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[ { "from": "human", "value": "She shall at least stay in her room, if I have to lock her in," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Going home, when Leavitt is to call at three!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I wish I had answered her letter about that confounded sheep pasture, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "he continued, excitedly, adding, as Mark looked quickly up," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Of course I don't mean Helen. She is right; and thou...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There's no telling what Deacon Bannister would do--send a subpoena after me, for what I know," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hannah, and Lucy amongst 'em, advised me not to come, she said to Mrs. Tubbs," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Of course I should, Mattie answered, herself anxious to stand beneath Wilford Cameron's roof and see Mrs. Wilford at home." }, { "from": "human", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mr. Cameron had just left the office and would not return that day," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Walk in here, please. You will not be liable to so many interruptions." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Come, 'Tilda, it's no privacy," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If I could keep the sweet apple-tree, I wouldn't care, Aunt Betsy said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If she ever marries," }, { "from": "human", "value": "And of course she will. She is engaged, I believe?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Enga...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You'll come to us again before you go home?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Of course I shall," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'll tell her just the truth," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Kindle a fire then in the front guest chamber, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "there with the elegance around her." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Was Katy's house as fine as this?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What shall I do?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Your room will soon be ready, he continued," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I can't take off my bunnet till I get my caps down to Mrs. Tubbs'. Oh, what a trouble I be." }, { "from": "gpt", "valu...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "She is unaccustomed to the city, but a particular friend of mine; so see that you treat her with respect," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, I'm in a deuced scrape, he answered, coming up to her with the saucy, winning smile she could never resist, and continuing," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "To be in at the foundation, you know how much I am in love with Helen Lennox?" }, { "from": "human"...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Perhaps it was wrong to bring her home, he added," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Annie Laurie" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Looks as if it was made of stone cheena," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "She should do very well alone, she said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "and with a good-by she sent them away, after saying to Mrs. Banker," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Maybe you ain't the kissin' kind, but if you be, I wish you would kiss Katy once f...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I thought once of referring her to you, Mr. Cameron, Bob said;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, came faintly from the lips which tried to smile; for Wilford knew who was the heroine of that story; wondering more and more where she was, and feeling a sensation of un...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Aunt Betsy is at my house; kidnapped by me for safe keeping, until I could consult with you. Was that right?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Is she there willingly? How did it happen?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And she was at the opera. Wilford must have seen her, and that is why he left so suddenly, and why he has appeared so absent and nervous to-day, as if expecting something. Excuse me, she suddenly added, drawing her hand away and stepping back a little," }, { "from": "gpt...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I ain't like him; I ain't like this Miss Banker; I ain't like anybody, she whispered." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'm nothin' but a homely, old-fashioned woman, without larnin', without nothin'. I might know I wasn't wanted, and a rain of tears fell over the wrink...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That's me--that's Betsy Barlow, she whispered, taking off her glasses to wipe away the moisture gathering so fast upon them. Then resuming them, she continued:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'm a hewer of wood--a drawer of water. God made me so, and shall the clay f...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "to heed any one else, no inquiries were made and no obstacles put in the way of her going to Mrs. Banker's, where Mark met her himself, holding her cold hand until he led her to the fire and placed her in a chair. He knew she would rather meet her aunt alone, and so when he hear...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mark spoke of that when he heard I was going to-day, Aunt Betsy said;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'll warrant you he'll tend to it." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Would you mind taking 'Tilda in? It would please her mightily," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I dare say it is all grand and smart, Aunt Betsy said, leaning out to look at it," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You'll be home in April, and maybe Katy'll come, too, she whispered as she kissed Helen good-by and shook hands with Mattie Tubbs, thanking her for her ki...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I know now it was best for it to go, but it was hard at first," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "By the way, Will, how did that sheep pasture come out, or didn't the client appear?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Mark, and Wilford's voice was husky with emotion;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Put down half that pile and I'll tell you," }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I meet a few of my particular friends at Mrs. Grandon's to-night, he added, in conclusion." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Can I hope to see you there, taking your presence as a token that I may speak and tell you in words what I have so poorly written?" }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My dear Helen," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It does not matter now, the tempter whispered." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You may as well read it and know the worst. Nobody will suspect it," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How can I return it without detection?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now is my time," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Miss Lennox did not go upstairs at all. Juno, then, must have been the delinquent; and though the mother shrank from the act as unladylike, if nothing more, she resolved to keep the letter till some inquiry was made for ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am sorry, Sybil said," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "She would not come. She does not care. I have deceived myself in hoping that she did, and now welcome war, welcome anything which shall help me to forget." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Not call to say good-by to Helen," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Helen will not care," }, { "from": "human", "value": "God bless my boy" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Anything to get Katy home," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "She would be happier with me," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I have strong hopes that in time Juno will be quite a woman, Bell added." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "She is not so proud and sarcastic as she used to be, and all the while Mark was gone she seemed very much depressed, so that I began to believe she really liked hi...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "as Aunt Betsy called it, to be fixed, flowers to be gathered for the parlor and vegetables for the dinner, so that her hands were full, up to the moment when Uncle Ephraim drove away from the door, setting old Whitey into a canter, which, by the time the" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Uncle Eph! oh, Uncle Eph, I've come! I'm here, a young voice cried; but the words the deacon would have spoken were smothered by the kisses which pressed upon his lips, kisses which only came to an end when a voice said, rather reprovingly:" }, { "from": "gpt", "valu...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I shall sleep so nicely here, she said, tossing her hat into Helen's lap, and lying down at once upon the bed it had taken so long to make." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, I shall rest so nicely, knowing I can wear my wrapper all day long. Don't look so horrified...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Morris, oh, Morris! she cried, as she ran eagerly forward;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am so glad to see you. It seems so nice to be with you once more here in the dear old woods. Don't get up--please don't get up," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Wh...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I do not like it at all, she said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am in it, and must conform; but, oh Morris! you don't know how much happier I should be if Wilford were just like you, and lived at Linwood instead of New York. I should be so happy here with baby al...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Surely an angel's countenance cannot be fairer, purer than hers," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And you are not as strong as you once were," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Katy-did," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, Morris, Katy cried," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Doctor." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It was altogether too forward for this world," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What is it, Morris? she asked." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Is baby going to be very sick?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I hope not, he said;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I cannot tell as yet; the symptoms are like cholera infantum, of ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Would that be right? Morris asked, and Katy blushed for her selfishness when she heard how many were sick and dying around them." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I will spend every leisure moment here," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Baby is mine and shall I not carry her?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Somebody must take her." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Retribution, retribution." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I think your baby will die," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "God must not take my baby. Oh, Morris, please pray that he will not. He will hear and answer you, while I have been so bad I cannot pray. But I'm not going to be bad again. If he will let me keep my darling I...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Its father should be here," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, sure--that is, I think he has not," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I shall telegraph in the morning at all events, Morris continued," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, that will ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Perhaps not, Morris said;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Can an unbaptized child be saved?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "We nowhere read that baptism is a saving ordinance, was Morris' answer; while Katy continued:" }, { "from": "gpt", "val...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Katy knows, I presume. It does not matter," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He must hasten," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Genevra." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, Genevra, Katy whispered, and then the solemn words were heard:" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Genevra, I baptize thee in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost." }, { "from": "gpt", "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Safe in His arms it would not come back if it could, he said," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, I want my baby back. I know she is safe, but I want her back. She was my life--all I had to love," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You forget your husband, Morris said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You have him left, and husbands, I supposed, were d...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I might stay, she added, as Helen began to protest," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "At Silverton! he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "How can that be when the child was at New London?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "M. GRANT." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Had Katy obeyed me it would not have happened," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "For my part, she said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I think there has been too much fault-finding and dictation from the very day of the child's birth till now, and if God takes it, as he may, I shall think it a judgment upon you. First you were half vexed with Kat...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Is the baby better?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Baby is dead," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Dead, he repeated," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "She seems entirely crushed, he continued, when they were driving toward the farmhouse." }, { "from": "human", "value": "For a few hours I trembled for her reason, while the fear that you might reproach her...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Where is Katy?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "She is sleeping for the first time since the baby died. She is in here with the child. She will stay nowhere else," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Our baby is dead--you've nobody left but me; and oh! Wilford, you will not blame me bringing baby here? I did not think she would die. I'd give my life for hers if that would bring her back. Say, Wilford, would you rather it was me lying as baby lies, and she here in your arms?"...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Do just as Katy prefers, was Bell's reply, as she led him to the coffin and pointed to the name:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Little Genevra Cameron, aged nine months and twenty days." }, { "from": "human", "value": "What is it, Wilford--what is the mat...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What's this? he asked, lifting the crape veil and dropping it again with an impatient gesture as Helen replied:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It is Katy's mourning veil." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "for the soldiers, and how she was now drying peaches for Willard Buxton--once their hired man. These she should tie up in a salt bag, and put in the next box sent by the society of which she seemed to be head and front," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "She was not going that day, she said, point-blank, and as Katy too had asked to stay a little longer, Wilford was compelled to yield, and taking his hat sauntered off toward Linwood; while Katy went listlessly into the kitchen, where Bell Cameron sat, her tongue moving much fast...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I wish you could hear Bob tell the story, the funny part, I mean, she continued, narrating, as well as she could, the particulars of Lieutenant Bob's meeting with Aunt Betsy, who, as the story progressed and she recognized herself in the queer old Yankee woman, who shook hands w...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And she never let me know it, or come to see me, because--because-- Katy hesitated, and looked at Bell, who said, pertly:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Because Will is so abominably proud, and would have made such a fuss. Don't spoil a story for relations' sake, I b...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Miss Barlow, Bell said, when Katy was gone," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "There's nothing to forgive. You only told the truth. I did make an old fool of myself, but if I helped that boy to a right decision, my journey did some good, and I ain't sorry now if I did go...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If anything besides the feeling that she is so much happier, could reconcile me to baby's loss, it is the knowing that my mourning will keep me from the society in which I could not mingle so soon," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Perhaps she was the one most in fault; it could not be pleasant for him to see her so entirely changed from what she used to be," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "DEAR KATY: I have been suddenly called to leave the city on business, which will probably detain me for three days or more, and as I must go on the night train, I wish Esther to have my portmanteau ready with whatever I may need for the journey. As I proposed this morning, I sha...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Never mind, Katy answered;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I want to surprise them, so please don't tell them I am here when you let them in," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am truly sorry for you. Is she never more cheerful than when I have seen her?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Never, and Katy could feel just how Wilford's lips shut over his teeth as he said it;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "My poor boy, it is worse ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "These were Wilford's very words, and though Katy had once expected him to say them, they came upon her now with a dreadful shock, making her view herself as the murderer of her child, and thus blunting the pain she might otherwise have felt as he went on to speak of Silverton an...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mr. Cameron will be here soon, she said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I do not need anything to-night, so you can leave me alone and go where you like--to the theatre, if you choose. I heard you say you wished to go. Here is the money for you and Phillips," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Who is Genevra Lambert? It is time I knew before committing greater sin. Tell me, Wilford, who is she?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Not touch me; no, not touch me till you have told me who is Genevra Lambert." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Genevra Lam...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I must do what I can," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If Genevra Lambert is your wife, what then am I? Oh, Wilford, how could you make me not a wife, when I trusted and loved you so much?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You mistake me; Genevra Lambert was my wife once, but is not now, for she is dead. Do you hear me, Kat...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Would not most any man have done just as I did? he continued." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Can you mention one who would not?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, Cousin Morris, Katy answered;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I do not pretend...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I meant to surprise you, she said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I thought my heart was broken when I heard you talk so of me and Silverton, but that was nothing compared with what came next, when your mother spoke of Genevra. I thought it was my baby she meant at f...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But not to dwell too long upon those days, which seem to me now so like a dream, we went to Scotland and were married privately, for I won her to this at last. And now comes the part where Jamie is concerned. On the night of our marriage, Genevra, who had obtained permission to ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This was the first time the idea of a divorce had entered my mind. Instead of that the hope that Genevra might in some way be restored to me unspotted, had unconsciously been the daystar of my existence, and I shrank from a final separation. But mother felt differently. It was n...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I would not ask him any more; and without any wrong to you, my wife, I confess that my tears dropped upon the turf under which I knew Genevra lay." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am glad they did; I should hate you if you had not cried," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Do you forgive me, Katy? Do you love me as well as ever?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Not yet, Wilford, not till I feel all right toward you. A wife's kiss should be sincere." }, { "from": "human", "value": "As you like," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You know I was to have left home last night on business. As I did not go then, it is necessary that I leave this morning. Are you able to stay alone for three days or more? Are you willing?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes--oh, yes," }, { "from": "human", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The picture, Wilford--you have forgotten that," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I would not mind it now, until it is fully light. Try and sleep a while. You need the rest so much." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, do," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'll wait till after breakfast, she said; then as the thought came over her that if the face proved as beautiful as Wilford had described, she in her present forlorn condition would feel the contrast deeply, she said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'll wait till Est...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "She had pretty hair, she thought;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "and into Katy's heart there crept a feeling akin to jealousy, lest Genevra had been fairer than herself, as well as better loved." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I won't be foolish any long...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, ma'am--going to Mr. Cameron's, I suppose?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Turn here. Yes, that is right, she said, when they reached the road which led to Linwood, and a feeling like guilt crept over her as through the leafless trees and across the meadow land she spied the farmhouse light shining through the drifting snow as if beckoning her to come....
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "They who have neither wife nor child are the happier perhaps, he said, and then the thought of Katy and her great sorrow when baby died, wondering if to spare herself that pain she would rather baby had never been." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No--oh, no, he answer...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Morris, oh, Morris," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Katy, why are you here to-night, and why are you alone? Has anything happened? Tell me! your looks frighten me!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am so wretched--so full of pain. I have heard of something dreadful, she replied--" }, { "from": "human", "val...