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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ah!"
}
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The paper I now produce is a copy of that particular bequest which I have decided to communicate to you in strict and sacred confidence."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And I give and bequeath to Mistress Catherine Peyton of Peyton Hall in the said county of Cumberland in token of my respect and regard all that my freehold estate called Moulton Grange with the messuage or tenement standing and being thereon and the farm-yard buildings and appurtenances belonging thereto containing by estimation three hundred and seventy-six acres three roods and five perches be the same little more or less to hold to her the said Catherine Peyton her heirs and assigns for ever."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What means all this?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Means? why that he has left you one of the snuggest estates in the county. 'Tis not quite so large as Bolton; but lies sunnier, and the land richer. Well, mistress, was I right, are you not good for a thousand pounds?"
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, said Houseman,"
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "You have made me very uneasy."
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, said Houseman,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mr. Neville is a man of sense, and every man of sense makes his will; and, as for Mr. Gaunt, he has just come into prospect of an estate; that's why."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "All, but why could not Griffith wait till after the funeral?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, clients are always in a hurry."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "So you see nothing in it? nothing alarming I mean?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Nothing very alarming. Two landed proprietors in love with you; that is all."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But, dear Mr. Houseman, that is what makes me uneasy: at this rate they must look on one another as--as--rivals: and you know rivals are sometimes enemies."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh I see now, said Houseman:"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Indeed! I am glad to hear that; very glad. I hope it was only a coincidence then, their both making their wills."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Nothing more you may depend: neither of them knows from me what the other has done; nor ever will."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That is true,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Besides, said he,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "About a horse! said she."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not about a grey horse?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nay, that is more than I know."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "High words about a horse, said Catherine;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And she turned pale. Presently she clasped her hands together--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mr. Houseman! she cried,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In that case, _let_ them fight, said her legal adviser, dispassionately."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Whichever fool gets killed, you will be none the poorer."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "I almost think you are right, said he;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": ""
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nay, let _me_ see,"
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "G. G."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Now, first of all, said she,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What answer should I make? I pledged my word to be at Bolton at nine of the clock."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, blind! sighed Kate."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And I must be out of the room. What shall I do? My dear friend, forgive me: I am a wretched girl. I am to blame; I ought to have dismissed them both, or else decided between them. But who would have thought it would go this length? I did not think Griffith was brave enough. Have pity on me, and help me. Stop this fearful fighting."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What care these young bloods for an old attorney? I should fare ill, came I between their rapiers. To be sure I might bind them over to keep the peace. But Mistress Kate, now be frank with me; then I can serve you better. You love one of these two; that is clear. Which is the man? that I may know what I am about."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nay, she faltered,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I love neither, not to say love them: but I pity him so."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Which?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Both."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ay, mistress; but which do you pity most?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Whichever shall come to harm for my sake,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You could not go to them to-night, and bring them to reason?"
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is not to be thought of, said she;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Wait till to-morrow, said Mr. Houseman. (Procrastination was his daily work, being an attorney.)"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "To-morrow! cried Catherine."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Perhaps even now they have met, and he lies a corpse."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Who?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Whichever it is, I shall end my days in a convent praying for his soul."
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "This way!"
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "But, Mr. Neville?"
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, no, said Kate,"
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Gone out? Whither? On horseback?"
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "No,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But, dear heart, Mistress, said she,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nay, my good girl, said Kate;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I could not eat; but bring me a mug of new milk if you will. I have not broken my fast this day."
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "If so be you are Mistress Peyton, why this letter is for you: Master left it on his table in his bedroom."
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Murder! Murder! she shrieked."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Tell me where to find him, ye wretches, or may his blood be on your heads!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "FOLLOW ME,"
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Here they be. He pointed to some enormous footsteps in the snow, and bade her notice that they commenced at a certain glass door belonging to the house, and that they all pointed outwards. The lawn was covered with such marks, but the scamp followed those his intelligence had selected, and they took him through a gate, and down a long walk, and into the park. Here no other feet had trodden that morning except those Tom Leicester was following."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "This is our game, said he."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "See, there be six footsteps; and, now I look, this here track is Squire Gaunt's. I know his foot in the snow among a hundred. Bless your heart, I've often been out shooting with Squire Gaunt, and lost him in the woods, and found him again by tracking him on dead leaves, let alone snow. I say, wasn't they useless idiots? couldn't tell ye how to run into a man, and snow on the ground! Why you can track a hare to her form and a rat to his hole--let alone such big game as this, with a hoof like a frying-pan--in the snow."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, do not talk; let us make haste,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Canter away,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Shall I not tire you?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Tire _me!_ not over this ground. Why, I run with the hounds, and mostly always in at the death: but that is not altogether speed; ye see I know Pug's mind. What, don't you know _me?_ I'm Tom Leicester. Why, I know you: I say, you're a good-hearted one, you are."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh no! no!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nay, but you are, said Tom."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I saw you take Harrowden brook that day, when the rest turned tail; and that is what I call having a good heart: gently, mistress, here, this is full of rabbit holes; I seen Sir Ralph's sorrel mare break her leg in a moment in one of these. Shot her dead that afternoon, a did, and then billed her for the hounds. She'd often followed at their tails: next hunting day she ran inside their bellies. Ha! ha! ha!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, don't laugh. I am in agony."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why, what is up, mistress? asked the young savage, lowering his voice."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, Tom Leicester, it is murder. It's a duel, a fight to the death, unless we are in time to prevent them."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A jewel! cried Master Leicester, his eyes glittering with delight."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I never saw a jewel. Don't you hold him in for me, mistress: gallop down this slope as hard as you can pelt: it is grass under foot, and ye can't lose the tracks, and I shall be sure to catch ye in the next field."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Didn't I tell you? said he."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'd run you to Peyton Hall for a pot o' beer."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh you good, brave, clever boy, said Kate:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why you see I am none of Daddy Leicester's breed, said he."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm a gentleman's by-blow, if you know what that is."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I can't say I do, said Kate;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That I be: when I can get it."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Then you shall have all I have got in the world, if you get me there in time to hinder mischief."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come on! shouted Tom, excited in his turn; and took the lead, and not a word more passed till they came to the foot of a long hill. Then said Tom,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Once we are at top of this, they can't fight without our seeing 'em. That is Scutchemsee Nob: you can see ten miles all round from there."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Pistols!"
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't lose your stomach for that, he panted out."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Gentlefolks do pop at one another all day sometimes, and no harm done."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, bless you! cried Kate;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I may yet be in time."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Who--op! muttered Tom, with horrible sang-froid."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There's one done for this time. Couldn't shoot back, ye see."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Got your tools, doctor?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The devil! said he;"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't like his looks; doesn't march like a winner. A job for you or the sexton, you mark my words."
}
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57685
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Stand sharp. Keep your arm close to your side. Don't fire too high. How do you feel?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Like a man who must die; but will try to die in company."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Gentlemen, are you ready?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Then, said Major Rickards,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "One------Two------Three."
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Aim lower,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I mean to,"
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "One----two----three!"
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nay, it is nothing, said he,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I shoot far better with my left hand than my right. Give me another pistol, and let me have fair play. He has hit me. And now I'll hit him."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is the chance of war, said Major Rickards:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The affair may very well end here, said Mr. Hammersley."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I understand there was some provocation on our side; and on behalf of the party insulted I am content to let the matter end, Mr. Gaunt being wounded."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I demand my second shot to his third, said Griffith sternly;"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "My man will kill yours this time, said he, quietly, to Neville's second."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I can see it in his eye; he is hungry; t'other has had his bellyful."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Are you both ready?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "One----"
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "N.B.: This is rote sarcasticul,"
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "This is my business, said he, authoritatively;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Don't be alarmed, said he:"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nay, we are all friends,"
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Who the deuce is it?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Don't you know? whispered the other in return."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why Mistress Peyton herself."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What, the girl it is all about? Well, I never heard of such a thing: the causa belli to come _galloping_, and _swooning_, on the field of battle, and so stop the fighting! What will our ladies do next? By Heaven, she is worth fighting for though. Which is the happy man, I wonder? She doesn't look at either of them."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ah! said the gentleman,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Bet you a guinea _she_ knows; and lets it out before she leaves the field,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Done!"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "But indeed, resumed Kate, blushing,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I did not come here to make a fuss, and be troublesome; but to prevent mischief, and clear up the strangest misunderstanding between two worthy gentlemen that are, both of them, my good friends."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Gentlemen, thus it is: a few days ago Mr. Gaunt bade me farewell, and started for foreign parts. He had not been long gone when word came from Bolton that Mr. Charlton was no more. You know how sudden it was. Consider, gentlemen; him dead, and his heir riding off to the Continent in ignorance. So I thought, 'Oh what shall I do?' Just then Mr. Neville visited me, and I told him: on that he offered me his piebald horse to carry the news after Mr. Gaunt, because my grey was too tired; it was the day we drew Yew-tree Brow, and crossed Harrowden brook, you know--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Stay a bit, said he:"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Did I not? said Kate, mighty innocently."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, but I tell you now. Ask him; he cannot deny it. As for the rest, it was all done in a hurry; Mr. Neville had no horse now to ride home with; he did me the justice to think I should be very ill pleased were he to trudge home a-foot and suffer for his courtesy; so he borrowed my grey, to keep him out of the mire; and indeed the ways were fouler than usual, with the rains. Was there any ill in all this? HONI SOIT QUI MAL Y PENSE! says I."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "If you did exchange horses with him, of course I have only to ask his pardon--and go."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, said she,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I did exchange, and I did not. Why quarrel about a word? certainly he took my horse, and I took his; but it was only for the nonce. Mr. Neville is foreign bred, and an example to us all: he knows his piebald is worth two of my grey, and so he was too fine a gentleman man to send me back my old hunter and ask for his young charger. He waited for me to do that; and, if anybody deserves to be shot, it must be Me. But, dear heart, I did not foresee all this fuss; I said to myself, 'La, Mr. Neville will be sure to call on my father or me some day, or else I shall be out on the piebald, and meet him on the grey, and then we can each take our own again.' Was I so far out in my reckoning? Is not that my Rosinante yonder? Here, Tom Leicester, you put my side-saddle on that grey horse, and the man's saddle on the piebald there.--And now, Griffith Gaunt, it is your turn: you must withdraw your injurious terms, and end this superlative folly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Come, said Kate,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That is enough, Mr. Gaunt, said he."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I do not feel quite blameless in the matter: and have no wish to mortify an honorable adversary unnecessarily."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Very handsomely said, put in Major Rickards:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh! sir, she said, looking on him now as a friend,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I dreamed I saw Mr. Neville lying dead upon the snow, with the blood trickling from his temple."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Bless my soul! said Mr. Islip,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I forgot that; I was so taken up with the lady."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "I find myself in a difficulty, sir. You did me the honor to invite me to Mr. Charlton's funeral, and I accepted: but now I fear to intrude a guest, the sight of whom may be disagreeable to you. And, on the other hand, my absence might be misconstrued as a mark of disrespect, or of a petty hostility I am far from feeling. Be pleased, therefore, to dispose of me entirely in this matter."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Sir, said he,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I do not doubt that, sir, from so manly an adversary; and I shall do myself the honor to come."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "In that which shall decide my whole life,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But first, murmured she,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Be it so, said Father Francis, resignedly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Confession is the best preface to Direction."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nay, father, suggested the lady,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "As you will, Mistress Catherine Peyton,"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "I fasted yesterday,"
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have to accuse myself of many vices. Alas! In one short fortnight I have accumulated the wickedness of a life. I have committed the seven deadly sins. I have been guilty of Pride, Wrath, Envy, Disobedience, Immodesty, Vanity, Luxury, Fibs----"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Gently, daughter, said the priest, quietly;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Especially me. Example: I was angry beyond reason with my maid, Ruth. (She does comb my hair so uncouthly.) So then the other night, when I was in trouble, and most needed soothing, by being combed womanly, she gets thinking of Harry that helps in the stable, and she tears away at my hair. I started up and screamed out 'Oh, you clumsy thing! go currycomb my horse, and send that oaf your head is running on to handle my hair.' And I told her my grandma would have whipped her well for it; but now-a-days mistresses were the only sufferers: we had lost the use of our hands, we are grown so squeamish; and I stamped like a fury, and said 'Get you gone out of the room; and I hated the sight of her.' And the poor girl went from me, crying, without a word--being a better Christian than her mistress; mea culpa! mea culpa!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Did you slap her?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nay, hither, not so bad as that."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Are you quite sure you did not slap her?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nay. But I had a mind to. My heart slapped her if my hand forbore. Alas!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Had she hurt you?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That she did: but only my head. I hurt her heart; for the poor wench loves me dear; the Lord knows for what."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Humph!--proceed to Pride."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, father. I do confess that I was greatly puffed up with the praises of men. I was proud of the sorriest things; of jumping a brook, when 'twas my horse jumped it, and had jumped it better with a fly on his back than the poor worm Me; of my good looks, forgetting that God gave them me; and besides I am no beauty when all is done; it is all their flattery. And at my Lady Munster's dinner I pridefully walked out before Mistress Davies, the rich cheesemonger's wife, that is as proud of her money as I of my old blood (God forgive two fools!); which I had no right to do; a maid to walk before a wife: and oh, father, I whispered the gentleman who led me out; it was Mr. Neville--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, daughter! half confession is no confession. You said to Mr. Neville----?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I said, 'Nothing comes after cheese.'"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It was pert and unbecoming, said Father Francis, gravely; though a twinkle in his eye showed that he was not so profoundly shocked as his penitent appeared to be."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But go to graver matters. Immodesty, said you: I shall be very sorry if this is so. You did not use to be immodest."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, father, I hope I have not altogether laid aside modesty; otherwise it would be time for me to die, let alone to confess; but sure it cannot be modest of me to ride after a gentleman and take him a letter. And then that was not enough: I heard of a duel, and what did I do but ride to Scutchemsee Nob, and interfere. What gentlewoman ever was so bold? I was not their wife you know; neither of them's."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Humph! said the priest,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have already heard a whisper of this; but told to your credit. Beati pacifici: blessed are the peacemakers. You had better lay that matter before me by-and-by, as your director. As your confessor, tell me why you accuse yourself of Luxury."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Alas! said the young lady,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Very wrong, said Father Francis;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, you explained it yourself, in your last sermon. It means 'unruly and inordinate desires.' Example: Edith Hammersley told me I was mad to ride in scarlet, and me so fair and my hair so light. 'Green or purple is your color,' says she: and soon after this didn't I see in Stanhope town the loveliest piece of purple broadcloth? Oh, father, it had a gloss like velvet, and the sun did so shine on it as it lay in the shop-window: it was fit for a king or a bishop: and I stood and gloated on it, and pined for it, and died for it, and down went the tenth commandment."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ah, said Francis,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "On gentlemen! said she."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why, they come pestering one of their own accord. No, no; I could do without _them_ very well. What I sinfully pine for is meat on a Friday as sure as ever the day comes round; and high-couraged horses to ride, and fine clothes to wear every day in the week: mea culpa! mea culpa!"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Small! cried the culprit, turning red:"
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "And now, said he,"
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Not so fast, said the priest."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Even zeal is nought without obedience. If you could serve the Church better than by going into a convent, would you be willful?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh no, father. But how can I serve the Church better than by renouncing the world?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Perhaps by remaining in the world, as she herself does; and by making converts to the faith. You could hardly serve her worse than by going into a convent; for our convents are poor, and you have no means; you would be a charge. No, daughter, we want no poor nuns; we have enough of them. If you are, as I think, a true and zealous daughter of the Church, you must marry; and instill the true faith with all a mother's art, a mother's tenderness, into your children. Then the heir to your husband's estates will be a Catholic, and so the true faith get rooted in the soil."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Alas! said Catherine,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "They are inseparable from her spiritual interests here on earth: our souls are not more bound to our bodies."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "So the Church rejects me because I am poor,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The Church rejects you not, but only the Convent. No place is less fit for you. You have a high spirit, and high religious sentiments; both would be mortified and shocked in a nunnery. Think you that convent walls can shut out temptation? I know them better than you: they are strongholds of vanity, folly, tittle-tattle, and all the meanest vices of your sex. Nay, I forbid you to think of it: show me now your faith by your obedience."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You are harsh to me, father,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am firm. You are one that need a tight hand, mistress. Come now, humility and obedience, these are the Christian graces that best become your youth. Say, can the Church, through me its minister, count on these from you, or (suddenly letting loose his diapason) did you send for me to ask advice, and yet go your own way; hiding a high stomach and a willful heart under a show of humility?"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now I know my daughter again,"
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "A young man! screamed Kate."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hang young men! They have got me a fine scolding just now. Which is it, pray?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He is a stranger to me."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Perhaps he comes with a message from some fool. You may bring him to me in the hall, and stay with us; it may be a thief for ought I know."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, it is you, child, said she:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "She then dismissed her maid, and went up-stairs, and soon returned with two guineas, a crown piece, and three shillings in her hand."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There, said she, smiling,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am sorry for you, but that is all the money I have in the world."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm afeard o' these, said he: and eyed them mistrustfully in his palm."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "These be the friends that get you your throat cut o' dark nights: mistress, please keep 'em for me, and let me have a shilling now and then when I'm dry."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nay, said Kate,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You don't look one of the sort to wrong a poor fellow, said he:"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, indeed! said she:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hearkened the gentlefolks on Scutchemsee Nob, after you was gone home, mistress."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What! they must be prating as soon as one's back is turned. Talk of women's tongues! Now what did they say, I should like to know?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It was about the bet, ye know."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A bet! Oh that is no affair of mine."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ay, but it is. Why, 'twas you they were betting on: seems that old sodger and Squire Hammersley had laid three guineas to one that you should let out which was your fancy of them two."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then, continued Mr. Leicester,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No doubt: the insolent meddlers! Can you remember any of their nonsense? not that it is worth remembering, I'll be bound."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Let me see: well, Squire Hammersley he said you owned to dreaming of Squire Neville, and that was a sign of love, said he; and, besides, you sided with him against t'other. But the old sodger he said you called Squire Gaunt 'Griffith;' and he built on that. Oh, and a said you changed the horses back to please our Squire. Says he, 'You must look to what the lady did; never heed what she said. Why, their sweet lips was only made to kiss us, and deceive us,' says that there old sodger."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'll--I'll--and what did you say, sir? For I suppose your tongue was not idle."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, me; I never let 'em know I was hearkening; or they'd have 'greed in a moment for to give me a hiding. Besides I had no need to cudgel my brains: I'd only to ask you plump. You'll tell _me_, I know. Which is it, mistress? I'm for Gaunt, you know--in course. Alack, mistress, gabbled this voluble youth,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh! said she,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, no, said Tom;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But I say, wasn't our man game? never let out he was hit while you was there. But as soon as ever you was gone, they cut the bullet out of him; and I seen it."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ah!--ah!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Doctor takes out his knife; precious sharp and shiny 'twas; cuts into his arm with no more ado than if he was carving a pullet; out squirts the blood, a good un."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, no more! no more! You cruel boy; how could you bear to look?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, 'twasn't _my_ skin as was cut into. Squire Gaunt he never hollered; a winced though, and ground his teeth; but 'twas over in a minute, and the bullet in his hand. 'That is for my wife,' says he: 'if ever I have one,' and puts it in his pocket. Why, mistress, you be as white as your smock."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, no. Did he faint, poor soul?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Not he: what was there to faint about?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Then why do I feel so sick, even to hear of it?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Because you ha'n't got no stomach, said the boy, contemptuously."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Your courage is skin deep I'm thinking. However, I'm glad you feel for our Squire, about the bullet: so now I hope you will wed with _him_, and sack Squire Neville. Then you and I shall be kind o' kin; Squire Gaunt's feyther was my feyther. That makes you stare, mistress. Why, all the folk do know it. Look at this here little mole on my forehead. Squire Gaunt have got the fellow to that. At this crisis of his argument, he suddenly caught a glimpse of his personal interest; instantly he ceased his advocacy of Squire Gaunt, and became ludicrously impartial."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, mistress; wed whichever you like, said he, with sublime indifference;"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Obedience,"
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is three parts an island (for the river Wey curls round it lovingly); but backed by wooded slopes that keep off the north and east winds: a hidden and balmy place; such as the forefathers of the Church did use to choose for their rustic abbeys, whose ruins still survive to remind us of the pious and glorious days gone by. Trout and salmon come swimming to the door: hawthorn and woodbine are as rife there as weeds be in some parts; two broad oaks stand on turf like velvet, and ring with song-birds. A spot by nature sweet, calm, and holy: good for pious exercises and heavenly contemplation: there, methinks, if it be God's will I should see old age, I would love to end my own days, at peace with Heaven and with all mankind."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "How sweet! how sweet!"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Good night, my Lady Neville."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Lady Neville! Lady Neville! Lady Neville!"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, I am so glad to see you here,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Guess by that what my delight at meeting you must be,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I mean, that your coming here gives me good hopes there will be no more mischief."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not a word, said George. He knew the advantage of sharing a secret with a fair lady. He proceeded to whisper something very warm in her ear: she listened to some of it; but then remonstrated, and said,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Are you not ashamed to go on so at a funeral? Oh, do pray leave compliments a moment, and think of your latter end."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes; and, more than that, had come to a clear understanding with him."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We agreed that it was no use fighting for you. I said if either of us two was to kill the other, it does not follow you would wed the survivor."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Me wed the wretch! said Kate."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I should abhor him, and go into a convent in spite of you all, and end my days praying for the murdered man's soul."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Neither of us is worth all that,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That is certain, replied the lady, drily;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then a pretty life mine will be."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, I think it will, till you decide."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I could easily decide, if it were not for giving pain to--somebody."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, you can't help that. My sweet mistress, you are not the first that has had to choose between two worthy men. For, in sooth, I have nothing to say against my rival neither. I know him better than I did: he is a very worthy gentleman though he is damnably in my way."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And you are a very noble one to say so."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And you are one of those that make a man noble: I feel that petty arts are not the way to win you, and I scorn them. Sweet Mistress Kate, I adore you. You are the best and noblest, as well as the loveliest of women."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, hush! Mr. Neville, I am a creature of clay; and you are another; and both of us coming home from a funeral. Do think of _that._"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "What a question!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Kate, said he, hurriedly,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Did I? said Kate."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What a sensible speech! But the worst of it is I'm never in the same mind long."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, replied Griffith,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I think of all that falls from your lips; and your will is mine; only for pity's sake do not wed any man but me. You have known me so long; why, you know the worst of me by this time: and you have only seen the outside of _him._"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Detraction! is that what you wanted to say to me?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Nay, nay; it was about the abbey. I find you can be an abbess without going and shutting yourself up and breaking one's heart. The way is, you build a convent in Ireland, and endow it; and then you send a nun over to govern it under you. Bless your heart, you can do anything with money; and I shall have money enough before the day is over. To be sure I _did_ intend to build a kennel and keep harriers; and you know that costs a good penny: but we couldn't manage a kennel and an abbey too: so now down goes the English kennel and up goes the Irish abbey."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But you are a Protestant gentleman. You could not found a nunnery."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But my wife could. Whose business is it what she does with her money?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "With your money, you mean."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Nay with hers, when I give it her with all my heart."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, you astonish me, said Kate, thoughtfully."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Tell me, now, who put it into your head to bribe a poor girl in this abominable way?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Who put it into my head? said Griffith, looking rather puzzled:"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "I, Septimus Charlton, of Hernshaw Castle and Holton Grange, in the county of Cumberland, Esquire, being of sound mind, memory, and understanding--thanks be to God--do make this my last will and testament as follows:--First I commit my soul to God who gave it, and my body to the earth from which it came. I desire my executors to discharge my funeral and testamentary expenses, my just debts, and the legacies hereinafter bequeathed, out of my personal estate."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "To the worshipful gentlemen and ladies who shall follow my body to the grave, ten guineas each, to buy a mourning ring."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "And as to all my messuages, or tenements, farms, lands, hereditaments, and real estate, of what nature or what kind soever, and wheresoever situate, together with all my monies, mortgages, chattels, furniture, plate, pictures, wine, liquors, horses, carnages, stock, and all the rest, residue, and remainder of my personal estate and effects whatsoever (after the payment of the debts and legacies hereinbefore mentioned), I give, devise, and bequeath the same to my cousin, Catherine Peyton, daughter of Edward Peyton, Esq., of Peyton Hall, in the county of Cumberland, her heirs, executors, administrators, and assigns for ever."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Madam, I wish you joy."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mistress Kate, I do wish you joy. Then with sudden and touching earnestness,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Never did good fortune light on one so worthy of it."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Thank you, Griffith, replied Kate, softly. (She had called him 'Mr. Gaunt' in public till now.)"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But money and lands do not always bring content. I think I was happier a minute ago than I feel now,"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nay, never mind the house, said Kate:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Lud! here's a colored room to show _me_ into, said the blonde Kate:"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Alack, mistress, said the woman, feeling very uneasy,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, if you wait for gentlemen's orders to make your house fit to live in! You knew there were a dozen ladies coming, yet you were not woman enough to light them fires. Come, take me to your own bedroom."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mine is but a small room, my lady,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But there's a fire in it, said Kate, spitefully."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You servants don't wait for gentlemen's orders, to take care of yourselves."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm to leave; that is flat."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ah! said Kate,"
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Not, said Griffith,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ah! well, said Squire Peyton, coolly,"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, Master Gaunt, said he,"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come, don't be sulky, said he;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm her father: give me an answer, ay or no."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Old man, he almost shrieked,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You are mad, young sir, said the Squire, sternly,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I _am_ almost mad, said Griffith, humbly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But if you would only let me alone, and not tear my heart out of my body, I could hide my agony from the whole pack of ye, and go through my part like a man. I wish I was lying where I laid my only friend this afternoon."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh! I don't want to speak to you, said Peyton, angrily;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, sir, if she speaks to me I shall be sure to speak to her, without asking your leave or any man's. But I will not force myself upon the lady of Bolton Hall; don't you think it. Only for God's sake let me alone. I want to be by myself."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, she thought;"
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "I play the host for this one day,"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "I shall not go home to-night. Then he bawled across the table to his daughter:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, papa!"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Our worthy host is setting us an example of conviviality, said he."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He is getting drunk."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, I hope not, said Kate."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Has he no friend to tell him not to make a fool of himself?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You take a great interest in him,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Of course I do. Pray do you desert your friends when ill luck falls on them?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nay, Mistress Kate, I hope not."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You only triumph over the misfortunes of your enemies, eh?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Not even that. And, as for Mr. Gaunt, I am not his enemy."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh no, of course not. You are his best friend. Witness his arm at this moment."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am his rival; but not his enemy: I'll give you a proof. Then he lowered his voice, and said in her ear:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You are grieved at his losing Bolton; and, as you are very generous, and noble-minded, you are all the more grieved because his loss is your gain. (Kate blushed at this shrewd hit.) Neville went on:"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You don't like him well enough to marry him; and, since you cannot make him happy, it hurts your good heart to make him poor."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It is you for reading a lady's Heart,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'll show you an easy way out of this dilemma."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Thank you,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Give Mr. Gaunt Bolton and Hernshaw, and give me--your hand."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That would be long and short division,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "So it would, replied George, coolly;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, that is it, is it?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That is it, believe me: it is a way we men have. But, as I was saying, I don't care one straw for Bolton and Hernshaw. It is you I love; not your land nor your house, but your sweet self: so give me that, and let the lawyers make over this famous house and lands to Mr. Gaunt. His antagonist I have been in the field, and his rival I am and must be, but not his enemy, you see, and not his ill-wisher."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "This is all mighty romantic, said she,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ay, in my face if I offered them; but not in yours if you."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am sure he would, all the same."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Try him."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What is the use?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Try him."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, I will, said she, stoutly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, that I will not. You begin by bribing me; and then you would set me to bribe him."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It is the only way to make two honest men happy."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If I thought that?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You know it. Try him."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And suppose he says nay?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Then we shall be no worse than we are."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And suppose he says ay?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Then he will wed Bolton Hall and Hernshaw; and the pearl of England will wed me."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have a great mind to take you at your word, said Kate;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Are you not deceiving yourself? said he."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do you not like Mr. Gaunt better than you think? I begin to fear you dare not put him to this test: you fear his love would not stand it?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "How shrewd you gentlemen are, she said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Much you know of a lady's heart. Now the truth is I don't know what might happen were I to do what you bid me. Nay, I'm wiser than you would have me, and I'll pity Mr. Gaunt at a safe distance, if you please, sir."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Methinks some of the gentlemen will be glad to be rid of us,"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "He is very drunk."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Let him alone,"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ah! said she. Then, quietly,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am so glad you are come. Then, kindly and regretfully,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How pale you look! you are unhappy."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I hope you are not angry with _me_ she said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Angry with you! said Griffith."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm not such a villain. Mr. Charlton did the right thing, and--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I do not think so, said Kate."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But don't you fret: all shall be settled to your satisfaction. I cannot quite love you, but I have a sincere affection for you; and so I ought. Cheer up, dear Griffith; don't you be down-hearted about what has happened to-day."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't feel unhappy, he said;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I did feel as if my heart was broken. But then you seemed parted from me. Now we are together I feel as happy as ever. Mistress, don't you ever shut that window and leave me in the dark again. Let me stand and look at your sweet face all night, and I shall be the happiest man in Cumberland."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ay, said Kate, blushing at his ardor;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "However, said she, a little nervously,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, what?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why, then, my poor Griffith, we shall be bound in honor,--you and I,--not to meet for some months: perhaps for a whole year: in one word--do not hate me--not till you can bear to see me--another--man's--wife."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't leave me so, she said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I know I have affronted you; but I meant all for the best. Do not let us part in anger."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is your fault for making me speak, he cried"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I was going away without a word, as a man should, that is insulted by a woman. You heartless girl! What! you bid me sell you to that man for two dirty farms! Oh, well you know Bolton and Hernshaw were but the steps by which I hoped to climb to you: and now you tell me to part with you, and take those miserable acres instead of my darling. Ah! mistress, you have never loved: or you would hate yourself and despise yourself for what you have done. Love! if you had known what that word means, you couldn't look in my face and stab me to the heart like this. God forgive you! And sure I hope he will; for after all, it is not _your_ fault that you were born without a heart. WHY, KATE, YOU ARE CRYING."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Crying! said Kate."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I could cry my eyes out to think what I have done; but it is not my fault: they egged me on. I knew you would fling those two miserable things in my face if I did, and I said so; but they would be wiser than me, and insist on my putting you to the proof."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They? Who is they?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No matter. Whoever it was they will gain nothing by it, and you will lose nothing. Ah, Griffith, I am so ashamed of myself--and so proud of you."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They? repeated Griffith, suspiciously."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Who is this they?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What does that matter, so long as it was not Me? Are you going to be jealous again? Let us talk of you and me, and never mind who them is. You have rejected my proposal with just scorn; so now let me hear yours; for we must agree on something this very night. Tell me, now, what can I say or do to make you happy?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Alas! sweet Kate, said he,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't know what you can do for me now, except stay single for my sake."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I should like nothing better, replied Kate, warmly;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But you will refuse."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I would, if I could but find a good excuse."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Excuse? why, say you don't love him."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, they won't allow that for a reason."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then I am undone,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, no, you are not; if I could be brought to pretend I love somebody else. And really, if I don't quite love you, I like you too well to let you be unhappy. Besides, I cannot bear to rob you of these unlucky farms: I think there is nothing I would not do rather than that. I think--I would rather--do--something very silly indeed. But I suppose you don't want me to do that now? Why don't you answer me? Why don't you say something? Are you drunk, sir, as they pretend? or are you asleep? Oh, I can't speak any plainer: this is intolerable. Mr. Gaunt, I'm going to shut the window."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Kate, Kate! he cried,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "How on earth can I tell, till I am asked?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Kate, will you marry me?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Of course I will--if you will let me,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You have very little to thank me for, dear Griffith. I don't exactly downright love you; but I could not rob you of those unlucky farms, and you refuse to take them back, any way but this; so what can I do? And then, for all I don't love you, I find I am always unhappy if you are unhappy, and happy when you are happy; so it comes pretty much to the same thing. I declare I am sick of giving you pain, and a little sick of crying in consequence. There, I have cried more in the last fortnight than in all my life before, and you know nothing spoils one's beauty like crying: and then you are so good, and kind, and true, and brave; and everybody is so unjust, and so unkind to you; papa and all. You were quite in the right about the duel, dear; he is an impudent puppy; and I threw dust in your eyes, and made you own you were in the wrong; and it was a great shame of me; but it was because I liked you best. I could take liberties with _you_, dear. And you are wounded for me; and now I have disinherited you; oh, I can't bear it, and I won't. My heart yearns for you; bleeds for you. I would rather die than you should be unhappy; I would rather follow you in rags round the world than marry a prince and make you wretched. Yes, dear, I am yours. Make me your wife; and then some day I daresay I shall love you as I ought."
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, take care! take care! she cried."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You'll break your neck."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nay, cried he,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I must come at you, if I die for it."
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sweet mistress, said he,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, no, said she;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How he loves me! more than his own neck. And then she thought."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I shall be wife to a strong man; that is one comfort."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then, said she,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'll do a downright brazen thing, now my hand is in. I declare I'll tell you how to secure me. You make me plight my troth with you this minute, and exchange rings with you, _whether I like or not_; engage my honor in this foolish business, and, if you do that, I really do think you will have me in spite of them all. But there--la!--am I worth all this trouble?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I meant to ask you to wear it,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And why didn't you?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Because you became an heiress all of a sudden."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, what signifies which of us has the dross, so that there is enough for both?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That is true, said Griffith, approving his own sentiment, but not recognizing his own words."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Here's my mother's ring, on my little finger, sweet mistress. But I must ask you to draw it off, for I have but one hand."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, that is my fault, said she,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You are making a very forward girl of me,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't you be so silly, said she;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The bullet! exclaimed Griffith."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What bullet?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I think you are a witch, said he."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I do carry it about next my heart. Take it out of my waistcoat, if you will be so good."
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I LOVE KATE."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ah, Griffith! Griffith!"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "You must go to bed, she said, austerely;"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, I know you would do anything stupid for me, said she;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Give your orders, mistress, said Griffith;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, then, said Kate,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'll throw myself on Father Francis's neck, said Griffith, stoutly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Is that all?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No; nor half. Once upon his neck you must say something. There--I had better settle the very words, or perhaps you will make a mess of it. Say after me now: Oh, Father Francis, 'tis to you I owe her."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, Father Francis, 'tis to you I owe her."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You and I are friends for life."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You and I are friends for life."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And mind, there is always a bed in our home for you, and a plate at our table, and a right welcome, come when you will."
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Gracious Heavens! she cried;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But is it true? asked Griffith:"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hum! said Kate;"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Are you happy, dearest?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ay, Kate, the happiest of the happy."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then so am I,"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "So then, sir, we placed our men for the third time, and you may take my word for it, one or both of these heroes would have bit the dust at that discharge; but, by Jove, sir, just as they were going to pull trigger, in galloped your adorable daughter, and swooned off her foaming horse in the middle of us. Disarmed us, sir, in a moment, melted our valor, bewitched our senses; and the great God of War had to retreat before little Cupid, and the charms of beauty in distress."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Little idiot!"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Here's a pretty scandal! said he:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I must marry the silly girl out of hand, before this gets wind; and you must help me."
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You wretch, said she,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "With your good leave, gentlemen, said Father Francis, drily,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I will be the next to pay my respects to her."
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What, I may go into a convent now that I can bribe the door open?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not with my good will, my daughter, said he;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am of the same mind still, and more than ever. You must marry forthwith, and rear children in the true faith."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What a hurry you are in."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Your own conduct has made it necessary."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why, what have I done now?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No harm; it was a good and humane action, to prevent bloodshed; but the world is not always worthy of good actions. People are beginning to make free with your name, for your interfering in the duel."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why can't people mind their own business?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I do not exactly know, said the priest, coolly;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I believe you are right, said she, at last;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Indeed! said Father Francis."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "This is the first I have heard of it."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Last night! said Father Francis;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, there I beg to differ, said the lady."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "While you were all tippling in the dining-room, he was better employed; making love by moonlight. And, oh what a terrible thing opportunity is; and the moon another. There! what with the moonlight--and my pitying him so--and all he has suffered for me--and my being rich now, and having something to give him--we two are engaged. See, else: this was his mother's ring; and he has mine."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mr. Neville?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mr. Neville? No. My old servant, to be sure. What, do you think I would go and marry for wealth, when I have enough and to spare of my own? Oh! what an opinion you must have of me."
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That you never did, I'll be sworn,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not in so many words, perhaps; but I said enough to show you."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh! said Kate,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You are a very apt young lady, said he;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, do not desert me, now that I shall need you more than ever to guide me in my new duties. Forgive me; I did not know my own heart--quite. I'll go into a convent now, if I must; but I can't marry any man but poor Griffith. Ah, father, he is more generous than any of us. Would you believe it? when he thought Bolton and Hernshaw were coming to him, he said if I married him I should have the money to build a convent with. He knows how fond I am of a convent."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He was jesting: his religion would not allow it."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "His religion! cried Kate. Then, lifting her eyes to Heaven, and looking just like an angel,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Love is _his_ religion!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then his religion is Heathenism,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Nay, there is too much charity in it for that,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "One of the things I esteem him for is he always speaks well of you. To be sure just now the poor soul thinks you are his best friend with me. But that is my fault: I as good as told him so: and it is true, after a fashion; for you kept me out of the convent that was his only real rival. Why, here he comes. Oh, father, now don't you go and tell him you side with Mr. Neville."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, Father Francis, 'tis to you I owe her--you and I are friends for life. So long as we have a house there is a bed in it for you, and whilst we have a table to sit down to, there's a plate at it for you, and a welcome come when you will."
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That is the gentleman you arranged matters with last night?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Was this scene part of the business?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh father!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why I ask, he did it so unnatural. Mr. Gaunt is a worthy, hospitable gentleman; he and I are very good friends; and really I never doubted that I should be welcome in his house--until this moment."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And can you doubt it now?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Almost: his manner just now was so hollow, so forced: not a word of all that came from his heart, you know."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Then his heart is changed very lately."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Anything more like a puppet, and a parrot to boot, I never saw. 'Twas done so timely too; he ran in upon our discourse. Let me see your hand, mistress. Why, where is the string with which you pulled yonder machine in so pat upon the word?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Spare me!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then do you drop deceit and the silly cunning of your sex, and speak to me from your heart, or not at all."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Father, she said,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then, suddenly clasping her hands:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "HAVE PITY ON HIM, AND ON ME."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ah! said he; and his own voice trembled a little:"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Summon all your courage, my young friend, he said, with feeling;"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She is engaged to Gaunt, since last night: and she loves him."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The double-faced jade! cried Peyton, with an oath."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The heartless coquette!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Nay, nay, she is not the first of her sex that did not know her own mind all at once. Besides, we men are blind in matters of love: perhaps a woman would have read her from the first. After all she was not bound to give us the eyes to read a female heart."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You knew that, said he,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, I have not a word to say against the _man_,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And what use quarreling with a woman?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "None whatever, said George, sullenly. After a moment's silence he rang the bell feverishly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Order my horse round directly,"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I scarce knew my own heart till I saw him wounded and poor, and myself rich at his expense. Entreat Mr. Neville to forgive me."
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What, not one word in reply to so humble a request?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Le bruit est pour le fat, la plainte est pour le sot, L'honnête homme trompé s'éloigne et ne dit mot.'"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "GEORGE NEVILLE."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Poor fellow! How noble of him! What can such men as this see in any woman to go and fall in love with her?"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What, give him _myself_, and then grudge him my _estates!_"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Red Lion,"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You may be as affectionate as you please dear, and you may smell of wine, if you will; but please not to smell of wine and be affectionate at the same moment. I value your affection too highly to let you disgust me with it."
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and sometimes the"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Dame's Haunt."
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am sorry for it, said Griffith, heartily; and Mrs. Gaunt echoed him out of politeness; but, when husband and wife came to talk it over in private, she let out all of a sudden, and for the first time, that the spiritual coldness of her governor had been a great misfortune to her all these years."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "His mind, said she,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, there are plenty of honest men in the world, said she;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, said he,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I fear you will have no one for the present: I mean no one very fit to direct you in practical matters; but in all that tends directly to the welfare of the soul you will have one young in years but old in good works, and very much my superior in piety."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I think you do yourself injustice, father,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, my daughter, said Father Francis, quietly,"
}
] |
57685
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ah, my dear friend, I foresee I shall miss you terribly."
}
] |
57685
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My daughter, excuse me; but confession is one thing, gossip about ourselves is another."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The man is a spiritual machine,"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, I am of your mind; he is very poor company compared with that jovial old blade, Francis. But why so many words, Kate? You don't use to bite twice at a cherry: if the milksop is not to your taste, give him the sack and be hanged to him."
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, Griffith, I have heard the voice of God."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Speaking by the lips of his servant. But she fired again the next moment, and said,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The grave hath given us back St. Paul in the Church's need; and I have heard him this day."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Good heavens! where?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "At St. Mary's Chapel."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What, because it is a small chapel, you think a great saint cannot be in it. Why, our Saviour was born in a stable, if you go to that."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, but my dear, consider, said Griffith;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That is true, said the lady, thoughtfully;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, I do say it, replied Griffith."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "By the same token, I have been waiting dinner for you this half-hour, along of his preaching."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ah, that's because you did not hear him, retorted Mrs. Gaunt:"
}
] |
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