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

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15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Come upstairs," } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "What is it, Katy-did? I mistrusted something was wrong. What has happened?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Do? the old man repeated." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Go home with me to your own folks until he comes from the wars. He is your husband, and I shall say nothing agin' him, but if it was to do over I would forbid the banns. That chap has misused you the wust way. You need not deny it, for it's writ all over your face," } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I wrote to Helen yesterday, so they will be prepared for me," } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I don't take it she comes for good, Uncle Ephraim said that evening, when Mr. Cameron, to whom she referred the matter, opposed her going," } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I know you will never come back. Something tells me so, she said as she stood with her arms around Katy's waist, and her lips occasionally touching Katy's forehead." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But I shall see you, she continued;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I am coming to the farmhouse in the summer, to stay ever so long; and you may say to Aunt Betsy that I like her ever so much, and --here Bell glanced behind her, to see that no one was listening, and then continued--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'll tell her," } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Your saintly cousin is, of course, delighted, and that I suppose is sufficient, without my congratulations." } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "she said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Dr. Grant is there, you know, and that may account for her interest." } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "She is very beautiful, he added," } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Miss Helen Lennox, she read in astonishment." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "How came Helen Lennox's letter here in mother's room, and from Mark Ray, too, she continued, still more amazed as she took the neatly folded note from the envelope and glanced at the name." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Foul play somewhere. Can it be mother? she asked, as she read enough to know that she held in her hand Mark's offer of marriage which had in some mysterious manner found its way to her mother's room." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I don't understand it at all, she said, racking her brain for a solution of the mystery." }, { "from": "human", "value": "But the letter at least is safe with me. I'll send it to Helen this very day and to-morrow I'll tell Mark Ray." } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mark is home now on a leave of absence which expires day after to-morrow, she wrote," } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I meant to have come before, she said, seating herself by Mark," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "and the impetuous girl faced directly toward him," }, { "from": "human", "value": "As a true patriot I should wish for peace on strictly honorable terms." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Pshaw!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "You men are very patriotic, I know, especially if you wear shoulder straps, but isn't there something dearer than peace? Suppose, for instance, Union between the North and South on strictly honorable terms, as you say, was laid upon one scale and union between yourself and Helen Lennox was laid upon the other, which would you take?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I should say the Union, of course." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, but which union? Bell rejoined, and then as she saw that Mrs. Banker was beginning to frown upon her she continued:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But to come directly to the point. Yesterday afternoon I found--no matter where or how--a letter intended for Helen Lennox, which I am positive she never saw or heard of; at least her denial to me that a certain Mark Ray had ever offered himself is a proof that she never saw what was an offer made just before you went away. I read enough to know that, and then I took the letter and--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "And what? Go on, Miss Cameron. What did you do with that letter?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I sent it to its rightful owner, Helen Lennox. I posted it myself, so it's sure this time. But why don't you thank me, Captain Ray?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I was wondering whether it were well to send it--wondering how it might be received," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "She will not answer no. As one woman knows another I know Helen Lennox. I have sounded her on that point. I told her of the rumor there was afloat, and she denied it, seeming greatly distressed, but showing plainly that had such offer been received she would not have refused it. You should have seen her last summer, Captain Ray, when we waited so anxiously for news from the Potomac. Her face was a study as her eyes ran over the list of casualties, searching not for her amiable brother-in-law, nor yet for Willard Braxton, their hired man. It was plain to me as daylight, and all you have to do is to follow up that letter with another, or go yourself, if you have time." } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Suppose you have three children when I return instead of two, is there room in your heart for the third?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, always room for Helen," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Peace on earth and good will toward men." } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Old John Brown by way of attracting attention. The boy was in a hurry, and asked in so forlorn a tone:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Is we going to play? that Helen answered good-humoredly:" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Just a few minutes, Billy. I want to try the carol and the opening, which I've hardly played at all." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have loved you ever since that morning when I put the lilies in your hair, and she played so out of time and tune that Billy asked:" }, { "from": "human", "value": "What makes 'em go so bad?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I can't play now; I'm not in the mood, she said at last." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I shall feel better by and by. You can go home if you like." } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hello, boy, he cried, grasping the collar of Bill's roundabout and holding him fast," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Darn yer, old Jim Sykes, you let me be, or I'll-- the boy began, but when he saw his captor was not Jim Sykes, but a tall, fine-looking man, wearing a soldier's uniform, he changed his tone, and standing still, answered civilly:" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I thought you was Jim Sykes, the biggest bully in town, who is allus hectorin' us boys. Nobody is there but she--Miss Lennox--up where the organ is, and having given the desired information, Bill ran off, wondering first if it wasn't Miss Helen's beau, and wondering next, in case she should some time get married in church, if he wouldn't fee the organ boy as well as the sexton." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He orto, Bill soliloquized," } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I know I have a right to call you darling by that tear on my letter and the look upon your face. Dear Helen, we have found each other at last." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, no, oh! no, not to-night--not so soon as that!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "And why not, Helen? he asked, with the manner of one who is not to be denied." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why not to-night, so there need be no more misunderstanding? I'd rather leave you as my wife than my betrothed. Mother will like it better. I hinted it to her and she said there was room for you in her love. It will make me a better man, a better soldier, if I can say 'my wife,' as other soldiers do. You don't know what a charm there is in that word, Helen--keeping a man from sin, and if I should die I would rather you should bear my name and share in my fortune. Will you, Helen, when the ceremonies are closed, will you go up to that altar and pledge your vows to me? I cannot wait till to-morrow; my leave of absence expired to-day. I must go back to-night, but you must first be mine." } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is so sudden, and people will talk," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "They may as well talk about you a while as me. It is not so bad when once you are used to it." }, { "from": "human", "value": "which Wilford had declined was still in Aunt Betsy's mind; but that, she reflected might be yet. If Mark went back on the next train there could be no proper wedding party until his return, when the loaves of frosted cake, and the baked fowls she had seen in imagination should be there in real, tangible form, and as she expressed it they would have a" } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "That I leave for you," } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "it is true, and she classed them with the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "but rather than" }, { "from": "human", "value": "she had this year lent a helping hand. Donning two shawls, a camlet cloak, a knit scarf for her head, and a hood to keep from catching cold, she had worked early and late, fashioning the most wonderfully shaped wreaths, tying up festoons, and even trying her hand at a triangle; but turning her back resolutely upon crosses, which were more than her Puritanism could endure. The cross was a" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "with which she'd have nothing to do, though once, when Katy seemed more than usually bothered and wished somebody would hand her tacks. Aunt Betsy relented so far as to bring the hoop she was winding close to Katy, holding the little nails in her mouth, and giving them out as they were wanted; but with each one given out, conscientiously turning her head away, lest her eyes should fall upon what she conceived the symbol of the Romish Church. But when the whole was done, none were louder in their praises than the good Aunt Betsy, who was guilty of asking Mrs. Deacon Bannister when she came in to inspect," }, { "from": "human", "value": "We don't believe in shows and plays, you know, thus giving a double thrust, and showing that the opera had never been quite forgotten." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Here's a pair of skates, though, and a smellin' bottle. I'd like to have put on for John and Sylvia, she added, handing her package to Aunt Betsy, who, while seeing the skates and smelling bottle suspended from a bough, was guilty of wondering if" } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Guy, though, ain't she a brick, and whispering to her:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Didn't we go that strong?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Miss Lennox had come and was standing with a man back by the register." } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Miss Helen Lennox. A soldier in uniform, from one of her Sunday school scholars." } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Who is he?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Captain Ray, from New York," } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Miss Helen Lennox. A sugar heart, from one of her scholars," } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "There ain't a darned thing on it for me," } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Poor Billy, Helen said, as she too heard his comment," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I fear he has been forgotten. His teacher is absent and he so faithful at the organ too." } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Billy Brown, our faithful organ boy," } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "You gin me this, he said, nodding to Mark," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "turning to Helen," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well then, if I did, Mark replied, laying his hand on the boy's coarse hair," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Gorry, I thought so," } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Handy and gentle as a woman," } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "It's all-fired cold, Miss Ray. Shall you play in church to-morrow?" } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now that you have Mrs. Cameron, you do not need my wife," } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Merry Christmas" } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "When shall we meet again?" } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Tom said, while Mattie told fabulous stories of his wealth. Had Helen been the queen she could hardly have been stared at more curiously than she was that Christmas day, when late in the afternoon she drove through the town with Katy, the villagers looking admiringly after her, noting the tie of her bonnet, the arrangement of her face trimmings, and discovering in both a style and fitness they had never discovered before. As the wife of Mark Ray Helen became suddenly a heroine, in whose presence poor Katy subsided completely, nor was the interest at all diminished when two days later Mrs. Banker came to Silverton and was met at the depot by Helen, whom she hugged affectionately, calling her" } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am very lonely now, lonelier than you can possibly be, she said to Mrs. Lennox," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, mother, let Helen go. I will try to fill her place," } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Little Sunbeam, Uncle Ephraim called her now, instead of" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Katy-did, and in his prayer that first night of Helen's absence he asked, in his touching way," }, { "from": "human", "value": "MARRIED--On Christmas Eve, at St. John's Church, Silverton, Mass., by Rev. Mr. Kelly, Captain MARK RAY, of the --th Regiment, N.Y.S.V., to Miss HELEN LENNOX, of Silverton." } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Here is something which will perhaps interest you," } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "What is it, Juno?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Impossible! there is some mistake! How was it brought about? she continued, darting a curious glance at Bell, whose face betrayed nothing as she leisurely sipped her coffee, and remarked:" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I always thought it would come to this, for I knew he liked her. It is a splendid match." } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I had given you to him, she said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am not one to boast of conquests, but ask Captain Ray himself if you wish to know why I did not marry him." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I can't say I honor your judgment in refusing him, but you know best. However, I trust that will not prevent your friendly advances toward his bride. Mrs. Banker has gone after her, I understand, and I want you to call with me as soon as convenient. Mrs. Mark Ray will be the belle of the season, depend upon it," } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "You know we are related," } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "As diamonds are now, that never cost less than four or five hundred dollars, Juno said, as she was discussing the matter with Bell, and telling her that Helen had the ring they had admired so much at Tiffany's the last time they were there, and then her spiteful, envious nature found vent in the remark:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I wonder at Mark's taste when only shoddy buy diamonds now." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Why, then, did you torment father into buying that little pin for you the other day?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have always been accustomed to diamonds and that is a very different thing from Helen Lennox putting them on. Did you notice how red and fat her fingers were, and rough, too? Positively her hand felt like a nutmeg grater." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You know the fable of the fox and the grapes," } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Of course they will, she said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It's like heaps of them to do it," } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am going to Wilford. He is dying. He has sent for me. I ought to go on to-night, but cannot, my head aches so," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "M. HAZELTON." } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I did not think it advisable to visit your husband at first, he wrote," } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "She will not be able to join us to-morrow," } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is very hard, but God knows best." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, darling, God knows best, Helen answered, smoothing the bright hair, and thinking sadly of the young officer sitting by his camp-fire, and waiting so eagerly for the bride who could not go to him now." }, { "from": "human", "value": "God knows what is best, and does all for the best." } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Don't feel badly, my young friend. We will take as good care of you here as if you were at home." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It's the pain which brings the tears. I'd as soon be here as at home." }, { "from": "human", "value": "It is not necessary. But as often as he resolved his evil genius whispered:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "She does not care to come here," } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "The new nurse in the second ward has been in here, a comrade said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "She seemed specially interested in you, and if she had not been a stranger I should have said she was crying over you." } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Genevra is alive, I have seen her. I recognized the picture at once." } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "You have a fever, my friend, and it is increasing fast. Perhaps you would like to see our new physician, Dr. Grant. He is great on fevers." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Dr. Grant--Dr. Morris Grant?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, Dr. Morris Grant, from Massachusetts," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Send Satan himself sooner than he. I hate him." } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Never while my reason lasts," } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Shall I send for your friends?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have no friends--none, at least, but what will be glad to know I'm dead." } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "She did not know Genevra was there, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "She never guessed there was a Genevra; but I knew, and I felt almost as if the dead were wronged by that act of Katy's. Do you know Katy?" } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Shall I send for her?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, I am satisfied with you," } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Do you know me?" } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Dr. Grant." } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "You have been very sick, Morris said, anticipating the question Wilford would ask," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You are very sick still, and at the request of your nurse I came to attend you." } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Katy." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We have sent for her. We expect her every train," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Who is we? Who has been with me--the nurse, I mean? Who is she?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Marian Hazelton--she who took care of baby." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I know--yes," } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "His reason has returned." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And my services, then, are ended," }, { "from": "human", "value": "You are Genevra Lambert?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And if I am, it surely is not best for him to see me. You would not advise it?" } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "It would not be best, both for his sake and Katy's," } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Surely this cannot be Miss Hazelton, but asked no questions of any kind, and Marian's heart grew heavier when in answer to her inquiry, Morris said:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He has not mentioned you." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Mr. J. Cameron, Miss Bell Cameron," } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "She is not here. She could not come now. She is sick in New York, but will join us in a few days." } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "He may live a week and he may not, he said, adding solemnly:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "As his sister you will tell him of his danger while there is time to seek the refuge without which death is terrible." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, if I could only pray with and for him," } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I dreamed it was all a dream, he said," } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, Wilford, maybe you'll never go home. Maybe you'll--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Not die! Wilford exclaimed, clasping his hands with sudden emotion." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Not die, you don't mean that. Who told you so? Who said I was near to death?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Dr. Grant," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Dr. Grant, he repeated." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He says so because he wishes it. He would like me removed from his path, but it shall not be. I will not die. Tell him that. I will not die," } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Please leave me alone with him," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Pray for me, if you can pray for one who yesterday hated you so for saying he must die." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I am not right yet, the pale lips whispered, as Morris sat down beside him." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Not right with God, I mean. I've sometimes said there was no God, but I did not believe it, and now I know there is. He has been moving upon me all the day, driving out my bitterness toward you, and causing me to send for you at last. Do you think there is hope for me? I have much to be forgiven." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Though your sins be as scarlet they shall be white as snow," } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I was too proud, too selfish, to make others happy, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I thought it all over yesterday, and the past came back again so vividly, especially the part connected with Katy. Oh, Katy, I did abuse her! and a bitter sob attested the genuineness of Wilford's grief for his treatment of Katy." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I thought because I took her from a lower walk of life than mine, that she was bound by every tie of gratitude to do just what I said, and I set myself at work to crush her every feeling and impulse which savored of her early home. I despised her family, I treated them with contempt. I broke Katy's heart, and now I must die without telling her I am sorry. But you'll tell her, father, and you, too, Bell, how, dying, I tried to pray, but could not for thought of my sin to her. She will not be glad that I am dead. I know her better than to think that; and I believe she loves me. But, after I am gone, and the duties of the world have closed up the gap I shall leave, I see a brighter future for her than her past has been; and you may tell her I am-- He could not then say" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am willing." } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Would you like to see her if she were living?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Good-by, my darling," }, { "from": "human", "value": "She will never know the effort it cost me, nor hear me say that I hope I am forgiven. It came to me last night, the peace for which I've sought so long, and Dr. Grant has prayed, and now the way is not so dark, but Katy will not know." } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Save me, doctor, he whispered to Morris." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Keep me alive till Katy comes. I must see Katy again." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I must have clean linen on my bed and on my person, too, Wilford said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Katy can kiss me now. She is not accustomed to hospital fare, you know." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Do you suppose she's come?" } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "The train is behind time several hours," } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "It's right, he said, when he could trust himself to speak;" } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Be quiet, and you may see her yet. She will surely come by and by." } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Katy, precious Katy, you have forgiven me?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Thank the Good Father," }, { "from": "human", "value": "The way was dark and thorny, Wilford said, making her sit down where he could see her as he talked," } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "You will remember me, Katy, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You wrote me once that Genevra was not dead. Did you mean it, Katy?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "She meant it--Genevra is not dead," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I fancied once that she was here--that she was the nurse the boys praise so much. But that was a delusion, he said, and without a thought of the result, Katy asked, impetuously:" }, { "from": "human", "value": "If she were here would you care to see her?" } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Is she here? Was the nurse Genevra? he asked, then as his mind went back to the past, he answered his own question by asserting:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Marian Hazelton is Genevra." }, { "from": "human", "value": "It is all so strange; I do not comprehend how it can be. She has been kind to me. Tell her I thank her for it. I was unjust to her. I have much to answer for." } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am almost home, my darling, and all is well. Be kind to Genevra for my sake. I loved her once, but not as I love you." } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Poor little Katy! Marian said, caressing her golden hair." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Your husband, they tell me, is dead." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, and Katy lifted up her head, and fixing her eves earnestly upon Marian, continued:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Wilford is dead, but before he died he left a message for Genevra Lambert. Will she hear it now?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Who told you of Genevra Lambert, and when?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Wilford told me months ago, showing me her picture, which I readily recognized," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Did he tell you all? And do you hate me as a vile, polluted creature?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Hate you, Marian? No. I have pitied you so much, knowing you were innocent. Wilford told me all, but he thought you were dead," } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now that he is gone I am glad you know it. Mine has been a sad, sad life, but God has helped me bear it. You say he believed me dead. Some time I will tell you how that came about; but now, his message--he left one, you say?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And you will love me, not because he did once, but because I have suffered so much? You will let me call you Katy when we are alone? It brings you nearer to me." }, { "from": "human", "value": "He did love me once. He acknowledged it at the last, before them all, his wife, his father and his sister. Do they know?" } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Forgive me, she said, wringing her hands together." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I know how you despise me, but he was my husband once, and surely now that he is dead you will not begrudge me a few last moments with him for the sake of the days when he loved me." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Far be it from me to refuse you this privilege. I pity you, Genevra, for I believe he dealt unjustly by you--but I will not censure him now that he is gone. He was my only boy. Oh, Wilford, Wilford. You have left me very lonely." } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Genevra." } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "You were very kind to my brother. I thank you for it, and will tell my mother, who will feel so grateful to you." } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Of what has happened since you know--except, indeed, how hard it was sometimes for poor, weak human nature to see you as happy as you were at first, and then contrast my lot with yours. I loved your baby almost as much as if it had been my own, and when it died there was nothing to bind me to the North, and so I came here, where I hope I have done some good; at least, I was here to care for Wilford, and that is a sufficient reward for all the toil which falls to the lot of a hospital nurse. I shall stay until the war is ended, and then go I know not where. It will not be best for us to meet very often, for though we may and do respect each other, neither can forget the past, or that one was the lawful, the other the divorced, wife of the same man. I have loved you, Katy Cameron, for your uniform kindness shown to the poor dressmaker. I shall always love you, but our paths lie widely apart. Your future I can predict, but mine God only knows." } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "God bless you, Katy Cameron! You have been a bright sun spot in my existence since I first knew you, even though you have stirred some of the worst impulses of my nature. I am a better woman for having known you. God bless you, Katy Cameron!" } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, husband, comfort me, for our only boy is dead," } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Let Genevra share it with me. She needs it quite as much." } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I will keep it." } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "But be of good cheer, darling, he wrote." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I shall come back to you some time, and life will he all the brighter for what you suffer now. I am so glad my darling consented to be my wife, even though I could stay with her but a moment. The knowing you are really mine makes me happy even here, for I think of you by day, and in my dreams I always hold you in my arms and press you to my heart." } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "If Mark goes I shall never see him again," } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I love you, Robert Reynolds." } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "The young leftenant was none of her kin, and Isabel only a little." } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I shall be a better soldier for this," } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Lieutenant Robert Reynolds captured the first day of the battle." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It is better than being shot, and a great deal better than being burned, as some of the poor wretches were," } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Poor Morris!" } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Morris is coming home, she said, as Aunt Betsy asked:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What news?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "He will be here on Friday, and he wishes us to see that all things are in order at Linwood for his reception. His eyes are badly diseased, but he is not blind, and he hopes that coming back to us will cure him," } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Couldn't a body curl their hair when nater intended it to curl, and mourn a-plenty, too?" } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "He is alive; he will come back," } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "He confessed to me that he loved you," } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mrs. Hull will have dinner waiting for him, and I shall stay, she said to Katy, adding:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I wish you would come over, too. Morris will feel grateful, I know." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I would not, no, I would not, recall the past again, for mingled with the pleasure was too much grief and pain." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Crying because Morris is coming home, poor, worn-out, half-blind Morris, who has done so much for the soldiers, I will go up and welcome him. I will not be so silly as to imagine he still retains a fancy for an old woman of twenty-three, even if he had one for the girl of seventeen." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I ought to look older at twenty-three, she said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Morris will think I have not mourned a bit, nor cared for Wilford," } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I know what's the matter. It's the net, she said, frowning disapprovingly upon the silken meshes which confined her hair." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, it's nothing but this net which makes me look so young. Every schoolgirl wears one, and I have followed the fashion, letting it hang down my back in a way very unbecoming to a widow of my age. I'll take it off, or at all events I won't wear it to Linwood," } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am going to Linwood, and shall stay there to dinner." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "In the name of the people, what has the child rigged herself out in that shape for? Aunt Betsy exclaimed, letting fall the knife with which she was chopping cheese curd, and staring in astonishment." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'd enough sight rather you'd frizzle your hair over rats, as Helen does, making herself look like some horned critter, than wear that heathenish thing. Why do you do it, Catherine?" } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "He will he tired, she said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He will lie down after dinner, and she laid a few sweet English violets upon the pillow, thinking their perfume might be grateful to him after the pent-up air of the hospital and cars." }, { "from": "human", "value": "He will think Helen put them there, or Mrs. Hull," } ]
15607	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I smell the pond lilies; we must he near Silverton, he said, and a sigh escaped his lips as he thought of coming home and not being able to see it or the woods and fields around it." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Thy will be done," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, I cannot be blind! God will not deal thus by me!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I did not suppose he was so bad," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I have been sick, but I shall get better now. The very sound of your friendly voices does me good, even though I cannot see you distinctly," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Come upstairs," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What is it, Katy-did? I mistrusted something was wrong. What has happened?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Do? the old man repeated." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Go home with me to your own folks until he comes from the wars. He is your husband, and I shall say nothing agin' him, but if it was to do over I would forbid the banns. That chap has misused you the wust way. You need not deny it, for it's writ all over your face," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I wrote to Helen yesterday, so they will be prepared for me," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I don't take it she comes for good, Uncle Ephraim said that evening, when Mr. Cameron, to whom she referred the matter, opposed her going," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I know you will never come back. Something tells me so, she said as she stood with her arms around Katy's waist, and her lips occasionally touching Katy's forehead." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But I shall see you, she continued;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I am coming to the farmhouse in the summer, to stay ever so long; and you may say to Aunt Betsy that I like her ever so much, and --here Bell glanced behind her, to see that no one was listening, and then continued--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'll tell her," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Your saintly cousin is, of course, delighted, and that I suppose is sufficient, without my congratulations." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "she said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Dr. Grant is there, you know, and that may account for her interest." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "She is very beautiful, he added," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Miss Helen Lennox, she read in astonishment." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "How came Helen Lennox's letter here in mother's room, and from Mark Ray, too, she continued, still more amazed as she took the neatly folded note from the envelope and glanced at the name." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Foul play somewhere. Can it be mother? she asked, as she read enough to know that she held in her hand Mark's offer of marriage which had in some mysterious manner found its way to her mother's room." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I don't understand it at all, she said, racking her brain for a solution of the mystery." }, { "from": "human", "value": "But the letter at least is safe with me. I'll send it to Helen this very day and to-morrow I'll tell Mark Ray." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mark is home now on a leave of absence which expires day after to-morrow, she wrote," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I meant to have come before, she said, seating herself by Mark," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "and the impetuous girl faced directly toward him," }, { "from": "human", "value": "As a true patriot I should wish for peace on strictly honorable terms." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Pshaw!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "You men are very patriotic, I know, especially if you wear shoulder straps, but isn't there something dearer than peace? Suppose, for instance, Union between the North and South on strictly honorable terms, as you say, was laid upon one scale and union between yourself and Helen Lennox was laid upon the other, which would you take?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I should say the Union, of course." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, but which union? Bell rejoined, and then as she saw that Mrs. Banker was beginning to frown upon her she continued:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But to come directly to the point. Yesterday afternoon I found--no matter where or how--a letter intended for Helen Lennox, which I am positive she never saw or heard of; at least her denial to me that a certain Mark Ray had ever offered himself is a proof that she never saw what was an offer made just before you went away. I read enough to know that, and then I took the letter and--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "And what? Go on, Miss Cameron. What did you do with that letter?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I sent it to its rightful owner, Helen Lennox. I posted it myself, so it's sure this time. But why don't you thank me, Captain Ray?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I was wondering whether it were well to send it--wondering how it might be received," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "She will not answer no. As one woman knows another I know Helen Lennox. I have sounded her on that point. I told her of the rumor there was afloat, and she denied it, seeming greatly distressed, but showing plainly that had such offer been received she would not have refused it. You should have seen her last summer, Captain Ray, when we waited so anxiously for news from the Potomac. Her face was a study as her eyes ran over the list of casualties, searching not for her amiable brother-in-law, nor yet for Willard Braxton, their hired man. It was plain to me as daylight, and all you have to do is to follow up that letter with another, or go yourself, if you have time." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Suppose you have three children when I return instead of two, is there room in your heart for the third?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, always room for Helen," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Peace on earth and good will toward men." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Old John Brown by way of attracting attention. The boy was in a hurry, and asked in so forlorn a tone:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Is we going to play? that Helen answered good-humoredly:" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Just a few minutes, Billy. I want to try the carol and the opening, which I've hardly played at all." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have loved you ever since that morning when I put the lilies in your hair, and she played so out of time and tune that Billy asked:" }, { "from": "human", "value": "What makes 'em go so bad?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I can't play now; I'm not in the mood, she said at last." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I shall feel better by and by. You can go home if you like." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hello, boy, he cried, grasping the collar of Bill's roundabout and holding him fast," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Darn yer, old Jim Sykes, you let me be, or I'll-- the boy began, but when he saw his captor was not Jim Sykes, but a tall, fine-looking man, wearing a soldier's uniform, he changed his tone, and standing still, answered civilly:" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I thought you was Jim Sykes, the biggest bully in town, who is allus hectorin' us boys. Nobody is there but she--Miss Lennox--up where the organ is, and having given the desired information, Bill ran off, wondering first if it wasn't Miss Helen's beau, and wondering next, in case she should some time get married in church, if he wouldn't fee the organ boy as well as the sexton." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He orto, Bill soliloquized," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I know I have a right to call you darling by that tear on my letter and the look upon your face. Dear Helen, we have found each other at last." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, no, oh! no, not to-night--not so soon as that!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "And why not, Helen? he asked, with the manner of one who is not to be denied." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why not to-night, so there need be no more misunderstanding? I'd rather leave you as my wife than my betrothed. Mother will like it better. I hinted it to her and she said there was room for you in her love. It will make me a better man, a better soldier, if I can say 'my wife,' as other soldiers do. You don't know what a charm there is in that word, Helen--keeping a man from sin, and if I should die I would rather you should bear my name and share in my fortune. Will you, Helen, when the ceremonies are closed, will you go up to that altar and pledge your vows to me? I cannot wait till to-morrow; my leave of absence expired to-day. I must go back to-night, but you must first be mine." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is so sudden, and people will talk," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "They may as well talk about you a while as me. It is not so bad when once you are used to it." }, { "from": "human", "value": "which Wilford had declined was still in Aunt Betsy's mind; but that, she reflected might be yet. If Mark went back on the next train there could be no proper wedding party until his return, when the loaves of frosted cake, and the baked fowls she had seen in imagination should be there in real, tangible form, and as she expressed it they would have a" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That I leave for you," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "it is true, and she classed them with the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "but rather than" }, { "from": "human", "value": "she had this year lent a helping hand. Donning two shawls, a camlet cloak, a knit scarf for her head, and a hood to keep from catching cold, she had worked early and late, fashioning the most wonderfully shaped wreaths, tying up festoons, and even trying her hand at a triangle; but turning her back resolutely upon crosses, which were more than her Puritanism could endure. The cross was a" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "with which she'd have nothing to do, though once, when Katy seemed more than usually bothered and wished somebody would hand her tacks. Aunt Betsy relented so far as to bring the hoop she was winding close to Katy, holding the little nails in her mouth, and giving them out as they were wanted; but with each one given out, conscientiously turning her head away, lest her eyes should fall upon what she conceived the symbol of the Romish Church. But when the whole was done, none were louder in their praises than the good Aunt Betsy, who was guilty of asking Mrs. Deacon Bannister when she came in to inspect," }, { "from": "human", "value": "We don't believe in shows and plays, you know, thus giving a double thrust, and showing that the opera had never been quite forgotten." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Here's a pair of skates, though, and a smellin' bottle. I'd like to have put on for John and Sylvia, she added, handing her package to Aunt Betsy, who, while seeing the skates and smelling bottle suspended from a bough, was guilty of wondering if" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Guy, though, ain't she a brick, and whispering to her:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Didn't we go that strong?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Miss Lennox had come and was standing with a man back by the register." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Miss Helen Lennox. A soldier in uniform, from one of her Sunday school scholars." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Who is he?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Captain Ray, from New York," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Miss Helen Lennox. A sugar heart, from one of her scholars," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There ain't a darned thing on it for me," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Poor Billy, Helen said, as she too heard his comment," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I fear he has been forgotten. His teacher is absent and he so faithful at the organ too." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Billy Brown, our faithful organ boy," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You gin me this, he said, nodding to Mark," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "turning to Helen," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well then, if I did, Mark replied, laying his hand on the boy's coarse hair," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Gorry, I thought so," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Handy and gentle as a woman," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It's all-fired cold, Miss Ray. Shall you play in church to-morrow?" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now that you have Mrs. Cameron, you do not need my wife," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Merry Christmas" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "When shall we meet again?" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Tom said, while Mattie told fabulous stories of his wealth. Had Helen been the queen she could hardly have been stared at more curiously than she was that Christmas day, when late in the afternoon she drove through the town with Katy, the villagers looking admiringly after her, noting the tie of her bonnet, the arrangement of her face trimmings, and discovering in both a style and fitness they had never discovered before. As the wife of Mark Ray Helen became suddenly a heroine, in whose presence poor Katy subsided completely, nor was the interest at all diminished when two days later Mrs. Banker came to Silverton and was met at the depot by Helen, whom she hugged affectionately, calling her" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am very lonely now, lonelier than you can possibly be, she said to Mrs. Lennox," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, mother, let Helen go. I will try to fill her place," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Little Sunbeam, Uncle Ephraim called her now, instead of" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Katy-did, and in his prayer that first night of Helen's absence he asked, in his touching way," }, { "from": "human", "value": "MARRIED--On Christmas Eve, at St. John's Church, Silverton, Mass., by Rev. Mr. Kelly, Captain MARK RAY, of the --th Regiment, N.Y.S.V., to Miss HELEN LENNOX, of Silverton." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Here is something which will perhaps interest you," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What is it, Juno?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Impossible! there is some mistake! How was it brought about? she continued, darting a curious glance at Bell, whose face betrayed nothing as she leisurely sipped her coffee, and remarked:" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I always thought it would come to this, for I knew he liked her. It is a splendid match." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I had given you to him, she said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am not one to boast of conquests, but ask Captain Ray himself if you wish to know why I did not marry him." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I can't say I honor your judgment in refusing him, but you know best. However, I trust that will not prevent your friendly advances toward his bride. Mrs. Banker has gone after her, I understand, and I want you to call with me as soon as convenient. Mrs. Mark Ray will be the belle of the season, depend upon it," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You know we are related," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "As diamonds are now, that never cost less than four or five hundred dollars, Juno said, as she was discussing the matter with Bell, and telling her that Helen had the ring they had admired so much at Tiffany's the last time they were there, and then her spiteful, envious nature found vent in the remark:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I wonder at Mark's taste when only shoddy buy diamonds now." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Why, then, did you torment father into buying that little pin for you the other day?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have always been accustomed to diamonds and that is a very different thing from Helen Lennox putting them on. Did you notice how red and fat her fingers were, and rough, too? Positively her hand felt like a nutmeg grater." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You know the fable of the fox and the grapes," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Of course they will, she said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It's like heaps of them to do it," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am going to Wilford. He is dying. He has sent for me. I ought to go on to-night, but cannot, my head aches so," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "M. HAZELTON." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I did not think it advisable to visit your husband at first, he wrote," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "She will not be able to join us to-morrow," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is very hard, but God knows best." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, darling, God knows best, Helen answered, smoothing the bright hair, and thinking sadly of the young officer sitting by his camp-fire, and waiting so eagerly for the bride who could not go to him now." }, { "from": "human", "value": "God knows what is best, and does all for the best." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Don't feel badly, my young friend. We will take as good care of you here as if you were at home." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It's the pain which brings the tears. I'd as soon be here as at home." }, { "from": "human", "value": "It is not necessary. But as often as he resolved his evil genius whispered:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "She does not care to come here," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The new nurse in the second ward has been in here, a comrade said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "She seemed specially interested in you, and if she had not been a stranger I should have said she was crying over you." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Genevra is alive, I have seen her. I recognized the picture at once." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You have a fever, my friend, and it is increasing fast. Perhaps you would like to see our new physician, Dr. Grant. He is great on fevers." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Dr. Grant--Dr. Morris Grant?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, Dr. Morris Grant, from Massachusetts," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Send Satan himself sooner than he. I hate him." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Never while my reason lasts," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Shall I send for your friends?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have no friends--none, at least, but what will be glad to know I'm dead." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "She did not know Genevra was there, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "She never guessed there was a Genevra; but I knew, and I felt almost as if the dead were wronged by that act of Katy's. Do you know Katy?" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Shall I send for her?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, I am satisfied with you," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Do you know me?" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Dr. Grant." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You have been very sick, Morris said, anticipating the question Wilford would ask," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You are very sick still, and at the request of your nurse I came to attend you." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Katy." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We have sent for her. We expect her every train," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Who is we? Who has been with me--the nurse, I mean? Who is she?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Marian Hazelton--she who took care of baby." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I know--yes," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "His reason has returned." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And my services, then, are ended," }, { "from": "human", "value": "You are Genevra Lambert?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And if I am, it surely is not best for him to see me. You would not advise it?" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It would not be best, both for his sake and Katy's," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Surely this cannot be Miss Hazelton, but asked no questions of any kind, and Marian's heart grew heavier when in answer to her inquiry, Morris said:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He has not mentioned you." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Mr. J. Cameron, Miss Bell Cameron," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "She is not here. She could not come now. She is sick in New York, but will join us in a few days." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He may live a week and he may not, he said, adding solemnly:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "As his sister you will tell him of his danger while there is time to seek the refuge without which death is terrible." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, if I could only pray with and for him," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I dreamed it was all a dream, he said," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, Wilford, maybe you'll never go home. Maybe you'll--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Not die! Wilford exclaimed, clasping his hands with sudden emotion." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Not die, you don't mean that. Who told you so? Who said I was near to death?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Dr. Grant," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Dr. Grant, he repeated." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He says so because he wishes it. He would like me removed from his path, but it shall not be. I will not die. Tell him that. I will not die," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Please leave me alone with him," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Pray for me, if you can pray for one who yesterday hated you so for saying he must die." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I am not right yet, the pale lips whispered, as Morris sat down beside him." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Not right with God, I mean. I've sometimes said there was no God, but I did not believe it, and now I know there is. He has been moving upon me all the day, driving out my bitterness toward you, and causing me to send for you at last. Do you think there is hope for me? I have much to be forgiven." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Though your sins be as scarlet they shall be white as snow," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I was too proud, too selfish, to make others happy, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I thought it all over yesterday, and the past came back again so vividly, especially the part connected with Katy. Oh, Katy, I did abuse her! and a bitter sob attested the genuineness of Wilford's grief for his treatment of Katy." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I thought because I took her from a lower walk of life than mine, that she was bound by every tie of gratitude to do just what I said, and I set myself at work to crush her every feeling and impulse which savored of her early home. I despised her family, I treated them with contempt. I broke Katy's heart, and now I must die without telling her I am sorry. But you'll tell her, father, and you, too, Bell, how, dying, I tried to pray, but could not for thought of my sin to her. She will not be glad that I am dead. I know her better than to think that; and I believe she loves me. But, after I am gone, and the duties of the world have closed up the gap I shall leave, I see a brighter future for her than her past has been; and you may tell her I am-- He could not then say" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am willing." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Would you like to see her if she were living?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Good-by, my darling," }, { "from": "human", "value": "She will never know the effort it cost me, nor hear me say that I hope I am forgiven. It came to me last night, the peace for which I've sought so long, and Dr. Grant has prayed, and now the way is not so dark, but Katy will not know." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Save me, doctor, he whispered to Morris." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Keep me alive till Katy comes. I must see Katy again." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I must have clean linen on my bed and on my person, too, Wilford said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Katy can kiss me now. She is not accustomed to hospital fare, you know." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Do you suppose she's come?" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The train is behind time several hours," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It's right, he said, when he could trust himself to speak;" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Be quiet, and you may see her yet. She will surely come by and by." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Katy, precious Katy, you have forgiven me?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Thank the Good Father," }, { "from": "human", "value": "The way was dark and thorny, Wilford said, making her sit down where he could see her as he talked," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You will remember me, Katy, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You wrote me once that Genevra was not dead. Did you mean it, Katy?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "She meant it--Genevra is not dead," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I fancied once that she was here--that she was the nurse the boys praise so much. But that was a delusion, he said, and without a thought of the result, Katy asked, impetuously:" }, { "from": "human", "value": "If she were here would you care to see her?" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Is she here? Was the nurse Genevra? he asked, then as his mind went back to the past, he answered his own question by asserting:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Marian Hazelton is Genevra." }, { "from": "human", "value": "It is all so strange; I do not comprehend how it can be. She has been kind to me. Tell her I thank her for it. I was unjust to her. I have much to answer for." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am almost home, my darling, and all is well. Be kind to Genevra for my sake. I loved her once, but not as I love you." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Poor little Katy! Marian said, caressing her golden hair." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Your husband, they tell me, is dead." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, and Katy lifted up her head, and fixing her eves earnestly upon Marian, continued:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Wilford is dead, but before he died he left a message for Genevra Lambert. Will she hear it now?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Who told you of Genevra Lambert, and when?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Wilford told me months ago, showing me her picture, which I readily recognized," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Did he tell you all? And do you hate me as a vile, polluted creature?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Hate you, Marian? No. I have pitied you so much, knowing you were innocent. Wilford told me all, but he thought you were dead," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now that he is gone I am glad you know it. Mine has been a sad, sad life, but God has helped me bear it. You say he believed me dead. Some time I will tell you how that came about; but now, his message--he left one, you say?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And you will love me, not because he did once, but because I have suffered so much? You will let me call you Katy when we are alone? It brings you nearer to me." }, { "from": "human", "value": "He did love me once. He acknowledged it at the last, before them all, his wife, his father and his sister. Do they know?" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Forgive me, she said, wringing her hands together." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I know how you despise me, but he was my husband once, and surely now that he is dead you will not begrudge me a few last moments with him for the sake of the days when he loved me." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Far be it from me to refuse you this privilege. I pity you, Genevra, for I believe he dealt unjustly by you--but I will not censure him now that he is gone. He was my only boy. Oh, Wilford, Wilford. You have left me very lonely." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Genevra." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You were very kind to my brother. I thank you for it, and will tell my mother, who will feel so grateful to you." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Of what has happened since you know--except, indeed, how hard it was sometimes for poor, weak human nature to see you as happy as you were at first, and then contrast my lot with yours. I loved your baby almost as much as if it had been my own, and when it died there was nothing to bind me to the North, and so I came here, where I hope I have done some good; at least, I was here to care for Wilford, and that is a sufficient reward for all the toil which falls to the lot of a hospital nurse. I shall stay until the war is ended, and then go I know not where. It will not be best for us to meet very often, for though we may and do respect each other, neither can forget the past, or that one was the lawful, the other the divorced, wife of the same man. I have loved you, Katy Cameron, for your uniform kindness shown to the poor dressmaker. I shall always love you, but our paths lie widely apart. Your future I can predict, but mine God only knows." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "God bless you, Katy Cameron! You have been a bright sun spot in my existence since I first knew you, even though you have stirred some of the worst impulses of my nature. I am a better woman for having known you. God bless you, Katy Cameron!" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, husband, comfort me, for our only boy is dead," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Let Genevra share it with me. She needs it quite as much." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I will keep it." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But be of good cheer, darling, he wrote." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I shall come back to you some time, and life will he all the brighter for what you suffer now. I am so glad my darling consented to be my wife, even though I could stay with her but a moment. The knowing you are really mine makes me happy even here, for I think of you by day, and in my dreams I always hold you in my arms and press you to my heart." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If Mark goes I shall never see him again," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I love you, Robert Reynolds." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The young leftenant was none of her kin, and Isabel only a little." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I shall be a better soldier for this," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Lieutenant Robert Reynolds captured the first day of the battle." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It is better than being shot, and a great deal better than being burned, as some of the poor wretches were," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Poor Morris!" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Morris is coming home, she said, as Aunt Betsy asked:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What news?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "He will be here on Friday, and he wishes us to see that all things are in order at Linwood for his reception. His eyes are badly diseased, but he is not blind, and he hopes that coming back to us will cure him," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Couldn't a body curl their hair when nater intended it to curl, and mourn a-plenty, too?" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He is alive; he will come back," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He confessed to me that he loved you," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mrs. Hull will have dinner waiting for him, and I shall stay, she said to Katy, adding:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I wish you would come over, too. Morris will feel grateful, I know." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I would not, no, I would not, recall the past again, for mingled with the pleasure was too much grief and pain." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Crying because Morris is coming home, poor, worn-out, half-blind Morris, who has done so much for the soldiers, I will go up and welcome him. I will not be so silly as to imagine he still retains a fancy for an old woman of twenty-three, even if he had one for the girl of seventeen." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I ought to look older at twenty-three, she said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Morris will think I have not mourned a bit, nor cared for Wilford," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I know what's the matter. It's the net, she said, frowning disapprovingly upon the silken meshes which confined her hair." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, it's nothing but this net which makes me look so young. Every schoolgirl wears one, and I have followed the fashion, letting it hang down my back in a way very unbecoming to a widow of my age. I'll take it off, or at all events I won't wear it to Linwood," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am going to Linwood, and shall stay there to dinner." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "In the name of the people, what has the child rigged herself out in that shape for? Aunt Betsy exclaimed, letting fall the knife with which she was chopping cheese curd, and staring in astonishment." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'd enough sight rather you'd frizzle your hair over rats, as Helen does, making herself look like some horned critter, than wear that heathenish thing. Why do you do it, Catherine?" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He will he tired, she said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He will lie down after dinner, and she laid a few sweet English violets upon the pillow, thinking their perfume might be grateful to him after the pent-up air of the hospital and cars." }, { "from": "human", "value": "He will think Helen put them there, or Mrs. Hull," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I smell the pond lilies; we must he near Silverton, he said, and a sigh escaped his lips as he thought of coming home and not being able to see it or the woods and fields around it." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Thy will be done," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, I cannot be blind! God will not deal thus by me!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I did not suppose he was so bad," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I have been sick, but I shall get better now. The very sound of your friendly voices does me good, even though I cannot see you distinctly," } ]