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5310 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You have unconsciously answered me, he said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, do not let us talk about it, she pleaded."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is so warm and pleasant here--I want to be happy."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It is a man's province to take care of a woman, and his attractive voice filled with a new cadence."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I see you are in need of direction. Leave all to me--and forget there is any one else in the world for the moment but our two selves. Did you know that I thought you looked particularly sweet last night, but rather pale?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You never looked at me at all,"
}
]
|
5310 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I would like to watch you always openly, if I might, he whispered."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Your little face is like a flower in its delicate tints, and your eyes are true and tender and asking so many questions of life,--and sometimes they are veiled and misty, and then they look wise and courageous. I am beginning to know all their changes."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then, in that case, monotony will set in,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am not afraid of that, he said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I always know what I want and what is worth while. I do not value my three matchless pearls the less because I know their every iridescence--on the contrary, I grow more fond of them and wear them every night in preference to any others."
}
]
|
5310 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You said one must not be negative and drift, she announced demurely,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ivan has not warned us that she is thinking of stirring, Count Roumovski said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I told him to, and he will let us know in plenty of time; you surely do not breakfast until half-past twelve, do you?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ivan?--who is Ivan?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He is a servant of mine who does what he is bid, her companion answered."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "To have peace to enjoy oneself one must calculate and arrange for events. Had we only trusted to the probability of your maid's sleeping, I should have had to be on the lookout, and my uneasiness would have communicated itself to you, and we should have had no happy hour--but I made a certainty of safety--and unconsciously you trusted me to know, and so we have been content."
}
]
|
5310 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Very well, he said, when he could not dissuade her."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "To-night the wheel of fortune will revolve for us all, and it remains to be seen who will draw a prize and who a blank."
}
]
|
5310 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My little Stella has changed her sweetly modest way of hairdressing. I hardly think the new style is suitable to my retiring dove."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why, it is only parted in the middle and brushed back into a simple knot, Miss Rawson retorted, with sparkling eyes."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How can you be so ridiculous, Eustace--it is merely because it is becoming and more in the fashion that you object, there is nothing the least remarkable in the style itself."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It is that very point--the suggestion of fashion that I object to--the wife of a clergyman cannot be too careful not to make herself attractive or remarkable in any way,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But I am not a clergyman's wife yet, said Stella with some feeling,"
}
]
|
5310 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There is that extraordinary man again, Stella, Mrs. Ebley turned to her and said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I thought he had gone as he was not at luncheon to-day. I am sure your fiance will agree with me that such an appearance is sacrilegious--he must know he looks like a saint--and I am quite sure, from what I have heard from Martha, he is not one at all. He lives in the greatest luxury, Eustace, she continued, turning to the Rev. Mr. Medlicott,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How can you suppose that, Aunt Caroline, Stella answered with some spirit,"
}
]
|
5310 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You have told Eustace what is in store for him to-night, have you not, Caroline, my dear? he asked."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We have to put on our best and take our ladies to the Embassy to a rout, Eustace, he went on, genially."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There are a Russian Grand Duke and Duchess passing through, it appears, who are going to be entertained."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There will be no dancing, I suppose, said Mr. Medlicott primly,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "he hastened to add,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It is merely a reception, Mrs. Ebley said,"
}
]
|
5310 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Stella is not at all like herself, Mr. Medlicott said, when she had disappeared from view."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I trust she is not sickening with Roman fever."
}
]
|
5310 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That was the man you spoke of in the hall, Mrs. Ebley, was it not? Eustace Medlicott's intoning voice said, as they went along to the restaurant."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He certainly is a most remarkable person to look at close--but I do not dislike his face, it has noble lines."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Really, how condescending of you!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Perhaps I am prejudiced, Eustace, but want of convention always shocks me to such a degree that I cannot appreciate anything else."
}
]
|
5310 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Look, Stella, that dreadful man is talking to Royalty! she said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I suppose he must be a gentleman, after all--one never can tell with foreigners, as their titles mean nothing, and half of them are assumed. Your Uncle Carford had a valet once who afterward was arrested for posing as a Polish count."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I should think anyone could see this man was a gentleman, Aunt Caroline, Stella answered,"
}
]
|
5310 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We should so like to know the names of the celebrities, Mrs. Ebley said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That--Oh! that is by far the most interesting man here--it is the famous Count Roumovski. He is a most celebrated traveler; he has been all over the world and Africa and Asia in unaccessible places. He is a fabulously rich Russian--a real Muscovite from near Moscow, and he does everything and anything he pleases; he gives enormous sums for the encouragement of science. He is immensely intelligent--he lunched at the Embassy to-day."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Really! said the Aunt Caroline, somewhat impressed."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "His appearance is greatly against him."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, do you think so? said the cousin."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I think it adds to his attraction, it is such superlative audacity. No Englishman would have the nerve to cut his hair like that."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I should hope not,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "To think of this charming rosebud of a girl going to marry Eustace Medlicott--insufferable, conceited prig, I remember him at Oxford, the cousin was musing to himself."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Lord Carford is an old stick-in-the-mud, or he would have prevented that. She is his own niece, and one can see by her frock that the poor child never even goes to London."
}
]
|
5310 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "At last! Count Roumovski whispered,"
}
]
|
5310 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It cannot go on, of course--you agree with me about that, do you not?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What cannot go on?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This situation, he answered."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am sure now that I love you--and I want to teach you a number of things, first in importance being that you shall love me."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, you must not say this,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, I must, and you will listen to me, little star."
}
]
|
5310 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I made up my mind almost immediately I saw you, sweet child, he went on,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I--I--but I have only known you for two days,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Does time count, then, so much with conventional people? he demanded."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "For me it has no significance in relation to feeling. If you would only look at me instead of down at those small hands, then you would not be able to tell me these foolish things!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You are frightened because the training of your education still holds you and not nature. Your acquired opinion tells you you are engaged to another man, and ought not to listen to me."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Of course I ought not to,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Of course you ought--how else can you come to any conclusion if you do not hear my arguments--sweet, foolish one!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Listen attentively, darling pupil, and sweet love,"
}
]
|
5310 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You were coerced by those in charge of you, he went on in a level voice of argument, which yet broke into notes of tenderness,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, Stella answered,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I did well, then. And because of a silly convention you would ruin all your life by going on with these ways--it is unthinkable! and his deep voice vibrated with feeling."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It is a mistake, that is all, and can be rectified,--if you were already married to this man I would not plead so, because then you would have crossed the Rubicon, and assumed responsibilities which you would have to accept or suffer the consequences. But this preliminary bond can be broken without hurt to either side. A man of the good clergyman's type will not suffer in his emotions at the loss of you--he suffices unto himself for those; his vanity will be wounded--that is all. And surely it is better that should gall for a little than that you should spoil your life. Sweet flower, realize yourself these things--that sunny hair and that beautiful skin and those velvet eyes were made for the joy and glory of a man--not for temptations to a strict priest, who would resent their power as a sin every time he felt himself influenced by their charm. Gods above! he would not know what to do with you, heart of me!"
}
]
|
5310 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, please tell me, what ought I to do, then--what is right? she implored."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And because I want so much to believe you, I fear it must be wrong to do so."
}
]
|
5310 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dear, honest little girl, he said tenderly,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I worship your goodness. And I know you will presently see the truth. Love is of God and is imperious, and because she loves him is the only reason why a woman should give her life to a man. Quite apart from the law, which proclaims that each individual must be the arbiter of his own fate, and not succumb to the wishes of others, it would be an ethical sin for you to marry the worthy Mr. Medlicott--not loving him. Surely, you can see this."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes--yes, it would be dreadful, she murmured,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Then, surely, it is plain that you must be free of him, darling. Throw all the responsibility upon me, if you will. I promise to take every care of you. And I want you only to promise you will follow each step that I explain to you-- then he broke off, and the seriousness of his tone changed to one of caressing tenderness."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But first I must know for certain, little star, shall I be able to teach you to love me--as I shall love you?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, was all Stella could utter, and then, gaining more voice, she went on,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I did not know--I could not guess what that would mean--to love--but--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Now you are beginning to understand, darling child--that is enough for me to know for the present. In your country, a man asks a woman to marry him: he says, 'Will you marry me?'--is it not so? of course, I need not say that to you, because you know that is what I mean. When these wearisome thongs are off your wrists you will belong to me, and come with me into my country and be part of my life."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ah!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You must have freedom to assert your individuality, Stella, he continued."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I can but show you the way and give you a new point of view, but I will never try to rule you and drag you to mine. I will never put any chains upon you but those of love. Do they sound as if they would be too heavy, dearest?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I think not, she said very low."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I feel as though I were looking into a beautiful garden from the top of an ugly, barren, cold mountain. I shall like to come down and go in among the unknown flowers."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It will be so glorious for us, he said exultantly,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Darling, he said hoarsely,"
}
]
|
5310 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The first thing we shall do is to stroll back through the people and find the aunt--I will then leave you with her, and soon it will be time to go home. Do not make much conversation with any of them to-night--leave everything to me. I will see the Rev. Mr. Medlicott when we return to the hotel. Whatever they say to you to-morrow, remain firm in your simple determination to break your engagement. Argue with them not at all. I will see your uncle in the morning and demand your hand; they will be shocked, horrified, scandalized--we will make no explanations. If they refuse their consent, then you must be brave, and the day after to-morrow you must come to my sister. She will have arrived by then; she was in Paris, and I telegraphed for her to join me immediately; the Princess Urazov she is called. She will receive you with affection, and you will stay with her until the formalities can be arranged, when we shall be married, and--but I cannot permit myself to think of the joy of that--for the moment."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You may, when you are alone, again think that it is heartless to go quite contrary to your relations like this, because they have brought you up, but remember that marriage is an act which can mean almost life or death to a woman, and that no human beings have any right to coerce you in this matter. You are of age and so am I, and we are only answerable to God and to the laws of our countries, not to individuals."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I will try to think of it like that, said Stella, greatly moved, and then, with almost childish irrelevance, which touched him deeply, she asked,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What must I call you, please?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, you sweetest star! he exclaimed,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Say, 'Sasha, I love,'"
}
]
|
5310 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You will have to learn more humbleness of mind, my dear child, he retorted sternly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I cannot allow you to reply to your future husband in this independent tone."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I shall just answer as I please,"
}
]
|
5310 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Stella, remain for a moment, I wish to speak to you,"
}
]
|
5310 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is most good of you to come, he said, while he indicated a big arm-chair for his visitor to sit in--he did not offer to shake hands."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It was certainly my duty to have called upon you, my only apology for getting you to ascend here is that the subject I wish to converse with you is too serious for both of us to admit of interruptions."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Indeed, said Mr. Medlicott, pompously--growing more surprised each moment."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And may I ask the nature of your trouble?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is not a trouble at all, he began, gravely,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Pardon me, interrupted Mr. Medlicott acidly,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If you will be so good as to listen patiently, you will find that this matter is of vital importance--may I proceed?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I understand that Miss Rawson never showed very strong affection for you or great desire for this union--so what I have to ask now is, if you, as a gentleman, will release her from her promise to you and set her free."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Upon my word, sir, this is too much, Mr. Medlicott exclaimed, starting to his feet,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, I am quite sane. And I say them upon the best authority, Count Roumovski continued,"
}
]
|
5310 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "When have you had the opportunity to try and undermine the faith of my betrothed, may I ask? Supposing you are saying this seriously and not as some ill-timed jest."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We are not talking in the heroic manner, he replied, unmoved by the other's taunt,"
}
]
|
5310 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You forget, sir, he said angrily,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not the least in the world--you do not understand the point, Count Roumovski returned calmly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Listen for a minute--and I will explain. If Miss Rawson were already your wife I should be, and you would have the right to try and kill me, did your calling permit of that satisfaction of gentlemen, because there is a psychological and physiological reason involved in that case, producing the instinct in man which he is not perhaps conscious of, that he wishes to be sure his wife's legitimate offspring are his own--out of this instinct, civilization has built up the idea of a man's honor--which you can see has a basic principle of sense and justice."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The situation of betrothed is altogether different: in it there have merely been promises exchanged, promises, for the most part, which no man or woman can honestly engage with any certainty to keep, because feeling toward the other is not within his or her control--both are promising upon a sentiment, not a reality."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I totally disagree with you, Eustace Medlicott answered angrily,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "For what sensible reason? Count Roumovski asked."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In a case where the happiness of both is involved, and where no damage has been incurred by either--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Surely, you must see that a woman should be free to marry--that is, to give herself and her power to become a mother where she loves--not to be forced to bestow these sacred gifts when her spirit is unwilling--just because she has made the initial mistake of affiancing herself to a man, often through others' influence, who she discovers afterward is distasteful to her. Cannot you realize that it is wise for himself as well as for her that this man release her, before a life of long misery begins for them both?"
}
]
|
5310 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The whole thing is disgraceful, he said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am sorry you should have become so heated and angry, Count Roumovski returned,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I refuse to listen to another word, Mr. Medlicott flashed,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It is a pity you will not discuss this peacefully, sir, he said,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "he blew a few whiffs of smoke,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What has that got to do with the case?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Everything, went on the Russian, mildly,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You would suggest that I am not aiming at the truth, the clergyman interrupted, trembling now with anger, so that he fiercely grasped the back of a high chair,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Not at all, Count Roumovski continued."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Look frankly at things; you have just announced that you would constitute yourself judge of what is for Miss Rawson's salvation."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Leave her name out, I insist,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "To be concrete, unfortunately, I cannot do so, the Russian said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I must speak of this lady we are both interested in--pray, try to listen to me calmly, sir, for we are here for the settling of a matter which concerns the happiness of our three lives."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I do not admit for a moment that you have the right to speak at all,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You must have remarked that Miss Rawson possesses beauty of form, sweet and tender flesh, soft coloring, and a look of health and warmth and life. All these charms tend to create in man a passionate physical love. That is cause and effect. For the sake of the present argument we will, for the moment, leave out all more important questions of the soul and things mental and spiritual. Well, who gave her these attributes? Did you or I--or even her parents, consciously? Or did the Supreme Being, whom you call God, endow her so? Admitted that He did--have you, then, or anyone else, the right to crush out the result of His endowment in a woman; crush her joy of them, force her into a life where their possession is looked upon as a temptation? Seek to marry her--remember that marriage physically means being certainly actuated to do so by their attraction--and yet believing that you sin each time you allow them to influence you. Count Roumovski's level voice took on a note of deep emotion and his blue eyes gleamed."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why, the degradation is horrible to think of, sir, if you will face the truth--and this is the fate to which you would condemn this young and tender girl for your own selfishness, knowing she does not love you."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I refuse to have the woman I have decided to marry snatched from me by any of your sophistries, he said breathlessly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am better able than you to save her soul, and she owes me honor and obedience--it is most unseemly to even mention the aspects you have done in a bond which is a sacrament of holy church and should be only approached in a spiritual frame of mind, not a carnal one."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You are talking pure nonsense, sir, returned Count Roumovski sternly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If that were the case the wording of your English marriage service would be different. First and foremost, marriage is a contract between two people to live together in union of body and to procreate children, which is the law of God and nature. Men added arrangement and endowment of property, and the church added spiritual sacrament. But God and nature invented the vital thing. If it were not so, it would have been possible for the spiritually minded, of which company you infer yourself to be, to live with a woman on terms of brother and sister, and never let the senses speak at all. There would then have been no necessity for the ceremony of marriage for priests with your views."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You would turn the question into one of whether a priest should marry or not. It is a question which has agitated me all my life, and which I have only lately been able to come to a conclusion upon. I refuse to let you disturb me in it."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I had not thought of doing so, Count Roumovski returned tranquilly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You and your views and your destiny do not interest me, I must own, except in so far as they interfere with myself and the woman I love. You have proved yourself to be just a warped atom of the great creation, incapable of anything but ignoble narrowness. You cannot even examine your own emotions honestly and probe their meaning or you would realize no man should marry, be he priest or layman, if he looks upon the joys of physical love as base and his succumbing to them a proof of the power of the beast in himself. Because he then lives under continual degradation of soul by acting against his conscience."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The wise man faces the facts of nature. Looks straight to find God's meaning in them, and then tries to exalt and ennoble them to their loftiest good. He does not, in his puny impotence, quarrel with the all-powerful Creator and try to stamp out that with which He thought fit to endow human beings."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Your words convey a flagrant denial of original sin, and I cannot listen to such an argument, Mr. Medlicott flashed, his anger now at white heat."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You would do away with a whole principle of the Christian religion."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No; I would only do away with a faulty interpretation which man grafted upon it,"
}
]
|
5310 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It cannot benefit either Miss Rawson or ourselves to continue this unseemly controversy over her, he said in a raucous voice."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have told you I will give no freedom upon your request--and I have warned you of my action. Now I shall go,"
}
]
|
5310 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Since we are coming to warnings, he said,"
}
]
|
5310 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Poor, stupid fellow! If people could only be honest enough with themselves to have a sensible point of view! It is all so simple if they would get down to the reason of things without all this false sentiment. Of what use to chain the body of a woman to one man if her spirit is with another? Of what use to talk of offended honor with high-sounding words when, if one were truthful, one would own it was offended vanity? Of what use for this narrow, foolish clergyman to protest and bombast and rave, underneath he is actuated by mostly human motives in his desire to marry my Stella? When will the world learn to be natural and see the truth? Love of the soul is the divine part of the business, but it cannot exist without love of the body. As well ask a man to live upon bread without water."
}
]
|
5310 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Who is there?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Une lettre pour mademoiselle."
}
]
|
5310 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am certain, Eustace, the man must be mad--I assure you, Stella has not been for an instant absent from me, except yesterday morning she went to the Thermes Museum with Martha, whom you know has proved by twenty-five years of faithful service that she can be completely trusted, therefore the girl cannot have had any opportunity of conversing with this stranger until last night. It would be only fair to question her first--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "My wife is quite right, Canon Ebley agreed."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We should listen to no more until Stella is here to defend herself. Let us send a message for her to descend at once."
}
]
|
5310 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dear, dear! said that gentleman to his wife,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have not my glasses with me, I came down in such a hurry. Will you read it to me?"
}
]
|
5310 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I strongly advise you not to see the scoundrel, Mr. Medlicott said vehemently."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It is far better that we should all leave Rome immediately and avoid any chance of scandal."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Before we can decide anything, Mrs. Ebley said decisively,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I must speak with my niece. If she is quite ignorant of this foreigner's ravings, then there will be no necessity to alter our trip--we can merely move to another hotel. The whole thing is most unpleasant and irritating and has quite upset me."
}
]
|
5310 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is I, Stella, please let me in at once."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Are you ill, my dear? Mrs. Ebley asked, in a stern voice."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is otherwise very strange that you should not be dressed at this hour--it is a quarter to ten o'clock."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, I am not exactly ill, Aunt Caroline, Stella answered gently,"
}
]
|
5310 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You wish to break your engagement, Stella, she said, as soon as she could steady her voice."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But you cannot possibly do so scandalous a thing--and for what reason, pray?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I find I do not love Eustace, Stella answered calmly, although her heart now began to beat rapidly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I know I never have loved him; it was only because I thought it would please you and Uncle Erasmus that I ever became engaged to him, and now that I know what love is--I mean now that the time is getting nearer, I feel that I cannot go through with it."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There is something underneath all this, Stella, Mrs. Ebley said icily."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You cannot deceive me. You have been led astray, girl--it is wiser to confess at once and I will try to pardon you."
}
]
|
5310 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have not been led astray, Aunt Caroline, and there is nothing to pardon. I am twenty-one years old now and surely can judge for myself whether or no I wish to marry a man--and I have decided I do not intend to marry Eustace Medlicott. I almost feel I detest him."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am sorry to tell you I cannot believe you, Stella, she said,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It has indeed, Stella agreed, her wrath rising, then went on respectfully,"
}
]
|
5310 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Words cannot express my pain and disgust at your conduct, Stella, she said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Putting aside all the awful suspicions I have about this Russian, you will lay up for yourself a lifelong regret in outraging all decency by refusing to marry that good and pure young clergyman, Eustace Medlicott."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have done nothing wrong, Aunt Caroline, please do not go away angry with me, Stella pleaded."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "When Count Roumovski asks Uncle Erasmus' and your consent to his marrying me--then I will tell you everything about him,--but now I do not wish to. Please forgive me for causing you pain--we shall all be very happy soon, and surely I have a right to my life like any other person."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I regret that I am obliged to request you to keep your room and have no communication with anyone whatever until I can consult with your uncle and Eustace as to what is the best thing to do with you. That we shall leave Rome immediately you may be prepared for."
}
]
|
5310 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We could have the ceremony here, Eustace, in three weeks' time, or we could go back to England immediately, for until our niece is your wife I am sure her aunt and myself will not feel easy about her."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Nor I either,"
}
]
|
5310 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That dreadful foreigner must be told at once we refuse to have any communication with him and Stella shall be kept locked in her room until we can leave Rome, Mrs. Ebley said sternly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I could not have believed my own sister's child could have behaved so disgracefully."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dear, dear, said Canon Ebley,"
}
]
|
5310 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I believe you have received my letter, sir, he said, addressing Canon Ebley,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We do not wish for any communication from you, Eustace Medlicott hastened to announce before either of the others could speak."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have informed Canon and Mrs. Ebley of your disgraceful conduct and that is sufficient. We shall discuss nothing further."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I was not addressing you, sir, Count Roumovski returned mildly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My business with you terminated last night. And he turned his shoulders to the irate junior chaplain and looked Canon Ebley straight in the face."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am here to ask for the hand of your niece, Miss Rawson, as she is now free from other engagements, and with her full consent I desire to make her my wife."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come, Erasmus, Mrs. Ebley said with icy dignity."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Let us go up to our apartment and if this person annoys us further we can complain to the manager of the hotel,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "As you will, madame, and the Russian gentleman bowed with respectful serenity."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It would have been more sensible to have taken my request otherwise, but it is, after all, quite immaterial. I will wish you a good-day,"
}
]
|
5310 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A letter for you, mademoiselle, from me, Sasha Roumovski,"
}
]
|
5310 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do not dare to touch that, Martha, they heard her voice say haughtily, and then she called out,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Sasha, I have it safe and I will do exactly as you direct."
}
]
|
5310 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Give me that letter this minute, Stella, he said in an almost inarticulate voice through the keyhole, he was so shaken with passion."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Open the door and let Martha hand it to me. You are disgracing us all."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is you who are doing that, Eustace, Stella said from beyond the panel, lifting the slide that her voice might be heard distinctly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You have no authority over me at all. I told Aunt Caroline I did not intend to continue my engagement with you--but even if I had not decided to break it off, this conduct of yours would now be sufficient reason. How dare you all treat me as though I were a naughty child or insane!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Because you are both, Mr. Medlicott returned,"
}
]
|
5310 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But if they do not molest you, dearest, he wrote,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have no orders from Mrs. Ebley for that, Miss Stella, the woman answered sullenly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I do wonder what has come over everybody. I never was in such an uncomfortable position in my life."
}
]
|
5310 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Martha, isn't it too funny, the whole thing! she said, between her gurgles."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Can't you laugh, you old goose! and to think how sorry you will be, you were so horrid, when I am gone, because, of course, you know you cannot keep me once I make up my mind to go."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mrs. Ebley said I was to have no conversation with you, Miss,"
}
]
|
5310 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is much better I am before them,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The porters will come up and take the trunks outside, Martha, Miss Rawson said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You can give them what orders aunt told you to."
}
]
|
5310 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You must come down with me now, Stella, she said,"
}
]
|
5310 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There is not a moment to be lost,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Go to the place you went before under the trees, he whispered hurriedly in return."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The automobile is there, and I will follow presently."
}
]
|
5310 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She ran away from me, Erasmus! the agitated lady cried,"
}
]
|
5310 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What have you done with Miss Rawson? he asked furiously."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "She has this moment run away from her aunt."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have nothing to converse with you about, Count Roumovski returned, with mild surprise."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And, as I see it is four o'clock, I must wish you a good-day, as I have an appointment,"
}
]
|
5310 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sasha!"
}
]
|
5310 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Stella! My little star! And so you are really here--and my own!"
}
]
|
5310 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, I have come, she whispered,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have left them all--for you. Oh! when will your sister be here?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Not until six o'clock, darling, he answered, while his eyes melted upon her with passionate love."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There is an hour yet to wait. I had hoped you would not have been forced to leave your aunt's care until then."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh! I am delighted to have come away, Stella answered, regaining some of her composure."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I was shut into my room and watched by a servant. It was awful! But do--you know what has happened now? since I left? Are they tearing about after me, or what?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I believe they have gone to your Embassy in a band--and much good may they get there. You are of age, you see. Besides, I have taken care that no one at the Grand Hotel knows where we have gone, and it will take them quite an hour or two to telephone about and find out--and by that time my sister will have arrived, and we can defy them."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, said Stella, and then, nervously,"
}
]
|
5310 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sweetheart, he said, looking deeply into her eyes,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He did not even take her hand, and Stella felt rather aggrieved and wounded."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I propose that as soon as the formalities can be got through, and the wedding can take place, that we go straight to Paris--because you will want to get all kinds of clothes. And it will be such a delight to me to give you everything you wish for."
}
]
|
5310 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have seen the consul this afternoon. It will take three weeks, I am afraid, before we can be legally married here in Rome. It seems an eternity to me."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes,"
}
]
|
5310 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My sister's room is next to this, he said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Am I?"
}
]
|
5310 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come and sit here beside me again, heart of mine, he commanded with imperious love, and indicated the stiff Louis XIV sofa."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I must explain everything to you, it would seem."
}
]
|
5310 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What must you explain?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "First, that I love you madly, that it is sickening temptation to be with you now every instant without holding you in my arms, and his voice trembled, while his blue eyes glowed."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That I do not know how to resist the wild passion which is overcoming me. I want to kiss you so terribly, more than I have ever wanted anything in my life."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We-ll? said Stella, with a quiver of exquisite joy."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And-- she had almost spoken her thought of,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why do you not do so, then?"
}
]
|
5310 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, sweetheart, he said hoarsely,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, I do not understand at all, Stella said, in a disappointed and perplexed voice."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Since we are going to be married, why would it be so very wrong for you to kiss me? I--I--"
}
]
|
5310 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, you adorable one! he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It is not wrong--not the least wrong. Only presently, when you do understand, you will realize how very much I loved you to-day."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What can they do when they get to the Embassy? she asked."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Could they really take me back if they found me by telephoning round?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I do not think so--if you are past twenty-one."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I was twenty-one in April. I am not a bit afraid of them, but I do not want to have any row."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "When my sister has arrived you must write to your aunt, and tell where you are and what are your intentions, then all will be finished."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, I wish she would come, don't you?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "More than I can say, darling, he answered, fervently."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You will not, I hope, find me so incomprehensible then."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Stella, he whispered, while his eyes blazed again,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I cannot bear it, little sweetheart, to stay all alone with you here. Will you forgive me, if I leave you until Anastasia has arrived? Go and rest in your room, darling, and I will go to the station to meet her. Ivan will remain outside your door and you will be quite safe."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh. must you leave me? she cried, pettishly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You are very cruel! You make me almost wish I had not come."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If that is so, mademoiselle, it is not too late. I would not exact any unwilling sacrifice. Shall I take you back again?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No-- she said,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I will not go back. I am sorry I was so uncontrolled, but I am nervous--and I do not know exactly what I am--Sasha, please take care of me,"
}
]
|
5310 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My darling, my darling!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Little star, you must never speak to me like that again, as you did just now, I mean. It was unreasonable and not kind, if you but knew! And I have a very arrogant temper, I fear, although I am nearly master of it, and shall be quite in time, I hope. We might have parted then and spoilt both our lives. Won't you believe me that I love--I adore you! he went on tenderly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am madly longing to be for you the most passionate lover a woman ever had. It is only for your sake and for honor and our future happiness that I restrain myself now. You see I am not an Englishman who can accept half-measures. Do not make it impossible for me, sweet love!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh! you are so dear and great, she answered fondly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am perhaps very wicked to have tempted you. If it would be wrong for you to kiss me, which I cannot understand, it is--oh, it is because I love you like that, too!"
}
]
|
5310 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I dare not stay another second, he said, in a strangled voice."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ivan will guard your room, and my sister will come to you soon. Do as I tell you, beloved one, and then all will be well."
}
]
|
5310 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Stella, he said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "he paused a moment, and Stella said,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It will be impossible for us to remain here, he continued,"
}
]
|
5310 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What must we do then?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I will wrap you up in the fur cloak, darling, he said,"
}
]
|
5310 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ivan will remain behind to answer any questions if the reverend clergyman and your aunt do come, he said, when they were seated in the car in the settling sunlight."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And now, sweetheart, we can enjoy our drive."
}
]
|
5310 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We shall stop at a little restaurant for some dinner, he said,"
}
]
|
5310 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Let us have it open, Count Roumovski said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The evening drive will be divine."
}
]
|
5310 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Stella, my beloved one, I cannot bear this, I can no longer answer for myself. I shall settle you comfortably among the furs where you must try to sleep, and I shall go outside with the chauffeur. If I were to stay--"
}
]
|
5310 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Anastasia, this is my Stella, he said, in his deep voice."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You cannot see her plainly, but I tell you she is the sweetest little lady in the world, and you are to hasten to love each other as much as I love you both."
}
]
|
5310 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now we shall all pack in and get to Rome before dawn, the princess said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Sasha assures me the automobile will be faster than the train."
}
]
|
5310 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Stella, that my brother loves you proves that you must be a very dear girl, that is what made me come from Paris at his instantaneous bidding. He is the most splendid character in the world, only don't cross his wishes. You will find it is no use, for one thing, and she laughed her deep laugh."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He always knows best."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am sure he does, said Stella shyly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I felt that at once, and so I did not hesitate."
}
]
|
5310 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, Uncle Erasmus, she said gaily, before any of the party could speak,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am so glad to see you. I was just going to write to Aunt Caroline to tell her where I am, quite safe, in case she was worried about me. Let me introduce you to my future sister-in-law, Princess Urazov, with whom I am staying. My fiance, Count Roumovski, you have met before."
}
]
|
5310 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Stella, you are a shameless girl, Canon Ebley retorted in a horrified voice."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I refuse to admit that you are engaged to this gentleman. Your whole conduct has been a scandalous series of deceptions and you must be ready to return at once with your aunt and your affianced husband. They are following us here now."
}
]
|
5310 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, dear Uncle Erasmus! Stella purred, from the highly perturbed clergyman's neck, where she was burrowing her sweet head, rubbing her peach-like cheek against his whiskered cheek."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Don't say those dreadful things, I have not deceived anybody, I have known Count Roumovski since the day after we came to Rome, and--and--I love him very much, and you know I always thought Eustace a bore, and you must agree it is wicked to marry and not to love, so it must be good to, oh!--well, to marry the person you do love. What have you to say against it?"
}
]
|
5310 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dear me, dear me, he blurted out."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, well, tell me everything about the case, and, though I cannot consent to anything, I must do you the justice of hearing your side."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Won't you sit down here, sir? Princess Urazov said,"
}
]
|
5310 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is merely a great degradation, otherwise, sir,"
}
]
|
5310 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, Uncle Erasmus, how can you say that! Stella interrupted him."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why, you have often said that you yourself fell in love with Aunt Caroline from the moment your eye lighted upon her in church--in church, remember, you old darling! and she nestled up against his shoulder again. Caresses like these she was always obliged to suppress in her austere aunt's presence; they were only to be indulged in upon great occasions, and to gain an important end, she knew! So the rogue smiled archly as she went on."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You could hardly wait until you were introduced at the garden party the next day, and Aunt Caroline said you proposed to her before the end of the week!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Come, come,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There! exclaimed Miss Rawson, triumphantly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You cannot have another thing to say, except that you consent and wish us happiness."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is true you are of age, Stella, Canon Ebley allowed,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You do not pay me a high compliment, sir, Count Roumovski said, but without resentment."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Time, however, will prove whether I can take care of your niece or no. Do you feel any fear for yourself, Stella?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not in the least, Miss Rawson said, and they clasped fond hands."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I would go away with you, Sasha, to the ends of the earth now at once, and never ask you a single question. And I should certainly die if I were forced to go back to Eustace Medlicott."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Then I suppose there is nothing more to be said,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Indeed, sir--I give you my word that you will not regret this decision, Count Roumovski said gravely."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I believe your niece and I were made for one another."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We will hope so,"
}
]
|
5310 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now I think you and I should agree with each other, sir; I had just as great cause for surprise as you had at the news of my brother's engagement to your niece, but I know and love him so well that I did not question the wisdom of his choice. And as you know and love your niece, can we not agree to try and make them happy together by giving them our blessing? After all, it is no crime for two young people to love each other!"
}
]
|
5310 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "See, she said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Sasha and Stella, we both wish you all happiness and joy--is it not so?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes."
}
]
|
5310 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dear Aunt Caroline, she said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Uncle Erasmus understands quite, and has given us his blessing, so won't you, too?"
}
]
|
5310 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Erasmus, Mrs. Ebley said with scathing contempt."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I do not know how you have let yourself countenance this disgraceful scene, but I shall not do so. And if my niece still persists in bringing shame upon us all I must beg you to conduct me back to our hotel--I wash my hands of her and shall no longer own her as my sister's child, come."
}
]
|
5310 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You must not say that, Mrs. Ebley, he said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "here there was a break in the tones--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I can have nothing further to say and will give her back her freedom and make my retreat."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, Eustace, thank you, said Stella, gratefully holding out her hand."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I knew I could eventually count upon your goodness. I do indeed love Count Roumovski, and why should not we all be happy together? You will feel with me, I am sure, that our engagement was always a mistake and now won't you be friends?"
}
]
|
5310 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Never mind his point of view, darling--yonder goes an English gentleman, and since I have gained my star and he has lost his, he has my deepest sympathy."
}
]
|
5310 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "At last, sweetheart, there are no barriers, and I can show you that I am at least not as cold as ice!"
}
]
|
718189 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Willie! she would say,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Willie! here's your baby wanting you."
}
]
|
730189 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, do you think so?"
}
]
|
6002 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Eve's Other Children"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "CERTAIN LEGAL MATTERS"
}
]
|
6002 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "air--perhaps because of the impressive squareness of its structure, great blocks of brownstone joined solidly; perhaps because of the enormous gnarled wistaria vines that stretch above its massive cornices--but one does feel as Felicia Day herself did when some one asked her how long she thought it had been there. She said she thought it must have been there"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Much, much more than Always--it must have been _jamais au grand_ --forevaire and more than evaire!"
}
]
|
6002 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Coom in!"
}
]
|
6002 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Could I please find out if a--er--Miss Day lives here? Or--if anybody here knows her?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I dinna think ony one's home but th' Sculptor Girl--she's on th' top floor an' it's not I that knows whether she's in a speaking humor, but you're weelcoom to try her--"
}
]
|
6002 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hark, hark! The lark at heaven's gate sings!"
}
]
|
6002 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "One's for you."
}
]
|
6002 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Aren't you hungry?"
}
]
|
6002 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "For pits and stones Or skins and bones"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Thirsty?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dulcie Dierck"
}
]
|
6002 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "David Copperfield."
}
]
|
6002 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sit down and get your breath, she suggested chirkily,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Do--do you h-happen to know-- I burst forth desperately,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Does that fire look real?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, then put another stick on that fire and hang the kettle on the hob-- she was washing the clay from her hands in an old brass basin."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't get peeved with me because I'm grouchy and bossy-- she flung over her shoulder at me."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I always start off badly when I'm tired and that fool question always makes me just darned tireder!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'll be decenter directly I'm fed. I'm a beast just before tea--you won't find me half bad half an hour from now--"
}
]
|
6002 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's a mouth-- I murmured."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's lips--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's her kiss, she answered me."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That's the most beautiful and the most difficult thing I ever made. It's Felicia Day's letter seal."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then she really is a real person--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Real? The girl's low voice lifted itself belligerently."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What do you think she is? Imitation? Why, she's the one REAL thing in this whole sham world! I guess you've never met anybody who knew her or you wouldn't keep gulping out idiotic things like that! I guess if you ever talked with her even a minute you'd understand how real she is. She has the crispest--the sincerest way of speaking. Though of course it's not a bit like other people's ways. She probably doesn't talk like anybody you've ever listened to. Not like anybody I've ever heard of anyway. The girl's eyes were glowing."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Are you musical? she demanded."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Because I need a musical word to tell you how she talks. She talks _rubato_. Her short words drawl ever so long and her long ones hurry so's to let her make up for the stolen time. And she has a sort of trace of accent like--well, it's not like anything except herself really. You see, her mother wasn't French but she was brought up with French people and Felice says 'evaire' and 'nevaire' and uses funny little Frenchy phrases she heard her mother use though she doesn't really talk French at all. And she has a bossy way of speaking, kind of --well, humbly bossing, if you can get me. Talks like a Lady Pied Piper and sweeps you along with her just about six minutes after she's begun coaxing you to do whatever she's decided is the best thing for you to do. Believe me, I know she does it! Because I was one of the first ones she swept along!"
}
]
|
6002 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I was proud, all right, the girl's voice choked."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I wouldn't have missed living here those next two months, not for all the marble that was ever quarried nor for all the glory that was Greece! That first night we both slept in this room-- she paused dramatically and threw open the door in the east wall to let me peer into the narrow hall room,"
}
]
|
6002 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She loved it so much that she wouldn't change it when she was building Octavia House over--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Octavia House! I cried."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, that's that queer house where all the young geniuses live! The one that the Peter Alden money built--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's not a queer house! the girl defied me."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's--it's this house! And you can't say Money built this house! Money couldn't have done it! Not all the money in the world, couldn't! It wasn't Money! It was-- Pride! Not the sort of pride that goeth before _de_struction but that mightier pride that goeth before _con_struction! No, no! she murmured vehemently,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "She's not--?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Of course she's not dead! She is the alivest person in this whole world--aliver than you or I can ever be! And yet,--we've lost her. She isn't just _ours_ any more. And when she was blessedly, absolutely just ours--we didn't appreciate her. You see, she was so frumpy and absurd and quiet we didn't think about her--we scarcely saw her. But oh--the minute when we did see her! It came in a flash for me! I just knew, all of a sudden, that she was perfectly beautiful--as beautiful as her own whistle--her lovely, lovely Mademoiselle Folly whistle--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh! Oh! I gasped,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mean it? Didn't you know it? Didn't you ever hear her whistle? Oh, even now that she's gone it seems to me that I can still hear her whistling! And no matter what any one has said about it--they couldn't all of them, put together, say half enough--not even if they all said things as gushy as the Poetry Girl--she said it was like water trickling in a moonlit fountain! I only know it's like what I tried to put into my little Pandora--that it was like what Barrie was thinking when he let Peter Pan cry, 'I'm Joy! Joy! Joy!'--Even the Painter Boy, who has a silly pose that he hates music, used to hang around to hear her whistle--he pretended he was just looking at her so's he could paint her, but that didn't fool me--Listen, there's Nor' stumping up stairs now--he's awfully lame on these rainy days and _that_ moody--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Do you mean Noralla? The one who did 'The Spirit of Romance'? Does he live here?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And Thad, the cartoonist and Blythe Modder and--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And that one little dressmaker discovered you all? I asked, quite awestricken,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How could she? What sort of a wonder was she? How can you explain it?"
}
]
|
6002 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You can't explain it, you just accept it--just as you accept sunshine and rain--you can't explain any more than you can describe. And she's the sort of woman that all of us who dwell within this house will go on all the rest of our lives trying to describe and I'll bet that not all of us put together can tell more'n half that there is to tell about her. Why, her very faults are different than other people's faults! She has a pippin of a temper and such stub-stub-stubborn ways! Don't you think Thad's cartoons of 'Temperamental Therese' are peaches? Well, they are nothing but Felice in her illogical crotchety unfair minutes--Thad says the only way to explain such heavenly rudeness as Felicia's is to remember that she began being rude in 1817--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "How old is she? I fairly shouted,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, please get down to earth and tell me something definite about her! You're perfectly maddening!"
}
]
|
6002 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She's exactly twenty-seven, she sighed,"
}
]
|
6002 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, my dears, I do _so_ hope that you're going to be good at pretending! You all of you look as though you could pretend if you just started! So let's you and I pretend that--"
}
]
|
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