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42109 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You are fond of dreams and shadows, aren't you?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I haven't a very wide range, but one can only try to do the things one is fitted for. I like all sorts of pictures, but I like to paint demi-tints and twilights and soft lamplight effects.... |
42109 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Is this Palamon or Arcite?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That is Palamon; poor old Palamon. Arcite fulfilled his character by dying first."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And Darwin and Spencer?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Dead, too; Spen... |
42109 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, she said gently, putting her hand caressingly on the dog's head; her slim, cold fingers just brushed Odd's;"
}
] |
42109 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But not 'allone,' after all, said Odd."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Is he a great deal with you? That is a different kind of company, but Palamon is the gainer."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We mustn't judge Palamon by our own standards, smiled Hilda... |
42109 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Peter, she is a nice, a clever, a delightful girl,"
}
] |
42109 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Whether she is deep--deeply good, I mean--I don't know; one can't tell. But, at all events, she is sincere to the core."
}
] |
42109 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "As for Hilda!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "As for Hilda?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am disappointed, Peter. Yes; we went to her studio this morning; Katherine took me there; Katherine's pride in her is pretty. Yes; I suppose the pictures are ver... |
42109 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But you will be different; I will be different; we will both be changed."
}
] |
42109 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A good deal of money that, papa."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I suppose I owe twice as much to my tailor,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Has Mr. Odd lent you money before this?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I really don't know that Mr. Od... |
42109 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Shall we put off our work for a little while? I want to speak to you,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Shall we? You have been too patient all along, Miss Archinard. Odd smiled down at her as he held her hand."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You make me fe... |
42109 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You won't tell me because you want to spare me."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "My dear Katherine, I certainly want to spare you anything that would add a straw's weight to your distress; you have no need, no right to shoulder this. It is your father's affair--and min... |
42109 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's rather hard on me, you know, a slur on my friendship, that you should take a merely conventional obligation so to heart."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Take it to heart? What else have I had on my heart for years and years? It is a mere variation on the same the... |
42109 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Of course, mamma will be safe when Hilda is Lady Hope, Katherine said;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Katherine, he said,"
}
] |
42109 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Are you generously offering me another form of charity, Mr. Odd? My distress was not conscious of an appeal."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You know your own value too well, Katherine, to ask me that. _I_ appeal."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yet the a... |
42109 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You won't expect any flaming protestations, will you, Katherine, said Peter;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I was never good at that sort of thing."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Did you never flame, then?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I fa... |
42109 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Guess what has happened, my dear, said the Captain, whose good humor was apparent, while Mrs. Archinard murmured,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What must I guess? Is it about you?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, about me and another person."
},
... |
42109 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And I am going to claim all a brother's rights immediately, Hilda."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What are a brother's rights?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am going to look after you, to scold you, to see you don't overwork yourself."
},
{
"... |
42109 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My dear, dear Kathy, I am so glad! To think that good things _do_ come true!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You like my choice, pet?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "cried Hilda;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, I certainly felt a prophetic... |
42109 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We will be married in March, said Katherine, pausing before her dressing-table to put on her rings--a fine antique engraved gem and a splendid opal."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You may go, Taylor; and Taylor, you may put out my opera-cloak after dinner. I think, H... |
42109 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh! I thought it was the concièrge, said the artist, evidently disappointed;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No; I don't know you,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I expected to find Miss Archinard. Are you working with her? Will she be back presently?"
... |
42109 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Monsieur did not find Mademoiselle."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No; I had hoped to find her. Mademoiselle was in when I last called with her sister. I did not know that she went out every afternoon."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Every afternoon, mon... |
42109 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now, Mr. Odd, I have a treasure here; really a perfect treasure. A genuine Grolier; I captured it at the La Hire sale. Just look here, please; come to the light. Isn't that a beauty?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hilda Archinard."
},
{
"from": "human",
"... |
42109 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh no; she is altogether too distinguished a little person to give away her pictures. That was in the Champs de Mars last year. I bought it. The two others sold as well. I believe she sells most of her things; for high prices, too. Always the way, you know; a starving genius is ... |
42109 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I always think it such a pretty compensation of Providence, said Mrs. Pope, gracefully anxious to please,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She is such a brilliant girl, Mrs. Pope added,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
... |
42109 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hilda not in yet?"
}
] |
42109 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I didn't know that Hilda sold her pictures. I saw one of them at Mrs. Pope's this afternoon."
}
] |
42109 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, she said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mrs. Archinard had immediately adopted the affectionate intimacy of the Christian name."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And we could hardly indulge Hilda in her artistic career if, to some extent, she did not... |
42109 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And a very lucky girl she is to be able to make money so easily, the Captain remarked, after a pause."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "By Jove! I wish that doing what pleased me most would give me a large income!"
}
] |
42109 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Does she work all day long at her studio? Peter asked, conscious of a certain hesitation in his voice. The mystery of Hilda's afternoon absences would now be either solved or determined. It was determined--definitely. There was no shade of suspicion in Mrs. Archinard's sighing,"... |
42109 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Any one would tell you, Hilda, that it is positively not _decent_ in Paris for a young girl to be out alone after dusk, said the Captain."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Odd will tell you so; he was speaking about it only this evening. You must come home earlier; I in... |
42109 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The ring wasn't a surprise, but you have one for me, Katherine."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The ring is lovely; clever, sensitive Peter!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You have quite convinced me of your pleasure and my own good taste. What is the ne... |
42109 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come and sit by me, Hilda, he said from his place on the sofa,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I like to see you in that dress, he said, as she sat down beside him on the sofa,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That is a very subtle insult!"
},
{
"f... |
42109 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hilda, he said abruptly,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I went to your studio the other afternoon. You were not there."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She--they can't hear,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, I was not there,"
},
{
"fr... |
42109 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And as you need not keep it for my sake, you may tell me, he urged;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I may be able to help you."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh! I don't need help. She turned a slightly challenging look upon him."
},
{
"from": "g... |
42109 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "So Allan Hope turns up Wednesday week, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I shall be glad to see Allan again."
}
] |
42109 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Will you go bicycling with him, unkind Hilda?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "When I would not go with _you_? Her own vehemence seemed to embarrass her."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I hardly know how to bicycle at all, she added lamely;"
},
{
"... |
42109 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Aren't the margins generous? said Hilda, turning the pages;"
}
] |
42109 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, Hilda, he said amicably, when she was almost beside him--the umbrella tilted back over her shoulder, and the rain fell on her startled face--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Here I am."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I must get a _fiacre_, I haven't... |
42109 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You are very, very kind,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I always intend to be kind, Hilda, if you will let me. Jump in."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You must be drenched,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Imitation is the sincerest flattery, ... |
42109 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why _have_ you to?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We are so dreadfully poor, and we are so dreadfully in debt."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But why you alone? What can _you_ do?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I can do a good deal. I have b... |
42109 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You do understand, she said;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hilda! Hilda!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You simply astound me, he said, after a moment;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, I am very careful, very wise,"
},
{
"from": "... |
42109 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And the young man I saw at the door as you came out to-day?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, that is nothing, I hope. He is Mademoiselle Lebon's brother. A harmlessly disagreeable creature, I fancy. Odd resumed his brooding silence."
},
{
"from": "human",
... |
42109 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That is a very stubborn and unconvinced salute, I am afraid,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "May I come and get you now and then?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You think it would be wise?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "How do you mean wise, ... |
42109 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hilda told me of your kindness yesterday. It touched her very much."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And Hilda told you that I had been admitted into the mystery of the Archinard family?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You don't think their mystery credita... |
42109 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I know it must look badly to you--cruel even. But, Peter, don't you know--you do know--how things _grow_ around one? One can hardly tell where the definite wrongdoing comes in, or rather the definite submission to a wrong situation."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I k... |
42109 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is part of Hilda's good luck that her pleasures are not costly, or rather that she can herself defray their cost, said Katherine quietly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "She has always lived in her art--seemed to care for nothing else. My life would indeed have bee... |
42109 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You don't know your world, Peter, if you fancy that even Katherine Archinard would be welcome in darned and dirty gloves!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And might she not be forced into taking some girlish distraction? he said presently."
},
{
"from": "human"... |
42109 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have never even seen her in a well-made gown,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hilda scorns the fashion-plate garment, as I do. We are both original in that respect."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Your originality takes different forms."
},
{
"f... |
42109 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am not going to ask undue humiliation of you, my dear Katherine. Don't think me such a priggish brute; but I am going to ask you to help me to put an end to this."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Allan Hope will."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You won't... |
42109 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Love and Life."
}
] |
42109 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Please don't be cross with me, Peter. Please don't scold me. I have been naughty--far naughtier than I dreamed of--you have made me realize it, though you are not quite just. But you must comfort me for my own misdoings."
}
] |
42109 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, Katherine! he said, pausing in his walk."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "My dear Katherine! as if I could not appreciate the slow growth of necessity! I only hope you may never have to comfort me for far worse sins!"
}
] |
42109 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is so kind of you, she said, as she joined him and they turned into the _quai_;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Who is fishing? You know I love to have you come. You can't think how I look forward to it. She was walking beside him along the _quai_. The unobtrusive ... |
42109 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Tell me, Hilda, that you will be my friend whatever happens--to you or to me."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have always been your friend, have I not?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Have you, Hilda, always?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I... |
42109 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Give me the dog, Miss Hilda; you do look that tired. You are to go at once into the drawing-room, Miss. Lord Allan Hope has been waiting for some time."
}
] |
42109 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I can't, I can't; really I can't. I am so--_so_ sorry, so sorry--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Little idiot! Baby!"
}
] |
42109 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am so sorry,"
}
] |
42109 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Lord Allan, don't mind me. Sit down for a moment. Perhaps then you may be able to tell me. Perhaps I can help you."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No good, Miss Archinard; it's all up with me."
}
] |
42109 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am not going to talk to you for a little while."
}
] |
42109 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "she said, with a sad little smile."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Lord Allan, I thought she cared for you."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I hoped so."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And have you no more hope?"
},
{
"from": "human",
... |
42109 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Will you? she said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I made it for you. It is such a chilly evening."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, how awfully kind of you, he started from his crushed recumbency of attitude,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": ... |
42109 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You have been too good to a beaten man,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, Lord Allan, by the laws of compensation you must lose _sometimes_. Hilda, poor child, doesn't know what she has done; she cannot know. Her little achievements bound the world for her. She does... |
42109 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Bad news, Peter. Bad and very unexpected."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Bad!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "She refused him,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She is a foolish baby,"
},
{
... |
42109 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But Hilda's work must cease at once, he said presently, finding a certain relief in decisive measures."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "She won't show any false pride, I hope, about allowing me to put an end to it."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It would ... |
42109 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't talk to me of burdens, dear Katherine, said Peter."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Don't try to spoil my humble little pleasure. If I can make you and yours happier, what more can I ask?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I won't thwart you, but Hilda ... |
42109 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Let us walk, she said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We will walk at least till the sun goes. We will just have time to catch the sunset on the Seine."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes; what a _lovely_ day! I wish I were ten, with short skirts, and a ... |
42109 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's what you ought to have--sunlight. You are a little white flower that has grown in a shadow."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What a sad simile!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Is it a true one, Hilda?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don... |
42109 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You must not imagine that I am unhappy, or that my life has been an unhappy life. It is very good of you to trouble about it, but I can't claim the rather self-righteously heroic _rôle_ you give me. I think it is others who live in the shadow. I think that any work, however feeb... |
42109 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Her dear little head,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Her lovely little head,"
}
] |
42109 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The white satin _does_,"
}
] |
42109 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "See that Hilda, in her _embarras de choix_, doesn't become too much embarrassed, she said to Peter."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Exercise for her a brotherly discretion."
}
] |
42109 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I will be greedy. I wrest these from the hungry horde I see advancing, led by your father and Mrs. Melton."
}
] |
42109 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Are you enjoying yourself?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "So much; thanks to you. Her parted lips smiled, half at him, half at the joy of dancing."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I had almost forgotten how delicious it was."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
... |
42109 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You dance well, too, Mr. Odd,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I very seldom waltz."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In _my_ honor then?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Solely in your honor. I haven't waltzed five times in one evening with one yo... |
42109 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Isn't that dress becoming to her? The shade of deepening, changing rose."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Your dress, too, Hilda, is lovely."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do you notice dresses, care about them?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "... |
42109 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Helped you to live, Hilda! he almost stammered;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You may call them gropings, but they led me. Perhaps you were like Virgil to Statius, in Dante. You know? You bore your light behind and lit my path! She smiled, adding:"
},
{
"fro... |
42109 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have been dancing _steadily_, she announced,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And you still don't grudge me my waltzes?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I like yours _best_!"
}
] |
42109 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hilda! said Odd suddenly,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No; perhaps not,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You don't think I have a right to ask, do you?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, the answer is so evident."
},
{
"from": "hum... |
42109 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Does a refusal to take one person imply that? I have made no vows."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don't see-- Odd paused;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't see why you shouldn't care for Hope."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Are you go... |
42109 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I suppose so, she said, and she added,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I haven't one word to say against Lord Allan, except--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Except what?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He doesn't really _need_ me."
},
{
... |
42109 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I didn't know you had it in you to dance so well and so persistently, Peter. You have done honor to Hilda's ball."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I hope I wasn't too selfishly monopolizing."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, you had a right to a certain ... |
42109 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But suppose _I_ am? he said;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I think of going to England in a day or two, Peter, she observed."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Devreuxs have asked me to spend a month with them."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value":... |
42109 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am not over this beastly cold yet. A trip through Provence would set me right. I should come back through Touraine just at the season of lilacs. I am afraid I should be useless here in Paris. I see so little of your mother--and Hilda. Arrange that Taylor shall go for her after... |
42109 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I shall try to keep you profitably yoked, then, even in London, shall I? said Odd, in reply to an offer more generous than he could have divined."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Discipline is good for a rebellious spirit like yours. Don't be frightened, Kathy. Go and ... |
42109 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I won't even ask you to harrow your susceptibility by a look at the insulted frieze, then; you must know it well, to enter with such sympathy into its feelings. Only you must write, Katherine. I shall be lonely down there. A daily letter would be none too many."
},
{
"fr... |
42109 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mademoiselle 'Ilda --Odd had hesitated uncomfortably before asking for her--was out."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "she volunteered, with a kindly French familiarity that still more strongly emphasized the contrast wit... |
42109 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You? I can hardly believe it!"
}
] |
42109 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hilda! Hilda!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I _am_ glad to see you, she said, and her voice had a forced gayety over its real weakness;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I haven't seen any of my people for so long, except mamma. An illness seems to put ye... |
42109 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You come before my own daughter, Peter, she said;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don't _blame_ Katherine, since Hilda tells me that she did not let her know of my dangerous condition."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Not _dangerous_, mamma, Hilda said, ... |
42109 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Very well, very well, Hilda, she said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am sure I ask no sacrifices on _my_ account. One may die alone as one has lived--alone. My life has trained me in stoicism. You had better wash your face, Hilda. There is a great smudge of charco... |
42109 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have given my whole life, my whole life, Peter, for my girls! I have borne this long exile from my home for their sakes! At Allersley Mrs. Archinard had never ceased complaining of her restricted lot, and had characterized her neighbors as"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"val... |
42109 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't think you are quite fair, he said;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hilda looks as badly as you do. She has had a heavy load to carry."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I told her again and again to get a _garde-malade_, two if necessary. Mrs. Archin... |
42109 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You know I cannot touch cake, Hilda."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There are buttered _brioches_, mamma, piping hot."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Properly buttered, I hope. Rosalie usually places a great clot in the centre, leaving the edges uneatabl... |
42109 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do sit down, he said in a low voice;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Have you read Meredith's last? asked Mrs. Archinard from the sofa."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hilda is reading it to me in the evenings. We began it, ah! long, long ago. I have symp... |
42109 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If your courage fails you, just say so frankly. I have very childish tastes and childish fare."
}
] |
42109 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Delightful!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I make no further apologies, she said, smiling at him over the buttercups;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am not hungry, dear."
}
] |
42109 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "O Peter! It was the first time she had used his name, and Odd's heart leaped as her hands caught his with a sort of desperate relief."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Come, come, she said, taking his arm."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Let us go quickly."... |
42109 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Let us walk here, dear, he said;"
}
] |
42109 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now, what is it?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "O Peter! I can hardly tell you! The brother, the horrible brother."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes? Peter felt the accumulations of rage that had been gathering for months hurrying forward to spring upo... |
42109 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sit down, dear; no, I will walk about a bit. I have been playing the fiery _jeune premier_ to such an extent this afternoon that dramatic restlessness is in keeping."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You look so badly, he said, pausing before her;"
},
{
"from": ... |
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