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15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then you think her pretty? You have called on her? Mark replied, his manner evincing so much pleasure that Juno bit her lip to keep down her wrath, and flashing upon him her scornful eyes, replied:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, Sybil and Bell insisted that I should. Of myself I would never have done it, for I have now more acquaintances than I can attend to, and do not care to increase the list. Besides that, I do not imagine that Miss Lennox can in any way add to my happiness, brought up as she has been among the woods and hills, you know."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, I have been there--to her home, I mean,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Only for a moment, though. You should have stayed, like Will, to appreciate it fully. I wish you could hear him describe the feather beds in which he slept--that is, describe them before he decided to take Katy; for after that he was chary of his remarks, and the feathers by some marvelous process were changed into hair, for what he knew or cared."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have stayed there all night, and have tested that feather bed, but found nothing disparaging to Helen, who was as much a lady in the farmhouse as here in the city."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "As much a lady as here! That may very well be; but, pray, how long since you took to visiting Silverton so frequently--becoming so familiar as to spend the night?"
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Seriously, though, this Miss Lennox seems a very nice girl, and is admirably fitted, I think, for the position she is to fill--that of a country physician's wife,"
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Certainly; I imagine that was settled as long ago as we met him in Paris. Once I thought it might have been our Katy, but was mistaken. I think the doctor and Miss Lennox well adapted to each other--it is an excellent match."
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They are well matched,"
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I do not believe I am in love with her, he said to himself that night, when, after his return from Mrs. Reynolds' he sat for a long time before the fire in his dressing-room, cogitating upon what he had heard, and wondering why it should affect him so much."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Of course I am not, he continued, feeling the necessity of reiterating the assertion by way of making himself believe it."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She is not at all what I used to imagine the future Mrs. Mark Ray to be. Half my friends would say she had no style, no beauty, and perhaps she has not. Certainly she does not look just like the ladies at Mrs. Reynolds' to-night, but give her the same advantages and she would surpass them all."
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But it shall not interfere with my being just as kind to her as before. She will need some attendant here, and Wilford, I know, will be glad to shove her off his hands. He is so infernal proud,"
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I want so much to surprise her, she said, speaking in a whisper,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, Mrs. Banker said, thoughtfully, as she rolled up the bills,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, Katy replied,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I think that will please her, don't you?"
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, pleased with anything you choose to give her, but--excuse me, dear Mrs. Cameron, if I speak as openly as if I were the mother of you both. Bracelets are suitable for you who can have everything else, but is there not something your sister needs more, something which will do more good? Now, allowing me to suggest, I should say, buy her some furs, and let the bracelets go. In Silverton her furs were well enough, but here, as the sister of Mrs. Wilford Cameron, she is deserving of better."
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You are right, she said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It was thoughtless in me not to think of this myself. Helen shall have the furs, and whatever else is necessary. I am so glad you reminded me of it. You are kind as my own mother,"
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, Katy, Katy, why did you do it?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You are not angry?"
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, oh, no! Helen replied."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I know it was all meant well; but there is something in me which rebels against taking this from Wilford. He had better have sent to Silverton for that trunk. Its contents have never been disturbed, and surely there might be something found good enough for me."
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What would they say at home if they could only see you?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Aunt Betsy would say I had forgotten half my dress,"
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nothing else? Surely mademoiselle will have these few green leaves?"
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You will be the belle of the evening,"
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You would rather leave her wholly to Mark Ray and his mother, I suppose, Bell said, adding, as she saw the flush on Juno's face."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You know you are dying of jealousy, and nothing annoys you so much as to hear people talk of Mark's attentions to Miss Lennox."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do they talk?"
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She is such a prude, I daresay she will go in that blue silk with the long sleeves and high neck, looking like a Dutch doll,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am not certain that a high dress is worse than bones,"
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Who is she?"
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have never learned."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You miss a great deal,"
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Pond lilies are my pets, she said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "and his eyes rested upon Helen with a look that made her blush as she faintly answered"
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I mean to sound her,"
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "As you like, though it cannot matter; a person known to be engaged is above Bob Reynolds' jokes."
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It was kind in him to warn me. I wish it had been sooner, she thought, and then with a bitter feeling of shame she wondered how much he had guessed of her real feelings, and who the betrothed one was."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not Juno Cameron,"
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They are a well-matched pair, Mrs. Cameron said, assuming a very confidential manner toward Helen, who assented to the remark, while the lady continued:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There is but one thing wrong about Mark Ray. He is a most unscrupulous flirt, pleased with every new face, and this of course annoys Juno."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Are they engaged? came faintly and involuntarily from Helen's lips, while Mrs. Cameron's foot beat the carpet with a very becoming hesitancy, as she replied:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, that was settled in our family a long time ago. Wilford and Mark have always been like brothers."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They are engaged. She could not quite bring herself to a deliberate falsehood, which, if detected, would reflect upon her character as a lady, but she could mislead Helen, and she did so effectually, as was evinced by the red spot which burned on her cheeks, and by her uncertain way of replying to a gentleman who stood by her for a moment, addressing to her some casual remark and departing with the impression that Miss Lennox was very timid and shy. After he was gone, Mrs. Cameron continued,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It is not like us to bruit our affairs abroad, and were my daughter ten times engaged, the world would be none the wiser. I doubt if even Katy suspects what I have admitted; but knowing how fascinating Mark can be, and that just at present he seems to be pleased with you, I have acted as I should wish a friend to act toward my own child. Were it not that you are one of our family, I might not have interfered, and I trust you not to repeat even to Katy what I have said."
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's that confounded waltzing which disgusted her, he said,"
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is natural, she said,"
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I never thought till last night how nice it would be for you to marry Mark and settle in New York,"
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You looked beautiful, Wilford said, Katy continued,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "and Katy's voice fell, while her eyes rested upon the crib where the baby was sleeping,"
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You are confining yourself too much, she said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You are losing all your color. Fresh air will do you good, even if parties will not. Suppose we drive this afternoon to Marian Hazelton's and show her the baby."
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You needn't go up, Katy said to the nurse, feeling that she would rather meet Marian without the presence of a stranger."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Miss Lennox will carry baby and you can wait here. It is not cold, she added, as the nurse showed signs of remonstrance,"
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You would not come to see it and so I brought it to you. Isn't she a beauty?"
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If there were a child it would of course be different."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What makes you cry?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I was thinking of what might have been, came struggling from Marian's pale lips, and Helen felt a throb of pain as she remembered Dr. Grant, and then thought of herself in connection with this sad"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Might have been."
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What do you intend to call her?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Genevra,"
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, I know now, she said, as baby's cry fell on her ear, but restoring her wholly to herself."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Fainting is one of my weaknesses, she continued, turning to Helen."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You have seen me so before. It is my heart,"
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He won't, oh, He won't,"
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "God does not willfully torment us. He will not take my baby, when my whole life would die with it. I had almost forgotten to pray, there was so much else to do, till baby came, but now I never go to sleep at night or waken in the morning, that there does not come a prayer of thanks for baby given to me. I could hardly love God if He took her away."
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and placing so much accent on the last syllable. At this the Father Cameron swore as cussed nonsense--"
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Genevra. Not long before her illness she had read an English story, which had in it a Genevra, and she had at once seized upon it as the most delightful cognomen a person could well possess."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Genevra Cameron! She had repeated it to herself many a time as she sat with her baby on her lap. She had written it on sundry slips of paper, which had afterward found their way into the grate; and once she had scratched with her diamond ring upon the window pane in her dressing-room, where it now stood in legible characters,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Genevra Cameron!"
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Maggie Cameron--pretty enough, but not like Genevra. Indeed I shall not have any Margarets now; next time perhaps I may."
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Better, Juno said, and now she touched Bell's arm, to have her see"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Now for the all-important name. What shall we call our daughter?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Let your mother speak first,"
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, but not half so pretty and striking as Rose Marie,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Rose Mary! Thunder! Father Cameron exclaimed."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Call her a marygold, or a sunflower, just as much. Don't go to being fools by giving a child a heathenish name. Give us your opinion, Katy."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have known from the first, Katy replied,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Genevra! I've heard it before. Where was it, grandma? Didn't you talk of it once with--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hush-h, Jamie. Don't interrupt us now,"
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Genevra, or nothing,"
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "After all it does not matter, Mrs. Cameron said to her daughters, when, after Mrs. Wilford had gone, she sat talking of Katy's queer fancy and her obstinacy in adhering to it."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It does not matter; and on the whole I had as soon the christening would be postponed until the child is more presentable than now. It will be prettier by and by, and the dress will become it better. We can afford to wait."
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It was foolish to take that stand, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Other mothers went and why should not she? She had already stayed in too much. She was injuring herself, and --what was infinitely worse to Wilford--"
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If they could only see you at home,"
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You are like a girl with her first doll,"
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Surely Miss Lennox might remain; the carriage could be sent back for her; and he had hardly seen her at all."
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Baby was not well--baby needed her,"
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Strange he had never thought of it, when it was what so many people did, he said to himself as he hurried home."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It was the very best thing both for Katy and the child, and would obviate every difficulty."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I believe you have more influence over your sister than I have; at least, she has latterly shown a willfulness in disregarding me and a willingness to listen to you, which confirms me in this conclusion--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well,"
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well;"
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You must have seen how opposed Katy is to complying with my wishes, setting them at naught, when she knows how much pleasure she would give me by yielding as she used to do."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don't know what you mean, Helen replied,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "that is, he did not like the sound. Their definition suited him, but Helen's enunciation was at fault, and he answered quickly:"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I do not require absolute obedience from Katy. I never did; but in the matter to which you refer, I think she might consult my wishes as well as her own. There is no reason for her secluding herself in the nursery as she does. Do you think there is?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I do not believe Katy means to displease you, but she has conceived a strong aversion for festive scenes, and besides baby is not healthy, you know, and like all young mothers she may be over-anxious, while I fancy she has not the fullest confidence in the nurse, and this may account for her unwillingness to leave the child with her."
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, she looks older than you do,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There is not two years difference between us, and I have always been well, keeping regular hours until I came here."
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I will do what I can, but I must confess it seems to me an unnatural thing. I had supposed parents less selfish than that."
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I hope to find Katy reconciled when I come home. I think I had better not go up to her again, so tell her I send a good-by kiss by you. I leave her case in your hands."
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Wilford thought he had better not come up, but he sent a kiss by me,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It does not matter, Katy gasped."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Kisses cannot help me if they take my baby away. Did he tell you? and she turned now partly toward Helen, who nodded affirmatively while Katy continued:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Had he taken a knife and cut a cruel gash it would not have hurt me half so badly. I could bear that, but my baby--oh, Helen, do you think they will take her away?"
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Say, do you think they will?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Whom do you mean by 'they'?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Whom do I mean? His folks of course! They have been the instigators of every sorrow I have known since I left Silverton. Oh, Helen, never, never marry anybody who has folks, if you wish to be happy."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don't mean Father Cameron, nor Bell, nor Jamie, for I love them all, and I believe that they love me. Father does, I know, and Jamie, while Bell has helped me so often; but Mrs. Cameron and Juno--oh, Helen, you will never know what they have been to me."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I notice you always say 'father' and 'Mrs. Cameron.' Why is that?"
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I tried so hard to love her, Katy said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Where is baby to be sent?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Up the river, to a house which Father Cameron owns, and which is kept by a farmer's family. I can't trust Kirby. I do not like her. She keeps baby asleep too long, and acts so cross if I try to wake her, or hint that she looks unnatural. I cannot give baby to her care, with no one to look after her, though Wilford says I must."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why then do you try to resist, when you know how useless it is?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What do you mean? Of what are you thinking?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I was thinking that you reminded me of a bird beatings wings against the bars of its cage, vainly hoping to escape into the freedom which it feels is outside its prison house, but falling back bruised and bleeding with its efforts, and no nearer escape."
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If you were that bird, what would you do?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I? What would I do? I should beat my wings until I died; but your nature is different. You are more yielding, more loving, more submissive. You can bear it better."
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I can't, I can't,"
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then if it must be, Helen said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It is only for your good, and every one with common sense will say so."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am always better after talking with her, Katy said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And I have a strong presentiment that she can do me good."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Shall you tell her? Helen asked in some surprise; and Katy replied,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If you know of any little homeless baby, bring it to me in place of mine, which God has taken. I shall thus be doing good, and in part forget my sorrow."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If Mrs. Hubbell would take baby, and Marian would go, too, I should be so happy."
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Write to her, Marian--write to-day--now, before I go,"
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, I will write, she answered;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I will tell Amelia what you desire."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But, Marian, you, too, must go. I'll trust baby with you. Say, Marian, will you take care of my darling?"
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Surely he will yield to me in this,"
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Norma,"
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Is it still your wish that I should go? if so, I am at your disposal."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Wait till the madam comes and then we'll see,"
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "One can judge so much better from hearing one converse. If her manner should be very bad and her grammar execrable, I should consider it my duty to withdraw my consent, she said, with as much deliberation as if the matter were wholly at her disposal."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Would Katy drive around with her to Marian Hazelton's to-morrow?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Please go, Marian, for my sake,"
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Will Marian go to No. ---- Fifth Avenue?"
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Miss Hazelton wishes to see Mrs. Cameron,"
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Maybe she is a lady, mother; Katy raves about her continually, Bell said; but with an air of incredulity at the lady part, Mrs. Cameron swept haughtily down the broad staircase, the rustle of her heavy silk sending a chill of fear through Marian's frame, but not affecting her so much as did the voice; the cold, proud, metallic voice, which said to her as she half arose to her feet,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Miss Hazelton, I believe?"
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Miss Hazelton, I believe?"
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, I found Mrs. Wilford Cameron's note, and came around as she requested."
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Not yet, we cannot decide upon a name,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I understood your daughter that it was to be Genevra."
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dark, mother? How is that? Why is the hall not lighted?"
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Who was that, mother?"
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I liked her. She seemed a well-bred person, and her voice is much like Genevra's."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I did not think of her, it is true, until Miss Hazelton inquired about baby's name, and said she understood from Katy that it was to be Genevra. Then it came to me whose her voice was like. Genevra's, you know, was very musical."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Genevra Lambert, aged twenty-two,"
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Miss Hazelton is ready any time, and so I decided upon the day after to-morrow--that will be Saturday--thus giving Katy the benefit of Sunday in which to get over it and recover her usual spirits."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You are sure it is right?"
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Please all of you go out, she said, when baby was ready--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Wilford and all. I had rather be alone."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Darling, she murmured,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You will care for her, Marian, as if she were your own."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, I will, I will, was the response, spoken huskily and having in it no tone like Genevra's."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I will as if it were my own,"
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They certainly call her Miss Hazelton, he thought, as he bade her good-by and then left her alone, going back to the house which even to him seemed lonely, with all the paraphernalia of babyhood removed. Still, now that the worst was over, he rather enjoyed it, for Katy was free from care; there was nothing to hinder her gratifying his every wish, and with his spirits greatly enlivened as he reflected how satisfactory everything had been managed at the last, he proposed taking both Helen and Katy to the theatre that night. But Katy answered:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, Wilford, not to-night; it seems too much like baby's funeral. I'll go next week, but not to-night."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My child, my darling child."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It might have been."
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My dear Wilford, closing with"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Your respected ant,"
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She'd like to know what there was about her to mortify anybody? Wasn't her black silk dress made long and full, and the old pongee fixed into a Balmoral, and hadn't she a bran-new cap with purple ribbon, and couldn't she travel in her delaine, and didn't she wear hoops always now, except at cleanin' house times? Didn't she nuss both the girls, especially Catherine, carrying her in her arms one whole night when she had the canker-rash, and everybody thought she'd die; and when she swallered that tin whistle didn't she spat her on the back and swing her in the air till she came to and blew the whistle clear across the room? Tell her that Catherine would be ashamed? she knew better!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "At any rate, the Tubbses, who moved from Silverton last fall, and who were living in such style on the Bowery, wouldn't be ashamed, and I can stop with them at first, till I see how the land lies. They have invited me to come, both Miss Tubbs and 'Tilda, and they are nice folks, who belong to the Orthodox Church. Tom is in town now, and if I see him I shall talk with him about it, even if I never go."
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mother would be so glad to see an old neighbor, the honest youth said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "and on a bit of paper he marked out the route of the Fourth Avenue cars, which passed their door, and which Aunt Betsy would take after arriving at the New Haven depot."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If he knew when she was coming he would meet her,"
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We shall be delighted, both mother and me, Mattie wrote."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I will show you all the lions of the city, and when you get tired of us you can go up to Mrs. Cameron's. I know exactly where they live, and have seen her at the opera in full dress, looking like a queen."
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If anybody can find their way in New York, it is Betsy,"
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Pretty well, thank you, but you've got the better of me, as I don't justly recall your name."
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ticket, madam, your ticket!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "For the land's sake, have I got to give that up so quick, when it's at the bottom of my satchel,"
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A right nice man,"
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Young man, you are a soldier, I take it, from your havin' been to school at West Point. Maybe you'll never have to use your learning, but if you do, stick to the old flag. Don't you go against that, and if an old woman's prayers for your safety can do any good, be sure you'll have mine."
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'll remember what you say,"
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I didn't know we ran into cellars, she said, faintly; but nobody heeded her, or cared for the anxious and now timid-looking woman, who grew more and more anxious, until suddenly remembering the card, she drew it from her pocket, and the next time the conductor appeared handed it to him, watching him while he read that"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Lieutenant Robert Reynolds would consider it as a personal favor if he would see the bearer into the Fourth Avenue cars."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They must be a gadding set, she thought; and then, as a lady in flaunting robes took a seat beside her, crowding her into a narrow space, the good old dame thought to show that she did not resent it, by an attempt at sociability, asking if she knew"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mrs. Peter Tubbs, whose husband kept a store on the Bowery?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have not that honor, was the haughty reply, the lady drawing up her costly shawl and moving a little away from her interlocutor, who continued:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I thought like enough you might have seen 'Tilda, or Mattie she calls herself now. She is a right nice girl, and Tom is a very forrard boy."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You don't know Mr. Peter Tubbs?"
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I should s'pose he might have driv right up, instead of leaving me here, she said, looking wistfully at the retreating car, which now seemed almost like home."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Coats, and trousers, and jackets! I wonder if there is nothing else to be seen here, she continued, as her eye caught the long line of clothing so conspicuously displayed in that part of the Bowery."
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But, alas! the so-called"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "was a large-sized closet, or single room, at the other end of the hall, and now used as an _omnium gatherum_ for the various articles Mrs. Tubbs found necessary for her"
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Episcopal meeting,"
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "judging from the crowds who passed that way and the glimpses she caught of other crowds in the streets beyond. Still in some things she was disappointed. New York was not so grand as she had imagined it to be--not as grand as Helen's letters would imply; and she"
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Did 'Tilda know if Katy went to the opera now? Did she s'pose she would be there to-night? Was it far to the show house? What was the price--and was it a very wicked place?"
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But Silverton will never know it, the tempter whispered,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "as she termed it,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "To Mrs. Tubbs it seemed impossible that Aunt Betsy could be in earnest, but when she was, she put no impediments in her way; and so, conspicuous among the crowd of transient visitors who that night entered the Academy of Music was Aunt Betsy Barlow, chaperoned by Miss Mattie Tubbs and protected by Tom, a shrewd, well-grown youth of seventeen, who passed for some years older, and consequently was a sufficient escort for the ladies under his charge. It was not his first visit there and he managed to procure a seat which commanded a good view of several private boxes, and among them that of Wilford Cameron. This Mattie, who remembered where she had seen both Helen and Katy, pointed out to the excited woman gazing about her in a maze of bewilderment, and half doubting her own identity with the Betsy Barlow who, six weeks before, if charged with such a sin as she was now committing, would have exclaimed,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Is thy servant a dog to do this thing?"
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm in for it now anyhow, and if it is wrong may the good Father forgive me,"
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "she thought, and she was beginning to yawn when a nudge from Mattie and a whisper,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There they come,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Darling Katy! blessed child! She's thinner than when I see her last, but oh! so beautiful and grand! Precious lambkin! It isn't wicked now for me to be coming here, where I can see her face again."
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ain't they splendid in full dress?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Call that full dress? I'd sooner say it was no dress at all! They'll catch their death of cold. What would their mother say?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I mistrusted Catherine, but that Helen should come to this passes me."
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Who is that young man talking to Helen? Mattie asked, between the acts, and when told that it was"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mr. Ray, Wilford's partner,"
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Please don't go; I rather like the play to-night,"
}
]
|
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If she spies us she will be finding her way up here; there's no piece of effrontery of which that class is not capable,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Country cousins, of whom I have never heard, no doubt,"
}
]
|
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