won't be long now until I'm twenty-one, and then I suppose I'll have to take up responsibilities--learn how to run the ranch."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I fancy Uncle Cliff will stand back of you for some time yet, dear."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, and there's Alec. Pretty soon he'll know how to manage everything on the ranch, too. Uncle Cliff's getting awfully fond of him. Maybe when Alec is through school he'll make him manager of the whole place. Wouldn't that be fine? I think Alec will always be better out in the open. He can't stand city life, it's too cramped for him."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It certainly would be fine for Alec."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, and for Uncle Cliff, too. He gets mighty tired of the grind--that's what he calls it sometimes. Why, his little trips East are about the only pleasure he has; and yet--I don't believe you could drive him off the Blue Bonnet Ranch. He loves everything about it, from the smallest yearling to each blade of grass. He says my father did too, and _his_ father. It's a kind of a family trait."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And you have inherited the feeling?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, I love it, the girl answered."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Of course I love it--but I'm not crazy to winter and summer on it."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "By the way, Grandmother, did I tell you that the General has a new picture of Alec? It's just fine. I'll run over and get it."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There he is, she said, thrusting the picture in her grandmother's hands."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Did you ever see anybody change so in your life? That shows what Texas air will do for people. Why, he's fat, positively fat, for him, isn't he?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He certainly seems to have grown stouter,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And those corduroys--don't they look good--and the sombrero?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don't think you like it,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, yes, I do, dear. Only it seems a bit strange to see Alec in that garb. It is cowboy style, is it not?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, but it's cowboy dress, and cowboy life, and cowboy freedom that has given Alec health. He'd never have got it here in Woodford in a thousand years."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That is true, Blue Bonnet. You are right. What did the General think of the picture?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He loves it! I reckon it looked better to him than a West Point uniform with nothing inside of it."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I think the General got over that dream long ago, Blue Bonnet. He is perfectly delighted with Alec's recovery."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I think I'll go for a gallop, Grandmother, she said, turning suddenly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I've just time before dinner. I won't have many more chances."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The clouds look heavy, dear."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I know; that's why I want to go. I love the damp air in my face. It's so refreshing."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What's the matter with me?"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's a good thing Aunt Lucinda didn't hear that, Chula. She'd be horrified. What I mean is, I sha'n't let it creep in. If I do it will make me miserable, and I can't afford to be miserable with Uncle Cliff coming."
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, dearie, you did not ride far, did you?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, it was bleaker than I thought. The wind was cold, too, but it was refreshing just the same."
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There is a letter for you, Blue Bonnet. You must have known to have hurried so."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why, it's from Uncle Cliff!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Merry Christmas,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He means Carita Judson, Blue Bonnet explained."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I told him how much I wanted her to go with me to Miss North's school."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That's all. Isn't he a dear! Well, if he gets here on Christmas Day I sha'n't complain."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Take care of it for me, Grandmother. I don't need it any more than I do a sore thumb, as Uncle Joe used to say."
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Grandmother! she exclaimed,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I've got the loveliest idea! I was just over to Kitty Clark's, and the doctor is getting a Christmas tree ready for the people out at the Poor Farm. They are going to have it at four o'clock to-morrow afternoon, and he says that Kitty and I may go along and help if we want to. I asked him what he was going to give them, and he said not much, unfortunately, but a good time. He said he had hoped to be able to collect enough money this year to buy those old ladies a phonograph--you know--a Victrola--but everybody seems to feel so poor. I thought of the check Uncle Cliff sent me and I told the doctor about it. He didn't want to take it, but I said he just had to, and I ran home to get it. Where is it, Grandmother?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But--Blue Bonnet, you couldn't get a phonograph here in Woodford. Not the kind you would want--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, of course not; but Doctor Clark said if you thought best for me to give the money he could telephone to Boston this noon, and they could get it here on the four-twenty train, without any doubt. Oh, Grandmother, please don't say no. Seems to me I can't stand it if you do. Don't you remember how old Mrs. Prior loved Alec's songs that day she was here to see us? Why, she just seemed starved--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Lucinda, she called,"
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "I hardly think, Blue Bonnet, that your check would pay for the Victrola, Miss Clyde said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We should not want to get anything but the best--something that would last; and records are very expensive."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But, Aunt Lucinda, there's money left from what Uncle sent to buy my clothes, you said so. Let's take that. Oh, please, Aunt Lucinda."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I think it would be a beautiful thing to do, Lucinda,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You know how little those poor people have to amuse them, and, as Blue Bonnet says, Mrs. Prior seemed quite starved for music."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "I think this will buy the Victrola--and some records, too, she said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I would suggest that Doctor Clark get old-fashioned music--they would like that best."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "It was a generous impulse, she said;"
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "It will be a great source of happiness to them, later, when the keen edge of memory has been dulled by frequent contact with the wonderful invention, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Come out sometime and see for yourself."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The world seems an awfully unequal sort of place, doesn't it? she said to Sarah Blake."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Some people don't have enough money to make them comfortable, and others have so much they don't know how to spend it. What do you suppose is the reason?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't know, she said, with all the hopelessness of a poor minister's daughter;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But it's not fair! Blue Bonnet insisted vehemently."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It makes me feel wicked to have so much more than others."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But look at the good you can do--the people you can make happy. Maybe that is why you have it."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I _will_ do good, she said, and there was conviction in her tone."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I _will_, Sarah Blake. Just you wait till I come of age. Maybe I'll have an orphan asylum all my own. You'll see!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Merry Christmas, Blue Bonnet."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Uncle Cliff--Uncle Cliff! was all she could say."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How ever did you get here? Why, it isn't Christmas yet!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Shall I go back and wait, Honey? It is only another day."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, I should say not! Only--you know you said--you thought it wouldn't be possible to get here to-day. If I had known I wouldn't have been away for anything. Come in to the fire this minute and tell me all about the ranch and Uncle Joe and Benita and Alec--and everything."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Do you think, Mrs. Clyde, that I might give Blue Bonnet the Christmas present I brought for her? On the ranch we scarcely ever waited beyond Christmas Eve for our gifts, did we, Honey?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, do let him, Grandmother. There'll be plenty of things left for to-morrow."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Your Uncle is your legal guardian, dear. I think the privilege is his without asking."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What is the present? Where is it?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I think Grandmother took it up in your room. I suspect you might find it there."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "She found it without much difficulty,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, Uncle Cliff, if you aren't the darlingest, best uncle anybody in this world ever had!"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Carita, she said,"
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Must you go now--right this minute, Uncle Cliff?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am afraid so, Honey. Trains don't wait, you know. I must be off to-night, sure."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now you have everything that you need, Blue Bonnet? Aunt Lucinda inquired."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You are quite sure? You can write immediately if anything has been forgotten, remember--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, you are to have whatever you need, Honey,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, Aunt Lucinda, I won't forget. Yes, yes, Uncle Cliff, and you'll write often, won't you? I'll be so lonesome just at first. Good-by--good-by!"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, Honey! he said, as the brown head went down on his breast, and the quick sobs shook the slender form."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Now, now! What are you crying for? Do you want to go back to Grandmother's? You only have to say so, you know."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do you want to go home with me--back to the ranch?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Don't, Honey, he said, and there was a catch in his own voice."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't, please. Uncle Cliff can't bear to have you cry. He'll hear those sobs every step of the way back to Texas--and long after."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, no, you mustn't! I didn't mean to give way like that. I thought I was going to be all right--and then--all at once--it just had to come. It's homesickness. I've been fighting it for a month!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Remember you are responsible for Carita, too."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "If Carita dares act like this, I'll exert my authority and spank her, she said, giving that young person a warm hug."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm to mother her in every particular. Isn't that right, Uncle Cliff?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You are never to forget that you are responsible for her being here, Honey. You must make her happy and set her a good example at all times."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'll try and not lead her into temptation, at any rate."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That might be a good thing to remember, Blue Bonnet."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And now, dear, Miss Clyde said,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "All right, Aunt Lucinda. Good-by then--good-by! No, Uncle Cliff, I'm going to be good now. My love to everybody on the ranch--_everybody_, remember."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Now for the unpacking, Carita. Come along. I'll help you first. That's a motherly spirit, I'm sure."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, begin by spoiling me--that's right!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A little spoiling won't hurt you a bit. I doubt if a great deal would. There are some people you can't spoil."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I wouldn't advise you to try too hard,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don't like your being so far away from me, at all, Blue Bonnet said, as she turned on the light and laid her coat and hat on the bed."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's a silly rule having the younger girls all together on one floor. They need the older girls to keep them straight."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I fancy Fraulein can do that, Carita said resignedly, remembering the eagle-faced teacher in charge of the hall."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mary Boyd says she's a pill!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A--what?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A pill! I asked Mary what that meant, and she said a _dose_. You know--something you have to take and don't like."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You must introduce Mary to Aunt Lucinda, Carita. It would, perhaps, make her appreciate my vocabulary."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I think I'm going to like her just the same."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Aunt Lucinda?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, no! I mean--that is--I like _her_, of course. I meant Mary Boyd, my room-mate. She's awfully jolly."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "I think I'd like to see Mary Boyd. Let's go up to your room now and get your things out of the trunk."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, we will, only my things are out. Mary helped me this afternoon while you were away. I'm all settled."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Back again?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, and this is my friend, Blue Bonnet Ashe."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How do you do? Mary said, pausing a moment."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "First year here, too?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, my first year."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Make yourselves at home, she said hospitably."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Everything is in a muss, yet. I only got in myself this morning. I'll be back in a minute."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Don't you think she's nice?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She seems to be. You're in luck, Carita. I wish you could see _my_ cross!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We Freshies haven't any of the lugs you grown-ups sport, Mary said, entering the room with her pitcher of water."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There's only one bathroom on this floor for six girls. Fancy! Getting a bath is a regular Saturday night affair."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "This is your first year here, too, then,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No--second."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And you are a Freshman?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, you see, I was out last year part of the time--typhoid fever--and--oh, I'm no high-brow, anyway! Mother thought I'd best take the year over again. She says I've plenty of time. I'm just fifteen."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm working hard this year, though. You see, I want a room with a bath, and you have to be a Sophomore to get it."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I see. An incentive, isn't it?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "This is a fairly good room, don't you think? It's the best on the floor. Carita's lucky--that is, as far as the room goes. My room-mate was called home three weeks before Christmas. Her mother died. Poor little Nell!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm sorry for her, Carita said sympathetically,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What's that for?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Bed. In a half hour another will ring and every light on this floor will go off instantly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You mean to say you have to be in bed at half-past nine o'clock?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, I reckon I'd better run. I haven't unpacked yet."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, they aren't so awfully particular the first day. School doesn't really begin until to-morrow."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why don't you come down and stay with me to-night? she said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "My room-mate isn't back yet. I shouldn't be half so lonesome."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "All right--if--do you think they'd mind?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Skip along, she said generously."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "All's serene on the Potomac. You'd better hurry though, while the coast's clear."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "I reckon we can undress by that, she said,"
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Get up, Carita, she said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That's some kind of a bell ringing for something or other--goodness knows what! Maybe it's breakfast. I don't know."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, Blue Bonnet, I could have slept twenty minutes yet, Carita wailed sleepily."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I can dress for a party in ten minutes. Yes, I can, honestly!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Maybe--in Texas! You're in Boston now. Boston means a cold bath with a good rub, and getting into your clothes for the day--all of which takes time."
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'll take care of her, Mary announced, with a wave and a smile."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "She'll be in a lot of my classes."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Miss North has asked me to show you about this morning."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Perhaps you don't remember me, but we were introduced. My name is Annabel Jackson."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, I remember you--yes, indeed; and I'm Blue Bonnet Ashe."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We have prayers the first thing, Annabel said, leading the way to the chapel."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The gong will ring in five minutes. I reckon we won't be too early if we go now."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Dear me, do you have a gong to breathe by? Blue Bonnet asked laughingly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Seems to me one rings every five minutes."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not quite; but that little electric hammer runs the school--with Miss North behind it."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "We have a half hour to put our rooms in order, she said, leaving Blue Bonnet at her own door."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'll call for you in a little while. I'm just down the hall--number fifteen--if you get through first, stop for me."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I haven't unpacked yet. I think, if I have a minute, I had better take my gowns out of the trunk,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You won't have much time now. Wait until this afternoon. We have from four to five o'clock free. I'll help you then."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Miss Ashe is a new girl--a Junior, Annabel explained to her friends."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "She's on our floor--in number ten, with Joy Cross."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, you poor thing! You must have been born for trouble--."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Now, Sue, don't! Annabel protested."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Just because you had her last year and didn't like her--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Do you? Does Ruth? Does anybody?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Miss North does, Ruth replied;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The entire Faculty, to say nothing of the janitor and maids,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You mean--that she's a sort of teacher's pet?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well--'pet' would be going some, for Joy, Annabel laughed."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But you're warm--very warm!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Or you will be, before many days. You'll be a regular barometer, going up--going up--going up--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Stop, Sue! Don't mind her, Miss Ashe. She's an awful tease. Joy isn't anything worse than a stick--a bore. If you have a nice disposition you'll get on splendidly--Sue hasn't!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, thanks, Sue said, bowing profoundly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is because of my long association with you, then;"
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, just fine, Blue Bonnet, thank you. Mary has been such an angel. We are in the same Algebra class--and French, too. Isn't that nice? We can get our lessons together."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hello, Sozie,"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hello, Annabel, she answered."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "This is my new room-mate--Carita Judson, from Texas."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "What sort of a girl is Mary Boyd? Blue Bonnet asked."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "She's rooming with a little friend of mine. Carita and I come from near the same place in Texas."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mary? Oh, Mary is a dear. A little spoiled, I reckon. She's an only child, I believe, and has a perfectly doting father. She's always just as you see her--smiling or laughing. Did you ever see such teeth in your life? The girls call her 'Sozie.' You know that picture, don't you? Sozodont! Girl all smiles and teeth."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What do we do now?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now we exercise--walk. Generally we go over to the Fenway. In the spring and fall we play tennis."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Do we all go? I mean all the girls together?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, all of us--à la chain gang. The animals march out two by two."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Alone?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hardly. It's like the Charge of the Light Brigade--teacher to the right of us--teacher to the left of us--teacher in front of us--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Really?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, not really. Only to the back and front of us--usually. You'll have fifteen minutes to get into a walking suit if you care to; if you don't, just put on a big coat. It's raw out to-day."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "The young ladies meet for their walk in the reception-room down-stairs, she said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There is no visiting back and forth in the rooms except between four and five o'clock."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We will walk together, Carita,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "All right, I have so much to tell you, Blue Bonnet."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The younger girls usually walk together, she said, turning to Blue Bonnet."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Have you no partner?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No. I only entered yesterday."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "So many of the girls are not back yet. Perhaps you would walk with me,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Thank you,"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "We came over to help you unpack, Annabel announced."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Three of us can do it quickly, and then perhaps you will come over to my room for a cup of tea. We have a whole hour to ourselves now."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, what a love of a hat! Do get out of the way, Ruth, so I can try it on;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And, oh, what a sweet organdy! Where did you get that white wool Peter Thompson? I've searched the town for one."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "What is it?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, how lovely! they exclaimed in a breath."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Who is it?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "My mother,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Isn't she beautiful! Is she in Texas?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No. She's--dead."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Where's your father--have you one of him?"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Is he in Texas--on the ranch you were telling us about?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No. He's dead--too."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I know what it means, she said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have lost my mother, too. I still have my father, though, thank Heaven, and Billy. You must know Billy--he's my brother at Harvard--the best ever--why--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now, Sue's going to take the pulpit, she said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You're jealous, she said,"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "You girls certainly have it in for my room-mate,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "She isn't in our crowd,"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "I didn't know they allowed you to have so much in your room,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "They don't--ordinarily. I've been here a long time, and things accumulate. Anyway, I told Miss North that if I couldn't have things the way I wanted them this year, I'd go somewhere else. They'll do a good deal to keep you after they once get you. You'll soon find that out."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, I don't know, Ruth said from her end of the room, where she was operating a chafing dish,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, well,--_that_, of course. Fanny Price hadn't any business here in the first place."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Will you have lemon in your tea? she asked."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Do you mind if we call you Blue Bonnet? It's something of a mouthful, but I like it."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Please do. I should love it. I take lemon, thank you."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's a good thing you do. Cream is an unknown quantity in this room. We did have some Eagle Brand, but Ruth spread the last of it on her crackers yesterday."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "On crackers?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes. Ever try it?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, it's not so bad. You'll come to it--some day when you're starving."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Starving? Don't you get enough to eat here?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes--but it's not the Copley Plaza--exactly. We manage to get fat, anyway. That reminds me--where's Wee? Go get her, Sue, and ask her to bring over some Nabiscos, if she happens to have any handy. Wee's a regular life-saving station, usually."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Wee."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "What ever in the world has got into Deborah Watts!"
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Can you cook things in your room?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You can have a chafing dish, if that's what you mean; that is, you can if you happen to be a Senior. Annabel and I graduate in June. Our menu is limited, however. We seldom roast fowl, or boil coffee --she winked at Sue--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do we, Wee?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Wee do!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "First year?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "First, Blue Bonnet said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have answered that question fifty times to-day. I believe I'll have a placard printed and hang it round my neck."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It might save breath during the next few days, Sue remarked."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Everybody you meet will ask you that. It sort of breaks the ice."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It was awfully good of you girls to be so nice to me to-day. I appreciate it ever so much. I think I must go now. Carita will be looking for me. Come and see me, won't you? I'm in number ten --she nodded toward Deborah Watts."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Not being a Senior I can't make you tea, but I might manage to have some crackers and Eagle milk. Good-by."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Here's a girl as far away from home as we are, Blue Bonnet. She's from California--Los Angeles."
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now, now! Mary Boyd said, springing up from the bed on which she had perched."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Don't you cry any more. You'll be sick if you do, and they'll put you in the Infirmary. Here, eat some more candy."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, dear, she said, and her own lip began to quiver,"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "We have twenty minutes yet, to visit. Let's play a game. I know a fine one. Come on, everybody."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Come on, she said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You've got to play, whether you want to or not. How do you do it--Miss--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Call me Blue Bonnet."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You can sit down, Blue Bonnet announced."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You don't have to stand--just keep your eyes on me. You are each of you a musical instrument."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Watch me. I beat the drum. When I stop beating and imitate one of your instruments--suppose it is the fiddle--then you stop playing the fiddle, Carita, and begin to beat the drum. If you don't stop instantly, and begin to beat the drum before I call out fiddle, you have to stand up here and take my place. See?"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Young ladies, I haf you to report to Miss North if not this noise stop instantly. _Instantly._ You understand? I speak not again!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, isn't she too exasperating,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I perfectly abominate her, Mary answered."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am going to ask Miss North if Fraulein can't be removed from this hall. I don't think it's one bit fair for us to have her all the time. She's just too interfering."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It wouldn't do a particle of good to ask, Sozie, Peggy said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Miss North caters to Fraulein, herself. She says she is the finest German teacher she ever saw. She imported her from Berlin at great expense and personal sacrifice to the Empire. The nation's been in mourning ever since she left!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Goodness me, Carita exclaimed,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, she declared, pretending to weep in her handkerchief,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I want to see you after dinner, Carita,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We go down to the gymnasium and dance a while, after dinner,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "All right. I engage the first three dances then, Carita. Don't forget."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "What a serious face, the teacher said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I hope it is not homesickness."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, I think I've fought that all out."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That's good! Youth is not the time for tears."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But I have just come from a regular downpour."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It sounded like a downfall. I was in Madame de Cartier's room, just underneath. We thought the ceiling was coming through."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, I'm so sorry. I am afraid it was my fault. Those children were so horribly homesick that I suggested a game."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That was very thoughtful, I am sure. Some of those young girls really suffer terribly. Sometimes it makes them quite ill."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "You'll ruin your eyes, she said pleasantly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That's what my aunt always says to me when I read in the twilight."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I suppose we get dressed for dinner now?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Is dinner just at six?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What do we do in the meantime?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Study--or practise; or read, if you wish."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That must be a hard lesson you are getting,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's a book I'm reading."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh!"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "May I come in--please? I'm threatened with a terrible attack of--the blues, I reckon."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Surely, she said,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You mean it's against the rules?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Then I'd better go."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nonsense, stay where you are! I was dying for some one to hook me up. Ruth's in the tub--been there an hour. If you hear any one coming, step in the closet."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I shouldn't have come only I knew I was going to be homesick, and--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And Joy wasn't a very good antidote, was she?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hardly. She won't talk."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You'll have to do what Sue did last year. That awful silence got on her nerves. Not that she was so anxious to hear Joy talk, but she got tired of putting forth all the effort. Well, she got somebody to make out a list of subjects on a typewriter. She gave it to Joy. 'Now,' she said, 'for goodness sake, _talk_. Choose, in any order you like, but _talk_!'"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ssh! Annabel warned."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You mustn't do anything more than breathe during this hour."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Sit still,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What would they do if they found me?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That depends upon who found you. If it were the German lady above--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Fraulein?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Has she anything to do with this floor?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There isn't anything in the school that she hasn't something to do with."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And if it were Mrs. White?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mrs. White would do her duty. She would send you to your room--and you'd go--a heap quicker than you would for Fraulein."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I think I'll go anyway. Oh, there's a knock!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "May I come in, Annabel?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I think I'll have to escort Miss Ashe to her room and show her the rules,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm ready. I was just going."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Very well. We'll 'kill two birds with one stone.' I was going to your room to talk over your music."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "There, she said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Didn't you see these rules, Miss Ashe?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, yes, I saw them, Blue Bonnet answered with unconcern that amazed Mrs. White."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I didn't read them. I hate rules!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But I am afraid you will have to read these--and obey them!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I suppose so."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You see, she explained,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I've been brought up rather differently from most girls--that is, up to a year and a half ago. I lived on a big ranch in Texas with my uncle. Everything there was as free as the air and water. We didn't have any restrictions. Boston seems to be made up of 'em."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We do have a good many conventions, that's true--especially here. It would be chaos without them. You can see that, can't you?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, yes."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And you will try to keep the rules?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Of course I'll try. I shouldn't like to displease _you_."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I appreciate that very much, she said,"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mercy, isn't this spooky?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, this isn't anything? Wait a minute."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's a part of the furnace room, she said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You can go through here and follow another little dark hall--oh, much worse than this--and it takes you to the kitchen and pantries. We went down one night last year--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "One night?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, it was loads of fun. There were five or six of us. We ate enough apple sauce and fresh bread to kill us."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Let's sit here and talk, Blue Bonnet said to Carita, drawing her to a secluded corner."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I feel as if I had hardly seen you."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, she said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The school, you mean?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's been rather strenuous to-day. I'm beginning to look forward to bedtime. I'm tired."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is tiresome--getting adjusted."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What do we do after this half hour? It's a regular merry-go-round, isn't it? A continuous performance."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We study the next hour. Sometimes--twice a week--we have a short lecture on general culture. You'll be taught how to enter a room properly, and how to leave it--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I know that already."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Of course, but it has to be impressed."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Then what?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then we go to our rooms. Sometimes we settle down, and sometimes we don't. It depends. Once in a while we have a feast. We'll invite you next time."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Where do you have it?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, in our rooms sometimes--but it's risky. The sky parlor is the best place. That's up in the attic--under the eaves. It's fine! There's no teacher to bother. It's a little cold just now. They don't heat it, but you can put on your bath-robe and be comfy. We're waiting now for Wee Watts to get her clean clothes back from home. You see, she only lives an hour or two out of the city, and she sends her things home to be washed. When they come back, her mother always fills up the suitcase with cakes and cookies and jam--well, not jam, any more. The last jar she sent, broke, and spilled all over a new silk waist she was sending Wee for a party. It was quite tragic."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The loss of the jam--or the waist?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Both. It was hard on Wee, losing the waist. You see, she's so stout she can't borrow much from the rest of us."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Will you come to my office a moment after study hour? she said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I want to go over your program with you. The room is just beyond the reception hall on the first floor."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You found your classes this morning, all right?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, thank you, Miss North."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And decided upon your course?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes. Professor Howe thought I could enter the Junior class without any trouble. I'm taking college preparatory. I don't know yet whether I'll go to college or not, but my aunt wanted me to prepare."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Good night, she said, holding out her hand."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I hope you are going to be happy with us. You found the girls pleasant? Annabel Jackson is about your age."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm not seventeen yet, Blue Bonnet said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I reckon my clothes make me look older. I begged Aunt Lucinda to let me have them a little longer than I've been wearing. Yes, I like the girls very much. Good night."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Will I ever sing really well?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That depends upon yourself, and how much you want to sing. You have a good voice, plenty of excellent timbre in it. You have even more--the greatest essential of all--temperament. You live--you feel--you have the sympathetic quality that spells success--with work!"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Miss Elizabeth Ashe, she said to Miss North at the end of the second week,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That's rather odd, she said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Miss Root told me only a half hour ago that Miss Ashe was very indifferent in her mathematics--absolutely inattentive."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am very sorry to find that you are not doing well in your mathematics, Miss Ashe. What is the trouble?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I hate mathematics and I dislike Miss Root,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That is very disrespectful, Miss Ashe; I cannot have you speak of one of your teachers in that way."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But I don't like her, Miss North, not a bit!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That is not to the point. Why are you inattentive?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm not. I am only stupid!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I can hardly think that, she said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have excellent reports from other teachers regarding your work."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I meant stupid in mathematics. I always have been."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Perhaps you haven't got hold of them properly. The difficulty often begins in the primary grades."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Perhaps that is it. I always had a tutor or a governess on the ranch. I hated arithmetic, so we didn't bother much with it. When I entered school in Woodford I just managed to slide through my mathematics. I never got more than a passing grade."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And Miss Root? Why do you dislike her?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Miss Root is too sarcastic. When I make a mistake she calls the attention of the class to it."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You may be excused, now, Miss Ashe, she said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I will investigate this matter."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "You see what you can do when you try, Miss Ashe,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I tried all the time, Miss Root--but--I reckon--maybe we didn't just understand each other."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "I daresay that was just the trouble. You are very young to have so much philosophy. If you are puzzled again, come to my room. I want you to like mathematics--they are great mental gymnastics. You must learn to get fun out of them."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, Blue Bonnet, she said, her eyes wide with excitement;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Carita's sick--real sick! Mrs. Goodwin just came to our room and took her to the Infirmary."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sick? she repeated."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Sick? Why, she was all right yesterday."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, she wasn't. She hasn't been well for several days; but she begged me so not to tell anybody that I didn't. I wish now I had. I'm awfully frightened about her. She's had headache for a week. Goodness knows what she's got! That's the way typhoid fever and a lot of things come. You ache all over--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mary, Blue Bonnet said sternly,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Where are you going, Blue Bonnet?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "To the Infirmary, of course. Let me go."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, no, you can't! It's strictly against the rules. Carita's quarantined. They've sent for the doctor."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Rules or no rules, I'm going to Carita."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, no, Blue Bonnet, please, please don't! It will get you in trouble. Go find Mrs. Goodwin. She's awfully nice, really she is. She'll tell you all about it."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That settles it, Blue Bonnet said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I shall go to the Infirmary."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Carita--Carita, dear, Blue Bonnet said softly, kneeling down beside her."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What's the matter? Why didn't you tell me you were sick?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, Blue Bonnet, go out of here, quick! They don't know what I've got. You might catch something!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Please--please go, Blue Bonnet. I'm all right. Really I am! Please go away; anyway until the doctor comes."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What do they mean by leaving you alone? she said, clasping and unclasping her hands."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's outrageous!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I've only been alone a few minutes. Mrs. Goodwin just stepped out a minute."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "You must go out of here at once, Miss Ashe; this is quite against the rules."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What is the matter with Carita? Is it anything very dreadful--a disease like typhoid or anything?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We don't know yet,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Will you please let me know as soon--as soon as you know yourself, Mrs. Goodwin?"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "I will come to your room, Mrs. Goodwin, after my English period, at nine forty-five. May I? Perhaps you will know more then. May I, please?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, Miss Ashe. And say nothing about this to any of the girls."
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The doctor cannot tell for another forty-eight hours just what is the matter with Miss Judson. He hopes it is nothing serious."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Is it anything contagious--like a fever?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We don't know."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "May I see Carita a minute?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Not to-day."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Will some one stay with her all the time? I should like her to have a nurse."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I will not leave Miss Judson, Miss Ashe. She will have every care. Please do not come up on this floor again. I will keep you advised as to her condition. Do not make yourself unhappy about it. I know that you are very anxious."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, I am, Mrs. Goodwin. Awfully--awfully anxious! You see-- she hesitated--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am responsible for Carita's being here, and if there's anything very much the matter, I ought to send for my aunt."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That will all be attended to, Miss Ashe, at the proper time."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But what did the doctor say?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He thinks Miss Judson may be getting acclimated. She has lived a very free life in the open country, and this confinement, for a while, may tell upon her. I really think it is nothing more than that."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Are you ill, Miss Ashe?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, Fraulein, I am not ill."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then why are you in your room at this hour? Have you not some class? French?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, I have French at this hour."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And you go not to the lesson?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I shall haf to report you to Miss North."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I will save you the trouble, she said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am going to Miss North now, myself."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She is one impertinent young person,"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "May I speak with you, Miss North?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What is it, Miss Ashe?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You know about Carita, Miss North?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mrs. Goodwin has reported her illness."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I think that my aunt should be notified at once."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We are responsible for Carita, and--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Miss Judson will have every attention, Miss Ashe. She is in no immediate danger. I shall notify Miss Clyde as soon as I think it necessary."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You mean that you will not notify her to-day?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hardly--to-day."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Then I shall, Miss North! I want to report to you that I didn't go to my French class this morning. You will probably hear of it from Fraulein Herrmann, though I should have told you anyway."
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why did you not go to your French class, Miss Ashe?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Because I was so worried about Carita. I knew I couldn't make any kind of a recitation."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That does not excuse you from going. You may report now to Madam de Cartier. In regard to Miss Judson--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You will leave Miss Judson to the care of Mrs. Goodwin and Doctor Giles for the present. As soon as there is the slightest cause for alarm your aunt will be notified. You may go now."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How's Carita? Mary asked."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Have they found out what's the matter with her?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No. The doctor can't tell yet."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What doctor?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I think his name is Giles."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Doctor Giles! Oh, mercy, they always get him, and he's slower than molasses at Christmas. That's just the way he did when I was sick. First he said it was cold--then it was grippe; then it looked like something else. By the time they got my mother here I was so sick I didn't know her."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mary, Blue Bonnet said, actually frightened,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No. You ask Peggy Austin. She'll tell you!"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Would you do me a favor, Ethel?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Surely,"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "DEAR AUNT LUCINDA:--Will you please come up at once. Carita is sick. The doctor doesn't know yet what's the matter with her, he can't tell for forty-eight hours,--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Miss Ashe!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What haf you there, Miss Ashe? This is a time for study, not for the writing of letters."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You may bring the paper to the desk, Miss Ashe."
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come back to your seat, this instant, Miss Ashe,"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have a very unpleasant report of you, Miss Ashe, she said firmly, but gently."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am surprised and sorry. What have you to say in the matter?"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Tell me about it, she said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Did you ever think, Miss Ashe, she said presently,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Think _now_, for a moment. Take the case of your friend, Carita. If there had been no rule against your going to the Infirmary this morning, and Carita had come down with a contagious disease, you, by your presence there for only a moment, might have carried the contagion to a dozen others. Would you have had the right to do that, do you think, simply because of your interest in your friend?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And in regard to sending for your aunt. Could you not have trusted Miss North, my child? She has been operating this school successfully for many years. She has the interest of each and every pupil at heart--she knows their needs. She has perfect confidence in our physician."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, but Mary--one of the girls--said that he was awfully slow and old fashioned, and I--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mary Boyd is only a silly little girl. She wouldn't know the qualifications of a good doctor if she were asked to give them. You should never rely on immature judgment. It is apt to be colored with prejudice."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I reckon I have made a mistake, Professor Howe. I'm sorry. I was so awfully worried and upset about Carita."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Of course you were. I can quite understand that. On the other hand, we do not expect you to love and trust us all at once. Confidence comes by degrees; but we _do_ want you to believe that your _best_ interests are considered here--always."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "One moment, Miss Ashe. Will you say to Fraulein Herrmann what you have just said to me--that you are sorry--sorry for what she deems an impertinence on your part in the study hall?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But I am _not_ sorry, Professor Howe."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Not sorry to have been rude, Miss Ashe?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I think Fraulein Herrmann was rude to me. She called to me before the whole room--she--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You were disobeying the rules, Miss Ashe. Fraulein was right. Study hour is not the time for letter writing. You will apologize, I am sure."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I will then--to please you,"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Goodness, she said, after a moment, during which Blue Bonnet had not spoken,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Got the blues?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not homesick?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, Blue Bonnet, what is it, dear?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Never mind about the cocoa. What's happened?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nothing--at least--I can't tell you, Annabel."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why can't you?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Because--I can't!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, please, she said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come, tell me. Maybe I can help."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why, Blue Bonnet, she said,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Martha's been hunting everywhere for you. Miss North wants you in her office right away. There's a man with her--a dumpy--I beg your pardon--but a short, stout man with a bald head. I think it's your uncle, or cousin. Anyway, hurry! There's something doing. Miss North looks like a war cloud without a ghost of a silver lining. She was just laying it off to your--ah--em--relative. Do hurry. I'm simply wild to know what's up, and come right back and tell us all about it. Don't forget!"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am sure, he was saying,"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That is no doubt true, Mr. Winthrop; but it is not altogether to the point. Miss Ashe has been willful and disobedient in this matter. She has shown an absolute disregard of rules--a lack of faith in my word. I promised her this morning that Miss Judson should have every attention and care, and that Miss Clyde should be notified at the proper time. You will understand, of course, Mr. Winthrop, that if each parent who has a daughter in this institution were to be notified the moment that child becomes indisposed, it would cause unnecessary alarm, as well as expense. It is a very common thing, at the beginning of the year, to have the Infirmary half full of girls who are suffering from colds, change of climate, homesickness; minor ills, insignificant and trivial. It is our habit to call our physician, Doctor Giles, immediately. We rely implicitly upon his judgment. Perhaps you may know of Doctor Giles? He has something of a reputation in the city."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, Mr. Winthrop said,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I know him very well indeed; in fact he is my physician--and friend."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Then you know something of his skill, she said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He has just left here--his second visit to-day. He finds Miss Judson much better, absolutely without temperature--in fact, quite normal. Her illness, superinduced by homesickness, has at no time been alarming. She has a bilious cold--always disagreeable--and some difficulty in adjusting herself to this climate after the fresh air of the prairie. This, I believe, is the history of the case. You see how simple it is--scarcely sufficient to cause this--teapot tempest!"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I see your point--perfectly--now, she said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I didn't this morning. I'm terribly sorry that I've caused you all this annoyance. I reckon it was because-- she stopped, unwilling to allow herself the slightest loophole of escape through an explanation."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There is no excuse for me at all. I apologize, Miss North, and I'm willing to take my punishment--anything you think right--only I hope--it won't be expulsion. Grandmother could never stand that. It would most kill her!"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I accept your apology, Miss Ashe. We try never to expel for mistakes--unless they are serious enough to be contaminating in influence. As to a punishment--we will discuss that later. You may come here--to my office, for a few minutes after study hour this evening."
}
] |
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