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15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then you think her pretty? You have called on her? Mark replied, his manner evincing so much pleasure that Juno bit her lip to keep down her wrath, and flashing upon him her scornful eyes, replied:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, Sybil and Bell insisted that I sh... |
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Seriously, though, this Miss Lennox seems a very nice girl, and is admirably fitted, I think, for the position she is to fill--that of a country physician's wife,"
}
] |
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Certainly; I imagine that was settled as long ago as we met him in Paris. Once I thought it might have been our Katy, but was mistaken. I think the doctor and Miss Lennox well adapted to each other--it is an excellent match."
}
] |
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They are well matched,"
}
] |
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I do not believe I am in love with her, he said to himself that night, when, after his return from Mrs. Reynolds' he sat for a long time before the fire in his dressing-room, cogitating upon what he had heard, and wondering why it should affect him so much."
},
{
"from":... |
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But it shall not interfere with my being just as kind to her as before. She will need some attendant here, and Wilford, I know, will be glad to shove her off his hands. He is so infernal proud,"
}
] |
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I want so much to surprise her, she said, speaking in a whisper,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, Mrs. Banker said, thoughtfully, as she rolled up the bills,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, Katy replied,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": ... |
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, pleased with anything you choose to give her, but--excuse me, dear Mrs. Cameron, if I speak as openly as if I were the mother of you both. Bracelets are suitable for you who can have everything else, but is there not something your sister needs more, something which will do... |
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You are right, she said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It was thoughtless in me not to think of this myself. Helen shall have the furs, and whatever else is necessary. I am so glad you reminded me of it. You are kind as my own mother,"
}
] |
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, Katy, Katy, why did you do it?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You are not angry?"
}
] |
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, oh, no! Helen replied."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I know it was all meant well; but there is something in me which rebels against taking this from Wilford. He had better have sent to Silverton for that trunk. Its contents have never been disturbed, and surely... |
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What would they say at home if they could only see you?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Aunt Betsy would say I had forgotten half my dress,"
}
] |
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nothing else? Surely mademoiselle will have these few green leaves?"
}
] |
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You will be the belle of the evening,"
}
] |
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You would rather leave her wholly to Mark Ray and his mother, I suppose, Bell said, adding, as she saw the flush on Juno's face."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You know you are dying of jealousy, and nothing annoys you so much as to hear people talk of Mark's attenti... |
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She is such a prude, I daresay she will go in that blue silk with the long sleeves and high neck, looking like a Dutch doll,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am not certain that a high dress is worse than bones,"
}
] |
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Who is she?"
}
] |
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have never learned."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You miss a great deal,"
}
] |
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Pond lilies are my pets, she said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "and his eyes rested upon Helen with a look that made her blush as she faintly answered"
}
] |
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I mean to sound her,"
}
] |
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "As you like, though it cannot matter; a person known to be engaged is above Bob Reynolds' jokes."
}
] |
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It was kind in him to warn me. I wish it had been sooner, she thought, and then with a bitter feeling of shame she wondered how much he had guessed of her real feelings, and who the betrothed one was."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not Juno Cameron,"
}
] |
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They are a well-matched pair, Mrs. Cameron said, assuming a very confidential manner toward Helen, who assented to the remark, while the lady continued:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There is but one thing wrong about Mark Ray. He is a most unscrupulous flirt, pleas... |
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's that confounded waltzing which disgusted her, he said,"
}
] |
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is natural, she said,"
}
] |
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I never thought till last night how nice it would be for you to marry Mark and settle in New York,"
}
] |
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You looked beautiful, Wilford said, Katy continued,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "and Katy's voice fell, while her eyes rested upon the crib where the baby was sleeping,"
}
] |
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You are confining yourself too much, she said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You are losing all your color. Fresh air will do you good, even if parties will not. Suppose we drive this afternoon to Marian Hazelton's and show her the baby."
}
] |
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You needn't go up, Katy said to the nurse, feeling that she would rather meet Marian without the presence of a stranger."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Miss Lennox will carry baby and you can wait here. It is not cold, she added, as the nurse showed signs of remonstr... |
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You would not come to see it and so I brought it to you. Isn't she a beauty?"
}
] |
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If there were a child it would of course be different."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What makes you cry?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I was thinking of what might have been, came struggling from Marian's pale lips, and Helen felt a throb of pain as s... |
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What do you intend to call her?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Genevra,"
}
] |
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, I know now, she said, as baby's cry fell on her ear, but restoring her wholly to herself."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Fainting is one of my weaknesses, she continued, turning to Helen."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You have seen me so before. I... |
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He won't, oh, He won't,"
}
] |
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "God does not willfully torment us. He will not take my baby, when my whole life would die with it. I had almost forgotten to pray, there was so much else to do, till baby came, but now I never go to sleep at night or waken in the morning, that there does not come a prayer of tha... |
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and placing so much accent on the last syllable. At this the Father Cameron swore as cussed nonsense--"
}
] |
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Genevra. Not long before her illness she had read an English story, which had in it a Genevra, and she had at once seized upon it as the most delightful cognomen a person could well possess."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Genevra Cameron! She had repeated it to herse... |
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Maggie Cameron--pretty enough, but not like Genevra. Indeed I shall not have any Margarets now; next time perhaps I may."
}
] |
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Better, Juno said, and now she touched Bell's arm, to have her see"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Now for the all-important name. What shall we call our daughter?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Let your mother speak first,"
}
] |
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, but not half so pretty and striking as Rose Marie,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Rose Mary! Thunder! Father Cameron exclaimed."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Call her a marygold, or a sunflower, just as much. Don't go to being fools by giving a ch... |
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Genevra, or nothing,"
}
] |
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "After all it does not matter, Mrs. Cameron said to her daughters, when, after Mrs. Wilford had gone, she sat talking of Katy's queer fancy and her obstinacy in adhering to it."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It does not matter; and on the whole I had as soon the chris... |
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It was foolish to take that stand, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Other mothers went and why should not she? She had already stayed in too much. She was injuring herself, and --what was infinitely worse to Wilford--"
}
] |
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If they could only see you at home,"
}
] |
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You are like a girl with her first doll,"
}
] |
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Surely Miss Lennox might remain; the carriage could be sent back for her; and he had hardly seen her at all."
}
] |
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Baby was not well--baby needed her,"
}
] |
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Strange he had never thought of it, when it was what so many people did, he said to himself as he hurried home."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It was the very best thing both for Katy and the child, and would obviate every difficulty."
},
{
"from": "human",
... |
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well;"
}
] |
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You must have seen how opposed Katy is to complying with my wishes, setting them at naught, when she knows how much pleasure she would give me by yielding as she used to do."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don't know what you mean, Helen replied,"
},
{
"from... |
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, she looks older than you do,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There is not two years difference between us, and I have always been well, keeping regular hours until I came here."
}
] |
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I will do what I can, but I must confess it seems to me an unnatural thing. I had supposed parents less selfish than that."
}
] |
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I hope to find Katy reconciled when I come home. I think I had better not go up to her again, so tell her I send a good-by kiss by you. I leave her case in your hands."
}
] |
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Wilford thought he had better not come up, but he sent a kiss by me,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It does not matter, Katy gasped."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Kisses cannot help me if they take my baby away. Did he tell you? and she turned now part... |
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Say, do you think they will?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Whom do you mean by 'they'?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Whom do I mean? His folks of course! They have been the instigators of every sorrow I have known since I left Silverton. Oh, Helen, ne... |
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I tried so hard to love her, Katy said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Where is baby to be sent?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Up the river, to a house which Father Cameron owns, and which is kept by a farmer's family. I can't trust Kirby. I do not lik... |
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If you were that bird, what would you do?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I? What would I do? I should beat my wings until I died; but your nature is different. You are more yielding, more loving, more submissive. You can bear it better."
}
] |
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I can't, I can't,"
}
] |
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then if it must be, Helen said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It is only for your good, and every one with common sense will say so."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am always better after talking with her, Katy said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"... |
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Write to her, Marian--write to-day--now, before I go,"
}
] |
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, I will write, she answered;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I will tell Amelia what you desire."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But, Marian, you, too, must go. I'll trust baby with you. Say, Marian, will you take care of my darling?"
}
] |
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Surely he will yield to me in this,"
}
] |
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Norma,"
}
] |
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Is it still your wish that I should go? if so, I am at your disposal."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Wait till the madam comes and then we'll see,"
}
] |
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "One can judge so much better from hearing one converse. If her manner should be very bad and her grammar execrable, I should consider it my duty to withdraw my consent, she said, with as much deliberation as if the matter were wholly at her disposal."
},
{
"from": "gpt",... |
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Will Marian go to No. ---- Fifth Avenue?"
}
] |
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Miss Hazelton wishes to see Mrs. Cameron,"
}
] |
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Maybe she is a lady, mother; Katy raves about her continually, Bell said; but with an air of incredulity at the lady part, Mrs. Cameron swept haughtily down the broad staircase, the rustle of her heavy silk sending a chill of fear through Marian's frame, but not affecting her so... |
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Miss Hazelton, I believe?"
}
] |
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, I found Mrs. Wilford Cameron's note, and came around as she requested."
}
] |
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Not yet, we cannot decide upon a name,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I understood your daughter that it was to be Genevra."
}
] |
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dark, mother? How is that? Why is the hall not lighted?"
}
] |
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Who was that, mother?"
}
] |
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I liked her. She seemed a well-bred person, and her voice is much like Genevra's."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I did not think of her, it is true, until Miss Hazelton inquired about baby's name, and said she understood from Katy that it was to be Genevra. Then it c... |
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Miss Hazelton is ready any time, and so I decided upon the day after to-morrow--that will be Saturday--thus giving Katy the benefit of Sunday in which to get over it and recover her usual spirits."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You are sure it is right?"
}
] |
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Please all of you go out, she said, when baby was ready--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Wilford and all. I had rather be alone."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Darling, she murmured,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You will care for her, Mari... |
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They certainly call her Miss Hazelton, he thought, as he bade her good-by and then left her alone, going back to the house which even to him seemed lonely, with all the paraphernalia of babyhood removed. Still, now that the worst was over, he rather enjoyed it, for Katy was free... |
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My dear Wilford, closing with"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Your respected ant,"
}
] |
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She'd like to know what there was about her to mortify anybody? Wasn't her black silk dress made long and full, and the old pongee fixed into a Balmoral, and hadn't she a bran-new cap with purple ribbon, and couldn't she travel in her delaine, and didn't she wear hoops always no... |
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mother would be so glad to see an old neighbor, the honest youth said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "and on a bit of paper he marked out the route of the Fourth Avenue cars, which passed their door, and which Aunt Betsy would take after arriving at the New Haven dep... |
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We shall be delighted, both mother and me, Mattie wrote."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I will show you all the lions of the city, and when you get tired of us you can go up to Mrs. Cameron's. I know exactly where they live, and have seen her at the opera in full dre... |
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If anybody can find their way in New York, it is Betsy,"
}
] |
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Pretty well, thank you, but you've got the better of me, as I don't justly recall your name."
}
] |
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ticket, madam, your ticket!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "For the land's sake, have I got to give that up so quick, when it's at the bottom of my satchel,"
}
] |
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A right nice man,"
}
] |
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Young man, you are a soldier, I take it, from your havin' been to school at West Point. Maybe you'll never have to use your learning, but if you do, stick to the old flag. Don't you go against that, and if an old woman's prayers for your safety can do any good, be sure you'll ha... |
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'll remember what you say,"
}
] |
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I didn't know we ran into cellars, she said, faintly; but nobody heeded her, or cared for the anxious and now timid-looking woman, who grew more and more anxious, until suddenly remembering the card, she drew it from her pocket, and the next time the conductor appeared handed it... |
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I should s'pose he might have driv right up, instead of leaving me here, she said, looking wistfully at the retreating car, which now seemed almost like home."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Coats, and trousers, and jackets! I wonder if there is nothing else to be see... |
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But, alas! the so-called"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "was a large-sized closet, or single room, at the other end of the hall, and now used as an _omnium gatherum_ for the various articles Mrs. Tubbs found necessary for her"
}
] |
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Episcopal meeting,"
}
] |
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "judging from the crowds who passed that way and the glimpses she caught of other crowds in the streets beyond. Still in some things she was disappointed. New York was not so grand as she had imagined it to be--not as grand as Helen's letters would imply; and she"
}
] |
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Did 'Tilda know if Katy went to the opera now? Did she s'pose she would be there to-night? Was it far to the show house? What was the price--and was it a very wicked place?"
}
] |
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But Silverton will never know it, the tempter whispered,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "as she termed it,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "To Mrs. Tubbs it seemed impossible that Aunt Betsy could be in earnest, but when she was, she put no impediments in ... |
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm in for it now anyhow, and if it is wrong may the good Father forgive me,"
}
] |
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "she thought, and she was beginning to yawn when a nudge from Mattie and a whisper,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There they come,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Darling Katy! blessed child! She's thinner than when I see her last, but oh! so beautiful a... |
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ain't they splendid in full dress?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Call that full dress? I'd sooner say it was no dress at all! They'll catch their death of cold. What would their mother say?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I mistrusted Catherine, but tha... |
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Who is that young man talking to Helen? Mattie asked, between the acts, and when told that it was"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mr. Ray, Wilford's partner,"
}
] |
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Please don't go; I rather like the play to-night,"
}
] |
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If she spies us she will be finding her way up here; there's no piece of effrontery of which that class is not capable,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Country cousins, of whom I have never heard, no doubt,"
}
] |
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