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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Shall I get you a glass of ice-water, Miss Dorothy?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It almost seems as if I shall go mad! she murmured--" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Trifles light as air Seemed confirmation strong as Holy Writ" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Even the guests notice how attentive he is to her," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Are you having a good time, Grace, dear?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, quite the jolliest I have ever had in all my life! was the reply." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I haven't missed one dance, and all my partners have been so handsome--quite the prettiest fellows in the ball-room! And how is it with you?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, I'm enjoying myself, too! laughed the other girl," }, { "from": "human", "value": "But did you notice what a ninny I had in that last waltz-quadrille? Don't you hate partners who stand away off, and barely touch your finger-tips as they dance with you? Upon my word, I'd rather have the straight-as-a-mackerel kind, who hold you so tight you can scarcely catch your breath!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Have you yet had a waltz with handsome Harry Kendal?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "No, returned the other, ruefully." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "At the last ball I went to he was almost wild to put his name down for every waltz with me. But, after all, I can not wonder at that when I see how greatly he is infatuated with the beauty of the ball to-night--the fair Iris Vincent." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Have you heard all the talk to-night about that? chimed in the other, her voice sinking to a low, confidential tone." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Every one has noticed it, and it is the talk of the ball-room." }, { "from": "human", "value": "It is shameful for him to carry on so, returned her companion," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Do you know, said the other, slowly," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Let me quite understand it, she whispered--" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I will go to him and confront him with what I have heard. He shall choose between us before all the people assembled here to-night. I will fling myself upon my knees at his feet, crying out: 'Oh, my darling! my love! my life! tell me that the cruel rumors which I have heard are false--that you do not hate me because--because of the awful affliction that Heaven has seen fit to put upon me! Turn from the girl by your side to me--to me, your promised bride! She can never love you as I do. You are my all--my world! If I were to die to-day--aye, within this hour--my soul could not leave this earth while you were here! I would cling to you in life or in death!'" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, God! can it be true? Heaven has restored my sight to me as miraculously as it was taken from me!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The ball is a grand success, Iris, he was saying, gayly;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It is a night that will stand out forever in my life," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What is that sound?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Only some of the clumsy servants in the corridor without, replied Kendal." }, { "from": "human", "value": "But, Iris, are you trying to avoid me? I have brought you here to tell you something, and you must listen. The time has come when we must fully understand each other. You know quite as well as I that the life we are leading, Iris, can not go on like this forever. From the first moment we met the attraction I felt toward you changed the whole current of my life." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It is too late to talk of that now, she murmured." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Your heart went out to another before--before I met you." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "There is such a thing as affections waning when one discovers that one's heart is not truly mated, Iris," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Let me give you the whole history of my meeting with Dorothy Glenn, from first to last, and you will understand the situation better. You can realize, Iris, that an acquaintance which commences through a flirtation, as it were, can never end in true love. Such an acquaintance is not a lasting one. Come and sit down on this rustic seat, Iris, and listen; and as we sit here in the dim, mellow light, you shall judge me, and your decision shall seal my fate." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hold on, there! Hold on, I say! Who are you, and what do you want?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Hold on, there! Where are you going? he repeated, springing to her side." }, { "from": "human", "value": "There is something going on here to-night. You can't enter these grounds until I know who you are and what your business is." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "This is Gray Gables, is it not?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I should have supposed you would have found that out before you entered the grounds," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I only wanted to make sure that I was right, she said, apologetically." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I--I have business with the housekeeper; I want to see her." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Tell Mrs. Kemp there's a young woman here who would like to see her. What name, please?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I--I am afraid she wouldn't know; but you might, mention the name--Miss Mead" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But I must see her! implored the excited voice from behind the thick veil." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Do let me go to the house to her. I will detain her but a moment, I assure you. She would be so sorry if she missed seeing me." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Only Heaven knows how I have worked to get a day off and to earn extra money to make this little trip! And now I am here to face him. Is he married to Dorothy Glenn, I wonder? It would take only that knowledge to make a fiend incarnate of me!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "They are having a great time in there," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "In whose honor is the ball given, my good fellow?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I mean, who is giving the ball?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, it's Mr. Kendal, ma'am--leastwise, he and Miss Dorothy are giving it together." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Miss Dorothy--who?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Miss Dorothy Glenn, ma'am, he replied." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But she won't be 'miss' very long, for she is soon to marry Mr. Kendal." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Soon to marry him! she repeated, vaguely, saying in the next breath," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "muttering the words more to herself than to the man." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Where does this girl, Dorothy live?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That I couldn't say, ma'am, he replied." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I only came to Gray Gables to-day, to work. I know only the little that I have heard the servants say while at their work this afternoon. They say Miss Dorothy is very beautiful." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Dorothy! he murmured in his rich, low, musical voice. How plainly she heard the name! The rest of the sentence she could not catch, though she crept nearer and nearer, and strained every nerve to listen." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I love you as I have never loved anything in this life before, she heard him say," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why should Dorothy Glenn live to enjoy the smiles of the man whose love she has robbed me of, she muttered below her breath," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Murder! murder! Oh, heavens!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Murder! murder!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Dorothy Glenn! he cried, in a horrible voice fairly reverberating with intense emotion," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You! Oh, you cruel, wicked girl! You--you fiend! to do what you have done! and reaching out his hand he flung her backward from him as though she were a scorpion whose very touch was contamination." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Fly up to your own room, he cried, hoarsely," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is blood!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Thank God it is no worse!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Murder! murder!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Hush! hush! in Heaven's name! he cried." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You will alarm the whole household. You are not seriously hurt!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Some one was trying to murder me!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, no! he returned, quickly." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Listen, Iris, for Heaven's sake! One of the panes of glass of the conservatory directly overhead was broken, and--and a little part of it fell in, grazing your shoulder. It is a deep and painful scratch, I can well understand; but it is only a scratch, I can assure you." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, it has ruined my dress! cried the girl, in anger and dismay, never thinking for an instant of doubting the truth of his assertion." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I can not appear in the ball-room again. No one must know that we were here together, she went on, hastily--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, I think your suggestions are best," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Step out into the corridor, he said, sternly;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I want to speak to you." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I have come to have an understanding with you, Dorothy Glenn! he cried hoarsely." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Your dastardly action of to-night has forever placed a barrier between you and me! I am here to say this to you: here and now I sever our betrothal! The same roof shall no longer shelter us both! Either you leave this house to-night, or I'll go!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I did not know that I had done so terribly wrong," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You seem to have a remarkably mixed idea of right and wrong," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Let me tell you how it all came about," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I--I was in the ball-room with Katy, when it grew so warm that I sent for an ice. She did not return as soon as I had expected her, and--and I groped my way out into the garden to await her there. But as I stepped from the porch a wonderful thing happened, Harry. I--I missed my footing and fell headlong down the steps to the graveled walk below, and the shock restored my sight. Oh! look at me, Harry! she exclaimed, with quivering intensity, holding out her white arms toward him." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I can see now. I can see your idolized face, oh, my beloved! I--I came here to tell you this--to tell you the wonderful tidings! I intended to send to the ball-room for you, but before I could put my intention into execution I--I heard steps approaching, and drew back among the screening leaves till they should pass. You came in with Iris Vincent, and I heard what you said, and my brain whirled--I grew dazed. You--you know the rest!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It was a pity that your sight returned to you to enable you to do so dastardly a deed; and I am beginning to have my doubts whether or not you have not been duping us all along, and, under that guise, spying upon us--which seems to be your forte. This revelation makes me angrier than ever, he went on," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I see it all! cried Dorothy, springing to her feet and facing him." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You have prearranged this quarrel with me to break our betrothal, that you might wed your new love--Iris Vincent. But, just for pure spite, I will not release you--never! I will tell the whole world of your duplicity. An engagement is a solemn thing. It takes two to enter into it and two to break it." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I do not very well see how you can marry a man when he makes up his mind not to have you, he declared." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That is a difficult feat, and I shall have to see it done before I can be convinced that it can be accomplished, he replied, icily, adding:" }, { "from": "human", "value": "There are many women in this world who would stand back and watch such a proceeding with the wildest anxiety, I imagine;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You shall never marry Iris Vincent! Dorothy panted." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I--I would prevent it at any cost. Once before you forsook me when I needed you most; you left me to die when I fell from the steamer down into the dark water, when we were returning from Staten Island, that never-to-be-forgotten night; so why should I be surprised at your willingness to desert me now?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It is now two o'clock in the morning, he said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "My duty requires me to go down to the ball-room and bid the guests adieu as they take their departure, and when that is over I shall leave this house until this difficulty has been settled. The reading of Doctor Bryan's will is to take place at noon. I shall be present then, and after that--well--well, we shall see what will take place." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is true she attempted to do a horrible deed, he muttered;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Great Heaven! half past eleven! he ejaculated, springing from the couch." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I shall barely have time to get downstairs to be present at the reading of the will. I must make all haste; but first of all I must find out how Iris is, and if her shoulder pains her much." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "IRIS." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "False! he cried." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I might have known it. It is always these beautiful women who are so heartless. They draw men on with their smiles and their bewitching fascinations, only to throw them over when a more eligible _parti_ appears upon the scene." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "he cried out, bitterly, to himself." }, { "from": "human", "value": "What a fool I was, to be duped by her so long! The iron has entered deep into my soul, but she shall see that she can not quite crush me. I will live to be revenged upon Iris Vincent if it costs me my life! If Dorothy inherits the million, I will marry her before the sun sets to-night. I only wish that I had known the way that affairs were shaping themselves. I--I should not have treated Dorothy so harshly." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, Mr. Kendal, she gasped, breathlessly," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I rather think I can, retorted the young man, harshly:" }, { "from": "human", "value": "That--that is not what I had reference to, said Mrs. Kemp, with a sob." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I--I admit that Iris has eloped, but it is not she whom I meant, but Dorothy." }, { "from": "human", "value": "What of her?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What of Dorothy?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "She has disappeared too! returned the housekeeper, faintly, adding:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "She did not go with Iris, as you may imagine." }, { "from": "human", "value": "No?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, she responded;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Dorothy gone--Iris fled with another!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I made diligent search for Iris and Dorothy, Mrs. Kemp went on, tearfully." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I found my niece had been married at the rectory, and had taken the first train to the city with her newly made husband; they intend starting on the steamer which leaves New York for Europe to-day. So, of course, there was nothing to be done in Iris' case, so I turned my attention to Dorothy. But, as I remarked before, it was useless. I think she must have gone to New York City, and if she has, trying to find her will be like hunting for a needle in a hay-stack. I was shocked that she should have left to-day, because she well knew that this was the day on which the will was to be read, and that concerns her so vitally. Ah! here is the lawyer now," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "As my time is rather limited, he continued," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I may as well explain to you my old friend's idea in making this will, said the lawyer, turning to the young man." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He wished Miss Glenn to marry you, and thought this the most expedient and effectual way of bringing about the marriage of two young people whose interests he had so deeply at heart. Had he lived long enough to have made a new will, I am sure it would have been entirely different." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No steps will be taken until the fortnight has elapsed, said the lawyer in his metallic voice;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am sorry for you, Mr. Kendal, she said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It is a terrible thing to have one's hopes dashed after that fashion--and when one doesn't deserve it, either. You were always so good and faithful and true to Dorothy, sir; even keeping your promise with her through the most terrible affliction that ever could have befallen her--that of blindness. It is dreadful to think that the moment she regained her sight, and believing herself to be the possessor of a great fortune, that she should show every one so plainly that she thought you were not good enough for her to marry by running away from you, Mr. Kendal!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Not good enough for her?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I beg your pardon, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, sir, you can not tell how your words affect me!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Why?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Will you tell me why? he repeated, earnestly." }, { "from": "human", "value": "It is my right to know, is it not, Miss Nannie?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, you see, sir, she stammered, confusedly," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I am so glad to know that our suspicions were groundless, she breathed, thankfully; adding:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am indeed sorry that I can not tell you where Dorothy is; we would all give the world to know, I assure you." }, { "from": "human", "value": "What of Nadine Holt? Where is she?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "She has worked right along here with us up to a week ago, she answered," }, { "from": "human", "value": "She could not help but add:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "She has changed so greatly that you would never know her. She is no longer the dark-eyed beauty whom you remember; she looks ten years older. She never smiles now, and there is a horrible look in her eyes--like the cunning gleam one sees in the eyes of the insane; and, oh! sir, let me warn you--_you_, of all men--for the love of Heaven, do not cross her path! Remember, I--I warn you." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I do not know of any reason why you should warn _me_, above all other men, that it is dangerous to cross Miss Holt's path, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Almost any young man will flirt with a pretty girl when he finds her so _very_ willing. She understood that it was only a flirtation; but when I met your little friend Dorothy, of course all that nonsense with Nadine ceased." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Nadine did not call it a flirtation, returned the girl, gravely." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You might call it that. She thought of it differently, I am sure." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Where is Jessie Staples?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "She, too, has left the bindery, was the unexpected reply." }, { "from": "human", "value": "There have been great changes among the people in this book-bindery within the last few months. A young man connected with the place had quite a sum of money left him, and Jessie Staples was a great favorite with this young man's mother, so at their invitation Jessie went to live with them." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What in the name of Heaven shall I do? he cried." }, { "from": "human", "value": "One day of the fortnight has already passed, and I have not even the slightest clew to Dorothy's whereabouts." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Madame ----, seventh daughter of the seventh daughter, reveals to those who wish to consult her all the main incidents of their past, present, and future life; brings together the hearts of those who are suffering from the pangs of lovers' quarrels, though the whole wide earth should separate them; indicates the whereabouts of missing ones, though they should be hidden as deeply and securely from sight as the bowels of the earth. The madame can with ease secure for you the love of any person whom you may choose to win, put each and every person in the way of making fabulous fortunes in the shortest possible space of time, and all this for the small sum of fifty cents. Madame can be found, between the hours of nine and twelve in the forenoon, one and six in the afternoon, and from seven until eleven in the evening, by those who wish to consult her marvelous powers, on the fourth floor of the last tenement house on Hester Street. Visitors will please take note that Madame's consultation studio is in the rear of the building. A candle lights the way." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I trust I have found the right place, said Kendal." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am in search of Madame Morlacci, the fortune-teller." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Come in," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, said Kendal, impatiently," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I should be grateful to commence the preliminaries of this fortune-telling business at your earliest convenience, if you please, madam; my time is somewhat limited." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I can tell you all you wish to know without a fee," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That would not be very profitable to you, I am sure, madame," }, { "from": "human", "value": "That makes no difference to you, was the almost rude answer. He felt quite disconcerted; he hardly knew what to say next. This certainly was an odd _contretemps_, to say the least." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You are here to learn the whereabouts of--a woman? she whispered, in a deep, uncanny voice." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Is it not so?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "By Heaven! you are quite right," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This woman, who is young, and by some called beautiful, will be your evil genius! she hissed." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You wronged her through your fickle-mindedness, and wrecked her young life." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Great God! he cried," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "he cried, excitedly." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I see you know all my past. There is no use in my attempting to hide anything from you. But tell me, where shall I find this young woman of whom you speak? I must track her down." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That you will never be able to do! she cried, fiercely." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Though she may cross your path at will, you might as well hunt for a particular grain of sand along the sea-shore, a needle in a haystack, a special blade of grass in a whole field. You may recognize this fact, and abide by it. But, hark you! listen to what I have to say: The fates have decreed that your heart shall be wrung as you have wrung hers--pang for pang!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Who and what are you, he cried," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I tell you only what I see," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "See where?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "That is not for you to know." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But I shall--I will know! he cried, furiously." }, { "from": "human", "value": "There is something underneath all this trumpery. I am not a man to be trifled with in this fashion, I can tell you, with your fortune-telling nonsense--humbuggery!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Then, pray, what brings you here? what is your object in coming?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "To hear what lies you could trump up," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Our interview is ended," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Will you pardon me? he asked, humbling himself." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I--I must know more." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You have heard all that I have to say, Harry Kendal!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How strange! she panted," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, if God would but roll back His universe and give me yesterday!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh! woman's love will grieve her, And woman's pride will leave her; Life has fled when love deceives her, Farewell--farewell forever!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am so young to die! sobbed Dorothy." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I haven't done very much good in the world, but surely I have done no wrong." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, God in Heaven! she cried," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, the cruelty of it!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why, as I live, Maria, it's a woman standing out here with a child in her arms! Why, what in the world can you want?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I thought I should see some one here whom I knew," }, { "from": "human", "value": "No; we are strangers here, replied the woman." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We have just moved into this cottage to-day. We are from down country, my man and me, and my girl Maria. We don't know any one hereabouts, so I can't direct you. But, dear me! it's an uncanny time of night for a woman to be out. You ought to be careful of your little baby, if you have no thought for yourself, ma'am." }, { "from": "human", "value": "But won't you come in and rest for a bit? asked the woman, pityingly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I can't let you go away without at least warming yourself by the fire. I am sitting up with my sick daughter." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, what a beautiful little baby! cried the woman, her heart at once warming toward the little stranger." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "How much it looks like you!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "What!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I said your baby looked like you," }, { "from": "human", "value": "We must go now, said Dorothy at length;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "A lovely but very mysterious young woman! she ejaculated." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I hope everything is all right. She is so very young. It is a great pity for the little child." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You and I will live for each other, baby, she sobbed, holding the wee mite closer." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I will keep you for my very own, and I will pray for the time to come when you will be big enough for me to tell you all my sorrows. You will put your little arms around my neck and your soft, warm cheek against mine, and try to comfort me." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It would sound a deal more proper to call yourself Mrs. Brown, if you please, ma'am," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why shouldn't I call myself Mrs. instead of Miss Brown? One name is as good as another," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Poor child! she seems so young to be left a widow!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "They wish a companion for Mrs. Garner. She requires a somewhat elderly woman. Even the child would not be so objectionable, if the right person were secured." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Call, if you please, at the Garner homestead to-morrow, at 10:30 A. M., if convenient." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am afraid I will not get the situation I was telling you of last night," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Youth and beauty, although the greatest blessings Heaven can give us, often bring with them a certain train of disadvantages. I once knew a young and most lovely girl who, on this very account, could not get work. She resorted to a desperate measure, but it insured success. Perhaps it might in _your_ case. She put on, over her golden curls, a dark wig with plenty of gray in it, seamed a wrinkle or two under her long lashes with a camel's hair pencil, and put on a pair of glasses. She secured a position as housekeeper in an eccentric old bachelor's family, which consisted of only himself and his aged parents. Well, the old folks soon passed away, the old bachelor soon following them, and every dollar he had on earth he left to his housekeeper, to 'keep her from the poor house to which she would soon have to go in her old age,' as he phrased it. It was a large fortune, and she is enjoying it to-day with a young husband and dear little children gathered about her, and she often speaks of it when I see her, and tells me all her good luck came from putting on that wig, donning the spectacles, and lining her face to make it look old. She never would have gained that position otherwise, for she was very fair and childish in appearance." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I think I will do the same thing! cried Dorothy, enthusiastically." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It can do no harm, anyway. It is a terrible deceit to practice, but if I secure the position, and the people learn to like me, in a very short time I will reveal the truth to them, and I think they will find pardon for me and keep me in their employ." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I am sure they will, assented her companion," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I--I would never care to be--be rich, she faltered." }, { "from": "human", "value": "There are some people whom Heaven intended to always work for a living--I am one of them." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If you think of buying a wig, I have one to sell you, said the landlady." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I used to be in the theatrical business, and had all those things. I will show you how to make up for a middle-aged woman, so that even your own folks wouldn't know you in broad daylight." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now, look! exclaimed the landlady, at length." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What do you think of yourself now?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I must, indeed, look greatly changed," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Madame will be with you presently, as she is expecting you," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You are very punctual, Mrs. Brown. This is in itself a great recommendation. You are tired holding the baby in your arms. I will ring for one of the servants to relieve you for a little while, if you wish." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I want some one for a companion, said the lady, slowly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have recently lost my niece, Miss Barbara Hallenbeck, and her death preys heavily upon my mind." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I am soon to lose my son," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Jack dying!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You are about to lose your only son? she gasped." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "May Heaven pity you! She was almost about to add:" }, { "from": "human", "value": "If I could save his life by giving my own, oh, how gladly I would do it!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Do not misunderstand me, she added, hastily." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I do not mean that I am to lose him by death. My son is soon to be married." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "My son is soon to be married!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I shall lose a son, but I shall gain a dear daughter," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Here is my son coming at last!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Jack--Jack, my dear! she called;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I am in the drawing-room. Step in a moment, my son;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This is my son--Mrs. Brown, Mr. Garner," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I was saying, that as we seem mutually pleased with each other, we may as well consider the arrangement as settled between us." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Your duties will be light, and I feel sure you will find ours a pleasant home. I will ring for one of the servants to show you to your room;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Madame will find her little child has already been taken to her apartments," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, little Pearl! how I wish that we had never come here! she moaned." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It makes me feel so sad." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am not feeling well, she said, motioning Dorothy to a seat." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I should like you to read to me until I fall asleep. Take any of the books from the book-case in the library. I have no choice." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I knew I should find you here, Jack, said a voice that sounded terribly familiar to the figure in the window hidden by the silken draperies." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have come to ask a little favor of you. I hope you will not find it in your heart to refuse me." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A favor you would ask of me? repeated Jack, quickly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why, consider it granted beforehand, he returned," }, { "from": "human", "value": "You are more than kind, murmured Jessie, adding:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The fact is, I have too painful a headache to attend the opera with you to-night, but I want you to go and enjoy yourself, and take some young girl in my place. I--I do not want to mar your happiness for this evening." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I am quite sorry to seem unkind, he returned," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No--no! returned Jessie;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "If you are sure that it _will_ please you, Jessie, I can not withstand your entreaties, he returned, thoughtfully." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Still, I have the hope that you may change your mind at the eleventh hour, and be ready to go with me, he added, laughingly." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I have a few letters to write, and will see you after I finish them. Remember it is not every night that one can hear Patti;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Stay! she called out; and the figure hesitated on the threshold." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Come here! and the dark-robed figure advanced slowly and stood before her." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You are Mrs. Brown, the new companion?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes," }, { "from": "human", "value": "May I ask how long you have been standing in the room? Miss Staples inquired, rather curiously." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I did not see you come in." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I beg your pardon, came the faint answer." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I entered a few moments before you did, and when the gentleman entered and you commenced speaking, I--I hardly knew how to make my presence known, the conversation was so personal. I tried to make my escape from the room as soon as it was possible. I--I hope you are not angry with me." }, { "from": "human", "value": "No, said Miss Staples, slowly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am sure the facts are as you stated them. You may resume your duties. That is all I wish to say," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, Jessie, Jessie! don't you know me? I am Dorothy--your poor little friend Dorothy whom you used to love so dearly in the old days." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You have been gone some time, Mrs. Brown, said Mrs. Garner, fretfully, as she entered the _boudoir_." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Let me see your selection. What book have you brought me? Why, as I live, it is the dictionary! she exclaimed, in a most astonished voice." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Did you think I had need of that?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You have made a very wise selection, Mrs. Brown, she said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I quite agree with you that there is no book more instructive than the dictionary. You may read me twenty pages, or such a matter. I deem it very instructive, indeed--to you." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If you please, Mrs. Brown, would you mind coming to Miss Staples a few moments? she asked." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Her maid has leave of absence this week, and she misses her services." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I will go with pleasure," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You wished to see me?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If you please, Mrs. Brown, said Jessie." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I should like you to accompany Mr. Garner and myself to the opera to-night, as my maid--that is, if Jack's mother has no objection, of course." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "There are a few little finishing touches to my toilet which I would like to have you help me with. In that velvet case on the center-table you will find a necklace of sapphires and diamonds. You may fetch it to me." }, { "from": "human", "value": "They are very beautiful--don't you think so?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes," }, { "from": "human", "value": "They are Mr. Garner's gift to me. To-day is my birthday, she went on," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes," }, { "from": "human", "value": "He is so considerate of my wishes; I had merely expressed the words that I admired sapphires and diamonds, and see! he has presented me with this lovely set!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The gentleman must have a very generous heart," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Do you know that your voice reminds me of the voice of a young girl whom I once knew and loved dearly?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "She was a very fair young girl, continued Jessie, thoughtfully," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, I--I must have broken it!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Never mind, said Miss Staples;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "You must not feel badly about it, she repeated kindly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I, too, am nervous sometimes. Why, only to-night I dropped my cup of chocolate, breaking the cup into bits, my hands were so nervous. I had such a headache all day, that I did not feel able to go down to the table. Even now I am by no means free from the terrible pain in my head. We shall leave the opera early, she went on, adding:" }, { "from": "human", "value": "No doubt you are pleased to hear that." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It does not matter much to me, madame," }, { "from": "human", "value": "The carriage will be here in half an hour. I trust you will be ready, Mrs. Brown. Please have my wraps in readiness then. One of the maids will tell you where to find them. You will not have much time to get your own wraps." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We will get home as quickly as possible, he said, hurriedly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Miss Staples is indisposed." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Thank you--that will do," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Would you mind sitting up with Miss Staples? she cried, breathlessly;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You must let me remove these things, and get you into bed at once, she said coaxingly but firmly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Your face is scarlet, and your hands tremble. You must take some hot lemonade, and go quietly to sleep." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You are very, very ill, cried Dorothy, in agony." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I must send for some one, or you will die!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Hush! I want to die! cried Jessie, in a low whisper;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Hush! cried Jessie, sinking back on her pillow, and clutching frantically the hand that held hers." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You must not call any one. I want to die! I am so tired of living. I want to tell you my story, Mrs. Brown--it seems to me that I shall go wild if I do not tell some one; and you seem so sympathetic and kind. May I trust you?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, said Dorothy, slowly;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "You are very good, returned the other." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You would think, she began, quickly," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I was her best friend, even though she was in secret my rival. I did not care for myself. I only wanted to see the two whom I loved so well happy. One of them was Jack Garner, and the other Dorothy; and I will tell you of her." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "People about me look upon me with envy, but you can realize that I am more to be pitied than the poorest beggar on the street. Tell me, she cried, eagerly," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Garner!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Your patient is this way, doctor," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How in the world came he here?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I think it will be best to send you a practical nurse," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "There is only one young woman whom I can think of just at present, said the doctor." }, { "from": "human", "value": "She is not what you might call a trained nurse, but she claims to have had a little experience. We shall have to secure her in a case of emergency. I shall send for her to-night; she will probably be there in the morning when you arrive." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Nadine Holt! he cried, aghast," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We meet again at last! hissed the girl, confronting him with death-white face." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I knew I should find you sooner or later, and I have been on your track." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Hush! hush! Nadine, he cried;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "That is what I intend to do! she shrieked, clutching frantically at his arm with her long, thin fingers." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You deserted me and wedded another." }, { "from": "human", "value": "What put such a notion in your head, anyhow, Nadine?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I heard all about it," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Then some one has been cruelly maligning me, he cried;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Did I not tell you that I answered Doctor Crandall's advertisement for a nurse, and that this is my errand here? But what are _you_ doing here?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I may as well tell you the truth, Nadine, he said, despairingly, seeing that it would all come out sooner or later." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I--I have been studying medicine since I met you, and they have engaged me as physician. But now that surprises are in order, I suppose you know who lives here?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "No," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It is your old friend Garner, who used to be in the book-bindery. He has acquired sudden wealth--Heaven knows how. His mother is living with him, and also that pretty girl whom I used to think was so quiet--Miss Staples." }, { "from": "human", "value": "These people do not know that I am the same one whom they used to know as the car conductor. Don't give me away," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ah! you have brought a nurse with you, doctor," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How very interested you are in your pretty white-faced patient, Nadine said, on the second day of her stay there." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I almost believe you have fallen in love with Jessie Staples, and mean to bring her quickly back to health, and--and marry her." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There will be but a few more of these meetings, tender partings and kisses under the larch-tree boughs." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You needn't mind staying any longer, she remarked, brusquely;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I will take charge of the patient now." }, { "from": "human", "value": "No, said the other, quietly but firmly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It is between twelve and one that the most important medicine must be administered." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Don't you suppose I am capable of giving it? retorted Nadine angrily enough." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You don't seem to realize what is the business of a paid nurse!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I can not help thinking that she is always spying upon every movement of mine, and she listens--I am sure she does--to every word the doctor and I say; and these people who watch others so much always need watching themselves." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The case of Miss Staples puzzles me completely, he said to Doctor Crandall, when he returned to his office one afternoon." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have never known of symptoms like hers;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "As soon as I am able to be about I will go with you and see for myself just where the trouble is." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Did you wish me to sit with you, Jessie? he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Or would you like me to read to you?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "No; I want to talk to you, Jack," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Have you ever thought how near it is to--to our wedding-day, Jack," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What--what would you do if I were still ill when it dawned?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "The ceremony could be performed just the same, he answered, promptly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "There would be no wedding at the church, no invited guests; that would be all the difference." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Would you wish to marry me if--if you knew that I would never be well again, and that perhaps death would be hovering very, very near to claim me, and to part me from you?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I will keep to my part of the compact, Jessie," }, { "from": "human", "value": "But what if I should die before it, Jack?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I do not know what you mean, Jessie, he said, gravely--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, Jack! I mean this: I--I want to belong to you in life and in death. I do not want you to have any other love but me, even if I should be taken from you. I want you to be true to me forever. I could not rest in my grave, though they burled me fathoms deep, if you ever called another--wife! If I am to die, Jack, you must promise me one thing--that you will never wed--another!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "How can you talk of such a thing, my dear Jessie? he said, reproachfully." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You pain me beyond measure." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You will give me that promise, will you not, Jack? she pleaded." }, { "from": "human", "value": "The pangs of death will be easier to bear if my mind is but at rest on that subject." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You are going to get well soon, and the ceremony will take place as we have arranged," }, { "from": "human", "value": "If I should not, Jack, she whispered, fixing her burning eyes wistfully on his face," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If it will settle any doubts in your mind, I give you the promise that you ask," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, thank you--thank you, Jack!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Dorothy! Dorothy!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why do you nurse Jessie so carefully? If it is destined that she should die, I wonder that you grieve when you know that her death will bring freedom to Jack Garner and love to you!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Let her drift quietly on to the end which is near. If you do not work too zealously to save her, your reward will be the heart of him whom you _love at last_. Take warning, and heed my words!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am obliged to say, sir, that I shall have to abandon the case, said Kendal." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am completely dumbfounded with it. I have most carefully followed out your every suggestion, and yet the patient fails rapidly before my eyes day after day." }, { "from": "human", "value": "What do you think of her, sir?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "There is not much the matter, he replied;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "It is the first time that you have seen her, doctor, said Jack, rather dubiously." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You never saw her in health, sir. You do not know how alarmingly she has changed for the worse. She had a brilliant color, but it has all gone." }, { "from": "human", "value": "It will soon return," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This is an urgent case, I suppose," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am afraid so, was the reply." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You will be able to judge when you see the patient." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, said Doctor Crandall," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I wonder if we both have the same opinion in regard to this case." }, { "from": "human", "value": "It can admit of but one," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And that is?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "It is a case of slow poisoning," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That was my view exactly," }, { "from": "human", "value": "There is but one way to proceed, returned Doctor Schimpf:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Agreed! returned the other, promptly." }, { "from": "human", "value": "And I would suggest, as well, that a woman be secured, if possible, to undertake this task of ferreting out who is responsible for this awful crime that will soon terminate fatally if not nipped in the bud." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have brought you an assistant, said Doctor Crandall, leading her into the presence of Dorothy and Nadine Holt, and bowing to each in turn." }, { "from": "human", "value": "She is to obey your orders implicitly, and wait upon you. The medicines we have left are of an extremely pungent odor, and likely to overcome a person unused to them. She can attend to mixing the preparations for you, if you both consider her competent to do so, which you can tell after a short trial; adding, besides:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "One drop of this stains the hands, and it can not be got off for months. I thought this might be sufficient reason for placing this young girl at your disposal." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You are very thoughtful, sir," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I understand, she answered, with a nod of her head." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Nothing shall escape my eye." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mrs. Brown." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What is the matter--what has happened, Jack, my boy? she asked, earnestly." }, { "from": "human", "value": "What does your agitation mean? You must tell me at once. Your--your appearance alarms me more than I can tell you." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, then, if you _must_ know, I will tell you when--we--are--alone," }, { "from": "human", "value": "You need not mind Mrs. Brown, she answered, quickly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I do not hesitate speaking before her on any topic." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I--I have finished my breakfast, she said, in the low tone she had assumed, and which so charmed every one;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Do not go very far, Mrs. Brown, she said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I may need you at any moment. Step into the conservatory and wait for further orders there." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, Jack. she said, at length, seeing that he was in no hurry to break the silence," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You are right, mother; something _has_ happened to disturb me, he said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I ought not to worry you with it, but if you care to hear it you shall know all. You remember a conversation we had several months ago about--about little Dorothy, mother?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We _did_ have a conversation about that girl, but I do not remember specially all that was said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You remember that I told you then, mother, that--that I still loved Dorothy, and if I ever came across the man who lured her away from me it would go hard with him or with me." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I was in hopes that you were getting over that nonsense, she said," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I turned on my heel and left him; and here I am, awaiting a summons from him." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Jack! she cried, wildly, throwing herself upon her knees at his feet," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Let me go in your place, cried a hoarse voice from the doorway of the conservatory." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Pardon me, but I could not help overhearing all; and Mrs. Brown advanced excitedly into the breakfast-room, and up to Jack's side." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Let me go in your place, she repeated." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Let me give my life for yours. I--I have nothing left to live for; you have." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You forget your little child, he said, gently." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Besides, any man might reasonably take up the quarrel of a lady, and, if need be, die in her defense, be she friend or stranger; but no woman should make such a sacrifice for a man. I thank you for the kindness of heart that prompted the words; but it can not be. I am sorry that you overheard my words to my mother. See! she has swooned away. I beg that you will take care of her, and let none of the household know what is about to occur." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If you please, ma'am, you are wanted in Miss Staples' room." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I--I can not go now, cried Dorothy, incoherently." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I have an urgent errand that I must attend to at once." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But you must come, madame," }, { "from": "human", "value": "It is impossible, returned Dorothy, attempting to pass her by." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Every moment of my time is precious." }, { "from": "human", "value": "But madame must go to the sick-room," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I will look in at the sick-room one moment, she said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Then you--you must not detain me." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Do you know whether Mr. Garner is in the house?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "He is in the library, ma'am." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You are sure?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Quite sure, ma'am. He also has had a message to come to the sick-room. I stopped and gave it to him myself on my way here." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I--I do not mind going to the sick-room with you now," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh! she is not dying--not dying? gasped Dorothy, with a wild wail of terror." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You must not tell me that!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Are you so very much surprised?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, she must not die---she must not die! she cried." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Where is all your vaunted skill if you can not save her life?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Man can work against the skill of man, significantly replied Doctor Crandall," }, { "from": "human", "value": "But is she dying?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "She shall not die if we can save her," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Do you say that my betrothed is dying?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What we have to say had better be deferred for a few moments, until he is more calm and better able to bear the shock," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I think I have unearthed the secret of the whole affair, whispered Doctor Crandall to his friend." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Watch the gaze Mrs. Brown is bending upon the betrothed lover of the girl who lies sick unto death!" } ]