Alignment-Lab-AI/GutenDialogue · Datasets at Hugging Face

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15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Remember me kindly to the Silverton friends, and say I have not forgotten them." } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I dined at Mr. Cameron's, Kitty." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And that was all," } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Please don't tell Helen that you saw Wilford," } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "What if I should die? but she was too weak, too nearly unconscious, to go further and reflect upon the terrible reality death would bring if it found her unprepared. She had only strength and sense enough to wonder if Wilford would care when he heard that she was dead; and once, as she grew better, she almost worked herself into a second fever with assisting at her own obsequies, seeing only one mourner, and that one Wilford Cameron. Even he was not there in time to see her in her coffin, but he wept over her little grave and called her" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, nothing much--only I have been burying myself, and so Morris never dreamed of the real nature of her reveries, or guessed that Wilford Cameron was mingled with every thought. She had forgotten him, he believed; and when, as she grew stronger, he saw how her eyes sparkled at his coming, and how impatient she seemed if he was obliged to hurry off, hope whispered that she would surely be his, and his usually grave face wore a look of happiness which even his patients noticed, feeling themselves better after one of his cheery visits. Poor Morris! he was little prepared for the terrible blow in store for him, when one day early in April he started, as usual, to visit Katy, saying to himself:" }, { "from": "human", "value": "If I find her alone, perhaps I'll tell her of my love, and ask if she will come to Linwood this summer;" } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, Dr. Morris! she began, holding up a letter she had in her hand," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am so glad you've come, for I wanted to tell you so badly Wilford has not forgotten me, as I used to think, and as I guess you thought, too, though you did not say so. He has written, and he is coming again, if I will let him; and, oh, Morris! I am so glad! Ain't you? Seeing you knew all about it, and never told Helen, I'll let you read the letter." } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Perhaps I had better not read it, he said, but Katy insisted that he might, and thinking to himself:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It will cure me sooner perhaps, he read the few lines Wilford Cameron had written to his" }, { "from": "human", "value": "And now that I have risen above the circumstances, he added, in conclusion," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I write to ask if I may come to Silverton again. If I may, just drop me one word, 'come,' and in less than a week I shall be there. Yours very truly, W. Cameron." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You will answer this?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, oh yes; perhaps to-day." }, { "from": "human", "value": "And you will tell him to come?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why, yes--what else should I tell him? and Katy's blue eyes looked wonderingly at Morris, who hardly knew what he was doing, or why he said to her next:" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Listen to me, Katy. You know why Wilford Cameron comes here a second time, and what he will probably ask you ere he goes away; but, Katy, you are not strong enough yet to see him under so exciting circumstances, and, as your physician, I desire that you tell him to wait at least three weeks before he comes. Will you do so, Katy?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That is just as Helen talked, Katy answered, mournfully." }, { "from": "human", "value": "She said I was not able." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And will you heed us?" } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "If I supposed he meant to deceive her I should wish I was a man to cowhide him, she said to herself, with flashing eye, as she heard Katy exulting that he was coming" } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "No," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Umph! Old enough, I should think, if you ever intend to marry. Wilford, and the old man faced square about:" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I know nothing of the girl, except what I gathered from your mother and sisters. You have not asked my advice. I don't suppose you want it, but if you do, here it is. If you love the girl and she is respectable, marry her if she is poor as poverty and the daughter of a tinker; but if you don't love her, and she's rich as a nabob, for thunder's sake keep away from her." } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "patchwork into the parlor, and telling him it was a part of Katy's" } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Wouldn't it be rich, though, the meeting between your Aunt Betsy and Juno?" } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "You are a good fellow on the whole, but too outrageously proud, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Of course this Aunt Betsy in her pongee, whatever that may be, and the uncle in his shirt sleeves, and this mother whom you describe as weak and ambitious, are objections which you would rather should not exist; but if you love the girl, take her, family and all. Not that you are to transport the whole colony of Barlows to New York, he added, as he saw Wilford's look of horror," } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "If you can stand those two feather beds, you can do more than I supposed," } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Shall you tell her all? A husband should have no secrets of that kind from his wife." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, mother, I shall tell her all; but, oh! you do not know how hard it has been for me to bring my mind to that, or how sorry I am that we ever kept that secret--when Genevra died--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Hush-h!" } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "My little Katy will remember that in my first note I spoke of certain circumstances which had prevented my writing earlier. I do not know that I asked her not to seek to know those circumstances; but I ask it now. Will Katy trust me so far as to believe that all is right between us, and never allude to these circumstances?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You must not think me perfect, Katy, for I have faults, and perhaps if you knew my past life you would wish to revoke your recent decision and render a different verdict to my suit. Suppose I unfold the blackest leaf for your inspection?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "No, no, oh, no, and Katy playfully stopped his mouth with her hand." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Of course you have some faults, but I would rather find them out myself. I could not hear anything against you now. I am satisfied to take you as you are." }, { "from": "human", "value": "If Katy will not now read that leaf I offered to show her, she must not shrink back in horror if ever it does meet her eye." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I don't, I promise," } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "No, never, she answered." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I never dreamed of such a thing until I saw you, Mr. Cameron;" } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "By the way, he continued," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "he added," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Wilford," } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "When I get a house of my own I mean she shall live with me all the while," } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, very nice, but do not speak of it to her yet, as it will probably be some time before she will come to us, and she had better not have it in anticipation." } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I wish it were not wrong to hate him, she exclaimed passionately;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "and bathing her face in water Helen sat down by her window, gazing out upon the fresh green earth, where the young grass was springing, wondering if Mr. Cameron took her sister, when it would probably be." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Not this year or more, she said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, I know; I guessed as much when you came back from the meadows," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Crying. Helen! oh, don't. I shall love you just the same, and you are coming to live with us in the new house on Madison Square," } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Don't cry, Nellie, she said, twining her arms around her neck;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "New York is not far away, and I shall come so often--that is, after we return from Europe. Did I tell you we are going there first, and Wilford will not wait, but says we must be married the tenth of June; that's his birthday--thirty--and he is telling mother now." }, { "from": "human", "value": "So soon--oh, Katy! and you so young!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, it is soon, and I am young; but Wilford is in such a hurry; he don't care," } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, it was too bad, when there was that white hen turkey she could fat up so easy before June, and she knew how to make 'lection cake that would melt in your mouth, and was enough sight better than the black stuff they called weddin' cake. Vum! she meant to try what she could do with Mr. Cameron." } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Thank you, madam, for your good intentions, but I think we will dispense with the turkey and the cake," } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Miss Helen Lennox, Silverton, Mass." } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "What does it mean?" } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yours truly, WILFORD CAMERON." } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "If I disliked Wilford Cameron before, I hate him now. Yes, hate him," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why, Helen! Morris exclaimed, laying his hand reprovingly on her shoulder." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Is this the right spirit for one who professes better things? Stop a moment and think." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I know it is wrong, Helen answered, the tears glittering in her eyes;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Most people would call him too good for her, Morris replied." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And, in a worldly point of view, she is doing well, while Mr. Cameron, I believe, is better than three-fourths of the men who marry our girls. He is very proud; but that results from his education and training. Looking only from a New York standpoint he misjudges country people, but he will appreciate you by and by. Do not begin by hating him so cordially." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, but this money. Now, Morris, we do not want him to get Katy's outfit. I would rather go without clothes my whole life. Shall I send it back?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I think that the best disposition to make of it, Morris replied." }, { "from": "human", "value": "As your brother, I can and will supply Katy's needs." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I knew you would, Morris. What should we do without you? and Helen smiled gratefully upon the doctor, who in word and deed was to her like a dear brother." }, { "from": "human", "value": "And I'll send it to-day, in time to keep that dreadful Mrs. Ryan from coming; for, Morris, I won't have any of Wilford Cameron's dressmakers in the house." } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "HELEN LENNOX." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The idea of sending that Ryan woman to us, as if we did not know anything! and Helen's lip curled scornfully as she thus denounced the Ryan woman, whose trunk was all packed with paper patterns and devices of various kinds when the letter arrived saying she was not needed. Being a woman of few words, she quietly unpacked her patterns and went back to the work she was engaged upon when Mrs. Cameron proposed her going into the country. Juno, on the contrary, flew into a violent passion to think their first friendly advances should be thus received. Bell laughed immoderately, saying she rather liked Helen Lennox's spirit, and almost wished her brother had chosen her instead of the other, who, she presumed, was a milk and water thing, even if Mrs. Woodhull did extol her so highly. Mrs. Cameron felt the rebuff keenly, wincing under it, and saying" }, { "from": "human", "value": "and hoping her son would draw the line of division between his wife and her family so tightly that the sister could never pass over it. She had received the news of her son's engagement without opposition, for she knew the time for that was passed. Wilford would marry Katy Lennox, and she must make the best of it, so she offered no word of remonstrance, but, when they were alone, she said to him:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Did you tell her? Does she know it all?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "No, mother, and the old look of pain came back into Wilford's face." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I meant to do so, and I actually began, but she stopped me short, saying she did not wish to hear my faults, she would rather find them out herself. Away from her it is very easy to think what I will do, but when the trial comes I find it hard, we have kept it so long; but I shall tell her yet; not till after we are married though, and I have made her love me even more than she does now. She will not mind it then. I shall take her where I first met Genevra, and there I will tell her. Is that right?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, if you think so," } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I have another idea, Mrs. Cameron said to her daughters that afternoon, when talking with them upon the subject." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Wilford tells me Katy and Bell are about the same size and figure, and Ryan shall make up a traveling suit proper for the occasion. Of course there will be no one at the wedding for whom we care, but in Boston, at the Revere, it will be different. Cousin Harvey boards there, and she is very stylish. I saw some elegant gray poplins, of the finest luster, at Stewarts yesterday. Suppose we drive down this afternoon." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Poplin, mother, on Katy? It will not become her style, I am sure, though suitable for many. If I am to be fitted I shall say a word about the fabric. Get a little checked silk, as expensive as you like. It will suit her better than a heavy poplin." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "As I am going this afternoon over to North Silverton, he added, in conclusion," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Miss M. Hazelton, Fashionable Dressmaker. She was at home, so said the little slipshod girl who answered the ring, and in a few moments Helen was talking with Marian Hazelton, whose face showed signs of recent illness, but, nevertheless, very attractive, from its peculiarly sad expression and the soft liquid eyes of dark blue, which looked as if they were not strangers to tears. At twenty she must have been strikingly beautiful; and even now, at thirty, few ladies could have vied with her had she possessed the means for gratifying her taste and studying her style. About the mouth, so perfect in repose, there was when she spoke a singularly sweet smile, which in a measure prepared one for the low, silvery voice, which had a strange note of mournful music in its tone, making Helen start as it asked:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Did you wish to see me?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes; Dr. Grant told me you were-- Helen paused here, for though Marian Hazelton's dress indicated poverty, the words" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "seemed at variance with her whole being, and so she changed her form of speech, and said instead:" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Told me you could make dresses, and I drove around with him to secure your services, if possible, for my sister, who is soon to be married. We would like it so much if you could go to our house instead of having Katy come here." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Was it an elaborate trousseau she was expected to make?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, no! we are plain country people. We cannot afford as much for Katy as we would like; besides, I dare say Mr. Cameron will prefer selecting most of her wardrobe himself, as he is very wealthy and fastidious, Helen replied, repenting the next instant the part concerning Mr. Cameron's wealth, as that might look like boasting to Miss Hazelton, whose head was bent lower over the magazine as she said:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Did I understand that the gentleman's name was Cameron?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, Wilford Cameron, from New York," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Were you taken suddenly ill? Why did you faint?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I am still so weak that the least exertion affects me, and I was bending over the table; it will soon pass off." } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Nothing, except that she came to North Silverton a year ago, opening her shop, and by her faithfulness, and pleasant, obliging manners, winning favor with all who employed her. Previous to her sickness she had a few times attended St. Paul's at South Silverton, that being the church of her choice. Had Helen never observed her?" } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Pure, loving, innocent, and unsuspecting," } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "You look very young to be married, said Miss Hazelton to her once, and shaking back her short rings of hair Katy answered:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Eighteen next Fourth of July; but Mr. Cameron is thirty." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Is he a widower? was the next question, which Katy answered with a merry laugh." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Mercy, no! I marry a widower! How funny! I don't believe he ever cared a fig for anybody but me. I mean to ask him." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I would," } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I never will--no, I never will, God help me to keep the promise. Were it the other--Helen--I might, for she could bear it; but Katy, that child---no, I never will," } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I have lived in New York, you know, and why do you not ask if I ever saw these Camerons?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You! did you?--have you, really?--and what are they like? Katy almost screamed, skipping across the floor and seating herself by Marian, who replied:" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Much like other ladies of their stamp--proud and fashionable. The father I never saw, but your Mr. Cameron I used to see in the street driving his handsome bays." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Sometimes there was a child in the Cameron carriage. Do you know who it was?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "What was the cause of his lameness?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I don't know just how it happened, Katy replied," }, { "from": "human", "value": "A servant!" } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Isn't it lovely? she exclaimed;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "and the impulsive girl found her arms around Helen's neck, kissing her lovingly, while Helen sank into a chair and sobbed aloud:" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, Katy, darling Katy! you won't forget me when you are rich and admired and can have all you want? You will remember us here at home, so sad and lonely? You don't know how desolate it will be, knowing you are gone, never to come back again, just as you go away." } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I cannot quite give Wilford up to please you, she said, when that gigantic sacrifice suggested itself as something which it was possible Helen might require of her;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Poor Uncle Eph, are you sorry, too?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, Katy-did--very sorry." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I never will," } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "His burden is greater than mine. God help us both," } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Perhaps she would come to the church, she said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "and her manner was so strange as she gathered up her things that Katy wondered if in any way she could have been offended, and at last said to her timidly, as she stood with her bonnet on waiting for Uncle Ephraim:" }, { "from": "human", "value": "You are not angry with me for anything, are you?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Angry with you! and Katy never forgot the glitter of the tearful eyes, or their peculiar expression as they turned upon her." }, { "from": "human", "value": "No, oh, no; I could not be angry with you, and yet, Katy Lennox, some in my position would hate you, contrasting your prospects with their own; but I do not; I love you; I bless you, and pray that you may be happy with your husband; honor him, obey him if need be, and above all, never give him the slightest cause to doubt you. You will have admirers, Katy Lennox. In New York others than your husband will speak to you words of flattery, but don't you listen. Remember what I tell you; and now, again, God bless you." } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I charge you, Will, be kind to that young girl, and don't, for Heaven's sake, go to cramming her with airs and nonsense which she does not understand. Tell her I'll be a father to her; her own, you say, is dead, and give her this as my bridal present." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Joy to the Bride," }, { "from": "human", "value": "The handsomest man I ever saw," } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, I know, and I will try to prove worthy of what I shall be to you when I wear that ring for good." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "that" } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I suppose that you are willing I should take your sister with me this time." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, it is very nice, no doubt; but, and here he turned to Helen," }, { "from": "human", "value": "--and his eyes still rested on Helen, who gave him back an unflinching glance--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I need not say that no pains have been spared to make these garments everything they should be in point of quality and style. I have them in my trunk, and, tuning now to Katy," } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Who is Mrs. Ryan? she asked." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What does he mean?" } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Beautiful! Katy exclaimed;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I dare say they will, Wilford replied, enjoying her appreciation of his mother's gift." }, { "from": "human", "value": "At all events they will answer for to-morrow, and any needful alterations can be made in Boston. Which will you wear?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, I don't know. I wish I could wear both. Helen, which shall I?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Don't, Nellie, right before Wilford. I won't wear either of them. I'll wear the one you made. It was mean and vain in me to think of doing otherwise." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I would rather you should wear the one they sent. It will become you better. Suppose you try it on, and in seeking to gratify her sister Helen forgot in part her own cruel disappointment, and that her work of days had been for naught. The dress fitted well, though Katy pronounced it too tight and too long. A few moments, however, accustomed her to the length, and then her mother, Aunt Hannah, and Aunt Betsy came to see and admire, while Katy proposed going out to Wilford, but Helen kept her back. Aunt Betsy remarking, under her breath, that" }, { "from": "human", "value": "More free and easy than she will be by and by," } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "She's a young, rattle-headed creature, not much like your own kin, I guess; but, young man, she is as dear as the apple of our eyes, and I charge you to treat her well. She has never had a crossways word spoke to her all her life, and don't you be the first to speak it, nor let your folks browbeat her." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Katy, from Cousin Morris, June 10th, 18--, wishing that after the" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Katy had come the name Cameron, and wondering if Morris had any design in omitting it. Wilford had not yet presented his father's gift, but he did so now, and Katy's tears dropped upon the pale, soft pearls as she whispered:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I shall like your father. I never thought of having things like these." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Wake, Katy darling, this is your wedding day." } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Will you have this man to be thy wedded husband?" } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now, Ephraim, now; they've reached the quirk, she whispered, audibly, almost before Katy's" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I will was heard, clear and distinct; but Ephraim did not need her prompting, and his hand rested lovingly upon Katy's shoulder as he signified his consent, and then fell back to his place next to Hannah. But when Wilford's voice said:" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I, Wilford, take thee Katy to be my wedded wife," } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mark Ray!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You did not expect to see me here, neither did I expect to come until last night, when I found myself in the little village where you know Scranton lives. Then it occurred to me that as Silverton was only a few miles distant I would drive over and surprise you, but I am too late for the ceremony, I see," } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Tell me, Will, quick, who is that woman in the poke bonnet and short, slim dress?" } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "That, sir, is my aunt, Miss Betsy Barlow." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I beg your pardon, I really do, I was not aware--" } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "On your way from Boston call and see me. I shall be glad of your company then." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Which means that you do not wish it now," } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why did you invite him to Linwood? Helen began." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am sure we have had city guests enough. Oh, if Wilford Cameron had only never come, we should have had Katy now," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, Katy, Katy, how can I live without you?" } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "She is in Boston, and the saying so made the time which had elapsed since the morning seem interminable. Slowly the hours dragged, and at last, before the sunsetting, Helen, who could bear the loneliness of home no longer, stole across the fields to Linwood, hoping in Morris' companionship to forget her own grief in part. But Morris was a sorry comforter then. If the day had been sad to Helen, it had been doubly so to him. He had ministered as usual to his patients, listening to their complaints and answering patiently their inquiries; but amid it all he walked as in a maze, hearing nothing except the words:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I, Katy, take thee, Wilford, to be my wedded husband," } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I have had a hard day's work, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am always tired at night, and he tried to smile and appear natural." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Are you very lonely at the farmhouse?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Positively, Cousin Morris, and Helen's eye flashed as she said it," }, { "from": "human", "value": "That is wrong, Helen, all wrong, and Morris tried to reason with her; but his arguments this time were not very strong, and he finally said to her, inadvertently:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If I can forgive Wilford Cameron for marrying our Katy, you surely ought to do so, for he has hurt me the most." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You, Morris! you, you! Helen kept repeating, standing back still further and further front him, while strange, overwhelming thoughts passed like lightning through her mind as she marked the pallid face, where was written since the morning more than one line of suffering, and saw in the brown eyes a look such as they were not wont to wear." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Morris, tell me--tell me truly--did you love my Sister Katy?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, Helen. God forgive me if it were wrong. I did love your Sister Katy, and love her yet, and that is the hardest to bear." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, why couldn't it have been? Why didn't you tell her in time? and at last she said to him;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "If Katy had known it! Oh, Morris, why didn't you tell her? She never guessed it, never! If she had--if she had, Helen's breath came chokingly:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am very sure--yes, I know it might have been!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these--it might have been." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I doubt if you are right; I hope you are not; hope that it might not have been, as it is not now. Katy loved me as her brother, nothing more, I am confident. Had she waited till she was older, God only knows what might have been, but now she is gone and our Father will help me to bear, will help us both, if we ask him, as we must." } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Not of myself could I do it, Morris said;" } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yours, loving, KATY CAMERON." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Five hundred dollars!" } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "And now I come to the trunk. I know you will be surprised at its contents, but you cannot be more so than I was when Wilford said I must pack them up and send them back--all the dresses you and Marion made." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, oh no," } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "And now I must stop, for Wilford says so. Dear Helen, dear all of you, I can't help crying as I say good-by. Remember little Katy, and if she ever did anything bad, don't lay it up against her. Kiss Morris and Uncle Ephraim, and say how much I love them. Darling sister, darling mother, good-by." } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "She will never wear them, never--they are not fine enough for her now!" } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, Morris, look! he has sent back all Katy's clothes, which you bought and I worked so hard to make. They were not good enough for his wife to wear, and so he insulted us. Oh, Katy, I never fully realized till now how wholly she is lost to us!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Helen, Helen," } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I think I had better leave. You can tell her all I had to say;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Please, Mr. Ray, don't go--not yet at least, not till I have asked you of Katy. Did you see her off? Has she gone?" } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I have known Wilford Cameron for years; he is my best friend, and I respect him as a brother. In some things he may be peculiar, but he will make your sister a kind husband. He loves her devotedly, I know, choosing her from the throng of ladies who would gladly have taken her place. I hope you will like him for my sake as well as Katy's." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But then he came for a wife, and I did not," } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Miss Lennox is not much like her sister." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Not much, no; but Helen is a splendid girl--more strength of character, perhaps, than Katy, who is younger than her years even. She has always been petted from babyhood; it will take time or some great sorrow to show what she really is." } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I most wish it was this chap with Katy on the sea. I like his looks the best," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Will need not be ashamed of that man, though I don't suppose I should really want him coming suddenly in among a drawing-room full of guests." } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Genevra Lambert, aged twenty-two, was the lettering upon it, and as he read it a feeling of reproach was in his heart, while he said:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I hope I am not glad to know that she is dead." } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "That was a boyish fancy, this love of mature years," } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, Wilford, and she crept closely to him," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Aunt Betsy spells so queerly, that I was wishing you would not always open my letters first. Do all husbands do so?" } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why, yes, I guess they do. My little wife has surely no secrets to hide from me?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No secrets, Katy answered," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I did not marry Aunt Betsy--I married you," } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, darling, a great deal more," } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "We might have stayed longer in Europe," } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, it is a heap colder," } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Please, Wilford, telegraph to Helen to be with mother at the West depot when we pass there to-morrow. The train stops five minutes, you know, and I want to see them so much. Will you, Wilford?" } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, yes." } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Which of your sisters shall I like best?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Which do you like best, books or going to parties in full dress?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, parties and dress," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You will like Juno best, for she is all fashion and gayety, while Bluebell prefers her books and the quiet of her own room." } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I mean to ask Wilford if I may," } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "You went out to telegraph, didn't you?" } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is too late now, he added;" } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I don't know what you mean. I would do anything if I knew how. Tell me, how shall I be dignified?" } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Only three miles from mother and Helen! Oh, if I could go there!" } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Morris! oh, Cousin Morris! I've come!" } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "No, not sick, though tired, perhaps, as I have at present an unusual amount of work to do." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It might have been," } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Come, Katy, we must go now," } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, I know, but I have not asked half I meant to. Oh, how I want to go home with you, Morris," } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I intended to have brought them heaps of things, she said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "and the impulsive creature drew from her finger a small diamond set in black enamel, which Wilford had bought in Paris." }, { "from": "human", "value": "She did not need it; she had two more, and she was sure Wilford would not mind," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Certainly, send it if you like." } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am so glad I saw him--so glad I sent the ring, for now they will know I am the same Katy Lennox, and I think Helen sometimes feared I might get proud with you, she said, while Wilford pulled her rich fur around her, smiling to see how bright and pretty she was looking since that meeting with Dr. Grant." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It was better than medicine, Katy said, when beyond Springfield he referred to it a second time, and leaning her head upon his shoulder she fell into a refreshing sleep, from which she did not waken until New York was reached, and Wilford, lifting her gently up, whispered to her:" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Come, darling, we are home at last." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Katy should not be troubled the first day, he said;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Come, darling, we are home at last." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why do you shiver so?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I don't--know. I guess--I'm cold," } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "What would our folks say? she kept repeating to herself as she drove along the streets, where they were beginning to light the street lamps, for the December day was dark and cloudy. It seemed so like a dream that she, who once had picked huckleberries on the Silverton hills, and bound coarse, heavy shoes to buy herself a pink gingham dress, should now be riding in her carriage toward the home which she knew was magnificent; and Katy's tears fell like rain as, nestling close to Wilford, who asked what was the matter, she whispered:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I can hardly believe that it is I--it is so unreal." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Please don't cry, Wilford rejoined, brushing her tears away." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You know I don't like your eyes to be red." }, { "from": "human", "value": "And this is my new daughter?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I love you now, because you are Wilford's mother, but by and by because you are mine. And you will love me some because I am his wife." } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, darling, I love you now, she said, removing Katy's clinging arms and taking care that they should not enfold her a second time." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You are tired and cold, she continued;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "and with a wave of her hand she dismissed Katy up the stairs, noticing as she went the exquisite softness of her fur cloak; but thinking it too heavy a garment for her slight figure, and noticing, too, the graceful ankle and foot which the little high-heeled gaiter showed to good advantage." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I did not see her face distinctly, but she has a well-turned instep and walks easily," }, { "from": "human", "value": "She will undoubtedly make a good dancer, then, unless like Dr. Grant, she is too blue for that," } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Couldn't you see her face at all, mother?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Scarcely; but the glimpse I did get was satisfactory. I think she is pretty." } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I wish we could say the same of you, saucy Juno answered, playfully pulling his mustache;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "and she ran her fingers through his dark hair, where there was now and then a thread of silver." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Disappointed in your domestic relations, eh?" } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I assure you I am not disappointed, he answered," } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, how pleasant, how beautiful, she cried, skipping across the soft carpet to the warm fire blazing in the grate." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "A bay window, too, when I like them so much, and such handsome curtains and furniture. I shall be happy here." } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Wear your traveling habit! she exclaimed," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "and she began good-naturedly to remove her mistress' collar and pin, while Katy, standing up, sighed as she said;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I wish I was in Silverton to-night. I could wear anything there. What must I put on? How I dread it!" } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Very pretty, indeed," } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Did you have your hair cut on purpose?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Never mind; it is a fault which will mend every day, only it makes you look like a child." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I am eighteen and a half," } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am glad to have a father--mine died before I could remember him. May I call you so?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, yes; God bless you, my child," } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I did not think you were so small or young. You are my little daughter, my baby, instead of my son's wife. How do you ever expect to fulfill the duties of Mrs. Wilford Cameron?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It's my short hair, sir. I am not so young," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Never mind, child, Mr. Cameron rejoined, playfully." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Youth is no reproach; there's many a one would give their right hand to be young like you. Juno, for instance, who is--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Hus-band!" } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is time to go down if Mrs. Cameron sees the young ladies before dinner," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Mrs. Cameron! Thunder and lightning, wife, call her Katy, and don't go into any nonsense of that kind." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Don't mind it. He is rather irritable since his illness, and sometimes makes use of coarse language." } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Your wife looks tired, Will. Let her sit down," } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, yes, I was very sorry, I would rather be there than here." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Complimentary to us, very," } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I did not mean to be rude, she said, earnestly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I liked Italy so much, and we expected to stay longer; but that does not hinder my liking to be here. I hope I did not offend you." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Certainly not; you are an honest little puss, Bell replied, placing her hand caressingly upon the curly head laying back so wearily on the chair." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Here in New York we have a bad way of not telling the whole truth, but you will soon be used to it." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Used to not telling the truth! Oh, I hope not!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Simpleton, was Juno's comment, while Bell's was:" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I rather like the child," } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I suppose you will find Will a pattern husband, Juno said, after a moment's pause, and Katy replied:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "There never could be a better, I am sure, and I have been very happy." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Has he never said one cross word to you in all these six months? was Juno's next question, to which Katy answered, truthfully:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Never." }, { "from": "human", "value": "And lets you do as you please?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, just as I please, Katy replied, while Juno continued:" }, { "from": "human", "value": "He must have changed greatly, then, from what he used to be; but marriage has probably improved him. He tells you all his secrets, too, I presume?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, if he has any." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well, then, and in Juno's black eyes there was a wicked look," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What picture? and Katy looked up inquiringly, while Juno, with a little sarcastic laugh, continued:" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, he has not told you, then. I thought he would not, he seemed so angry and annoyed when he saw me with it once three or four years ago. I found it in his room, where he had accidentally left it, and was looking at it when he came in. It was the picture of a young girl, who must have been very beautiful, and I did not blame Will for loving her, if he ever did, but he need not have been so indignant at me for wishing to know who it was. I never saw him so angry or so much disturbed. I hope you will ferret the secret out and tell me, for I have a great deal of curiosity, fancying that picture had something to do with his remaining so long a bachelor. I do not mean that he does not love you, she added, as she saw how white Katy grew." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It is not to be expected that a man can live to be thirty without loving more than one. There was Sybil Grey, a famous belle, whom I thought at one time he would marry; but when Judge Grandon offered she accepted, and Will was left in the lurch. I do not really believe he cared, though, for Sybil was too much of a flirt to suit his jealous lordship, and I will do him the justice to say that, however many fancies he may have had, he likes you best of all," } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Don't tell Will, she was about to say, when Will himself appeared, to take Katy out to dinner. Very beautiful and sad were the blue eyes which looked up at him so wistfully, and nothing but the remembrance of Juno's words," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He likes you best of all," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Let us try what dinner will do for you," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Remember me kindly to the Silverton friends, and say I have not forgotten them." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I dined at Mr. Cameron's, Kitty." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And that was all," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Please don't tell Helen that you saw Wilford," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What if I should die? but she was too weak, too nearly unconscious, to go further and reflect upon the terrible reality death would bring if it found her unprepared. She had only strength and sense enough to wonder if Wilford would care when he heard that she was dead; and once, as she grew better, she almost worked herself into a second fever with assisting at her own obsequies, seeing only one mourner, and that one Wilford Cameron. Even he was not there in time to see her in her coffin, but he wept over her little grave and called her" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, nothing much--only I have been burying myself, and so Morris never dreamed of the real nature of her reveries, or guessed that Wilford Cameron was mingled with every thought. She had forgotten him, he believed; and when, as she grew stronger, he saw how her eyes sparkled at his coming, and how impatient she seemed if he was obliged to hurry off, hope whispered that she would surely be his, and his usually grave face wore a look of happiness which even his patients noticed, feeling themselves better after one of his cheery visits. Poor Morris! he was little prepared for the terrible blow in store for him, when one day early in April he started, as usual, to visit Katy, saying to himself:" }, { "from": "human", "value": "If I find her alone, perhaps I'll tell her of my love, and ask if she will come to Linwood this summer;" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, Dr. Morris! she began, holding up a letter she had in her hand," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am so glad you've come, for I wanted to tell you so badly Wilford has not forgotten me, as I used to think, and as I guess you thought, too, though you did not say so. He has written, and he is coming again, if I will let him; and, oh, Morris! I am so glad! Ain't you? Seeing you knew all about it, and never told Helen, I'll let you read the letter." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Perhaps I had better not read it, he said, but Katy insisted that he might, and thinking to himself:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It will cure me sooner perhaps, he read the few lines Wilford Cameron had written to his" }, { "from": "human", "value": "And now that I have risen above the circumstances, he added, in conclusion," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I write to ask if I may come to Silverton again. If I may, just drop me one word, 'come,' and in less than a week I shall be there. Yours very truly, W. Cameron." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You will answer this?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, oh yes; perhaps to-day." }, { "from": "human", "value": "And you will tell him to come?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why, yes--what else should I tell him? and Katy's blue eyes looked wonderingly at Morris, who hardly knew what he was doing, or why he said to her next:" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Listen to me, Katy. You know why Wilford Cameron comes here a second time, and what he will probably ask you ere he goes away; but, Katy, you are not strong enough yet to see him under so exciting circumstances, and, as your physician, I desire that you tell him to wait at least three weeks before he comes. Will you do so, Katy?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That is just as Helen talked, Katy answered, mournfully." }, { "from": "human", "value": "She said I was not able." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And will you heed us?" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If I supposed he meant to deceive her I should wish I was a man to cowhide him, she said to herself, with flashing eye, as she heard Katy exulting that he was coming" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Umph! Old enough, I should think, if you ever intend to marry. Wilford, and the old man faced square about:" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I know nothing of the girl, except what I gathered from your mother and sisters. You have not asked my advice. I don't suppose you want it, but if you do, here it is. If you love the girl and she is respectable, marry her if she is poor as poverty and the daughter of a tinker; but if you don't love her, and she's rich as a nabob, for thunder's sake keep away from her." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "patchwork into the parlor, and telling him it was a part of Katy's" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Wouldn't it be rich, though, the meeting between your Aunt Betsy and Juno?" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You are a good fellow on the whole, but too outrageously proud, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Of course this Aunt Betsy in her pongee, whatever that may be, and the uncle in his shirt sleeves, and this mother whom you describe as weak and ambitious, are objections which you would rather should not exist; but if you love the girl, take her, family and all. Not that you are to transport the whole colony of Barlows to New York, he added, as he saw Wilford's look of horror," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If you can stand those two feather beds, you can do more than I supposed," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Shall you tell her all? A husband should have no secrets of that kind from his wife." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, mother, I shall tell her all; but, oh! you do not know how hard it has been for me to bring my mind to that, or how sorry I am that we ever kept that secret--when Genevra died--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Hush-h!" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My little Katy will remember that in my first note I spoke of certain circumstances which had prevented my writing earlier. I do not know that I asked her not to seek to know those circumstances; but I ask it now. Will Katy trust me so far as to believe that all is right between us, and never allude to these circumstances?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You must not think me perfect, Katy, for I have faults, and perhaps if you knew my past life you would wish to revoke your recent decision and render a different verdict to my suit. Suppose I unfold the blackest leaf for your inspection?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "No, no, oh, no, and Katy playfully stopped his mouth with her hand." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Of course you have some faults, but I would rather find them out myself. I could not hear anything against you now. I am satisfied to take you as you are." }, { "from": "human", "value": "If Katy will not now read that leaf I offered to show her, she must not shrink back in horror if ever it does meet her eye." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I don't, I promise," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No, never, she answered." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I never dreamed of such a thing until I saw you, Mr. Cameron;" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "By the way, he continued," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "he added," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Wilford," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "When I get a house of my own I mean she shall live with me all the while," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, very nice, but do not speak of it to her yet, as it will probably be some time before she will come to us, and she had better not have it in anticipation." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I wish it were not wrong to hate him, she exclaimed passionately;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "and bathing her face in water Helen sat down by her window, gazing out upon the fresh green earth, where the young grass was springing, wondering if Mr. Cameron took her sister, when it would probably be." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Not this year or more, she said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, I know; I guessed as much when you came back from the meadows," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Crying. Helen! oh, don't. I shall love you just the same, and you are coming to live with us in the new house on Madison Square," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Don't cry, Nellie, she said, twining her arms around her neck;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "New York is not far away, and I shall come so often--that is, after we return from Europe. Did I tell you we are going there first, and Wilford will not wait, but says we must be married the tenth of June; that's his birthday--thirty--and he is telling mother now." }, { "from": "human", "value": "So soon--oh, Katy! and you so young!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, it is soon, and I am young; but Wilford is in such a hurry; he don't care," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, it was too bad, when there was that white hen turkey she could fat up so easy before June, and she knew how to make 'lection cake that would melt in your mouth, and was enough sight better than the black stuff they called weddin' cake. Vum! she meant to try what she could do with Mr. Cameron." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Thank you, madam, for your good intentions, but I think we will dispense with the turkey and the cake," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Miss Helen Lennox, Silverton, Mass." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If I disliked Wilford Cameron before, I hate him now. Yes, hate him," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why, Helen! Morris exclaimed, laying his hand reprovingly on her shoulder." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Is this the right spirit for one who professes better things? Stop a moment and think." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I know it is wrong, Helen answered, the tears glittering in her eyes;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Most people would call him too good for her, Morris replied." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And, in a worldly point of view, she is doing well, while Mr. Cameron, I believe, is better than three-fourths of the men who marry our girls. He is very proud; but that results from his education and training. Looking only from a New York standpoint he misjudges country people, but he will appreciate you by and by. Do not begin by hating him so cordially." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, but this money. Now, Morris, we do not want him to get Katy's outfit. I would rather go without clothes my whole life. Shall I send it back?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I think that the best disposition to make of it, Morris replied." }, { "from": "human", "value": "As your brother, I can and will supply Katy's needs." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I knew you would, Morris. What should we do without you? and Helen smiled gratefully upon the doctor, who in word and deed was to her like a dear brother." }, { "from": "human", "value": "And I'll send it to-day, in time to keep that dreadful Mrs. Ryan from coming; for, Morris, I won't have any of Wilford Cameron's dressmakers in the house." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "HELEN LENNOX." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The idea of sending that Ryan woman to us, as if we did not know anything! and Helen's lip curled scornfully as she thus denounced the Ryan woman, whose trunk was all packed with paper patterns and devices of various kinds when the letter arrived saying she was not needed. Being a woman of few words, she quietly unpacked her patterns and went back to the work she was engaged upon when Mrs. Cameron proposed her going into the country. Juno, on the contrary, flew into a violent passion to think their first friendly advances should be thus received. Bell laughed immoderately, saying she rather liked Helen Lennox's spirit, and almost wished her brother had chosen her instead of the other, who, she presumed, was a milk and water thing, even if Mrs. Woodhull did extol her so highly. Mrs. Cameron felt the rebuff keenly, wincing under it, and saying" }, { "from": "human", "value": "and hoping her son would draw the line of division between his wife and her family so tightly that the sister could never pass over it. She had received the news of her son's engagement without opposition, for she knew the time for that was passed. Wilford would marry Katy Lennox, and she must make the best of it, so she offered no word of remonstrance, but, when they were alone, she said to him:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Did you tell her? Does she know it all?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "No, mother, and the old look of pain came back into Wilford's face." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I meant to do so, and I actually began, but she stopped me short, saying she did not wish to hear my faults, she would rather find them out herself. Away from her it is very easy to think what I will do, but when the trial comes I find it hard, we have kept it so long; but I shall tell her yet; not till after we are married though, and I have made her love me even more than she does now. She will not mind it then. I shall take her where I first met Genevra, and there I will tell her. Is that right?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, if you think so," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I have another idea, Mrs. Cameron said to her daughters that afternoon, when talking with them upon the subject." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Wilford tells me Katy and Bell are about the same size and figure, and Ryan shall make up a traveling suit proper for the occasion. Of course there will be no one at the wedding for whom we care, but in Boston, at the Revere, it will be different. Cousin Harvey boards there, and she is very stylish. I saw some elegant gray poplins, of the finest luster, at Stewarts yesterday. Suppose we drive down this afternoon." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Poplin, mother, on Katy? It will not become her style, I am sure, though suitable for many. If I am to be fitted I shall say a word about the fabric. Get a little checked silk, as expensive as you like. It will suit her better than a heavy poplin." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "As I am going this afternoon over to North Silverton, he added, in conclusion," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Miss M. Hazelton, Fashionable Dressmaker. She was at home, so said the little slipshod girl who answered the ring, and in a few moments Helen was talking with Marian Hazelton, whose face showed signs of recent illness, but, nevertheless, very attractive, from its peculiarly sad expression and the soft liquid eyes of dark blue, which looked as if they were not strangers to tears. At twenty she must have been strikingly beautiful; and even now, at thirty, few ladies could have vied with her had she possessed the means for gratifying her taste and studying her style. About the mouth, so perfect in repose, there was when she spoke a singularly sweet smile, which in a measure prepared one for the low, silvery voice, which had a strange note of mournful music in its tone, making Helen start as it asked:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Did you wish to see me?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes; Dr. Grant told me you were-- Helen paused here, for though Marian Hazelton's dress indicated poverty, the words" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "seemed at variance with her whole being, and so she changed her form of speech, and said instead:" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Told me you could make dresses, and I drove around with him to secure your services, if possible, for my sister, who is soon to be married. We would like it so much if you could go to our house instead of having Katy come here." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Was it an elaborate trousseau she was expected to make?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, no! we are plain country people. We cannot afford as much for Katy as we would like; besides, I dare say Mr. Cameron will prefer selecting most of her wardrobe himself, as he is very wealthy and fastidious, Helen replied, repenting the next instant the part concerning Mr. Cameron's wealth, as that might look like boasting to Miss Hazelton, whose head was bent lower over the magazine as she said:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Did I understand that the gentleman's name was Cameron?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, Wilford Cameron, from New York," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Were you taken suddenly ill? Why did you faint?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I am still so weak that the least exertion affects me, and I was bending over the table; it will soon pass off." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Nothing, except that she came to North Silverton a year ago, opening her shop, and by her faithfulness, and pleasant, obliging manners, winning favor with all who employed her. Previous to her sickness she had a few times attended St. Paul's at South Silverton, that being the church of her choice. Had Helen never observed her?" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Pure, loving, innocent, and unsuspecting," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You look very young to be married, said Miss Hazelton to her once, and shaking back her short rings of hair Katy answered:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Eighteen next Fourth of July; but Mr. Cameron is thirty." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Is he a widower? was the next question, which Katy answered with a merry laugh." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Mercy, no! I marry a widower! How funny! I don't believe he ever cared a fig for anybody but me. I mean to ask him." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I would," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I never will--no, I never will, God help me to keep the promise. Were it the other--Helen--I might, for she could bear it; but Katy, that child---no, I never will," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I have lived in New York, you know, and why do you not ask if I ever saw these Camerons?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You! did you?--have you, really?--and what are they like? Katy almost screamed, skipping across the floor and seating herself by Marian, who replied:" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Much like other ladies of their stamp--proud and fashionable. The father I never saw, but your Mr. Cameron I used to see in the street driving his handsome bays." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Sometimes there was a child in the Cameron carriage. Do you know who it was?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "What was the cause of his lameness?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I don't know just how it happened, Katy replied," }, { "from": "human", "value": "A servant!" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Isn't it lovely? she exclaimed;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "and the impulsive girl found her arms around Helen's neck, kissing her lovingly, while Helen sank into a chair and sobbed aloud:" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, Katy, darling Katy! you won't forget me when you are rich and admired and can have all you want? You will remember us here at home, so sad and lonely? You don't know how desolate it will be, knowing you are gone, never to come back again, just as you go away." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I cannot quite give Wilford up to please you, she said, when that gigantic sacrifice suggested itself as something which it was possible Helen might require of her;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Poor Uncle Eph, are you sorry, too?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, Katy-did--very sorry." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I never will," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "His burden is greater than mine. God help us both," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Perhaps she would come to the church, she said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "and her manner was so strange as she gathered up her things that Katy wondered if in any way she could have been offended, and at last said to her timidly, as she stood with her bonnet on waiting for Uncle Ephraim:" }, { "from": "human", "value": "You are not angry with me for anything, are you?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Angry with you! and Katy never forgot the glitter of the tearful eyes, or their peculiar expression as they turned upon her." }, { "from": "human", "value": "No, oh, no; I could not be angry with you, and yet, Katy Lennox, some in my position would hate you, contrasting your prospects with their own; but I do not; I love you; I bless you, and pray that you may be happy with your husband; honor him, obey him if need be, and above all, never give him the slightest cause to doubt you. You will have admirers, Katy Lennox. In New York others than your husband will speak to you words of flattery, but don't you listen. Remember what I tell you; and now, again, God bless you." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I charge you, Will, be kind to that young girl, and don't, for Heaven's sake, go to cramming her with airs and nonsense which she does not understand. Tell her I'll be a father to her; her own, you say, is dead, and give her this as my bridal present." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Joy to the Bride," }, { "from": "human", "value": "The handsomest man I ever saw," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, I know, and I will try to prove worthy of what I shall be to you when I wear that ring for good." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "that" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I suppose that you are willing I should take your sister with me this time." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, it is very nice, no doubt; but, and here he turned to Helen," }, { "from": "human", "value": "--and his eyes still rested on Helen, who gave him back an unflinching glance--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I need not say that no pains have been spared to make these garments everything they should be in point of quality and style. I have them in my trunk, and, tuning now to Katy," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Who is Mrs. Ryan? she asked." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What does he mean?" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Beautiful! Katy exclaimed;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I dare say they will, Wilford replied, enjoying her appreciation of his mother's gift." }, { "from": "human", "value": "At all events they will answer for to-morrow, and any needful alterations can be made in Boston. Which will you wear?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, I don't know. I wish I could wear both. Helen, which shall I?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Don't, Nellie, right before Wilford. I won't wear either of them. I'll wear the one you made. It was mean and vain in me to think of doing otherwise." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I would rather you should wear the one they sent. It will become you better. Suppose you try it on, and in seeking to gratify her sister Helen forgot in part her own cruel disappointment, and that her work of days had been for naught. The dress fitted well, though Katy pronounced it too tight and too long. A few moments, however, accustomed her to the length, and then her mother, Aunt Hannah, and Aunt Betsy came to see and admire, while Katy proposed going out to Wilford, but Helen kept her back. Aunt Betsy remarking, under her breath, that" }, { "from": "human", "value": "More free and easy than she will be by and by," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "She's a young, rattle-headed creature, not much like your own kin, I guess; but, young man, she is as dear as the apple of our eyes, and I charge you to treat her well. She has never had a crossways word spoke to her all her life, and don't you be the first to speak it, nor let your folks browbeat her." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Katy, from Cousin Morris, June 10th, 18--, wishing that after the" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Katy had come the name Cameron, and wondering if Morris had any design in omitting it. Wilford had not yet presented his father's gift, but he did so now, and Katy's tears dropped upon the pale, soft pearls as she whispered:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I shall like your father. I never thought of having things like these." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Wake, Katy darling, this is your wedding day." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Will you have this man to be thy wedded husband?" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now, Ephraim, now; they've reached the quirk, she whispered, audibly, almost before Katy's" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I will was heard, clear and distinct; but Ephraim did not need her prompting, and his hand rested lovingly upon Katy's shoulder as he signified his consent, and then fell back to his place next to Hannah. But when Wilford's voice said:" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I, Wilford, take thee Katy to be my wedded wife," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mark Ray!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You did not expect to see me here, neither did I expect to come until last night, when I found myself in the little village where you know Scranton lives. Then it occurred to me that as Silverton was only a few miles distant I would drive over and surprise you, but I am too late for the ceremony, I see," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Tell me, Will, quick, who is that woman in the poke bonnet and short, slim dress?" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That, sir, is my aunt, Miss Betsy Barlow." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I beg your pardon, I really do, I was not aware--" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "On your way from Boston call and see me. I shall be glad of your company then." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Which means that you do not wish it now," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why did you invite him to Linwood? Helen began." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am sure we have had city guests enough. Oh, if Wilford Cameron had only never come, we should have had Katy now," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, Katy, Katy, how can I live without you?" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "She is in Boston, and the saying so made the time which had elapsed since the morning seem interminable. Slowly the hours dragged, and at last, before the sunsetting, Helen, who could bear the loneliness of home no longer, stole across the fields to Linwood, hoping in Morris' companionship to forget her own grief in part. But Morris was a sorry comforter then. If the day had been sad to Helen, it had been doubly so to him. He had ministered as usual to his patients, listening to their complaints and answering patiently their inquiries; but amid it all he walked as in a maze, hearing nothing except the words:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I, Katy, take thee, Wilford, to be my wedded husband," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I have had a hard day's work, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am always tired at night, and he tried to smile and appear natural." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Are you very lonely at the farmhouse?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Positively, Cousin Morris, and Helen's eye flashed as she said it," }, { "from": "human", "value": "That is wrong, Helen, all wrong, and Morris tried to reason with her; but his arguments this time were not very strong, and he finally said to her, inadvertently:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If I can forgive Wilford Cameron for marrying our Katy, you surely ought to do so, for he has hurt me the most." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You, Morris! you, you! Helen kept repeating, standing back still further and further front him, while strange, overwhelming thoughts passed like lightning through her mind as she marked the pallid face, where was written since the morning more than one line of suffering, and saw in the brown eyes a look such as they were not wont to wear." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Morris, tell me--tell me truly--did you love my Sister Katy?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, Helen. God forgive me if it were wrong. I did love your Sister Katy, and love her yet, and that is the hardest to bear." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, why couldn't it have been? Why didn't you tell her in time? and at last she said to him;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "If Katy had known it! Oh, Morris, why didn't you tell her? She never guessed it, never! If she had--if she had, Helen's breath came chokingly:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am very sure--yes, I know it might have been!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these--it might have been." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I doubt if you are right; I hope you are not; hope that it might not have been, as it is not now. Katy loved me as her brother, nothing more, I am confident. Had she waited till she was older, God only knows what might have been, but now she is gone and our Father will help me to bear, will help us both, if we ask him, as we must." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Not of myself could I do it, Morris said;" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yours, loving, KATY CAMERON." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Five hundred dollars!" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And now I come to the trunk. I know you will be surprised at its contents, but you cannot be more so than I was when Wilford said I must pack them up and send them back--all the dresses you and Marion made." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, oh no," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And now I must stop, for Wilford says so. Dear Helen, dear all of you, I can't help crying as I say good-by. Remember little Katy, and if she ever did anything bad, don't lay it up against her. Kiss Morris and Uncle Ephraim, and say how much I love them. Darling sister, darling mother, good-by." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "She will never wear them, never--they are not fine enough for her now!" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, Morris, look! he has sent back all Katy's clothes, which you bought and I worked so hard to make. They were not good enough for his wife to wear, and so he insulted us. Oh, Katy, I never fully realized till now how wholly she is lost to us!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Helen, Helen," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I think I had better leave. You can tell her all I had to say;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Please, Mr. Ray, don't go--not yet at least, not till I have asked you of Katy. Did you see her off? Has she gone?" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I have known Wilford Cameron for years; he is my best friend, and I respect him as a brother. In some things he may be peculiar, but he will make your sister a kind husband. He loves her devotedly, I know, choosing her from the throng of ladies who would gladly have taken her place. I hope you will like him for my sake as well as Katy's." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But then he came for a wife, and I did not," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Miss Lennox is not much like her sister." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Not much, no; but Helen is a splendid girl--more strength of character, perhaps, than Katy, who is younger than her years even. She has always been petted from babyhood; it will take time or some great sorrow to show what she really is." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I most wish it was this chap with Katy on the sea. I like his looks the best," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Will need not be ashamed of that man, though I don't suppose I should really want him coming suddenly in among a drawing-room full of guests." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Genevra Lambert, aged twenty-two, was the lettering upon it, and as he read it a feeling of reproach was in his heart, while he said:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I hope I am not glad to know that she is dead." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That was a boyish fancy, this love of mature years," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, Wilford, and she crept closely to him," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Aunt Betsy spells so queerly, that I was wishing you would not always open my letters first. Do all husbands do so?" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why, yes, I guess they do. My little wife has surely no secrets to hide from me?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No secrets, Katy answered," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I did not marry Aunt Betsy--I married you," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, darling, a great deal more," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We might have stayed longer in Europe," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, it is a heap colder," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Please, Wilford, telegraph to Helen to be with mother at the West depot when we pass there to-morrow. The train stops five minutes, you know, and I want to see them so much. Will you, Wilford?" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, yes." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Which of your sisters shall I like best?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Which do you like best, books or going to parties in full dress?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, parties and dress," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You will like Juno best, for she is all fashion and gayety, while Bluebell prefers her books and the quiet of her own room." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I mean to ask Wilford if I may," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You went out to telegraph, didn't you?" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is too late now, he added;" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I don't know what you mean. I would do anything if I knew how. Tell me, how shall I be dignified?" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Only three miles from mother and Helen! Oh, if I could go there!" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Morris! oh, Cousin Morris! I've come!" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No, not sick, though tired, perhaps, as I have at present an unusual amount of work to do." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It might have been," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Come, Katy, we must go now," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, I know, but I have not asked half I meant to. Oh, how I want to go home with you, Morris," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I intended to have brought them heaps of things, she said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "and the impulsive creature drew from her finger a small diamond set in black enamel, which Wilford had bought in Paris." }, { "from": "human", "value": "She did not need it; she had two more, and she was sure Wilford would not mind," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Certainly, send it if you like." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am so glad I saw him--so glad I sent the ring, for now they will know I am the same Katy Lennox, and I think Helen sometimes feared I might get proud with you, she said, while Wilford pulled her rich fur around her, smiling to see how bright and pretty she was looking since that meeting with Dr. Grant." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It was better than medicine, Katy said, when beyond Springfield he referred to it a second time, and leaning her head upon his shoulder she fell into a refreshing sleep, from which she did not waken until New York was reached, and Wilford, lifting her gently up, whispered to her:" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Come, darling, we are home at last." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Katy should not be troubled the first day, he said;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Come, darling, we are home at last." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why do you shiver so?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I don't--know. I guess--I'm cold," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What would our folks say? she kept repeating to herself as she drove along the streets, where they were beginning to light the street lamps, for the December day was dark and cloudy. It seemed so like a dream that she, who once had picked huckleberries on the Silverton hills, and bound coarse, heavy shoes to buy herself a pink gingham dress, should now be riding in her carriage toward the home which she knew was magnificent; and Katy's tears fell like rain as, nestling close to Wilford, who asked what was the matter, she whispered:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I can hardly believe that it is I--it is so unreal." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Please don't cry, Wilford rejoined, brushing her tears away." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You know I don't like your eyes to be red." }, { "from": "human", "value": "And this is my new daughter?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I love you now, because you are Wilford's mother, but by and by because you are mine. And you will love me some because I am his wife." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, darling, I love you now, she said, removing Katy's clinging arms and taking care that they should not enfold her a second time." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You are tired and cold, she continued;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "and with a wave of her hand she dismissed Katy up the stairs, noticing as she went the exquisite softness of her fur cloak; but thinking it too heavy a garment for her slight figure, and noticing, too, the graceful ankle and foot which the little high-heeled gaiter showed to good advantage." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I did not see her face distinctly, but she has a well-turned instep and walks easily," }, { "from": "human", "value": "She will undoubtedly make a good dancer, then, unless like Dr. Grant, she is too blue for that," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Couldn't you see her face at all, mother?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Scarcely; but the glimpse I did get was satisfactory. I think she is pretty." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I wish we could say the same of you, saucy Juno answered, playfully pulling his mustache;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "and she ran her fingers through his dark hair, where there was now and then a thread of silver." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Disappointed in your domestic relations, eh?" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I assure you I am not disappointed, he answered," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, how pleasant, how beautiful, she cried, skipping across the soft carpet to the warm fire blazing in the grate." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "A bay window, too, when I like them so much, and such handsome curtains and furniture. I shall be happy here." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Wear your traveling habit! she exclaimed," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "and she began good-naturedly to remove her mistress' collar and pin, while Katy, standing up, sighed as she said;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I wish I was in Silverton to-night. I could wear anything there. What must I put on? How I dread it!" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Very pretty, indeed," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Did you have your hair cut on purpose?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Never mind; it is a fault which will mend every day, only it makes you look like a child." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I am eighteen and a half," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am glad to have a father--mine died before I could remember him. May I call you so?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, yes; God bless you, my child," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I did not think you were so small or young. You are my little daughter, my baby, instead of my son's wife. How do you ever expect to fulfill the duties of Mrs. Wilford Cameron?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It's my short hair, sir. I am not so young," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Never mind, child, Mr. Cameron rejoined, playfully." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Youth is no reproach; there's many a one would give their right hand to be young like you. Juno, for instance, who is--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Hus-band!" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is time to go down if Mrs. Cameron sees the young ladies before dinner," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Mrs. Cameron! Thunder and lightning, wife, call her Katy, and don't go into any nonsense of that kind." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Don't mind it. He is rather irritable since his illness, and sometimes makes use of coarse language." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Your wife looks tired, Will. Let her sit down," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, yes, I was very sorry, I would rather be there than here." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Complimentary to us, very," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I did not mean to be rude, she said, earnestly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I liked Italy so much, and we expected to stay longer; but that does not hinder my liking to be here. I hope I did not offend you." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Certainly not; you are an honest little puss, Bell replied, placing her hand caressingly upon the curly head laying back so wearily on the chair." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Here in New York we have a bad way of not telling the whole truth, but you will soon be used to it." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Used to not telling the truth! Oh, I hope not!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Simpleton, was Juno's comment, while Bell's was:" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I rather like the child," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I suppose you will find Will a pattern husband, Juno said, after a moment's pause, and Katy replied:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "There never could be a better, I am sure, and I have been very happy." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Has he never said one cross word to you in all these six months? was Juno's next question, to which Katy answered, truthfully:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Never." }, { "from": "human", "value": "And lets you do as you please?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, just as I please, Katy replied, while Juno continued:" }, { "from": "human", "value": "He must have changed greatly, then, from what he used to be; but marriage has probably improved him. He tells you all his secrets, too, I presume?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, if he has any." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well, then, and in Juno's black eyes there was a wicked look," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What picture? and Katy looked up inquiringly, while Juno, with a little sarcastic laugh, continued:" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, he has not told you, then. I thought he would not, he seemed so angry and annoyed when he saw me with it once three or four years ago. I found it in his room, where he had accidentally left it, and was looking at it when he came in. It was the picture of a young girl, who must have been very beautiful, and I did not blame Will for loving her, if he ever did, but he need not have been so indignant at me for wishing to know who it was. I never saw him so angry or so much disturbed. I hope you will ferret the secret out and tell me, for I have a great deal of curiosity, fancying that picture had something to do with his remaining so long a bachelor. I do not mean that he does not love you, she added, as she saw how white Katy grew." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It is not to be expected that a man can live to be thirty without loving more than one. There was Sybil Grey, a famous belle, whom I thought at one time he would marry; but when Judge Grandon offered she accepted, and Will was left in the lurch. I do not really believe he cared, though, for Sybil was too much of a flirt to suit his jealous lordship, and I will do him the justice to say that, however many fancies he may have had, he likes you best of all," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Don't tell Will, she was about to say, when Will himself appeared, to take Katy out to dinner. Very beautiful and sad were the blue eyes which looked up at him so wistfully, and nothing but the remembrance of Juno's words," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He likes you best of all," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Let us try what dinner will do for you," } ]