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15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This is your Aunt Katy. You will love each other, I am sure."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am glad you have come, Aunt Katy, and you will tell me of the good doctor. He is your cousin, Uncle Wilford says."
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You don't seem like an aunt, Jamie said at last, smoothing her short hair;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, I mind him, while Jamie continued:"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I love him so much, and he loves us and you. I heard him tell grandma so, and by his voice I knew he was in earnest. He never loved any one half so well before, he said, not even--somebody--I forget who--a funny name it was."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Was Sybil the name?"
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I suppose you have not seen your Sister Helen? You know I called there, of course? Mark said to Katy; but before she could reply, a pair of black eyes shot a keen glance at the luckless Mark, and Juno's sharp voice said, quickly:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Called on her! When, pray? I did not know you had the honor of Miss Lennox's acquaintance."
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "When I was ten, Katy answered."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Cousin Morris gave me my first exercises himself. He plays sometimes."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, I knew that, Juno replied."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Does your sister play as well as you?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Morris thinks she does not. She is not as fond of it as I am. Then feeling that she must in some way make amends for Helen, she added:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But she knows a great deal more than I do about books. Helen is very smart."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Poor child, she is very tired,"
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Will you answer me one thing truly?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Did you love anybody three or four years ago, or ever--that is, love them well enough to wish to make them your wife?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What put that idea into your head? Who has been talking to you?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Juno, Katy answered."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She told me she believed that it was some other love which kept you a bachelor so long. Was it, Wilford?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Juno be--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It was very unkind in Juno to distress you thus with matters about which she knew nothing."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But did you? Katy asked again."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Was there not a Sybil Grey, or some one of that name?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, there was a Sybil Grey, Mrs. Judge Grandon now, and a dashing widow. Don't sigh so wearily, he continued, as Katy drew a gasping breath."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Knowing she was a widow, I chose you, thus showing which I preferred. Few men live to be thirty without more or less fancies, which under some circumstances might ripen into something stronger, and I am not an exception. I never loved Sybil Grey, nor wished to make her my wife. I admired her very much. I admire her yet, and among all my acquaintances there is not one upon whom I would care to have you make so good an impression as upon her, nor one whose manner you could better imitate."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, will she call? Shall I see her?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She is spending the winter in New Orleans with her late husband's relatives. She will not return till spring, Wilford replied."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But do not look so distressed, for I tell you solemnly that I never loved another as I love you, my wife. Do you believe me?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes,"
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I do believe you, and if I ever see this Sybil I will try to imitate her; but tell me, if, after her, there was among your friends one better than the rest, one almost as dear as I am, one whom you sometimes remember even now--is she living, or is she dead?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Genevra Lambert, aged 22,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If there ever was such a one, she certainly is not living. Are you satisfied?"
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, providing Katy is willing. Her feelings must not be hurt."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Certainly not, mother said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Katy is a dear little creature, and we all love her very much, but that does not blind us to her deficiencies, and as we are anxious that she should fill that place in society which Mrs. Wilford Cameron ought to fill, it seems necessary to tone her down a little before her first appearance at a party."
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now, imagine me Mrs. General Reynolds, to whom you are being presented, while Katy was bowing almost to the floor, who should appear but Mark Ray, stumbling square upon that ludicrous rehearsal, and of course bringing it to an end. No explanation was made, nor was any needed, for Mark's face showed that he understood it, and it was as much as he could do to keep from roaring with merriment; I am sure he pitied Katy, for his manner toward her was very affectionate and kind, and when once she left the room he complimented her highly, repeating many things he had heard in her praise from those who had seen her both in the street and here at home. Juno's face was like a thundercloud, for she was as much in love with Mark Ray as she was once with Dr. Grant, and is even jealous of his praise of Katy. Glad am I that I never yet saw the man who could make me jealous, or for whom I cared a pin. There's Bob Reynolds up at West Point. I suppose I do think his epaulettes very becoming to him, but his hair is too light and he cannot raise whiskers big enough to cast a shadow on the wall, while I know he looks with contempt upon females who write, even though their writings never see the light of day; thinks them strong-minded, self-willed, and all that. He is expected to be present at the party, but I shall not be. I had rather stay at home and finish that article entitled"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Women of the Present Century,"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's that charming little Mrs. Cameron, the prettiest creature I ever saw, her laugh is so refreshing and genuine,"
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You are very beautiful, little daughter, father said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I almost wish I was going with you to see the sensation you are sure to create."
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I feel so timid here--so much afraid of doing something wrong--something countrified."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Never mind, he answered."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Act yourself just as you would were you at home in Silverton, where you are known. That is far better than affecting a manner not natural to you."
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If I pleased you all I am glad."
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I wish I might stay here with you to-night. I have heard this opera before, and it will be so tiresome. I get so sleepy while they are singing, for I never care to watch the acting. I did at first, when it was new, but now it seems insipid to see them make-believe, while the theatre is worse yet,"
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I do like it some, I suppose, only I get so tired. I like to ride, I like to skate, I like to shop, and all that; but, oh, you don't know how I want to go home to mother and Helen. I have not seen them for so long, but I am going in the spring--going in May. How many days are there in March and April? Sixty-one, she continued;"
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, pretty enough, but I am so tired. If I could lie down on mother's bed, in a shilling calico, just as I used to do!"
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Tell me, sunbeam, what is your choice--to stay with us, or have a home of your own?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You have been kind to me here, and it is very pleasant; but I guess--I think--I'm sure--I should like the housekeeping best. I am not so young, either. Nineteen in July, and when I go home next month I can learn so much of Aunt Betsy and Aunt Hannah."
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is his folks, she always said to herself when cogitating upon the subject."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Alone with Wilford I shall feel as light and happy as I used to do in Silverton."
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But do not forget that death can find you even there amid your splendor, or that after death the judgment comes, and then what shall it profit you if you gain the whole world and lose your own soul."
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "One more week and then it is April, she said to Wilford one evening after they had retired to their room, and she was talking of Silverton."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I guess I had better go about the tenth. Shall you stay as long as I do?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have been talking with mother, and we think April is not a good time for you to be in the country; it is so wet and cold. You had better not till summer, and then I want you here to help order our furniture."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, Wilford,"
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Please God she may come to us some time,"
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I will choose the straight and pleasant,"
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oak and green will do nicely here, turning to Wilford,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have from the very first decided this chamber for Helen, and I cannot give it up for a smoking room. You never had one at home. Why did you not, if it is so necessary?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Indeed, I did not know that your sister was to form a part of your household. When do you expect her? and her cold gray eyes rested steadily upon Katy, who never before so fully realized the distance there was between her husband's friends and her own. But as the worm will turn when trampled on, so Katy, though hitherto powerless to defend herself, aroused in Helen's behalf, and in a tone as quiet and decided as that of her mother-in-law, replied:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "She will come whenever I write for her. It was arranged from the first. Wasn't it, Wilford?"
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I will try not to disgrace you when I meet this Mrs. Grandon."
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have only six eggs here--the receipt is ten. Bring me four more, please."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mrs. Sybil Grandon,"
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Was it Aunt Betsy? Juno asked, her face betokening its disgust when told that she was right, and her manner on her return to the parlor very frigid toward Katy, who had discovered the flour on her hair, and was laughing merrily over it, telling Sybil how it happened--how cross Phillips was--and lastly, how"
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "favorite dishes, together with Aunt Betsy's receipts. This was the straw too many, and since his marriage Wilford had not been as angry as he was while listening to Juno, who reported Sybil's verdict on his wife,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A domestic little body and very pretty."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What is it, Wilford? What makes you seem so-- . She would not say cross, and substituted"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "while Wilford plunged at once into the matter by saying,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Juno tells me she called here this afternoon with Mrs. Grandon."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, I forgot to mention it, Katy answered, feeling puzzled to know why that should annoy her husband; but his next remarks disclosed the whole, and Katy's tears flowed fast as Wilford asked what he supposed Mrs. Grandon thought, to see his wife looking as if fresh from the flour barrel, and to hear her talk about Aunt Betsy's receipts and our folks."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That is a bad habit of yours, Katy, he continued,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Our servants were selected by mother with a direct reference to your youth and inexperience, and it is not necessary for you to frequent the kitchen, or, indeed, to go there oftener than once a week. Let them come to you for orders, not you go to them. Neither need you speak quite so familiarly to them, treating them almost as if they were your equals. Try to remember your true position, that whatever you may have been you are now Mrs. Wilford Cameron, equal to any lady in New York."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Wilford's folks"
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, if Helen were only here,"
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She had grown thin and pale, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Had Wilford remarked it?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There is a note for her upstairs, left by a woman who insisted on seeing the house, until I took her over it, showing her every room."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A strange woman went over my house in Mrs. Cameron's absence! Who was it?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She said she was a friend of Mrs. Cameron, and that she knew she would allow the liberty,"
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They are singularly alike, he said, and still holding the note in his hand he went downstairs to the library, and opening a drawer of his writing desk, which was always kept locked, he took from it a picture and a bit of soiled paper, on which was written:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am not guilty, Wilford, and God will never forgive the wrong you have done to me."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mrs. Wilford Cameron"
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No. ---- Fourth St., 4th floor, N.Y."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Who is Marian Hazelton? Wilford asked himself as he threw down the missive."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Some of Katy's country friends, I dare say. Seems to me I have heard that name. She certainly writes as Genevra did, except that this Hazelton's is more decided and firm. Poor Genevra!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "God will never forgive the wrong you have done to me."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Genevra was mistaken, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "At least, if God has not forgiven, he has prospered me, which amounts to the same thing;"
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, yes, from Marian Hazelton,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Who is Marian Hazelton? Some intimate friend, I judge, from the liberty she took."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Not very intimate, though I liked her so much, and thought her above her position, Katy replied, repeating all she knew of Marian, and how she chanced to know her at all."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Don't you remember Helen wrote that she fainted at our wedding, and I was so sorry, fearing I might have overworked her."
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Would you not like it?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, and Katy drew a long and weary breath."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I shall like any place where there are birds, and rocks, and trees, and real grass, such as grows of itself in the country; but Wilford, and Katy crept close to him now,"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dear Marian, I wonder is she very poor?"
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, Marian, she exclaimed, tripping across the floor, and impulsively throwing her arms around Miss Hazelton's neck,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am so glad to meet some one from home. It seems almost like Helen I am kissing,"
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You must forgive me for going over your house, Marian said, after they had talked together a moment, and Katy had told how sorry she was to miss the call."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I could not resist the temptation, and it did me so much good, although I must confess to a good cry when I came back and thought of the difference between us."
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Tell me of Silverton, was Katy's next remark."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You don't know how I want to go there; but Wilford does not think it best--that is, at present. Next fall I am surely going. I picture to myself just how it will look; Morris' garden, full of the autumnal flowers--the ripe peaches in our orchard, the grapes ripening on the wall, and the long shadows on the grass, just as I used to watch them, wondering what made them move so fast, and where they could be going. Will it be unchanged, Marian? Do places seem the same when once we have left them? and Katy's eager eyes looked wistfully at Marian, who replied:"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Not always--not often, in fact; but in your case they may. You have not been long away."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Only a year, Katy said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I was as long as that in Canandaigua; but this past year is different. I have seen so much, and lived so much, that I feel ten years older than I did last spring, when you and Helen made my wedding dress. Darling Helen! When did you see her last?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I was there five weeks ago, Marian replied."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I saw them all, and told them I was coming to New York."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Do they miss me any? Do they talk of me? Do they wish me back again? Katy asked, and Marian replied:"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They talked of little else--that is, your own family. Dr. Morris, I think, did not mention your name. He has grown very silent and reserved,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Perhaps he is vexed that I do not write to him oftener, but I can't. I think of him a great deal, and sometimes have so wished I could sit in his public library, and forget that there are such things as dinner parties, where you are in constant terror lest you should do something wrong--evening parties, where your dress and style are criticised--receptions or calls, and all the things which make me so confused. Morris could always quiet me. It rested me just to hear him talk, and I respect him more than any living man, except, of course, Wilford; but when I try to write, something comes in between me and what I wish to say, for I want to convince him that I am not as frivolous as I fear he thinks I am. I have not forgotten the Sunday school, nor the church service, which I so loved to hear, especially when Morris read it, as he did in Mr. Browning's absence; but in the city it is so hard to be good, particularly when one is not, you know--that is, good like you and Helen and Morris--and the service and music seem all for show, and I feel so hateful when I see Juno and Wilford's mother making believe, and putting their heads down on velvet cushions, knowing as I do that they both are thinking either of their own bonnets or those just in front."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Are you not a little uncharitable?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Perhaps so, Katy answered."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I grow bad from looking behind the scenes, and the worst is that I do not care. But tell me, do you think Morris likes me less than formerly?"
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's because she has no such joy in expectation. I should feel so, too, if I were thirty and unmarried,"
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I knew you were not an object of charity, she said, as she saw the flush on Marian's brow,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Did Wilf--did Mr. Cameron know? Marian asked, and Katy answered"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No; but it does not matter. He lets me do as I like in these matters, and the greatest pleasure I have is giving. You are not offended?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No--oh, no,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I will keep these because you brought them, but do not do so again. There are many far more needy. I saved something in Silverton. I shall not suffer so long as my health is spared."
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "By the way, you were born in England? Were you ever at Alnwick? Katy asked, and Marian replied:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Once, yes. I've seen the castle and the church. Did you go there--to St. Mary's, I mean?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, yes, and I was never tired of that old churchyard, Wilford liked it, too, and we wandered by the hour among the sunken graves and quaint headstones."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Do you remember any of the names upon the stones? Perhaps I may know them? Marian asked; but Katy did not remember any, or if she did, it was not"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Genevra Lambert, aged twenty-two."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "What is it, Marian?"
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Pray put some animation into your face, or Mrs. Grandon will certainly think we have been quarreling,"
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Keep yourself unspotted from the world, Morris had said, and she repeated it to herself, asking:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "How shall I do that? How can one be good and fashionable, too?"
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If I were her brother I would warn her that her present career, though very delightful now, is not one upon which she will look back with pleasure when the excitement is over, he said to himself;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "he kept repeating to himself; but as often as he said it there came up before him a pale, anxious face, shaded with Helen Lennox's bands of hair, and Helen Lennox's voice whispered to him:"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Save Katy, for my sake;"
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Would Helen he pleased?"
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She had been held up as my pattern, she said, half bitterly, and forgetting to whom she was talking--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "she continued,"
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Say, she continued,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not always--not wholly, Mark answered;"
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, Helen finds some good in all. She sees differently from what I do, and I wish so much that she was here."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why not send for her?"
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I doubt if Wilford would let me send for her here, nor does it matter, as I shall not remain much longer. I do not need her now, since you have showed me how foolish I have been. I was angry at first, but now I thank you for it, and so would Helen. I shall tell her when I am in Silverton. I am going there from here, and oh, I so wish it was to-day."
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Wilford, she added, in a postscript,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "just as she had often wished to do,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "the deacon spelling out by his spluttering tallow candle, with its long, smoky wick, what she had said of"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "and the rides into the fields which she should have with him; Aunt Betsy, too, reading mostly from memory the words:"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Good old Aunt Betsy, with her skirts so limp and short, tell her she will look handsomer to me than the fairest belle at Newport; and as often as Aunt Betsy read it she would ejaculate:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The land! what kind of company must the child have kept? wondering next if Helen had never written of the hoop, for which she had paid a dollar, and which was carefully hung in her closet, waiting for the event of to-morrow, while the hem of her pongee had been let down and one breadth added to accommodate the hoop. On the whole, Aunt Betsy expected to make a stylish appearance before the little lady of whom she stood slightly in awe, always speaking of her to the neighbors as"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My niece, Miss Cameron, from New York, and taking good care to report what she had heard of"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Miss Cameron's"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What could it be--gold?"
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "as she stood by the window, wondering, first, if the rain would ever stop, and wondering, secondly, where all them fish worms, squirming on the grass by the back door, did come from. Needn't tell her they crawled out of the ground; she knew better--they rained from the clouds, though she should s'pose that somebody would sometime have catched one on their bunnet or umberill. Dammed if she didn't mean to stand out o' doors some day till she was wet to the skin, and see what would come, and having thus settled a way by which to decide the only question, except that of the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "on which she was still obstinate, Aunt Betsy went to strain the milk just brought by Uncle Ephraim, while Helen took her position near the window, looking drearily out upon the leaden clouds, and hoping it would brighten before the morrow. Like the others, Helen had read Katy's letter many times, dwelling longest upon the part which said:"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have been so bad, so frivolous and wicked here at Newport, that it will be a relief to make you my confessor, depending, as I do, upon your love to grant me absolution."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "down the avenue, with Wilford at her side giving her instructions. Since then there had been some anxiety felt for her at the farmhouse, and more than Dr. Grant had prayed that she might be kept unspotted from the world; but when her letter came, so full of love and self-reproaches, the burden was lifted, and there was nothing to mar the anticipations of the events for which they had made so many preparations, Uncle Ephraim going to the expense of buying at auction a half-worn, covered buggy, which he fancied would suit Katy better than the corn-colored wagon in which Katy used to ride. To pay for this the deacon had parted with the money set aside for the"
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Katy inherits her love of horses from me,"
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I beg pardon for this assault upon you, the stranger said; and then, turning to the boy, he continued:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's all right, you need not wait."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I thought it was Katy."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Shall I infer, then, that I am the less welcome? and his bright, saucy eyes looked laughingly into hers."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Business had brought him to Southbridge, he said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "and again his eyes looked straight at Helen,"
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Are you expecting Mrs. Cameron? he asked, adding as Helen explained that she was coming to-morrow:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That is strange. Wilford wrote decidedly that he should be in New York to-morrow. Possibly, though, he does not intend himself to stop."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I presume not,"
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You follow my mother's custom, I see. She used to mend my socks on Tuesday nights."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Your mother mend socks!"
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Bind it tightly around. Let me show you, please,"
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My mother did not always mend herself, but she caused it to be done, and sometimes helped. I remember she used to say a woman should know how to do everything pertaining to a household, and she carried out her theory in the education of my sister."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Have you a sister? Helen asked, now really interested, and listening intently while Mark told her of his only sister, Julia, now Mrs. Ernst, whose home was in New Orleans, though she at present was in Paris, and his mother was there with her."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "After Julia's marriage, nine years ago, mother went to live with her, he said,"
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's Will and the Camerons,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "but confessed to herself that it"
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A right nice chap, and not an atom stuck up, was Aunt Betsy's mental comment, and then, as he often will do, Satan followed the saintly woman even to her knees, making her wonder if"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mr. Ray hadn't some notion after Helen. She hoped not, for she meant that Morris should have Helen,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and while Aunt Betsy thus settled the case, Uncle Ephraim's prayer ended, and the conscience-smitten woman arose from her knees with the conviction that"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Please let me stay until Miss Lennox finishes her socks. There are several pairs yet undarned. I will not detain you, though,"
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You would like mother, Miss Lennox. I hope you will know her some time,"
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mark Ray is not like Wilford Cameron, Helen said to herself, when as the clock was striking eleven she bade him good-night and went up to her room."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But of course in his heart he feels above us all,"
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This is weak, this is folly,"
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Early country air is healthful, he said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "and selecting a half-opened bud, Mark placed it among Helen's braids as if hairdressing were one of his accomplishments."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The effect is good,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, Helen stammered, seeing more the saucy eyes looking over her head than the lily in her hair."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, good enough, but hardly in keeping with this old dress,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Your dress is suitable for morning, I am sure,"
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Helen was mightily spruced up for morning,"
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why do you do that? Is there no one else?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, Helen answered;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And mine are stronger still,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Tie that apron around me, then,"
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Remember if you come that I am your debtor for numerous hospitalities,"
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's fifteen months since she went away, he said, and Mark saw that the old man's form trembled with the excitement of meeting her again, while his eyes scanned eagerly every window and door of the cars now slowly stopping before him."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There, there,"
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Can it be she is asleep. Young man, you are spryer than I. Go through the cars and find her."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "She's not there, was the report carried to the poor old man, who tremblingly repeated his words:"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Not there, not come,"
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Maybe she's writ. I'll go and see,"
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Wilford did not know of the other letter, she said,"
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I might have had the overcoat, for Katy will never come home again, never. God grant that it's the Cameron pride, not hers, that kept her from us,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Katy will never come to us again,"
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It was not strange that the poor child should faint--indeed, it was only natural that nature should give way after so many weeks of gayety, and she very far from being strong,"
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "NEW YORK, December 16th."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "W. CAMERON."
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Perhaps you will go with me, Helen said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You know Katy's constitution. You might save her life."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I hope for the best, but it may be Katy will die. If you think so, tell her. Oh, tell her! of the better world, and ask if she is prepared. I cannot lose her in heaven."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He will be, of course,"
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I shall soon be all alone,"
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Is Miss Helen Lennox here? sounded cheerily in her ears as she stopped before the depot, and Helen uttered a cry of joy, for she recognized the voice of Mark Ray, who was soon grasping her hand, and trying to reassure her, as he saw how she shrank from the noise and clamor of New York, heard now for the first time."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Our carriage is here,"
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Tell me, Mr. Ray, is Katy dead?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not dead, oh, no, nor yet very dangerous, my mother hopes; but she kept asking for you, and so my--that is, Mr. Cameron, sent the telegram."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Is it long since she was taken sick?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Her little daughter will be a week old to-morrow,"
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It was so lofty, so high, so like the Camerons, and so unlike the farmhouse far away, that Helen trembled as she followed Mark into the rooms flooded with light, and seeming to her like fairyland. They were so different from anything she had imagined, so much handsomer than even Katy's vivid descriptions had implied, that for the moment the sight took her breath away, and she sank passively into the chair Mark brought for her, himself taking her muff and tippet, and noting, as he did so, that they were not mink, nor yet Russian sable, but well-worn, well-kept fitch, such as Juno would laugh at and criticise. But Helen's dress was a matter of small moment to Mark, as he thought more of the look in her dark eyes as she said to him:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You are very kind, Mr. Ray. I cannot thank you enough,"
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He was with Mrs. Cameron,"
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I was intending to meet you myself, he said,"
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Does Phillips know you are here?"
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Send for Helen; I am so tired, and she could always rest me, was her reply, when asked by Wilford what he could do for her."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Send for Helen; I want her so much, she had said to Mrs. Cameron, when she came, repeating the wish until a consultation was held between the mother and son, touching the propriety of sending for Helen."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She would be of no use whatever, and might excite our Katy. Quiet is highly important just now,"
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If her coming would do Katy harm she ought not to come,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Send for Sister Helen, please send for Sister Helen."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Send for Sister Helen,"
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why not send for Helen, then? She is a splendid girl, and they idolize each other. Talk of her injuring Katy, that's all a humbug. She is just fitted for a nurse. Almost the sight of her would cure one of nervousness, she is so calm and quiet."
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It may save her life. She is more feverish to-day than yesterday, and this constant asking for her sister will wear her out so fast,"
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am so glad, so glad. Kiss me, Wilford, because I am so glad. Does she know? Have you told her? Wasn't she surprised, and will she come up quick?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Helen."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She has not been to supper, and Phillips is always cross at extras. Will somebody see to it? Send Esther to me, please. Esther knows and is good-natured."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mother will do all that is necessary. She is going down, Wilford said; but Katy had quite as much fear of leaving Helen to"
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I wonder how long she means to stay, and if Wilford will have to take her out,"
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Miss Lennox, I presume--my daughter Katy's sister?"
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Naturally a lady as well as Katy; there must be good blood somewhere, probably on the Lennox side,"
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Strong-minded, was her final decision, as she said at last:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We promised Katy she should see you to-night. Will you go now?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Pray do not excite her."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Helen, Helen, darling, darling sister, she cried, as she wound her arms around Helen's neck, and laid her golden head on Helen's bosom, sobbing in a low, mournful way which told Helen more how much she was beloved and had been longed for than did the weak, childish voice which whispered:"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I've wanted you so much, oh, Helen; you don't know how much I've missed you all the years I've been away. You will not leave me now, and Katy clung closer to the dear sister who gently unclasped the clinging arms and put back upon the pillow the quivering face, which she kissed so tenderly, whispering in her own old half-soothing, half-commanding way:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Be quiet now, Katy. It's best that you should. No, I will not leave you."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Have you seen my baby?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It seems so funny that it is Katy's baby,"
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I shall get well so fast,"
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Have you been out at all? she asked, and upon Helen's replying that she had not, she answered:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That is not right. Accustomed to the fresh country air, you will suffer from too close confinement. Suppose you ride with me. My carriage is at the door, and I have a few hours' leisure. Tell your sister I insist,"
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, by all means, Katy said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It is so kind in Mrs. Banker, and so like her, too. I meant that Wilford should have driven with you to-day, and spoke to him about it, but Mrs. Banker will do better. Tell her I thank her so much for her thoughtfulness,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Perhaps your sister would do well to wear your furs. Hers are small and common fitch."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, certainly. Take them to her,"
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You shall ride with me, Miss Lennox, and I will show you something worth your seeing,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Your mother is not in fault, Mr. Ray. She asked me where I wished to go, and I mentioned these places; so please attribute it wholly to my country breeding, and not to your mother's lack of taste."
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You were quite right to commence as you have, she said,"
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mrs. Grandon and Juno Cameron,"
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Miss Lennox's fine intellectual face, after they had passed, and complimented it the more as she saw how it vexed Juno, who could see nothing"
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Diamond cut diamond,"
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I hope we shall see each other often, she said, at parting."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I do not go out a great deal myself--that is, not as much as Juno--but I shall be always glad to welcome you to my den. You may find something there to interest you."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Fitch furs or not, they rode with Mark Ray on Broadway,"
}
]
|
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